skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK is definitely different than the US, and it looks to me like in the UK employees do have slightly higher expectations of privacy at work than in the US. However, some quick googling show me that UK employers are allowed to monitor employee internet usage in general.

When you say you don’t log or monitor usage, have you actively audited your company equipment and disabled all logging? Have you contacted your ISP and cloud providers to discuss what data they have? Aside from your company network equipment, it’s not easy to make sure you’re not “monitoring” from the employees perspective, if you provide company computers or phones, or any cloud services to your employees.

As a business owner, what would you do if you were contacted with a cease and desist letter from another company claiming your business domain was doing something illegal? What would you do if one of your employees told you another employee was doing something illegal at work and the employee denied it?

I do find your language interesting, especially as a business owner. Using the words ‘betray’, ‘trust’, and ‘spy’, seems like a very one-sided view of the situation, and one that comes with some assumptions. In the US, most employment contracts, and employee trainings, will disclose the fact that company equipment is monitored for aggregate or individual behavior, and it is stated and agreed to that the equipment is for work use, not personal use. Because employees are notified and they actively agree to use work equipment for only work reasons, there is no “spying” or “betraying of trust” taking place. Trust goes both ways as well, and when an employee agrees to use work equipment only for work, and then turn around a browse Facebook while getting paid, or download porn from the work domain, the employees have not just betrayed the company trust, but have also broken their explicit agreements.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=0818e4d9-ee76...

https://www.spamtitan.com/web-filtering/liability-for-employ...
I switched back to Linux in 2018. It's not as polished as Mac OS but it works well enough now that for the most part I don't really care.
I would not expect soldiers to be included as the potential and expectation for death is much higher and generally totally different. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread if you're in the military you can legally be ordered to do something that will 100% result in your death with no ability to refuse, which is not true of any of the professions on that list.
"You're saying that in situations where someone attacks a police officer, the police are 1000/50"

Are you claiming that it would be "more fair" if this ratio was different? Should it be 50/50? I think not, I assume that at least some members of this 1000 were indeed dangerous criminals, not innocent citizens murdered by cruel police officers?
Tsk tsk. You mean Ad Manager :rolls eyes:
The apple store crowd is roughly 7% people confused about the error that says backups have stopped working unless you pay $.99. wondering what they can do to make the error go away. Wondering what they can delete and how.
> untangling oneself from debt traps like the IMF.

If the IMF is involved with your country, you were in a debt trap already and they're working on untangling you from it. See e.g. Greece, which is now working on their debt problem after the late-2000s economic crisis. "Domestic ownership of supply chains" has also been a disaster historically, because it involves closing down your economy to foreign trade and restricting competitive dynamics: it's better to exploit global supply chains by specializing on the parts that you can be best on, and incrementally working your way up the value ladder.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=58...
That is not the sense in which “decolonization” is used by the gentleman quoted in the article (which is the sense in which social science uses the term).
Related and FWIW: I checked all solutions in this space and I stuck with type-graphql which is not only an amazing lib but offers a clean architecture:

Decorated Typescript types as classes dictate the GraphQL schema and the DB model (either through further decorator libs or custom solutions). So, you end up with only one source of truth + stay DRY + very low level of abstractions. There is some debate around the right approach but I much prefer this approach over the others such as DB-model-first (Hasura) or Prisma 2 which I remember has its own DSL for modeling data.
I don't think the announcement has anything to do with the Surface lineup. I expect that to be around for awhile.
Spotify seems to regularly delete all my music downloaded to my phone, and it's where I notice right as I'm losing service.
Agree on "this is a real shame" feeling. I am not, in general, a heavy Microsoft user: my workstations both at home and in the office run Linux. But a few years ago, when I saw a Microsoft Surface tablet when I walked by the Microsoft store as I was waiting for my wife at the mall I was wowed by its ergonomics.

Within three months I bought one as a personal travel laptop and another one for work as my main laptop. An extended family member saw my Surface and bought one. Two people at work saw my work Surface and bought theirs for work. Having a Windows-only travel laptop made me look at WSL and I saw that while it was not perfect it is surprisingly useful which also surprised some die-hard Linux folks at work when they saw it. None of this would have happened if I did not walk by that Microsoft store; I would be buying another Dell laptop for work and griping about its lousy ergonomics.
Yeah when I got there I went from curious to put off. That was the place to put an example showing something impressive rather than an iffy summary of web dev trends.

I clicked around a bit. I heard a lot about motivations but couldn't figure out a specific situation where I would be really happy to be using Prisma.
I really like to buy on Bandcamp. They've been running promotions and either forgoing their 15% commission or donating it to Covid/BLM efforts. I think it's one of the best music platforms and I've discovered so many fantastic artists that aren't on Spotify or anywhere else.
> Great place to try out new computers.

Maybe that was the issue. At an Apple store if you said 'my kid needs a laptop for college' they will walk you to ONE computer (MBA) and say 'it's the best one' it's painless whereas MS was tied down by their partners to being non-confident in their own line and basically being a Best Buy.
> "Decolonization" is, as the Economist defines it...

FTFY. If you're going to use a colonizer magazine's definition of decolonization, then of course it'll sound bad.
Spotify needs better queuing strategies.
I believe that over the air and internet streams are paid out separately.

Over the air looks to play 12c to 6c per play https://www.quora.com/How-much-are-music-artists-paid-in-Roy...
Agreed. They absolutely nail the headlines, but the content is top-notch as well. I'm regularly reminded of this one from 2013: https://www.theonion.com/jesus-this-week-1819574831

> "WASHINGTON—Calling the last four days of American life just…I mean, talk about a goddamned punch in the gut, citizens across the nation confirmed today that, Jesus, this week.

This fucking week, sources added.

Christ."
Kongregate. Flash games are still out there, like elementsthegame.com
I don’t think any popular websites still use flash. Corporate internal systems though...
But it's not just the 90th percentile of cops that get OT. They virtually all do.
Not only that, but to join the military is to join a way of life. In the military your conduct is still governed by military regulations after you go home for the day. You can't just quit the military if you want a new job. You can be punished in your career for wrongdoing by one of your dependents. Your career can suffer for doing things in your off time that aren't illegal (adultery for example).

Not to say the military is perfect by any stretch. You still have your portion of GI's committing crimes and scandals at various levels of organization. And you still have problems someone of a higher rank can get away with stuff because of their power over subordinates. But by and large the military has much stronger mechanisms to maintain and enforce accountability than the average police department.
This information is Checkov's Gun[1].

Stipulate that the current crop of businesses and customers are ethical.

There are zero (0) guarantees regarding what happens in the next act.

So more thought is needed about the who/what/where/when/why about collecting data.

The newest and shiniest technology is not automatically optimal in the long term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun
A large amount of the crap that was sold to U.K. schools is still random bits of rancid flash. The same schools also bought crates of iPads galore on which none of the software works. It’s a mess.
Between the article and the orig report, I found the data presented in a confusing way.

> "African American males made up the majority of protesters in the four observed cities vs. females"

Then follows pie charts showing Caucasians outnumbered African-Americans 6:1.

It looks like what they meant was 'among African-American protesters, the majority were male'.
Perhaps, I've always noticed other shops empty but the apple shop is always bustling, but not overly crowded (most of the time), just the impression of things happening. I often compared it to the poor Bose shop (now defunct) that was nearby, no one went in there because the salesman leapt upon you as soon as you entered, and you couldn't just fiddle with things without being bothered. Bose have great products but people don't linger there, and the same for the Microsoft shops in the article, but people linger in apple stores - it's by design. (I'm talking pre social distancing of course, but then, even now, people are lining up outside apple stores like no other, and the blue shirts are looking after every one, all with masks and sanitisers and checking your temperature, all theatre - its a safe space, everything's OK in an apple store!)
> Truth of the matter is if you hire from soc-sciences experts on racial whatever, you might as well just ban everything right of Mao from the platform.

No wonder you people feel so terrified all the time if you actually believe this.

> You can like or not like or hate trump but a very large portion of the citizens of the republic voted for him.

Why are you bringing this up? It's irrelevant.
>That's a good point, but the corollary of that is, how many people were shot by the police but didn't die?

... and how many times did the police miss the unarmed suspects they were shooting at and hit innocent bystanders?

https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/times-square-police-s...
This is such a ridiculously good deal for Amazon. The collection of talent alone is worth more, let alone the tech Zoox has built up which Amazon can put to so much good use starting from inter-warehouse deliveries, and slowly getting closer to the consumer as the tech matures.
Ironically that got so bad that they sold 'Microsoft signature editions' without junk at the store.
How do these ass-clowns get stuff like mobile application I'm using https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4309344/Mobilewalla%20Data%20... https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4309344/Content%20Offers/Mobi... and even location data https://www.mobilewalla.com/places-of-interest-data-schema Do carriers ship some kind of Mobilewalla telemetry app on the phone people use?
Oxygen is not flammable. It has to combine with something that is flammable for fire to happen. In no way could the atmosphere have ignited.
If anybody wants to know how to earn $20/decade with Spotify I can throw some of my own experiences into a blog post :)
This handy function will ask and remember the city:

https://github.com/majkinetor/posh/blob/master/MM_Sugar/Get-...
> Trust in institutions is absolutely key to the proper functioning of government,

There's an entire thesis to be found in "high trust" vs "low trust" societies; higher trust overall provides huge benefits, as there's less need for checking and defensive behaviour, and people can more readily trust others to help.

But a high trust society, built up over decades, represents a resource that can be looted by individuals exploiting that trust for their own benefit. Or simply sowing mistrust for entirely partisan reasons.

The Eddie Gallagher pardon is an egregious part of that: at no point has anyone advanced the argument that it was a misconviction, the purpose of pardoning him is to signal the willingness of the US government to commit war crimes. It's hugely destructive of trust for no good reason.
My first instinct was to say type safety, but you don't really get that with JS either way.

Maybe it would be popular for new engineers that don't feel like learning SQL. Same reason why MongoDB got popular.
it still was?
A lot of banks unfortunately.
The new asymmetric play in agronomy
People have different priorities. Some people really enjoy adopting niche languages, and that outweighs the drawbacks of something that isn't 100% mature.

If you really like PureScript as a language, why not just use a mature language like Haskell[1] or OCaml[2][3] and compile to JS?

1. https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs

2. https://github.com/ocsigen/js_of_ocaml

3. https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why
It's not Spotify's responsibility to make sure indie artists are getting paid.
There are thousands of gems out there which either offer some functionality not in Rails, or replacing/extending some that is (typical example being rspec). Vanilla means no (too many) gems on top of Rails.
I didn't intend to come off so oppositional. I agreed with what you were saying, just was trying to add more in agreement.

>A (large company) CEO has the wealth to give them the freedom to not be an employee.

Yes but I didn't read that as "giving him his time back", I read that as "could be a manager, start a new company" etc.

I thought your post was excellent, apologies for misunderstandings. Cheers!
You're getting downvoted but there's a quote I read about a community based on satire that basically said; in the beginning it's great; everyone is in on the joke and understands it's satire. After a while, the people being satirized join, thinking they're in good company.

I butchered that, but I believe it was sourced from Reddit, maybe a mod or administrator.
This really sounds quite cool! It sounds like entering/exiting a bubble in front of my MacBook when I turn it.

If, like me, you didn't turn the sound up enough, you can switch back to 'Internal Speakers', then raise the volume, then back to 'Soundflower (2ch)'.
So what is PHP for, then? Everyone seems to be using it for backend web projects.

In my opinion, it has no valid use case that isn't done better by something else. The only thing I can think of is for shell scripting when your bash script is a little too long.

It's also been around for, what, 30 years, and still hasn't changed its broken fundamentals. And it isn't going to. It needs to be deprecated. It's run its course.
Reddit user reverse engineers TikTok and the security implications are terrible
In a First, TikTok Lifts Veil on Inner-Workings of ForYou Page Algorithm
The Six Levels of Reusability
Yes Arthur was the hack job I was referring to :)

My father was using a 286 by then. It was vastly inferior however he built some software with MS PDS (quickbasic) I think it was and made a lot of cash. Software in the blood.
Yeah that's the thing he left out. A heckuva lot of that lignin would have burned from said lightning strikes.
Somerville, Brookline, and Cambridge have similar bans in place as well. That covers about 250k more people, for what it's worth.
> I made several warranty claims in-store, and they went above and beyond to help me out, even when my grounds for a claim were kinda shaky.

Maybe having a physical store that lowers the barrier for making warranty claims, especially “shaky” ones, isn’t a profit maker.

;)
"Quantum theorists disagree with each other on things comparable to the existence of species. As in, some will say that there is such a thing as wave function collapse, others will say that this is nonsense and there's no such thing. They're not disagreeing on exactly when wave function occurs in some obscure corner case. No, they disagree on the existence of the concept itself."

This is an extremely uncharitable analogy. Physics is not a framework to guide your conceptual understanding of the world. It is human nature to try and conceptualize everything but there are limits to this and the interesting areas of physics operate beyond those limits. You can not conceptualize quantum interactions in a way that is meaningful because that process requires forcing our intuition (based on the macroscopic/classical world) into a space where it does not belong. This is why we create mathematical models to "describe" these types of systems and their interactions. To emphasize this, consider how illogical it is to try and "visualize" the fundamental building block that all visualizations are built with? There are visualizations of the corresponding mathematical models but they only provide insight into certain properties, they do not "show" you what a photon interaction looks like because the concept of physical visualization fundamentally doesn't make sense at the quantum level.
And at the end of the day all we do is select, insert, update and delete in some database.
These types of tools are effectively another way to parameterize your SQL that _feels_ more like writing in your scripting language (nodejs in this case)

This approach is notorious for generating inefficient sql queries, but it can improve jr fronted dev productivity b/c a tool like this is easier to learn than SQL.
The big problem with up or out is that officers eventually become politicians (literally connected to politicians) with the pseudo-immunitiy that politicians seem to enjoy. Prosecutors just choose not to prosecute, or they just retire in lieu of what should be jail time.
I hope not, but I expect that with a few days of browsing history it’s trivial to predict ethnicity.
Sad - their service was exceptional. Once had a problem with my Surface Book and they replaced it right there.
I saw this linked to from https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-i...

It’s going around because of a new story about TikTok intercepting iOS clipboards. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634138
His comment on albums is interesting. It seems like he's given up on getting press, so albums don't make as much sense for him, but music critics are still the major driver for who gets listens in the non-pop music space. I don't see albums disappearing for that reason. I also enjoy listening to albums much more than singles, but that could just be me.
I'm confused why hacker news thinks collecting demographic data is a bad thing, and is all about regulating it... when everyone's personal website has google analytics installed and is doing the exact same thing. Yet we don't bat an eye at it.
I think there are definitely some reasonable limits manufacturers shouldn't be expected to reach in terms of easy, intuitive, tool-less end-user serviceability.

For example, I think it is unreasonable to expect that a smartphone's battery be replaceable with 0 tools and 0 consumables (gaskets, glues, etc).

However, those tools and consumables _should_ be expected to to be reasonably standard and reasonably available.
PHP 8.0: Alpha 1 released
Not a typo. The abstract explicitly says "long before" the first declared case.
Took down ANNA as well. The message and responses on Twitter is quite something... https://twitter.com/ANNAMoneyUK/status/1276472004632289280?s...

At least Curve sent an email.
It's still a preprint but I would be very wary of such claims.

How specific can Sars-Cov-2 tests are (to other coronaviruses)? Maybe it was a less virulent variant.
Becoming a multinational company with foreign subsidiaries is a whole different ballpark than hiring a one-off foreign employee, though.

And those employees aren’t technically employed by US companies. They’re employed by Irish companies that are owned by US companies.

The vast majority of US tech companies are not multinationals and aren’t going to consider incorporating overseas to hire anyone.
So in effect, the Spotify Discover Weekly Algorithm has become the 'last dj'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00sy6_jv7Lc
The sale was a distressed sale. Their earlier valuation was over thrice the acquisition price, so a $1B exit was not the intended outcome, and probably leaves many investors/employees underwater depending on liquidity preferences.
It took 10 minutes to add support for DataGrip to Splitgraph
If you processed archival samples and current samples in the same facility, and on the same machines, your immediate prior should be that your archival samples were contaminated during the assay.
Got a question for any front end devs who were experts in Flash and AS but now experts in React.

Qualitatively speaking what was the development experience like for Flash websites or animations vs. HTML 5 + react OR JS?

Can you say definitively one experience was better than the other or is it a more complicated story?

I know there's a lot of hate for flash but I'm specifically asking about the developer experience here.
James Burke.
Correct, this is why bands tour and sell shirts and other merch, and for most, work second jobs. As an anecdote, friend of mine is in two or three bands at any given time and bartends most nights he’s not playing shows.

Spotify makes it easier than ever for an artist to get their work out there, which is great, but it’s similar to the publishing world, where most authors who self publish do so into the void.
Octave plugin v2020.6 for GNU TeXmacs is released
Matting and Hinging of Works of Art on Paper (1981) [pdf]
The Seattle police department releases bodycam footage of lethal encounters. I'd encourage you to watch some of the controversial ones and draw your own conclusions.

What's been interesting to me is that the narrative that develops between the event and the video release almost always survives the video even though the video challenges the narrative.

For example, somewhat recently spd killed a man that was brandishing a knife. Reports indicated he was shot in the back, causing an uproar. The video footage shows that the suspect was twisting and lunging towards them when shot.
Data collection existed in the US, and probably most major markets, a century ago, it's just that then it was primarily keyed on mailing address instead of telephone number. Legislators are never going to do anything about it unless absolutely forced to, because they rely on targeted campaigns themselves.

(and if you're in the US, it gets worse. When I lived in California, I asked my letter carrier if I could put a "no junk mail please" sign on the box like we do here. I was told to please not call it junk mail, but "bulk mail", as it provides a significant fraction of their funding.)

Anyone up for a game of 35 questions?

Edit: https://www.msp-pgh.com/history-direct-mail-marketing/

> The American Anti-Slavery Society printed and mailed marketing materials to religious and civic leaders in the south in 1835. This is likely the first direct mail campaign. They created a mailing list from names in newspapers and city directories, among other public lists.

the poorly-targeted campaign was not well-received:
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/node/1912