skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While true, it is ageless problem that the faceless large corporation does not give a shit about any indivual user of their system

Time and time again we see large companies from all markets only respond when public interest is triggered and more than just the individual user starts to question the actions of the company

This is the sad reality we are in, if you tie your work, your income, etc to a large corporation you likely will be screwed at some point unless you can cause a public backlash.
Work - make money to survive and hopefully retire.

Life - other than surviving, I'm not sure. Maybe find pleasure in the little things.
You Can Laugh at Me
This doesn't make any sense. OPs problem isn't that he doesn't have backups of his repos (it is git, after all), it's that he doesn't have access to the social features of github: PR permissions, their patron service, etc.
I'm sure the telcos have statistics to validate this system, but it seems to completely oppose my own personal experiences.

I have never phoned customer support to:

- View my account details (available online)

- Find out about new plans and promos (available online)

- Pay my bill (available online)

- etc (available online)

I have only phoned customer support to:

- Negotiate a better rate (requires a human)

- Argue about excess charges on my bill (requires a human)

- Get put on a off-market plan (ie loyalty, retention, etc -- requires a human)

I guess if there really are that many people phoning support with trivial questions, a voice assistant will free up the phone line for people who actually need a human. I suspect it won't, as they'll reduce the number of support employees accordingly.
I hated Shakespeare when I was forced to read it in my language, translation tried to keep the spirit of the language, but really made it just sound archaic and complete incomprehensible to us (high-school kids not really interested in the whole deal). Only many years later, almost by accident, I've discovered how Shakespeare's work was really meant to sound, making the story itself so much more approachable.
Moving your own self-hosted stuff around different hosting providers is easy and doesn't interrupt the service, at least not for long. Just open an account at a new hosting provider. Fire up, your backup, changing DNS and you are up and running.
Solar system scale 128-bit floats can be useful for storing coordinates. Any other reasons to go beyond 64 (or 80) bits?
That's great to hear! I would love to hear your thoughts about it. Feel free to email me at zeno@14habits.com
I've lost lots of very valuable information by storing it in a MacBook due to their lack of customer service or acceptable repair times for essential goods like laptops. Never again.
Why I’m So Bullish on Almanac, a Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
> Work expands to fill available time. Will my employee use that time to the company’s advantage?

Take a management class or three, it'll save you a lot of money.

Seriously. If that needs to figure into the evaluation of the service, something is deeply broken in the culture of your company. Not because employees goof off - it happens, and only some amount of that is under your control. But because you assume that given any chance, people would goof off more.

That's far from normal. It usually happens if employees feel mistreated, or if they're not given a fair share of the value they create. Possibly if they're already halfway to leaving.
They already have more than a dozen
Thank you SO much! I can't wait to hear your opinions about it
> If your town is mostly religious, mostly Christian, and the oversight mechanisms for something like this happen require a complaint to be filed, who is going to complain?

As is the case in many of the landmark freedom-from-religion-in-schools cases, Christians.

See, the thing is, America (and even most—but not all, sure—small towns in America) have lots of different flavors of Christianity, and they don't agree on much (especially when you include the JWs and other groups that other Christians view as not-Christian rather than Christians-who-are-in-error). So, typically, sneaking in your brand of Christian propaganda pisses off all the other brands of Christians.
To anyone at GitHub reading this, this thread has motivated me to move the rest of my projects to a self-hosted solution.

Putting all my eggs in GitHub's basket is evidently too much risk for me to bear.
I love GitHub. It's probably my favorite platform in general but I have to agree. I would love to see a new platform that is a non-profit or public benefit corp, perhaps with a government charter or something. Software is too important not to have this sort of public infrastructure to support it. Private companies can still innovate to create better tools but public investment in software infrastructure/tools is an amazing opportunity to leverage a relatively small amount of pooled resources into a much larger benefit to society.
Not sure what benefits are there in scheme you described. Which threat exactly is mitigated by using this tech?
> Something about Tiktok, whether the algorithm or the sheer volume of content, seems to discourage the sort of look-at-me envy-bait narcissistic posturing that is so common on Instagram.

I haven't used Tiktok, but from what I understand you can only post videos taken using the phone's camera and they can only be edited using whatever filters are available within the app, effectively limiting how manipulated or manufactured the content can be. Sort of like a Snapchat for videos (with the caveat that you can save and post videos at a later time in Tiktok, whereas with Snapchat it's "now or never"). Coupled with not having an associated text component where you can easily post testimonials and links to a site where you're selling a self help book, get rich quick scheme, juice cleanse or gym routine, it should limit how easy it is to use it as a promotion platform.
Wow. This is the first time I have seen Go Assembler Syntax, and it confused me at first, as I thought it was the standard Intel syntax.
> flight crew meticulously accounts for the mass

Exactly. I've toyed with the idea of living on a plane or a boat, and the boat is obviously practical and (relatively) cheap, while the plane (or heli, in this case) is enormously hobbled by the mass constraint.

You can find an RV for the road to live in, you can find a boat to live on, but there's no solution at all really in the aviation space unless you go quite big and thus super expensive [1].

Quite some people live on a land or water vehicle, but I don't think anyone realistically lives on an aircraft for an extended time, do they? The 21st century just doesn't deliver... ;-)

[1] The price of of boats and planes tends to grow super cubically with length (exponent of maybe 3.5 or so), so twice as long will be 10x expensive (very rough rule of thumb, obviously).
It should at worst scale linearly with user-count and hence, at least in the asymptotic limit, revenue.
That's a shame. I'm very happy with my 2013 rMBP, but would like to replace the battery. That's the only thing wrong with it.

People are still recommending second hand 2015 rMBPs as the "last good" ones. It would be a pity if they can't have batteries replaced.
Is it manually curated? The article talks about how their algorithms are part of their core success.

TouTiao was about the feed and the algorithm from the beginning. The first time a user opened TouTiao, the news might be rather generic, but every scroll, every linger over a story, every click, was fed into a feedback loop that refined what it was the user saw.

Meanwhile all of that data fed back into TouTiao’s larger machine learning processes, which effectively ran billions of A/B tests a day on content of all types, cross-referenced against all of the user data it could collect. Soon the app was indispensable to its users, able to anticipate the news they cared about with nary a friend recommendation in sight.
Does business insurance cover this?
There is also "Programmers at work", much older but also a great read from the 80s

https://www.amazon.com/Programmers-work-Interviews-Susan-Lam...
Agreed, not super helpful his current situation. But might something that other people who read this want to take into consideration or being aware of. And hopefully being more critical about terms of service in future.

For him, I would expect to call out the clause that "allows" GitHub to do that as it is quite sure illegal in some European counties to have such a arbitrary termination policy. And maybe even start a legal case about it and call for support.

But this way it simply sounds like "please take me back" begging.
How to Stop Aerosol Transmission of Covid-19 [video]
Since the content is curated strongly by your likes and dislikes, I am afraid your children might actually get some nasty stuff there. There's psychotic horror and soft porn. I don't think I'd trust my child with it unless they're older than 14 or so.

The dancing stuff is pretty mild and I'd say even constructive for children.

The allure, is hard to describe. The content I see is very human, people describing their experiences, doing harmless jokes on each other, or teaching something. How it differs from YouTube is that it is much more strongly tailored to your likes, and due to time constraints, skips the chuff and gets to the meat of things quicker.
40 per week
I don't know. A helicopter of that size today, operating costs are going to be in excess of $10000 an hour. A hypercar is a heck of a lot cheaper than that.
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>https://www.mobilemarketer.com/ex/mobilemarketer/cms/news/re....

>The average for Boston is 21 meters; New York 27 meters; Austin, TX, 28 meters; Washington 29 meters, and Chicago 38 meters.

>A number of factors can impact location data accuracy, including its source, which can include GPS signals, Wi-Fi and cell tower triangulation.

Seems like the figures they're giving is with wifi/gps signals, not just cell tower alone.
FT journalist who uncovered the Wirecard scandal tells his story
As one of the replies to your comment suggests, I think this is a problem with photo-based and video-based social media in general. In an all-text environment like HN, each participant is nothing more than their words and the name they choose to post under. Consider that (unless you already looked at my profile), you have now read most of my comment without finding out that I'm legally blind. If I had to post this as a video, it would probably be more apparent.
Seems like we can't live without autocorrect anymore
The world lost a decent person

I know a fair number of people who knew him personally, and (long before passed) all said the same thing about him - a really great human being.

They said he had one of those personalities where he made you feel special. Not through flattery; in a truly genuine way. We lost a truly good guy.
What plans? The sped up video of his hand made sketches? The video was so poorly done, it's hard to even see what is occurring. He spent more time on fucking with his cat with liquid nitrogen than he did on the actual concept/plan/build.
That's exactly the point I'm refuting.

That's what we've done for 40 years. It's failed every single year. It's failed disastrously badly.

We need accept this has failed in order to change to something that might work. At this point, even doing nothing would be better, at least it would save time and be honest.
I don't understand this smug "normally I don't care about celeb deaths, except the ones I care about."
Microsoft owns GitHub, so any GitHub problem is, ultimately, Microsoft's problem.
Users can be free or paid. When I open up support tickets backed by a paid account they're always very quickly resolved. I'm not sure how much GitHub needs to support people who won't even pay for the product...
I'm not convinced revenue on services with free plans scales linearly with users.

It's unclear if the poster had a paid for account.
>How are we paying this much in tax and getting nothing when we need it the most?

Corruption. Just look at the types of organizations that did get enormous PPP "loans" (actually grants, free money when used spent at least 60% on wages).
Netcat...thats what netcat is for....
I would think the difference is one of motivation (or maybe intent).

Relating the two terms in various ways helps me to see this more clearly: a "good scientist" is necessarily a "rational actor" but a "rational actor" is not necessarily a scientist.
> For example, you can crypto-shred an unlimited amount of data just by deleting the key associated with it.

Sounds like a great target for ransomware crews!
I'm not a customer support agent but I took a basic customer support training at my previous company to get better at communication.

If I remembered anything from the education it's this:

You have to address the customer's emotional needs before addressing the customer's business need.

If you don't you end up with an unhappy customer who had his problem solved.
I don't see an AI satisfying my emotional needs any time soon.
I don't know which is Gen-Z but see my friends 5-6 year olds glued to their phones or tablets. They have the entire world of videos to watch at their finger tips. I'd argue they are in an entirely different situation than previous generations.

Even kids growing up in the 90s probably didn't have their own computer and the internet wasn't full of video entertainment and free games and kids growing up 2000-2010 didn't have phones and tablets.

80s kids had cable and VHS.

50-60-70s kids had TV

20-30-40s kids had radio

So personally I do think it's a big difference. I'm awestruck by what kids have access to today vs what I had access to growing up in the 70s, early 80s. Kids today can learn about any topic and anytime, anywhere. When I grew up if it wasn't in my family bookshelf or the library I didn't have access to it. Kids today can also watch almost all movies of the last 100 yrs on demand. When I grew up video wasn't a thing and cable didn't happen until I got to high school so all I had was the few channels on the TV and whatever they happened to be showing.

That difference has to mean something. Whether it means "classics" are still relevant or not I have no idea but reading of those arguably came from a time when content was scarce. It's not anymore.
Registering a new company only for that purpose makes no sense, but using an existing one could be useful, if you take into account a few issues (like the name - but this is more significant with B2C, it won't matter much for the Enterprise program.)
I feel very similar to this.
I think my edit and your comment passed each other on the wire.

That makes sense, it gives hardware protection from privilege escalation between VMs on the same host. Be it through a hardware exploit or hypervisor vulnerability.
Journalism is definitely going downhill. All news organizations are hurting for money and cutting to the bone. Local newspapers are dying, and television news is getting worse. I don’t think it’s laziness, it’s just that they can’t afford real journalism any more.
I just saw an article that indicates that cruise ships plan on resuming service August 1st, but it was just a headline. I did not read the article to see what country/ies that date refers to.
>This makes me wonder if some new colorblindness glasses manufacturer is planting "viral" content.

This is it. Last couple of rounds of these "magic glasses" have also followed the same pattern, trying to prey on colourblind people's loved ones to buy them these expensive glasses. Everything I've read from people who've actually tried this says they're underwhelming, they work by blocking some of the spectrum around where you have issues (for instance I'm Red/Green so I have issues around those colours but especially browns and purple) so you can distinguish differences more clearly.

They do NOT let you see more colours magically, just distiguish the now reduced colour set better.

I'd love nothing more than some magical solution to cure my colourblindness, when I was a kid up till I was 15 (I got diagnosed really late) my top three careers were Astronaut, Military Pilot and Commerical pilot, if anyone remembers that one scene in Little Miss Sunshine that was very close to my reality. Unforutnatly until we start replacing eyeballs somehow it just doesn't exist.

tl;dr don't buy these, they're trying to use your impulse to do something nice for someone against you.
The 19th century had a lot of good ideas that we've managed to forget.
Shoes on the table!
Don't you think, at least, that flying heli is more like flying fixed wing IFR (really need to fly regularly) than flying fixed wing VFR (do a few hours and a checkout after 5 years and you're good to go)? So we're talking committed weekend pilots...
A popular social-media app not under US govt control is a threat to its ability to propagandize its citizens. So a ban would make sense.

Ah, the land of the free!
I know, but there are cases where something similar to "I just felt betting on his good health" have gotten someone acquitted.
... and terrifying.
Imagine if they randomly came down from the ceiling due to malfunction.
My former employer was the optical lab that actually manufactured the EnChroma lenses for a few years. My best friend also works there, is red-green colorblind and found that the EnChroma lenses didn't help him at all.
>To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform

You should reconsider it no matter what; you're putting your business in someone else's hands and relying on their goodwill not to completely fuck you over.

Using Github can be a tolerable risk when your company has hundreds of more-likely reasons to fail in the next month and needs every little bit of saved time it can get. But once the business has it's feet under itself, the github contract of adhesion is a pretty stupid risk to take.
You're supposed to compare a service against it's competition, not the least productive thing you could possibly imagine in it's stead.

If you walked into a car dealership and the best thing they could say is "It's WAY better than walking!"- that wouldn't make a great pitch.
What is the 'box-sizing' property in CSS and why should it be 'border-box'?
What do you do that you can work 15 hours per week?
> Take whichever side you want in the Intel vs GNU syntax debate, creating a third option means relearning all the quirks from scratch, and ignoring any documentation that already exists.

Isn't the "Intel vs GNU syntax debate" only on x86? For ARM, AFAIK there's only one assembly syntax.
>Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places.

TikTok actively pressured the moderators to filter out 'ugly, poor or disabled'[1].

I haven't used TikTok, but I think such apps of mass appeal at this age of intense screen time competition will resort activities like this; there is no magical reason for TikTok to be better than other limited attention social networks.

Even though I never thought of using TikTok, now as a disabled person I feel morally obliged to not use it.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/17/tiktok-tr...
> You’ll find F2XM1, which computes in a swoop (2𝑥−1) – a kind of pauper’s fused multiply-add, some twenty-five years ahead of its time.

No. It computes pow(2, x) - 1.

Suppose x is close to 0, so that pow(2, x) is close to 1, like 1.00000000000000002345678. Because of that leading 1 (to the left of the radix point), all those zeros also have to be stored, meaning some of the low-end digits will have to be dropped, so you end up rounding to 1.00000000000000002. But if you can subtract 1 from the exact result before rounding, then you can store more of the low-end digits: 2.345678e-18. Hence the F2XM1 instruction.
This should worry people more than they realize. I've been keeping an eye on the Bay Area's COVID-19 case rate:

https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/

Something obviously happened in early June that drove new cases up. What worries me is the only place you'll get better compliance with mask wearing and social distancing in the US is NYC, leading me to think "just wear a mask" isn't enough. There's no version of reopening anything indoors that works.

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, a city that has generally had COVID-19 under control, has just banned gatherings of more than four people. There a case report from China, I think, where people seated more than six feet apart at a restaurant got infected, possibly through fans or an HVAC system.

I also saw the slightly disingenuous (he didn't quite say that) headline that "Dr. Anthony Fauci says U.S. coronavirus cases are surging because nation didn’t totally shut down." Ignoring the bit about a surge, a longer, harder shutdown isn't a fix, either. Look at countries that had stricter shutdowns. Pockets are still popping up.

If the virus is active at all in an area, anything indoors risks spreading it, and there's no escape from whack-a-mole lockdowns...unless you're New Zealand. Maybe.
How is the product not commercialized? Tik Tok has ads and influencers.
Yes, and using Instagram supports the droning of hundreds of people every year based on meta-data.
In Austria there is a law in place saying if a company has a monopoly (e.g. public transport) or a quasi-monopoly (e.g. only supermarket in a 100 miles radius) the company is required to serve any customer and is not allowed to turn any down.

It is time that all countries introduce laws that prohibit online monopolies from denying access to their users without good reasons.
"could be brutal for the economy"

Uhh, racking up deaths WILL be way more brutal for the economy.
You don't need a hosting provider. Your code fits on each developers' machine. (Remember when git was touted as a distributed version control system?) If it doesn't, you're at the scale where you're not worrying about your hosting provider dropping you — they're worried about you dropping them.
From footnote [1] which you generously provided:

"If the purpose of the requirements was to inhibit migration by needy persons into the state or to bar the entry of those who came from low-paying states to higher-paying ones in order to collect greater benefits, the Court said, the purpose was impermissible"

It's obviously hard to know for certain what SCOTUS will do, but under that standard it sounds like having health care benefits only available to long term residents would be on very shaky legal ground.
This is great until your DNS account is blocked at the registrar for similarly opaque reasons.
A credibility revolution in the post-truth era
I'm grateful for Grant, an engineer who isn't a billionaire-egomaniac and still stirred such a passion in so many. How often are engineers role models? At least in this part of history.
Will it though? GM plans to add OTA to all models and Ford announced it for the new F-150. Even without OTA it is not true that you have to buy a new car to get software updates. You can take it into the dealer and get it done.

If amount of data collected and OTA are Tesla's big edge then there's even less chance they will dominate the market and put all their competitors out of business, because those advantages are going to go away over the next couple of years.
They paid $7.5 billion for it so they're already spending much more than that if they keep it running for any less than the next thousand years.
My parents homeschooled me from age 4 to 17. I wish they hadn't. They didn't know what they were doing and it has caused me no end of problems.

Public school is not fire and forget, but at least there is SOME oversight (for white kids anyway).

My parents didn't just get away with their ineptitude, but were encouraged by WA state to continue isolating me in the name of "choice".

This not as simple as "take the kid out of school and they will obviously turn into a better person because school is such a bad place".

Learning to get along with your peers and interacting with authority figures is not something you can pick up by reading about it.

I should know.