skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there's no one thing in that documentary but a collection of things which you could chalk up to "differing cultures":

* The scene where the plant operators from China dump a bunch of waste improperly

* The scene where the plant owner is worried about unionization (though the film contrasts this with the presence of unions in their Chinese plant)

* The scene where the plant operators are complaining that the american workers output with higher defect rate and lower speed

* The scene where the operators are complaining about the strict safety regulations and the fact that Americans like to take time off on weekends

That the plant owner spent tens of thousands of dollars to redo the factory layout is just one example, but it's not more than a few minutes of airtime compared to the quality control and union stories. If these can be put under the umbrella of "cultural differences" then I agree with your assessment.
This whole argument is a great example of why we use prices and markets to decide on resource allocation instead of some other system. It's easy for people to cherry-pick evidence that their pet solution is the most efficient and to browbeat others into accepting that pet solution for non-economic reasons.

But when you have to attach a price to something, you have to essentially put up or shut up. Either your project is as efficient as you claim or you lose money. And if your project suffers from economies or dis-economies of scale? Prices can incorporate this information too. Prices keep us honest.

That's why a cap-and-trade system is the best approach for limiting and reducing carbon in the atmosphere. Put a price on the externality and the market will find a way to drive it down as far as it'll go.
For Windows, one could use this small color utility I've made last year, ColorThis

https://www.alexdragusin.com/#ColorThis
This is contagious since many IT outsource firms actually "wag the dog".
In the hands of idiots [usually 'little-Hitler' "delivery managers"], something like DEV/OPS has become a new operations career when all it has to be is automation.
And version control is something they are still looking for a Rosetta Stone to figure out.
It's enough to make older Software Engineers want to cry.
The number of layers of ignorance [billable hours for pseudo-technicians who do a hair's width more than nothing] is astonishing.
It's a different lense we need, this would be the argument: we should do x,x if we do it won't have enough effects by itself, it's better than nothing to have that desired effect, it's a step in the right direction to achieve the desired results, what we need to have is other people to also have the desired effect to do the same thing independently. The question is what is the effect and how much of a piece of the whole would it mitigate. Can the people who do decide to make a change in that one goal can they compare notes to improve on that outcome.

Tldr: do what you can based on where you are at your life and hope improves in the right direction, this applies to all things.
LOL sucking CCP cock is nothing to be proud of.
Thanks for explaining. (Here I found some people's thoughts about that phrase: https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/5y81cw/talk_less_sm... )
You could use a pencil and turn off your electronics. You could also stop reading fake news. The countries that cause the most harm are not interested. The virtue signaling counties could turn off everything and still not make a difference.
These models are about as good as the covid ones!
The grandparent comment is trolling. The video is not a documentary (there is an innocent explanation of why the English part is edited) and the comment's text is just political jokes from 80s (I've heard somewhere that CIA takes credit for many jokes of that time).
> I'd rather give somebody a few $ a month to take care of that for me

I'll do it though i'm not FastMail!

I'm working on a SES backed email client so SES takes care of deliverability (assuming the user does the basic DKIM, MX, TXT set ups) so it will work out much cheaper to send and receive mails than a FastMail/GSuite type solution.

Plus you'll get unlimited disposable emails for free, a shared inbox (if you want to share an inbox with your family to help stay on top of every one's schedules, for exam), and while the client I have built is pretty rudimentary, i'll be adding bells and whistles to make it better.

Github @ https://github.com/saiorama/ses-email-client
Landing page to submit a request @ https://shared-inbox.landen.co/

Note to others - I'm open to collaborating to take back email from the big guys. Hit me up via Github.
Apparently these guys don't have a firewall setup and haven't heard about private networks and VPNs.

reads TFA again Wait, one of the victims is a VPN provider???
AWS is actually one of the few organizations I’ve dealt with where the CSRs seem to be empowered to do stuff like this without you having to raise a storm on social media first.

In my anecdotal experience, just submitting a support ticket explaining what got screwed up and you made a mistake and how you’re going to rectify it so it doesn’t happen again is usually enough to get the charges refunded. And even if you don’t submit all that, often they’ll just prompt you for it.

For example, when a legacy account got compromised and rang up like $20k in charges running a bunch of servers to mine some sort of crypto, we asked for a (totally undeserved) refund and they just had us rotate all our access keys and refunded it.

The support is part of the reason why I prefer dealing with AWS. I know from my time managing over a million bucks a year in AdWords spend that the reason Google’s support is non-existent isn’t because you’re not a paying customer...
Japan retailer pushes limit of retirement age, making 80 the new 65
Say I have a database full of metrics, user agents, IPs, GPS, names, addresses, photos, etc. on a million users, who would I call to sell it? Genuinely curious.
Hey there, yep I'm actually aware of what you're saying. I actually wrote this at the bottom of the post:

"There is actually a flaw with this panning function that we are using. However it is not apparent to us yet because we can only set a pan for an entire audio source"

I'm working from something simple up to something more complex, but tackling it in small parts. Next I'm writing about applying breakpoints where the pan can be set throughout the track and you can notice the power dip - and then we'll work on fixing that. ;-)
See my sibling comment to yours! I think we are both working towards the same goals. Nice to meet you.
Yep, for the moment its Windows only, however, the vast majority of the core code is platform agnostic, so after the initial Windows release, we shall be targeting Mac and Linux.
I think intro CS courses in Lisp and Haskell (or other less-than-mainstream languages) hurts the uptake of those languages. The students will confuse the difficulty of the material with the language itself. And there's less material out there to support them, compared to the multitude of Q&As for C or Java or C++. And when later courses move them to other languages (C, Java, C++, etc.) things seem easier so the students reject those earlier languages. In some ways those languages may be easier, but the student is also more experienced.

I doubt I would've taken as well to Lisp if it was my first course, versus used in a couple graduate courses.
Sequence-Specific Peptide Synthesis by an Artificial Small-Molecule Machine [pdf]
How's it different to any other software? Why should I be sold an 'unfinished' PC operating system that requires updates? Is that asinine?

You don't have to update any firmware if you don't want to. It doesn't mean the product is unfinished. In the past, improvements to firmware would have just been kept for the next revision of a hardware product, requiring you to pay for a whole new physical product just to get that new software.
Check out Onivim 2, that's exactly what it is. It's written in ReasonML and compiled with a custom framework called Revery. It is a paid editor since it's made by a small team but it has a license where commits from 18 months before are made open source automatically.

You could also try an editor written in Flutter, which also compiles to native assembly code.
This might come off as a little rude, but it's sincere advice from someone who used to work in anti-spam (not at Facebook):

I had a quick look through Dreamwidth's "latest" page (https://www.dreamwidth.org/latest) earlier today, and a major portion of the posts on there were blatant spam for things like credit card scams, "Work from home and make $1000/day!", and so on.

You seem to be hosting a lot of spam, and those spam posts are also far more likely to be getting linked externally on sites like Facebook, since that's the reason they're being created.

Because Dreamwidth is effectively free website hosting along with a free new subdomain for each account, blocking individual subdomains is futile, and it's difficult for external sites to distinguish between spam and legitimate blogs.

I'm sure Facebook will unblock you fairly soon, but unless you get the spam on Dreamwidth under control, this will probably happen fairly often with different sites blocking it. It would be easy to end up with an impression of Dreamwidth being a spam-hosting site, and decide to block it (either manually or automatically).

Blogspot has always been in a similar situation and would get blocked from a lot of sites due to the sheer amount of spam it hosts.
It seems like you're trying to absolve yourself of responsibility by using a passive voice, similar to this recent trend of abusing the 451 status code. You would be the one choosing to block the EU and further balkanize the Internet.
Simply set a secure password on any DB instances exposed to the internet.
Might have been an interesting point to stream this data (basic sine) to an audio output instead of file. That's more immediately hands on.

(Sorry, this refers to the first entry in your audio/go series)
The elves in dwarf fortress do that. However, the elves can harvest their wooden objects without killing the tree. It is a pretty good system except they tend to get very judgmental about dwarves cutting down trees. I do hope Gavin Munro can sell his wares and prosper without reaching elven style haughtiness.
I agree with all that and I also don't want to let the perpetrator off the hook. In your example, doesn't matter if the crime happens in a place where it is uncommon or not, it is still a crime and we shouldn't excuse the perpetrator by suggesting that the victim needed to be taught a lesson.
To use a tortured metaphor: Like any pathfinding problem, sure slow and iterative is an important part of the algorithm but so is backtracking.

I'm inclined to "if it ain't broke don't fix it", but it's also just as true that this greedy algorithm just leaves us at a local optima.
just never give up (by rick astley). listen to stevie wonder and grab some furious happiness.
Colorful prompts remind me of my time playing MUDs. The better ones did a good job colorizing everything so you could navigate almost by color alone.
This comment works equally well as nerd metal lyrics.
I think the entire stack needs to be rewritten, honestly. There's a lot of inefficiency such that we have multicore processors at gigahertz speeds and we still have performance problems due to the layers of abstraction we have at both the software and hardware levels.
The problem with police unions isn't that they are unions.

The problem is that in addition to representing the line workers, the union also manages the entire department. It controls everything except setting the department's budget.

It would be like the C-executives of GM being part of the United Auto Workers union. There would be zero accountability for anyone, and the interests of the shareholders would not be represented well.

Unions must exist in an adversarial relationship with management - it keeps all parties honest. If the union takes over management, you get a disaster.
i can't code without stevie by my side screaming happy birthday.
It's stuff like this that reminds me that the internet is in many ways still in a loosely regulated, "Wild West" state. This is pretty clearly willful destruction (I.e. vandalism; https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Willful+damag...). It's illegal in the real world, and should be illegal in the digital world. A lot of people are saying that organizations that had these DBs in public "had it coming", or "now they'll learn." What's a real world parallel for this? If an organisation is putting its customers at risk, you can report them. In these cases, companies with insecure data stores are putting their customers at risk by exposing their data. Is there anyone you can report them to? Is there any organisation that will hold them accountable to actually make changes?

I'd also note that not all DBs contain other people's data. Those have no moral concerns with bring public. There is a risk that someone will destroy it, but I'd say that's the same risk taken with public art or something. Yes it's public; yes someone can destroy it; yes it's illegal for someone to destroy it (even though it's public); no, the fact that it's public is not illegal.
This is straight out of Doctor Who https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_(Doctor_Who)
Ah, I see. So no need to find a static IP to use :) Thank you.
I wonder if there's an ansible playbook implementing all that?
Zoom then click. Works like a charm.

A bit kludgy, but still a much better user interface than any other discussion board I've used lately.
This is a bizarre post considering that Apple collects very similar data via their analytics (there's an opt-out you need to select on your iOS device to opt out) and Apple Store itself (which counts downloads and knows about every update, install and uninstall of an app on your iOS device with no alternative option for you as a user).

If you really care about your privacy in this case, Apple devices won't save you either. The difference is just in the fact that ArsTechnica decided not to write an article about it, but your data is being uploaded all the same :/
Really google translate needs to learn mandarin. Multilingualism for humans is going the way of memorizing books, into history.
Quickest example of Godwin's law I've seen in a while.
"On average, the CDC estimates of deaths attributed to influenza were nearly 6 times greater than its reported counted numbers. Conversely, COVID-19 fatalities are at present being counted and reported directly, not estimated. As a result, the more valid comparison would be to compare weekly counts of COVID-19 deaths to weekly counts of seasonal influenza deaths."

Ok, it's 20 times as deadly if you count in this weird fashion.

The reason the influenza attributions are estimated higher than actual counts is because we know we're systematically underreporting influenza deaths. It also doesn't look like the US is underreporting covid-19 deaths to the same degree, so saying that the reported numbers are equally true for both diseases doesn't make sense when we know one of them is more underreported than the other, right?

Cause of death is also not an exact science, did a patient die from something or with something? Which something actually killed the patient? All of it? Some of it?

The only 100% true statistic we have is total all-cause deaths. I posted a link above that graphs total deaths per million per month going back 40 years for a couple of countries, and 2020 does not stick out in any way, shape, or form. The excess death spikes from covid-19 looks very similar to excess death spikes during regular flu seasons.

If it's 20 times as deadly, why isn't that reflected in the all-cause deaths?

Check the stats for yourself: https://medium.com/@FrankfurtZack/unprecedented-overall-mort...
The obvious reason is money and a lack of ethics, but the dogwhistle reason is that these headphones are supposed to be used with a health and fitness app.
Why not just rename all the tables or something? That's enough to get the developer's attention without being so destructive.
For some reason, I just realized that despite your talk about 2 channel WAV files, this code is actually a 1 input to 2 output panner.

So I take back what I said about it being a balance control entirely. Sorry for that.
Thank you!
I recently managed to get a static IP and was looking forward to set my own mail server to be independent of the big providers.
Now I have been searching for something exactly like this, a recent, concise overview of the hoops I have to jump through to be allowed to send to the big guys.
Source? Surely not.
Thanks, that's a good idea!
We learned Scheme, Haskell, Prolog and Clips in one semester for Programming Paradigms course.

I can still remember the homework for each programming language (this was 6 years ago):

- Something with genetic algorithms in Scheme

- 2048 implementation in Haskell

- Searching in an infinite space in Prolog

- Phutball in Clips

Pretty dope if you ask me. :)
> Mono was a non Microsoft implementation when it first came out.

It wasn't but that's besides the point. Mono posed a serious risk because of how Microsoft's threatened all potential users of Mono due to all the loopholes in Microsoft's promises, along with Microsoft's lack of credibility.

https://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

https://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono

> People said that if you used Mono Microsoft would come after you. And nothing happened.

The people said the exact same thing about Oracle and Java, and here we are.

Just because you believe someone won't pull the trigger on you that doesn't mean it's a good idea to let them put a gun to your head.
> apples-to-apples, with a wired vs. wireless set of similar construction, cost, and intended use

These aren’t independent variables. Most consumers I know will pay more for wireless headphones. They’re more convenient, and they’re anchored at a higher price point.

As such, I’ve watched lots of friends go from buying cheap earbuds monthly to having a pair of AirPods for years.

There is a lot of moralising around wired versus wireless. I’m pushing back against that fad.
> Annoying thing is, I'd quite want to use the voice assistant. Do I like to fiddle with integrations and workflows? Oh boy. Damn well I do. Do I know that my voiceprint won't turn up on Google's servers the minute I use the assistant? Nope.

Google Assistant uses servers to run voice recognition so it's certain that your voice print will end up on their servers. Same for Apple Siri and pretty much any of them. As far as I'm aware, only the Pixel 4's improved Assistant is capable of partial offline execution and even that ends up on Google's servers.

Also additional question for HNers: Do you consider Apple's "Digital wellbeing" feature on iOS spyware as well? Is there a difference?
When I was first looking at aws, I received a billing prediction alert that was ridiculous high. I could not find the culprit (I only had an ec2 instance and some other random services I looked into). In the end I deleted my account, to avoid this unexplainable billing. Next day, I got an email saying I erroneously got the alert. Damage was already done, but at that time, I was only exploring what the cloud had to offer, so no real damage done.... until a couple years later when I had to do some real aws for my work. Because I deleted/disabled my account, I cannot reopen an account with the same email address.
See https://www.planetcom.co.uk
100% chance skyrim was more than one file on that blue ray.
In a functional democracy, that process is called "government."

Instead, the police make us pay taxes to fund their own paychecks and openly mocks the idea that they're answerable to us. Look at the way the NYPD union threatened the mayor's own daughter.
If the police are carrying a gun while on duty, then it is safer to carry it with them into the bakery rather than leave it unattended in a vehicle from which it could be stolen. Whether they need the gun in the first place is debatable however.
There was another group that studied insects and automated posture detection from video for them which allowed them to search for recurring behaviours and found a few different behaviours that the animals switched between, among them one that was hard to interpret which they called "Whatever" iirc.

I'll see if I can find a link.
The cat's out of the bag meow!
A gant chart and project planner, like MS Project but good.
Putting aside any quips about how our oil fields used to be part of the biosphere, I do think the current view is that forests are net carbon sinks, even accounting for decomposition.

Regardless, the time scale for growing and decomposing a forest is enormous and would buy a lot of flexibility in solving the problem more permanently if additional research shows them to not be efficient sinks long-term.
No one knows more information than the article presents.

When you state that victims exist or that the data being deleted is important you are also making unfounded assumptions.

You can't have it both ways.
>> but couldn't the same be said for somebody being a whistleblower for a company that doesn't following building codes?

No. The equivalent would be exploiting their buildings weakness to cause them to collapse - maybe with people in them.

Pointing out a vulnerability is not the same as demonstrating it.

That said, a demonstration will get their attention more.
It reads like an attempt to hijack the thread to make it about Rust.
I wholeheartedly agree. I cannot think of a scenario where a company exposes my data and I would not want it to be deleted ASAP. The only thing is that such companies might not be able anymore (if data was not backed up) to email me about a “breach”.
Seems to be mostly not listed?
But the measurement of Conscientiousness was much worse, and it still outpredicted Grit considerably:

"Given the NLSY 2-item measure of conscientiousness and the 8-item measure of grit, this comparison is likely to overestimate the effect of grit relative to conscientiousness (Crede et al., 2012 for the consequences of using short measures of the Big Five personality traits)."

Plus, going from an 8-item test to a longer one isn't going to close a gap with IQ that large, and as they point out, the reliability is decent enough and pro-Grit authors have no trouble making claims based on, so what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander:

"The reliability of the scale in our data was .72, which is comparable to the reliability reported by Duckworth and Quinn (2009) and within the ranges reported in the meta-analysis of Crede et al. (2017)."
Odd that he didn’t mention the sort of first obvious reason, which is that remote work makes the worker responsible for the cost of the space/real estate in which they perform their work.
Git ships with `diff-highlight` which is more than enough for me.

I use the following config.

[core]
pager = /usr/share/git-core/contrib/diff-highlight | less

[color "diff-highlight"]
oldNormal = red
oldHighlight = 16 bold red
newNormal = green
newHighlight = 16 bold green
The database is the same but you have to then separate your code into reader and writer services with different connection strings, you have to make sure that anything that can’t be eventually consistent uses the writer connection string, etc.

It’s not just a matter of spinning up a database.

Also, since many enterprise apps live stores procedures and putting business logic in the database, that’s another ball of wax you have to untangle.
Scrum Alliance, Inc. vs. Scrum, Inc. (Texas Court Case)
1) you're right, I edited my message to reflect that I meant a graph traversal algorithm.

2) a visited flag on an edge? That won't support simultaneous traversals. Keeping a stack is a lot more efficient than permitting only one traversal at a time.
The actual RFI can be found at https://beta.sam.gov/opp/b92644af4767413c9e831e633c6e2888/vi...