skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may not have worked at or know many people who work at sufficiently boring workplaces. It's the default at those, and that's... most workplaces, among the ones big enough to have this kind of thing.

"Training" from HR means "watch dumb videos in a browser for two hours, then take a quiz you could have passed with a 100% score without watching the videos". If you're really unlucky it's some in-person variant that's the live equivalent of that. If this is not what you mean you're doing when you tell someone you've got "training" this week, you'll need to specify, because that's what all your fellow-suffering workers will assume it is. Many of them probably experience it at least annually, on a schedule, no matter how many times they've done essentially the same crap, and some more often.

I've been fortunate to be with small companies almost my entire career so I've experienced this first-hand exactly once, but my friend circle's not at small companies and not in tech. That's what they talk about when they talk about (complain about, commiserate over) "training". It's super common.
nice catch. that date of 1998 is a Big Fucking Deal. the Patriot Act was passed in October 2001. the narrative we have all be lead to believe is that NSA only ramped up domestic mass surveillance in 2001. but why would NSA have a protocol for exfil across passive sensor hops in 1998? passive exfil only works if you have sensors mirroring backbone traffic at all the biggest upstream meetme rooms. but NSA supposedly wasnt legally allowed to install Boeing Narus mirror routers at ISPs until 2001.

what this 1998 date means is that NSA TURMOIL--passive sensor ingest, had to exist PRIOR TO 2001.

this even screws Bill Binney's narrative that the system he designed--THINTHREAD, which he says would spy on all traffic without violating our privacy laws, was built in 1999-2000. THINTHREAD was ultimately canceled and Hayden chose STELLARWIND instead.

but this screencap show FASHIONCLEFT already existed in 1998. therefore NSA has been spying on the whole Internet for waaaay longer than the official narrative says.

i was one of those conspiracy theorists ranting on USENET about ECHELON back in 1998. turns out, we were RIGHT.
For everybody complaining about having to pay actual money for goods and services: if you're not okay with this you can run a self hosted registry.

The out of the box registry does very little and has a very poor user experience.

But nowadays there are Harbor from VMware and Quay from RedHat that are open source and easily self-hostable.

We run our own Harbor instance at work and I can tell you... Docker images are NOT light. You think they are, they are not. It's easy to have images proliferate a lot and burn a lot of disk space. Under some conditions when layers are shared among too many images (can't recall the exact details here) deleting an image may result in also deleting a lot more images (and this is not the correct/expected/wanted behaviour) and that means that under some circumstances you have to retain a lot more images or layers than you think you should.

The thing is, I can only wonder how much bandwidth and disk space (oh and disk space must be replicated for fault tolerance) must cost running a public registry for everybody.

It hurts the open source ecosystem a bit, I understand... Maybe some middle ground will be reached, dunno.

Edit: I also run harbor at home, it's not hard to setup and operate, you should really check that out.
KHTML has an LGPL license. WebCore forked from that, so its source code must be released with a compatible license.
Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious
The Great Automatic Grammatizator, by Roald Dahl, one of the best sci fi short stories ever. This post is the story come to life.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...
Twitter Sentiment Indicator for Crypto Assets
GPT-3 (and other Transformers-based models) do a surprisingly-good job at maintaining entity relationships over a long horizon, thanks to attention mechanisms.
Last time I checked, GitLab offered a free Docker container registry for all projects.
>You seem to be moving the goalposts here.

No, you are.

>Epic is explicitly a walled garden regarding the games it has paid to be exclusive within that walled gardren (Permanently or temporarily).

That doesn't make the PC a walled garden. And we compare PC with iPhones here. Not Apple Appstore vs. Epicstore.
>You don't know when something comes to hot path.

That's the point of the first advice though...
>When you're stuck being the "computer person" in a family, it means you need to manage things like people's laptops that have somehow associated .exe files with MS Word or a game suddenly starting in the background and making a bunch of noise on Android (I've dealt with these first-hand).

The things you can do with the phone are already more dangerous and hazardous than say, manually approved, developer-mode sideloading.

Following this logic, why is the phone even allowed to get phone calls from non-Apple approved numbers?, or mail from non-Apple approved email addresses?

Like at what point does this logic actually stop, because for someone who somehow manages to install malware after having to tap on some arcane menu seven times in a row every service on that phone is a minefield
These seem to be cases where Google might be collecting less data in one area, but where they can easily supplement or cross-reference the data from another area to not actually lose any information.

For example, they mention Rapor for Chrome, but with almost all websites having Google analytics installed, they clearly have full data on what the user is doing regardless.

For Google maps it may be used to show how busy a restaurant is, but they still collect location history, query history, route history, etc from users, so it's trivial for the data to still be used or reconstructed.

Even mentioning usage of differential privacy for a single feature of Gmail seems pointless to me when they obviously not only have everyone's emails in full history, but also develop countless algorithms to scrape content from emails (e.g. purchase history from common retailers).

Perhaps I'm too cynical, but at least to me it seems to be a very common pattern. I'd personally bet that differential privacy techniques that actually give users notable information-theoretic anonymity are very rarely used by Google in general. A few usage example of differential privacy are good and better than none, but with a company of their size I don't think it (yet) makes any true statement.
That would work a whole one time. Not next time though. I don't believe that's what they were doing.

I think they were using the funding excuse as a way to cut staff without looking like bad guys. Reality is they were already deep in talks with Google on resigning and did the job cuts before finalizing.

They're probably doomed if the exact correct choices aren't made, I'm in that unpopular crowd that believes they should find a way to graft Firefox's presentation and features on top of Chromium to save on Gecko maintenance costs, and then continue to monetize with side products like their VPN and Rust (consulting). They should sell Pocket.

Marketshare gains will take time, that's a long hard road but it'll be based on features and privacy. If Microsoft couldn't hold off Chromium with EdgeHTML, then a smaller player won't be able to. There's still Webkit if de facto standards are a worry. Mozilla isn't the well-positioned, deep-pocketed player that should be offering choice in the rendering engine market.
Can we start it off with "Call me Ishmael" and see if it mentions typewriters in the next 700 pages?
When I fist started using Debian, it was a bit of a potato. It improved over time but still felt a little wooden. Ubuntu brought a lot of people back into the Debian ecosystem, ensured that it improved constantly to the point where it's a corporate power buster, and I feel like the next release will hit the bullseye for sure.
Money is fungible.
The argument I remember is:

a) The gig economy is viscerally disgusting.

b) Its existence will trigger a “race to the bottom” that threatens all workers.

c) Gig work is not very important to casual gig workers, so taking it away would not harm them.

d) Taking away gig work will prompt gig workers to find real jobs which are better for them, anyway.

Low margin employers like Walmart and Amazon ruthlessly squeeze efficiency from
their employees to ensure productivity > cost for every shift. The could not do otherwise - such are the economics of a low margin business. The gig economy offers the option of working “inefficiently,” and some people value that enough to trade off compensation for it. Maybe the gig economy companies could operate like Walmart, but the point is people are choosing gig work over Walmart for a reason.
Home Fitness Equipment
I'll add another vote for traveling back in time and building an endowment and a sustainable community development process instead of scope creeping the mission.
I did something sort of similar, but really most similar to the "manual tagging" you described... I wrote an "Excuse Generator" that takes the form of "I wanted to do ___ but didn't because __ and I feel terrible about that because ___". The actual code takes a few more randomized turns in the structure than that, but ends of making some stuff that amazed me. Code: https://github.com/unoti/gpt2-excuse-generator
This could go one step further by implementing an import hook, then you could do import users; users.get_all_users(conn)

It's something I've been meaning to try with other languages.
Since there isn't any evidence that it did happen, the fact that it is illegal is a pretty good reason to believe that it didn't happen. When you consider that Snowden released a trove of internal documents not vetted by the secret keepers, and none of them show that it did happen (while many of those documents cite the law for why it should not happen), that provides further circumstantial evidence that it didn't happen.
Let’s Take Our Brains More Seriously When Learning
If you are interesting, here is the GoodRx article I mentioned above: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2020/03/26/the-co... In my opinion, primary care is not a winner take all market, and the market is very large. What makes telemedicine interesting now is that the new solutions are become more and more innovative, both on technology side and business model side. Instead of picking from a list of providers, make an appointment, and video chat. I personally tried Khealth, and I thought it is very engaging, not a typical medical app. Another example is Forward health, it really empowers the patients to understand their situation, instead of giving prescriptions blindly.
Sure, I agree that Trump appears to be signalling that he is attempting to prevent mail in ballots from being delivered but it's really hard to picture how this strategy helps him?
IE, I'm struggling to put together some sort of specuative game theory about the election that leads to him being president again.
Wait till we find out that most of this is plagiarized from the data ingested by the model (no surprise!)
While I fully understand the logic of what you're saying, this is what makes us peons despise the upper execs, as they've turned it into a game of "Heads I win, tails you lose".

I mean, if you're a great CEO, you're lavished with Midas-level wealth. If you're an absolute shitty CEO, you're also lavished with let's say Midas-junior-level wealth in the form of retention bonuses and/or golden parachutes to fix the mess you created (as you, no doubt, axe a large number of your underlings).
YC needs a version (or sub-section) of startup school that's focused on generating quality startup ideas. I feel like that's a huge aspect that isn't really talked about. This "Build Sprint" is an example...they jump right to "let's figure out how to get your first customers", and assume everyone is ready to go with a million-dollar idea.
> There is no fussing around, it just simply works.

Because they have huge teams maintaining API and ABI stability.

On any Linux distribution worth its name you can also use the software within seconds after installation. The teams are just smaller and their approach is more centralised and principled, but I never had a problem using, e.g., emacs after installing it.

You need to fuss around with software from their parties. Simply because these third parties do not care enough about your Linux to make the installation work well. These same third parties also do not care much about how stuff is supposed to work under windows, they just drop their binaries and assume that the windows ABI will somehow keep working.
Nothing probably, your very first comment (2018) was downvoted. You have not made many contributions through comment or suit to make up for it. Hopefully you are one step closer to positive now!
Can you use alternative browsers on Chromebooks (sans rooting)?
I had actually completely forgot about MooTools until this comment. Brought back some fond memories of a simpler time!
Aw, I agree! Will let Prashant know.

Re: Cloud providers - I also agree, it's a complicated world ;)
When arriving at the site I thought what I saw had been written by sudowrite - you really should make clear what has been written by a human.
Indeed!
It's statistical models getting touted as a panacea.
For the record, I am publishing stories, not writing code. To work with publishers, I need to use their format. That format is Microsoft Word. Specifically, the Windows or macOS versions of Word, _not_ the online or iOS versions. The only workable alternative I know of is Pages on macOS.

Word's Track Changes feature is used to show where an Editor or Author wants to make changes, ask questions, or make comments. If you do not use Word, you risk comments or changes going silently missing. Worst case, complete, irreversible corruption of the document. This is not theoretical, publishers have horror stories about authors using Libre/Open Office or incompatible versions of Word.

Word is very much the "real format" for most of the process. You may be thinking of typesetting, which uses different file formats depending on which application is used. As an author, I don't see that part of the process.
This doesn't really show it in action. First off, the automatic scrolling over two separate panels makes it difficult to read the story.

Additionally, the page looks to be a few static snippets, instead of dynamically generated and unique to each user. That makes me suspect that these are probably cherry-picked examples.
I was wondering about that ;)
Very true. But the only alternative to single examples are statistical studies and surveys. And hardly any news source limits themselves to that. So if we're going to accuse them of cherry-picking, we shouldn't stop with just this one story or website.
I think most human creativity is built around a seed of inspiration from outside sources.

In my experience serendipity and happy accidents are exactly what leads to the most creative and interesting outcomes.

This is a system that’s able to generate these inspirations/prompts for you in a way that’s more focused on what you’ve already written. I don’t see it as ironic because I don’t think it’s hijacking your creative potential, just augmenting it.
The weasel nature of corporate speak is beyond a simple lie. People out a lot of work and, perversely, take pride in their ability to say one thing while sounding like saying another, at best, or outright convincingly bullshit.

It deserves to be labeled as the worse of the two options because it is.
> Probably you are thinking there should be atext file in your home where you could add new signature to be sued, but that could be a security issue so probably needs to be something more safe,did any serious patch was sent to improve this and was it rejected or why we expect Canonical to prioritize this over other issues?

If someone can replace that text file, they can replace the binary the key is compiled into.
Apple has, in fact, used that argument. However, it also defeated that argument in the hearing: It set the "standard" to begin with, everyone is following them. The entire point of competition is so that other players can choose to come in at a lower price, which is good for consumers.

And if Apple prevents Epic from selling direct with a much lower processing fee (note the 20% price cut is similar to the 30%/12% difference between their store fees), Apple is directly preventing competition that would lower prices for consumers.
I have a problem with procedural games in that whenever I face something new, I know it is not the process of a human creative mind. There wasn’t any intention behind that creation, there were no conscious or subconscious decisions about what that was supposed to mean, there was no human bias, no human tropes. Essentially, for me, there was no story. I lack any more understanding of the world, the humans, or the society for encountering that piece of creation. It is empty for me. Meaningless. A parade of random dice rolls thrown by a machine carefully designed to be misinterpreted as a story.

I feel the same about a story written by GPT-3. Or AI music creation.

To make myself clear, I think there is more depth in any superficial pop song composed by humans with the only purpose of earning money based in tried and tired formulas than it is ever possible to achieve in any music ever created by an AI.
No, this is incredibly bad. Think about the pain we're all going through to rotate UEFI certificates. There is almost no system where this is worth it.
Have they fixed the unearthly slowness of SquashFS? Is there a filesystem out there that is slower?
Why would an additional option be a bad thing? I assume all the apps would move to something similar to what epic is doing: offer apple pay _in addition_ to another option. What is the downside to that other than pressure on apple to reduce their cut to be more competitive?
Rust, not Firefox, is likely to be the enduring legacy of Mozilla.

Rust will survive if Mozilla does not. I doubt Firefox will.
There are a few valid points of discussion buried somewhere in this largely nonsensical rant.

These are, I believe:

* Scope creep on what the web really is and what browsers should be allowed to do or not to do. I agree with this and the need to exercise caution in creating or adopting new specs.

* Google exercising undue control over the open web. (Also a huge problem IMHO.)

* Mozilla imploding being pretty bad for the web.
iPhone users already pay for hardware.
That's because Congress can't put a blanket nationwide sanction expediently -- it instead limited it to federal employees where they have absolutely authority, and pretty much cleared path for Trump's action.
https://twitter.com/gcpascutto/status/1293519587967983616
Basics such as chinos and t-shirts do not show that "my assertion is pretty weak" at all, because they aren't "fast fashion". They are staples that remain in style for a long, long time. I'd argue that they serve to support my argument rather than contradict it. I didn't say all clothing is "fast fashion".

As for the second part. My quote was actually 'New "trends" dictated by celebrities and designers every year do nothing but sow personal insecurities and environmental destruction.'

Obviously the phrase "do nothing but" is an absolutism that I should not have used, since it makes it easy for someone to provide a single counter-example to disprove it. I don't deny that self-expression and "art" are positive things. The question is whether those positive effects are worthwhile considering the negative ones. My opinion is that it's not even close. Not by a long shot.

>late stage capitalism or lack environmental taxation allow companies to produce lots of goods without any regard for the environment.

Agreed. But, I think the fashion industry itself is largely morally bankrupt. It preys on peoples insecurities, and environmental externalities more so than (almost) any other.
I use roughly this approach in Java, and I would argue that it makes the queries more available to the developer.

Yes, they're in a different file. But it's another file in the same codebase, and it's directly referenced by the code that's using it. This means it's not really any harder to track down than the code to a function that lives in a different file. It's really NBD.

And, in return for putting your SQL in .sql files, you get all sorts of nice things. Syntax highlighting for your SQL, for starters. And it's somewhere that autoformatters and linters and SQL unit testing tools and the like can get at easily. And you get SQL code that isn't being forced through whatever laundry wringer and or cheese grater is imposed by your language's string literal syntax. (This last one admittedly isn't such a problem in Python.)

This really isn't too far off from why your JavaScript code is generally happiest in .js files and your CSS is generally happiest in .css files, rather than making them all inline in your HTML.
But this is the opposite problem. Our "thieves" haul much less volume than the real companies, yet charge less. Something's not adding up.
MIT and Microsoft algorithm determines correlations in vast art collections
Show HN: Document Organizer Designed for MS Word
Yeah. That’ll be a mess. The way I try to do it is to build an image for a project’s build environment and then use that to build the project. The build env image never changes and stays around forever or as long as is needed. So when you have to patch something that hasn’t been touched for 5 years you can build with the old image instead of doing a big update to the build config of the project.

Many Docker based builds are not reproducible. Even something as simple as apt-get update failing with a zero exit code (it does this) adds complexity and most people don’t bother doing a deep dive.

Personally I use Sonatype Nexus and keep everything important in my own registry. I don’t trust any free offerings unless they’re self hosted.
Because Non-aligned (NAM) was more or less a lie. India was strongly oriented towards USSR, all while never committing strongly enough to actually get legitimate support. It was also naively ideological, in a "if we play nice, so will everyone else".

India allowed China to get their own UN security council seat on the idea of NAM, all while China itself blocked India's entry into the UNSC.

In 1965, India received zero support from either sides, while being pressured by the same UN to withdraw troops despite having gained massive ground in heavily settled parts of Pakistan. Even Indonesia, India's closest NAM ally and co-founder, supported Pakistan in the war.

Every time India has tried to take the moral high ground, it has come out of it in a poorer position.

India can't stay non-aligned while Chinese and Pakistani leadership keep claiming more and more land (Tawang, Junagad, etc) within Indian borders. It can't rely on tacit support from this paper tiger super power Russia or an Iran that is headed towards becoming a Chinese proxy.

For some reason, India is expected to bear the weight of being the moral compass of the world, all while the same world continuously disparages it for being a discriminatory and backward nation led by a fascist leader. (some accusations are admittedly well placed)

Being an ally doesn't mean, India has to be a proxy state. Japan, South Korea, UK or France aren't American proxy states, but are American allies. It simply means to seek relationships where interests align. To pretend that India is non-aligned is to pretend that India does not have interests.
I think that's a perfectly valid point. At the same time it seems like the incentives are misaligned. I imagine most cardboard getting recycled is from large distributors, not individuals, so maybe they should be getting rebates on their trash bills. But implementing that might be a nightmare so maybe you're right. It's just hard to fault someone for performing a public service.