skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downvoted because your statement is misleading. A contract has to be lawful to be valid.

A contract could transfer users, assuming regulations are followed and users were acquired legitimately (both of which are debatable here). However a contract that requires to transfer users without notice nor consent is defacto null because it is not lawful.

These are extremely serious considerations for the case at hands. Companies knew what they were doing, the acquisition and PII transfer is not merely accidental, that should be covered in the contract. Depending on the wording and the intent of the companies (and any public backslash that might ensue and bring things to light), either side might lawyer up and reconsider the contract, or a third party like a regulator might jump in (could fine the parties or void the acquisition).
I hold the opposite view. Humans rarely make decisions based on valid deductive reasoning. Many argumentative methods that are technically fallacies are tremendously useful in practice (argument from authority is a good example) because we need to make a decision without the ability to actually develop a formal argument from the ground up. Rejecting heuristics will make decision making slow to a crawl.
> This report recommends (on page 50) that governments implement transparent user data privacy and user data protection frameworks that apply to all social media networks.

Sounds like a good initiative. Unfortunately, I expect most social media networks to resist that kind of regulation. Except maybe for TikTok and WeChat, since regulation would be better for them than the total ban they're facing.
How to Make Your Website ADA Compliant Using AccessiBe
> Error establishing a database connection

Based on the title I'm guessing this could have been delivered as a static web page delivered by a CDN.

I've never understood why some people want to set up their own web servers to deliver static content.
Tech for Good Is Good for Tech: An Interview with the CEO of Honest Mobile
From my viewpoint, Puppet's portfolio is comprised of mostly half-baked stuff. You have Puppet itself, which is decent, and then an almost Google-level of weird stuff. They keep announcing new products but so far nothing seems to be sticking and they're all ludicrously expensive IMHO.

Meanwhile, their core technology is kind of a dead end. More and more people are looking to manage containers and other serverless type things, rather than managing fleets of VMs. They're not in the same boat as companies like VmWare, but they're in the same flotilla. If somebody does buy them, it'll probably be an act of dinosaurs mating and not much else.
In real life the way you figure it out is the dealer just does what they want and you deal with it, unless you have time to take them to court over it.
Rich Man Values Gold, His Son Values Bitcoin
Wow, I was a Progress DBA back in the day.
They always felt very under the radar till they acquired Telerik.
What are the countries with abundant renewable power sources?
Alternative non-hyperbolic view, he doesn't want to cede control of his invention to a single company?

Fighting Apples dominance in podcasting control has to be sympathetic to marxists like you?
Disclaimer: I know very little about Japanese

How could you store that in a separate field from the name? Don't the characters in the furigana need to be matched up in a certain way with the characters in the name?

It seems like storing the characters in line in the same field as the name would actually be the more correct thing to do here, using a system like Unicode's interlinear annotation characters for ruby text.
Anecdotally, I don’t know anyone in the windows / .NET world that is using chef, or have used it and stuck with it. Most people on that platform seem to gravitate to Chocolatey. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any using Chef primarily but it’s pretty rare it seems.
This is so important.
It's been the zeitgeist for a while now to avoid trust at all cost. symptoms of the zeitgeist in censoring solutions like the article shows; Technologists obsession with decentralization and a zero trust monetary system; economist obsession with game theory and rational quantity optimizing individual agents models.

Don't get me wrong, these models are useful, but they are perceived like laws of nature, or even religion where any other, especially, qualitative description of reality is automatically considered wrong and against dogma.

These things got accepted is truth because these ideas were developed while the US went in to a huge economical boom post WW2, and by association are perceived to be the causes of this boom. At the same time, Soviet Russia failed model for society and the atrocities committed against its citizens are perceived as proof of the danger in any departure from this dogma.
The naturalization of these values; the rise of social media; and information technology. created the perfect storm for a complete erosion of trust in authority.
Attention economy ran by people that believe business endavours can only be rational and purely profit driven, made disinformation a standard in media through click optimizing sensationalized content.
Even science succumbed to this: when universities started seeing themselves as businesses that need PR to optimize some metric. These PR departments sensationalized science communication, pumping out exaggerated reports about early stage science. Leaving the public confused and distrustful.

Science is the core of truth In western secular culture. Now that science got commoditized for PR purposes, we lost this last grasp at truth.

This, At the macro level, We lost trust, and we lost truth. The only psychological/societal cohesion inducing element left is power and domination.

Distributed media is not necessarily a good thing. I think a local, transparent distributed and heirachial forms of media might be better for humanity.
While the evidence is light. Is anyone surprised if this is true? My experience is that most cybersecurity firms are only slightly better than other enterprises. They often have lofty standards that they themselves don't follow.

They also have professional service arms that are similar to the rest of the industry. Handful of senior people and an army of junior engineers that bias towards velocity over quality (i.e. take shortcuts that can lead to data exposure and other issues)
Whereas this is monstrous, one has to ask if PandaDoc leadership is acting recklessly by criticizing a foreign dictatorship from afar, while their employees and assets are still at risk. At least Bill Browder had the foresight to get most of his employees (and his money) out of Russia before he started going after Putin...and yet Magnitsky still paid the ultimate price. This is a dangerous game that they're playing and I really hope for the safety of the PandaDoc team.

Edit: Updated to reflect that company was founded in Minsk and later relocated to SV. Still dangerous.
That would be a good thing, honestly. I mean...look at rotten tomatoes, lots of times critics have no idea what they're talking about
If we're being serious about cryptography, you could have cameras signing videos in real time with a secret key, in such a way that each camera has an individual key stored in a specialized chip that does the signing, with no way to access the key without breaking the chip's seal.

So you could still fake videos, but any accusation of tampering could be verified by checking the seal is intact. (of course you need non-forgeable seals too, but that's comparatively easier)
He's an Australian citizen who was in various countries while operating Wikileaks. What crime(s) did he commit?

It's not a crime to break USA secrecy laws (or, in fact, any US laws) while not being a citizen or resident of the USA. With the caveat that the behaviour is not also illegal in whatever country the alleged perpetrator is actually a citizen/resident of.
No, because I would have to pay for a full month to just use it once (Photoshop, IIRC, is $20/m so it would only take 5 uses to be up to the $100 I would have paid).
I live in Europe, in Sweden more specifically, and there is absolutely no way a financial company could offer a product with a "blackmailing through your nudes" collateral. If it's possible in China then you can't state that financial services are "very regulated in China (similarly in Europe)".

And please, don't assume I'm American or that I posted coming from an American perspective.
That's a solved problem - you get an independent expert to investigate and give their opinion.
> being in a space designed for work (proper seating and desks, aircon)

I haven’t seen a corporate space “designed for work” in years thanks to the cult of the open plan office.

Meanwhile at home I have a nice electrically-adjustable standing desk, an Aeron, an air conditioner set to the precise temperature I alone want it to be, and I can go to the coffee house downstairs if I want to hear people bleat about blockchain.
Only if you put no value on your own time and want to lose even more money just to be proven right.
When Self-Promotion Becomes Social Media Spam
they're called AT-TE for anyone who wants to google it
The fact that they sell the hack for $1500 is pretty ridiculous.

Seems like there's a market for a reverse-engineered version of the hack, priced at slightly above the cost of materials (which I suspect to be around $50 at most).
One of the crime's he's charged with is hacking.

What you are saying underlines my point. It was indeed unlikely that Assange would be extradited merely for leaking classified information, as it is difficult for even a US citizen to be successfully prosecuted for doing that. But he is being charged with other crimes.
"Apple is starting to tinker with their directory"

This is the first I'm hearing of it. What are have Apple been doing to their index?
JDK 15 G1/Parallel GC changes
On the other hand, if you're too strong about how you phrase your case, some people will take you at face value and assume "he seems pretty sure about this, he's probably right". A little hedging in how you phrase things gives other people an easier-to-take opening to raise counterpoints without feeling like they're getting into an actual argument.
Honestly this just seems like Peter was being a good dad and setting his son up for success. He included his sons twitter handle, the btc hashtag and everything required for his son to get a ton of follows. Its very smart of the two of them and very much a move to give his kid a leg up. Peter has established himself a nice niche market as being pro gold anti btc and its gotten him a following, now his son can capture the opposite market.

Kid is a college freshman and now has 18.5k followers. Not a bad plan.
I link to WayBackMachine as Ive built a great many greenfield applications for startups as a freelancer, which only existed for about 6-8 months before hitting their burn rate. If I linked to their original domains, my portfolio would be a list of 404s.
Funnily enough, I actually suggested we adopt something like GREASE for OAuth parameters: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/oauth/Rqxs-QDqqdQkt36S...

There wasn’t a lot of support.
In a complex discussion, these devices are rarely useful. And the fallacies are only meant to invalidate your opponent's arguments, and sometimes incorrectly: e.g. a debate on the merits of refactoring ultimately has no logical resolution, only reasonable expectations based on experience and authority.

On contrast, the article is more about maintaining relations and work culture than deciding a debate, which is indeed vague, but at least as valuable.
Complexity in pop music is driven by timbre and instrumentation rather than harmonic or melodic complexity - but timbre and instrumentation are no less valid forms of musical expression and complexity (talk to Ravel or Varese). The desire to judge all music based on the dominant ideas of 16-19th century european classical music seems to exist not to better understand musical expression but instead to let people feel superior to others.
Is it actually ECG? as in sensing electrical signals?
Why tech couldn’t save us from Covid
I feel like Rust is doing pretty well for itself, in light of the VAST inertia that C and C++ have. A bunch of big names in tech are adopting Rust: (obviously) Mozilla, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Dropbox, IIRC.

That's not bad for a language that has "barely" hit 1.0 five or so years ago (next to C's 40-something years).
AutoScraper: A Smart, Automatic, Fast and Lightweight Web Scraper for Python
In the last few years, web scraping has been one of my day to day and frequently needed tasks. I was wondering if I can make it smart and automatic to save lots of time. So I made AutoScraper!

The project code is available on Github: https://github.com/alirezamika/autoscraper

This project is made for automatic web scraping to make scraping easy. It gets a url or the html content of a web page and a list of sample data which we want to scrape from that page. This data can be text, url or any html tag value of that page. It learns the scraping rules and returns the similar elements. Then you can use this learned object with new urls to get similar content or the exact same element of those new pages.

I hope this project is useful for you and saves your time, too.I look forward to hear any feedback or suggestion.
A couple of things here:

I worked in the industry, this is first hand experience. But it was 20 some years ago.

High schools mostly chose windows for various science software, otherwise it was macs.

This is very regional. So Google may dominate in one region while Apple dominates in another.

Google could be giving these Chromebooks away to have this metric to throw around. Does this mean they’re used? Maybe, maybe not.
You just described affiliate marketing. For example, sponsored content on YouTube => https://youtu.be/kUFWalEf31w?t=572
MLOps – A curated list of references for Machine Learning Operations
Agreed. Which is why I find it odd that their products are in a mismatch of verticals. This strategy only makes sense if more acquisitions are on the way.
Agreed, and it shouldn't be too much of a burden to use since the author was quite clear about it being for reference materials. The idea isn't all that different from referring to specific print editions.
Tips and Tricks used in my Portfolio – Part 3
Until the highest-level engineers who agreed to implement this are personally held liable for some damages, we are unlikely to see change.

GDPR is a good amount of fluff. You can run laps around the competition and stall serious consequences for years. Meanwhile, a well-meaning start-up can shell our millions of dollars if an ornery national regulator decides they’re their pet project. Fine if one has a multi-million dollar L&L budget, though.
>I've never understood why some people want to set up their own web servers to deliver static content.

I've a Digital Ocean droplet running several static sites for €5 a month. Whats the problem?
I's not really from 2005

Sabre is from the 60s and doesn't like apostrophes in names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)
Now, before people crucify me for saying what’s ahead, I want to make it clear that I do not support the Espionage Act; it is a terrible attack on our Freedom of Speech and the Press. However, I am simply refuting a point using the law as it stands today. Also, IANAL.

> he was unlikely to be extradited to the US for leaking classified information, as it would be hard to prosecute someone in the US merely for doing that.

The Espionage Act of 1917[0] covers that situation quite well. It’s what all whistleblowers are charged with. We’ve even put a few people in prison for it, and the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality in two cases in 1919[1][2]. Snowden is wanted for it.

As for how it covers this situation, the text of the act[3§1] says:

> That (a) whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the United States, or [...]

It does list other reasons such as aiding the enemy, but I feel that this part is what the prosecution would argue.

Now, would the US have jurisdiction to even argue this as the crime happened outside the US? That I do not know, but I have a feeling the courts would say they do as the crime was against the (federal) state.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States

[3]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Lar...
Facebook gives you better returns as well as Google Ads, Linkedin was not a good convertion rate at all and they don't really care about it so yes you're correct about the statement of "Money Pit" it's because we're used to Facebook and Google conversions that we expect the same from Linkedin and actually it's different platforms with different goals and objectives, not sure why you should expect the same "money's worth" on every platform out there each one has a different objetive and different users that's how it works they're different.
I can't read the source article (site is down) but judging from the header I'm kinda glad LinkedIn is not selling many ads. The last years it's become an even more fake stream of glossy PR marketing crap filled with stock photos of smiling faces, and people commenting how much they adore the company line. I get enough of all that on the company's own sites, thank you.

I get that people don't want to be critical in public, but you don't have to repost every piece of marketing BS that comes your way :) Especially when I know some of these people tell a completely different story in person.

And the membership fees for being invisible are ridiculously high now. There's constantly people bothering me with their 'services' which are totally not relevant to my role if they'd even bothered to glance at my profile. I wish I could report them somehow.

The only reason I still have it is because it's almost impossible to get a job without it :) Because the business world loves it. But it's more fake than FaceBook now. Everyone is one successful talented employee who is completely in line with the corporate hive mind.
They can eat it, but there are examples where they don't eat it.

https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/sweeter_lemon_la...
If Management Isn’t a Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t a Demotion
The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees
>leaking classified information

The problem is, he is NOT a US-Citizen, by that fact he cannot be a traitor.

A Agent? No because he did not acquired that information, by that actual definition every country and every press outlet is a agent.

So what has he done? MAYBE endanger the life of US Citizens, which is really not important since he is NOT a US-Citizen.
I am fascinated by a line of study that leads to a knot theory class. What school/major was that part of, at what college?
Add to that list of strong opinions without real arguments: "It's standard/industry practise" or "because it's Agile", without a breakdown of merits as to why that is.
> No, if the only option you give me is "Request Demo" but all I want is more info then I'll click "Request Demo." Then when I don't get more info or info that I like I'll bail.

Exactly. Even if I was thinking about requesting a demo when I clicked the ad, I then want to see a lot of information on the target site before proceeding. I'm not going to sign up for a demo unless I think there's a pretty good chance I'll want to buy.

Most vendor websites don't provide nearly enough information for me to make that judgment. As someone who doesn't consider talking to sales people to be a recreational activity, that leaves me with little choice but to bail.
It's not as detailed as the sort you'd get in a hospital with 12 electrodes stuck all over, but yes it's really sensing electrical signals
This article is both too long and also, by virtue of being a linkfarm, too short. Let's try something simpler: All software metrics eventually fail to indicate useful directions for progress, by Goodhart's Law [0]. A corollary is that whatever snake oil is being peddled by the article, it will eventually be as useless as current metrics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Does this clearly violate California law?
I think this can be compared to the standard trade off of doing things the right way or the quick way, which is not necessarily wrong but can blow up spectacularly. Unfortunately, sometimes the work to do things the right way is an infinite pit of edge cases and domain knowledge.

You can use libraries to paper over this trade off but then you have other trade offs like needing to worry about bugs you have no control over.

In the end, if you don’t feel at least a little bad about the software you’ve written or how long it took to write it, you are probably doing something wrong
Ooorr... because those measures correspond to something in the experience, that humans have been found to value.
> I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve.

Easy improvement: A readme.md It'd be much easier to grasp what it is trying to achieve if it actually were described.
Ditto this. I was a ASP/VB-then-.Net developer 20 years ago and happened upon Progress 4GL when I had to create apps either communicating with or extracting data from Progress sources. My only beef was the horrifically quirky ODBC driver (and the convoluted SQL Server DTS packages & openqueries that resulted) -- 4GL was rock solid on AIX, and also on CentOS/RHEL once we moved away from AS400... and this was for high volume factory execution systems at a global EMS firm. Around 2010, we started a migration from Progress --> PostgreSQL+Java, approximately when the majority of the original devs began retiring. It was painful and the resulting "new" versions of our apps & DBs were universally crappier, even if "easier" to develop for and manage using "agile" methods. I frequently miss the old days, when programming was WYSIWYG and everyone explicitly understood how computers worked.
In the U.S. only a very small percentage of lawyers ever get to the point where they make $250 an hour, and even if they do they only have a certain amount of years they can earn that much then if they don't make partner at whatever firm they're at they get put out to pasture.

During the time they're making that much money they're basically trapped working insane hours at one firm. Most lawyers don't even make six figures. Also, they can get disbarred if they make a mistake.

Software engineering allows for higher earnings for your entire career (though the ceiling might be lower on earnings), is less stressful and doesn't demand as many hours (in general) doesn't have a regulatory body that can take away your right to work if you get in trouble.
That's quite interesting.

I see two possible implementations:

- either the struct is replicated at the function call (not really efficient, but the semantics are straightforward);

- either the struct is used to prepare directly the stack for the function call (more efficient, but the semantics must be defined).

One of the issues of the second approach is that if the structure/variable is a classical one, what should happen if we use the variable after the call?

If we have to read the values inserted before the call then we have to keep a copy of the structure in the stack (so it's the same as the first approach).
Or we can consider that the variable no longer exists in the scope.
Which corresponds to the ownership concept in Rust for example. (but, to my knowledge, this does not exist in C++)

What is the best option? Or are there other options?

Another question, what sizeof(foo::args) should return ?