skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, yes, I agree with that.

I think the point here is that Palantir presents itself as not participating in deportations or other widely-considered-distasteful things, and yet they do, and that deserves particular outrage.

I think it's quite reasonable for a company to say we don't know exactly what our supply chain looks like and the only way anyone can build electronics is to use somewhat-questionable supply chains, but we'll do the best we can and and take action if we know of specific instances of harm (e.g., avoid known-bad suppliers), because that's the only way to do better. I think there's a number of food companies and clothing companies that do the same thing about working conditions in their supply chains, too. Palantir isn't doing that - they're speaking out of both sides of their mouth, saying "of course we aren't doing it" while directly being involved. If Palantir were to say, for instance, that they understand their product could be used in this way, they're not interested in providing services for deportations and will cut off customers who are using it for that or indirectly providing services for other organizations doing that, then the public reaction would be very different.

(They could also say "Palantir fully supports the mission of America's law enforcement including ICE and ERO, work here if you want to support law and order and make America great again," and then nobody would accuse them of hiding what they work on.)
Does anyone else find it odd Zoom not in top 15? Is it only because it's not webtraffic?
Sorry, do you want an ideologically inclusive environment, as alluded to in the article, or an anideological environment?
Replace /PS4/PS3 with OtherOS/ and we see that Sony wasn’t forced to open their platform.
> But, sure, yeah, I must be imagining it all.

No, I'm not saying you are imagining. I suspect (not state) that you are biased, and describe the issue larger than what it is.

> I provided a link to lots of articles about white supremacy in the US. It is you who have provided no counter-evidence.

And I can give you a link to Google, when you can find anything.

You just provided a link with the list of white supremacist organisations. Nobody denies these organisation exists.

But there is no proof that "white supremacists" have significant power. They look like small marginal groups with no money and no real power. Like religious sects.
68k is basically dead in embedded. Most of the parts have been out of production for many years, and the ones that remain are only used for legacy applications -- they're 5V parts, making them incompatible with most newer components, and they're completely outclassed by ARM microcontrollers.
Temporal reaches version 1
> If workers trust that "We, the people" are still in charge on the big picture then it doesn't make sense to bring politics at work. Just vote.

This is a bizarre, ahistorical sentiment. Go read about the history of labor struggle in the US. Even when everyone could vote, the organizing of workplaces and response by their employers was far more contentious and violent than anything that’s going on today.
All I care about is having a high-quality *nix machine. Right now, a MacBook Pro with macOS fits that bill well: the calculus may very well change, on both the hardware and OS side, when x86 is replaced with ARM64, though.
I have been in the same situation. But the lack of adventure and excitement can be fixed if you make the effort. Problem is that you have less energy so it’s very tempting to spend the weekend sitting on a sofa instead of doing something.

My mom is a warning for me. She admits that she feels regret about not having done a lot of things when she was younger and now she can’t do them being 90 years old with a demented husband who needs constant care.
3D Biometric Authentication Based on Finger Veins Almost Impossible to Fool
Really insightful with a lot of advice that can be used instantly!
In general at home I’m using Nextdns across all my devices including the router. uBlock origin extension on my browsers. The Sonos specifically is now blocked on my router...

the problem with some devices however is that I might actually want them to connect to the internet, but I have little control about what payloads they might be sending and where.
Weird point of view when most tech and engineering is used to generate political instability, misinformation and vote suppression.
In the case of coinbase I wouldn’t be surprise if the « amazing engineering » is mostly used for tax evasion or to by-pass politic finance laws, corruption laws etc...
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DEC Alpha was the first non-x86 platform supported in Linux (and in FreeBSD, where I did a lot of the work). Linux was doing just fine in 1994 when DEC gave Linus an alpha at the Boston USENIX.

The key fact is that, in the mid 90s, DEC Alpha was the fastest thing around, and poised to take over the world. It was expected to be the future (until it was killed by corporate incompetence and itanic). That's why I worked on FreeBSD support, and why Linus worked on Linux support. Alpha was also valuable because it was one of the first 64-bit platforms, and found a lot of pointer/int/long bugs on both systems.

There is a big difference between supporting what you expect to be the future of computing to what you know to be the long dead past.
Thanks for linking that. From the article:

> Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate. Mike Godwin himself has also criticized the overapplication of Godwin's law, claiming it does not articulate a fallacy; it is instead framed as a memetic tool to reduce the incidence of inappropriate, hyperbolic comparisons. [...]

> In December 2015, Godwin commented on the Nazi and fascist comparisons being made by several articles about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying: "If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler when you talk about Trump, or any other politician." [...]

> In June, 2018, Godwin wrote an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times which denied the need to update or amend the rule, and which rejects the idea that whoever invokes Godwin's Law has lost their argument, and which argues that appropriate application of the rule "should function less as a conversation ender and more as a conversation starter". [...]

> In June 2019, after Chris Hayes invoked Godwin's Law in a discussion of whether it was appropriate to call the United States's refugee detention centers "concentration camps", Godwin explicitly stated his belief that the term "concentration camps" was appropriate.
That's funny, when I flew in LA from Bali, I got stuffed in a room for four hours because I had a rock in my suitcase.
Hear what people are saying on talk radio throughout the US
This sounds very similar to the approach used by Salesforce internally. How does it differ?
https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-ana...
I've thought of something like this, but for the stores/supermarkets themselves. Because why not?

edit: Looking at how things are packaged and presented in the lower end like Lidl/Aldi, they are often standing on a pallet, either in full carton boxes, or just with carton around the top and bottom and the sides, stacked to maybe a meter, or 1.20m high. And the boxes are perforated in such ways that you can pull on some marked corner to open them easily.
Amazon introduces Amazon One, a way to pay with your palm when entering stores
I'm glad they released their jailbreak, because otherwise, those exploits would be sold and traded on the black market or collected and used by malicious groups, and we would be none the wiser. We'd walk around believing our machines are secure, and act like it, while that clearly isn't the truth.
A ~2017 i7 is only 4% slower than a ~2019 i7:

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700-vs-...
I'd love to check in a year from now to see what de facto ideology their intended void of ideology has created. I wonder what it will be.
This response is mis-characterization and is acting in bad faith, no one in this thread is asking for forced demonstrating. That's not actually a thing that's happening.
There aren’t too many places like HN out there. With that said, I hope you’ll find what you’re looking for.
In some respects it's similar, in that our table is time-series, but we're fully on the data analysis side. Data flows from production databases (in any format) into a warehouse, and from there we transform it into the activity stream.

Event sourcing is a great way to model production data that would work really well with Narrator, but it's by no means necessary.
If MS owns, funds, and brands it then sure.
Drone used to transport human kidney from airport in Las Vegas, Nevada
> But don't you think it's a bit extreme to label people sociopaths, insane, evil, incompetent, for expressing their desire to work in a place where they can focus on their craft?

I don't think you can ever fully just 'work on your craft' without considering the consequences of what you are doing.

Do you think it would be ok to 'just focus on your craft' if you were hired to design computerized controllers for suicide bombers?

Obviously that is a ridiculous example, but it is a good demonstration of why you can't fully ignore what your work is being used for.

You don't need to care if your work is some great helper of humanity, but you do have a responsibility to make sure your work isn't evil.
Have you considered Raytheon, Huawei, the Turkish government, etc?
Enterprise Tech Efforts Move Beyond Survival Mode
I don't think it would; `<` and `>` aren't syntactic sugar in C.
App analyses coronavirus genome on a smartphone
When AI is in control, who's to blame for military accidents?
This is one of those “you can eat or starve” kind of arguments made to back up how “free” we are.

No pesky people demanding you live. And your family can watch you struggle, because they’re broke from a medical bill, but at least you got schedule flexibility in a nation where rent is outpacing inflation.

Abstract nonsense. Reductionist garbage.

Celebrating the percent of people on poverty going down 2% emotionally ignores the raw number of people in poverty and creates an emotionally distorted psychology of motivation.

It’s no different in waving away the effects of such a crap wage for given the extent of financial inequality when we also know there are empty rooms everywhere.

Unfortunately, the landlords can’t rent them for obscene profit so whatever but there’s flexibility in this like you can’t imagine! What? Other real externalities? Have I mentioned to scheduling flexibility!?!
Using Technology to Tailor Lessons to Each Student
Just like Apple keeps changing the App store rules when they decide they can get more money by taxing developers, Apple will reduce privacy when they decide they can get more money, because they never have enough money. And it won't hurt Apple sales, because their competition is no better.

You claim Apple sells more because people trust them. Unless people are going to stop using smart phones they have no choice to use Google or Apple devices, privacy violations and all.
Nothing. But I don't know about you, but I'm more likely to have a laptop nearby than my phone. Especially if the kiddo is playing his dragon game on it.
I think in a world where profit is not the motive, you can have room for things like decentralized social networks, worker owned cooperatives with social good as the incentive instead of monopoly and capital. I think that makes power centralization and corruption harder, but it is certainly not immune. I think you're right though that any analysis that does not account for power will lack substance.
Coinbase Offers Severance Package to Employees Unsatisfied 'Apolitical' Mission
When Apple introduced the App Store with iPhone OS 2, didn’t they claim than 30% was less than half what retail chains could charge?
I’ve had quality issues with NVENC on OBS at 4K that went away if I either used cpu encoding in OBS or used NVENC with Shadowplay. I don’t know what caused this (I have a 1080) but it was super frustrating
Jokes on them, Fitbit hurts me[1] and being disabled insurance companies already discriminate against me[2].

On a serious note, Doesn't insurance companies already partner with fitness monitors? They claim to provide incentives for good health by offering discounts in premium but then again it could also mean higher premium if any health issues are detected by these fitness monitors irrespective of its accuracy.

[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/my-experience-with-fitbit-charge-...

[2]https://abishekmuthian.com/insurers-are-putting-the-lives-of...
Neural network trained to control anesthetic doses on patients during surgery
This is so great! You see exactly what we see and clearly you have shared similar experiences with dashboards not matching because of wrong table. (The good old "spent 3 weeks debugging an analysis using sales_data and then finally found that sales_data_v2 was built to solve it).

Yeah we do something very similar to dbt for taking restructuring the data into a single time-series table. We add things like identity resolution, diffing, incremental update and computing some cache columns.

Your Crystal Ball is SPOT ON!!! We get 3 kinds of data people. The ones who are like: "THIS WILL NEVER WORK", "Too bad I already built all this" or the "THIS IS THE FUTURE, HOW IS EVERYONE NOT USING IT".

I would love to chat and show you what we have (schedule a demo on our site and it will go to me and we can chat!)

Also, Teaser... When you standardize all of data and you create a consistent way to relating that standardized structure then analysis become very consistent. Imagine a world where your email attribution deep dive can be run by loading a template and point it to your "opened email" activity and your "order activity".... coming soon ... a Narrative Library.
Google could face antitrust probe in China mirroring those in the EU
I recently stumbled across "shoelace", which at a glance seems like an example of what the article is hoping for. It's a thoughtfully designed library of UI web components.

https://shoelace.style/
It would have helped a lot if JS had a working modules systems on the web.

> What hope do those who can’t write JS have? Using a custom element from the directory often needs to be preceded by a ritual of npm flugelhorn, import clownshoes, build quux, all completely unapologetically because “here is my truckload of dependencies, yeah, what”.

JS has been in a dark & ugly spot, & WebComponents feeling janky & weird is probably 50% the fact that JS is this dark twisting maze where each project has it's own very unique assumptions about how to turn authored JS into usable, deployable JS. We're still hoping, praying that import-maps eventually give us modular javascript code that we can deploy, without having to push it through a handful of compile/build tools: https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues/4810

By compare, Big Framework land often adopts some suggested normative best paths people can work with (ex, create-react-app bundling build/test/&c tools). Alas, the language itself is still, a decade latter, trying to proceed to useable modules on the web.

The other major point of this article tends towards a JS vs HTML problem, another area I am very sympathetic to & have hopes for.

> Far more people can write HTML than JS. Even for those who do eventually write JS, it often comes after spending years writing HTML & CSS. [...] If components are designed in a way that requires JS, this excludes thousands of people from using them.

There are ongoing efforts with HTML Modules ( https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4854408103854080 ) to try to make, among other things, bringing in WebComponents much easier, and Declarative Custom Elements ( https://blog.usejournal.com/w3c-declarative-custom-elements-... ) to make building modules much more HTML-centric & declarative versus today where most of the authoring of a custom element has to be done in JS.

There are very real problems, there is too much js, the js module system is still in a 1/2 complete state on the web, & these very much dog Web Components. But the future is exciting, & I continue to have hope that a much better, much more web native way of building emerges on the web platform. Lea talks a lot to how scattershot the last decade of work has been, how inconsistent, but given the other ecosystem constraints I'm not fully surprised, & I'm delighted that we are spending so long building & experimenting & learning, that for many of us, the hunger is very real. Also missing, the big adopters of WebComponents have been pretty silent, their thought-leadership seems missing: Youtube, Github. There are visible people from these worlds talking about WebComponents, but to my knowledge the real experience of WebComponents at scale from the very successful adopters remains a story not told.
You also have piwik and matomo to throw into that market.

It kinda looks saturated already to me but I'm sure there's plenty of room for smaller players!
Exactly and why I've tuned out all media minus local weather and or emergency reports.
Fortran is much easier to learn (compared to C/C++), much, MUCH easier, including its Coarray one-sided communication parallel programming paradigm.
> Or protests against certain customers of the company, because they are evil in some perceived way or form.

Or protests against other employees because <reasons>.

I'm the bloke who got my boss to hire the Polish girl who cleaned our offices after I realized she had a relevant degree.

The Indian girl I worked with at the helpdesk at the start of my career approached me at a wedding for common friends and said thanks for how much I had helped and encouraged her to pick up the local language.

I'm often the bloke people talk to about this or that because I listen and neither judge nor leak (unless clearly agreed).

I'm the bloke who was happy to be let go so that another guy with less experience could keep his as the bottom fell out of the market. (Also I really didn't like that job, but it made me genuinely happy that he could stay there as he had small kids and needed a job for different reasons. Also: I got a 40% increase in my base salary when I got a new job : )

It goes without saying I strongly believe all people have the same worth.

But at Google I would not feel safe at all, because I have studied enough biology and psychology to know that men and women are different and I refuse to pretend otherwise if confronted although I am wise enough not to bring the topic up.
> ...I'm fine with hobby platforms if they play in their own sandbox, but not when they impede development of current systems.

LLVM has an "experimental platform" flag that obviates this problem. IIRC, the Linux kernel also has something similar wrt. highly experimental config options.
Thank god IBM had employees like you during the 1930's, otherwise they might not have made as much money.
Creator of Ruby on Rails and CTO of Basecamp discusses software development
Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of Basecamp, author of Rework) about his philosophy around software development and Agile methodology.
There is now even a job site for firms and employees that want to avoid toxic accusatory work environments: https://www.unwoke.hr/
>I guess an other possibility would be to have proper unions but for some reason I don't see that happening in the USA any time soon...

I think this will happen sooner rather than later. As the market gets flooded with more and more engineers, tech workers will continue to get more and more proletarianized. Unionization will be the natural avenue for workers to get a slice of the pie.
I agree that they have an incentive to care about privacy because they have so far been incompetent at using data for the benefit of their users. However, they still collect a lot of data in order to try to get better at providing user benefit. Consider that on iOS you cannot get your location without also giving your location to Apple or install an app without telling Apple. Competing platforms do not suffer from these privacy invading issues.
Question for the narrator folks...what about using dbt to create the activity stream?
Great. Go work at a firm that reserves time for activism under a common cause. Plenty of us don’t want to do that at work, and will look for firms that let us focus on engineering for our time at work, so we can reserve our free time to do as we please.
They’ve changed the keyboard three times over 4 years, iirc; I am somewhat skeptical that they really know how to get it right given the constraints of their current design.
Also replying since I wrote this up :)

- activity_id : a unique identifier for the row

- activity : the type of activity (eg 'page_view')

- timestamp : time the activity happened

- customer : the unique customer identifier

Metadata columns

Three columns for any info we'd like to add to an activity. Eg for a purchased product activity it could be product name.

- feature_1
- feature_2
- feature_3

- revenue_impact : the amount of money related to this activity. A completed order activity would have this
- link : a hyperlink related to the activity ('ticket submitted' might have a link to the ticket in Zendesk)

Additional customer identifier - source and source id are used when you're not entirely sure who the customer is. For example, a 'page view' activity wouldn't know the actual customer, but might have a unique identifier. So the source could be 'segment.io' and source_id could be their generated uuid

- source

- source_id
A reminder that research efforts into repairing the damage of aging (effectively undoing aging) do exist.

SENS[0] is a 501(c)(3) public charity directing and funding such research.

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You're absolutely right, that would be the better approach, but it is unlikely to succeed with the current Congress. A rational Congress would have recognized months ago that the economic effects of the pandemic are likely to persist for years, and that bailing out businesses is not going to solve this problem at all... But the Republicans are not willing to admit yet that this is going to be a problem past next summer.
Guidelines are only a map, they are not the territory. The eye of the beholder is more important than the contrast ratio.
That sounds right to me. I doubt a DNS request is made for each packet.
A couple of reflections. The first one being that fusion might very well be the remedy to get rid of carbon emissions once and for all, however it won't affect global warming. In fact, it might make it even worse.

The simple line of reasoning being that if energy becomes 100 times cheaper, humanity will fast find ways to consume 100 times the amount of energy. A high amount of that energy will end up as heat.

The second reason... and you'll find it apparent I'm not a physicist, but reading about fusion research always has me worried. We're basically talking about starting a "controlled" chain reaction at millions of degrees, "like the one on the sun". The sun isn't a nice place, and the sun's fusion happens to be controlled just because it's surrounded by lightyears of vacuum.

-Yeah but we'll have magnetic fields and super coils and stuff. It's totally safe.
-Totally safe?
-Yes, our calculations say its totally safe.
-Your calculations based on current theory? Guess what, theory is a moving target. Just a few years ago you didn't even know if the Higgs particle exists?