skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The activism displayed in U.S tech is damaging both from a organizational point of view, but also its a competetitive disadvantage.

Imagine having employees who refuses to do work because 'they feel they shouldn't'. Or organizes walkouts, protests and are actively lobbying for changes in company policy to reflect their own personal values. Or protests against certain customers of the company, because they are evil in some perceived way or form.

It's smart to do what one can to get rid of these types of employees basically because they are only trouble, they add nothing with their activism in the workplace.

Now what you do on your own time on the other hand is totally up to you.
I think the issue is “How do you decide what is political and what isn't?” e.g. if you're a communist, then the existence is shareholders is political support for capitalism. So how do you remain “apolitical” then?
I'm not sure this is true. I've been told that, for example, the "city" MPG of hybrid cars with regenerative braking is higher than the "highway" MPG. This is because it simply costs energy to maintain speed in the face of hills, wind resistance, and parasitic/rolling losses. However in "city" driving much of the energy is reclaimed through braking.

A big part of this is wind resistance; as you know wind resistance increases with the square of the speed, so going 60MPH is going to cost quadruple what it costs to go 30MPH, and presumably "city" driving doesn't go much higher than 30 MPH.
Yep, qutebrowser should also have some more hinting modes :D
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/521

You can't really write Python well inline (as an oneliner), so custom hints would look a bit different in qutebrowser, as a separate Python extension which would be loaded from a file: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/30

I agree it'd be great to have a bit more flexibility with regards to hinting actions!
people make decisions, companies don't. That's the problem, people see the company as a political vehicle, akin to a political party. That's wrong on so many levels, primarily on the level that it's a well-funded for-profit organization with the means to cause undemocratic, arbitrary political damage. Blame individuals as much as you want for their politics, don't use the overfunded big tech as a trojan horse to destroy democratic balances.
That maintenance will still exist. Creators can still add captions, and those captions can still be fake and full of racism or hate speech.
Friendly tip, but this could reinforce stereotypes of which genders can do which jobs. Probably not too much of an issue talking about kids wanting to be pilots on HN, but in general it's best not to gender things like this.

"...a ton of kids would be excited as hell..." works just as well, and wouldn't be in danger of making anyone feel excluded.

This is minor, no one instance will change things, but the cumulative effect is a society where women are vastly under-represented in areas like tech/STEM, or men are under-represented in child care.
"begging the question"? I'm not sure i understand...

Edit: I get it now. To be clear: I'm not presenting proof, I'm just making the observation.
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Because you're providing material aid to that group, and you're saying there's nothing wrong with doing that.
I'm reading Shoshanna Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism at the moment and the thing I realized is that I don't fully grasp what privacy is. I mean I know abstractly what it is, but I don't feel it strongly. Or perhaps what I mean is that it's so deep down, so complete a part of me that I don't recognize it as a distinct thing.

She tells a story about a small town in England who tried to stop the Google Streetview car coming through and I thought to myself "what were they actually feeling"? Because I doubt I would have felt that as pertaining to my privacy and yet of course it is.

I think a lot of people like me find it hard to quantify what that thing is and where their boundaries for it are and as a result we are obviously wide open to having it exploited.

The Wikipedia opening line is interesting:

"Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively." [1]

Other dictionary definitions:

"someone's right to keep their personal matters and relationships secret" [2]

Now personally I think privacy != secrecy. It's more like obscurity or vagueness or indeterminacy. Like not being pinned down, rather than having any specific information hidden.

"A state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people" [3]

I think that's a bit closer but it lacks the idea from Wikipedia of "being able to expression themselves selectively"...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy

[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/privacy

[3] https://www.lexico.com/definition/privacy
As a native English speaker, I second this.

But I'm also a low-grade language nerd. It drives me nuts when I see Latin-to-English loan words with inappropriate declinations, or fancy-sounding technical/medical terms formed by combining Latin and Greek word fragments [0]. So maybe my attention to correct pronunciation is atypical.

[0] I'm not claiming that I'm actually correct in all these cases; just that I go nuts at what I perceive to be bad treatment of loan words.
A alternative to disquss, good for static websites https://posativ.org/isso/
I got a rake like that. There were no non-cancer rakes for sale.

I could only think maybe there is something used to assemble it with lead in it?
Which is why a lot of systems actually use https://json5.org/
I think "impossible to reconcile with the codified teachings of religion X" and "would receive negative feedback / appear intolerant to people currently practicing religion X" are different claims. Though I totally agree the latter is a good argument for why "universal tolerance" is not a straightforward concept.

Specifically: I'm disputing the theological claim "Being a practicing L, G, B, or T or pro any of them is against sharia, the Catechism, and against the rules of many major Protestant sects like Mormons." That's not really a settled question.
It's the opposite, they are so bad at marketing that they are completely ignored by both neuroscience and machine learning communities. Even though they are exactly in between these two fields, and their ideas are good. The company is still alive only because the founder funds it himself.
Then what happened last year that made services go down?
The first example sounds like a bug that could sneak in anywhere, but the second one makes me question how they laid out the compiler architecture.

Did they write a special expression parser just for declarations? I mean, this shouldn't be possible if there was just one expression parser?
Higher end Miele machines have a very good reputation on this, as do some BSG machines (again on the high end). Honestly, given the pricing, Miele probably still wins by selling you a 1500 euro machine that might last 30 years, vs a 300 euro Indesit that would be lucky to make it to 10 years.

It's not rocket science; to make a reliable maintainable washing machine, you need to make one where all important parts are feasibly replaceable. In particular, if a machine has replaceable drum bearings, that's a good sign.
I mean taxes on all carbon emissions should be raised (if airlines already pay them, otherwise airlines should pay them - also "taxes" can be replaced with a cap-and-trade scheme).
That is not what the parent comment is arguing. It is arguing that cryptocurrency has heavy political baggage it cannot shed. That is evident in the kinds of people attracted to cryptocurrency. There are many tribes, but, to take one example, there are a lot of enthusiasts who think central banking and/or national currency is a conspiracy of some kind.

They think that cryptocurrency eliminating the ability of nations to set monetary policy, or to enable people with enough means to escape from the impact of monetary policy, is a good thing. This is politics baked into the product cryptocurrency companies create, and it is part of their "mission."
Thanks! I added a comment to a somewhat related issue: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/2836
Yes, but this distinction doesn’t require a corporate policy to implement. One transaction is legal and the other is not.
The book provides tons of reference. I know that while reading the book, I experimented with many of the software described in the book. The author makes a good job at comparing various techs in putting them in context. This is very hard to do by just following a web of tutorials on the web.
Would you like to mandate background checks for every potential customer?
This kind of question gives me strong flashbacks of corporate meetings (:

Transparency. It’s Amsterdam because the city of Amsterdam decided to publish their algorithms in use. They do the same for all kinds of data and systems already, see data.amsterdam.nl
What gave me the intuition for it was to realise that Monty is giving you the choice to either stick with your original door, or take the sum of the prizes between the other two doors.

(He also opens one of those two doors to reveal a goat, but you already knew that one of them had a goat so that doesn't give you any additional information.)
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By offering I understand selling it the same way like selling it to everyone else. If by "aid" and by "offering" you mean giving it away as a gift or similar then yes - definitely political.

I see a case where it can be political, like creating a mechanism to protect specific group from the others however simply doing business is not a political action by itself.

There's also possibility to be a political action where it's widespread to deny services to certain groups but even that is a stretch because it can also be a good business opportunity.
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I feel this way. I would like to change the system, but if I get pulled into every cause I'll never get anything done.

It doesn't mean I won't speak up about anything, but I am picking my battles.
These are called aviation museums :)
Hey,

author of apollo here. Thanks for the feedback and questions, I'll try my best to shed a little light here.

- Yes, you can run apollo even on nodes with only 512MB RAM and 1 core. There's no programmatically imposed limit - it's just an advice to bring beefy infrastructure to production setups as metric-collection/logging consumes quite a lot of memory. You can just use apollo with a 2GB HETZNER node (2,98€/m) and you're good to go. Additionally, you can switch of metrics, logs and analytics in your Spacefile.yml - these are the main memory-hogs. Without them, you still have a nice docker swarm or k3s.

- apollo spaces are totally meant to be checked into version control for collaboration and CI/CD. Once created, just enter you space directory and hook it up to any git-repo like you would to with any other code (`git init` etc). We're planning to implement this workflow into the CLI for 2.1.0 to improve UX, but basically apollo config lives in a directory which you can do with as you please in terms of git.

- The infrastructure templates aren't required. As my company is not using other providers than hcloud/digitalocean, we have no ready-made templates for them. But you can provide your own Terraform code to spin up infrastructure. You only need to work in the `output.tf` code that saves a special formatted Nodesfile.yml as an artifact of your TF code. Additionally, you can of course write up your Nodesfile.yml manually.

Hope this helps :)
ya, one would be illegal
You are confusing people with companies. A person is political, a company should not. Otherwise, you are siding with totalitarian regimes that decide which services or rights you have based on what you think or believe. It was tried in the past, good luck for that.
Coinbase is an exchange for people to access cryptocurrency. The gradual adoption of cryptocurrencies weakens central governments’ currencies. Their entire business is by nature, political.
Again, where is the monopoly that forces you to buy devices with a T2 chip (or something) analogous? That’s simply not the world we live in, and it doesn’t seem to me like we’re moving toward it. And if your political choice is to maximize market forces, why are you trying to fight the market forces that result in there being a large market for Apple’s devices and a small (but extant and healthy) market for the devices you want? Do you think that most consumers “really want” the devices you want? If so, why do they choose not to buy them even though they are available?

Right now, as a consumer (which, like you, is my only realistic lever on this situation), I’m pretty happy that I own some Apple devices and some very not-Apple devices. I’d be pretty pissed if I was forced to choose only one of these (in either direction). I think you’d find the same reaction if you became president of the world and threw everyone’s Apple devices in the trash and handed them a Librem 5 or something similar. Do you contest that this would be their reaction? If so, what is your definition of market forces and anti-competitive behavior?
In fusion, they can actually pinpoint exactly why it did not pan out as expected since 1953.

For fusion, you need to achieve a high temperature. So "thermal insulation" of the centre of the plasma from the edge of the plasma is really important. The nice thing is, that since charged particles move along magnetic field lines, and magnetic field lines never cross each other, the thermal insulation of plasma made from charged particles is enormous. That would imply it is really easy to achieve really high temperatures.

However, in 1953 they overestimated the enormous "thermal insulation" at higher temperatures by 10 orders of magnitude. That is a ratio of 1e10 between the expected and the actual value. It is still enormous, mind you, but not that enormous.

If that estimation had been correct, we would have had fusion by 1973. However, in that period it gradually became clear that fusion that way was not going to happen as people found lower and lower thermal insulations in their plasmas.

The same thing might have happened with semiconductors. What if the thermal noise were off by 10 orders of magnitude at smaller scales, compared to what was expected in 1953? Computing would not be where it is today, although it would definitely still be a good possibility if we were only pushing harder in circumventing the noise.
When I think about the cult of Steve Jobs, I then immediately think of this skit by Bill Burr - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3s-qZsjK8I I recommend you have a look in case you haven't.
You can also get away with a much weaker passphrase if you can somehow rate-limit brute force attacks. As I understand it that's one of the things the T2 does, you can't authenticate except through the T2, and the T2 will slow you down and lock you out after n tries.

And I think that's actually incredibly underappreciated feature, most people are both bad at memorizing long, complex passwords/passphrases and not all that motivated since the threat is quite abstract. I've had a hard time convincing some people to have any sort of password at all on their laptop (that they travel with, work in all sorts of places and are overall pretty careless with), as it carries the risk of forgetting the password and it's cumbersome and inconvenient compared to being able to simply open the computer to a logged-in desktop.

Making security less of a hassle really does help with adoption. Having a short, relatively weak, but not trivial password is way way better than having none at all, and realistically that's all most people are ever going to have, so making those passwords hold up better is a really smart move that instantly ups the security of lots and lots of people out there.

But that's not something I believe you could do without a scheme like tieing the encrypted data to a complex secret inside a specific T2 that is uncracked, otherwise you could simply put the SSD in another computer and brute-force it there.
> no decision that has legal ramifications can be made without manual intervention

I think there's no other way around this: ultimately, everything that has legal implication will be potentially subject to dispute. We're not yet in the dystopian environment where disputes can be handled by a model :)
They were able to update it away on the iPhone X. Checkrain doesn’t work on iOS 14 anymore.
I'm impressed! I'm a native Latvian speaker, and am not used to the idea of foreigners learning the language, let alone someone who doesn't live in Latvia full-time. As speakers of a small, globally unimportant language that's not even mutually intelligible with its only surviving relative, we tend to be very impressed with foreigners that can put even basic sentences together.
Some one from Apple, I'm sure you read this. Please answer this ASAP. I rely on mac and FileValute for professional use at work. Need to know the state of this exploit.
To beg a question is one of the ways to skip over the weak part of your argument. There are other ways. Begging the question is a way that leaves a remainder that must be true because it's true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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> So how do you remain “apolitical” then?

Outside of your job, you can be as politically active as you wish. Nobody is saying you should stop all political activism.

But if i walk into a store intending to buy something, i don't want to be blasted with any political message or be asked to sign up for a rally or donate to some cause i don't care about.

And an employee should work on the job they are being hired to do, not spend work time undertaking political activism unless explicitly allowed by their boss (for example, your company may allow you time off for charity or such activities).

If, for example, your political view is that of communism, then you will have to suffer in silence in the USA while working for shareholders/owners of property. Or quit your job if you cannot stand it. What you can't do is use your job as a resource to push that view further than you could on your own.
Huh. Happy OBS macOS user here.
Why do you believe it's moral for you to do work which is making people's data less secure, helping law authority crack iPhones, etc?
When things like climate science have been turned into political issues, this is next to impossible.
I'm not sure if things like IPFS [0] or SecureScuttleButt [1] would be the solution (or at least partially the solution) for self-hosting websites/web content via a person's smartphones, but i like that concept.

[0] = https://ipfs.io/
[1] = https://scuttlebutt.nz/
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Never heard of that software but yeah, seems apollo is a good name for all things infrastructure and platform :D
Never heard such a dumb statement. As if "only the richest 1%" could afford a Ryan Air or Southwest or Air Asia flight. Please.
because they are over educated and wealthy and it lends itself to the thought of "if i'm this smart and this successful how could i be wrong and why don't you want this life?"
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Does your view change if the gun was sold to a republican vs a democrat? Or a communist?
Data grid with excel like features
In our company we are facing problems with huge datasets on client side. So far there wasn't any good solution with MIT license, we've decided to create our own:
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The biggest challenge was to create multiple viewport renderers which will work fast. Except of usual virtualization we are using VNode DOM, which updates only changed parts, but we went much farther:
- We are monitoring nodes per scroll and move nodes from edges, not entire screen redraw. With this we achieved amazing performance.
Now we are going to add more features and grow up.

Thank you for reading, hope to get some feedback from you guys.
Congrats !
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Many thanks. Yes, the smartphone is not the target device, but we need to support it better anyway.
You can't take responsibility for what someone will do with your product. This is insane. If someone buy your car, how can you make sure he will not use for kidnap someone?
People don't need computers either, nor software engineers. Let's be honest. We don't really need any of this.

Right?
I wonder if you could store information in the frequency-space and then inverse-transform it for some neat steganography...
That's not going to work because having a server on 24/7 is going to kill battery life. Not to mention issues around NAT and hole punching.
>I suspect the Bay Area is extremely nondiverse and homogeneous

I moved there from Ohio to work for a FAANG for six months. It's not nearly as bad on the ground as it might seem but you do witness spectacles with much more frequency.

Racially and culturally its definitely not homogenous but there aren't any black folks to be found. Alameda county is the only one around the bay to break double digit percentages, mostly because of Oakland. SF at ~6% is on par with Colorado Springs and Portland lol. The rest (Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Napa, Marin, etc etc) are on the order of 1-2% black, and based on my short experience living and working there I imagine a good chunk of those are immigrants.

I had no idea and when I first noticed it I got extremely creeped out. Not because I'm some diversity champ, it's just that everybody else is there and you realize there's clearly some kind of filter at work.
I wonder what are the implications and liabilities to leave such a task to a private company. Let's say Sadiot overlooks some model behavior that leads to racial discrimination, who'd be liable? The government's data science team who set up the model or Saidot?
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Not really. The Twitter hack was a community admin (account data, customer service rep), not a sysadmin (software config)
Why not optionally use JavaScript for the callback?
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In the Privacy tab, you can specifically select a "block of rules" for Samsung devices. Also, EasyList will block a lot of requests.

Unfortunately, NextDNS will not show from what device a blocked request came unless you give it a name in the app, and of course there is no NextDNS app for Samsung TV's. Some suspicious domains I see often in my logs:

samsungads.com
tvx.adgrx.com
samsungcloudsolution.net

But, in short, I have loaded NextDNS with the most common blocklists (EasyList, Anudeep etc.) and added the "Samsung" list. Result is: no ads anywhere on my 2018 smart tv.
So Coinbase would not have open discussion of ideas, employees would hesitate to question managerial decisions. It would be amazing for a company to succeed with that culture.
They have to be forced to because they often refuse to.

It's really that simple...cry about it all you want. It's a necessary evil...because humans.
I worked at a media company with a reach of 400 million ADI. We had internal meetings more or less instructing employees how to vote. Our hand curated content intentionally catered to this same narrative.

It was completely politically biased. I was hired when the company was neutral but over the years the extreme left narrative settled in and we tended to only hire people with the same ideologies.

Executive discussions revealed it was an intentional culture shift to attract candidates.
Félicitations ! C'est impressionnant.