skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this seems unreasonable?

I don't even own a Sonos (the whole forced obsolescence thing), but there's a whole range of reasons they'd need location; at least on Android it's basically a proxy for Bluetooth access (don't know if that's the case on iOS), but there's also other legitimate reasons for it like determining correct WiFi channels for the region, detecting nearby speakers, etc etc. The account has obvious legitimate uses for features the speakers provide.

The only thing that's questionable to me is the Activity Information. Which you can opt-out of. So, if you don't like it, opt-out.

If you're one of the many people on thread complaining about the account requirement, I suggest you buy one of the many speakers that doesn't require an account. It'll probably be cheaper, too.
Scroll to the bottom and you should see it. I'll add a link to the top, thanks for the heads up.
> sexism being the only cause acceptable to society at large

That's how I understood it.

> If you suggest different reasons, you'd get in trouble if

> you worked at Google for example.

Unfortunately, it seems so. And this is the same most places I've experienced. In academia for example, you couldn't even pose the question in most places - there would be protests, your tenure would be under review, your funding would be cut - to name a few possibilities. If academics are nothing, they are overly cautious.

You have to ask yourself for example why the term "intellectual dark web" was coined [1]. They don't refer to them as 'wrong' or 'conspiracy theorists', they just pose different questions, and for that alone they were ostracized.

I refuse to live in a world where even posing the question is not possible. If Google won't dare hire me, I'll build my own theme park with blackjack and hookers [2].

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

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-going-to-build-my-own-them...
> The CEO settled on a new plan: Hooked would “sell” three engineers to Apple... Hooked’s CEO pitched the idea to Apple, providing background information about the engineers and sending their resumes. Apple responded that it might consider paying a “finder’s fee”...

Even if was inclined to take Hooked's side on this, it was a huge mistake to send information about those engineers without an existing agreement.

(Also: I wonder if the CEO intended to split that "finder's fee" with the employees she was trying to "sell".)
> Activision-Blizzard can maybe pull it of

Not maybe. Same thing was proposed as a retaliation against other game companies as well. But Activision will just respond to all those emails with "Go to https://support.activision.com/gdpr"

Yes, it may be tricky. It requires some investment in the process. But unless you earn your money by exploiting user data, it's really not that hard to comply. The less data you keep, the easier it is. And the cost of compliance really scales with the company - for the wordpress with accounts from another comment you can do this manually on request. (likely you'll never need to)

> Not until GDPR compliance becomes a standard in server applications and backup solutions, and when is that going to happen?

https://blog.quantum.com/2018/01/26/backup-administrators-th...

> CNIL confirmed that you’ll have one month to answer to a removal request, and that you don’t need to delete a backup set in order to remove an individual from it.
I suspect they can keep up and they just will have to in the future. Right now you can see it in taxes for old established cities in the NE have higher taxes than growing states in the South. I saw that NY pays more for retired cops than it does for those working today - that isn't true for Miami/Phoenix/Dallas or other fast growing cities, but will be.
Yep. Sounds like a very small startup that didn't give much equity to the few employees it had, and the CEO/founder had an overinflated sense of the company's value.
You aren't fired - sorry you can't get fired from a tenure job - you don't get paid peanuts to fund research.
You make it seem like they’re just hitting Googles hardware randomly. It’s been postulated publicly that spies have been found at Google that facilitate information to the CCP. If I were a defense organization this would concern me and I believe they have legal clout to act. Liberal does not mean lawless. You expect USA to do nothing but sit back and accept it’s just a part of doing business to get spied on and IP theft?
Does it? How so? Can you clarify the connection? Apple does re-use hardware, so isn’t that evidence they don’t agree with you? Doesn’t it mean they believe reuse is good for their brand and not diluting sales? Maybe - since they do both (reuse and recycle) - this has nothing to do with choosing one over the other, and it is more about choosing between recycling vs landfill, ensuring proper managed disposal?
This is intentional, and the real Stamets had input on the show.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Stamets_(mycologis...
Fun anecdote: When Alipay originally rolled out its "Pay by face" feature in stores, the uptake was far below their expectations. They did some research and realized that Chinese customers were so used to seeing their face with a beauty filter applied that the image of their unbeautified face was disconcerting and they avoided using face verification. Alipay rolled out automatic face beautification and their usage shot up.

https://qz.com/1657653/alipay-to-add-beauty-filters-to-facia...
For those unfamiliar with “Three Ways”, I was just introduced to the concept in the book “The Phoenix Project” which was in reference to the book “The Goal”.

Excited to read this article and after briefly skimming, didn’t see any immediate reference so figured I’d leave webcrumbs here.

The Goal: https://a.co/dUDdGQ6
Phoenix Project: https://www.google.com/search?q=phonix+prijext&ie=UTF-8&oe=U...
Vespa vs. Elasticsearch for matching millions of people
If publish-or-perish didn't exist in his time, then what criteria was used back then for academic assessment? He doesn't say that in the article.
I have had a lot more experience of wrong than of correct medical judgment.

The number if deaths caused every year by medical overconfidence and sloppiness is astounding to contemplate.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Stamets_(mycologis...

Yes, and he had input into the show.
And here I am, after reading the article, wondering about the Lisp version that took the third place. If you are reading this, dear author - please share your code, even if anonymously.
Wow, that's an incredible story! Write more please!
He even consulted with the writers on that technology.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Stamets_(mycologis...
Yes, they consulted him and got his permission: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paul-stamets...
You are talking about the root seed list (the NS records for the root label .) - essentially the anycast IPv4/6 addresses for the 13 root servers. This file is provided in the first section of the linked page.

The second file on the page contains the actual current root zone, which is a 2 MB file containing all the delegation entries for TLDs (like com., org. and de.) immediately below the DNS root (.). This is what the article is talking about caching locally at your ISP's recursive name server.

The whole global DNS can never be downloaded or even built as a local database due to its distributed nature, and also for technical reasons. Below the root zone at TLD level (like com.) there is no way to enumerate all the individual registrations (like google.com., ycombinator.com., microsoft.com. etc) You always query for a specific individual name + record pair, instead of being allowed to download the entire zone. So even if you somehow would be able to contact every authoritative DNS server on Internet at some point in time, there is no standard query to ask them to give you all their records, making building a full local copy of the global DNS database impossible.
1 – maybe a bit, I’ve been working from home for almost 10 years now.

2 – I sometimes write spontaneous e-mails unrelated to my current work. I usually address them to more than one person. Works well for me. Sometimes people like it and either me or someone else implements that after figuring out the details. Other times someone explains why it won’t work and I learn a lot of new stuff from adjacent areas.
You're raising a secondary IP issue to a concern much larger than it actually is, causing you to misinterpret the situation.

IP is one of the very few areas wherein smaller companies can have any hope of leverage over larger ones.

That small companies are blocked from some other patents is an issue, but a lesser one - and it applies to big and small alike.

"whereas small companies without a large IP portfolio can't do anything without inadvertently violating someone's patent." - is plainly false.

Obviously, companies continue to innovate.

Large companies have much more to protect, and far from 'being safe' - IP laws make them more risk averse if anything because they put a lot more at risk than smaller one's.

Google has outright banned their employees from even downloading MongoDB etc. due to lack of clarity over licensing. Without IP protections, Google wouldn't care one bit what they did.

Large companies play against each other mostly in the domain of competition, without IP laws they would step on every smaller company like little ants, without any concern.
GDP doesn't explain whether infrastructure projects are sustainable or not. You have to at least look at debt to GDP ratio.

The thing about the 50's prosperity is that it derives from the federal and international theaters: The US won the war, and it went into debt to do so, but in exchange got willing borrowers. This was the formation of the military-industrial complex Eisenhower spoke of: Infrastructure projects with military application got a lot of support from both government and business. Among these was the interstate highway system, one of the landmark projects of the 50's, and one with military application.

As a result of the new highways, municipalities all of a sudden had this form of growth driven into them through infrastructure that wasn't on their balance sheets, and a lot of pent-up demand for housing from the Depression and war years. Automobiles were ready for widespread use. All they had to do was approve more housing starts and millions of people suddenly could afford homeownership. That is the unique new thing that happened, and it can't be reflected just in GDP.

But...if the whole premise of the highway system is based on borrowing, it's a house of cards waiting to fall. People can get their homes in the 50's, become bigger consumers in the following decades...debt to GDP falls sharply as the gains of building are reaped, and then the infrastructure bill starts coming due in the late 70's. At that point debt to GDP starts climbing again, but now the emphasis is on kicking the can down the road, not on renewing national infrastructure. "No more pork barrel spending" is a mantra of the Reagan era and beyond, as is an emphasis on outsourcing and lower taxes over long-term investments in the domestic workforce. It remains easier to build new than to maintain old. And all the while the debt ratio - at the national level - is climbing and climbing. There is still a lot of federal money going to those highways. But just borrowing and kicking the can down the road ain't enough to keep them.

So Strongtowns can still be correct, if you zoom out a little!
What research? Blog articles? I've been working remotely for 14 years and I can definitely say inspiring conversations happen on the phone most of all. Video chat is not sorted yet. The idea that spontaneous conversation spurs anything positive is Office Space nonsense.
>but he couldn't so the engineers went to greener pastures.

She.
Oh, I take adderall and it helps. Interestingly, sometimes I'll drink caffeine and an adderall and then take a relaxing nap. I also forget to take my adderall quite often.
>>And this is it. A reward system based on paper publishing and conference speeches is fundamentally broken.

What should it be based on? Should academics be judged on performance? If so, how?
What makes you think that Reddit post actually created a significant burden for Blizzard, or that posts like this present a realistic threat to smaller businesses?
Post-tenure? Peer-recognition & Funding.
They are not HTML5; they are totally "internals" - the only DOM involved is a <canvas> element or some WebGL element.
> "What about all the people who were diagnosed with terminal cancer and were suffering from unimaginable pain?"

I don't think anyone would disagree here. But they weren't just prescribing it to terminal cancer patients, were they?

"With the launch of OxyContin, in 1995, Purdue unleashed an unprecedented marketing blitz, pushing the use of powerful opioids for a huge range of ailments and asserting that its product led to addiction in “fewer than one percent” of patients."
That is simply not true. Infections were way higher, hospitalisations were way higher, intensive care way higher, and death way higher, earlier this year. It's not in any way worse than it has been this year.
Aversion to risk. I was told by German entrepreneurs that they can get funding only when they give bank/VC/investor a collateral of the same value or if they are already profitable and don't need it anymore.
Buddhism as a religion is basically anti-life. Wanting something, having goals and pursuing them - that's what every living creature does. Except for Buddhist, who often deliberately choose death as their way out of their miserable lives, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

Buddhism is a religion of losers trying to convince themselves that being a loser is OK.
Could you provide some evidence of this?
A policy existing which hurts your group is not the state being hell bent on disenfranchising you. Hyperbolic.
Prizes for code readability improvements is a great idea
I have to admit, while I cannot stand Apple and I am constantly opposed to them and I consider them personally a net negative in today's world, in this particular situation it seems they are not the "rotten" party, or would it be better to say that they are the "lesser evil".

Reading through the document I am honestly shocked at the behaviour of the CEO, I mean come on how entitled do you have to be to try and think you have a right to sell employees of your choosing to Apple for a handsome fee, like they are your cattle..
Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for
I (mostly) like when programming languages allow you to express ideas with dedicated syntax. It (usually) is more clear and concise. Even if I don't use all the syntactic sugar in a language, I often find myself wanting to use a significant number of these features.

However, this brings me to my biggest gripe with the Python ecosystem. For better or for worse, Python is used EVERYWHERE. And, to make matters worse, standard tooling that manages dependencies and versions of Python is a complete mess.

Just in the last couple of months I've written Python packages for applications embed a Python 3.3 interpreter. And I still work with code that runs only in Python 2.6 (working with hardware). In these projects, I can't use these new "features" even if I wanted to.

The tenet of my comment is this:

I really wish there was a standard source to source transpiler that helped in converting Python 3.x code to Python (2|3).(y).

Almost all the features I'm envious of either have a way to be represented in older languages more verbosely (f-strings, :=) or don't need to be in the source on the user end (type hinting, dataclasses, keyword only arguments). I know there's not a one to one mapping here, but even a best effort would go a long way to helping adoption of these new features. I don't see the Python folks slowing down when adding new features to the language.

I really wish I could use these features today but I know I can't. I also hesitate sometimes when I'm making a package open source because I'm worried someone else might want to use my code in an older version of Python and won't be able to because I wanted some syntactic sugar (I've even received PRs on project to revert some changes), and I now actively choose not to use these features against my desires. Larry Hastings may have said farewell to Python 3.5 but lord knows when I will be able to do the same.

Is this just me? How many people use `:=` or `@dataclass` or `|` for dict merges in their code today?
When you know you are being watched, your behavior changes, for better or worse [1] [2].

But it's true it is a bit different for BigCo. Not only they watch, they also have an active role by modifying what you see - e.g. the ads and news they display [3].

Does this qualify as "outsized impact" or do you want moar?

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

[2] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/the-watchers

|3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-...
Bill Perkins uses AI and ML to track runaway slave data
>If you can identify a corporation that artificially boosts quarterly profits with short term thinking, and still has a rising stock price year after year, I'd like to hear about it.

The classic example is Enron. They took credit for VOD sales that hadn’t happened but were just optimistic projections. Your point still holds though that there are different checks and balances between public and private organizations. Public checks are at the voting booth, private (publicly traded) companies checks are at the stock exchange. Your claim is no different for public orgs, the time-scale is just different. It’s like challenging for an example of an unsustainable govt keeping its prominence for centuries. Unsustainable practices eventually have their reckoning regardless if they are public or private.

Are there examples of governments hiding account details that are illegal yet allowed to continue once uncovered?
Whatever you do, get a contract in place if you don't already have one.

re: A. Under a standard contract in America, your client owns the whole thing. If that's not the case, you need to specify where you are and probably speak to a local attorney. If the standard contract applies, your client can resell for any price he or she likes with or without your permission.

re: b. Not wanting additional work at your previous pricepoint. This... doesn't make sense? You did fixed price work. So naturally any future work would either be bid or hourly, at which point you can quote any price or rate you like? What don't I understand here?

re: c. I don't understand how you have any commercial interest in work your client pays for, or whatever your client does with that work after he or she pays you for it.

If your client owns the thing, and resells it to another party, maybe you could offer to pool rates and charge each eg 1/2 your rate to build commonly requested features? To be honest, I'd personally hesitate to get in the middle of two businesses where each may have different acceptance criteria for features. It just sounds like potentially a mess, and I prefer to avoid messes in my life.

Also, you should be unashamed to charge the rates you want. If the rates don't meet a potential client's requirements, that's their problem, as long as you are fully booked.
I got a call from a friend today, who is dealing with depression. He has ready many such articles and has been microdosing on psilocybin mushrooms. He wanted my help to be with him as a sober person when he goes through the experience. I had to say no. I've two simple reasons.

1. Mushrooms are illegal in Australia. I don't want him or I to be part of any illegal activity.

2. Even though he argued that the big pharma wouldn't let this happen etc, modern medicine has saved so many lives that we at least should try to understand it better. I requested him to see a psychiatrist and go through therapy. Talk to the to professional and seek natural alternatives to prescription medicine, if available.

I could be wrong in my opinion. As a student of statistics, I'd love to read some study results on the effect of psilocybin before believing this.
I don't see how data collection helps with any of this

If you're selling an upscale product, you can sometimes collect upscale intel. Something useful for stock trading, perhaps.
Space Software Startup to Pursue SDA Contracts
When did the CS field turn from freedom of speech and hacker mentality
To me it sounds like the CEO and the investors neither understood what was valuable about their company, nor who was creating that value. A completely self-inflicted wound from Hooked, with everybody who actually understood the situation ending up better off.

I can't imagine why you'd ever feel bad for a company that fails to retain its staff. Employees finding better jobs in other companies is one of the best market outcomes you could want.
OK sorry, I rather embarrassingly misread https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason....

At least they agree that some up-front spending to reconfigure spaces to be more economically sustainable is necessary, if not that a big pile of federal dollars all at once is the way to do it.
The hash functions used for hash tables are designed to be fast to compute and typically just involve a couple of operations. See, for example, this Stack Overflow answer about Python dict hash functions. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8997894/what-hash-algori...
>...libertarians believe there should be no regulation about what data companies can collect and how they process it.

Such an overly broad statement is wrong. The libertarian position is more nuanced than that with people (at least in their minds) generally trying to balance privacy without hurting innovation. See for example

https://www.libertarianism.org/building-tomorrow/protecting-...

>...There is a difference between mass surveillance and law enforcement.

There is a difference between Facebook collecting data about its users and Homeland Security/FBI/NSA/etc etc collecting data about citizens exercising their constitutional rights.

The original context here was

>...But if it gets deployed against George Floyd protestors... Ehhh... nbd)

Mass surveillance by the government is a big deal to libertarians and always has been.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

> Half the "open source" projects are mixed license these days.

I can sympathize though.

For the folks who built companies around making something awesome and having it available as open-source software, they did so out of the implicit assumption they’d be the natural ones people would pay for “support”. Other people were free to use the software, but other than explicit “I make this freely available it’s just a utility” software, the assumption was that people wouldn’t just fork it and make a business that wraps it (especially without contributing back).

Some folks tried open core (as you describe), but it’s pretty painful for both parties. It’s not fun as an engineer to know “this feature this person wants is just arbitrarily disabled in the community edition”, while knowing “Sigh, and because they aren’t willing to pay us, we need to make money somehow”.

I think the current battle over “who can turn it into a service” is actually a pretty interesting one. I found the AGPL to be a fiasco (the way it was written it could be interpreted as a legal virus, defeating even incidental DIY usage), but have more hope for seeing a license that says “Cloud providers can’t just monetize our work; people are still free to run it themselves though as DIY”.

For open source to continue to prosper, it’ll have to figure out the business model.