skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see up to about 6 hour time difference works pretty well for regular meetings. More than that and people are taking calls outside regular hours which isn't great on an ongoing basis. (Though execs, etc. do it all the time.)
> I am super disappointed by some of the comments here that show a total lack of empathy for people who aren't like you.

I've noticed as of late HN has been riddled with comments such as: here is my extremely strong thoughts on X with my personal anecdotal experience Y, and therefore this is how the world should work.

> I believe it will be especially bad for those early in their careers

Agreed. I think it can be equally has bad for someone midway into their career who is thinking about taking on more leadership opportunities.
Discussion: Harmony OS, will it succeed?
I'll add Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) [7]

[7]: https://github.com/pnnl
I said "most people" won't need cars. I think you'd agree that most people do not struggle to walk short distances.
> But it will require a lot of effort and a carefully designed backup/failover plan for when your self-hosted things tank (or get hacked).

One assumes that it will require no more effort than when your Google account tanks or gets hacked?
As a response, the FCC is moving to clarify Section 230.[1] It is unclear if they actually have the authority to do that.

[1] -https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226
I can only speak from my experience, but being a single man living alone in a one bedroom after moving to a new city in January was absolutely awful. After spending two months in a new city, everything was immediately shut down and I was stuck working at home in my 13x13 room I rented.

The room I slept in was my office and my dining room as well, not to mention my entertainment room. Instead of seeing all my coworkers (who I was fond of) every day in the office, I now saw my small team during our 15 minute stand ups, which would only occur about 2 or 3 times a week. I saw the gas station clerks more.

I hated it, and I didn't really have a support system. I'm in my final year of university now (that work experience was an internship), and I will definitely look primarily for places that will have an actual office environment.
I have domains for email, self-hosted software, internal tools, and private access.
An interesting quote:

>The year before Congress enacted §230, one court blurred this distinction. An early Internet company was sued for failing to take down defamatory content posted by an unidentified commenter on a message board. The company contended that it merely distributed the defamatory statement. But the company had also held itself out as a family-friendly service provider that moderated and took down offensive content. The court determined that the company’s decision to exercise editorial control over some content “render[ed] it a publisher” even for content it merely distributed

Judicial confusion is traditionally where SCOTUS steps in, and this article lays out a great deal of it.

I think we can expect a case clearly defining the limits of S230 in the not-too-distant future assuming direct legislative action changing the law is avoided.

Another:

>Paring back the sweeping immunity courts have read into
§230 would not necessarily render defendants liable for
online misconduct. It simply would give plaintiffs a chance to raise their claims in the first place. Plaintiffs still must prove the merits of their cases, and some claims will undoubtedly fail. Moreover, States and the Federal Government are free to update their liability laws to make them more appropriate for an Internet-driven society

Immunity is an absolute thing - the lawsuit is dead in the water before before its merits are even considered. I find the reasoning here to be rather compelling.
Me too. This anecdote is the latest grim reminder to me that I really should be keeping my offline backups up to date, just in case.
> 2. Needs additional knowledge management beyond collections and tags

Penny for your thoughts.
I understand this is frustrating, but reading through this person's thread, it reads as an absolute temper tantrum. A few choice quotes:

> Our lives are in a bind because of this BULLSHIT

> I am out of office reconsidering whether I should work at a company that continuously escalates its attacks towards my family.

> [looking for]... A company that provides a steady salary and respects me, my nationality, culture, ethnicity, sexuality and my family

It's very hard to take this stuff seriously when someone is claiming lack of access to to their emails and photos is an attack on their life, family, sexuality, etc.
Managing Kubernetes configuration is a task unto itself. I'd say one of the best things that "deserves to be built" is a user-friendly layer that generates Kubernetes configuration that can start simple (e.g. total boilerplate) and be configured by hand as you have deeper requirements. Additionally, build-steps (e.g. how do your containers get built) etc can't be ignored. This all tallies up to me to about a day of engineering work to get a project setup with all the bells and whistles every time I want to start a new serious project on K8s. I definitely think Waypoint (or a similar product) could reduce this time to minutes, so long as I can customize more as the project evolves.
100% only for the magnets, but it's still a great improvement
To me, "It is the policy of the United States ... to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services" implies impartiality, as does the description of the internet as, among other things, "a forum for a true diversity of political discourse".

Companies that control what information users can receive in order to allow only one side of a political discourse are in opposition to the policies being implemented in section 230.
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My mistake. I forgot it is pointless to engage with you. Have a great day.
I had a Google Pixel phone. Less than a year old old. Treated with kid gloves. Always kept in a case. Pristine condition.

An approved Google software update bricked it. This was, by all accounts, a known issue.

The phone was under warranty. I sent it back.

They shipped me a scratched up refurbished phone. It ran fine for a week then bricked itself due to the same software update. I sent that back.

They sent me another, even worse scratched up refurbished phone. That too bricked after a week due to the software update.

I've got $3,000 worth of hold charges on my CC whilst Google are playing footsie with my phones. I sent that phone back.

They "lost" it and claimed I sent back a different phone. Then that became that I sent back a phone with a different serial number. Then a different model of phone. I pressed for details but they could never tell me any details about the phone I had allegedly sent back.

They wanted me to pay for all the phones, then eventually just the one phone that was missing. Finally Google admitted "we lost the phone but that's your problem."

After a month I said "fine, you fix this shit or I am doing a charge back." They didn't fix it. I did a credit card charge back for the thousands of dollars currently on hold on my card.

Google decided to disable my Google payments account so I couldn't use the Playstore. Or buy groceries using Google Pay. Or process any subscription items attached to the Google payments account. Or access my store rewards cards stored in my Google Pay wallet.

Google still owed me for the cost of the original phone that was a brick that I no longer possessed after it was sent to Google.

I took Google to small claims, and won.

Google decided that wasn't to their liking and disabled the Google account attached to the phone.

Fuck Google.

P.S. Please stop up-voting. This is not a vote-worthy post. It is simply a "this is what happened." Save your attention for something that is worthy. Save your anger for things that matter.
>This really is the way to do it in my opinion. Collaboration is one of the hardest parts to do remote (though I think VR could make this better)

Give 'screen control sharing' (for lack of better name?) software a try, two variants I've used are USE Together and Tuple. Being able to have two sets of input devices for the same screen is actually fantastic for collaboration - the pair-programming experience is arguably better than being there in person.
It may or may not be fraudulent, but please keep in mind that certain US states have ~ 40% obesity rates. It sounds obvious to the non-obese that eating like there is no tomorrow is not conducive to a good life; and simple measures, like eating less and moving more, can dramatically improve quality of life. But to the obese, it might not be so obvious for a variety of reasons (and yes, there are also genetic and environmental and mental health problems contributing to obesity, but also not caring much about one's own life).
Yes, there needs to be receipts that you give to your employer.
Anyone know how this compares to k3s? I’ve been using k3s for a while, and there have been a few bugs that made me a bit annoyed
Autocompletion isn't a standard feature of any major NLP library, and blaming it on Python (currently the most popular language for NLP) isn't a good argument.

I install a package (spacy)
I don't get any autocompletion of the API from the main spacy object and any other subsequent spacy data structure.
Indeed autocompletion is usually on the language side but here it's a combination of the weaknesses of python and of the lazyness of spacy developers by making everything dynamic they broke the autocompletion that is normally working in python.
Therefore it's not production ready, what else is there to say?
I tried both pycharm and vscode
> Yes they can have side effects.

I'm not saying expressions can't have side effects in particular languages. I'm saying that, by definition, "functional programming" means that expressions can't have side effects; which means that if you are doing "functional programming", then even if the language you are programming in allows expressions to have side effects, you are not making use of that feature, but are writing your expressions to make sure they don't have side effects, since that is what functional programming requires.
> If you look at the likeliness of it happening to one guy out of 7 billion, it would be very, very small

How small is the question.
You're making this sound so much harder than it is, though. None of the techniques for bypassing the security enhancements is difficult, nor are they undocumented. Who are these hobbyists who want to reverse engineer the whispersync protocol but can't follow a simple tutorial to swap out a CA?
That was an incredibly articulate, and well though-out reply. Thank you.
Yes that is also something I'd like to know the rate of.
If you're high enough up, you could use a parachute. The water helps when you're at too low of an altitude for a parachute to open.
For whatever it's worth, I disagree. There's a dominant belief floating around that social media corporations are free to mass-manipulate, enjoying indemnity from the misdeeds of their users while restricting any user-generated content that disrupts their commercial or political narratives.

In reality this belief has not been tested by the U.S. Supreme Court, and now a representative from that very court is pre-emptively deconstructing all the prior legal basis for that belief existing. If this doesn't serve as a warning shot I'm not sure what does.
> judges trying to enact and enforce what they believe Congress' subjective intentions to be

Despite what some might have you believe, this is appropriate and well-accepted practice. Pretending not to know the policy intent is a dodge used by those who would rather undermine democratic will than engage in civic dialog.
How does this constitute hacking?

The repair shop almost certainly retains ownership of unclaimed deviced after some period of time. The shop owns the laptop. The data is theirs to do with as they please and they chose to publish it (at least, that's the story). No hacking necessary.
Hey, yeah sorry I didn't mention that. We were a pretty early adopter I guess, we've been on it for well over a year now and it's evolved a lot since then. That it's now split up in separate modules makes it much easier to work with. Something that I couldn't find back then was tutorials or blog posts on how to really work with it, not just deploy happy case apps. The product wasn't very popular yet so there was really no community producing that kind of blog post.

Also that the Gitlab issues have now merged into one repository has made reporting an issue so much clearer. You guys are constantly improving at such a rapid pace, definitely kudos for that.
The spoon might be the most extreme part of that picture, but I wouldn't blink at seeing 90% of those in a kitchen - how are brits supposed to cut meat?
> Filing an SAR usually comes (99.99%) along with suspending the account.

You're missing half of the analysis. What percentage of account suspensions are preceded by an SAR filing?

(Probably not many.)
...is it even proven that "social media is poisoning our country?"

To be blunt, the only time I noticed people complaining about it was when Trump got elected. Barack Obama if I remember was actually praised for his usage of social media and targeting. A lot of this anti-social media is a reaction more against him than anything and the left is trying to lock things down to prevent a Trump from ever happening again.
> Do you pay them or any of their subsidiaries for anything?

Yes, one of the places that I back up photos is google photos and I pay them $ for that.

I'm assuming you think that is an important thing to condition on?

I am not planning on refuting any charges that google gives me any time soon and would try and back up all of my data before doing that.
Recursion revisited (2020)
I find that I use my printer often enough to fix or improve things around the house that it's certainly a net positive.

In the past year, I estimate I have had at most 1kg of failed prints. I've had another 2 or 3 kg of prints that were novelties or that failed to perform the desired function.

On the other hand, last week I printed a replacement keyboard case for my portable keyboard, which saved me buying another one (I use it constantly). A couple of months ago I designed and printed a new fan duct for my fridge. Had I not been able to do that, I would have had to buy a $300 part and thrown the old one out. The impact of manufacturing and shipping that one part likely outweighs the lifetime waste of my printer, and that's just one example.
At least if a US public authority decided to suspend his husband's account, he could issue a FOIA request to get the documentation explaining why it happened. If the FOIA is rejected for national security reasons, that'll be explicit. Public records laws and regulations don't apply to a big company like Google, so they can stonewall you forever and not have to explain what their policies are or how they were enforced.

Public authorities are at least theoretically accountable to the public, unlike a billion-dollar megacorp which isn't accountable to any force on this planet.
One of the things that I remember most from schooling (elementary through high school) was the amount of time spent doing discipline/class management. Or repeating and answering questions. Plus the whole lecture format doesn't work for everyone. Remote school probably cuts down on these things.

Furthermore, for self-directed kids, there's always the possibility of simply going mostly asynchronous, watching lectures and reading textbook at their own pace (which might be faster than regular class now that most distractions are removed!).
We already use thunderbird. In fact that is part of the reason we want to move away from Google, they declared Oauth 2 will be mandatory, and thunderbird last I checked didn't had all the certifications needed, and we had a scare when suddenly all our company thunderbirds couldn't login on gmail-based accoutns at all, and we needed them to, to send urgently some documents to the government.
This is a reasonable enough comment, but adding it four times into the thread makes it spam. Please delete some of the copies.
Will Remote Compensation Be Tied to Location in the Future?
If you're building a statue to have people venerate you forever, and your first act was to ruin the nose of the statue of the dude before you...

How did this not become a massive nose-strengthening race?
Perhaps - but it has always been prudent to keep redundant copies of anything important since before computing platforms existed. Frequently backup your data and test the backups.
Some of the ways Glasdoor can make money by being ethical

* Ask users to sign up for their job seeker plan to see the complete company interview questions/experiences.

* Create an API and charge websites for giving access to their reviews score, salary data etc.

* Charge money for job postings from companies who have decent reviews and want to post on Glassdoor.

* Provide a paid dasbhoard for companies that will give them insights on how to pay employees.
Through legislation. Market forces don’t care about the environment, just profitability. That’s where the government is supposed to come in...
Regarding terminology, this is something I find frustrating in some languages. C functions aren't all functions. Java's methods aren't really all methods on objects (is it really accurate to call a static method, which is called using the class name and not an object instance, a method?). Some languages do make these distinctions, though. Playing around with SPARK/Ada at home lately, it makes a strong distinction between procedures (no return) and functions (have a return value). Procedures look like:

procedure Put_Line (A : Integer) is
begin
Put(A); New_Line;
end Put_Line;

Functions look like:

function Square (A : Integer) return Integer is
begin
return A * A;
end Square;

Similarly, in Common Lisp there's a clear distinction between functions and methods (really multimethods) by way of how they're declared. Functions are singular, have no multiple dispatch based on type, where as you can have many implementations of the same method dispatched on type. Though, again, a function may not really be a function and could be more accurately called a procedure.

However, it probably makes sense for most people to think of everything as functions or everything as methods. At least it doesn't leave them asking "Which syntax do I use to declare this?"
Not that many people need accessibility. About 100% of people need spell-checking, though.
This? https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/03/yelp-finally-d...
Is it that easy to have someone locked out of Google? Just by reporting them for fake abuse? I'm sort of shocked if that is indeed true. It ought to be hard to do that. Otherwise, people who disagree with others may use that to get even or settle an online quarrel, etc.
I am chill, it's just that it's not much reading and sounds like the guy didn't even make an attempt to skim through it and pick up a few things. It's lazy.
Most tech schools embrace wholly online learning so the Covid transition was seemless. Universities got rolled cause their tenured professors still like to lecture in a traditional style.
It’s worth pointing out that ‘bias’ is a fairly meaningless word to be using here.

It’s pretty obvious that ‘Jedimind’ is biased, isn’t it?

As to my comment about ‘bugs’ etc. I don’t think it takes much to confirm that statement. Just look around online and in the press and then investigate in detail.

What you will find is some kernels of truth, plus a vast amount of telephone-game like inaccuracy.

This isn’t unique to Apple - it’s simply a feature of our current public discourse.

By raising this, I’m just pointing out that Apple is operating in that real world, so to expect them to operate idealistically is unrealistic.

As to me defending Apple - is it possible it only seems like this because my tone is less angry than some other people here?

Take another look at what I’ve said.

I don’t think you’ll find me anywhere saying their behavior is justified and you will find several places where I unequivocally say it’s wrong.

I don’t think this is any different to your final paragraph.

We can simultaneously think they are wrong, and try to understand what they are dealing with when they make their decisions. These two things don’t have to be in conflict.

What I often see is the desire to make simplistic declarations that reduce Apple to some kind of demon where the wrong decisions or compromises they make are evidence that this is something fundamental about them to just rage about, rather than a problem to be understood.

I see this as a kind of self-deception, which I would prefer not to fall into.

When you look around the thread, where people are comparing Apple to the Gestapo and shrilly calling for them to be “smashed”, and their money confiscated and redistributed, do you really think that my ‘bias’ is the issue here?
He's expounding on why he agrees it was appropriate for the Court to deny the petition for writ of certiorari. Unlike for an opinion, they need not provide their reasoning in part or in full (or indicate concurrence) for their vote, however they may.

"I agree with the Court’s decision not to take up this case.
I write to explain why, in an appropriate case, we should
consider whether the text of this increasingly important
statute aligns with the current state of immunity enjoyed
by Internet platforms." (pg. 13)
And if the reddit post is a competitor paid smear, timed with some event, how could you possibly know? In that case, the glassdoor, linkedin, and reddit testimonial have the same weighted value of 0, as neither the quantity nor quality of reviews online can be trusted anymore.
Is it just me? I don't want too much Cloudflare in my daily internet life. Would be a nightmare for me: CDN cloudflare, Connection Cloudflare, DNS Cloudflare, Browser Cloudflare (which was another announcement recently). Only missing Cloudflare cloud/servers...
I don't know what their capabilities are. There's a wide spectrum of hearing disabilities that need different solutions.

What you'll read below comes from second-hand experience because my dad lost his hearing in one ear after an operation.

Hearing aids aren't that expensive because of the hardware. In fact they're quite cheap to produce and because how fragile their camouflage design makes them they tend to break all the time and generally get replaced for free for life. Everything else is what makes them expensive.

Consider a hearing disability like my dad has. Complete loss of hearing in one ear after the surgical removal of a tumor on his hearing nerve (acoustic neuroma, luckily no other complications besides this expected outcome - it being pretty much brain surgery), and his other ear isn't too great either.

He spent a lot of time trying out various hearing aids for one week each while an expert guided him through the process and configured each to his needs. Because he has trouble hearing sounds that come from his deaf side he wants those transmitted to his other ear.

There is some audio processing tricks that can be applied here which will make it easier for you to gauge which side the sounds are coming from, filter out noise, amplify the voice of people you're facing etc.

The whole process of adjustments to the hearing aids and trying out different ones took 2-3 months of sometimes bi-weekly trips to the specialist.

Nowadays when a hearing aid breaks (happens from time to time, they're not very sturdy) he can go back to the specialist and walk out with a replacement already configured for him.

This is what you're paying for with the 0k-10k euro price tag (your insurance should cover the first x000 euros). The whole support experience around the hearing aids, not the aids themselves.

Can't really get that with AirPods or whatever.