skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree wholeheartedly on all points, bar one. I sold the house as an opportunist looking at a rational profitable outcome, rather than based on an irrational fear of paranormal manifestations. On the contrary, I did enjoy having the "ghost" messing around, even if it was a bit freaky at the start.

It's especially disconcerting when the scientific side in the debate is quick to dismiss the paranormal side as irrational. For one, we have seen a similar debate in the past (classical vs quantum physics) and look how that debate turned out. Scientifically oriented people like Dawkins or Tyson who dismiss the opinions of the other side with a wave of the hand are largely damaging the entire process of scientific thought.
And that's in the best case. In reality, consumers don't get anywhere near a local maximum, as they are neither well-informed nor entirely rational.
This is an article about https://bytebase.io/
> Most networks weren't designed for everyone working from home. It just wasn't seen as in the realm of the possible.

This totally seems to be the case. I've had way more problems to the connection from home being slow then I've had because of the corporate network. This also seems to be true for everyone that I've worked with. At this point I don't think there would be much benefit to upgrading the corporate network it's just not where the bottleneck is.
First of all "that employee needs to open source all IP related to their contribution to the project" is false.

The contribution of a chunk of code to an external project is just that. Anything else that belongs to google that you called "related" is not automatically subject to AGPL.

Second, in your example you are not describing where (if) any license violation happened.

Third, GPL cannot force an author to release something under threat of being arrested or something.

In case of GPL license violation, the worst thing that can happen is the termination of the license, which means that google can freely choose between not using that software, or using the original version, or using any modified version that is AGPL compliant, either developed internally or externally.

The terms of license violation are incredibly lenient compared to closed software/movies/music piracy.

(And yet we hear all this FUD around *GPL while nobody screams at the risk of a google employee using some a picture of some celebrity in a meme in a weekend project)
So you would prefer the world where the idea of copyright isn't used for software at all (or something like that I hope). Of course, in that world anyone can do anything with it including things you may not like; a sacrifice you voluntarily choose to make. But that is (virtually) no different from what people could do today, in this world, by giving users (UN)license to do anything they want. From this perspective it seems clear to me why you choose to publish to the public domain, because the outcome is the same as it would be in the world you want. And with that, the fact that you are opposed to plagiarism seems almost immaterial; yes, plagiarism is bad but believing that something is bad doesn't equate to believing that there should be a law to restrict it.
Some but not all. There is still an advantage to locality (near VCs, technology events, ease of meetups, local talent pool).

Companies were definitely overestimating the need/benefit for this locality but that doesn't mean it is now zero.
Mailing lists were many times archived to a usenet newsgroup. The user experience was like a big, threaded email box. You would download headers and a few KB of the text part of the message, and then select the binaries you wanted and your client would download the full message and decode them. Really not too different than a pop or imap email client. If your ISP didn't have the newsgroups you wanted, there were many open usenet servers and paid services as well. Groups were not really a hierarchy. You could only subscribe to groups that had messages. Dot paths were used to make them make sense to humans.
Just for reference: For someone using the service properly, no loopholes to get around the 750GB/day upload limit, it would take 30 account years to upload 8PB.
Just for clarification, are you saying that the eye translates visual data differently if the image were displayed in RGB, as opposed to HSL?

Edit: Is the visual result not summed by the brain, no matter how it is displayed? Whether displaying RBG or HSL, the brain will interpret that in a way that its API can comprehend, yes?
I know when I see a fellow alumni of my almamater, I think, well they are probably not much dumber than I am.
Aira's FreePower technology seems to be what Apple was trying to achieve with Airpower. Haven't tried it yet (because it's expensive) but from the review I read, it's legit.

https://airapower.com/
> Your laptop chose to override an existing WiFi/LAN connection to use a tethered phone USB connection?

Tethered phones are considered Ethernet interfaces by many operating systems so they would typically take priority over a wireless connection, unless the system has an explicit override for it like macOS does.
Similar boat, except:

- I don’t know when the last time I plugged wired headphones in was, so Bluetooth only is fine for me.

- I’ll still have all the same charging cables that I have now, the lightning to USB-C cable is nice but I’d be fine with out it. This is going to be a backup cable for my USB-C power bank, since I already have a cable with that.

- The $30 price difference is bulllshit, agreed. It’s shitty of them to be marketing these prices with a $30 AT&T/Verizon discount included. I’m on T-mobile, so no discount even if I stuck with them, but will likely be switching to Mint.

- I haven’t filled 64 gigs on my SE yet, but I’m certainly glad I spent the $100 to get it over the 16 GB base model. Looking at getting a similar life out of a new phone, I should plan on the $50 for 128 GB.

The things that I want are:

- Modern camera technology, especially night mode and the ultrawide. Many years ago I paid $700 for a cannon 10-22mm ultrawide lens, I don’t know if this is superior in every way to my (oldish) DSLR, but as they say the best camera is the one you have with you. And most of the time I don’t have my SLR, let alone it’s extra lenses.

- On that note, compatibility with Moment cases and M-mount lenses. A small phone is more important to me than the 3rd telephoto camera in the Pro phones, but it’d be nice to have the option to mount a decent quality telephoto or macro lens.

- More RAM. The SE does a lot of relaunching apps when switching between more than two things, and it’s not particularly fast at it.

Losing TouchID is a bummer, but a trade off I think I’m willing to make. I could drag this phone out for another year if I had to (barring hardware failures), but I’m looking forward to the upgrades.
I'm curious what folks here feel about the serendipity factor? I've been remote for 4 years and love it (in the NY suburbs area), but there definitely isn't that "random creativity" as being in the office, as the valley has been trying desperately to analyze and recreate artificially.
My fear is that the “skeptics” who really know what’s going on are rapidly retiring. Nobody can even patch these systems.
If you want to set up slrn -- as suggested in another post -- I can help. It's not particularly intuitive. I first used Claws Mail and Thunderbird and then set up slrn.

I still use Thunderbird most often.
Not everything outside SF is a "culturally devoid suburb"
Wrap a triangle around a cylinder. Adjust the angles of the triangle to govern the pitch of the resulting spiral. Use the resulting spiral as a master guide for screw threads being cut on a metal cylinder.
I don't mean to sound snarky, but you can also just not install a DE? Window managers like i3 and Awesomewm don't use the GPU at all.
This is such an interesting question because we can’t agree on what ‘fair’ means.

In the past, they used to pay new fathers more the moment their child was born, because the company knew the family needed it. This would be an outrage now because we think fairness is only about being paid for exactly what you do.
In CA, you have to stay indoors for a while because of the poor air quality.

Maybe once or twice per decade is the AQ so bad in CA you have to stay indoors. As opposed to weeks or months every winter (depending on your tolerance - I hate cold).
What I found really helpful for university lectures was to write down as much as humanly possible (in the form of free hand notes on the computer) after the lecture, without taking notes during it. Usually I'd get stuck after a few sentences but then remember a whole bunch of concepts attached to that sentence and start writing for a while.

I'd then go back and find any gaps or things that I was unsure of or didn't make any sense and then study those with extra caution. It was a very mentally-intensive exercise but it had proved the most successful study technique thus far in my academics.
The lack of support is critical. They are time bombs.
Unfortunately when rationality and ideology conflict, ideology tends to win.
Honestly it is very much Nest's decision to not support Homekit.
I think your example highlights one of the amusing things about Japanese. That is the complete omission of the subject. As you said, the 「私は」 might only get thrown on as an afterthought. You can have entire conversations without ever actually voicing the subject. It can come off like a British comedy sketch for somebody to come into the middle of an exchange and try to figure out the topic from the last half of the conversation.

Kind of like using genderless pronouns in English takes away some hint to help you catch on. Only there's no pronoun at all. For English speakers it can get even worse when all that is spoken is a succession of passive verbs. Hilarious.

Edit: I should say that I never noticed a native Japanese person to be confused about the unspoken topic. They seem to be able to intuit it just fine in any context. I'm mostly just laughing at my own inability there.
The manager’s definition is “That which is no longer supported”

The retiree’s definition is “That which pays for my grandkid’s college”
Yes but what's worrisome is that AI models are ideological otimizations of cognitive drones. That can be weaponized in a psy-war.
Android manufacturers are even worse when it comes to this as they let carriers customize the firmware completely (which then interferes with updates) and should also be shamed. This doesn't however say that this is some kind of standard; it's just OS manufacturers being in bed with carriers and doing them favors.
One of the more interesting things about usenet was it was all text, and when the web took off, some readers (ahem Netscape) tried to push HTML messages into Usenet. Btw... Usenet was incredible for in-company communication. Used to have a private newserver for our employees with names like .customer.help .hr.questions and so on. Was super useful until someone decided to try to put all the things in Outlook.
France, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Basque, and Japan are all examples of places with mostly one ethnic group and great food scenes.
It runs 75C at idle because the fan curves are wonky.
Unless the internal applications are poorly secured. It’s not unusual.
You just made something up. If you wanted to ensure your messages were untampered, you signed with PGP.
When there's no more C++ there will be no bugs in the C++ code base ;-)

j/k, though I've fixed memory bugs, overflow, use after free, etc. written by people much smarter than me. without static analyzers, valgrind, and afl its possible that some would still exist nearly a decade later.
I'd think this will have an adverse effect on REITs. Thoughts?
They were talking about requiring service literature to be available in a standardized format through a government web portal.
Who does this kind of wild speculation help?
Sometimes people just want to go have a get-together including well-trod "comfort food" style means, but with someone else (the restaurant) doing the cooking and cleanup.

I don't go to restaurants to be entertained by the food or "impressed" by the "creativity" of the chef, and I'd wager neither do most people.
A Popular Online Learning Platform Was Created by an Underground Religious Cult
Aside from accessing intranet resources: Is the corporate VPN for encrypting Internet traffic, or is it for proxying and monitoring employee traffic?

Without answering that question, you can't discuss what makes sense.
Sorry that was me assuming things :)

But thanks for reading it. I kinda got carried away.

Yeah, there is a whole plethora of philosophical work criticising pure reason.
comp.lang.forth gets a few posts per day, but "interesting" is debatable.
That's not clear from a historic point of view. In general the more participatory the economy, the faster quality of life improves overall.

While wages may drop for the west, that should be more than offset by the rate at which goods and services become cheaper and more plentiful. Protectionists often look at only one side of the equation.
This is platform-dependent. On Windows, MikTeX is the standard way to work with LaTeX and it bundles a package manager for you.
I was disappointed with the book. There was not enough actual technical detail about achieving high levels of precision and too much journalistic fluff.
I am surprised that such an important development is not being comment on on HN. Considering how mental health affects fellow techies, this should be as impactful a development as real time glucose level tracking for diabetics.
‘Straight to Gunshots’: How a U.S. Task Force Killed an Antifa Activist
The CIA even admitted it [1]

I'm willing to bet in 20 or so years they're going to admit to pulling the same shit in Venezuela right now.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/chile/
Make sure you check out the Usenet Oracle.
(3) Lightning cables corrode quickly in the salty sea air.

Good inductive charging is an advantage here.
I don't know of you've used a screen protector in the last few years, I hadn't until recently. They are very glass like now, if not actually glass. Not like the old days of disgusting plastic protectors. My wife had one on her iPhone and I didn't even notice.
That's a neat solution, but I feel like $10 / user / month is ridiculous for something I can do for free as a traditional VPN.

I know everything in Silicon Valley is $10+ per user per month, but they're out of touch with the real world. I deal with tons of small businesses and they complain about spending $5 / month on MS365 for email which is absolutely essential to their business. The idea they're going to be signing up for all these SaaS platforms is crazy to me.

On the other side there's enterprise, but if I have 1000 users, why wouldn't I deal with my own infrastructure instead of paying someone $120,000 / year to do it for me? I'm in Canada and you could get 3 decent sysadmins for that.
This looks interesting, thanks for sharing. Will bookmark and read up later.

Always looking for these “zero trust” solutions and alternatives to the VPN based authorization
拉麺 is "pulled noodles", which is meaning, not sound. 麺 on its own already means noodles, but in China it has become ambiguous because it was simplified down to 面, which also means "face". (And that's the sole meaning in Japanese for the character, hence the confusion in the video.)
I think the effect of remote-only onboarding will be seen mostly in junior hires, since they do not have much experience in getting up to speed with a company's tech and its culture.

As a senior dev about to start a new remote position at a company that's still mostly non-distributed, I'm probably a little more nervous than I've been at previous first days, but I think the bigger risk is that I'm considered a more distant team member if ever there were cutbacks.

But I guess that's less of a risk if you can provide unique value in a specialized role.
Every single amazon echo device has a 3.5mm jack. And chromecast audios are going for $90 on eBay. I just want a simple solution to stream to my old speakers that isn't bluetooth or Amazon. I would've 100% bought a homepod mini if it had an audio out.
I have the iPhone now and have always used MacBooks, but so far I have refused to buy other products from them because they insist in keeping the ecosystem so closed. No Spotify support is why I’m not buying this. I’ve had Spotify for years and I’m not looking to switch. And Siri, unfortunately for me it’s now a selling point. It struggles so much on my phone that I can’t bring myself to use it often enough to care about it.
Homelessness is objectively worse, as in higher counts, in SF. Up 72% since 2011. And it is subjectively worse, as enforcement has dropped and homelessness has spread, become more bold, more petty crime, and caused a bigger disruptions.

https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/5380756_sanfrancisco2019....
NYC -> DC corridor suffers from none of that.
There are always outliers. Importantly, the trend is clear.
I live in Japan and work at a Japanese company. I can't understand Chinese at all. Even though the Japanese version of the Chinese pronunciation is somehow vaguely familiar at times, there is no making any sense of it.

I suspect Japanese folks feel the same way so I turned to my right and asked a coworker what Chinese sounds like to him. His answer was ちんぷんかんぷん (gibberish).
MP4 is a VERY flexible container format....
How the hell will car play work without a port?
Seems to be missing groups I was involved wih like sci.geology and rec.running. I wonder ehy.
Wonder how difficult it would be to patch the client or just make some sort of fake FUSE filesystem to bypass this.
Given that it's also a third-rail for politicians to try to touch, it sounds like it worked precisely as it should, and gave people what they wanted and voted for.

Oregon passed something similar, albeit weaker; I wish we'd passed something much stronger. Not because I'm anti-taxation, but because funding anything via property taxes is an incredibly bad idea and leads to funding and service quality that's correlated with property values.
> Prop 13, I'm looking at you

This year's Prop. 15 would radically revise the tax limitation scheme adopted in Prop. 13/1978 by removing much commercial/industrial property from the coverage of it's limitation on annual increases of assessed value, and seems to be polling comfortably ahead.
>I don't know how anyone buys their BS.

Treat people like they're too stupid to think for themselves long enough and it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy. If the people of Massachusetts buy that crap they need only look in the mirror to find who to blame.
Bureaucrats have their own set of incentives. They can increase their position within the bureaucracy, and increase the bureaucracy’s influence.

One of the reasons Americans are so “anti-bureaucracy” is because of precious bureaucratic oversteps.

It’s pretty well established the EUs administrators strongly value the influence I’d their own agencies (with some exceptions).

A good US example is the military. Army, Navy, Marines, etc. are in constant competition. Do any of the generals or admirals get to take home their funding?
I did say active. Posts were made today.

How active is another topic.

There are contributors from then still active now too.
I'm just making this up as I go, but I'm only seeing 1x pointer dereference in the hot-loop (the "if-side" of the following if statement. The "else-side" is more complex, but not really bad)

if(this->size >= 0){
return lastLinkedSlab[this->size--];
} else {
auto old = lastLinkedSlab;
lastLinkedSlab = lastLinkedSlab->next;
delete old;
if(lastLinkedSlab == nullptr){
lastLinkedSlab = new LinkedSlab();
}
this->size = 16384 - 1;
return lastLinkedSlab->heap[this->size--];
}

Or something like that. I'm not really seeing how this scheme incurs many indirect pointer references.

> And yes, of course you would allocate your nodes from a linear contiguous (but possibly chunked) fix size bump allocator first.

Hmm, that's probably a bit more efficient, but probably not a big deal because its a "once ever" optimization. You usually want an optimization to loop over itself a few times...
Except for Italy, Peru, Mexico, Japan, France, Thailand, and many other countries where you can find top quality food in thousands of small towns and out of the way places. So probably not a great rule to go by.
Google incorporated these into their Groups application. But then it faded as people moved to social media groups.
Two styles of learning.

1) Something that requires expertise: learn by doing, with help from a respected author. Build on that by picking harder stuff to do. Doing makes memory stick.

2) Things that are mighty interesting: dig in (much easier with the web), make notes until 'enough-for-now' ... then add-to-notes as new resources pop up. Oh, and systematize notes so adding - and finding - is easy.
In my case I can't even use Bluetooth microphones, just the output mode. Apparently when switching from Bluez4 to Bluez5 this was dropped by all major distributions, which frankly baffles me.
Why Read? Advice from Harold Bloom
When I was doing my undergrad, I used to run up to Ballard via the trail (well, it stopped just short of Ballard back then). It was mostly industrial and blue collar, Amazon didn't exist yet in SLU (which was pretty seedy anyways), how times have changed.
Legally Apple is right, of course.

But as discussed in that HN thread there are many reasons why it's the wrong thing to do, specially if you want to pretend to take the moral high ground regarding the environment.
I don't own one, but I visited a friend who had gotten one. He was excited to show it off. It was embarrassing. It played the wrong song. He asked it to increase the volume, which it did on the second attempt, but then it was too loud to hear him give the command to decrease the volume. He tried stopping it with his phone and couldn't. Ended up having to press a button on the thing (I think? Or he unplugged it). Quite literally the worst possible demo.
You're kidding? That's such poor product support.

I have a whole army of Google Homes, and not one has bricked or had any problems. However, at their price point (bought the Home for $100, Home Minis were mostly free or $20) I wouldn't mind shelling out for a replacement. Considering the starting price of the HomePod, it's nuts that Apple would charge that much to fix (for something that was their issue no less).
Would be great if HT receivers had a mode to do that without having to manually increase and decrease the C channel.
Before the web it was pretty common to have a school/work account with your real identity. I have my regrets too. Since then I post under just my middle name.
I got ENTJ which matches my test from few years ago.
Assuming the truth of one or more premises is not a fallacy; it is just what one does in any argument. If your argument is valid (i.e., if the premises are true, then the conclusion must follow), it can still be shown to be unsound by showing that one or more of its premises are, in fact, false.

And while we often hold that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, it is not a formal fallacy to state an extraordinary premise without adequate justification. Whether you can get anyone to accept it is another matter. It is generally easier if you can find someone who likes your conclusion, which is how most political debate works.
Wim Hof’s teachings about breath work and the health benefits of cold plunges
The EU really need to look at the nexus between competition law and data protection regulations. There is already Article 20 of the GDPR[0] which enshrines a "Right to data portability", including a requirement for data to be automatically transmitted from one provider to another, in some cases.

It seems to me that mandating federation between social network platforms, using proven open standards, falls within (or very close to) the requirements that such a law already puts onto large data controllers, which should make it an uncontroversial remedy for the EU anti-trust authorities to demand.

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/