skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it appears that Tripmode can't filter it either: https://medium.com/tripmode/apple-started-hiding-the-traffic...
My statement isn't irresponsible. Corporations are universally amoral. If it was in Google's interests to do it, they would. But I think that, right now, those interests don't exist.

That being said, someone that is in that situation, if the stakes are high enough, might be dissuaded just knowing that such things happen.
Rate limiting what? Banning what login process to nginx with fail2ban? And what's "weird behavior"? Blocking what groups from access? Users are uploading files and you need to virus scan them?

These are problems that don't actually exist by default for most situations. They imply a need for, well, something like Bunkerized-Nginx. But the need necessarily implies something less secure than a simple repo nginx install. In most cases this is the tail wagging the dog.
Wow, I didn't realize their market share was that large.
> it would be a complete dick move to have someone relocate (possibly involving change of country) and then fire them 2 weeks later

This. I hold a slightly lower bar (meaning more willing to take a chance) on someone who is unemployed than if they're working now. Worst case if I take someone unemployed, hire them "light", and they don't work out is they're back where they already were, whereas if someone quits their job to come work here and gets fired, they're worse off than they were before.
200k per year would not be the worst salary to pay a developer for this work, and I'd say he's outlined about 5 to 10 years of work. Feels like you could negotiate a package of escalating compensation contingent on delivery milestones.
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>Whenever Google changes SEO in a bad direction
What do you mean by Google changing SEO?
I haven't personally, but my ex-wife is a developer at a FAANG and she told me multiple stories of people she phone screened who couldn't actually write a simple for loop.
I personally wasn't as intrinsically motivated to pursue a given field. I just wanted to get out and do something more interesting, discover the real world, and explore career options. I picked up Morris Kline's Calc, aaaaand then I put it back down and signed up for a class.

What would you attribute your deep intrinsic motivation to? It's admirable.
It's certainly both.

But absolutely no retail store can operate in a political climate where they are unable to enact reasonable loss prevention policies. Walgreens and stores like it are especially hard hit because they are generally well stocked/capitalized, and ubiquitous even in rougher areas of town. They also are corporate owned (not franchised) and thus have exceedingly "hands off" loss prevention policies. Word gets around.

If I were CEO of Walgreens I'd likely be making the same decision. A single instance of an overzealous security guard getting into a fight or killing a shoplifter will erase any profits you'd make in years of keeping 100's of marginally profitable stores open.

I've worked in such retail environments and it's pretty discouraging to the workers trying to do the right thing and live the correct way. When I was in such roles it was quite some time ago, and the current climate was only starting to shift - it was still completely acceptable back then to tackle a shoplifter in the parking lot and forcefully detain them until the cops came.

The morale hit employees took when they simply have to sit back and watch is hard to measure, and I'm certain damages these communities in ways we have not even begun to understand. Simply saying it's "not worth your personal liability to protect corporate profits" rings really hollow on a societal level as society stops working when all that binds us are rarely enforced laws.
I don’t see how that assumption is implied by anything I said in what you quoted. There is no reference to the valence of the emotion.
Except this isn’t the same as how Signal handles things. Signal uses SGX specifically so that they can store metadata without exposing it to the server. Matrix’s contact discovery spec doesn’t.

My initial question, earlier up the chain, was in regards to this dilemma: Signal didn’t upload contact metadata to their servers for years, until they implemented SGX to allow them to do so securely. By contrast, every other messaging platform (Matrix included) just wrote up a spec for contact metadata storage that doesn’t address protections from the server operator.

We’ve got back and forth about the upsides of federation and open source clients and such, but as I’ve tried to point out, none of that is relevant to the actual question I asked, or the upstream point in the thread: that Signal’s spec didn’t include contact uploads at all until there was a way they could store them securely, and other message platforms just skipped straight to storing them.
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The article makes this seem like it's a US problem but, the interconnects lay in Canada and Mexico too. I'm guessing that unification is a low priority for them since it seems that the US stands to gain the most from it.

"DC power lines transmit power more efficiently than AC lines do"

This is not at all what is taught at school. Looking into this is interesting. 100 years ago people were debating about whether AC or DC is a better means of transmitting power and, it looks like answers still aren't clear now. I'm interested in knowing what an expert in this thinks.
There are other candidates but they don't spend enough for people to know they exist. Vote for one of them. It doesn't matter which because they won't win but they don't have to. They just have to "steal" enough votes from one of the major party candidates to cause them to lose. Next time round, they'll have to adjust their policy to be against political donations in order to win back those activist voters.
All sensor data, the closer you get to the analog side of things, is bullshit. It's just about smoothing over the bullshit enough to make the tolerances workable for real world applications.

We call this bullshit smoothing "calibration". If you're doing work on sensor data and don't have every calibration parameter, whether from configuration or magic factory numbers and statistical tolerances, someone, somewhere is pulling the wool over the eyes of the software guy downstream that works with the final data.

Ever looked at weather data from two separate apps and have values vary by multiple degrees? Two different pipeline just sprinkled on their own versions of interpretations on top of raw sewage data.
paranoid schizophrenia here: i deal with my illness by acceptating it: it is a gift and a boon at the same time, but you must learn to leave a atom of sanity when the psychosis strikes, and give up to medical personnel. Sometimes you just launch yourself to full insanity, and after some time return even without a psychic ward or medicine, some times it breaks you for a couple of weeks.
if you know enough about remote sensing, you can in effect, exact rents from the google landlord by passively observing observation bias by sensing crawling getting infos they cannot know about by some strong statistical independence test, probablity mass that they cannot know about. understand the gdpr and related privacy laws well. the probably with google is that it is too big and has too much influence, so many people's business model is being the non-google. same thing with facebook, etc.
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> Having interned/worked in three INGOs (Save the Children, World Concern and UNICEF) for a total of ~2 years, and having a family member who have worked in a well-known French NGO (ACF International)for 3+ years, I have to agree with this assessment.

Those bear no relationship to the sort of charity Lehrer would establish with an estate generating hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
An obvious idea is Apple/google could add a dontShare flag to the contacts. Or would that be too controversial?

The os would just pretend those contacts don't exist when all contacts are requested. There could be a checkbox to share protected contacts on the permissions prompt in case you're trying to actually export them.
I've never watched Twitch, but seems like an historic moment for a sitting congressperson to be livestreaming gameplay on Twitch. For that fact along, worth watching I believe.
Do you have an example of a page that is a good result for that query?
That number doesn't match what the SSA publishes in their annual reports.[1]. They put the figure on disability at 8.9 million disabled workers, with 11.2 million total beneficiaries once you include the disabled workers' children.)

That said, the real figures are still startling. They represents 4.4% of the US worker population but some states rely incredibly heavily on the program.

Alabama - 8.0% of the population
Arkansas - 7.9% of the population
Kentucky - 7.6% of the population
Maine - 7.4% of the population
Mississippi - 7.5% of the population
West Virginia - 8.6% of the population

1: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/di_asr/2019/di_asr...
It changed not long ago.
I'm against that too.
You say you doubt my reasoning but substitute none of your own save for a stale youtube link to the diatribe of a non entity and a link introduced but then neither explained nor contexualized.

I honestly don't know entirely what it is trying to express. "Proving Too Much" seems to be a complete non sequitur I have no idea what you fallacy you are suggesting is expressed by the prior or any other post on this subject.

>But there need to be a criterion distinguishing why Twitter can claim this immunity while newspapers cannot. The rights granted need to have some kind of obligation.

You can institute new obligations as soon as you buy your own congress critter and get them to write new laws. If you believe such obligations are already expressed in law kindly cite the statute and section.

The distinction between the print copy published by the New York Times and say reddit/twitter/facebook is literally that this is the distinction the law makes. It doesn't have to make sense to you to be the law of the land. Particularly the short comprehensible section already the primary topic of discussion.

If you want to dig into why it seems relatively obvious. The finite first party content is dear and expensive and the act of curation is already inherently an expectation. Asking a publication to take legal responsibility for what they publish is a tolerable and reasonable burden.

Reddit/Twitter/Facebook solicit users to produce a veritable ocean of content for which they offer users a chance to communicate to their fellows and a small amount of server time which per unit is paid for by a slightly larger income from ads provided with that content.

Legal responsibility for content shared between you and I would be a herculean task, impractical, intractable, and expensive that would leave them with little choice but to cease operations.

Indeed few people actually want this what they want is 230 to be used like a club to keep people like twitter from shaping the conversation despite owning the property on which you expect discussion to take place and no law providing such a right to someone else's megaphone.

If you don't like it start your own website.
Quote from the article:

There is a model for a once-mighty empire, eclipsed by newer powers, finding a way to rise again. It is not a country, but a company: Microsoft. Crunched between Apple and Google, Microsoft switched from a failing strategy of desktop domination to services built around customers. For Brexit Britain, the Microsoft model is instructive.
You don't have to add every single person that is a contact, you'd just be able to see they are connectable. Maybe I would like to connect on FitBit with my personal trainer but not on Instagram or Pokemon Go.

Anyone I consider a friend that I didn't meet online I will always have their phone number, even if that isn't my primary form of communication with them. A phone call will always go through without regards to any data limits and is less spotty in areas with bad service.

I'd love it to be a standard so that social networks could also be connected together in a similar asymmetrical way but that would require even more cooperation from people proven to be bad actors.
Worth mentioning here that China has massively invested in HVDC for over a decade (and still is [0] ... about a half-trillion/year lately).

The longer that N.A. drags its heels on this, the longer it'll take to move to renewables. (Just another infrastructure need that might have been paid for by funds thrown into Forever War.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThkjp-bp8M "China's MILLION VOLT Energy Superhighway" (12m)
Yeah, there my powers of imagination fall short.

The best I can come up with is "well, if some critical mass of people adopt it early for quirky reasons it could take off", but that doesn't distinguish it from bottle caps.
Very fast, once they see the bill
I'm not a hiring manager, but I've interviewed plenty and given my opinions to the hiring managers. I've also discussed candidates with fellows developers and have heard "that's not a full-stack developer" more times than I can count, which leads to "I'm not sure they know what they are talking about."

The point of my response is to say, if something isn't working, change the formula. Here's some anecdotal evidence given my experience that might help. Stop complaining on LinkedIn about it. I personally look at LinkedIn and if I see multiple posts from you complaining about how unfair things are it's going to be an immediate pass.
I know they have plans:

https://teamarin.net/2019/04/03/microsoft-works-toward-ipv6-...

But AFAIK that is still aspirational. I would be pleasantly shocked and impressed if they had already achieved that.
Plot recipes are a really good fundamental example of composability in the Julia ecosystem. Extending a plotting library cannot be a function because plotting functions don't compose. Want to support plotting quaternions in matplotlib? You'd write a `plotquaternion` function. Then the ODE solver makes a `plotode` function for the output object of its ODE solver. Now let's say you got ODEs solving on quaternions... what about plotting? Well you have to modify `plotode` to call `plotquaternion` or modify `plotquaternion` to call `plotode`, and this is how you get monorepos and the big functions we all know.

Plot recipes are different. The Plots.jl system calls the type recipe function recursively on the plotting data `X` until it sees a set of primitives that it knows. Libraries define dispatches to this function to denote how data types should transform to something more primitives. Quaternion numbers become four independent series of numbers (and add keyword arguments for doing things like modulus). The ODE solver library writes a recipe that say, if you try and plot an ODE, transform it into arrays of time series. Now plot on a quaternion ODE solution recurses into 4x time series of the solution, which is the plot you'd want to have. This is a feature I use all of the time: I don't generally do more than just `plot(sol)` since recursive recipes generally give me the plot I want (or else I open an issue because someone is missing a recipe).
It seems like this is a feature designed to shrink the "used" market for Apple products -- and not a user benefiting feature.
The lack of discipline doesn't scale even more than discipline.
> Don't ask me how grounding works for 240v appliances. I have no idea.

Ground is 'the same' for 240v and 120v on split phase. A usually bare copper wire is run from the ground pin to the service panel, in the main service panel ground and neutral are connected together and to the utility neutral and the grounding rod.

Most 240v outlets are hot-hot-ground, or hot-hot-neutral-ground; some older outlets were hot-hot-neutral and the appliance was supposed to be wired separately to ground (and we can all suppose how often that was done properly, resulting in that outlet type becoming disfavored).

I'm currently rejiggering a 240v wired box for 120v outlets, after finding the wires in the panel and confirming they don't power any other 240v outlets, I'm connecting the white wire to the neutral bus bar, and the black wire to a spare 120v breaker, and then it's normal wiring of the outlet.
Then learn C#.

garbage collection is a hard no for a system language.
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OS is a weird design. It lets the machine belong to Apple/MS/Google not we, so they could update whatever they want or query to their website secretly. You can't even stop them because once you installed you agreed for all. You don't have choices to partially agree. It makes me feel like when you have a cecal surgery, the doctor also took out your foreskin for auto-updating.
Don't quite agree.

The Immigration Minister can give out exceptions to the citizenship process but the point is they're not going to be giving out any more exceptions as extreme as the one they gave to Thiel, because noone was happy the Minister did that.

That's different from the above-board process for easing the path to permanent residency/citizenship with investment money, (residency visas for investors and entrepreneurs) which is considered a good idea.

Also how can you claim "all parties" want to keep selling real estate to rich foreigners when Labour outlawed it last term, and made a very big fuss about doing so? But other parties clearly want to be in that business.
The Constitution is legislation.
Eyeballing the data line they provide makes me think most people struggle to date photographs.

What surprised me is the magnitude of the effect in photos that were clearly taken after the advent of widespread mainstream colour photography. I'd have guessed the difference between the colour and non-colour groups would shrink considerably since colour would be much more a reflection of artistic choice than technological or resource constraint.
Without naming it, I'm pointing at the Loose Change documentary. I found it to be a not-uncommon conspiracy theory among the left in the early Bush years that the CIA had wired the Towers to blow fight-club style, and that documentary seemed to have a lot to do with it.

If you want to step back and start talking about the CIA's role in Afghanistan in the eighties and nineties, as well as the US's covering for the Saudis, and the engineering of the Iraq war, I have an extensive rant prepared that I've been inflicting on my poor friends for years.
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Have you yourself used the interface for configuration of these options?

How easy is it for a non-expert to determine what the vpn client will or will not do, once deployed?
So I went through this comment thread and blog post and I'm still uncertain how to fix my audio sync issue.

Does anyone have a TL;DR or a link to a good way to understand this and how its fixed?
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I'm working from home now, and in my company we use Tunnelblick for vpn into corp network. VPN has time-based OTP so it never gets saved.

Sometimes when my MBP goes to sleep it loses wifi connection and VPN disconnects. When it wakes up, Tunnelblick asks for password, but it doesn't restore routes (I guess?). Basically no internet until I either enter password or click disconnect. At that moment I'm typing in my OS password and pressing Enter.

What then happens is that it waits for ≈30 seconds and then logs me in, as if it made a network request and waited until it timed out.

Could it be related to the issue you're describing?
I posted this on HN before, but it's very appropriate here. It's things I learned on the same sort of adventure:

https://github.com/ehrmann/vhs-capture

I even found a bug in VLC's libdvdread.

The big commonalities worth pointing out are using a good video capture device and a particular family of JVC VCR.

I had a follow-up adventure digitizing Super8 film that was telecined onto VHS. It nominally runs at 18 fps, but the projector probably wasn't that accurate, so removing duplicate frames was actually a big challenge. I ended up using dynamic programming to remove similar frames with specific restrictions and a target framerate.
I don’t care about games. But I think it is a social breakthrough for members of government to be interacting more as “normal” people. To actually be “one of us” (heh) and show that they aren’t totally disconnected from current culture.
> So I started reading everything I could about our monetary system and learned that it essentially became a ponzi scheme in 1971.

Even if you want to argue that all fiat money are 'ponzi schemes' then it would have been a ponzi scheme many times over. In fact if you assume the pre 1971 system to be ok, then it might surpirse you to learn that it only came into effect in the late 1950s. That system (Brandon Woods system) actually was not even close to a real gold standard and didn't operate like one either. I don't see how you can say its not a ponzi scheme while those system before and after it were. If anything Brandon Woods was a US controlled ponzi scheme where the US could inflate their currency while pretending it was gold to other currencies.

So the system you think of as non-ponzi existed for 10-20 years max. And before that it was a ponzi scheme again? It was also a ponzi scheme in and post WW1 if that is the case?

Not even sure what it means to be a ponzi scheme for money. In a ponzi scheme you pay interest on old money with new money, that is very different from the goal of a monetary system.

The way you talk about it, it seems to me you read a heavily 'bitcoin fan' recommended literature on monetary history. What you say is very far away from almost all academic literature on money.
Supabase[1] provides full Postgres databases which take ~2 mins to spin up. You can connect Retool with the DB connection details in the settings

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Perhaps now may be the appropriate time to begin transitioning my friend group on Matrix over to XMPP.
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The reason many hope you'll succeed is that they hope to rise with you. With investors this incentive is particularly explicit. They want you to succeed because they hope you'll make them rich in the process.

I'm more cynical. Investors benefit from the illusion of success, whether it is real or not. They can invest in something they don't think will succeed if PR and marketing can increase the valuation.
That's why publishing and presenting outside the formal academic realm is important. Especially presentations that have one level of indirection from original creators often provide much better intuition and also the presenter isn't afraid sharing that he/she doesn't know certain things or they present content in a more creative funny way.
> $2000 gross is going to be a lesson about taxes.

Depends on state and family status, but probably not. Someone making $28k/yr is paying pretty much FICA taxes and not much else federally speaking.

If they happen to have any dependents then they are probably paying negative tax rates via the EITC. Sometimes substantially so.

Source: I do taxes for a about a dozen folks "back home" growing up in a more economically disadvantaged area than average.
I can imagine an embedded developer unable to do that, they never do HTTP requests and it's a nightmare to implement in C or C++, a web developer in python/ruby/node should do fine.

It's selecting for languages and candidates with built-in support for HTTP and json and base64. It's far from a 1h problem if the candidate has to find working libraries for each of that.
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