skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which is fine

No it's not fine [that taxpayers "ultimately end up paying for the social security, healthcare, and other unmet needs (lack of paid sick leave, lack of paid maternity/paternity leave etc.) of these contractors"].

The Commons have been slowly plundered. It's the working class who is suffering. Look around you, homeless people everywhere. This is digital Rentier Capitalism, which enriches the ruling classes, and parasitally sucks dry the working class.

"[R]entier incomes from ownership and exploitation of assets are continuing to grow, sucking up ever more of global income. And the state is accentuating these two mega-trends by throwing more subsidies to the rentiers while cutting benefits for the precariat, and while the silicon revolution is channelling more income to those who own the robots, creating a perfect storm of economic insecurity.

A way out of this approaching impasse would be to create a new income distribution system in which more of the rent is captured for society, and used to buttress the precariat’s living standards. In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the "euthanasia of the rentier" before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen. Now is the time to do it. One way would be by building up democratic sovereign wealth funds through a levy on various forms of rent, which are neither morally nor economically justifiable."

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-precariat-populis...
But in the meantime methane has bigger effect (per kg) than CO2.
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Merlin is a great tool as well. But I encourage anyone who is casually interested in birds to signup, its a great website with much to learn and I would say state-of-the-art data visualization.
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That’s why you launder the information via a news organization.

In 2008, in London, a commuter found top secret counterterrorism documents on the train. That person was smart enough to go to a BBC reporter.
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Sure hope it is actual hardwired, and not hardware with an updatable firmware chip controlling the LED like apple used to do.

https://grahamcluley.com/webcam-spying-without-turning-led-r...
I'm super excited for this! It's a small step, but an important one.

The whole premise of this, as I read it, was that while OBD ports are fair game (and any protocol over them), there is other data that is (often) necessary to diagnose and repair cars that is not available from OBD and is phoned-home. That's simple enough.

What I think is superb is that the law requires data to go _directly to consumers_ as in, car makers would be required to change immediate locations of outbound telemetry such that they can't get it. This is key as I, first, don't want data leaving my car at all, and second, if it does, I don't want the automaker or insurance company to get to it.

I'm sure automakers (Tesla especially, since they pioneered brutally connected cars and data capture) aren't thrilled about this, but I am optimistic to see where it goes. Maybe I'll be able to buy a new car that doesn't phone home (or only phones home to a service I personally own). I can dream.
> Vimeo can be a good idea if you don't care about discoverability and just want to put your video on the internet without self hosting.

That's a fair point yeah.
Very telling geographic distribution for Prop 22 in San Francisco, at least: https://electionmapsf.com/#
lol, they ree for equality but only when it benefits them. commiefornia, what a joke.
lmao...
> Opium poppies for everyone.

Yes, anyone should be able to grow any plant they want.
Superficially speaking, he defrauded a US bank of $70k ($5k of which he transferred to his bank account).

Yes, he disclosed exactly how he did it to the bank. Yes, he returned it all. Yes, he had no intent to keep it. And yes, he still defrauded them in the process. Yes, he had permission to do so. But permission doesn't always prevent situations from going awry, even if it can help clear things up after the fact.

If you walk into a physical bank and notice a potential security issue, point out the potential security issue to the teller, come back to exploit that potential security issue just to see if you can, succeed and make off with $70k, then bring it all back in and walk the bank manager through how you robbed his bank, he's still going to call the cops on you. Or maybe you spoke to him before and got permission, but his communication to corporate after the fact gets misconstrued/misunderstood and someone else calls the cops.

Closing all of the accounts like they did was a crap reaction, but he could have just as easily been hand delivered an arrest warrant by an FBI agent for bank robbery and fraud if someone internally decided to take the position that what he did was analogous to the above scenario. And it may have just as easily occurred due to some internal miscommunication/misunderstanding by a non-technical person or being flagged by some type of automation/reporting, rather than deliberately taking such a stance.

That's where involving a lawyer would have been valuable. It may not have protected him from the consequences that did occur, since they could close his accounts for whatever reason they wanted. But a lawyer would have provided greater assurance against substantially worse outcomes, by ensuring more drastic outcomes were identified and addressed/mitigated upfront. And potentially saved his accounts from getting closed - the decrease in his cumulative credit limit plus closure of such long-lived credit cards translates into real economic harm due to the likely impact on his credit score. I could see a lawyer being able to use that fact somehow to persuade Chase that it was not in their best interests to take such an action.

Law enforcement - I'd leave that up to the lawyer. As another user commented, your lawyer is explicitly employed to protect your interests. If involving law enforcement furthers that aim, they'll tell you. If involving law enforcement is detrimental to that aim, they'll tell you. So consult with several first, hire one second, and let them direct what happens after. If what they do/recommend ends up being incredibly stupid, you at least have their malpractice insurance to appropriately compensate you for their stupidity. But you have no such insurance to compensate you for your own.
Electricity generation is responsible for only 27% of US greenhouse gas emissions - https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis....

If we are serious about tackling climate change then we need to decarbonize these other sectors by moving them off of fossil fuels and onto clean electricity. We are going to need to generate a lot more energy, not less.
Is this a new AoT compiler for python or an unattributed rebranding of an existing one?
One of these things stand out. Making a video should take one or two frames. (Milliseconds.)

Something is very wrong with the state of software and GUI. There is nothing inherently slow about making a video full screen, but I understand there is something in todays software pipeline making this a bottleneck.
I really like this design. Just in time for Christmas gifts...
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Items can run out of stock before hitting the registers- people spent a long time in big department stores like Wal-Mart.
Original explorers from Europe were commercial companies

It won't be the company that gains sovereignty, so much as the people who colonize
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I can't think of a single senior-engineer position that someone can't train for in 5 years. Maybe doctors, directors, and top research scientists.
Not quite such a rosy prospect given the short and long terms problems with LED lights. They have a phototoxic effect on the eyes causing macular degeneration after chronic exposure to lower-intensity sources - the blue light relationship. The efficacy of filters (yet more cost) has still to be established.
Or Austin, Houston, Dallas, El Paso, etc
> They are looking out for their best interests, just as they should be.

There comes a point where the public's best interest outweighs a corporation's best interest.
It's tough enough to support yourself these days, let alone a family. A single earner can't look after a family of 5+ as was once possible. Additionally, the increasing stress of careers in the middle class seems to make it harder to build strong relationships in the first place.

I thought this article would be highlighting the economic shift towards coliving with friends, which we've seen to be getting more popular, and therefore the rise of platonic parenting. But I think the same causes can explain the article's subject.
Shouldn't that be "crowed-sourced"? I feel like they really missed an opportunity there and maybe even a Schitt's Creek tie in.
Commit is not signed, it could have been anyone, just by changing the email/username in gitconfig.
Waymo has a ride hailing service in Chandler:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2020/10/08/waymo-re...

Pretty sure they chose the area because of sunny skies and lack of rain, so if that’s what you consider a gimmicky route that’s fair.
Passwords weren't limited to 12 chars, but you are correct that they didn't allow special chars for a while.
well there's this effort to the contrary -

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/05/fugitive-india...
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Even if Biden wins but Senate is mostly republican (which is very likely), Biden can’t do much. Senate will keep tossing it out as it did with Obama’s 2nd term.

Democrats need both the presidency and majority senate to be able to get shit done.
That's a fair request. All of the full-featured accessibility implementations are buried in complex UI frameworks and browser engines. I'm also aware that the sample UIA provider implementations in the Windows SDK aren't very useful; they all implement a single control in its own HWND, using GDI or GDI+.

As part of Microsoft's Hack for Good program, I worked with the developers of the Quorum language and development environment (https://quorumlanguage.com/) on their UIA implementation. So I know how frustrating it can be for a non-expert to implement UIA, and how easy it is to get it wrong.

I'll have to see what I can do about implementing a better sample.
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I fail to see how someone who can afford a car is a wage slave. Cars aren't exactly a cost-less enterprise. They're expensive. So clearly these people are making enough money to help fund that car payment.

These people aren't slaves to the system. They willingly are seeking their own self interests on their own time. They can quit tomorrow if they wanted to. The simple fact that they need money is irrelevant. They aren't some serf subservient to these Gig businesses. The simple fact that they have a car and a tank of gas alone goes to show they can literally go anywhere and get a better/stable job instead.

Wage slavery is when people essentially become serfs. Nobody in the US is even close to a serf. Even if they go homeless, there are plenty of homeless people that still get by every day and have the capability to move elsewhere for work. They aren't forced to work at mcdonalds until "master says so."
Why do security researchers keep being nice to these companies when said companies mistake good intentions with malicious ones and treat the security researchers like shit?
IP protection laws are completely overgrown though, in the way a bacteria out of balance harms it's host, or a plague of locusts destroys the environment.

10 years, not a second more! For all IP .. no exceptions.
Yes, let's pretend that everyone of every economic class will be equally burdened by higher Uber/Lyft prices.

Look how SF voted on Prop 22. Doesn't reflect normal voting patterns against a regressive tax https://electionmapsf.com/
There's no playbook here. It may look like there is, because we keep seeing the same thing happening, but it's not coordination - it's the outcome of everyone caring primarily about their own personal interests over those of everyone else. We've built an economy and a culture that demands this kind of selfishness.

COVID-19 gives solid evidence that there is no playbook involved: in terms of political and business processes, the pandemic happened in a flash. And yet every country mismanaged the reaction in roughly the same way, for roughly the same reason. This wasn't coordinated, it's the default way we fail to solve global problems.
Somehow I quickly recognized the `https:` as a label. But I could not for the life of me figure out how `//` would compile. I was thinking it must be some sort of operator.

Brains are funny sometimes, and it is amazing how much we rely on context to remember and parse things.
That explanation sounds like BS. Full size HDMI is still shorter than the ethernet jack, so vertical space is there. Width would be the only restriction, but there's plenty of that, too.
> The trouble with renewables is that a lot of the drops in supply are both unpredictable and relatively long, which makes them hardre to deal with.

Not so; when the problem is bad weather rather than the diurnal cycle, even weather forecasting gives more forewarning than emergency stop buttons in power stations, and (given the geographical distribution) the change itself is smoother. On the scale of a continental grid, do you even need to care about anything besides diurnal storage/demand-shifting (as preferred) and seasonal issues?
Doing what you promised based a referendum is "what's best for the UK". What constitutes rationality in a democratic process is a matter of opinion - and the point is no one is allowed a privileged opinion over consensus.
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It's irrational because a) they have no real argument against the legislation, so making farcical arguments makes them look nefarious and is bad PR, and b) those arguments are unconvincing on the merits, so the only way you're going to convince anybody with them is in combination with some kind of underhanded shenanigans, but in that case you don't really need the argument, do you?
Given that there is no way to make a non-pointer map in Go, there is no workaround for the example they gave.

The broader point is that there is no way in Go to ensure that data passed over a channel will not be modified concurrently without modifying the type of the data specifically for the channel use case.

A deep_copy() primitive would fix this.
Doing the right thing in these situations is like playing with fire. Lots of times nothing happens but you can easily get burned hard. Legal expense to defend yourself are no joke.

I heard a similar story years ago about a high school student finding an SD card. It was full of illegal underage pictures so he turned it into the school admins, told the story, and ended up getting charged for it.
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It looks very impressive indeed! I may be giving it a go in the near future as I may have an use case for it.
Increasing supply matters more than policy around what specific housing is built.

If you increase supply (even if all “luxury”) - older units become cheaper relative to new units. The supply is the most important bit.

Affordable housing policy is often pushed as a way to not really increase supply. They’ll build one price controlled housing unit that’s nearly impossible to get an apartment in and call it done.
>Wouldn't that tell any spy device / software that the subject has switched off the means he or she can be surveiled by?

And the spy device/software knowing the user has "switched off the means" vs "they are broken" is important because?
Wouldn't be surprising considering the per capita has mostly leveled off since 2011

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=USA~IND...
The core skill of bankers is trading money and risk. They lend you money based on one risk calculation. They put aside more money against default if your loan gets riskier. They set budgets for whole departments of people based on how much they help mitigate risk.

So yes, I absolutely expect them to be good at saying, "Well, if we pay $X this year for bugs, that's better than losing $Y directly and paying $Z in cleanup costs."
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Ah, a completely different version than the NetTrek [0] that I was thinking about. The latter was a 16-person networked game played on workstations running X11 in a similar time period.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
This is my big fear. What if I don't switch, and I really did, deeply regret it? There's no way out. It seems like very serious commitment is necessary.
There's only two things I dislike on the Pi 4 today really.

No options for fast internal storage, and that tiny HDMI port. Given Pi 4 has reasonable CPU and up to 8GB of RAM, the former is a shame. The full size HDMI port on Pi 3 was compatible with cables virtually everyone already owned.

A model in the range with 32 or 64gb fast storage on board would be great - The Pi is useless for many without purchasing an additional SD card for a boot volume anyway!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHHOFIKlnu4

Danny Wallace the British comedian did a whole TV series about this idea
How are these similar in any way except for being GUI libraries?
Kind of ironic to post this on the web, given it's history.
Sadly they could have been a major player in the standardisation of metadata or at least even conformed to one of the current (imperfect) standards that exist. Their priorities lay elsewhere I guess.
> If your CI is doing more than 100

A limit of 100 pulls per 6 hours averages to a pull each 3 minutes. Each stage of a CICD pipeline uses more than 1 container image, and it's customary to have CICD stages build and pull from previous stages, such as integration tests,performance tests, canary tests, etc.

I would dare say that you're doing something terribly wrong if you don't need to pull images often, because that largely tells you're doing barely any tests or deployments.
So you have an ideal of how you want society to be.

Being serious, how are you going to get the land you need? It's not like any country is just going to give you a spare island or two, especially if the island has enough viable resources to be worth occupying. You're going to have to take it from people who already live there, or persuade them that it's worth staying in your ideal society. Ask the Maoris or Palestians how that worked out. You might buy some land, but I'm guessing you're not Bezos, and you're not Musk either, so colonizing Mars is a no-go.

Or...it looks like you want to change US law on the protection of religion. That's a specific change, that actually has a lot of support. The younger generation tends to be less religious than their parents, so there might be a long term trend behind you. Perhaps it might be worth getting on board with whatever groups are lobbying for that change. That's something actionable, rather than dreaming about starting a whole new country.
> By September, they had conceived – naturally – and were pregnant

Don’t think they skipped the sex step.
You had the best of intentions, and tried to do everything right. Unfortunately, in modern times that just paints a bigger target on your back.

This is why I got out of cybersecurity. Even when you are a good guy, the other folks look at you like it's only a matter of time before you steal the crown jewels while their back is turned. And if you are disclosing vulns you found when not actually hired to do so, forget about it - the best you can hope for is a thank you and a bounty that doesn't make it worth the time it took. The sky's the limit on the worst you can get.

The prospects of folks probing systems for the fun of it and disclosing how to secure them better to the owners in order to make the world a better place have become too grim. If you really want to do this, then I recommend you join a security company and do it as an employee to get that protection.

Every decade since 1989 I have marveled at how much closer our world has gotten to the world of Shadowrun. I just wish we had gotten the magic to go with the pall of shadows that hang over us now.
A totally new one !

Which existing one you we're referring to ?
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The biggest difference is the COLD START, Google offering being in a different ball park. AWS sports ˜300ms cold starts (node and python) while GCP (and Azure) take 5 ~ 10 seconds. I hope GCP catches up or surpass AWS in the near future, but the gap today is HUGE. Price is quite similar if you don't hit Cold Start invocations very frequently.
https://twitter.com/wardqnormal/status/1206280031552454656

>My new hobby is taking graphs of economic data over time and indicating the year that Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, in case people find that helpful or informative.
This is also something that you can optimize down to a small number of seconds. Crazy things such as bundling+minifying nodejs apps can make a difference. However that may make debugging difficult.

There is some latency in the infrastructure but I have found that most of the delay is puling the image and actually starting the app. So small images with few layers and fast boot up will help a ton.
With the Paris Accord, we are talking about the future, not the last 15 years.

And for the future, renewables + storage is cheaper than natural gas. We can get to 80% renewables cheaply. And as the modelers update their cost curves to adapt to the pace of storage's learning curve, we will be able to get to 90% renewables cheaply, then 95%, then 100% as we start to decarbonize the non-electrical parts of our economy.

And though there were tax incentives that helped build the industry, and help from countries like Germany that decided to start buying the expensive first generation products in order to drive down prices, the end result is that we are now living in a world where tech has changed the economic landscape.

The cheapest grids to be build will not be based on fossil fuels. Developing countries will be able to build renewables+storage based micro grids far more cheaply than they will build traditional wires + thermal heat engines. And places with the wealth to do long term investing will be able to build long distance transmission to distribute cheap renewables with less storage.