skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I feel the need to give a warning:

If you try to log in to certain MS apps with your work account (in particular OneNote), they will give you a checkbox to allow the org to manage Windows on that device. This checkbox is ignored (or really, visibly re-enabled during the auth flow).

It is very easy to end up in a situation where your org suddenly has full control of your personal Windows device. It is also very easy (again, because of broken auth workflows) to end up with your personal MS account on your work PC. OneDrive can then at any point (most likely after a Windows update) start downloading all of your personal content to your work device.

Microsoft has been trying to blur the lines between Windows and Office. IME, this has made both fundamentally untrustworthy, because it is very hard to know what I am authorizing (and they will explicitly ignore/reset my choice anyway) and where my data will end up.

It feels very bad to know that, at any time and without warning, Microsoft can begin sharing my personal data into my work-managed IT systems.
This is incorrect and I’m not sure the point you’re trying to make.
Exactly. With USDT, your aim is to buy crypto low and sell them high and become bigly rich, THEN you cash out (which is the end game). It's just greed.

Notice that the general confidence in the crypto ecosystem (HODL culture), and in Tether itself (it's just a FUD, it's been so many years and nothing have happened) contribute to the desirability of USDT. Also notice that when I say cash out, I'm not talking about redeeming USDT, but buying crypto then selling the crypto on an exchange or OTC that has an off-ramp.
Google shifted a ‘Minimum’ of 6M Votes in 2020
What about then, "What am I doing to ensure I can have a job in 6 months?" That could cover a broad number of items: keeping your resume up to date, networking with peers in your industry and other teams, staying sharp with new skills in your field, etc.
Reducing personal emissions can help increase political will to take on the industry. Voters who don't eat hamburgers can't be swayed by "Hamburgers will cost $50 if we have carbon taxes" campaigns.
What? Delphi and the Microsoft tools are still available. They did survive they just didn't prosper I suppose you could say.
> Surely the people of Africa or Bangladesh are not so stupid as to not learn lessons from the US.

Well, everyone everywhere right now keeps doing the stupid thing, despite knowing better.
I think a lot of problems come because a lot of our “understanding” of the Middle Ages came though Protestant polemics and French Enlightenment authors. Both groups were very interested in portraying the Middle Ages in the worst possible light.

Recently, a lot of historians are going through the process of actually examining primary sources such as letters, bills of sale, church birth and death records, and a much more different view of the Middle Ages is coming to light.
How to build your own Thanksgiving shopping list app with JavaScript
Opera's aggressive pushing of this crap finally made me switch off it for good. Hopefully I never see this again after turning it off in Firefox.
That's how it's done everywhere I know of in the US. You do have to pay a bit more to have the second meter, but since sewage treatment is often more expensive than initial water treatment, you save quite a lot on balance.
Slightly off-topic but still relevant: I remember seeing a NeXT vs IBM development demo featuring interface builder.

I have sought it again a few times but couldn’t find it anymore. Anybody here still remembers?
I actually am really enjoying the music, any chance anyone has a source for it?
>I think the main problem is that the prime selection criterion for most women is not looks.

Says who? The men who do best with women are the most physically attractive. No other demographic does better. You can have $10M in the bank and still not elicit the same kind of attraction as the stereotypical tall, dark and handsome white man.
how to discomfort or discourage
Words Matter – Alternatives for Charged Terminology in the Computing Profession
The AMA decides who gets to call themselves a doctor. Can’t imagine a more pivotal arbiter of trust.
Anecdotal, but I have a decent number of (East) Asian female + other ethnicity male couples in my social circle. But only one (East) Asian male + white female couple.

I'm wondering if the advent of things like BTS will alter dynamics, as quite a few non-Asian women seem to go crazy over K-pop boyband idols. Then again, I'm pretty sure if you're ridiculously good looking, extremely fit, and hugely successful like a boyband idol singer, you're likely to do well on the dating scene regardless of ethnicity.
- The printer prints out paper and it goes on a belt, but the printout is on the other side! Now we need to engineer how to reverse a page. Oh, screw it! We are hackers, after all! Just print the same thing on both sides.
Sure, but Delphi was released in 1995 as the first version, whereas this was something I was programming in 1992 (and I came late to the party with Nextstep 3).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delphi_(software)

Visual Basic came out in 1991, by which time Nextstep was already at version 2.1

So yes, these things existed, but after Next had demonstrated them.
It is Washington Irving, not the Gershwins, who is responsible for the "Columbus set out to prove the world was round" myth.
If the UK continues to mask and socially distance a bad flu season is unlikely.
There was movement from https://entomofarms.com/ about a year or two ago here in Canada. Loblaws groceries were selling powder. But I don't see it much anymore. I'm not sure, with such a psycho-socio-cultural change requirement, that a company can go this alone without help. There would have to be something akin to our dairy, egg or wheat boards. I suspect a big chunk of cash would have to be dedicated just to marketing. I think there are many that would love to include these products in their diet - people abstain from meat for a variety of reasons and this might fill that gap. Especially if it can really be shown to be a sustainable product.
This is still news to me, the 10% rule is presented as 10% of posts... posting 9 other things to post 1 of my OCs seemed overly excessive.

Now I might actually start posting some things...
Some small DoD S&T/R&D contractors have similar culture, but they can be hard to find.
"have no domain expertise in the underlying data. This kind of approach to finance has historically performed poorly"

I recently read 'The man who solved the market', about Jim Simons and Renaissance Capital. The way the book tells it, looking for patterns without seeking domain expertise (e.g. ignoring fundamental valuation of equities) is exactly what Renaissance did, and it worked out very well.
That is essentially an online subgradient descent, with fixed stepsize 1, for minimizing the L1 loss.
As an aside: the web design for this page is super novel and cool. And I love the (somewhat random) ability to "close" the different windows and open them back up, as if it were a desktop environment. I wouldn't want this on every website I visit but it's certainly neat.
Your regular reminder of the predatory nature of tech giants
This only applies to mass media though, if you care (and are willing to pay for it) there are quality sources of information.
Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference
I had the same experience on Typescript 3.4.5. I hear that project references with incremental/watch are more performant on newer versions. (Notion is stuck on 3.4 because of this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/31445)
From my perspective, the size of the companies has little to do with the relative risk of outcomes that are not the best for the common good. I've seen folks at small companies try to control or unduly influence open-source software, and I've seen folks that work at large companies do it too.

At the end of the day, I think it comes down to the actions of people directly involved in a community, and the culture that they collectively cultivate. I'm optimistic that being intentional in this makes for a very resilient project and community.
Yes, match.com has been sued by the FTC for all their fake crap and still they are doing it, especially when your profile is about to expire. A few days from that date you will all the sudden get attractive women that never bothered with you previously. These are fake accounts to get you to re-up your membership and again/even after being sued by the FTC are pulling this crap!
GoodBye Web APIs
Painless FPGA Programming
>How to effectively communicate the progress to non-engineer team members?

The TL;DR is use the confusion matrix output from the ML library you're using to demonstrate model accuracy, false positives, false negatives, and so on.

The long answer is much more complex: Are you doing MLE work? DE work? DS work? Why are you using ML? Is it required for your current project? You haven't stated what kind of work you're doing. How you present has to do with what kind of work you're doing, so a clear answer can not be given, only a generic one.

A data scientist, for example, typically has to sit in tons of meetings hearing the business challenges over and over again, finding a way to solve the business problems, and then building a model to demonstrate feasibility and then proof of concept. They then presentation this proof of concept to sales, marketing, management, the board, or whoever else it pertains to as a way to solve their problems in an automated fashion with such-en-such percent of accuracy using a confusion matrix. The business then ruminates on this and then often comes up with more requests or modifications to the initial model, or a request to improve accuracy, or they're satisfied. When the model is satisfactory it gets handed off to a software engineer (machine learning engineer, data engineer, infrastructure engineer) who then takes their ideals and developts it onto a server and gets it connected up so that the customers end up getting that service. The engineers built it / put it all together in the end. The data scientist researched it.

Your situation sounds like you were thrown into a data scientist role and are approaching it like a software engineer, which is not an ideal way to go about things. I could be wrong. It could be the other way where you shouldn't be using ML to solve the problem, or you're productionizing other people's models. If you're truly doing engineer work, then you can show that customers are getting the service you're providing, which is a different kind of presentation, typically just updating management, not having a large company wide thing. Maybe you're expected to be management? That's a different story too.
The G2 is around 22 pixels per degree. But you lose a large chunk of resolution due to bilinear resampling. So a 22 degree virtual screen would be around 1320px wide, but have a lower usable resolution. Since people did develop with multiple 1280x1024 monitors, this is a usable resolution with the right setup.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming/ for more examples of people trying to write code in VR.
If being in a tech hub is important to you, Austin or Denver are the closest cities I can think of that might work. (Austin is cheaper than Denver and has better weather IMO.)

If that is less important, I would vouch for Oklahoma City or Atlanta.
Ah, I remember adding myself to that page because I was trying to see if there was anyone else with one to help. The actual team is here: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsDevelopers
This is not my experience at all.

I've seen many people opposing masks and lockdowns due to dangerous half-knowledge and appealing to "that one doctor is also saying that the recommendations are junk (but they are shunned by the mainstream press)".

Of course, we usually find our own reasoning valid and logical and tend to think that the other side can't give "reasoned and deep explanations". I can't claim to be unbiased here.

I'll just note that, from a Bayesian perspective, "trusting experts" is usually not the worst idea and something we're basically forced to do every day anyway. I listen to quite a lot of what some of the experts way, but of course, I am completely unable to independently verify that what they say is valid - without decades of experience in the field, this is simply impossible.
Maryland-Drivers-License
Fauci says masks, social distancing will still be needed for “much of 2021”
They are very specific about their plans to change the TOS.

>Today, when you share your Bridge’s connection with Sidewalk, total monthly data used by Sidewalk, per account, is capped at 500MB

I think the "Today" means that they plan to change the data amount daily...
Probably an unpopular opinion but I am not very excited by this.

Getting funding and support is great, but the needs of the many are very different than the needs of AWS and Facebook.

In my opinion we see this a lot in Linux as well.
What Google wants has almost nothing to do with what I need.
(I said almost).

I think it should gestate a while in a less FAANGy environment.
I guess it assumes we already know how to use the Ruby language, therefore it's a good option to choose for new projects?

I personally know near nothing about Ruby, other than read a couple of documentation pages.

Since I don't know how to use it the right way, I cannot take any side so I can agree or not with this suggestion.
A rather unfortunate side effect of deemphasizing the author of the content ;)
Who says I'll want a job in six months? Maybe I'm tired of all the BS and want to live in a van down by the river.
True, but I don't think Java is declining, I just think Python and JavaScript grew beyond Java. But I really doubt that the use of JavaScript and Python that took on replaced the use of Java, I think it's just new use cases. I haven't looked at the data, but ya, I'd doubt Java is declining.

P.S.: Also I say Java, but I mean JVM, I club all JVM languages together, since that's more what I care about, is the strength of the Java ecosystem.
> "The point the chapter is making is that FAANGs are less likely to allow remote work / other freedoms, so if that means a lot to you, you should not work at a FAANG. A quick check at levels.io can confirm this fact -- the vast majority of employees are on-site in a tech hub."

Okay, fair enough.

> "Whether or not this is an important skill depends on what you are optimizing for. I don't need to be able to deliver software at FAANG scale if I don't ever want to work at a FAANG."

There's not much point to enduring the hardship of launching a startup if there's no hope of growing it into at least a medium or large business though? A solid understanding of software processes and even scaling that FAANGs use can be helpful even at that size.

For example, a business I was at was encountering growing pains because their seat-of-the-pants YOLO software development processes weren't working for them anymore at the size they had grown to. Gently nudging them to adopt proper documentation and other software engineering processes known to ease those pains because they'd been battle tested at larger tech companies was part of what I was able to do to help them.
(deleting, because now my comment is getting pasted all over the Internet, and though it was not to my knowledge misleading, it didn't actually provide any useful information)
It's not entirely clear to me why gig-workers would choose to receive compensation via equity (at least from the contents of this article).

For a W-2 employee, it's appealing to have a share price locked in - when Amazon is worth 3x what it was when an employee started, the value of their stock comp goes up 3x.

Will gig workers similarly see some sort of locked in share price to really see the value from this sort of structure?
Carcinization
I thought about it, but one-time payments always have this problem that you need to come up with upgrades to keep the bills paid. And upgrades are in many aspects bad for users and for creators. For upgrades you need to 'save up' features and you need to come up with flashy ones, because bug fixes and improvements are not an incentive to upgrade for many...
How'd you like Amazon?

I have a good friend who worked there during the 90s and wrote a shitload of the backend ordering system. She went on to work at Google as Director of Site Reliability Engineering.

She has since moved on from that.
> This statement makes me think... how come the TS compiler is not using something like a hash/map (object) of union members to basically ignore redundancy?

The trouble is the operation isn't "is X a member of Y", rather it's "does X match any values of Y according to predicate P."

You can break that out if you have knowledge of possible X's and P, as is the case with type matching.

Say we are checking G[] against {str, "foo literal", int[]}. I have no idea how TS implements these internally, but say the underlying type expressions are:

[{head: String},
{head: String, constraint:"foo literal"},
{head: Array, element:{head: Integer}}]

And G[] is {head:Array, element: {head: Generic, name: "G"}}.

We could reasonably require that heads are all simple values, and then group types as such:

{String: [{head: String},
{head: String, constraint:"foo literal"}],
Array: [{head: Array, element: {head: Integer}}]}

You'd still have to try to match that generic parameter against all the possible Arrays, but you could add more levels of hashing.

The downside is, of course, it's quite tricky to group types like this and prove that it returns the same results as checking all pairs, especially when you have a complex type system.
Rust's popularity really is an incredible phenomenon. Amazon positioning itself as a big user and supporter of Rust is just good business. They do not want someone to appear more of a friend to Rust than they are.
Ya, but the ranking don't really matter, the usage does. It's possible Java grew year over year and yet lost rank.
The Philosophical Implications of the Four-Color Problem (1980) [pdf]
firefox, android 9

EDIT: nevermind I'm an idiot, the first page fits my screen, theres nothing to scroll.

I'm not sure why I was convinced it was broke. Maybe so used to typical page footers that I assumed there was more?
I guess you could compile a binary that is exclusively x86_64h, but Apple silicon won't load it anyways so…
I always appreciate alternatives to using an arithmetic mean.
Advanced REST Client works fine for me.
I get what you mean, but you're basically complaining about UX. The guy was talking about radical minimalism. Not sure killing pagination is under the radical minimalism category...
The "online" part is the inherent problem because suddenly every user has access to 10,000 other users, which creates problems for both sides.
When you have people meeting irl, they are meeting far less new people at a given time so they put more effort into each interaction, making dating more pleasant.
> But to buy bitcoin for tether, you first need someone to sell bitcoin for tether. And this guy then has tether. What is he going to do with the tether?

He may not have an off-ramp (which means he can only sell the Tether to someone else, either directly or using cryptos as a bridge). He might be a crypto trader or even trader of other kind of merchandise and need the liquidity provided by Tether (which is for all purposes, "real" as long as the entire thing doesn't collapse)

Majority of the USDT volume come from SE Asia where countries often have strict capital control, and in these situations USDT or cryptos do provided utility by allowing people to circumvent the capital control. That's also why there's a crackdown of crypto OTC desks in China reported a few weeks ago.
Crickets are the selling point.

Lab based foods are coming soon and are more the disruption, but there's still time to create businesses.
It seems clear to me that the problem lies, at least in large part, with our business model. If you write a thought-provoking article that people read, reflect on, think back on numerous times during the next few weeks, etc. it does not get you as much money as if you write five clickbait articles a day.

If we were paying people based on the articles they write, that we read, which a week later we were still glad we read, the emphasis would be very different.
> Just replaced scrollock to pause to be identical as your case.

I noticed.

> You need xWindows to count chars ? Noice :)

Tell me, oh Windows master, your superior spaceship ways of counting characters.
I don’t see any benefit to the customer on this page
Ah, if it's about faster promotions, I can be only happy that my pay was rising acceptably throughout years of using strategy #1. I briefly tried strategy #2 but it was a near-instant burnout for me, hence decidedly not a "pleasant work experience".
>wires

and dongles. It's IOS device after all.
I love that companies think this is the answer to the discoverability problem of voice commands.

It's either repeating yourself ad nauseam to get the response you want or this crap.
Doesn't this have something to do with priority given to freight rail in the US?
our climate situation fits pretty much perfectly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons. given that, i see no way forward other than a coordinated policy change world-wide (otherwise everybody who can count money will move their polluting assets to places which don't accept the policy).

the one way we could sort of proceed is to make being climate-friendly have financial sense. this is the job of taxes and incentives, i.e. regulations. people with money hate changing regulations that got them money and they have money to prevent changing these regulations. countries without money look at countries with money and ask why they have to suffer if those guys could pollute how much they wanted and got rich in the process. the challenge to get a compromise here is unprecedented and the clock is merciless.
> thread about not transferring files like an animal

> suggests smb

:/
I remember many years ago, that Microsoft was introducing features like this into Sharepoint.

I think it made it into Beta 1.

There was a lot of people who did not like the idea and it was not in the release version (at least not advertised if it was in there.

I wonder how long MS has worked on frameworks like these
I wouldn't go so far as to call Minecraft educational, but it certainly can teach things. It's probably taught the utility of logic gates to at least a few kids. The comparison to Lego seems apt. Most will probably just build houses or spaceships, but some with the aptitude will start building differentials or digital calculators.
> the largest software engineering organizations in the world are already using Rust.

That doesn't mean much because it is true for probably most serious technologies out there. Most of those organizations also have a perl script somewhere. Does that mean their core products are written in perl? Nope.

That being said, Rust is certainly successful and seeing growing adoption.
That's one thing I've always wondered about with the vinyl scene. My dad's an audio enthusiast, and he once told me that when my mom and he had 2 incomes and no kids yet he bought a diamond tip for his record player for hundreds of dollars.

So that's a crazy thing that the thing that would make your record have the best audio quality, will also just rip into your record so bad it will probably also immediately be the last time you could listen to it at that quality.

He swapped his collection to CD's the second that became a reasonable option.
It's fine if it matters. What isn't fine it's if it's unverifiable.
Don't forget that CPT is also a massive money maker and completely proprietary. Want to do open research to improve patient care and health and use CPT codes? Probably not going to happen [1].

1. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/cpt/ama-cpt-lic...
Thanks. This looks slick and ahead of its time. GUI development has also been a bit messy or heavy and I wish we had easier solutions nowadays.