skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulation can help. If we regulate though, perhaps we should ban the CPG industry as it stands. Look for example at how Australia has forced cigarettes to be sold in blank packages. Remove the marketing element from packaging, and have the supply chain utilize larger, shared, reuseable storage containers for larger quantities of currently individually packaged items. Force the collection of goods in customer-owned reusable packages. Many places already do it at the level of banning or charging for plastic bags and banning low grade/thin/single use plastic bags. We should apply the same thinking to single use packaging in general and request that people BYO packaging for all bulk items.

ie. Don't just remove custom plastics, or move to the lesser option of recycling, rather remove the vast majority of single use plastics in the consumer supply chain and simultaneously reduce the effect of retail packaging advertising on consumer behavior to force a real change.

PS. I don't think a courageous change on this level is ever likely to occur in the west (well, perhaps Europe?). I think it is far more likely to occur in China.
I've had in-database machine learning, and I'll always pick a stupid datastore over a "smart one" that comes with a fixed set of tools.

Because eventually the smart datastore is just an unperformant dumb one.
I know, but only a decade before. The idea of revolution was around. E.g. the plot synopsis for the novel on wikipedia says "Leonid, the narrator and protagonist of the story, is a Bolshevik revolutionary and mathematician living in St. Petersburg."
>Slack, Outlook in Office 365, Jira, and Zendesk are the goto tools

Add long-form writing in there. One of the most important things is alignment so everyone knows what they're doing and why they're doing it. This helps people become independent, make their own decisions, and take actions.

Upstream emails that align everyone across several functions, skillsets, and abstraction levels prevent many small interactions and ambiguities downstream, effectively leveraging your time.

Explaining the objectives at a high level in terms everyone understands, then going incrementally deeper to tie these objectives to specific actions of the relevant people.

Tying revenue to scalability to spinning up Kubernetes nodes to an open issue to a line in a particular file that should be changed is a journey across abstraction levels.

This is our current state, this is our desired state, this is the gap between the two, and we haven't crossed that gap because X, Y, and Z. This is what we'll do to solve that, cross that gap, and go from our current state to our desired state.

Writing down these things exposes thought processes and rationale. It allows people to chime in at the abstraction level they prefer to augment, correct, poke holes, shed light on blind spots, and question assumptions in these thought processes. It also enables everyone to be on the same wavelength.

The above "tying" thread allows an advisor to comment, a CEO to comment, a designer to comment, a developer to comment, and a domain expert to comment. Each one of them has a place they can "hook" into.

How many conversations/requests/Slack direct messages/phone calls does this prevent?

I replied yesterday to someone asking about what they can do to understand and monitor product usage and drive development[0]. I wrote a bit about this in an "index" reply[1], and wrote about dealing with clients to develop custom machine learning products (mid six-figure projects) in a twitter thread[2].

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270028

- [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244246

- [2]: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...
It is certainly the case that tech workers are not exploited in the same manner as 19th century factory workers. But that doesn't mean people shouldn't seek even better conditions. Google made 34B in net income in 2019. That's like $340,000 per employee. Clearly it would be possible for the workers to capture even more of the value that they create.
Indeed you are right, it's true for almost any country in the world. Knowing the local language is a huge plus everywhere!
Twitter thread links to https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdpdm/ice-dhs-fbi-location-...
It's not GitHub who stole the code, it's a GitHub user who published it there against the licensing terms.

While I do share the author's frustration with the fact that GitHub does zero fact checking, my concerns go entirely in the other direction: much of the internet now works in such a way that a DMCA takedown notice will effectively remove any content someone doesn't want out there.

I do understand why platforms do it like this, being in the business of arbitrating who is right and who is not is not feasible (and it's probably also not legal).

Criticisms of this process should be levied against lawmakers and the law itself.

However, to be perfectly frank, it's a good thing that hiring a lawyer to send this letter on your behalf is the minimum effort required to do this. Of course that doesn't solve malicious takedown notices sent by big law firms and corporations, but I do believe it limits the overall amount of letters that get sent.
And if GitHub required a person who posted code legitimately and was subject to vexatious interference from fake copyright claims to hire a lawyer, it would cost that person money.

Safe harbor doesn't give much guidance to hosting companies about who needs to hire the lawyer, other than to note that if they try to practice law by adjudicating these cases themselves, they're on the hook to hire the lawyer.
They can take the case pro-bono.
Tired of Social Media Rat Race, Journalists Move to Writing Substack Newsletters
Exactly, they want cattle, not pets.
Sadly, this is corporate America these days. We are living in the Cyberpunk future where corporations have the upper hand and are not required to provide an actual reasonable human to investigate or pass judgement on your issue. You see it with the algos that run user interfacing parts of Youtube, Facebook regularly.

It's messed up. I'm sorry your code got stolen.
Thanks.

Do you still see ways/options leading to that 'perfect world' scenario? Or does that seem unrealistic for years to come given the current situation?
In many cases that's a function of food safety regulations, re: minimizing bacteria growth on the food while traveling though the logistics chain.
Suicide prevention workers I know are WELL AWARE that US emergency services (police, ambulance) only have one tool available to them -- grabbing and restraining the subject. And they're very much aware of the disadvantages of that. So they avoid calling the cops whenever they can.

To say callers to hotlines are "very likely" to be grabbed is incorrect. Seriously.
Nice, adding your own comments AND tags is helpful to know whether to open the article or not.

Suggestions:

* Clickable tags to see all articles that qualify for that tag (or a general search feature like https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/)

* Option to subscribe once a week/month instead of 4 times a week.
Didn't the double-your-crypto scam last july also bypass 2FA?
The whole tone of it was corny, even for the standards of the time. But there is a subtext in it worth commenting on. Once you agree to engage on the level of a "serious" discussion in an existential power struggle with committed ideologues, like Reagan and the soviets, you've given key ground.

Even (especially?) communists will tell you the soviet ideology wasn't communism. The soviet state was totalitarian, which is essentially defined by the object against which it constantly militates, which is truth in all and any form. The total war on any truth that could allow for an island of private individual identity in opposition to the movement is the sufficient and necessary condition for the totalitarian urge (Arendt, etc.). What made Reagan the oddly ideal person to respond to that movement was it was his cowboy-actor personal boundaries that were anathema to the uncertainty on which the soviet mentality depended and cultivated in people. It was a unique situation.

Obama had a similar "openness," I think, which was not what most people think at all, but rather complete confidence in the boundary between himself and others that enabled him to seem open to any and all circumstances. Reality is nobody ever gets close enough to see the heat and steel behind it.
Comparably, Bill Clinton even had more sharp edges than Obama.

Maybe the 80's were just this corny, but the briefing note has some tells of very polished people code switching to what they understood only from the outside as Reagan's aw-shucks earnestness.
MAX is a lot more efficient than the old NGs or classics (and can also do routes of 757s or 767s if they are thin enough). In a time of reduced demand airlines would prefer to park their more fuel-hungry planes and use the more efficient ones. But they can't because it's grounded.

And now there are airlines failing left and right with their planes going on the second hand market, back to lessors or are gutted for parts. That's depressing the price of airplanes and spare parts. That can't be good for Boeing either. Would you buy a 15% more efficient car for twice as much?
In general it is is not true that Argon2 should be recommended over bcrypt. Even even some of the people on the experts panel for the PHC (where Argon2 won) won’t recommend Argon2 over Bcrypt: https://twitter.com/TerahashCorp/status/1155129705034653698

Looks like for the typical case (~200ms calculating the hash) bcrypt beats argon2. I guess that’s what I understand from those discussions, I’m not an expert by any means. It is related with cache hardness: https://twitter.com/Sc00bzT/status/1149963675069026304
This kinda misrepresents the DMCA process.

You do not have to hire a lawyer, you only have to start a lawsuit over the case.

a default in your favor because he failed to respond is likely how that process would go, otherwise he has to identify himself and you suddenly regain the option of suing for fees

side-edit: Ironically enough, if he had gone open source, he could get free legal help dmca'ing the repo in court for the removal of the copyright messages from the Software Freedom Law Center.
Yeah, and I think you can even take the argument further. 14-year olds with little innate quantitative reasoning ability can be quite facile in Unity3D. And then the point is not how to teach introductory CS concepts. But rather how can they express themselves in 3D, VR, AR, etc. As digital natives, who have grown up with interactive entertainment, they grok the communicative power of new media much more readily than even their instructors might. And the outcome is that they are able to express their truths to their peers with a global reach that really was inconceivable back in Cynthia Solomon's time ;)

This Unity course provides a glimpse:

Real-Time Animated Storytelling

https://learn.unity.com/course/real-time-animated-storytelli...
Title is some click-bait, github didn’t stole your code, somebody else did and posted it at github.

You will have to fill DMCA and if they don’t take it down then claim github stole it.
Why Slack Agreed to Get Acquired by Salesforce?
Is there an email address I can reach out to ?
Or carnauba wax (which is already used in some foods).
My solution to this issue to to hire only former C/C++ video game developers for non-video game software development. Their attention to performance is innate, their attention to critical obscure details is innate, and their desire to write code they are proud is innate. Plus they come with advanced, useful math knowledge. I love former game developers because they did the pop culture dev job, saw it was exploitation, and took their incredibly optimized skills elsewhere.
I believe the US law defining what "organic pesticides" are is here:

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=9874504b6f1...

I'm not sure what the industry standard for something being a "pesticide" is, but there are clearly plenty of tools organic farms can use for pest control. It would be an undertaking to figure out the potential health and sustainability ramifications of all of them (and of course, the label "organic" could encompass the use of any or all of them).
"Dao" here is probably not a reference to Daoism, but to "decentralised autonomous organisations".

Most often this is just a cyberpunky way of trying to avoid either tax or legal liability, but I'm not sure that either necessarily apply here. It would be interesting to know how the project is structured and funded.
Jeff Dean isn't just someone from advanced AI research. He's one of the longest time Google employees and a key part of the company's success. He's one of the chief engineers behind MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, the re-awakening of neural network research and many other incredible achievements. At one point inside Google there was a website called "Jeff Dean Facts" similar to the Chuck Norris facts. The guys reputation is out of this world.

He's also a rather mild mannered and very nice man. When I worked there I never heard anyone say anything bad about Dean. He rarely expressed strong opinions even on engineering topics; the sort of guy who prefers to win debates by simply coding up the best solution.

The name Timnit Gebru also rings bells for me. Last time this name came up she was busy chasing Yann LeCun off Twitter with pitchforks. LeCun! One of the other major luminaries of AI research. In fact she stirred up so much trouble and made so many outrageous accusations he quit Twitter altogether. She appears to be a serious troublemaker, far more interested in identity politics than AI. She was an embarrassment to Google before and it's good for them they finally canned her, but seriously, why did it take this long? And who will hire her next? I'm sure someone will be dumb enough to do that but hardly any companies have openings for "ethical AI researchers", and she already burned her bridges at Facebook.
I'm not precisely sure why original author blames "corporate internet" here. Mr-Steal-Your-Script likely shared it to GitHub because that's convenient, but in the absence of a GitHub, they would post it to their own server, ignore his requests to take it down, and he'd be in the same boat he's in now: hire a lawyer to attempt to assert his rights.

The underlying principle---legal representation costs money even if you're in the right---would still hold.
Why does that seem impossible?
Reminds me of Ben Eater's Youtube videos where he builds everything using basic gates on a breadboard. He made a video-card using ICs on a breadboard that fascinated me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs
> Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt.

Use argon2. Use argon2. Use argon2. Use argon2. Use argon2. Use argon2. Use argon2. Use argon2. Use argon2.

https://github.com/P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2
Alternatively it might lead to centralized forums hosted from countries who are not bothered about the liability stuff. China etc.
I think you'll be interested in Simon De Montfort, although not technically a king. His image is enshrined on the ceiling at the Capitol in Washington
The user’s name is Mr Steal Your Script.

The right approach in this case is not to waste money on a lawyer (or expect some lawyer to work pro Bono).

The right approach is to post about it publicly and bring shame upon GitHub for being the literal jar or of a Mr Steal Your Script. is
Honestly, dealing with these types of clients is why I stopped freelancing/consulting full-time. It's just so mentally exhausting to go through the "I need something affordable, I mean I don't want to pay $800 for an app or something crazy!" (actual quote) even when you qualify them early.
A world where the true author of software(or anything) can't get it taken down when it has been stolen isn't great.

Company's should be held responsible. If you are allowing a vehicle for theft, you need to have reasonable anti-theft procedures in place. We can't let corporations deny their own responsibility here.
the biggest pain i've got with my postgres instances is upgrading them, and that's without pretty much any storage backend extensions. i imagine using any extension is only going to make it harder to do.
Can someone explain to me why we have so many front-end frameworks?
Paul Stamets received an Invention Ambassador (2014-2015) award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The character Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets on the CBS series Star Trek: Discovery was named after the real Stamets. The fictional version is an astromycologist and the chief engineer of the USS Discovery, and is credited with discovering a mycelial network that powers an advanced spore drive.

Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets
Coffee is cheaper and has the same effect.
Github didn’t steal anything. Some random person downloaded the code and posted it on github without its copyright notice. And Github’s DMCA takedown process is pretty much the same as everybody else’s.

This is an unhappy story, but really, how would you like things to work? Github isn’t in the business of adjudicating copyright ownership, nor should it be.
27 years ago, we can infer based on trends at the time that it would have been frozen at day 3 (vs day 5 which is more common now depending on the clinic).

It may be at the morula stage of embryonic development.
What appears to be missing from this discussion is that renewables are not enough:

>Our hardest climate problems – the ones that are both large and lack obvious solutions – are agriculture (and deforestation – its major side effect) and industry. Together these are 45% of global carbon emissions. And solutions are scarce.

>Agriculture and land use account for 24% of all human emissions. That’s nearly as much as electricity, and twice as much all the world’s passenger cars combined.

>Industry – steel, cement, and manufacturing – account for 21% of human emissions – one and a half times as much as all the world’s cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes combined.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/how-to-decarbonize-america...

We need to start putting just as much research effort into these areas as went into renewables.
Great movie, I've also watched it last month. Its focused on Paul Stamets (the same scientist mentioned in the article)
Try reading the title again. He never asserts that Github stole his code, neither in the title, nor elsewhere.
2020 is the year that will forever changed us all. It forced us to slow down, give up things whether we like it or not, and despite our best wishes and prayers for things to go back to normal, I think we all slowly realized with each passing month that we might not ever fully return to the way things were before.
I just had the pleasure of optimizing a video subsystem startup from 44 seconds to just under 2 seconds. I expect to get down to 200 ms by end of day. I love optimization.
TimescaleDB inherits from Postgres a rich role-based access control, so all requests require permissions and roles can be enforced at various levels (database, schema, table, or even rows) and privileges (SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, CREATE, etc).

Authentication to the database is typically governed to different security mechanisms, including certificate-based auth, password via SSL, etc.
Hurricane Mitch turned the Choluteca Bridge into a completely new path
(This is replying to both your comment and its parent comment.)

I sometimes run into that kind of behavior, especially when my first impression is my looks rather than my voice. But then I think of it like this: they probably have to deal with many foreign customers, "most" of whom cannot speak Japanese. Or they might not have been exposed to many foreigners that they know there are foreigners who can speak Japanese.

At the same time, Japanese society puts consideration for others at one of the higher priorities when interacting with people, and is seen everywhere and highly evaluated by many.

So it feels natural for the person to assume that I, as another one of those foreign people, most likely cannot speak Japanese. Also, they could try speaking to me in Japanese, but it'd be inconsiderate of them if I didn't know Japanese. So many a time the default, and very likely considerate route out is broken English to the best of their abilities.

I know this makes people like us who do know the language a bit bad, but then again, we're still a minority so I wouldn't read too much into it. :)

Of course, if the person in question knows you know Japanese, yet keeps talking to you in English, then it might be better to assume something is not right. :)
Can you stop criticising people's intelligence when replying to them? You've done that a couple of times in these comments (hypothetically or not). "If you can't understand/don't agree, maybe you're just stupid" is rude and a bad look.
> GitHub apparently follows this process exactly--without any deviation. GitHub does zero investigation to determine who is in the right--even in a case as obvious as this. Mr-Steal-Your-Script's user name alone should be enough to let GitHub know who owns the code. During this entire process, GitHub communicated with me entirely by computer-generated responses. I never had an opportunity to explain the situation to an actual human being. So, if I wish to pursue this matter further, it seems that I have no choice but to hire a lawyer.

So GitHub follows the legal process set out for hosting services? Umm, yeah. No shit. They're doing exactly what they're supposed to.

> I do not even have the option of suing Mr-Steal-Your-Script to pay my lawyer's fees, because he is anonymous. As blatant as his theft was, I have to assume that he has covered his tracks well enough to remain anonymous.

GitHub should have provided you with his counter-notice including contact information. If they've accepted a clearly invalid counter-notice then you can sue them.

Otherwise, yeah, this guy has posted a copy of your code, and the only way to take it down is to sue him. That's how copyright infringement usually works - it'd be the same if he were hosting it in ISP-provided webspace, or his own personal site, or printed it out on a physical billboard he owns. I don't know why you see this as being about "the Corporate Internet" at all.
> If I want a managed service, I _want_ to pay for that. The price includes people responding to pages and fixing problems, as well as fiddling with configs.

Is this not what S3 is? You are free to use Elasticsearch and handle everything yourself, but if you want a managed service, you can use AWS. They are "attacking" the S3 offering, I still struggle to see any difference with them hosting Postgres.

> And I'd much rather be paying that money to a small (relatively) open-source company than a behemoth like AWS.

I am 100% with you on this, I do not want to defend AWS nor do I want to promote their products. The vendor lock-in situation you are in when using AWS is pretty bad and quite scary... An yes, I agree that the way they monetize open-source software is questionable.
Go read the article
If anyone would like to know, may I add that Predictive linguistics (PL) is an emerging discipline that studies the interrelation between linguistic markers and action considered as an intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful activity.
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It's a buzzword, but that doesn't mean that what people think of as "organic" - in the good sense - doesn't exist. I'm sure you didn't mean it, but your comment gives the impression that all "organic" food is a shame. There are plenty of sustainable farms that don't use harmful pesticides. It's unfortunate the word has become what it has, but it's not a catch-all one way or the other.
Leopold Kohr described this clearly, mainly in "The Breakdown of Nations".
JRR Tolkien's House for Sale