skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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... then, at least trim the Google part (the main issue here is Google collecting data, but there are also people here that simply hate AMP). The page will still load as AMP in this instance, and it is as simple as deleting the "www.google.com/amp/s" like this: https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2980KA
Do they need a lobbist? It would be such a wonderful turn of events to be able to lobby for google employees rather than just the entity.
"Impartial" courts are one myth those in the UK still believe in.
Governmental sites should have everything self-hosted.

No Google Analytics, no CDN, no nothing.

Just like they shouldn't have presence in Private Social Media Networks. But that's my opinion.
I apologize. I think I was remembering this passage incorrectly.

"And there, the Finnish capital is fortunate. Helsinki owns 60,000 social housing units; one in seven residents live in city-owned housing. It also owns 70% of the land within the city limits, runs its own construction company, and has a current target of building 7,000 more new homes – of all categories – a year"

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...

70% of land is not 70% of housing.
250 that we know of.
You can’t seriously expect intelligence gatherers to disclose something like that to the general public. It would become worthless. They’d never be able to use it again.
How much of manufacturing output growth was driven by the boom in the oil/gas industry? People hear manufacturing and think electronics or cars, but petroleum and coal was 2x the size of the auto manufacturing last time I looked.
> They do use the Lidar data in the viewer.

Oh wow, you're right, I just tried it out. But it's so blocky and apparently limited to (mostly) 90° geometry, that I'd never realized Google was doing anything but modeling a one-size-fits-all "rectangular corridor" along each street.

It seems like it's not exposing any kind of raw Lidar data, but a very simple geometric simplification of it. (E.g. trees are either ignored completely, or if there are enough of them they're treated as the side of a building instead.)

I completely understand what you're saying about the problems with smearing and warping due to not enough data. But I still can't help but wonder what it would look like if they were able to generate a "raw" (but denoised) Lidar geometry, so that trees and cars were treated as individual objects, rather than just either as part of the street floor or part of the building walls they way they are now.
Since the linked website is under siege, here's something else related to look at. I believe it's probably powered by the SpectraNet card. You can read about that here: https://www.bytedelight.com/?page_id=3515

The manual for it: https://www.bytedelight.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Spect...

Edit: It's now apparently using a ZeddyNet adapter instead of the SpectraNet. Info on that: https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=1771

Here's a wayback machine cached copy of a different Sinclair ZX-81 web server: https://web.archive.org/web/20190402161928/http://zx81-siggi...
This is a 24 minute Planet Money podcast named Fork the Government but the HN title has been changed to match the title in the HTML header. The show interviews two civic hackers [1] Howard Wu and Audrey Tang (Taiwan's Digital Minister) about the technical aspects of Taiwan's coronavirus response.

Taiwan has had a total of 815 cases and 7 deaths [2] in a population of 23 million.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_technology

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Taiwan
Oh, I forgot to mention that one of the cool features of Macintosh Common Lisp was its interactive assembler. You could write "LAP" ("Lisp Assembly Program") code in the repl, just like you could write Lisp code.

Around the time that MacFrames morphed into SK8, Apple hired an arcade-game programmer named Dave Vronay to work on the SK8 graphics subsystem. When I first met him, he was over the moon about MCL and how great it was to write assembly code in a repl and run it right now.
Same with India. They could maybe hide cases due to incompetence but news of deaths just cannot be hidden in a country as dense as India.
We're all responsible for our country
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>no CDN

Then the website would have burned to the ground during this announcement.
> "…but they don't accept Gmail addresses."

"Registration with @gmail.com addresses is blocked due to abuse, please register with another address. You can change it later, once signed up and verified."

However, apparently, you can register using a Google, Bitbucket or GitLab.com sign-in.
The UK was already a member of the EEA, ok it was by virtue of it's EU membership in the end, but the UK was a founder member. If the UK had decided that it wanted to maintain it when it left the EU I can't imagine who would have objected?
FYI: AWU is a no-contract (minority/solidarity/members) union. Their strategy for the foreseeable future will be pursuing precisely what you are describing here (organizing workers for walk-outs, without locking in a CBA).
To be fair, I would never count Taiwan as China, but I honestly don't know what

> They are not stupid, they know what's going on in China and they are not telling everybody else because they are worried of losing credibility as leaders.

means. The rest of the post is about Taiwan. Is the insinuation that the politicians know they controlled it better in Taiwan, the PRC, or both? Or is this about stuff in Xinjiang totally separate from quarantining?
At the moment, this is an active incident with response still going on. The attackers likely have persistence in multiple places in target networks.

Releasing attribution evidence right now will not happen as that would intrude on the response. Instead you will get signatures for specific pieces of malware or generalized yara rules to look for indicators of compromise. The specific indicator that allowed for attribution may never be released as then this particular adversary could work around it.

FireEye is a reputable security organization that is publicly traded. If they were lying and it was discovered as a company their business would go away rapidly and some of their executives might even go to prison. If you have legitimate evidence that casts doubt on their statements please share it. Finding something that significant would shake up the industry.

Attribution is most likely a combination of evidence and forensic data collected both from the initial breach (SolarWinds) and other breached entities. Things like how data was exfiltrated and to where to who purchased and setup the domain names, any other malware that was loaded (was it signed, compiled, contain a certificate, etc).

While Snowden did reveal interesting things, there is zero basis to support anything other than a Russian state actor at this time.
Kelsey Hightower comes to mind.

In general, I try to avoid Twitter though because the software community there is very self-congratulatory and a bit toxic elitist. Not to mention if you aren't a front-end dev good luck being treated like you are a real engineer.
If tomorrow NovemberWhiskey was arrested and found incontrovertibly guilty of hacking a military network, you don't think it's even slightly reasonable that you might also end up on the stand after that comment?
Amazon KDP is Easy. Make a journal or book.

Search for Anthony David Adams on books on Amazon and you’ll see a bunch of mine I’ve done for fun.

Makes a couple grand a year with no work.
I think it's unethical to use shared resources for personal gain. If you are using substantially more "free" water to make money, that seems to be an abuse of the system and you are making money at the tax payer expense.

Using drinkable water for other activities may not be a "an inarguably unethical activity" by itself. There are areas where water scarcity is not an issue and there may not be any demand for export from those areas.
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>Keep your current contract and don't have a say in Union representation and negotiation, if that's what you want.

Union contracts with the company typically bar the company from keeping or entering contracts with non-union workers that have different terms from those of the union.

In many (23) US states, when a union forms at a workplace, it can compel all non-union workers to pay fees to the union, weather they want to join or not.

I think most US workers would be for unions if they were presented as you described, where you can choose between different options or working without a union.
When you say “remote possible”, are you open to Europe based candidates or only US based?
I dont think its double, its more like 1.6
General statistics on site usage would be interesting. But what about all the other data that could be extracted, both on a personal and national level?

You could, for example, determine which areas are more likely to access HIV information on the NHS website. Insurance companies would like that but would it benefit the public or be in line with people's basic privacy expectations for government services?

(I'm sure Google claim that they won't add a user looking at cancer information on the NHS site to their data profile but I wonder what other insights could be generated.)
Another possibly interesting comparison would be with Black Sabbath. That band is responsible for a lot of groundbreaking and beautiful music, but they're are also associated with "heavy metal", which makes them absurd in most people's eyes AFAIK, sadly tainting the perception of Black Sabbath's music.

On the other hand, can you really blame anyone for making fun of the metal steretypes they let themselves be pigeonholed into? Their reputation isn't even an accident, it's connected with their target audience, giving them their niche. Arguably their music was even influential in creating the "metal" culture.

The takeaway here could be that there are usually different angles from which it is possible to appreciate (pop) culture, and it's stupid to let one aspect taint another, but also that there's no point in pretending an aspect doesn't exist or treating it with excessive respect (i.e., making a fuss about people joking about it).

EDIT: another relevant subject here is whether there should be subjects one can't joke with. I think I would like it if nothing was off-limits to jokes (even though I'm not especially funny). E.g., I'm pretty sure September 11 is sacrosanct in USA in this regard, and there are other subjects joking about which could get many a person quite uncomfortable, like child molestation, rape, murder, suicide, etc.

I myself sometimes get quite uncomfortable when I hear jokes about Holocaust and Jews, but the real issue there is not the jokes, the jokes are just a symptom of societal issues which should make one uncomfortable. I don't know what's the best way to deal with those issues, but I'm sure that making those jokes taboo is precisely what gives them a certain attractiveness and power.
Yes, and that's exactly what's happening right now, that's why Bitcoin price rose from 10k to 32k USD since September. Music is going to stop soon, and people are desperately looking for chairs to sit on.
List of open source libraries Minecraft uses
> It used to be KDE's file manager and web browser all in one app.

It goes further than that. It's pretty much everything in one app. KIOs accesses stuff and KParts shows it. Since many applications expose their functionality using those, it can show whatever content they support and browse it as a filesystem when it's possible.

Web browsing is just KIO doing http and a KPart showing the page. File management is just the file (or smb or sftp or whatever) KIO and the Dolphin KPart. The Kate KPart is used in both cases to either view local text files or web pages source.

But there are others and you can do any combination, including some cool ones.

You can go to man:// or info:// to view man/info pages.

The Akonadi KIO from the PIM suite can be used to browse remote mail or calendar accounts and extract data.

It even used to be possible to use magnet links in HTML (like in <video src="magnet:...">) with kio-magnet or to browse mysql databases and use applications to edit content in cells with libferris, although I don't think those are currently maintained.
ECC is required on mission critical hardware.

I have spent 36 years fielding embedded devices in core network (D1/E1, SONET, ROADM/MPLS, Cellular basestation) and I will tell you that large ECC covered memory arrays always show small numbers of correctable error events over the course of a year. I have seen, over the course of my career, exactly one controller card replaced early in the field, because it started throwing excessive recoverable ECC events over time, until it hit a threshold of 10x the average of a typical board. On the order of ten recoverable ECC events per month instead of one event per month. I have never observed a logged non-correctable ECC event in the field. In the lab, yes, but never in fielded equipment.

If you are fine with your PC experiencing one or two bits flipped in memory every month, then you really don't need ECC. That is the question you need to answer.

For mission critical systems? ECC is a requirement.
So many in this thread talking about a contract, rigidity, voting, etc. This is not a card-signing campaign, nobody will be voting on a CBA. AWU is running a minority unionism campaign which means that it's closer to a lobbying group or non-profit than eg. your standard public teachers' union.
If this were strongly labeled, and consumers knowingly chose to become guinea pigs, that would be acceptable. Of course, we know that isn't how things work--at least in the US anyway.
I think what companies really want is manufacturing as a service, much like cloud computing economics but for physical goods manufacturing. They want the ability to scale without building their own infrastructure, they don't want to deal with the personnel, they want to be able to lock-in only the capacity they know they will use and get a discount. The problem is that unlike cloud computing which can automatically scale, manufacturing as a service is all about people. You have to remove people from the equation to the point that the only people are debugging the machines.
Personally, I'd love to see these reports include annual data on the number/percentage of repositories with an open source license, and a breakdown of which licenses are most common. There was a post to that effect on the Github blog in 2015 [1], but it looks like it was a one-time deal. I think it would fit well into the Community Report data, and provide a pretty useful view into the actual state of free and open-source licensing.

[1] https://github.blog/2015-03-09-open-source-license-usage-on-...
Interesting. It's not an https link. Did it redirect somewhere for you when it was working?

Edit: Ahh, I see. You do get a page if you change http to https in the link. It appears to be the login page for a Ubiquiti router, where "self signed+ login" would be pretty normal.
> It is indeed a problem. There are ways to address it.

Please make a specific suggestion.
Video of Mark talking about his process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0
> Similarly, the market seems to show that Biden's increase in corporate/wealth tax will become a reality at a time when the market desperately needs lower taxes and less punishment for the wealthy.

Huh? The savings rate for the rich zooming coworkers from the hamptons is huge. Yes, pursue counter-cyclic policies, but given the rich people unable to consume services as before, raising taxes on them is hardly pro-cyclic.
Are there any industries that have unions that don’t require a credential, certification, degree, or license?
I live in Israel
I prefer to work in the office but have a remote set-up now.
I really enjoy living in Israel but because of current work situation I may be open to relocation.

I'm a react / react - native front end focused full stack with 3-4 years of experience in the industry I have experience working on some very fast paced applications using a lot of cpu and some more complicated slower applications, full resume on request.

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>It's bizarre how Americans celebrate ruthlessly competitive markets when workers compete against each other for food, shelter and medical care. But it's a cultural taboo to use those same competitive market forces for the benefit of workers.

yep. Class consciousness exists in the US, but predominantly among billionaires and celebrities.
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I never found mine very comfortable, in fact it was worse than every cheap saddle that came with my bikes.
"We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus," Dr. David Nabarro (World Health Orginization).

You can find multiple articles that quote this from the WHO and link to the full 1 hour interview with the Spectator. The full interview goes on further to talk about how continued lockdowns will lead to move poverty and devastation.

There's also this study that tears apart the models used by many:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.22.20160341v...

Also you know that 2-million Neil Ferguson model? Here's the source code for it. It's disastrous: non-reproducible results and 3 different random seeds. They literally ran it multiple times and took averages (with ranges of fatalities varying by up to 60k). Also it has race conditions and can't be run in parallel. Fucking mess:

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/e8f7864ad150f40022...

As far as independent journalists that give you a different point of view:

James Corbett (who covers the origin of the lockdown policy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuDQ_3g53qc

Ben Shapiro makes an excellent case as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymD9ipSm-eg
The potential for harassment is endless if you have the money. Even if you're fairly accessing the value of your house (and good luck doing this as a normal person), a rich person can buy it anyway and force you to move. They can do this over and over if they want.

Actually, it would be a good deal for landlords. They buy the house then offer to let the people rent it back. No need to deal with flaky tenants, these would be people in their family home. Would be a good place to park money from overseas that you're trying to hide too, solves the problem of the empty downtown condos because people hiding money don't really want to be landlords.

This is one of those systems economists think up that would be perfectly efficient so long as nobody is an asshole or irrational. About as useful as a horse race modeled as a set of identical spheres in perfect harmonic motion.
Why not join now and help steer the union away from that future?
The Power and Potential of Ray for Distributed Computing (Python)
What I’d like to share with you in the next few sections is an example of code that was difficult to parallelize, but which Ray makes easy to parallelize. Two relatively straightforward refactors led to to a 60% improvement in performance on my local machine, and a 15x performance improvement in the cloud.
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Wow, I had no idea recidivism in Norway was that high. I expected something like 5%.

Basically 1 in 5 ex convicts return to crime.
White collar unionized workers have higher compensation than their non-union counterparts. They also have better benefits and more time off.

But the single most important thing, to me, is that white collar union members report higher life satisfaction than their non-union peers.

> I never liked the mandatory nature of unions, either.

No one is forcing you to work a union job.
Only if you aren't delivering something. No one (sane) is delivering a lisp image as "The Product" without also having a way to regenerate that image. If you write something in the REPL and never convert it to a proper function/class/struct/package in source, you're hosed when your system reboots and that image is lost.

This requires no more discipline than, say, actually committing files to a version control system to collaborate with others. Versus shouting from the hills, "It works on my machine!" and being confused when it turns out that you didn't commit "foo.c" and compiled it manually rather than updating your Makefile and committing both changes so others could use it.