skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windscribe is a rather good VPN. I'm glad they're exposing some of the terrible practices in the review industry.
There was the Dallas shooting in 2015, murdering five and wounding many others
Managed infrastructure

Managed service
I presume you guys are in the US. In Europe, at least the parts where I live(d), most homeless indeed have drugs problems. There are social places where they can sleep, get clean, they help them with first steps of integration back, but its often tied to being clean from drugs. Many choose not to accept this.

Then for those who reject there is free drug dispensary & usage place, we talk about proper opiates like heroin, not some weak substitutes.

In our situation and location, the money isn't a solution for a beggar. Meal can be, ideally hot in the cold. Also, since we talk about Switzerland, people come from rest of Europe seasonally to beg and then go home to live off social services. Again, no reason to give money.
Because we can look at countries who have done bad and go, yeah we could be like US/UK with all their actual deaths.
I got the gold card. Super easy. Filled out a form online and uploaded my 2020 usa tax return proving my income. You don't even need a job lined up. 100x easier than moving to the USA.

It took about 4-5 hours of my time and 8 weeks of waiting for the government to approve it.

I got really lucky. I had a friend of a friend who I moved in with. He found his apartment through an agent who speaks English. Send me an email if you end up making the plunge and I'll connect you with our agent.

If you're considering a similar move: just do it. For real. It's not going to get any better any time soon internationally. It's easily the best decision I could have made. If you're worried about money either get a remote dev job or even just teach English here, there's a million schools around. It's incredibly cheap to live here compared to metro USA ($3000 USD/month gets you an upper class life, all in, including dining out, gym, drinks etc. You'll probably spend less than that if you even remotely budget). You can live a great life as a single person on even less than that.
That’s it? Expedia employs over 15000 software engineers, far more than anything else, and they aren’t a software company. Samsung has more software engineers than most tech companies have total employees and they aren’t a software company.
Or instead of answering my question people could just downvote me. I guess.

Legitimately curious here. "Download all my mail from the mail server" is something I do multiple times every day. I guess my workflow would be verboten in corporate environments? Is it really such an odd behavior that they have an automated check for this, and it isn't throwing false positives every hour? Or is this one of those things they tell you at the "onboarding" like "hey, you might download all your personal gmail via IMAP regularly, but don't do that with your corporate email account or you'll get a phone call from security".

Maybe I'm just out of touch with how corporate email works. It's been a decade since I was an employee of a publicly traded company.
If you want to change the way people see this problem, telling them to fuck off is probably not the best way of doing it.
I wonder why you’re being downvoted. Is it because it’s so accurate that it hurts or because it’s not?
They 100% do believe in objective reality. But they're being lied to by everyone they trust.

Look at the number of nurses refusing the vaccine. There aren't the only people having trouble discerning truth from fiction.

Recording yourself committing sedition is pretty dumb though...
It’s more than that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841660

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841283

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839697
“In this instance, yesterday our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts.”

If true, that is damning, and would demonstrate once again that being an “ethics researcher” does not mean that you are are any more ethical than the average person. It just means you are more interested in the subject.

As a side note, I wish this field was more interested in meta-ethics than it is in forcing machines to abide by the personal ethics of the humans involved.
That's the whole idea of CD: if you set up your project from the start so that deploys go to production, it changes the team culture and the way of working. People don't commit code without any tests (because it will break production!) and conversely don't stress over manually testing dozens of scenarios, some of which were "one-offs" that may become forgotten - it's "normal" that your code gets released, so the release is no longer a large, time-consuming and stressful event.

If you start with a project where code is brittle and there are no tests, it is indeed extremely hard and time consuming to move to CI/CD. Doesn't mean it's not a good idea, just that it won't be easy and it'll take time (you have to build the whole infrastructure of automated testing, canary deployments, etc. - but, it's a good idea to do that anyway! It'll gradually improve the velocity. The alternative is that you end up in a world where everybody is afraid of making changes and the simplest requirement ends up getting estimates like "3 months of work".
I think sending it to external accounts probably triggered this, there is no way this would not have raised a red flag in any company. I mean, Alphabet is the same company where a person took self driving documents with him to start a new company.

Hopefully, if it was just normal conversations and after identities had been redacted, their access is restored. Still, analysing this information on their work machine itself and then sending out a summary seems like a better course of action than this.
I think it will gradually increase as time went on.
At least in my jurisdiction (Norway), you install a car alarm because your insurance company still gives you a discount if you have an approved alarm installed.

The cheapest, approved alarm I could find for my beater (an old Land Cruiser) was approx. $200. That translated into a $80/annum discount.

Additionally, I leave the doors unlocked to save any would-be thief the trouble of breaking a window to gain entry. There's nothing valuable inside, anyway.
From your link:

> Can literally mean figuratively?

> One of the definitions of literally that we provide is "in effect, virtually—used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible." Some find this objectionable on the grounds that it is not the primary meaning of the word, "with the meaning of each individual word given exactly." However, this extended definition of literally is commonly used and is not quite the same meaning as figuratively ("with a meaning that is metaphorical rather than literal").

That seem to confirm my impression that "literally" is used to indicate exaggeration, rather than being figurative.

Edit: formatting the quote
Most Baofengs emit an illegal amount of spurious emissions[1]. Maybe you got lucky.

[1] https://observer.wunderwood.org/2020/02/07/baofeng-hts-and-s...
Same people buying his paintings.
I didn't realize how many pardons are handed out by presidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_gra...

Without passing any judgement on the validity of the pardons the sheer number of them surprised me.

Trump - 94 as of Dec 23, 2020 (going up obvs)

Obama - 1,927

Bush - 200

Clinton - 459

Bush Sr - 77

...

The most interesting one to me was President Ford pardoning President Nixon. TIL.
I understand the frustration, but please don't post flamewar comments to HN, and especially not nationalistic flamewar comments, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. These threads are already hellish enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> assertions that speech must be policed

You have never been guaranteed a venue on the internet. You have always punched your ticket on any platform - including the one that we're typing on now - by colouring within the lines of the powers that be. Sometimes the lines will change, and what was acceptable or tolerated is suddenly outside the window. Sometimes (most of the time?) these lines move for fairly cynical reasons.

Don't like it? Make your own platform or find one that's happy to host you. That's not censorship - that's internet culture. There are very few places on the internet that are committed to free speech absolutism - 4chan comes to mind, back in the day. Free speech absolutists are trying to assert the right to free speech absolutism on every platform which is a new thing, and disruptive, and not particularly useful.

I understand Parler is back up on non US servers. Good for them. Truly. I'm happy that they've found a place to have their discussions. I'm also happy that they've set up shop in a place that is fair game for the entire law enforcement and intelligence apparatus in case they try to plan more insurrections.
> Mammalian Aggression
mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants
Of course they could.
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Then it shouldn't be that weird, Ma overstepped with his speech and is carefully negotiating the minefield he's currently in. Alibaba stock rebounded ~5% since his showing. He'll slowly work his way back into public life as is customary for nature of his infraction. If CCP wanted to disappear him long term, there'd be predictable and fraud/corruption charges already laid.
All: this thread quickly degenerated into a hellish flamewar. Please don't post nationalistic flamewar comments to HN, and do not post cheap internet insinuations about astroturfing, brigading, shilling, spying, foreign agents and communist party operatives. If you're worried about abuse, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. You're not welcome to fill HN threads with fervid imaginations about commenters who have different views than you. HN is a big place and that's the very simple explanation for why not everyone agrees. I've posted about this many times, both about astroturfing in general and China-related topics in particular:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

There have been ugly mob behaviors on this site in the past, which have hounded people out of the community. Is that who you want to be? who we want to be? No it is not. Yet it happens all too easily, and the people doing it don't even realize that they're doing it—they just think they're righteously defending truth or freedom or the home team. If you don't want to be that way, then err on the side of respect, benefit of the doubt, and not jumping to predetermined conclusions. (If you do want to be that way, please find some other site to post to.)

We ban accounts that break these rules, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended. It has a very specific intended spirit and most of the people who've posted in this thread so far have been breaking it.
Simple: "Literally" is being used figuratively.
In general: if it’s on a corporate server, it’s not your email, it’s corporate IP.
Apple store must be offender as well as you can buy computer and that provides everything necessary to do X.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54277439
With this, suppose you want faster response than Disk, then every serverless function can have its own replica of data & power responses off of that. It is like a cache through sqlclient. But wait, can't we do that already running in memory SQLLite? why is it a big deal now?
Indeed, as always competition benefits the costumer
Those things are bad, and are worth thinking about, but right now we have more immediate concerns. AI systems are currently being used for bail eligibility, likelihood of recurrence, mortgage approval, and hiring. These are things that literally change people's lives on an individual level, and the systems being used are currently indecipherable black boxes that return a result with no possibility of meaningful appeal.

There's a sense of starting small - redlining is illegal. No company wants to redline - it cuts into their profits and dings their compliance scores. So they're willing to work with us. Once we get that right, then, maybe we can start dealing with the cases where there aren't millions of dollars of funding assisting with making the tech more ethical -- and then, cases where it may actually be working against the money.
> Taiwan's defenses can hold up against minor probing from China, nothing truly sustained.

It's the same for every small country bordering a potentially hostile much larger neighbor. Nobody excepts the small country to be able to withstand a full-scale invasion. The point is to make that invasion expensive enough to not be worth it.
“An interpreted language is a type of programming language for which there is an interpreter which runs over a virtual machine“

I get what you are trying to say but if (!) you use JVM you are using an interpreter.
Nano users run their own nodes, but the main incentive for running a node is for service providers, developers and merchants.

There's no swindle in my view. As a user of the technology perhaps I'm biased. Although because I approached it from purely to solve a problem and not as an investment, I don't think I am as biased as others.

XRP would be a good example of a swindle surrounded by hype and marketing. Altcoins are rightfully scrutinized, but I think in the case of Nano there's unfair generalization without actual investigation into the technology.

What is popular isn't always the best technology.
The UK restrictions are not this. You can leave the house whenever you like if you have “reasonable excuse”. There are no explicit restrictions on how often, how long for, and how far and where you can go.

The UK government has been saying one thing, and enacting another in law, which leads to this one of confusion, but what you’ve stated there has never even been said as far as I know.

The regulations:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1374/contents

Amendments for 2021:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/8/contents/made
Yup, down fall of an empire. Don't fight it, world would be a better place afterward.
I don't dispute that. I don't think you understood the question.
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I don't think it's arrogant of him to legitimately criticize you.

Why even reply to the thread if you're going to be so stubborn on your position?
It depends a bit on the stage. It is definitely that competitive for the best growth stage companies, where "best" roughly means "highest growth in a market that can sustain a venture-level return (which in practice means a $1B+ valuation)." These companies tend to be large enough that they naturally gain access to investors, there's cheap capital everywhere, and there just aren't that many companies in big markets that are on aggressive growth trajectories.

Fwiw it also isn't just silicon valley at this point, the funding patterns increasingly hold across much of north america.
Typically this is disallowed from non company devices. If you're allowed to sync your corporate email to your personal devices, that's probably an oversight.
> Why a tech needs to understand antenna theory, space transmissions, and ionosphere reflection is beyond me.

It's like asking why a car driver needs to understand when to turn off high-beams, when not to honk, and how to safely open their door after parking on a busy street.

i.e. we live in a society, other people are affected by your actions.
Or we could hold politicians accountable for failing to hold the president accountable through the systems that exist.
Do you mean like "incredible" and the like?

It's just language, you might disagree but usage determines correctness (eventually).
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I'm posting as my main account and I hope the downvotes are the only repercussion. I think it's fair to bring attention to when the discourse gets a little one-sided.
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> But if you look at all major country subs, or major subs such as politics, news, world news, etc., all are badly run, with a hard bent to the left.

Not exactly the left's fault if the right on the internet tends to be, you know, literal nazis and people calling for hatred. If /r/Conservative is representative of the average right wing user, yeah, it's normal they're getting banned, as they are absolutely incapable of reasonable discourse.

You also conveniently forget the local subreddits absolutely overrun by the far right. /r/canada was so bad that /r/onguardforthee had to be created. /r/metacanada regularly calls for eugenism. /r/france has the far right coming out of the woods every day.
Or you could be average, and most other people could be average as well.
Many of the people in this field aren’t ethicists, they’re activists.
Disappointing list.
Difficult to prove, but many believe these sorts of payments are often a delayed bribe, for services rendered while in office. Look after us while you’re in power and we’ll look after you later. And other politicians watching this will notice, and will behave properly while they are in power as well.
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This comment is doing exactly the thing it accuses others of doing: not understanding and painting with too wide a brush.

Of course on a forum you are simultaneously going to find large swathes of people that take on seemingly contradicting viewpoints. Interpreting that to mean that all participants in these discussions are hypocrites or anti-China is either an emotional reaction or a failure to consider the truth of diversity on a forum.

Some people view high profile Chinese business people to effectively be extensions of the Chinese political class. Look at what happened to Canada after they arrested Meng Manzhou for the rationale behind these views. The success of a Chinese company in a foreign market should be considered as a potential security risk for any security analyst that still knows the meaning of the word dilligence. Whether it is only potential or actuality is another matter.

As for lying low, some people are still hoping to hear from the panchen lama; it is totally rational for people to consider that China will arrest critics or people it views as risks and that those people may never be heard from again or their apparent freedom may be staged. There are many other examples. People in the West have a concept of due process that the government--and perhaps the people--of China does not seem to accept as reasonable or necessary.

All of these views are possible to hold simultaneously with varying degrees of nuance, and certainly some people hold some or none of these views again with varying degrees of nuance. There is an understanding of China and how China does not necessarily share some things viewed as ideals by some participants here. There is no West vs China, because "the West" is not a unified set of ideals or viewpoints, as any cursory survey of views on healthcare, military, the treatment of Assange, etc. will quickly reveal.
> It has been perfectly clear with the Chinese negligence around Covid

Urgh, let me tell you some facts.

On February 1 2020, I travelled from China (not Wuhan) back to the Netherlands, having aborted my holiday early. Wuhan was in lockdown for a week at that point, and my flight to the Netherlands was the very last one I could get. At that point, the WHO also declared global emergency.

I arrived in Germany and the Netherlands. What happened in the airports? No temperature checks or other checks. Nobody who took note of my name for contact tracing. Nothing.

Back in the Netherlands, I called the CDC: can I get tested? Reply: no, not even if I pay for it myself. I ask: do I need to quarantine myself? Reply: nope.

I didn't trust that. Chinese media has been raging for weeks about how infectious and dangerous it was, and that it could be spread asymptomatically. So I voluntarily quarantined myself and my family for 2 weeks. Turned out I wasn't infected.

Up until March or April or so, I saw on tv and newspapers and how multiple western governments called covid just a flu, that we're "well prepared", even criticizing the lockdown in Wuhan as a human rights violation.

You want to talk negligence? Okay, China could have done a better job, but let's say they were earlier by 2 weeks and reported to WHO mid-Dec rather than late-Dec. Would that have changed anything when for months the west totally dismissed the virus as being dangerous, and gleed at China's misfortune?

> and how they treated the doctors that sounded the alarm

Li Wenliang was not jailed. He was reprimanded by the police, and could go back to work the next day. He wasn't the first one: the first doctor who said something was Jiang Jixian, whose work led to the WHO escalation on Dec 31, 1 day after Li Wenliang said something. The Chinese court later ruled that the police's treatment of Li Wenliang was unjustified. The police then apologized.

See also: "Some whistleblowers are more equal than others"
https://www.mango-press.com/some-whistleblowers-are-more-equ...

> the HK issue and with the Uighur concentration camps

These are whole different, and rather complicated topics. I could go into them, but I need to know from you: do you actually want to discuss, or is this meant as a diss to me?

> So you're not behind the great firewall huh? Reminds me of Chinese agents bullying Chinese students in Canada to not badmouth the government

So what? I don't "bully" others for disagreeing with me about China, I talk to them. If you ask me whether those students should bully, then I'd say no: they should discuss. That's something they need to learn.

But the same applies to a great many people in the west, who despite being raised in a free society, prefer to cancel rather than talk.

Still, that doesn't mean that those students' support for China is not genuine or legit.
It’s not necessarily unethical to do that if you believe you are uncovering or preventing the cover up of unethical behaviour. Ethics is more than following the rules. See whistleblower protections for where that sort of thing intersects with the law.
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What if Google is doing something unethical?
Is the idea that someone is smarter than you really that outrageous? If RenTec would be cheating we’d know by now.
Most CEOs will read from a PR script at opening ceremonies for events and conferences. Apparently - as mentioned in the article and clarified in other comments here - it was a PR moment in a charitable event he’s been doing for a while.

No need to make it up to be more eerie than it is
If the goal was real justice, why is this left to the 11th hour storm of bullshit pardons? Isn't this being used as an obvious distraction when it could have happened much sooner?
had to dig into the repo to come to the same conclusion. My first thought was, wow for your first go app you really implemented image recognition for all ever available anime?
And soon realised it must just link to a web service which already does this or he has his own webservice somewhere with much more cpu power than a tiny cli app.
Sounds like a challenge for Etsy
Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

It's less strange than time tested.
Yup, and it's also an aggressive flywheel:

- You are thought of as a leader
- You get to invest in better companies because they know/want you
- The better companies outperform, because they were better
- You are increasingly thought of as a leader
- You get to invest in better companies... etc.

The marketing angle is increasingly a way to get onto (and sustain your place on) this carousel.
What's problematic about Made In Abyss?
Well, there is also that thing with those concentration camps which have come to our attention in the last few years, may I suggest that to be one of the reasons for the "sinophobia" (stupid word, I do not see any irrational fear of China here, what I do see is criticism which is not the same thing, at all) seen here?