skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"is this impossible?"

Possible, see Sciter.JS : https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk

10 times more compact than Tauri, 20 times less than Electron.JS

Yet it has Rust API ( https://github.com/sciter-sdk/rust-sciter ), that if someone need "Made with Rust" label :)

And it works even on Windows 2000, do you remember that thing? See: https://sciter.com/necromancing-sciter-on-windows-2000/
Or at all, how many Electron apps would bother with native Linux clients for example. Some maybe but certainly not all and probably not most either.
It has been scientifically proven that consuming fewer calories than you expend over the long term will greatly reduce body fat.

One reason the COVID-19 death rate has been low in Japan despite having a high infection rate and a high proportion of elderly population is that they have very little obesity. I don't support the coercive legal measures they use under the 2008 ”Metabo Law". But strictly from a public health standpoint they have proven effective.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2009-11-10/fat-japan-youre-break...
Yeah, the Slack and message limit thing is why Discord > Slack as far as real-time chat goes for projects. Free workspaces in Slack have a 10k messages history limit so once you get big enough, you start "losing" older messages (although they still exist, and if you end up paying, you get access to them again).

There are some other options out there to address the "company walls" bit. Products like [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) come to mind; it does require a bit more setup, but you keep control over data. It makes discovery a bit harder though (i.e. you can assume that a significant % of folks already have a Discord account for some reason, and people aren't averse to creating accounts on Slack, but they might back off from engaging with solutions like Matrix because it feels like a new thing they would need accounts for).
Corporations have a broad set of methods to defend themselves from bad actors. They also have money to set them up, or influence own direction.

It is an interesting question how open project should defend against such actions. Without money and without a law protecting them.

As an enthusiast of open source movement especially, it is worrying that such projects are easy targets for wrongdoing. Examples of such actions could could fill a book or two. This is happening for years.
I like the idea of a split keyboard, but I've never been able to go down that road because I sometimes hit keys with the "wrong" finger - most notably, I need to be able to hit B with my right hand because it's down-left in roguelikes (i.e. Nethack).

What I'd love to see is a "106% keyboard", where a couple columns are duplicated on both the left/right side. Does anybody make such a keyboard?
Why would Jeff Dean resign?
My wife’s name begins with the letter A, and we considered many names for our daughter, but Alexa was absolutely off the list.
Is a robot that becomes a melted slag of metal not a dead robot?
MSR has a very free research culture. People there are technically fireable by normal means, but Microsoft chooses not to terminate employment for "outside-of-work" engagements, or for the subject of their research. Some very critical papers of Microsoft's AI approach were published under the MSR header. Not all of the findings were put into place, and Aether has the unenviable job of balancing ethical behavior with potential profits. But their ethicists are leaving because they're shouting themselves hoarse into the void, not because they're being asked to change their results.
twitter refused to shut down pakistan's ISPR troll bot accounts who were trying to spread hate

twitter openly supported these trolls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEuB_2KzobY

and twitter also supported urban naxal terrorists who are funded by china.
I meant to say relations between management and staff in the AI ethics division.
> A somewhat exclusionary tribe that extends across an entire diverse country? Not likely.

Worked fine for most of the US history.
I use match as an inside out 'if let' but in this particular case I prefer to:

let value = value.ok_or(MyError)?;
I'm not calling for censorship. Growing a thicker skin is a virtue. But it'd be nice if the people promulgating the trend also stopped to think about it.

> You mean like "a John"? Or "Dick"? Or "a big Charlie"?

This has been the case for so long that parents have had ample time to stop naming their children this.

They recently renamed a nearby bridge in Georgia from "Dick Hunter Memorial Bridge" [1,2].

[1] http://ethunter1.blogspot.com/2006/03/hunter-bridge-part-2.h...

[2] https://thegate.boardingarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/...
I think OP could (should?) also sue the company for harassment and defamation if the ex-employer is badmouthing him around town which could have real career impact.
> Bret Weinstein was fired from Evergreen for not participating in a no-white-people-on-campus day

Interpretation 1:

There was a "no-white-people-on-campus day" at a university, a professor named Bret Weinstein-- a white person-- was on the campus that day (either in defiance or without foreknowledge of the event), and was consequently fired for being white while on campus.

Interpretation 2:

There was a "no-white-people-on-campus day" at a university where white people were singled out to attend some off-campus event (whether mandatory or optional), Bret Weinstein-- a white professor-- did not attend this off-campus event (whether in defiance or accidentally, whether going on campus, or not), and consequently the university fired Bret Weinstein for his action of not attending an event targeted exclusively at white people.

Interpretation 3:

You are leaving some crucial detail that explains what actually happened.

If #3 isn't the case I'll eat my hat. If it is, you should consider the possibility that some kind of anti-academic axe-grinding is keeping you from writing as clearly as you could about historical events.

Edit: clarification
Having a public part (room id) and private part (password) fits very well into people's mental model of security/accessibility.

Doing it this way also lets you turn off authentication if you decide you don't need it and lets you use the same password if you need multiple conference rooms. This is the best solution in my opinion.

> If you join a Jitsi call with say, four other participants using a password you don't know, your copies of their four audio and video streams are nonsense

Not in my experience. Jitsi won't let me enter the room at all if I enter an invalid password.
I'd wager there is no outright "Are you a spy?" question, but questions written that are highly likely make or break questions (Who's your current employer? Listing a foreign government as your employer on a student visa application may often be a deal breaker depending on the relationship between the countries). By giving a false answer, you've committed fraud. It doesn't even require you to be a proper spy of any sort to have motive to give a false answer.
It probably now commands even more widespread respect and awe - but for the corporation.
Email itself isn't profitable either, but we pay for things that help us with it like spam blocking and outlook
Wut!? please tell me you followed the whole story and knows all facts. Jeff manages whole department, whereas this person was working in one team, "ethical ai". There are literally more than 20+ teams that answers Jeff. Each team got anywhere from 4-50 people.
Haha, their spies are undone by their bureaucrats. Amazing.
hmm, maybe google discovered whatever brilliance she had was exceeded by her SJW status
From what I understand they use the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to do exactly that when the rover loses direct line of sight to Earth.
David Lynch's work is often described as "dream-like", and you can definitely see that connection in these transcripts. This could easily be a scene in his movies:

> I'm at a Sunday night church gathering. I'm thinking, "I haven't done this in years." It's crowded. A drunk man next to me whispers, "Reproductive organs." I good naturedly tell him to shut up. I see a big sign that says "Brothers, Jesus..." Later someone, a male, says he has to take part of my reproductive system out. I just play with my nipples and enjoy it, i.e. I have an orgasm. I look at him and say, "I can't do that. I would feel embarrassed that I would have to go to orgasm with people watching." A girl whispers, "You can do it."
Where do you see SNRI lowers serotonin?

It's a re-uptake inhibitor for both serotonin and norepinephrine which keeps your body from flushing our those chemicals which raises serotonin levels as long as production is stable.

High doses of SNRI will contribute to Serotonin syndrome, which makes your argument hard to believe.
Yes, actually.

Ethics and morals.

It kind of works that way by definition, but if you're one of those people who have a firm grasp of the 2nd and higher order consequences of what you are being asked to do it can become exceedingly hard to find work you are willing to contribute to. There are industries you just won't be able to access or thrive in while keeping your conscience/nose clean.

Accounting is another one arguably, but I'd still endorse it anyway. You can become a thorn in some types of business's side when you can project beyond your primary job role. If you aren't careful, you could end up cracking a carefully crafted perception management game! Or ruin somebody's attempt at plausible deniability.

Oh yeah. A little bit of legal knowledge can be a bit of a buzzkill too. If you ever want to ruin the mood, a quick, "Has legal signed off on this?" can lead to interesting times as well.

You'd think a lot of places would value the extra insight, but in many cases, it isn't necessarily appreciated.
If Fb is going forward with the change, then they've realized that those people are a rounding error.
I hope you are using hyperbole here. Google employs hundreds of researchers who are free to publish their work as far as I can tell (plenty of seminal systems, AI, economics -- auction mechanisms and such, and other papers are testament to this fact). There appear to be some exceptions to this that are causing a furore.
It's impossible to work on the ethics of AI without involving politics.
I'm curious what the business model is. These seems like a service business, you have to manual create each graphic. Then hope that one can be used long term.

Seems less of a saas and more of a service business, which typically doesn't scale the way YC companies are expected to.

Love to hear your feedback
This might be a common misconception, Abhinav Prakash has a nice explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C-ffQrFunk
What is this "bar" you speak of?
The only bar I have was lowered years ago.
Most things I’ve found to be reasonably priced for what they are.

Most products are made with much higher quality materials than you would find in consumer gear. Also the “rated” spec for parts is expected to be understated as the “unreliable” part is one that fails in under 7-10 years of being run at the absolute limit of its spec. If a part fails in 2 years I will completely stop using that vendors products, as having a machine that is worth $1k/hr going down for even a day or two wipes out any savings.

Another factor is the total sales volume of automation products is low, so the engineering costs dominate pretty much everything in that space, even though everything is somewhat optimized to reduce engineering time (the buyers and/or vendors).
Which doc are you referring to? Could you link it?

Your last sentence has the implication that people should not attempt the change or challenge from within the corporate capitalist ideology of the big tech companies, which together make up a large portion of the entire technology industry and the US stock market. They should just concede and “move on”.

I’m kind of sympathetic to this view. Someone who joins a corporate law firm to “change things from within” is going to get a deserved skeptical smirk. It’s not just attempting to dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools. It’s attempting the dismantling while standing next to the master inside his own house, asking him to pass the hammer.
Exactly. Spot price and "market cap" are meaningless for something with purely speculative value.

The relevant figure is total paid-in, minus total withdrawn, to be more precise.

And probably we can't know, given that entities like Tether refuse to show their books.
So the French affiliate website Myron 3D is blatantly stealing all the articles
> So, you are giving Facebook the right to sell your private conversations to third parties in the future

Where in the new TOS does it say that?
I have RSS feed sent to my email , so I don't check anything twice. Just a linear stream of emails that I have become exceedingly efficient at scanning. i currently go through 400 articles a day and it takes me about 10-20 minutes to filter them down to a dozen to read.
Do you know if any scientists have studied the effects of intense games on mood when not playing?
Just for the record, this writer grew up around Houston, went to high school and undergrad there, did grad school in New Orleans, then seems to have moved back to Houston.
On reflection I think the BEST possible example must be Pixar. They are a shining example of going up the stack in a phenomenal way. They started with graphics rendering hardware:

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

And then they wanted to sell software:

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

And then they ended up making movies! This is described in Ed Catmull's book and I think there's a documentary on Netflix too.

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I also think it's interesting that George Lucas started out as a special effects guy and then he made Star Wars. So the effects really do help the storytelling.
I’ve been wondering how sincere the Silicon Valley corporate mantra of Be yourself, Be authentic, be open to management really was.

There was so much idealism even on Hacker news. Nowadays I witness the strange contradiction of people bashing giant tech companies while mostly discussing how to found the next giant tech company.

A lot of us did genuinely believe it. However as the companies grew and became mega corps the realities of life in normal companies have slowly made themsleves felt.

It’s a bit like the Adam Curtis documentary hyper normalization. Where we all pretend that everything is still the same as before, but beneath the still free sushi ,massages and high compensation a lot has changed.
I read the part about how they regularly brought in dinner and had to work weekends. His may have been a good apology but I'd prefer to work for even a poor apologizer if it meant a better work life balance.
1. Fabricating of immigration documents is illegal everywhere in the world. Try doing that in Canada, that has stricter immigration laws than US.

2. There is this national security risk with China. Just the other day, there was the top article on HN about a US firm having been hacked by China over a time period of years! This is not an isolated incident either.

3. Koreans like myself won't be denied entering even though we are same Asian race. We also have the mandatory military service, and have to mention it every time to enter US.

4. Nobody in the US California and New York calls it racism when you makes it harder for us to accepted to Harvard and Stanford because same test scores as Caucasians, we get dinged on the personality. This is a clear example of an actual racism.

5. China and Korea are both countries. Not races. NOT ALL Asians are Chinese. If I may suggest thinking a bit more before claiming to be on our side :(
Collections: The Universal Warrior, Part III: The Cult of the Badass
> "This prosecution will help to protect elite institutions like Stanford from illicit foreign influences."

...how?

I assume everyone was aware that if she said something, it was being said by her. Where does the illicit foreign influence come in?

Suppose her cover story had been completely accurate -- instead of being a member of the PLA, she was someone who had "only" served in the PLA for 11 years. That person had no problem getting a visa. Is there a difference in her expected influence on Stanford?

> "Time and again, the Chinese government prioritizes stealing U.S. research and taking advantage of our universities over obeying international norms."

Ok, but that would clearly be happening with civilian researchers too. Also, we publish our research on purpose. You can't steal public information. Was she admitted to a classified research program as a presumably-reformed 11-year veteran of the PLA?

Why isn't there an indictment for espionage, or theft of private information, or anything similar to these complaints? What exactly is Stanford being protected from?
It's a meme. Nobody called to "cancel" the name.
I recently watched that on YouTube. Sadly, it's private now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNLQ-O-Qx3Y&ab_channel=YouTu...

The movie still holds up today, which I didn't expect. It gets pretty dumb at times, but no dumber than a Michael Bay flick.
Cholesterols are a family of lipids (lipoproteins to be precise), not just one thing molecule.
>Deletion programs do this because it looks cool. It's not necessary - literally noone has ever recovered anything from a zeroed out HD sector.

anything of value

From what I recall, with an electron microscope you can detect polarity around the edges of bits for certain magnetic storage devices and I recall seeing a paper where this was stepped through a several bits were recovered with fairly good success rates. This is part of the reason behind the old rationale of overwriting multiple passes.

With that said, given current data density for anything useful, reassembling anything remotely useful from such an approach would be nearly impossible and take a huge amount of time.

With NAND based storage, none of this applies or at least has entirely different context to consider.

Edit, was curious, here's a reference you could follow to the actual paper for empirical backup:
https://www.sans.org/blog/overwriting-hard-drive-data/
I read yesterday that proper high res photos will come, any ETA?
"The woman who went to the library and read every book on the shelf"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/16/phyllis-rose-t...
Edge is pushed to the vast majority of PCs, and on those machines, I believe it provides a system-level webview2 component. You can choose to package your own webview2 into your app if you want the extra compatability that offers at expense of app size and ram usage
Everytime I see cases like activist employees getting fired for violating company policy, the sentiment seems to be the company is the bad guy. At what point it becomes the fault of the activist employee? At what point we can have an introspective look that are we enabling toxic behavior of people suffering from Messiah Complex?

This is my personal anecdote. I had experienced working with an online activist co-worker. She was one of the people who are very popular online, but most of her co-workers hated her. She was extremely entitled, always bossed people (who are at the same level as her) around, did very little of her actual job because she was busy in more important online activism. She had a Messiah Complex, and we were all there just to support her in her worthy cause. That's why I am conflicted when I see activist employees getting fired.
Reading their comment I don’t see that specific claim being made. The comment discussed different treatment with regards to personality, but doesn’t relate that to this firing directly.
What OOM means in this context? I assume it's not Out Of Memory?
They’re mostly steel which does not melt at those temperatures (and the acidic parts of the atmosphere are much higher altitude), 400-500C. So yeah. Recognizable.
If you don't go beyond standard interactions and look it's probably fine but let's say I want system chrome to look like the one in photoshop and some custom dropdowns for starters...
Margaret Mitchell fired from Google
OBD-II codes are standard and can be read by any generic scanner. Beyond that, each automaker has their own software for diagnostics, reading live data, and updating/resetting computers. There are some third party tools[1] that can handle a lot of this but they tend to lag the latest model years because they need to be updated as new models are released. These tools are probably expensive for the home mechanic but not really for a professional. Stuff like loading new firmware is almost always dealer-only.

[1] http://www.pro.innova.com/Product/FullDetail/5160
Above a certain amount, unless you're a sociopath, selling your soul just makes you depressed.
You are talking about the Google ethicists who are leaving, right?

Also, can you clarify what you mean by 'shouting themselves into the void'? Are they being denied venues to publish their research, thereby rendering their shouting inaudible, or did you mean something else?
No, its not disingenuous. It has to be thought about, sure. I think by the time you're archiving company secrets outside the firewall you mentally left some time ago. What led you there? Is that maybe the interest for me? I don't think she wound up there for entirely base reasons, maybe that's what I'm thinking. Most strict legal compliance answers aren't "wrong" but boy, they feel limited. Hard to change things when it's down to contact terms. Why have smart people, paid to critique if you want to wind up submarining their work?
http://archive.is/5ASsH
i see the sibling comment and sorry, but i am not able to edit the post.

We all have biases, and yes, it is obvious without me alluding to it.

I have stated the facts that counter zimmerman's note
Is Dogecoin a Pump and Dump?
> parents have had ample time to stop naming their children this.

I think it would be very depressing to abandon a glorious name like John just because a bunch of prostitutes use it as shorthand.
thanks - unable to edit, i also posted again.
Well, maybe. But it's not like this sort of drama is unusual. Maybe you have to be outside looking in to see the absurdity (I'm not in Silicon Valley, or the US for that matter).
How common must this be? Isn't contacting the hosting company enough to at least get it taken down for breach of terms of service on the copyright infringement? Has the internet changed so much?
The answer to that is to make your own and hand-solder wire to the switches.
At the language level, I think you probably need at least the lightweight, crashable processes. I don't think you can just casually just bring the rest of the industry forward to that standard without changing the language.
Coinbase valued above $100B, ahead of direct listing
If there was nothing nefarious going on, why did she attempt to conceal her identity?
Ask HN: Anybody Programming on a Smartphone?
How do you make your experience enjoyable?
Sure, simply said its obvious. Now, idieate into the circumstance. Can you find no path to "i better make sure can prove my side of the story factually" as a thought process?
I wonder if at some point Bitcoin might become important enough that nation states will work together to ensure that no one state has more than a 51% hashrate as a matter of national security.
Electricity is a big deal even without crypto. Look at Texas right now - people have more to worry about than their mining rigs being offline
Is there a decent FOSS solver or algorithm for Cornu splines these days?

I did write a road digitizing tool for an internal simulation, based on raphlinus's thesis, about 12-13 years ago, but always had trouble with numerical stability.

It's such a fantastically better tool for vector art than regular splines, though, especially with higher-order continuity.