skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now I want a USB-C thumb drive that has different data on different sides. Like the old 5 1/4" diskette drives where you flipped the disk for double capacity. Using it for retro-gaming would be fun. When the game says "Flip the Disk" you flip the USB drive.
“itsy bitsy” stories don’t generate clicks
PayPal banned an account that was 17 years old because I used SSH
The flow is quite steady so magma isn't getting ejected very far. The more immediate danger it that the crater walls can collapse, spilling the ingredients in unexpected directions, or separate craters open up.
No. But to hit on any hot women out of principle(like his sign said on his office door) ... is not quite mature behaviour. Also called sexism/macho.

And can you maybe see, how this makes women uncomfortable? And wanting to avoid such a person? And all together .. avoiding the whole group he has a leadership position?
I actually don't see any issue that isn't simply a matter of money.

Everything they list that's an issue seems to revolve around the fact that the employees with domain knowledge for the system have left the company.

Reach out to them and hire them on as contractors. If they left under bad terms because the business was a bunch of dicks, expect to pay 10x market rate. If this is truly "fix this or the business is out of business" - then it shouldn't be a tough decision to make.
I'm yet to decide between Rematch and easy-peasy

https://easy-peasy.now.sh/
Your comment clearly illustrates that you have no working knowledge of Clickhouse or parquet file format or data archiving capabilities available in 2021. It's OK! I was in the same boat until I needed to implement such a solution for my use case. What I'm suggesting does not limit their customers from searching any historical data. Matter of fact, it might be 100x to 1000x faster for them to do so with the suggested solution. I strongly believe that mission critical transactional databases (postgres in this case) MUST be run very lean to keep their app running at hyper speeds at all times. 50TB overhead seems very inefficient when you take into account the the low cost solutions available in this day and age.

Based on my personal experience of achieving 94% compression on 2TB of data using snappy parquet file format, they could be looking at a final dataset size of 3.5TB on Clickhouse.
You don't need to use an umbrella to work inside IR35 (but umbrellas are trying to spook companies as they have a horse in that race) and you retain more autonomy, but you need to have the so called Fee Payer that will deduct all the taxes before money lands in your company account. Some umbrellas also offer the fee payer service.
To be fair, I highly prefer the situation it lead to, with now some competition between GCC and LLVM/Clang. But sure it was not rejected with that outcome in mind. However, some may not like the reasoning behind the unwillingness to move toward a more modular compiler at the time, but there certainly was a reasoning, and we will never know if the expected risks would have occurred in practice for GCC because later other ways were found to mitigate them.

The LLVM world has moved to a non-copyleft one, with results that RMS maybe considers mixed: on one hand it attracts work (but being non-copyleft is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition, and for ex Linux attracts way more work by being copyleft), on the other hand RMS does not think that helping to create proprietary software based on free software is a good idea (of course the main purpose of a compiler is to compile software, even proprietary ones, but the philosophical issues come when you can make proprietary derivatives of the compiler or parts of it, not merely use it)

In the end, for a supposedly stagnant project, GNU is not doing bad. It is still an essential part of mainstream Linux based systems. It is being actively developed. GCC is moving fast and also attracts lots of work nowadays.

OpenOffice is stagnant. GNU? Not that much.
No. A lot of modern physics for example still seems objectively wrong when hearing about it as a student. Physical experiments and math has converted a lot of skeptics into believing some very “strange” things about how our universe works.
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I have a 3 months resignation period, so I can't even leave...

Maybe it's my (US) American experience, but being unable to quit a job strikes me as a terrible policy. This guy(gal?) is really required to submit 3 months notice or face some sort of repercussions (financial, I assume)?

Does this 3 month period apply in reverse (employer can't fire employees without a full 3 month warning)?

Not that the American system (no cause firing/quitting with no notice) is perfect, but 3 months? Yikes.
A "firefighting" consultancy might be fun, no? And you would give people a lot of time off!
I think there's another factor here not mentioned by other commenters - it is possible to be both neurodivergent and an ass, but it can often be a lot easier to discover that a neurodivergent person is an ass. Neurotypical assholes will usually be pretty good at controlling their public image.

So even if we suppose that cancel culture somehow has 0 false positives (which I highly doubt), it's likely that many more neurodivergent assholes will be "caught" than neurotypical ones. Which feels functionally very similar to profiling IMO, and practically means we are probably not catching the more "dangerous" assholes. Because it's a lot easier to ignore an asshole view if you're aware of it.
They were already dead 2 years ago, the body just didn't realize it and kept moving until last Friday...
> Google has had a dereferral process in place for many years anyway, which prevents you from seeing the specific search engine results page the user is coming from.

Is this really a security feature though? Or is it Google keeping the important information for themselves?
>The difference is that with a human near by I feel like I am being judged and when they are not I do not feel that kind of pressure

I will offer you another perspective to consider.

Technology is extremely subversive in that it bypasses all of our brain's instinctual responses. Someone or something monitoring and tracking you should be setting off warning sirens in your brain. At best they are trying to study you, at worse they are trying to exploit or harm you.

Through hundreds of thousands of years of evolution our brains have built up warning systems to make us feel fear and unease when we realise we are being tracked. But since humans have spent 99.99% of evolution entirely in the physical world these systems have no concept of the digital.

The reason you feel extremely uneasy when being monitored by a person, but not when being monitored by a computer system that is collecting the exact same information (or more), is that your subconscious brain doesn't understand computers.
As a visitor to your web site: not my problem and you've no right to know anyway what I visited before coming to your site. That fact that you can still see the referring domain is still too much, in my opinion.
I'd say if it was such a house of cards, my best bet is that this security chain is full of holes. Maybe the ERP used a fixed password, which can be guessed/bruteforced.
This guy, however, did.

https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...
So 0.0001% of his messages, most of which were said at a time when the Internet/Usenet was an innocent substitute for the local pub, are offensive to some.

And we say that's "decades of poor behavior"!

80% of the population says random stuff that is a 100x worse at parties.

It this article is not an impersonation, it is pretty sad that such self-righteous and intransigent statements come from a Gregorian friar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bushnell
Not sure about Norway but the case in Austria that started all that was an immune reaction to the vaccine: https://noe.orf.at/stories/3095633/
Add completely unrelated emojis on every line like all the cool JS projects on Github. /s

But for real, nothing wrong with boring READMEs, as long as they do a good job of explaining the important things using relatively simple language. Images, videos, and demos are always a good idea too, provided they are relevant.
I find this fascinating and I wonder if simple cases like these could help steer the conversation about encoded bias in a verifiable direction. What sort of training material would you have to curate in order to achieve an outcome where She is as likely to be a professor as He is to be raising a child?
> are simply increasing their daily rate to cover for IR35

You have to increase the rate by well over 30% and that puts you into territory of what agencies charge. Company might as well drop you and go with an agency then as they don't want to deal with IR35 as there is too many misconceptions and fines are heavy for getting it wrong.
Probably cheaper to just buy one XCH then...
Oh, I'll really miss occasionally peeking at AWStats and discovering weird pages pointing at my weird pages :(

This subtle aspect of web had been always strangely appealing for me: people leaving trails in access logs and building real "footpaths" network of synapses between HTML documents, across origins. Sad to watch it dying, however beneficial and understandable it is.

I feel it didn't have to be this way: maybe if GET wasn't so widely misused recently and generally everybody knew what to not put in URL and acted accordingly, we could have preserved such nice things.
Why would this break anything? Which sites would break just because the referrer policy default setting changed? And why wouldn't sites have fixed that before, since Chrome pushed the same change last year?
>As you may or may not know, some women will voluntarily have sex with men in exchange for money, no coercion or assault required.

Which is also illegal. And if you're having sex with a teenager for money, she probably has some pretty major life issues going on. Which as a 60-year-old - you should know better. Period.

>If a billionaire flew you to a private island with attractive woman offering to have sex with you, then the presumption that those women are paid prostitutes is not that far-fetched.

So... sex trafficking. By definition. Which is illegal both where it took place and in all party's country of origin.
> Does this 3 month period apply in reverse

Yes (in France at least) it is on both sides, unless both sides agree to shorten it

> face some sort of repercussions (financial, I assume)?

I'm speaking for France. This is a tricky subject, you almost can't get any repercussion. But it can sucks, like the employer can refuse to fire you and suspend your contract, in the mean time, you are not paid but are not allowed to work for someone else.
Between the mice and this, I’m starting to think Australia just doesn’t want visitors anymore.
How do the spiders know about the flood? It's probably very hard to see from their level. Do they detect vibrations or humidity?
UTM tags mostly https://www.intownwebdesign.com/google/google-analytics-utm-...
Sounds like you run a single user instance? Why should any instance be entitled to another instance's users' attention, against the will of the admin?

That doesn't make any sense, perhaps you could clarify your position here. It seems like you're saying instance administrators shouldn't have much control over what their users see on the fediverse. That sorta defeats the purpose of it, at least the way I use it. If I have to let someone else decide for my users, that's hardly decentralized. I block single user instances as well, because they're usually a waste of time, but if someone reaches out and makes a case for a whitelist entry, I consider it. That's how it's supposed to be, and that aligns with the guarantees about content quality that I've offered to users.

Again, I'd love to hear a more detailed description of your policy ideas, I don't think I understand.
If the system is old (going by other replies, introduced in a deal 20 years ago), maybe they'll be able to brute-force the encryption...
Why would you allow third party scripts to be updated by anyone but you?

This trend of dynamically linking to other people's shit needs to stop.
The smallest possible resolution of GPS in the horizontal is 10mm (6-7 digits) with local differential corrections.

In general, 4-5 digits is the precision to expect.
> Kids are asymptomatic

Yeah, and that's why it's not really a thing. Large amounts of asymptomatic spread turned out to be an early fear that wasn't true: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-pat...
To some extent yes, but have you ever interacted with RMS? His behavior goes way beyond the typical "coder with Asperger's" borderline cases you're thinking of.
I'm wondering if it's not a regional issue with California or something. I live in the Midwest and buy alot off Amazon, and I have never received a counterfeit to my knowledge. Maybe I don't buy enough name brand stuff to notice or maybe it's all too high quality counterfeits but I also know Noone in real life complaining about it.
C# has plenty of low hanging fruits, more so since C# 7.0, it is a matter of people to learn how to use them.

As of C# 9:

- value types

- proper memory slices

- ability to do stackalloc in safe code

- readonly structs

- generics for blittable types

- zero allocation pipelines

- using without IDispose for structs without implicit boxing

- return scope for zero copy struct parameters

- native function pointers

- static lambdas

- GC free code regions

What HPC# and Burst bring to the table is an enforced GC free code and a compiler that is special purpose for a game engine, taking that knowledge into consideration when generating native code, for example remapping SoA into AoS and similar.
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Indeed, also taking into consideration that the pandemic is the most pressing issue in many countries. It can't be a budgetary issue. Could someone shed some light on why these questions are so hard?
My Galaxy S8 and 60W USB-C charger appear to work like this - I often have to do a 180° turn for the phone to start charging.

They only do that in this combination. Not sure if it's consistent though - I should probably mark one side and check.
> Does this 3 month period apply in reverse (employer can't fire employees without a full 3 month warning)?

Of course.

Different notice periods for employers and employees would be outright illegal in most of Europe.
"Almost everyone in the world who provides anything for us already lives in terrible conditions and makes a few dollars a day."

Tim Cook only makes a few dollar a day and lives in a ghetto?

Surely you jest.
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European here. Having 3 months written in your contract (and in many countries by law, like France) is pretty common.

You can still quit if both parties agree. I've done it before.

The clause is there to avoid this type of scenario where a key employee just says fuck it and leave.

It works both ways. So a company can say fuck it and fire you just because they want to.

It's a fantastic system. It can be exploited, but usually works really well for employees and it gives you a huge safety net you can (usually) rely on.
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Hey all :) I know there are a bunch of GraphQL guides out there already, but this one aims to be more detailed in terms of explaining some key concepts that others gloss over while also being practical (and showing you how to set up your own GraphQL project step-by-step).

Would love any feedback :)
In Sweden (don't know where this company is located) it's usual with collective bargain agreement and if you've been employed for along time (5+ years) it's not uncommon with 3 months notice. It is usually accompanied by 6 months if your employer wants to let you go (but it's not easy if you're the employer to let people go). Most of the time, these periods are negotiated when someone resigns though.
You don't even need them to sell them to you. It is possible to get information that isn't even public just by interviewing at a company.

I've done interviews where companies have told me their revenue growth, their next year plan with very specific partnerships and the technical challenges around achieving it, and I've had employees during the interview straight up explain how the company optimized their R&D to maximize their tax avoidance.
The answer to the question is there

>We can't access the backups. Even if we could, we noticed two years ago when trying a restore from the backups, that it doesn't work. Booting the restored server leads to a kernel panic we couldn't figure out. Management said we don't have enough money to fix any of this.
Yes. If it's only 5 digits, it should be cut-off to reflect that. Accuracy needs an error estimate.
That the vaccine is better than the disease seems a ridiculously low bar to me. I'd be much more reassured if they listed the side effects with their likelihoods (1 in ??) subdivided this with age groups if appropriate, I've seen this in NHS prescriptions in the past and its always been very reassuring.
The inventor of of BitTorrent invents an alternative of proof of work. And implements it.

The only reason this hasn't got more upvotes is because most people can't discern the difference between "another random crypto" and something actually new.
At least in Germany public transport reaches into very deep countryside and it is used widely everywhere. This is certainly not about just supporting urban transportation.
It would change my perception, I can't really pretend to speak for "the media" though.
How accurate are your digits?
>An instance admin shouldn't be allowed by the protocol to decide who you are allowed to read or follow.

I didn't downvote your comment but how would it even be possible using computer science principles to design a protocol that prevents admins from deciding what bytes go in and out of the machines they pay to run?

Maybe I'm misinterpreting but a simple reading of your complaint seems like you're asking for the impossible.

EDIT reply to : >One method is by end-to-end encrypting those bytes, and optionally some of the metadata as well.

If there's a hypothetical new ActivityPub version 2.0 protocol that encrypts everything so that the any and all instance operators are forced to accept messages and images of sexually abused teen girls, those admins will choose to _not_ to run that encrypted protocol.

In the end, you still haven't created a protocol that removes the ability for voluntary admins to decide.

Yes, a limited scenario of 1-to-1 communication where encryption hides a conversation between 2 people (e.g. Signal) from the instance operator can happen but a 1-to-many followers broadcast model like Twitter/Mastodon/etc with federating/forwarding messages like USENET is different. How would a protocol for 1-to-many force admins to accept those bytes?

EDIT reply to: >Yet people are still using freenet.

Yes, of course _some_ are running Freenet. But that doesn't address my point: you can't design a protocol that _forces_ humans (aka "admins") to accept any and all bytes. There are many that choose to _not_ run Freenet.
Don't forget that the notice period applies to all companies and all employees. So the whole culture expects that, and works with the long lead times.
> Most of these people are thinking about content creation as the goal and making money and an unfortunate side requirement.

If you put it that way, then I don't feel any remorse at all for people who are complaining that content creation can't pay the bills. It's not any different than any other hobby.
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That’s what it sounds like, but also just useful to look at and paint:

https://www.waikereru.org/assets/images/news/claude-glass.jp...
I've thought about that before. You get the call. "It's 30 minutes away. I'll be there in 10"

If anyone happens to know of a career path or company that does that sort of work I would be interested to hear about it. Bonus points if the pay is half decent.
It shouldn't be controversial that not sharing sensitive data with Facebook is "foundational to providing privacy" and therefore using a Facebook tracker to fuck users needs a solid, extraordinary justification like "valid" gun use by the police and military.

You seem to believe that this particular breach is accidental, but reckless incompetence on Backblaze's part isn't much better than deliberate disregard for user privacy: any online service from Facebook should raise a red flag.
I'm not sure why you're still harping on about culture, as if Richard hasn't misbehaved and offended people everywhere he's been.

And don't conflate his personal behaviour with "tactics for achieving change".
It's fairly common to have an X-month notice period to resign, and a 2X or X+1-month period to be made redundant.
One of the stories about how cargo cults were first noticed was someone needing to do an emergency landing, noticing a runway that wasn’t on their charts, landing, and finding the locals had built it so that aircraft full of cargo would land on it.

Given it was successful despite being a cargo cult (the plane landed QED), by symmetry the ability to make money with cryptocurrency doesn’t make it not an economic cargo cult.

(One must do more that this to show that it is a cargo cult, rather than that it is still possible for it to be, which I say despite liking the cargo cult comparison and being generally very against cryptocurrency).
IIRC, I'd actually be class 1 obese by that list, now. So maybe "Slightly obese"? That sounds even more ridiculous, but it's pretty accurate.

As for the OCD... Even that description sounds worse than what I have. But the existence of "subclinical OCD" makes me even less worried about people claiming to have "moderate OCD" or something. Not only is it a spectrum, but the experts seem to be fine with using the word to describe people that are almost it, with some qualifying words.
why tf should removing Referer break sites? who uses Referer?! the only thing that Referer brought were privacy leaks.
You are getting downvoted, but I feel you (tax bill is approaching here...). The reality is, you need to strike a balance somewhere: Taxes are a matter of supply/demand. If you increase the taxes, at some point people are going to move somewhere else. If you reduce the services, you have to reduce the tax bill otherwise people and business will feel ripped off.

Most people here are either 1. employees who can't evade taxes because of how the system is setup, or 2. Entrepreneurs who are virtue signalling because of the magic internet Karma or 3. Simply have no money and think somebody else should pay for stuff. In reality, pretty much everyone will try to avoid taxes if he gets the chance (isn't that what the article is about?).
In my experience it's also the same in Latin America, but the notice period is normally of 1-2 months rather than 3-6 months.
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More explosions? But really, once you explain what the project or thing is about, is it actually boring? Some of the best projects have "boring" READMEs that explain or point to various documents. This is NOT a failure. If they are useful etc are they really boring?

Or are you bored? Maybe that is the real issue?
One method is by end-to-end encrypting those bytes, and optionally some of the metadata as well.
This is my ideal job, I think. Charge a big rate to be the consultant you call when everything dies from ransomware or OPs problem or whatever, I calmly fix it to normal standards (as possible), take three weeks off after.
There is no incentive to have contractor work on an outside basis because that gets too complex and has no tangible advantages for the client.
The status determination process is also a fiction, because the client can specify relationship to meet the in-scope criteria in the contract and there is no room for appeal.
Essentially a new class of employees without rights has been created.