skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Passing a law about rights of a person would be a sane first step, but how do you do that while also protecting IP and trade secrets, etc?

We already have laws for these things. If you steal IP your employer already has recourse, so why do they need to control your non work time in addition to the legal avenues already at their disposal?
Contract with IBM is never a "law".
As it has been noted, labour laws are always above the contracts.
This is sometimes covered in contracts by some legalese in the vein of "we pay you more than we ought to, so we also expect you to ...".
I see where you’re coming from but have a few major disagreements. First you say that all Tesla owners know this isn’t FSD level 5. The occupants were 70 and 60 years old, I’ve seen plenty of situations of technology blind spots with older acquaintances. That’s why vehicle safety often includes the concept of predictable abuse, features that will predictably be abused. Pair this crash with all the TikTok videos with no one driving and even Elon driving hands free and claiming self driving is imminent.

And I think it’s pedantic to say he didn’t almost get locked out, not sure what else you would call not being able to open the door. If that other car wasn’t there he would have had to climb through the window.
The story that a Capitol Police officer was attacked and killed with a fire extinguisher was a lie.

> Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes after defending Capitol on January 6, medical examiner says

> the autopsy found no evidence of internal or external injuries

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brian-sicknick-capitol-riot-die...

> The autopsy found no blunt trauma to the head. Sicknick's own family kept urging the press to stop spreading this story because he called them the night of January 6 and told them he was fine — obviously inconsistent with the media's claim that he died by having his skull bashed in — and his own mother kept saying that she believed he died of a stroke.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-media-lied-repeatedly-a...

> Authorities have reviewed video and photographs that show Sicknick engaging with rioters amid the siege but have yet to identify a moment in which he suffered his [supposedly] fatal injuries, law enforcement officials familiar with the matter said.

> According to one law enforcement official, medical examiners did not find signs that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma, so investigators believe that early reports that he was fatally struck by a fire extinguisher are not true.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/02/politics/brian-sicknick-c...
They're not treating X11 as first class citizen because it's a insecure history compared to Wayland.
And then the company will be purchased by a FAANG and you will immediately be forced into using new accounts and new workflows for the same functionality (yes, suddenly thermostats have workflows now...)
I can't say my experience echoes your comment. I'm a former employer of a financial services (billing) company built around a mainframe code base started in the 70s. We probably qualify for the sort of business you had in mind with your comment.

We did four releases a year, across the entire organization (so mainframe and more modern platforms), on Saturday nights/early Sunday mornings. There was plenty of testing but there was still plenty of errors only found on the day of, and rushed to fix in the wee hours or daylight hours of Sunday morning.

The only thing that seemed to correlate with release quality was the overall risk of the release, i.e. the complexity and number of new features written during that quarter.
Yes iOS devices use AAC but a better implementation so it's not that bad.
latch or not, it's common for a collision to result in a door physically not being able to open due to malformation. In fact, in small aircraft (general aviation), you're taught to open the door and jam something in between the door and the frame before an emergency landing to avoid being trapped.
What Hi-Fi audio equipment have you listened to
Now -

1) Went from being a contractor on a good day rate to being forced into being an employee (IR35 for the UK readers)

2) Taking a 13% pay cut

3) Due to point 1) I have zero money going into my business account

4) The business owes the government £16k

5) Due to 1), 3) and 4) I need to pay back money after tax to my company
Have you looked into Jenkins-X at all? I'm at a point where I'm starting to adopt GitOps and I'm torn between Flux and (what I consider) a far more opinionated but pretty elegant solution in JX.
It's been that way since the very beginning. The folks behind Mozilla always assume they know more about what the users ought to do, than the users themselves. You would maybe think that this arrogant position would have diminished a bit over the last 20 years, but apparently it has not.
How to analyze mobile malware: a Cabassous/FluBot Case study
IMHO, since react hooks hit the market, state management libraries became kind of obsolete.
My recommendation is the Dreadnoughts. "Roll Northumbria" is an old style shanty about a modern day oil tanker. Hands down best introduction to the group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d3XHQVMHDM

"Dear old Stan" will have you randomly chanting "Arise and be Merry" at random intervals throughout the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHpizfjWrXA
The nice thing about Android these days is that without much effort you can be in a place where you can drop your phone in the sea and not lose any data (and I say this from experience). I pay for GDrive space and at worst I'll lose photos I've taken that day - other app data is automatically backed up with little to no effort on my part. Signal unfortunately doesn't do this by default and requires some manual setup of syncing to make work.

I assume Apple devices are the same, although I believe that more of it is turned off by default for privacy reasons?
This sounds a lot like CQRS
> a lot of information, not just the current frame, has already been integrated. Information such as previous frames, common shapes or surfaces, objects, the current full scene model, etc.

What's the current state of the art on this?
That honestly makes sense. A contract with no "consideration" is generally not enforceable in English common law, for instance.
It seems that 2 drinks a day is still a tiny risk factor. I say this as a <1 drink per day person. So instead of the fear-mongering headline, I could easily see something like "2 drinks a day has very little significant negative impact on general health" or "non-drinkers fare the same as drinkers when it comes to health concerns".
Historians' opinions about this have changed over time -- the generation of people who experienced it felt that a land invasion of Japan would be ruinous, and would kill a million US men.
To that effect, the US tried firebombing cities, paraded battleships along the coast, sent subs to the Inland Sea, and telegraphed that they would destroy a city completely. Then they did.

Meanwhile, the USSR invaded and militarily routed the Japanese.

For the Japanese, the situation was militarily hopeless and had been for a while, but the events of August made this very clear to a wider audience.

Perhaps there was no single event that triggered the surrender, but opinion, even of ministers, can cascade rapidly. Once one person publicly lost faith, it became easier for others to join him, but that might not have been initiated by a specific event or on a specific timeline.
When I learned Prolog I already had a semester of logic math so it felt natural.

It is already a bit old, but you might have a look at it.

https://www.gradegrinder.net/Products/tw-index.html
I'd say it can never be as fun online. Part of the experience is being physically there, touching the books, feeling their weight, seeing the inside, sitting down on the sofa to read a bit, wandering around, in many stores you can also grab a coffee etc.

Getting a randomized "book feed" is not the same as randomly wandering in a bookstore.
Here, let me remind you how much I love you with the giant blue full screen 'welcome to windows, please make a microsoft account' message next time you log in.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/new-we...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/welcom...
In the same vein as this, David Bowie created an algorithm that generated lyrics and gave him ideas for songs https://www.vice.com/en/article/xygxpn/the-verbasizer-was-da...
Tesla Faces New China Test After Woman’s Auto-Show Protest Goes Viral
Why do you have to give them a huge boost in comp? There's no union at Google, they can pay whatever they see fit. They could just hire them at lower salaries but that'd destroy the image that anyone working at a FAANG makes at least $250k/yr.
The cringe is to compare "don't use your private email" to the Holocaust.
You've broken the microservice abstraction if this a problem.

A team should own a microservice, you release as soon as the team able to.

You version your apis, so you don't break any services which rely on yours.
A few moments later..

Would you like to renew Firefox as your default browser now before time runs out? Act now before prices go up! Supplies are limited! Not valid in AK, HI, and Guam.
Well, if Google can afford to do it (they can) then it's perfectly practical. They just don't want to, and you're right that the reason is obvious.
Math for the Layman by Kenneth Iverson (1999)
What IBM systems?
You need to understand that it's the 'locals' that are fighting (and losing) against the 'outsiders' that are actually saying "fuck you"
This is literally why I quit my last job from Quest / One Identity after a merge. Same fucked up policy that I don't "own" my free time. I don't understand how can people accept this kind of policy.
If you want something that you can just plug into and leave alone, I'd just use Storj. It's priced the cheapest and their tech is the best thus far. I will say that it's built for developers so expect needing to spend some time to set everything up.
Why do that when you can, instead, return more money to investors?
You'll be fine. Also remember this, companies develop their own vocabulary over time. So don't be afraid of asking what they mean by something. Even if you think it might be basic, and if you get the look of WTF, just be honest and say look I get companies have different vocabs, I just want to make sure I am 100% on the same page. 99% of the time if you use your honeymoon period well and do this you can easily learn the ropes, and figure out how to fit in and stand out. If you try to be a hero or think oh I have to know this even if you have no clue what they mean, that's when I see people fail.

I saw this at one mid-sized company where they had weird verbiage for things that I thought were standard. New people would always struggle and two people even left over it cause they were making it into something it wasn't and would get themselves stressed out and tied into knots instead of just asking the question. I was a consultant there and some of the employees would look at me like I was dumb at first, but the reality is I had to learn their terms, process etc before I could really help them.
SRE Zine April 2021 issue
That's a big one. Probably hundreds of contributors. But what percentage of FFmpeg code they would actually run?
I'm more annoyed by Mozilla hiding functions used mainly by powerusers so they can be accessed only using about:config (for instance relatively recently layout.css.text-decoration-skip-ink.enabled) and then completely scrapping the functionality, because people don't use it (duh). Now they want to do same with compact mode. I dread when they completely disable usage of userChrome.css.

They completely ignore the fact that Firefox got big because technical users were installing it on computers of their less technically literate relatives. Now they changed the Firefox to be carbon copy of Chrome so powerusers no longer have any reason to use it, let alone install it for other people. My reason to keep using it is at this point only desire to avoid Chrome monoculture.
For another comparison, there's valtio that I learned about from a previous HN discussion:
https://github.com/pmndrs/valtio
What do you mean by “conservative” politicians?

The first President (after Nixon era) to resuscitate Kissinger was Bill Clinton:

“Bill Clinton, embraced Kissinger, which began Kissinger’s apotheosis into his current incarnation as a bipartisan elder statesman, invoked by politicians who want to appear “serious.””

From:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/henry-kissinger-hi...

—-

Obama Era

He was an advisor to Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State in the Obama administration and was instrumental in shaping policies like Honduras, Syria, Libya etc..

“The two former secretaries of state have been close for years, with Clinton calling him "a friend" and noting that she "relied on his counsel" when she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.”

From:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-henry-clintons-relat...
I'd be glad of that too, but we are not there yet.
Most people use ISP provided routers at home, firewalls in those aren't necessarily great.
I've taken my children on BART a few times, even dropped one of them (fell out of a stroller) down the stairs at Montgomery Station once.

It's fun for the kids - why not? - but I have no fond memories. I commuted via BART every day 2006-2012 (albeit just one stop - W Oakland to Embarcadero, and back), and the stuff I witnessed on a regular basis had me thinking "I'm so glad my children aren't here to see this."
> Is the practice of companies owning the rights to software you make on your own time commonplace?!?!

Some of them will try it on, whether its enforceable or not is another matter. Always good to watch out for such clauses and object to them.
a movie/book/story needs a protagonist. All that building that goes on off-screen is the meat and potatoes of the solution, yes the daughter has a breakthrough realisation, but the realisation is for nothing if the infrastructure isnt there.

I think the 3body problem has a similar theme, the protagonist is central to the story, without him stuff does/doesnt happen, but the infrastructure (which in the main happens off camera) is built and deployed by the many not an individual, of course some solutions (trying not to spolier anything) are dependant on one individual.

I guess my point is that there isnt much difference between western and chinese sci-fi but chinese sci-fi also has to please the chinese government to be allowed to be published, so that also needs to be considered.
almost all high tech software companies hire firms like Modis/Experis/Manpower to do menial labor tasks related to hardware: mostly racking and stacking, responding to hardware incidents, wiring up stuff, etc.

the reason is because every process is very documented and almost any high schooler can follow the steps and replace and wire up server/firewall (power and backbone is all ya need). Configuration is usually done by full time well paid experts (or even done automatically by software)
It only matters if you need physically accurate data - ie if your brain can't process the multi path error and correct for it. A bat sees in multi path error and has no problem with it. I assume a machine vision system can learn to perform with multipath error and indirectly account for it. ie, it sees an apple with multipath error, and still knows it's an Apple.

There are options to fix multipath and recover the underlying ground truth

1) you can do a reverse raytrace and iteratively correct for the error - somewhat expensive, but there's tricks and shortcuts to accelerate

2) hardware fix to measure the multipath component separately and subtract / correct it - there's several ways to do this - there are some patents on it that I've worked on. The same methods also can remove background signal from ambient light.
Storj is going to be a lot more tried and battle tested than TahoLAFS. If you need to reliable store files under a strong encryption, I'd use storj.
> What exactly is broken in Firefox on YouTube or Gmail?

Performance. That makes the sabotage so insidious!

https://tech.co/news/google-slowed-youtube-firefox-edge-2019...

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/disable-polymer-youtube
>If its ok for a young person to leave their hometown, move to a city and call it home to make a better life without thinking about the locals, then it must be ok for a person with a small family living in a city to move to a smaller town and call it home to make a better life for his/her family.

The reason that theses two scenarios are not equivalent is so obvious I'm wondering whether or not I'm misinterpreting it.
Would that be the transform function from here [1]?

I do agree too that this definitely should be a library on its own.

Anyway thanks for your work; I'll definitely check SimpleR in my project.

[1] https://github.com/arnelenero/simpler-state/blob/f6336817c9e...
"If you need to keep track its probably too late. What makes them services is that they should be able to be deployed without a bunch of orchestration of other services."

If only you could tell my bosses/architects that. They won't listen to me.

Edit: why downvote?
Yeah I think it's basically that. If push comes to shove financially you're less safe at modis then at Google. Google has few, if any, layoffs. It's a part of their brand and their value proposition to potential employees.

Plus I don't think the two tiers of benefits thing would go over as well as you think it might. Either you're in and you have their great, expensive benefits, or you're out.
I'd be amused if someone wrote a program that hooked into the OS in such a way that it could detect when a browser is about to launch and then temporarily change the default to that browser, changing it back a moment or two after the launch finishes.

That way, every browser would think that it is already the default.
But this doesn't explain why companies would replace icons that they already have with minimalist icons. That's an additional expense, no matter how small.
Mechanical, rational optimization instead of a mix of social UX goodwill with some rational optimization. Reason with empathy perhaps.
The group of people (and their choice of browser and it's possible security related constraints) accessing github probably does not correlate 1:1 with "all of the world"?
One website that might provide that is the Open Library Explorer https://openlibrary.org/explore
Right. I guess I'd be in the same boat if I found something truly interesting. I've had interesting projects but I find that the fun parts of most projects are short. Worse most companies are not going to be able to provide you with something fulfilling for very long.
EU regulator finds link between J&J shot and blood clots
"You've broken the microservice abstraction if this a problem."

I agree, but in practice it seems more companies break it rather than follow it.
Munin is my favorite monitoring tool. One reason (among many mentioned here already) is that its information density is higher than anything else. When your site goes down and you need to know why, the page full of tight graphs is incredibly helpful. You can scan everything without any clicks at all and see if the problem is disk, RAM, database locks, etc. This compactness is the main criterion Tufte uses throughout Visual Display of Quantitative Information. I don't think Munin is doing anything clever or original (nothing like the map of Napolean's march), but it is far more useful than most of the custom d3 "dataviz" stuff you see. And it's way faster to navigate than something like datadog. And since it's just serving static HTML, the page loads instantly.

I think the homepage was overdue for a redesign, but I hope they don't redesign the tool itself! :-)

If they are trying to improve their communication, one thing I would have appreciated when I got started years ago is a clearer tutorial-like explanation about where the client & server live, how both execute (daemon vs cron), and who opens a connection to whom. Just the basic big picture architecture. It seemed difficult to find that information. EDIT: This right here: "Munin has a master/node architecture in which the master connects to all the nodes at regular intervals and asks them for data." Great!

ANOTHER EDIT: I see they are emphasizing how easy it is to write plugins. I can attest to that. I've written plugins for Postgres and Phusion Passenger, and both were really simple. Also there are tons of "contrib" plugins that probably already have most of what you want (even beyond the extensive default system-level metrics).

AND ANOTHER: The graphs at http://demo.munin-monitoring.org/munin-monitoring.org/www.mu... are more painful to read than my existing deployments. They are 497x261, and my own graphs are 499x277. That doesn't seem like enough difference to matter. The font is smaller though. Having to squint to read the graphs makes the display a lot more effort to read. It's a small thing, but I could feel the difference immediately.
Even better they should embed this Choosy functionality inside firefox as an option. Eg: I'm on firefox and I click on a link that contains a domain that I would to open on a different browser. I admit this is a very power user feature but not much different than this precisely default browser thing: it affects only multi-browser users (which would love to jump out of firefox based on some rules, guess there is already an extension for it).
I remember thinking the same 25 years ago when he was ambassador to Japan. He had a good run after leaving the VP office.
I just meant for a larger project we lay aside the square, and measure out 3/4/5 on the ground or whatever. So you're gonna dig the foundations of a house, use a string line and measure out 30 feet and 40 feet. If they're 50 feet apart, you're good.
No love for Apple Desktop Bus?
Animate Extruded Text with CSS
Andreessen Horowitz’s Rise
I'm reading 'privilege' here in the computer user permissions sense, not the moral/duty/rights sense.

Regardless, it's not a great look for anyone involved here.
An Earth Day message for California: Move faster on climate change
I disagree, I did some Postscript programming, and it was very much oriented around printing documents so I don't think it would be great for a DOM in a browser.
I totally agree. My personal philosophy has been to only buy OT devices that fail/stop being supported to being manual and not fail to being e-waste.
It's like a fucking litany. I love you ff, but....

Don't fuck me over but....

I swear to the gods if there was one decent browser that wasn't fucking FF...
For me it took getting some good balanced armature IEMs and lying somewhere calm and quiet with a 24-slider EQ and listening repeatedly to familiar music with different EQ adjustments.
Play a song. Move one or two sliders. Play it again.
You pick up on a lot of subtleties you’d miss otherwise.
** your mileage may vary
>"People from the US are estadounidense in Spanish-speaking countries."

I think that depends on the person. I mostly hear, so and so "es Americano" to refer to Americans. There has NEVER been a case where "Americano" means someone from either SAm or NAm. It's just not used that way.

With regards to the Olympics, it's just a logo. You obviously know there is no geographical continent of Europe or Asia but rather Eurasia. The Western Hemisphere is the opposite, there there are two continents North America and South America, there is no continent of The Americas. There are two distinct landmasses.

Besides, colloquial and in general speech American refers to people from the US. Only prescriptivists (who typically are anti prescriptivists elsewhere) insists that it refers to people from two different continents.

I've heard "norte Americano" to refer to both people from what they sometimes call "Anglo-saxon America" (US and Canada) which seems to map as the opposite of Latin American. It usually excludes Mexicans who are referred to as Mexicano and not as norte americano because they are considered part of LatAm.