skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because companies aren't buying trucks anymore, they're buying vans instead. Manufacturers have realized that people are buying trucks for their daily driver, so they've optimized the product around that. They've moved to a more car-like comfortable interior and they've stopped selling the regular cab (2 door) models because they don't sell. They pretty much make mostly double cabs because you need a backseat to drive around kids (again, car like). The 5 foot bed is fine because you're not hauling a 4x8 sheet of plywood anymore and a 8 ft 2x4 fits diagonally fairly comfortably.
I personally take a 20% pay cut to work a four day work week. Of course at any moment I could negotiate a 25% raise by going back to 40 hours a week.

Why do I do it?

Because there are plenty of things I want to do with my free time and I need time more than I need money. I want to trim my bonsai, I want to go bouldering, I want to go the gym, I want to have time to shop without the after-work rush, I want to work on hobby coding projects, I want to read, I want to solve differential equations, I want to watch TV, I want to clean my house in leisure.

So... why would I produce 25% more for my employer in exchange for 25% more money that I don't really need to lose that time doing things I love? Is anyone's life so simple that more personal time equates fully to just more tv time?
It also has a specific meaning in signal processing [1] and always seems weird when I read or hear used in that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downsampling_(signal_processin...
Setting a high bar to new edits increases the cycle time to deal with edits in general. If we look at control theory for analogies, and take a feedback controller (say PID) you'll see that short cycle times often lead to quicker convergence and higher accuracy; even with very crude control; while long cycle times even with very fine control will lead to much less satisfactory results.

Analogously thus with a wiki. One of the things that make a wiki (hawaiian for "quick") work is that it (potentially) has very short feedback loops when editing.

One reason wikipedia is often slower than it can be is because very many people have the "slow but fine" intuition; but less people have/(or used to have) experience with the "coarse but fast correction" regime, and thus lack the intuition that comes with that.
True the language part.

Wrong on the fixing side. At the contrary such places have full of people willing to help and with good engineering knowledge.
>But I guess it's good this guy found yet another way to recover lost data?

He wanted a backup he could control in case he loses his account, he gets banned or the company dies.
No, that requires a PCR machine with an optical fluorescence sensor, which is much more expensive.
Privacy by Design Is Reformist
Seems like a pretty reasonable question for a job involving signal processing where the candidate has experience. Certainly that could be electrical engineers. In that context putting a signal into the frequency domain seems pretty basic actually. Knowing the caveats of sharp edged filters in that situation doesn't seem like outrageously obscure knowledge.
- Jeff Bezos
Pen Power
The idea that an "ID-required" network would do anything to slow down bad actors is downright hilarious.
Yes, the snoring and sleep apnea is a big one.

It was so sad to see, but weight loss from cancer in obese people does the same thing (cure sleep disorders). If only those people could have realized that before their bodies degraded into cancer.
I dislike the use of the word "coding" here. I don't enjoy coding that much. Typing text into the computer is menial work. What is being described here is more generally called programming. If I spend my entire day typing code then it's a bad day. There are no castles in the sky, only text on the screen. The castles are made in my head. Coding is just a necessary evil to get my ideas from my head into the computer. But it is necessary, as there is definitely joy in running your own program for real, rather than just in your head.
You add a new line with .map or .peek before .collect
Not entirely true. It hugely depends on the company. I have no luck retrieving even my personal info from some companies re. my interviews (I asked for internal email notes where I was the subject) and they simply denied providing almost nothing.Some even quoted GDPR as the reason in response stating the info I requested contains other people's details too. Some correctly provided info I asked redacting other peoples details which is fair. But there are so many exclusions to GDPR (https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...) and the companies can use one or another exemption stated to ignore your request.
> Dan Kaminsky spent an enormous amount of time and effort on creating a secure hardware framework 10 years ago.

Can someone please link me to a page that goes into more detail about this secure hardware framework? Not a month from his passing, and we get a national-security-level attack that might have been prevented if US business took more seriously software engineering and security engineering from back then.

Also, I cannot help but wonder if Dan would still be with us if the irretrievably broken US healthcare system was a national system that supplied him with an inexpensive CGM and insulin no matter his employment situation.
But it's not incompetence, these companies have made exorbitant amounts of money doing this. Congress rewards being late, overbudget, and inefficiently structured. The companies extoll the benefits of manufacturing in practically every state. We know Boeing was in bed with NASA, per Doug Loverro's removal. There's even the story of Boeing killing ULA's fuel depot ambitions because it threatened SLS.

> "We had released a series of papers showing how a depot/refueling architecture would enable a human exploration program using existing (at the time) commercial rockets," Sowers tweeted on Wednesday. "Boeing became furious and tried to get me fired. Kudos to my CEO for protecting me. But we were banned from even saying the 'd' word out loud. Sad part is that ULA did a lot of pathfinding work in that area and could have owned the refueling/depot market, enriching Boeing (and Lockheed) in the process. But it was shut down because it threatened SLS."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/rocket-scientist-say...

Even if the majority of employees are just there to work on the future of rocketry, if the incentives all reward the companies for being as overbudget and underperforming as possible, they are going to respond by being overbudget and underperforming.
I don’t think that’s how it works.

Apple makes about 38% on hardware, right?

Suppose I pay $100 “extra” for an iPhone thanks to limited repairability.

Without that $100, Apple would have to find $38 somewhere else.

As I don’t value repairability, all the options seem worse.

Maybe it would make me $100 happier at the cost of $38 to Apple’s “bottom line”. But I don’t think they would like that investment strategy.
Very true. Enforcement is never 100%. Crimes will continue to happen, some people will always get away with it. But that doesn't mean we should give up on making laws.
Its also a different directive from GDPR, but people like to lump them together for maximum outrage.
Speak for yourself, buddy. You haven't seen my house.
Netflix’s GDPR dump was kind of painful to actually make use of. In particular I wanted to port my 15 years of ratings (over 1000 movies) to Letterboxd but the Netflix dump only gives title as the identifier of the media, and some titles are VERY indistinct.

Any other information, anything else, like Year of movie would have helped. Instead I spent literal hours adjusting my data in Letterboxd’s fantastic import tool.
Even timestamps can count as personal data. For example when they can be used to track working hours.
The place where all RnD shops have migrated to — China
Well, a random example, I imagine that people want to:

cat randomfile

and see the output correctly, at least.
It's one of the huge challenges to mankind, and an underappreciated field of research. If we better understand how to organize ourselves, we can slowly make less shitty systems over time.

That, and before you can make a system work, however shitty it is, you really need to make sure everyone knows how to use it. (hence it's important to educate or on-board people. One of the things en.wikipedia is bad at. )
That's not accurate, at least as far as GDPR is concerned.

Only necessary ones don't need consent, but the bar for "necessary" is high: the software wouldn't be able to function without it and there's no way to implement the software without it. Think: "address" is necessary for "delivery".

Even then you still need consent to store the cookie under most versions of the "Cookie law", which is a complementary but different thing to GDPR.
My very point is that we should have increased the size of the smallest addressable memory unit from 8 to 32 bits, increased again, as previous computer architectures used from 4 to 7 bits per byte. (There might be still e-mail servers around directly compatible with "non-padded" 7-bit ASCII ?)
The first sentence is “The verb decide has deadly interesting origins.”

But yeah, not a great title
I’ll add that working hard doesn’t mean being effective or productive. I can go dig holes in my backyard 24x7 which is very hard work but does nothing. Some people can be very effective 9 to 5 and push progress much further than many others working 14 hr days doing the digital equivalent of digging holes.
> " and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided "

puts this in context. Personal data is everything that is connected to the person requesting it.
Even without forfettario taxes are never 40%.

Income tax is around 20-25%. What is expensive is the pension (27.5%), but as you said those are not taxes.
Thank you h1b visa holders for your shit code

You need to go back to India and fix your shit hole country.
Yeah I think this is a massive loophole. In a B2B setting, there is no GDPR obligation of another company to export all the data that a customer (e.g. a doctor) has uploaded (e.g. data on their patients). We've had some companies quoting hundreds of pounds to do this and have had to get the competition authorities involved.
Nothing ironic at all.

That's how I treat anything that is important to me.

I like to ask questions. And the world is always changing. To think continuous change is "ironic" sounds problematic to me. I mean, that's why they little fat kid inside the large obese woman thinks it's still alright to eat cake for breakfast.

Edit: there is such a thing as eating right for your age!
I developed a tool to train neural networks on AWS with a single command
My friend and I developed Nimbo (https://nimbo.sh), a dead-simple command line tool that allows you to run code on AWS as if you were running it locally.

We decided to build this because we were frustrated with how cumbersome using AWS was, and we just wanted to be able to run jobs on AWS as easily as we run them locally (and make use of our credits). All in all, we didn't like the current AWS user experience, and we thought we could drastically simplify it for the machine learning/scientific computing niche.

For this reason, we also provide many useful commands to make it faster and easier to work with AWS, such as one-command Jupyter notebooks on EC2, easily checking prices, logging onto an instance, syncing data to/from S3, etc.

Unlike other similar services, we are solely client-side, meaning that the code runs on your EC2 instances and data is stored in your S3 buckets (we don't have a server; all the infrastructure orchestration happens in the Nimbo package).

We have tons of ideas for Nimbo, such as docker support and one-command neural network deployments.

We will be hosting a live Nimbo setup session, so if you are interested register here http://eepurl.com/hx-jyv.
Saved you a click: killing one out of ten captives.
You have not seen the journalctl inferno yet.
I agree that directly threatening victims, even corporate victims, is a bad look. But you need financial intermediaries—-brokers, platforms, exchanges, and these institutions upstream banks, brokers, clearinghouses, and so on. These are exactly the type of institutions that governments can exert a lot of pressure on but so far have mostly declined to do so.
Good thing we have laws to prevent this then. Same with minimum wage, minimum wage, work place safety and so on.

Just because you think there is no pressure to reply, doesn't mean there isn't a societal/workplace culture that pushes people to do so when their superiors ask for something. Same reason you can tell a co-work something is dumb, but you would say 'lets look it from another angle' to a manager or ceo.
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“I don't think people realize how much we support OSS at MathWorks”
> Ruby and js aren't installed everywhere.

Neither is Bash, despite belief to the contrary.
Got to add that almost all physical goods are part software these days. In a way, everything becomes software. And fixed costs to create something and put it into the market are huge and tend to grow, but manufacturing unit costs are low and tend to fall.... So this observation applies to most physical goods just as it does to digital ones!
What is the best way to build an email list for marketing?
Not sure you're doing the math well. Can't be 40%.

It's normally 27.5% [1] of pension (so not taxes), plus income taxes (which hardly hit 30%).

Personally even being digital nomad most of my time and living abroad right now I still have my company in Italy, as the final saving isn't that much if you care about having a good pension in future.

[1] this may change if you're part of a profession related pension system, the value I wrote is for the default one.
Encryption is bad for your health! Trust us to monitor your activities to be sure your ideas are correct. Thank you, Big Mother.
Cryptocurrency Tulipmania: Bitcoin is a hustle
And a Veblen good. Really if you want to avoid tax there are easier ways.
Sprinting is a good alternative to weightlifting. Worth giving a shot if you're hesitant to lift weights or don't have the equipment / gym nearby.

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-how-many-sprints-p...
is there indication of speculation the Ransomeware is on the Contoller HMI's or is it Enterprise
The four fish I would still eat – even after watching Seaspiracy
Cultural dominance isn’t an argument against national cohesion.
Sure? https://www.iubenda.com/en/help/23672-gdpr-cookie-consent-ch...

I would claim the only way to make a webapp with login securely function in a usable manner is to use a session cookie with secure transport policy. Do you really need more than that?
> Africa has uploaded around 13,000 sequences to GISAID, and South America has uploaded 14,000 sequences, for instance, compared with about 380,000 from the United Kingdom alone.

Many of these researchers seem to personally benefit more from a closed conditional ecosystem, I'm not entirely sure about their ethical arguments here.
is there evidence of suspicion the Ransomeware is on the controller HMI's, infected from Enterprise connections
Nearly all the major Internet services in China have been doing this for years, like Taobao (Alibaba's eBay), Weibo (Twitter equivalence). Some even ask you to login by using mobile app to scan QR code, so that you must install a mobile app.
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And people keep repeating the lie that the app stores somehow created a better experience for end users. Dark patterns and deliberate sabotage of the UX is pretty much only confined to the mobile ecosystem; Desktop-friendly companies also tend to be much more open (e.g., Discord, and Telegram have bot APIs, Tumblr publishes RSS feeds for all its blogs), while the more mobile-first a company is the more user-hostile it acts (e.g., TikTok uses UUIDs in its share links to track the fuck out of you).

The lies about malware are the most laughable. Malware ultimately only matters for business usage (if for that). I have seen (non-tech-savvy) people here use Windows PCs with all its software pirated (completely typical here in Iran, and presumably in most of the developing world), and they are just fine. They needed to install some antivirus software before Microsoft upped their game, or their computer would break after some (rather long) time, but installing a (pirated, of all things) antivirus app isn’t that hard. People could just pay the computer retail shops to do it for them for a small fee.

Note that this is still the state of affairs even for most enterprise PCs in Iran. Malware just isn’t that pernicious for end users. Ultimately, WhatsApp itself is nothing but malware. There isn’t much difference between poor users who are forced to use a malware-injected cracked app, and people forced to use a privacy-invasive app like WhatsApp because of network effects.
I have a feeling that the unnamed todo service is Todoist. They offer a free plan, but backing up data requires a Pro plan which is really not ideal:

https://todoist.com/help/articles/backups

I use the free plan, don’t reside in Europe, and recently wanted a backup. If you’re in the same boat, I recommend the following project — it has good documentation and immediately worked.

https://github.com/darekkay/todoist-export
“Reading goes quickly when you don’t slow down to comprehend”

https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-06-01
A few years ago, I worked on a project for about 11 months with one other guy and we paired almost all the time. Yes, it was mentally exhausting, yes we had some natural resistance to it at first. But damn was it effective, in producing higher quality code (two eyes on the code, two people to work out every problem or bug, always having someone to ping ideas off), in terms of knowledge sharing (we both understood every single bit of the code) and in terms of shipping on time. It was a complex project (reliably delivering large libraries of content to fleets of airplanes over satellite internet) and we delivered it from start to finish in under a year.

Some mornings I would wake up and really not want to pair, but I'd do it anyway because its what we agreed we'd do, and after an hour or so, I got over it and we were super productive. Sometimes I miss it, especially since I'm mostly working on my own these days.

I don't work there anymore, but last I checked with former colleagues the code was still ticking along in production with no issues.

When pairing, its important to take regular breaks and also to not overdo it (don't work overtime). It IS mentally draining. Most people are also naturally resistant to the idea and I don't think it can work unless all involved people buy into it. But I found it was the most effective way I've ever worked and also quite rewarding.
This is a good idea, but unless *you* have some political capital and room in the budget to design AND perform AND maintain the process long term... You'll only add another competing "standard" to the mess.
https://xkcd.com/927/
True, but we can still try to fix it somehow, because certain eco-systems will never move beyond C and it would be nice not to have to worry about its famous issues as we do to this day.
http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/WikiLifeCycle

Wikipedia seems to somehow be hanging by its fingernails for the last decade or so, despite being somewhere in the 20's on that list.

I guess something was done right. Next time even better?
> That does not make you a health Messiah, quite the opposite really

Nice to see how you interpreted things, but that's all it is.

My point was alluding to the continuous practice.

And the proof is what I see in my and my partner's fitness compared to that of our peers. But don't take it from some random on the internet.

Lastly, yes it's a lot of hard work, and yes that's why you're avoiding it. Good luck!
Well the big difference is that even without laws against rape and murder it is generally still a big exception. On the other hand tracking, carelessness with personal data, privacy violations etc. have been very much the norm with all companies (and arguably still are) even before the GDPR.
in-cision: cut into

de-cision: cut off (eliminate the alternatives)

sui-cide, homi-cide, regi-cide, etc: cut/stab/slay self, a man, a king, etc.
This isn't specific to the article per say, but something I've been discussing with my colleagues revolves around gamification and nudge theory in education. There's a lot of pressure on gamification in financial trading after the GameStop saga in January, and with the pre-existing pressures from loot boxes, I'm starting to ask "Why is it okay for education to do it?"

I think nudge theory is a subset of all the elements that make up gamification, but still, the idea that something is okay to do because "we're doing it to help people" seems a bit odd.
Perhaps the dust particle causes the head to jump up and back down again, but the disruption to the data stream being read isn't sufficient to prevent ecc returning good data?
It's like some HNers never learning the simple art of deduction.
It is already stable enough?
Requirement to pair is discriminatory for neurodiverse people. I always quit a company when they forced me to pair. I don't mind from time to time, but often it ends being me doing all the work but sharing the reward with other person that contributed little.
wasn't mate ported to gtk3 as well?
Maybe because it's actually your sarcasm detector that's broken...
I was just thinking about this.

I've been delaying allowing whatsapp from sharing my data with facebook for a while now, but last news is that unless I give in to the extortion, I won't be allowed to send and receive messages to my contacts.

I'm going to request all my data to Whatsapp using GDPR before switching all my conversations to Telegram, I guess.
Napoleon is Europe's Oda Nobunaga. A demon who changed Europe forever.
I guess you're using Linux? Memory management for desktop applications is really sub-par compared to macOS or even Windows.
My 16Gb mac has zero problems with a comparable workload.
Just did exactly that with Avant. Could see where I was initially approved but then their manager said I was "still on contract" and quashed my application.
Would love to discuss it and further understand your viewpoint. Feel free to be as frank as you need to be, would love to hear a radical new opinion on this.

From my experience, what she said is still highly relevant.

Maybe I can share my own viewpoint first: Imagine you want to use a third party dependency from GitHub. The first thing you will do is read the readme, which contains an architectural overview (if the project is documented well). This overview is very similar to what she describes in the paper - it's mostly prose and a few (non-formal) diagrams. Often, it's very hard to understand how the code fits into the bigger picture of the system. Also, a lot of info is implicit or only contained in prose (for example, which function do I call first?).

Wouldn't it be great if all this were standardized/codified in some way, and not just part of the documentation?
> I can't say I liked it. Looks like a loosely-associated bag of trivia

As a fan of etymology, I'd have to agree. It went so quickly between facts that I didn't recall the previous facts and barely had time to pay attention to the current facts, before it moved on. I'm also not a fan of the layout. One much shorter video focusing on one color would've been a lot better for me, then rinse and repeat. As for the layout, I would have it show the presenter talking while in the top corner the images are shown. Something less visually distracting.

My feeling is that etymology-focused content is hard to produce. I've seen several channels or podcasts and they all fall short in a few areas.
Telegram has an open API, so if this is really the case, you can ultimately fork the app.
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