skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. It's a fixing the algorithm vs tweaking some parameters situation.

PS: if I were to design a state I would make it a part of the constitution that laws must either be written with placeholder variables for any concrete numbers you'd want to put into them or specify only concrete values for those placeholders and nothing else. And no single vote can contain both kinds at once.
Actual headline: "Exclusive: How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media"

(Also previously submitted by georgecmu and dsr12, but admittedly their submissions didn't get traction. Try, try again!)
> want a global minimum tax rate so as to avoid a "race to the bottom" where countries can undercut each other with low tax rates.

That is competition. Governments, corporations, and every other entity on earth should work that way.

If a global entity wants a better deal, they should be able to get one.

This is nothing more than universal trade restriction. Trade restriction that is designed to keep global powers in power and keep the little guy scraping by.
They say the technology is patent pending, maybe they indeed have come with some workaround.
> Stories (tasks) are the focus of attention; [...] We forget that stories are only a crude approximation of the work needed to finish an initiative; and more importantly, that the work only matters when it has delivered end value.

The fundamental principle of story-based work planning is that the story is an atomic unit of end value; stories may be groups into larger units that represent broader goals or divided into smaller tasks for planning convenience, but the defining aspect of the story is that it is the smallest unit of work providing independent end-value.

It’s true that, especially with Scrum and similar processes with timeboxed work cycles, teams tend to end up using “stories” that aren’t real user stories, but units of work (which may not even have started as real user stories, as instead of reserving a timeslice for support [refactoring, general infrastructure, and other useful for velocity but not directly targeting specific user needs tasks] work, the same disfunction leads teams to arbitrarily declare that all work must be called stories whether or not it is) arbitrarily carved up to fit the cycle timebox and the team’s [or some decision-maker’s] arbitrary preference for the number of work items per cycle.

I would argue that this is because sprints are a software development process antipattern in and of themselves, are particularly in tension with user-story-based work organization, and lower the resistance to a number of other antipatterns of the general description of applying classic top-down non-agile project management within a framework of “agile” buzzwords.
Hilariously there's an argparse library for R, which has python as a dependency.
As always from the bbc: lies after lies. "[...] that hate science and hate scientists" - really. After two years of this bs. Godspeed Jürgen.
Guy from China logged into a video tech interview. Fully nude, only wearing sunglasses, and behind him a huge swastika. That was an instant disconnect for me and a rejection email to the candidate.

Edit for concerned folks: it was a Nazi swastika. Red flag, black tilted swastika.
What if, to take advantage of the profitable 10%, you are better off providing a rich page, albeit with a large filesize? I have no evidence to support that claim, other than that large profitable companies generally seem to think this is the case.
This, to me, is a straw man
> 99% of these sorts of problems can be eliminated by being up-front with your system requirements and expectations from your customer

At my last job, and also every IoT company I've worked at, we've implemented an HTTP endpoint that just returned the current time in milliseconds. Why would we do this? Well, it turns out, many corporate networks just block NTP all together and refuse to open up egress on NTP because "UDP is insecure and we only allow HTTPS"

> We are in a position to fire our customers if they are not willing to work with us on critical technical constraints like this. You should not punish your technical team because your customer is unable to satisfy their part of the bargain, unless there is some special fee or other compensatory measure in the contract.

I would have loved to have this freedom but unfortunately smaller startups, that are just getting established, don't always have this ability. In the end this was solved in a few different ways. One of my favorite is to just get a 4G modem in your device and an IoT data plan from any telecom. You can also pay a little more to get the ISP to NAT you to a VPN you can talk to all of your devices directly.

I've never used this provider but you get an idea of the market: https://www.oliviawireless.com/ipsec-vpn-for-iot
Basically the same way that you decide who is a citizen of anywhere.
Music video made of 3700 photos from a 35mm analogue camera
Or a pair of icons: one of which mites your microphone and the other drops you out of the audio conference completely.
You can get a "legacy" installer for Focal server:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-legacy-server/releases/20.0...

I'm using it myself for $DAYJOB, although, as you say, my Bionic preseed needed a _lot_ of adaptation.
No neighbor that let you piggyback on their connection? (That of course doesn't change the fundamental shittyness of the overall lack of available access)
Its particularly easy to miss info leaks when you manipulate fields which have some kind of autofill or live search functionality.

You start up something by typing into the start menu, but between pressing the first and second letters for some frames unintended documents could flash up.

You need to try typing the alphabet one by one into these fields to see whether anything sensitive comes up.

Edit: nice recommendations on your part!
A Rubyist's Walk Along the C-Side (Part 4): Primitive Data Types
What was billing address on the invoice? The British company probably provided VAT number to buy VAT-free too.
Not only to sell to advertisers, but to share with media companies (and some ISPs are subsidiaries of media companies) for even more targeted content creation.
Good design is more subtle and sensitive and on purpose.

Each and every software user-interfaces has it's own constraints. It can be solved with a goal in mind that this software has to be accessible first without accumulating much of user's time to get themselves learn about on how to use it.

It's a bit trickiest thing, that that we take UI design as an art-form like a painting. It is different, good painting will evoke user's emotions in many ways. Whereas software UI design doesn't, instead it is there just to get the functionalities clear and concise for the user to do their work. That being said, UI design is an art-form in itself if we try to master it.
I'm not arguing about anything related to borders. If someone is working a non-remote job, I assume they are a local worker. What the comment I replied to based their argument on is that certain people should have the freedom choose to trade work conditions for higher wages to improve their lives, but other people shouldn't. The classification that was given for that distinction was on the basis of nationality or refugee status, read Mexicans and Somalians.
I was expecting to hear about someone who got a new phone, set up Signal using the phone number, and then communicated with contacts without any more authentication.

This doesn't appear to be anything of the kind. Signal has implemented a migration system so that people can move to a new phone without changing the safety number.

Then a bunch of references to the promises Signal makes about re-verifying if the safety number changes. Since the safety number doesn't change, none of those actually apply.
The Spanish engineer who created the ‘Yayagram’ to communicate with his granny
He's been real quiet about Facebook stock today.
Part 4 of the series - "A Rubyist's Walk Along the C-side"

https://blog.peterzhu.ca/ruby-c-ext/
"Why Are So Few Dental Hygienists Are Men?"

"A combination of a high barrier to entry and outdated attitudes keep men out of a profession where they could thrive."

I hope to see something like this on Wired someday.
One more: (might be obvious, but I managed to forget) for longer interviews where you can be expected to talk a lot, have a glass of water within reach. Particularly important if you're not used to talking a lot.
It takes time. But SV was kickstarted by gov investments.
> If you need to be told to shower and brush your hair/teeth, you probably shouldn't be giving interviews in the first place.

Some people are unaware that basic hygiene and appearance matter on video calls. Just look at any virtual class from school or university, you will see people in pajamas, bed-head hair, various states of dress from normal to nearly naked.
All that text for a feature that no one, including the author uses correctly. Messaging your mates to reassure them everything is correct via Signal after you update your device and your safety number changes is pointless.

The main function of safety numbers is to theoretically prevent mass mitm of Signal.
I love this sidebar on conflict resolution:

> Interplay was in a strong position with the development of the game and did not want to back down. So I took drastic measures. I thought of creating an endless fax. A huge fax of a meter long in which I wrote in big letters "keep the original intro music". I would insert it in the fax, enter the number, and when the transmission started, I would tape both ends of the letter together, which would create a circle that went on and on until there was no paper left in the offices of Interplay, at the other end. Even so, all this paper coming out of their machine had little impact.
Recycling plastic is understood to be greenwashing for most types of plastic. And arguably recycling is a gateway behavior, for some, to more substantive changes, like eating less meat or just buying less crap.
Regardless of the conclusion, the experiments are robust and show that people behave differently with different levels of indirection. So the experiments can still be used to argue that the effects of indirection are real and probably measurable.
Using Clang LibFuzzer coverage-guided fuzzing engine with Nim
I think this is long overdue, and I'm glad they recognize the challenge of smaller nations offering lower tax rates in order to "seduce" companies to do business there. For me, that is the insidious problem where if BigCorp paid 5% in taxes in a country with a GDP of a few hundred million $ they would provide all the tax revenue for all the services that country could need. This "it's a good deal for both sides" situation has made progress here difficult, and it will make getting this through the G20 hard as well.

I would imagine that in the ideal situation a government would tax some percentage of GDP which would spread the tax burden across the economy evenly, but making that work seems impossible.
The legal responsibility angle of this all always leave my head spinning.

If you let your dog off leash in a place where it is illegal to do so, congratulations: you've just lost the lawsuit.

If anything remotely funny happens -- regardless of what -- the liability can and will fall on the dog-owner for their reckless behavior. The real sad part of this is when the dog gets put down for the stupid owner...but my point is the people who let their dogs off leash have also posted a big, red sign saying "I'm responsible for anything happening here" -- even though few of them seem aware of that fact. Liability only becomes a question again if there is another dog-owner with their dog off leash.
> a hand me down from my parents with 512MB of ram and a single core 1.6GHz cpu

Wow. I'm feeling old. My first computer ran at 1MHz with 16K of memory. :)
Isaac Asimov Asks How Do People Get New Ideas
If they leave their dogs off leash in leash-only areas, YES, they are being inconsiderate.
Biden did not invent this. Its been in the works for years pushed by other countries. USA just agreed or some will say conceded.
it's not really surprising a bug like bunny hopping would exist, either. You have to realize at the time that everyone was coming from Doom and was still using keyboard movement. I was using keyboard movement in Quake. It wasn't until I joined in with a few friends in QuakeWorld that someone said "hey, you really need to start using a mouse to play." You could get away with keyboard in single player, but even back then you would get stomped by the mouselook players.

What's amusing is you could always tell the keyboard players back then, by the way they slowly turned around.

Anyway, playing with the mouse was a new thing. Mouse acceleration, dpi, etc. were all just experiments. Introducing a new way to move would surely uncover bugs hidden in the physics code that simply weren't possible to hit with keyboard movement.
> They are not a force of good,

If they do good things, then they are a force of good.

> they are a force of profits.

Yes, but this has nothing to do with whether they do good things or not.

> Apple continues to participate in some pretty evil practices, planned obsolescence

This is simply a false accusation. It is their stated goal to increase useful lifetime of their devices as much as possible.

> and right to repair are two great examples.

Also, just an empty claim. Their products are more repairable than most. “Right to repair” thinking applies well to things like tractors, but poorly to devices like phones.
The "safety number" also encodes both participants phone numbers (the verifier and the person to be verified). So you would be a little foolish to publish it in say, a blog post if you weren't intending those phone numbers to be public information. I'm also very amused that the author censored part of the QR code, but not the human readable text below it containing the exact same data.
Volkswagen & Toyota are doing great however their workers are being paid less in real terms than they would had been in the 1970s despite modern car factories being significantly more productive. And this is not surprising because they are competing with workers currently working other industries which are not protected by tariffs.

According to https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm... immigration didn't start growing until ~1970 and it increased significantly in the 1980's and later.
To avoid that, I always run zoom or obs or any other tool inside a Xephyr (main desktop is on walynand) and eventually a container if I have to navigate files. I've seen so many horror stories, aws keys, paswwords, porn...
Yes that sounds right: everyone should probably be given a ration for a guaranteed allotment food each month. In NYC during the pandemic they opened up free meals for everyone, regardless of income. A society where enough food is provided by default seems like a more humane society to me.
The formation of the Chrome team is the moment when Google’s support for the open web died.
I would like to know why the data they had been working from was decades old. Was it a funding issue?
I wrote about Diskprices.com[1]. They've got a pretty awesome FAQ that cuts through the layers and sheds light on something I've always found as the root cause of too much design - i.e, modern corporations have too many full-time designers. If you study the history of corporate design, it wasn't the case at all.

[1] https://neil.computer/notes/the-design-of-diskprices-com/
A simple question. But since this question was +2, and is now -2; I guess there are a lot of people who don't want it to be asked..
>- I'm sure you have the one dog in the world that doesn't chase birds. Most dogs do. This is specifically about that case.

This really demonstrates your ignorance. Such dogs are not uncommon, particularly when well trained. My dog doesn't chase birds. She's a border collie that lives for frisbee and frisbee only. I taught her the herding maneuvers, but she does it lackadaisically and it's hard to get her to give eye to chickens. She's just not into it, but she'll humor me if I tell her to do it. Frisbee though... she is. And she can be at a dead sprint after a frisbee in flight and if I say "Stop" she'll stop on a dime. If the frisbee drifts off the field and into the street, she'll simply stop on the edge of the grass or sidewalk and wait for my ok to go get it without me saying anything.

And my dog really isn't special. Honestly, she has been a difficult to train dog from day one, but she has still been trained. Her mother though... man she's a true pleasure to work with.

I usually walk her off leash as well. When people ask me to put her on leash, I do, and I hold it with a loose pinky finger since it's kind of a joke because of how unneeded it is.
TL;DR of article: Signal transfers key material upon migrating to a new device if you use the "transfer messages" workflow. As a result, safety numbers do not change.

I don't see how this is a problem at all. This was actually a feature that many Signal users wanted to use - they didn't want to re-verify safety numbers every time that they had to reinstall Signal or switch to a new phone.

> We don't want anyone to get hurt by way of trusting privacy guarantees which may be more conditional than they appear from the docs!

> If Bob notices the chat safety number with Alice has changed and then Alice sends a bunch of suspect-sounding messages or asks to meet in person and Bob has never met Alice in person before, for example, Bob should be wary. After Alice for example is forced to provide device passcode or unlock their device with their fingerprint or face, Alice's device could be cloned over to a new device by way of quick transfer functionality without Alice's consent, and the messages could be coming from the cloned device rather than Alice's actual device.

Respectfully, this doesn't make any sense. Signal provides security from device to device, it doesn't stop someone from pointing a gun to your head and looking at your messages or pretending to be you after stealing your phone. If someone has the physical possession of your phone necessary to perform a device transfer, then you're already screwed. The idea that a safety number change would alert the person on the other end that you're being held hostage is outlandish and is completely divorced from any normal use of Signal.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Rare Shining Clouds on Mars
So, while reading the beginning of this I immediately thought of buddhism, which they touch on towards the end of the article; the idea of using 2nd or 3rd person language seems directly in line with the concepts of relinquishing attachment, in this case to the 'I', or ego.

That said, it's interesting that they draw parallels to other types of distancing, particularly temporal distancing, because (zen) buddhism, or at least mindful meditation tends to talk about coming back to the moment, or the "now", which seems like a contradiction.

I'm by no means a practicer, just have a lot of curiosity and have read a decent amount about buddhism, zen, and the like, but I'd be curious to hear some of these points expanded on more.
It will matter, because (again, totally guessing) the agreement will probably make distinctions between in-treaty countries and out-treaty. Beyond theat, idk.
I mean I think you misinterpreted my post.

But instead of going back to read it again you misinterpreted my reply too (thinking I somehow was insisting on the thing you misinterpreted the first time!)

To be clear: all I said was 1) I played FPS’es for as long as they have existed (early 90s) 2) I played CS competitively. These two things are of course separate things and happened about a decade apart.
Correct, gerrymandering has no effect on senate races.
I had an in-person interview for a job a couple of years ago, and I'd turned up with my two year old son.

I later heard that the way I dealt with him helped enormously in getting a good impression of me.

(Not the first time I've taken a child to an interview; people generally seem to take it in their stride here in Finland, which is a little odd to me as a Brit.)
Fun with the public wifi that your Comcast-provided router or Amazon mesh network is making available to the world...
What's the point of walking a dog on a leash, though? Dogs need to stretch their legs. They're supposed to run around. The underlying problem is people taking in animals as pets without taking the responsibility that should be required as a dog owner.
But why do intra-company IP transfers have to be treated as actually moving money?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27404125

Twitter Ban in Nigeria (bbc.com)

55 points by kaladin_1 5 hours ago | 74 comments

And a bit of discussion in underscore_ku's submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396277

Nigeria suspends Twitter operations, says it undermines its corporate existence (techcrunch.com)

28 points by rustoo 1 day ago | 5 comments
Isn't there a way to block internal up transfers and actual IP sales? Is that the issue? Like we want to block google to Google transfers, but not company a to "actually unrelated" company b?
Yes something is very wrong with that page, all I see is a link to "all blogs" and a textbox asking for my email address. And I do have JS enabled. FF88.
I second federated table connector (and scheduled queries).
Dust storms heighten risk of Valley fever
It's not worth rehashing this debate unless someone brings something new to the table, but this is just a short blog post.
Tarring and feathering used to serve us pretty well.
Bigquery can read directly from cloud SQL.
The "nothing ever changes" people are aware Perdue is now a former senator, right?
The problem in this case is that no other company would agree to pay 100% of revenue to Google Ireland for their services. Google Ireland is overcharging, not undercharging.
One of my more radical political views is I'm 100% behind a corporate death penalty, as well as direct personal criminal consequences for company principals that engage in fraud or similar.

The sad reality of the world is that once a business is past a threshold of power, it's nearly impossible to hold them accountable. Craven sociopaths know they can do what they do, and worst case, suffer some bad press while they move on to the next thing, banking 100's of millions the whole way.

Make those people truly terrified of the consequences of their actions and politics will be utterly transformed.
So Johnny English was right after all.
But presumably Wikipedia is (or at least ought to be) written for people who didn't already sit through any lectures on the subject?
Hammers are great. Don't use hammers on screws. Don't forget about hammers either. Just learn more tools and techniques.
The UK already has an 18% GST rate, which is equivalent to an 18% tax on revenues. In 2020, Apple had revenues of $274B and pre-tax net income of $67B. On which, they paid $10B in income tax (a 15% rate).

Apple revenues in the UK was about $2B. Which means Apple is already paying $360mil in GST tax to the UK gov. Apple also paid some amount of wage, income, real-estate and other taxes.

Let's imagine companies had to pay income tax on a pro-rated, point-of-sales basis. Thus, apple's pre-tax income for the UK would be 2/274 * 67 = $500M. At a 20% income tax rate, this would net the UK gov an additional $100M.

This is why they want this sort of thing. It has nothing to do with fairness. The US gov is generally opposed to pro-rating profits based on location of sales. Because the US tax code allows companies to effectively deduct foreign taxes from net income, income taxes paid overseas has the effect of reducing income tax paid to the US gov.
I imagine there is a human factors tradeoff here. If signal notified on each migration, users with even medium sized contact lists would likely be getting constant notifications - making the alert useless. See medical device or aviaton alerts experiences.