skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a reasonable approach assuming you're not doing anything personal off-the-clock that requires a laptop computer.

It's something I'm not worried about in general given our work policies and practices. I just travel with a personal MacBook or Chromebook.
Because mobile apps ported on the web often suck (ahem... Instagram, TikTok), and the mobile version might suck less.
54% of all tablets in USA maybe? It's more like 5.4% of all tablets in reality
I’m not.
The list of novelty clock modes are very funny! LoL
Local Delivery Alternatives Bite into DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber
“There’s nothing that DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats do that can’t be replicated locally and operated at a much lower cost,” Sewell says. “There’s no need to send all this money to a bunch of venture capital-backed firms in California and Chicago who managed to figure out how to get between restaurants and their customers.”
This infographic from the article itself is quite interesting: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/scitransmed/early/2021/06...

Also, this stuck out to me from the nih.gov summary:

“The estimate of COVID-19 cases in the United States in mid-July 2020, 3 million in a population of 330 million, should be revised upwards by almost 20 million when the percent of asymptomatic positive results is included,” said senior co-author Kaitlyn Sadtler, Ph.D., chief of the NIBIB Section on Immunoengineering.

From the article itself[0]:

"Our results estimate that as of July 2020 there were approximately 4.8 undiagnosed infections (95% CI 2.76-6.81, Fig. S6) for every identified case of COVID-19, suggesting a potential 16.8 million undiagnosed infections by July 2020 in addition to the reported 3 million diagnosed cases in the United States."

It seems like the original quote should actually read "should be revised upwards to almost 20 million".

[0] https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/21/scitrans...
I assume it's for liability reasons in case they start a lawsuit.
Google delays FLoC rollout until 2023
Yeah, it’s a bit much. The “extreme” reading is slowly becoming the only acceptable one. Partly because of comments like the one precipitating the thread: there’s no good reason to try to connect these items.
Sure, but fortunately we’re not context-free text generators. We are able to see that we are in a thread where the guy was let go for poor performance. Like that shit is not “poor performance”.

Y’all are playing me if you think that.
In a way, this kind of happens already. Different companies target different segments of the population with their products, and targeted advertising makes sure that only specific segments of the population see certain ads.

A poor person might get ads for predatory banking products and payday loans, while a wealthier person might get ads for investment products and mortgages or business loans. The latter person might get ads for Whole Foods, while the former gets ads for Dollar Tree.
You're replying to a comment that says "in small claims" and lawyers don't appear in small claims court. Though I don't know about winning vs Google there, just that it's worked against Uber.
Based on their claims of how they validated it by comparing the data with 60 some persons whos tax filings were public (e.g. politicans) it would be reasonable to assume that ProPublica received detailed tax records on a considerable fraction of all Americans. Certainly whomever collected the data had access to that.
> Ah perfect, let Dorsey and Zuck be the arbiters of truth.

That's not what I said. It could very well come from an independent organization. Fb and others would just be responsible for putting it in front of the people's eyes that they have shown disinformation to. Is that a perfect solution? Probably not but what the hell else are we gonna do?

What do you suggest we do instead?
> We were investigating the employee as part of their offboarding.

I do not know how it works in your country, but anything that you discover of his personal life becomes a liability for the company. If he had AIDS and now you get that knowledge and it leaks, you may find the company fined for big money. In Europe, again and again, companies are forbidden to use any knowledge gained spying on employees.

What reason would you have to investigate an employee that is leaving the company anyway? Unless it has some contractual impact and your company HR/legal department is aware, there is no reason. "To see what the employee was doing" is not a legal reason.

I strongly agree that IT needs ethical education. That you have access to some information does not mean that you have the right to access it or that it is moral to do so.
What is the technical foundation - language, libraries etc?
Another coronavirus epidemic probably hit 132 years ago.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
Understood and I appreciate the kind reply.
Agreed. If he's already been let go, who cares what's on his laptop?
It's important to document and archive the contents for liability reasons, but the takeaway here is that you should remember that the laptop belongs to the company and you have zero rights to privacy on it, so conduct yourself appropriately.
If you got the laptop in a sealed Apple box (purchased by employer), and set up macOS yourself, created your own admin user and everything, does this remote access still apply?
"Relatable" in the sense that you can imagine that if you grew up in Canada or the USA one or two generations ago, you could easily have been supportive such policies yourself in your own country.
It really seems like they're currently doing the same thing to 6/6T owners, trying to run out the clock before they eventually release Android 11.

Based on reports from those with newer 1+ phones, I'm not sure I'd want to upgrade anyway. I'm already annoyed that they broke hiding the notch in A10 and that's a pretty minor bug compared to some of the ones others are dealing with.
Yes, messageboards, etc. should be considered read-only at best on work devices.
> Given the bandwidth of 60+ hard drives (150MB/s per hard drive x 60 == 9GB/s in/out)

Given their scale and goal, it would be pretty wasteful to build it to max the writing speed of all hard drives. Considering you rarely write on the pod, you would be better of getting a fraction of that speed and writing on multiple pods at the same time to get the required peak performance.

In fact actually that makes much more sense to put that math on some ingests server and theses hard drive servers would simply write the resulting data. It makes it much easier and faster to divide it over 20 pods like they currently do.
How come this was never brought up during a performance review
If you use the same computer for work and home, then you may be able to create a user account for your work stuff and a different user account for your home stuff.

If you do consulting for multiple customers, then you may be able to create a different user account per customers, so there's some separation among your customers' information.

If you're able to use thin clients, then you may be able to create separate user accounts on the servers, so any files stay fully on the servers and never download to your local computer.

When you use multiple user accounts, you're having the operating system help separate things per account, such as each account's credentials, profiles, logins, histories, cookies, caches, etc.
I’ve never understood why people do this and I never will. Work equipment for work things, personal equipment for personal things. Don’t login to your bank, pay bills etc on work equipment.

Not because it’s “wrong” or something, but because doesn’t that just strike you as a bad idea? They own that equipment, you don’t know what’s on it, what it’s recording or reporting. If you’re traveling you have your phone.

You should trust your employer on some level because you work for them, but this is a case where you won’t even need to think about trust if you just don’t do it.

Use airdrop etc to move files around.
I do remember reading an analysis by a bigger studio here recently who basically said the same thing - the Linux userbase was less than 5% of all users, but over 90% of their support requests were for Linux. It was just unfeasible to support long term, the support was costing them more money than those users could ever bring.
Worldwide. In the US it is slightly higher.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/tablet/worldwide
Offtopic: Once you have built and installed plain AOSP, you'll realize that there is no "Stock/Vanilla" Android - It doesn't even haven an login account system. The time has stopped like 5 years ago or so in terms of the visual design. You can check how it looks like in the emulator environment if you're only lightly curious.

Even Lineage isn't stock, although they've done a great job to make it feel like that.
Well, I guess you haven't looked recently.
> I don’t see why anyone would do anything else.

Because that is the smart thing to do. I got to purchase my laptop when I left the company, and they still wiped it out before handling it. It protects them and it protects me. I do not want access to any company resource, it can only hurt me. And they are not interested anymore on what was in the laptop either.
And Twitter turned me into an a*hole. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The dancing required to stay within the happy paths, and the necessity of avoiding certain common abstractions in order to do so, leaves me convinced it must be much easier to write performant high-level code in C, C++, Rust etc than in something like JavaScript or Python. While it's possible to write fast code in the latter, it doesn't seem like much fun.
Unsupervised discovery of features, patterns, via variational autoencoders
Although in the US damages for defamation can include compensatory damages (intended to "make the plaintiff whole" by compensating for monetary losses) they can also include general damages for non-economic impacts (for example mental anguish & damage to reputation) as well as other types of damages.

However, not all US states allow all types of damage claims and/or have special rules or higher burdens of proof related to those types of claims.

Generally speaking though, it is incorrect to say that somebody must show that they have had actual, monetary damages in order to be successful in a defamation lawsuit.

This overview from the Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School) has some helpful info: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation
Also, any company that will not give you a phone (if necessary for your job) and/or a computer (if necessary for your job), run away. Just, run away.
You’re correct, but I’d guess that’s a level of nuance beyond what the article is geared for.
At an effectively constant rate independent of content.
It makes sense if you think you're likely to have to defend the decision in court. For instance, I've worked on a team where a guy was fired for performance reasons that were obvious to all of us, but he sued and claimed it was discrimination. HR had known of a performance problem and the process was documented, but if the trustworthiness of the manager who gave them all that information is cast in doubt, could they really defend it quickly and decisively in court? We all had to be deposed. Imagine if it became a lengthy court case. I imagine it would be nice for the company to have a paper trail of convincing evidence of a performance problem. A timeline of significant, non-work web browsing during work hours on work machines would do the trick, and protect the rest of the team and the company.

That said, I agree with the commenters that I wouldn't want to work somewhere that did this as a matter of routine. I always have my work laptop encrypted with a key only I know and I have not (yet) been forced to give work root access for management. I'm always confident handing in my laptop that they couldn't find anything even if there was something.
essentially it seems that his venture capital firm IS his Roth IRA - and it was making the investments - definitely not hands off
Figuring out or demonstrating the "Quantifiably injurious" part might be very hard https://thelawdictionary.org/article/when-to-sue-for-defamat...
The good news is there's no way this total lack of privacy controls at the IRS will ever be used against non-billionaires.
But what if C comes up with a new product that is perfect for you? You’ll never know, and C will go out of business. A and B will continue to dominate.

Now with mass marketing, the biggest budget has the most reach, so it’s hard for C to break into the market.

With targeted ads, C at least has a chance to reach the customers who might love it.

Targeted ads gets us one step closer to a more dynamic economy that serves every individual perfectly and one step further from entrenched corporates selling the same old middle of the road crap to everybody. Crap that nobody loves or hates.
Next time my town doesn't permit my porch, I'l make sure to call Joe Biden.
Games should work fine on Mint. The only reason I can't recommend Linux for most people is that there is no usable office suite. And no the libre and open office really are not usable.
There are multiple different types of coops. Here’s a good breakdown: https://ncdc.unl.edu/typescooperatives.shtml

You’re correct that financing is harder compared to VC funding, and likely involves personal or bank loans.
As well as envy and greed, though, they'll never admit it.
It's the other way around: somne work on personal computer.
The lawmakers are quite literally the same people who advise rich people on taxes.

The funniest thing I ever saw was an African civil servant who had gone private now telling foreign companies how to fuck the government he used to work for.
Okay, one member state did it.
Legal reasons for pending litigation. And we're not in Europe.
(IIRC, libel is about written defamatory falsehoods, while slander is about spoken defamatory falsehoods.)
IMHO, The main things of interest are the 40% smaller Windows Updates, TPM 2.0 requirement and Microsoft account requirement.

* Windows Updates need to be solved even more comprehensively (get rid of winsxs or use smaller backing, adopt sane file locking so that reboots are less required, etc.). Still any improvement can justify a new version by itself.

* Per wiki, TPM 2.0 was released in 2019. 2019 wasn't that long ago. Does that mean older computers will be unable to run W11? Many more computers will end up running Linux eventually.

* The account requirement is unfortunately. Really, MS didn't get enough users using the old method?
> Is it, though? I genuinely don’t think so.

Are you a lawyer?

> Which court in what land uses that information?

That seems like a question for the legal department, not for the IT department.

You're doing this thing that smart people do (I know because I do it myself if I'm not careful) where you way overstep your area of expertise. It's not a good look, avoid the trap.
Well, even if you managed to disappear yourself - what about your family / friends? Don't you think that these people would go after them to get to you?

Generally I would assume that you might pull it of if:
- you leave your home country and never come back
- you cut all connections with friends / family
- you spend a decent chunk of the proceeds on personal protection
- you never talk about your previous life
- you drastically change your appearance
- you never travel and keep a very low profile (e.g. no Ferraris, no mansions, no superyachts)

But these are a lot of IFs and you might still slip.

You should also consider that some people will never forgive.
Here [1] just a random news article about someone getting killed because of a dispute that happened 20 years before.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/revenge-doesn-t-have...
AWS Announces AWS BugBust
Your top claim was:

>People in western-Europe are happier than folk in the US, with more worker's rights and less wages.

That's two factors you linked. Let's look at them:

You imply that "workers rights" and "less wages" are perhaps major causal factors for happiness. Despite the fact you misapply western Europe, and ignore those countries in western Europe that don't fit your claim, even the part you quoted is a tiny part of the reasons listed, they do not state a single thing about workers rights (you mean legal rights like unions or contracts, or simply welfare state, which is not so much workers rights as citizen rights) and not a mention of lower wages.

What in the stuff you quoted support "workers rights" being a major cause? Or lower wages? Every single factor in there are largely or completely state functions. Let's list them: pensions (perhaps unions, definitely not stated, most Nordic have large state pension funds), income maintenance for the ill or disabled (almost certainly all state functions), unemployment benefits (state functions), the finding that "welfare state generosity..." (also completely state functions).

And this is a 1/4 of the larger reasons: (1) welfare benefits, (2) low corruption, (3) well functioning democracy, and (4) well functioning state institutions.

So - of 1/4 of the possible reasons, you quoted a statement with another 4 components, and the two you listed are not mentioned.

Are you claiming "workers rights" are a major causal factor for (not Western Europe, but Nordic) countries happiness?
> The rules have shifted and it's allowed some new players on the field, but it's the exact same game.

Yeah this is exactly my point.
In my agency, we are allowed to use work laptop for personal purposes, except certain prohibited software and prohibited sites.

I don't store files though: they are only accessed though the browser.
Ta-da

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/health/data-privacy-prote...
Linux distros also have equivalents to App Stores, and really an app store isn't different than apt-get from a lay persons perspective. Assuming you ignore payment/cuts, but it seems you're opposed to free App Stores too.
I use a personal AWS Workspace as my personal machine, that I can access from my work laptop. It's handy, although I wish the cost was lower. Does anyone have a better managed VDI suggestion?
CNN Has a Strong Contender for the Worst Chart You’ll Ever See
Which is a Tsun-tzu reference presumably, he says don't enter a battle unless you have 'already' won (through preparation, numerical supremacy, etc.).
I think one of the biggest risks to the employee is the CEO or anybody in power simply deciding to letting you go and suddenly taking your machine from you without notice while you're in the office.

Or a ransomware invading your work laptop and encrypting your stuff.

Or your creepy IT guy figuring out the stuff you post on amazon or having access to your nudes or whatever.
For what it's worth, I agree with you. We've developed entirely new capabilities that grew out of tangential conversation after in-person meetings. A few of our technical folks prefer remote work, largely because it saves them from stupid commutes. I've noticed the folks most against it are the ones who have historically built new things (myself included), and if I stick around I'm going to miss collaborating with them in person.
Ubiquiti FAQ 2.0
Dude these are basically Holocaust victims pleading for help and you're saying they shouldn't be allowed to prove they have real identities?
These days I do almost all of my work on my personal desktop since it's so much faster and more pleasant than my work issued laptop. Funny enough, the main time I use the work laptop is to play Netflix while doing the dishes or folding laundry. So I'm sure it looks like I'm not doing anything at all. Laptops off for 3 days, I turn it on and go straight to Netflix. Oh well.
Instead of anecdotes, how about we look at objective data?

https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
What people are missing here is the fact that Peter Theil is investing in new companies that go on to create thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in taxes every year. He risks his capital to create these new companies, and a lot of his investments go to zero. The next effect of this is that he's generating a lot more tax revenue for the IRS that he's saving from his Roth IRA.
Clocks are amazing pieces of hardware. They're surprisingly simple, but deterministic, also very monotonous because of the work they do.

An arhythmic clock which looks like broken, but keeping the time correct is interesting in many fronts. First, it looks broken, but it's not. Second, if the movement is a bit noisy, monotonous tick-rocks will become irregular, hence interesting for our brain.

In other ways, it's delightfully non-conventional, but working as intended at the end. As a result of this, it's kinda delicious as it's interesting. That's a good combination.

Lastly, all of this is packaged as a de-facto standard wall/desk clock movement. Consider if you change your meeting room's big wall clock to this. Lazy, Whacky or Tuney would be fun. Very fun.
I'd love to see that for the entertainment value alone!
In part because the same investigatory bodies that would investigate and issue those charges benefit greatly not only from our country's mature surveillance infrastructure and the data it sucks up, but also from the friendly partnerships they have with the companies that own the surveillance infrastructure.
The "limited time" free upgrade to Windows 10 apparently still works to this day, so I strongly doubt Windows 11 will be any different.
Fun fact: We had an issue with a testing system I worked on years back, and it turned out SoaTest logging every single xml request it sent a mock response to as a separate file in the same directory made it impossible to delete the files with rm * because '*' overflowed the shell buffer for maximum string length. I think it was something like 60 million files that had accumulated.

There was actually a tangentially similar case where we had to log all of the queued tips that get sent to the Navy's maritime domain awareness system that get purged because they aren't positively adjudicated in time, and this queue could get so large in testing environments because the system kept automatically filling the queue but no one was around to adjudicate, that the log message would grow larger than the JVM's maximum string length.

Yet another where our regression test suite did a pixel-by-pixel bytewise diff of before and after images and printed to an html report. Eventually, the diffs grew so big as images kept getting larger that you couldn't open the report without crashing Firefox.
Lack of curation doesn't really matter for apps, where the user will find the software independently, and just use the MS Store for the final download.

And for games, the curation will be where it matters - on Xbox games pass.
Get a $30 bottom end prepaid Android phone at Walmart and such. If you're only using it for 9-5 work stuff and expect to be on wifi you don't even need to pay for a cheap SIM card or plan. Yeah it will suck and perform terribly, but who cares it's just for the odd slack/email/etc. notification and that's it.