skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of thing is part of why I go ask people questions in areas where I don't have a lot of domain knowledge rather than just search for it. (That's not to imply I don't do a search first. That seems awkwardly worded and I can't think of a better way to say it.)

I'm a decent read of people and talented at figuring out who actually makes sense and should be listened to. So going to people with domain knowledge and talking to them is usually the most efficient and effective means for me to get meaningful information when I am out of my depth.

It's also why I try to be patient with people online and answer seemingly "dumb" questions instead of telling people to google it. In many cases, if you aren't familiar with the subject, you won't know the best search terms and you won't know that the top result is commercial garbage and not really the gold standard source on the subject.

I routinely provide links for things like SRO because not only do people often not know that stands for Single Room Occupancy, if you google it you get a variety of unrelated hits (Standing Room Only, for example).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

I was involved for a time with The TAG Project. I generally try to remember to provide a link for that as well because when I search for it, the thing I was involved with is not the top hit.

The top hit is thetagproject.com. I worked for tagfam.org and it is typically the third hit when I search for it.

I fairly often see people being obnoxious about "you should Google that" and I sometimes understand why they are aggravated with certain things, but I generally think that's asshole behavior.
It’s pretty common practice to capture system images from returned employee equipment when they’re fired for cause (at least in the US). But it’s also pretty common for technicians to be forbidden from browsing those files without a very good reason.
Yes, I was asking myself the same question back then, considering the news articles about the connections to the eastern european mob.
By the time a JIRA ticket is created that ticket should have a bullet point list of what is required. But it doesn't really go into minute detail, so we rely on programmers to ask questions, QA / demos etc. to catch that level.
Microsoft's New App Store Will Let Developers Keep 100% of Revenue
My parents mostly use google office for when they need it, which is like never.

Libre-office seems a little rough around the edges, but it works for 95% of use cases I can think of.
I don't think I'll be taking GQ's opinion on politics seriously. That first link is very interesting -- it seems to show that Brexit is pretty much a mixed bag.
Or the use the google model and make people pay the subscription cost psychologically rather than monetarily.
I gotcha, it's. 1994-97 miata and there aren't a lot of cats left. Such is the life of a classic car owner.

>I don't see what any of this has to do with smog tests, and it's not even accurate for all vehicles (pre obd2 has just a single narrow band o2 sensor

You mentioned the smog tests, saying if the vehicle can't measure them they aren't worth a damn

>If the smog checks are worth a damn it shouldn't be necessary to certify the catalysts; if the cat isn't working, the vehicle should fail its regular smog test.

Thats why it is not off-topic.

No cars monitor for the smog gasses. That's why Cali uses a special sniffer and a dyno to run a load test. In order to accomplish their stated goal of reducing pbotochemical smog, they must employ a dyno to test under load to monitor the production of nox and hydrocarbons out the tail pipe.

The oxygen sensors pre-obd2 were never used in any state for emissions, In my state we did a 2 speed idle test on a dyno which is being retired currently as all required vehicles are now exempt from this test.

We still are running oxygen sensors for engine management in every car. They do not sense any smog gasses.
Lol, every cop union I've seen is asking for more social workers. But cities don't want to add social workers, they want to replace cops with social workers, which is nuts. If social workers need police escorts for most calls, what good does it do to replace cops with them?

Face it, "defund the police" was a catchy but ultimately stupid phrase, but there's no backing out now with out looking like thoughtless hysterics that caused a massive spike in crime and murders, leading to thousands of excess deaths.
The user per client on the computer sounds like a nice idea. I haven't done that, but can easily see the appeal. Nice one
I think this is reasonable advice, in some settings. But for many of us, I think it’s just not practical anymore.

The lines have become too blurred. I work from home, I have one office and one desk. The computer on the desk was purchased by my company but other stuff wasn’t like my mouse or my iPad. I have work Slack on my phone, which is my personal phone. I know I should be, but I’m just not that careful anymore about what I do where.

Granted, I work for a startup. It’s a MBP they had shipped directly from Apple to me. I set it up and configured it myself.

The GitHub Balanced Employee IP Agreement acknowledges that this distinction is arbitrary and unhelpful:

> In California the main difference made by BEIPA is that IP developed with company equipment or relating to the company's business, but in an employee's free time and which the employee is not involved in as an employee, is not owned by the company (but the company does get a non-exclusive and unlimited license if the IP relates to the company's business). This recognizes that from the employee perspective, segregating one's life activities based on ownership of devices at hand or relatedness to an employer's potentially vast range of business that an individual employee is not involved with as an employee imposes significant cognitive overhead and often doesn't happen in practice, whatever agreements state.

- https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement

I hope that more employee agreements move this direction so we can stop trying to enforce this distinction.
Waveful, an instagram-like app that shares 50% of earnings with content creators
Ransom Notes
Many services allow you to log out of either all or a specific session on another computer.
Yep, everyone knew. As a society we just decided not to care or ask questions about it for decades. These discoveries are shocking and gruesome but not surprising. I'm pissed about it too.
Google knows the answers to the questions we were afraid to ask.
I built my app in React, React Native and NextJS. Lessons learned
This is madness right?

Yes, sounds like it

My real main issue is that time just flies by and I am learning nothing and accomplishing nothing

If you are constantly bustling between meetings, needing to context switch between teams/products/features, it will make it more difficult to make headway/improvement in any one direction (sense of stagnation)

The advice given to me was to make a mini plan for my own time and to define the role I am in myself. This confuses me because it doesn't actually solve my issue that my time is spread too thin.

Sounds like you can give yourself a title promotion, how about Principal Software Architect :) (just kidding). More seriously, one suggestion (other than reducing scope of responsibilities) might be to have the 3 teams nominate a go-between; you could then do a daily sync with each team's nominee and hopefully these syncs could reduce the amount of time spent you need to sit in the meetings yourself (to help free up some bandwidth, at least)
Selective enforcement of rules and legal discretion ought to be banned through constitutional amendment.
No. That’s factually wrong.

Under capitalism, news agencies are privately owned, and have to pay employees. They compete for advertising and subscription revenue.

Thus, they are subject to market discipline and the market selects for clickbat outrage articles that are widely shared. When it comes to subscriptions, the for-profit news organizations cannot afford to tell both sides of the story. If FOX News hosts regularly admitted that progressives are decent people and single payer systems may have some good sides , they’d lose their audience. If Daily Kos said that conservatives have a point in this or the other thing, their readers would be frustrated/triggered and move elsewhere.

Facebook selects for more engagement and sends notifications because if they didn’t, then another network would become #1.

The point is... capitalism drives us into echo chambers and distracts/interrupts us at dinner. It is a tragedy of the commons where the commins is human attention and decency.

On the other hand, science, wikipedia and open source software do not have a profit motive. There is competition, yes — to be the first to contribute to the snowball of free information. This is actually collaboration. Our news can be done this way.

Look at https://rational.app to see what I’m talking about.
Internally, they've always had it at the level of "organization X can only access organization X's rows".
MapQuest prints? Did we jump back in time? Do people still do this?

Edit: I see the printing part. I guess I was more shocked at the call out to MapQuest.
I think the fraud to be found here is whether or not the purchases these IRA's made were made at fair value. Given the astronomical rates of return realized by some, not all, of these mammoth IRAs, you can probability establish such facts. Similar to Madoff's eternally steady fund returns being impossible.

A good litmus test would be, what is the rate of return of a person's investments made outside an IRA vs inside the IRA.
Yes, it does. The employer has registered in front of Apple the serial number and Apple considers the device theirs. MDM on an employer's laptop allows them full control. If the device is owned by the user, then the MDM is more limited.
> TPM 2.0 was released in 2019

This can't be right. I have 5+ year old PCs with 2.0 TPMs.
it's amazing to me how much imagination & concern people put in to 0.000001% of side loading cases.

if a computer is a bicycle for the mind, these people insist we go out fully padded, with front & back training wheels, walk our bikes up & down hills. never exceed 10mph or your eyeballs might pop out.

building a smarter culture able to avoid dangerous & bad forms of computing seems much more like the end I think we should spend time promoting. give people choice, visibility, and an ambient social network that can help provide background & discussion around the tech you've started dabbling in, that can warn you.
Yeah, the carrying two laptops part is also my issue. Of course, I am well within my rights to not take my work laptop with me when I go anywhere and if a disaster strikes, I can just tell my manager to sod off - but it's just easier to take the work laptop and do my YouTube watching on it.

(I'm technically not on call but on practice it's messier)
> However if we are talking about monetary damages, those require hard proof of the damages and even then it is unlikely that they will have to pay all damages. Most lawyers I talk to usually recommend against suing for monetary damages.

Well, you can ask for "moral damages" and the judge might grant you these damages in Europe, I'm pretty sure the bar is also quite low for these. If you are from US keep in mind that million dollars damage verdicts are rather uncommon in Europe for individuals. That's the trade off. So judges might grant the suing party "moral damages" much more easily as a counter part. Of course it varies from country to country. IANAL.
No, Steam runtime: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

When your game runs under Steam runtime, the real distribution is (almost) irrelevant - everything in your address space is supplied by the runtime, the things you get from the host system is the kernel/kernel modules and services you talk to via IPC (i.e. X11/Wayland, Pulseaudio).

It solves the problem of what version of what library is installed (if at all, maybe user removed it as "bloat") on the host system. You get known set of binaries that you can test against / coherent SDK target like with Windows or Mac.
It depends on the MDM. My works' MDM required full access to my phone. That is the MDM software was fully capable of wiping the full device (not just the MDM data store). IT promised they wouldn't/couldn't do that; yet the app required the permissions. So yeah, noped right out of that.
> some simple JVM container

no, there's a new NT subsystem to support this: Windows Subsystem for Android, and as you could guess from the name, it is somewhat related to WSL.

the NT kernel was always designed to accommodate multiple subsystems running at once. Until WSL, there was only ever the Windows subsystem itself. soon there will be a third subsystem one can install.

this is neat, to me.
Air Force Explores Pulsejet Tech from WWII Buzz Bombs
Oh that's good to know! Thank you.
Depends where. Here in Europe it has been said that a Personal folder cannot be looked at by the company. But ofc it can ask you to delete it or fire you if you spend too much time idling but Personal data is Personal.
Okay folks, I've got to put a trigger warning here. This next paragraph is absolutely brutal - it's physical, sexual abuse and infanticide. :(

This may be a time when we need a new word. Residential school doesn't quite capture the horror, the unbelievable level of physical and sexual abuse or the endless stories from residential schools across Canada of babies conceived in sexual assault being taken from their mothers and thrown into furnaces.

I'd really recommend reading some of the testimony from the survivors. These places were a special form of evil.
What are things today that are on a similar level of interesting/unusual/clever/... as The Million Dollar Homepage was at its time? Can they still be found on the web or is rather the cryptocurrency (adjacent) space the place to look for now?
Hazel Livelits
>It's important to document and archive the contents for liability reasons

Unless this guy was sexually harassing people, I'm curious how this is going to protect anyone from any kind of liability.

>you should remember that the laptop belongs to the company and you have zero rights to privacy on it, so conduct yourself appropriately.

Yes, but as others have mentioned, just because the company has the right to do that doesn't mean it's either ethical OR good. No one here was asserting the right to privacy on company owned hardware.
Along these lines part of me wants to introduce a random feature in to the self-driving cars data set. I thought if I wore a piece of clothing that was highly visible to LIDAR detectors but looked like regular clothing to the human eye I could build an association between this signal and causing drivers to swerve by running into the road.

Over time the self driving cars would learn to associate this visual cue with the event.

Etc.
Anyone else look at the headline and feel this is one of the dumbest headlines ever. It makes it sound like NASA's incompetent. 'Why haven't you fixed Hubble yet?'.

There doesn't seem to be any nuance or respect that they're trying to repair an orbiting telescope that was launched 30 years ago and designed 40 years ago - and that people are patiently trying to sort through a fully autonomous system 400 miles above the surface of the Earth with a very large set of failure options.

For me - huge props to NASA and other organizations that do this kind of work and keep these systems running for decades. I need to reboot Windows every 2-3 days
Use your Windows 7 key if you have one.
It was difficult to find the link to the chart, because it looks like the title of the post. (In case you still can't find it https://twitter.com/antumbral/status/1407861007209222151 )

[spoiler alert] At least it's not a pie chart.
So the kids in question got removed from their unsafe homes, and placed in equally unsafe foster homes. What was gained? The actual solution is to work with the families to help them create safer conditions and monitor the kids, keeping them at least with their tribes if not with their parents. Instead they just get placed with random white families where they're abused and often end up running away and becoming street people.
I meant broken more in the sense of "anti-pattern" practices. It's been a while I used Windows to develop anything, so I might be outdated on points 3 and 4.

I understand the driver conundrum, from a user perspective, though, it's unbelievable how confusing and scattered Windows settings are by default (settings app / control panel / registry / AppData) and doesn't seem to exist a firm curatorship of that.

On the telemetry, it's baffling that it may happen even on a paid license and we just put up with it.
I can't speak to the exact numbers, but in comparison to Scheme based lisps, CL has a much wider variety of optional hints you can give to the run time to drastically speed up performance thanks to its more pragmatic industrial heritage.
Maybe its like how people called marijuana a "gateway drug", because after all of the breathless hype about how great it is and how it will immediately ruin you life, the people who tried it were mostly disappointed. If the authorities were so wrong about marijuana then heroin can't be that bad.
I am familiar with Python and Clojure, and have peeked at Haskell. Have a look at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com for just how succint you can get.

In general dynamically typed languages require less up-front definitions and determine how things go on the fly.

I have found that Clojure is great for data-mangling. This example groups words in a sentence based on the number of vowels in each:

(group-by
#(count (filter (set "aeiouy") %))
(clojure.string/split "this is my example input string" #" "))

{1 ["this" "is" "my" "string"], 3 ["example"], 2 ["input"]}

Oh did I mention that in this language comma is threated as white space and can be ommitted? :D But you may have to use a few more brackets to group expressions appropriately.
Is this related to[0] or something else?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846653
Our API is gRPC, so we can easily generate some Java bindings. For a more ergonomic client, we'd have to partner to flesh something out. Feel free to put some time on our calendar, everyone on the call will be engineer that's deep in the weeds: https://calendly.com/d/mzs5-cxvx/authzed-introduction
It would be more honest if the article title said "deidentified" medical data.
Google's Knowledge Graph info boxes are automatically-generated and littered with errors. I've been burned twice on operating hours, once for my local bank and once for a convenience store, driving over each time only to find the place closed. In both cases, the correct hours were posted on the business's website. I've also seen bad KG results for medical conditions, listing the wrong symptoms or describing easily-treatable maladies as "Incurable". Now I actively ignore the info box and intentionally click through to an authoritative non-Google website.

To a non-technical user, I'm sure the box looks like a human-curated result which they're more likely to trust. Maybe that's the goal of Google's UI choices. Couldn't be further from the truth.
Content moderation is only viable for small-scale communities, we're just yet to accept that.
There's a difference between teaching kids to read and do math, and beating them for using their own language or telling each other their own stories. You don't have to destroy culture while educating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25THL-FM98g
While Apple and Google are still trying to hold strong arguing that they deserve a 70/30 revenue split for their app stores, Microsoft's comes in and eliminates a revenue split altogether.

This could have major ramifications for Apple and Google who are trying to convince governments of the world that the revenue split is justified. A major company like Microsoft doesn't need it at all, why do you still need 30%?

This will almost certainty lead to good changes for developers across all platforms since it could be the force that causes Google and Apple to lower fees (i doubt they would eliminate them) for App Store sales.

Of course this all assumes that Microsoft can get their app store off the ground this time. They have tried this game 2-3 times before and it hasn't gone anywhere in the past.
Meanwhile sending an email to Google asking for something to be fixed, could be seen as an act of insanity.
Sometimes I have to stop myself and ask "Is this genius, or just badly written?"
Google is being eaten by its own algorithm at this point, and increasingly reminds me of Lycos (if you don't get it, be glad you're still young).
After 28 quirky years, Conan O'Brien is leaving late night
>I would echo Chinas call for a full human rights inquiry at the international level

There isn't a knowledge problem. The issue is well documented. The problem is figuring out what to do and convincing voters and leaders to support it.

No government authority is hiding or impending any investigation or discussion about this issue.

Residential schools, and the damage they caused are a part of primary education.

There have been court cases, testimony, and settlements.

What would a human rights inquiry achieve? Is it possible that a hostile foreign power, who is likely right now perpetrating a possibly worse genocide, is using your perfectly justified emotions to manipulate you?
Windows Professional used to be for professionals. I think there is a strong argument that since Windows 10 it hasn't been, at least not for technically competent professionals. In 10, the Pro edition still has much the same user-hostile aspects as Home, which are inappropriate in a business context. If Windows 10 Pro had the same kinds of control over things like updates and telemetry as the Enterprise and Education editions, but without the volume licensing and large-scale management features that larger organisations want, it would still be suitable for small businesses or independent professionals.
But I disagree with your analogy about the letter bomb. Even the guy I was talking with said he enjoyed the discussion. I'm just not getting it here. Obviously.

We had an exchange, we came to an understanding of sorts. No feelings were injured (that I can tell).
Someone is going to suggest unplugging it and plugging it in again, i'm sure
School closures have had virtually no benefits and significant, though largely unmeasured, costs.

I don't know if there being no benefit is the consensus in other places, but it's not the consensus where I live. Yes, the risk to healthy kids themselves is small though non-zero, but kids a) do get the disease and b) are roughly as infectious as adults, especially particularly older kids.

Still, many leaders have embraced Zero-COVID-19 policies going forward, advising against resumption of normal activities even after widespread immunity.

Really? Which leaders? Haven't almost all countries affected by Covid reopened most of the way before the number of new infections reached zero? I don't think zero covid had any impact beyond being a talking piece. And how does widespread immunity figure in? Zero covid (and "no covid", another different but related proposal which they conflate) came up in Dec 2020/Jan 2021, when no place on Earth had anything like widespread immunity even in sight.

Some economists initially believed that shelter-in-place orders would save lives and benefit the economy.

I doubt very many economists believed that NPIs in and of themselves benefit the economy. But the damage to the economy from a pandemic that rages uncontrolled is also massive. That said they refer specifically to shelter in place mandates, which is an extreme measures that we here mostly avoided apart from a few weeks of nightly curfew out of months of NPIs.