skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facial recognition is one of the most harmful for society & dystopian tech we've made. We need to draw strict lines

With that kind of reasoning we could go anywhere ... Hey we have Alexa in every house in the country what do we do ?

Option 1 - record & access anybody's intimate life and solve abuse, crime, blabla

Option 2 - do nothing

Ofc going full unlimited surveillance could, maybe in some cases, help with crime ( actually there was a trial were Alexa recording were handed over to convict the murderer). But there is a balance to strike, and mass spying facial rec from unconsented data scraping from the whole web is going is going too far.

You might have your photo on your blog, on your university website, yet you never signed any agreement that Clearview could analyse & monetize your biometric data and sell it to all the shadiest people of the world.

At least in the EU, Clearview is clearly illegal, yet all gov close their eyes on it because they like the power it give them.

Even if, we suppose we want to accept the use of facial recognition for some cases, this should be allowed to be done only by the gov., on a limited dataset, on a case-by-case, on a specific person & only after the okay from a judge

But not by a psychopath's shady illegal company whose initial business was to spy on billionaires daughters' friends
You can't make everything idempotent.

You should still try and make most things idempotent.
I loved BBS games. I called multiple BBSes daily to play LoRD and a few other games. I ran a BBS in high school during the late 90's with LoRD and a handful of IGMs.
I understood your claim to be that most people on a typical salary in our industry can be financially independent prior to retirement age. My point was merely that this may seem true on paper if just looking at net worth, but that liquidity is important if you actually want to live off savings (ie. be financially independent).
European Enviro Agency: “Sharp Decrease in CO2 Emissions of New Cars in 2020”
Exactly, stop buying from Amazon.

There a software company running a software market, all the power is in there hands, and they choose to do nothing.
MS has always been stronger in B2B. Consumer facing.. well there's been some missteps.
Gross profits, not net. Their net profit is probably negative, like most growth stage pre-IPO or recently-IPO tech companies. They were looking at IPOing at a $30B valuation. The fine is 0.2% of their anticipated market cap.
Wow you played begin too! I added multiplayer through DOSbox--

it was interesting that the AI craft were just like player craft but had a different controller. It was possible to splice in keyboard input for that. Then I wrote some screen scraping software to send the commands remotely.

Here's the software project
http://begin2.sourceforge.net/

Unfortunately the sourceforge matchmaking server has long gone offline, but you could connect direct to IP addresses too, so it should still be playable
It has always been a constant of journalism that you read an article in your field and go "Wow, this is terrible, they got all of the details wrong". But then you turn around and trust the reporting on everything outside of your field of expertise.
That's true, and IMO, it's pretty much entirely the function of size. Modern governments are what you get when you try to organize millions of people - so it's not really surprising that, as a company grows, it starts to look like a government from the inside. It couldn't be any other way.
I think you didn't understood my answer ;-) It still matters if it is one file or 20 (for example for file server loads). Then requesting 20 files separately (even on established connection) doesn't bring you a profit, as even HTTP/1.x browsers try to keep connection "alive".

What HTTP/2 brings here is a possibility to push to client files in advance so you can do a bit of "prebundling" on server side. Heard of couple different techniques of "prebundling" on server side BUT none of them will be as simple and performant as bundling it yourself :-)
(and want to make sure that you realize that: there is no profit if modules will be requested from server at runtime)

And I guess you never tired things like terser (https://terser.org/docs/api-reference) so you don't know how much profit it brings not only in a bundle size, but also a startup performance and even runtime performance. Try it, play with different hoisting and mangling options (especially test mangling properties) and check the memory consumption, startup times and performance of your code.

Not sure what you're talking about and if you know what you're talking about here: "more bundle bytes means more optimal compression; or shaking out functions within a module"

But to give you a hint will tell you to: compress src directory of your project and compress bundled and minified source of your project. See yourself what performs better ;-)

Hope helped you!

Cheers!
As a kid? Was I supposed to stop when I grew up?
Disagree. It’s possible to start with that assumption and then design systems with that in mind.
> I’m honestly perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH.

WARNING: ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE

I manage a team of 12 people at a FAANG. One team member just quit working entirely until offices open again. Any information about offices opening is immediately pounced on and celebrated. While most folks have stated that they enjoy working from home, a few others hate it. Interestingly, zero people are interested in being fully remote, even though our org has a stated goal to get more people to go remote.

That said, EVERYONE is excited at the formalization of a hybrid policy that allows up to a 50/50 split between home and work. That policy also leaves it up to individual teams to decide what, if any, restrictions they want to place on that.

I'm sure it's very different in other teams and companies, which is why I prefaced with the warning.
They are far more of a services and support company than a tech company these days. Their current tech is mostly used by their services teams to implement solutions.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274823/ibms-global-reven...
Since when is research not considered empirical?
There's a very good Patriot Act episode [1] regarding devious patterns in the US tax industry. In fact the whole show is well worth watching. It's cancelled now, presumably because Netflix felt some heat since every episode stirred/kicked another wasp's nest.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQQkzWhMOc
It is actually the structure that most data-driven hardware devices use. A ring buffer of descriptors has been used from the early days of ethernet devices at least.
The UK is a good example of this -- if you're a regular employee and earn under the higher earnings threshold then you're very unlikely to be required to fill in any kind of tax return, as all your income will have been taxed at source and we don't tend to _do_ deductions. You'll get a P60 from your employer and you've got until October to notice if you either want to or need to fill in a self-assessment (hint: you don't). If you earn more, it may well be worthwhile filling one in because schemes like gift-aid assume basic rate tax and you can claim back the difference between basic and higher rate. But even then, as an employee you can often ask for any pension contributions or charitable donations to be given directly from salary pre-tax which means less paperwork later.

Having to fill out self-assessment -- or at least complaining about doing so -- is a bit of a humble-brag as it's an indication that the person complaining earns enough (or has sufficiently complicated tax arrangements) to need to.
I see it as placement of the gatekeeping filter.

Do you trust HR or the hiring team more to filter candidates?

It's a valid question. Keyword / minimums tilt the balance in HR's direction. Whiteboard / algorithm questions tilt towards hiring team.

I essentially hired one guy I interviewed because he seemed intelligent and did motorcycle work on his own. Had some background in the specific subject, but I'd rather hire a demonstrated ability to learn & initiative. (Afaict, he's thriving and a great fit for the position)
Anything involving Notes seems like a dumpster fire. It was so bad at a former employer of mine that people actually left the company because of it. We used it for email and scheduling (or tried to).
They're capitalizing on a generalized anti-government and anti-IRS sentiment. It's not difficult for them to convince representatives that the IRS would do it badly, and it should be left up to the free market.

They made, and basically broke, an agreement with the IRS. But it's really not easy for a government agency to say, "No, you broke the roles, so our agreement is void". It would basically take a lawsuit, which would be ugly, expensive, and time-consuming.

It's not so much a matter of simply "caving", as that Intuit has gotten itself entrenched and it's difficult to dig them out. In theory it's not impossible, but it would require a ton of work, time, and will. Such things are very hard to come by, especially when you're the IRS and everybody already is predisposed to hate you.
It will always be hard. Consistency + latency is a huge problem.

We can give _most_ developers the benefit of globally distributed postgres without causing consistency issues, though. Read replicas are simple to think about and reasonably easy to write standard code for.
Wow, this is a highly politically motivated paper. Go read the introduction and look at what they use as an example of "harassment."
You accept that Intuit is lobbying for unethical policies in order to enrich themselves, but you don't understand why anyone would criticize that?
>Rust has all of them with vanilla JS.

Which is neither here, nor there.

Since JS is required for those features (in the absense of a dynamic server backend), who cares whether it's bundled Vue.js or some hand-rolled vanilla JS?

I'm sure some care. I'm not sure many care, and I'm even less sure that they have any valid reason to care besides a knee-jerk "bloat" reaction.
This is a fun post. It's sort of mind-blowing to think about in the era of 15 page Project Zero posts about reverse engineering nested AMD SVM virtualization control blocks, but throughout much of the 1990s, the modal vector for an actual hacker taking over a network --- any network --- was simply by mounting a world-exposed NFS share. Leendert van Doorn's NFS shell was probably the most important hacking tool of that entire decade.
The vast, vast majority of jobs are in-office jobs. It's extremely unlikely that supply of WFH jobs exceeds demand considering it only just became a mainstream thing ~18 months ago. Perhaps in certain locations WFH is still the temporary default but in any place with eased/lifted pandemic restrictions the default is returning to in office.
I find that there’s a lot of bias in pair programming. One takes the role of the lead dev and the other of the ‘copilot’ but not actively reviewing the code. It works great if you want to review later asynchronously without needing to ask for more context. Still pair programming doesn’t replace an asynchronous code review afterwards. Ideally every dev should let the code sink a bit and then review it before distributing it. I see both approaches working together - don’t get this trend of advocating for pair programming as the best of getting the highest quality.
I wonder if this problem flows both ways. I suspect that at least housing and school (or the overlap, housing in good school districts) is to some degree a zero-sum game whose costs are set at the margins.

In tech metros, where those marginal market-clearing prices are set by those tech salaries, it makes sense that they would settle at precisely the point where they're no longer quite comfortable to the average tech worker. Otherwise, what's to stop you from paying a bit more for that house than the second best offer?
I believe HCL actually owns the Lotus software line now. At least that's where we go for Sametime and Domino patches now...
How do you function in a remote first world, where most of your team joins calls over Slack or Teams? It’s weird that someone painstakingly learnt English, but you don’t can’t put in the effort to listen and understand.
> ... the GitOps pattern is gaining adoption for Kubernetes workload deployment.

Is it really though? I for one am glad I didnt jump on the bandwagon early. A lot of the articles popping up nowadays mentioning the downsides of GitOps make a lot of sense.
Illegitimate flags that you do nothing to correct. You just let people flag whatever they want and never take away their ability to flag things.
It is how we are wired.
To be honest, deep thinking is hard, like really hard.

Only though experience do we know what is and is not worth our time (and thinking)
Minerva- Airbnb's Metric Platform
Did GitHub just start the Junior Developer as a Service era?
Mux (YC W16) is hiring full-stack developers to focus on Elixir and TypeScript
Try searching for "possible negative long term effect of mrna vaccines". Google will show lists of fact-check sites, WHO approved all pro-vaccine results. Yandex will show alternative sites like childrenshealthdefense.org, www.naturalnews.com with a contrarian view. I am not saying these are trustworthy sites but I want to see various viewpoints and not have the search engine be the judge. I think mRNA vaccines could be a game changer, but I also want an open discussion about the risks, especially long term, as in say negative effects on newborns from mRNA vaccinated woman.
Why’d you censor bullets from a machine gun? Is there some HN autoban for them?
Who is going to watch live concert footage with ads jammed into it? For those of us who grew up in the age of TV, advertising was clearly a slippery slope where they constantly increased the ad content until it was beyond unbearable (they even deleted parts of shows to make room for more ads!) YouTube will likely do the same when they decide to force all of us to watch unblockable and unskipable ads to access content that they didn't even create or curate. All they have done is provide a network effect monopoly that hoovered up the majority of content.
That makes more sense anyway. Why should your individual identity be hardwired to your current location or department? If you changed jobs within the company you had to get a new email address and login?
They sound like colleagues. As distinct from other employees or friends.

Some of my best times were working in a university department. We did all this, though the talking to people outside your team was at proscribed coffee times in the staff lounge and sometimes over lunch.

But they remained colleagues not friends. Outside the few parties a year we didn't go round people's houses. We collaborated and fought over work, as that was what brought us together.

I make the distinction between colleagues and other employees as not all employees are colleagues. Colleagues help each other out of tight spots and talk beyond "Nice weather". Friends could be either, but in my experience once everyone is married and has kids, the closest will be "friendly" rather than "friends".
"Minutes after this article was published, an IBM spokesperson dictated the company’s statement over the phone, presumably because email is a bit spotty"

Condolences to the team. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on IBM, but I am getting a chuckle out of all of waves hands around this.
My experience was that MS understands how IT departments work (from small to large) and are fantastic at providing resources to customers if it means you'll end up using more MS products. At a prior job they paid for a local consulting group to configure the Office 365 tenant, connect it with the existing on-prem infrastructure and train the staff on migrating mailboxes.
With Starship at full scale, Watney would just dial 911 and get emergency transport to a hospital in the nearest colony.
Heat dome causing record breaking heat wave
Wow, that site is really quite something. Reads like an art piece.
> So far I've seen them achieve everything they set out to achieve.

That's not true. They've achieved parts of what they set out for, yes. The important parts, too. But far from everything.

Just one example, because that irks me every time someone brings up nonsense like Starship point-to-point as a realistic option: SpaceX planned to achieve a turnaround time for F9 of 24 hours. So far, the best they could do is 27 days.

I won't get into why faster turnaround times are actually irrelevant for F9, but it goes to show that reality and plans don't always align even with SpaceX.

Now with regards to the turnaround time, people with be quick to point out that this beat the Shuttle record of 54 days, but then again the F9 in question wasn't a crewed mission and doesn't reuse its upper stage, so...

Another reason for healthy scepticism is the lack of cold hard numbers regarding the system. We cannot know the total system cost yet or the launch cost, because neither the final spec system nor its launch infrastructure exists. The number can also be very deceiving: the STS had an estimated $2000/kg to LEO goal and that was realistic back in he 1970s. Why? Because the calculation assumed ~50 launches per year and lots of cargo missions.

Instead, the shuttle launched only 4.5 times a year and the launch cost increased dramatically after the 1986 Challenger disaster and again after the 2003 Columbia accident due to safety procedures and maintenance.

In addition all launch facilities, infrastructure costs and R&D are priced into the Shuttle launch cost (e.g. total program cost divided by number of missions), which is impossible to do for Starship since we don't know the R&D or infrastructure costs.

Just throwing a number like $1000/kg into the ring is pretty meaningless as you need to provide context as well (number of launches per year, unit- and infrastructure costs, R&D costs, etc.). It's also important to keep in mind that this is the number SpaceX wants to achieve eventually, e.g. not with the first launch.

F9 launch costs haven't decreased either and NASA and the DoD in particular still pay a hefty premium compared to business customers. We'll see.
TIL more about plasma displays. Thank you Mr. Bitzer for helping create the television I enjoy so much.
> Cosby is legally innocent

I feel this captures the extent of what you're saying, unless we're making an implicit claim about "using the word innocent in this context has X,Y,Z societal side effects", etc etc
I thought they were all free to download?
This isn't an Amazon bug, it's a feature. Amazon has known for YEARS about sleazy (Mostly Chinese) sellers manipulating reviews, paying for review and generally engaging in super shady practices, and Amazon has done literally NOTHING about it, so at this point we can reasonable assume they tacitly condone these practices.

Amazon reviews have all but become useless as a result. Perhaps one of the least trustworthy corners on an increasingly trustless internet.
> To me, the secret is being okay with failure, learning from it, than trying again.

But that's just what thom's talking about. Sometimes you need to know when to quit.

I'm not normally one to link to Dilbert, but: https://dilbert.com/strip/2012-11-20
Code reviews are not very good:

- Most style issues should be caught by automated tools

- Most functional issues should be caught by tests (written by another person preferably)

- To bring someone up to speed on your chosen style, pair programming is much faster than code reviews

- To have shared knowledge of code (increased bus factor) pair programming, or code walkthroughs are much faster

Not sure why we have fallen so much in love with the idea.
Using Pipedream to Proxy Other APIs
> Are public sector unions evil when they negotiate outrageous contracts that the public has to pick up the tab for?

the question starts to sound more interesting when you add the fact that the members of that union have "death or life" power over the public.

>This is what democracy looks like.

it is more like a "contract you can't refuse".
"Most" people did not go through the pandemic entirely alone. The vast majority of people in the world live with someone (roommate, family, romantic partner, etc).

Also, depending on where you live in the world, "most" people did not stay entirely away from all humans at all times for more than a few weeks. Plenty of people were buying their own groceries, and leaving the house for other tasks.

"Many people were isolated from the outside world in ways they haven't been previously during the pandemic lockdowns' is a perfectly cromulent and accurate statement, but I don't get this "let's compare the pandemic to some man doing a dramatic publicity stunt for his game, possibly due to underlying mental health issues."

/rant
0.2% of cap also looks significant for the first offense.

What do you think would be an appropriate fine?
It's only been three days? I think that's a bit quick and unfair to go to the media and complain.
PLATO was a very interesting system that isn't as well known as it should be.

Sadly it's still in copyright/IP lockdown, even though most of the system was presumably developed by the University of Illinois and the largely defunct CDC. As a result the software is unavailable for emulation or study.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PLATO_Computer_...

On the other hand, having multiple users on the system makes it more realistic.

And you can play Moria.
It’s not an attack on you. I don’t know you, what would be the reason to “attack you”? But hey, sorry if I offended you in any way! You are not in the wrong!
"Apple has kept OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion available for customers who have machines limited to the older software, but until recently, Apple was charging $19.99 to get download codes for the updates."
The conclusion seems a bit unfair.

> "but eevee, humans also learn by reading open source code, so isn't that the same thing"
- no
- humans are capable of abstract understanding and have a breadth of other knowledge to draw from
- statistical models do not
- you have fallen for marketing

Machines will draw on other sources of knowledge besides the GPL code. Whether they have the capacity for "abstract thought" is probably up for debate. There's not much else said in those bullets. It's not a good argument.
The IRS has almost no say in this (because they've been denied funding to fix it); it is entirely Congress's doing.
That sounds like freelance work, not product development. Am I mistaken?
If you're granted stock on a vesting schedule (even if its 1 year), doesn't it qualify for long term cap gains if you don't sell? So you only pay potentially long term capital gains.

versus

If you get cash, pay income tax on it, and then invest it, and then pay cap gains, that's another round of taxes you pay no?
Looks like they've provided a link to a shared folder. C'est super!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16Hcdw4lER8t63YgDGm9W...
"Who owns the future?" by Jaron Lanier covers lots of this stuff in a realli interesting way.

If heart surgeons train an AI robot to do heart surgery ... shouldn't they be compensated (as passive income) for enabling that automation?

Shouldn't this all be accounted for? If my code helps you write better code (via AI) shouldn't I be compensated for the value generated?

We are being ripped off.
to their own servers

"They were transitioning to IBM-owned servers," one source told us. "That's where it broke down."
Dismissal of FTC’s Facebook antitrust lawsuit may spur rewrite of law