skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it wanted to blast crap into /usr

Homebrew only ever writes into `/usr/local`, which was unused by macOS until very recently (though unfortunately a few third-party tools also use it and lead to very occasional conflicts with Homebrew). The original rationale for using `/usr/local` over `/opt` was that, at the time several widely-used software packages had hard-coded installation paths and would require extensive patching to work in other locations [1]. This hasn’t been true for a long time though. On systems with Apple M1, Homebrew finally made the move to `/opt/homebrew`.

> and did weird root shit

On the contrary, the philosophy of Homebrew is that package installations should never require superuser privileges. The only time Homebrew does “root shit” is when initially setting up `/usr/local` writability. Not weird at all. Though it does mean that Homebrew is effectively unusable (and a very bad idea!) on a multiuser system.

[1]: https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ#why-does-homebrew-prefer-i-install-...
Just because it's the same number doesn't mean it's the same relationship.

Any definition that relies on trig (sometimes disguised as trig expansion) assumes the existence of a flat Euclidean space - which is a convenient mathematical abstraction in real-world terms, but not required in the general case.

Most everyday physics assumes a flat space, so it's not surprising certain constants fall out of this.

There are more complex and interesting definitions which rely on relationships defined by group theory. I don't know enough about those to say if they're just more complex ways to operate in a flat space, or more complex ways to disguise simple trig expansions, or if they're completely independent, or if something else is going on.
Hello from a fellow UK HR (ish) company. This looks like a strong start - payroll is hard!

Good luck, we all need to band together to get rid of these insane portals of horrible UX
It puts the judgment over right or wrong for Hacker News in the hands of the majority of people on Hacker News.

I'm pretty sure being-on-the-front-page-of-HN is not a measure of moral judgment.
Is it only the United States?
Expert says green energy hub project in WA 'could power Australia'
A lot of people hate banks and want them to go down, just like how a lot of people hate Parler.
For a relatively low cost you can already get an account from Zoom, WebEx, or the like for a low price.

Microsoft even offers options through Skype (although it's limited to 100 people and the calls are limited to 4 hours), and Teams Personal accounts also allow free calls with similar limits.

Since these various services seem to be doing fine, it's hard to say there's a problem with competition in this space right now.
CNN: Biden has canceled $1.5 billion in student debt for victims of for-profit school fraud

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/09/politics/biden-student-loan-d...

Those schools, like ITT Tech and the Court Reporting Institute, probably deserve to be shut down, but somehow it's only trade schools that receive this punishment.

Columbia Film, despite having a far worse career placement rate than ITT Tech, won't be accused of fraud. (At least not officially.)
What do you mean by device detection? You mean web browser detection? Because lots of WebUIs do user-agent detection to work around browser specific bugs, the most classic being serving up different implementations for IE8/10/etc

I used to work on GWT and we baked user agent detection into the very framework and compiler itself so that each application is compiled into multiple optimized permutations.

This has nothing to do with ads or fingerprinting, it’s purely about writing code that works on legacy vs newer browsers.
Except coronavirus aint polio for kids, you are comparing apples and oranges, coronavirus affects old and obese and we know this already for year, yet pharmalobby and politicians keep pushing vaccines to healthy people especially children at basically zero risk.
It seems like the manufacturers of these parts aren't producing in bulk, why aren't the tolerances exact and have a min/max? Are they not able to measure the parts out of the factory better? Is the measuring equipment on their end and the gearboxes company difference? Or are these like nanometer tolerances which we just can't manufacture consistently?
NYU seems to create a better network for the grad film students. It doesn't guarantee success any more than Columbia, but basednon the tiny sample size of one friend and his classmates, most of his film masters degree class ended up working in the industry in one way or the other.
Soo... what I just said?

The point is, for facial recognition to make sense, you would need to have some additional context.

For example it could make more sense if you followed up any results with an actual person making determination (some variation on a blind or double blind test).
What is the experience like at a hackathon? Are you just sweating behind a computer screen or do you actually get time to socialize?

It has never been too appealing to me to work for a couple of days under time crunch, which is what I always thought hackathons were. The author has done over 30 of them though, so there must be something else that draws people in.
> One thing that caught my eye was that the other softwares do not have automated tests. How do you know this?

Talking to ex-employees

> Do you consider this to be a USP of your software? I do not think end users will care about whether tests exist or not.

I wouldn't go so far to call it a USP (many payroll softwares will test decently), more a baseline for quality. It's not uncommon to hear of payroll errors when talking to people who run payroll. While end users don't care about tests, they very much care about being paid the correct amount.

These errors seem to fall into two categories: manual entry and software errors. Manual entry errors are by far the most common, and seem to be symptomatic of confusing UI and a lack of validation on input (easy to mistakenly put an extra 0 in a number field, not doing a checksum on an account number, no regex on a national insurance number)

That said, calculation errors do happen. When furlough was brought in, lots of payroll softwares struggled. We think part of that could have been avoided with better testing.
It's really just a pricey day camp.
You can track this here https://upvotetracker.com/
We've been using symops[0] which uses AWS-StartSSHSession document, but what's nice is it allows to set up different workflows for how people access servers. Plus all the advantages of SSM in general (IAM/SSO, CloudTrail etc).

[0] https://symops.com/
> Bright is the son of the air force pilot Charles D. Bright.[4][5] Bright graduated from Caltech in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering.[6]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
>That's because Wehrmacht soldiers and their pals have warred on USSR, and took millions of lives and caused untold suffering there. The Japanese, at that point, not so much.

This didn't really matter for the Soviets. Though the Manchurian invasion was too rapid and short-lived to really escalate to European-level Soviet brutality, the Red Army engaged in plenty of the same random massacres, mass rapes, brutalities and mass deportations after they entered and occupied Manchuria.

Many of these soldiers had already long since been brutalized by their campaigns in eastern and central Europe (from which they had been shipped in massive trainloads shortly after VE Day) and the basic nature of the Soviet leadership hardly fostered a spirit of good military conduct to civilians at any time.

Some deeper reading about the Soviet Manchurian campaign reveals quite a few of the uglier details.

Also, none of this in the least bit excuses the grotesque behavior of the Japanese Army in the same region during its long occupation. Regardless of how the Japanese are perceived today, their army's habits during the 2nd World War were completely beyond justification in their genocidal viciousness.
> So how many large scale experiments with communism have we had during the last 100 years

To my knowledge, only a handful. Workers self-organization in Catalonia during the Spanish revolution (1936-1937) is one, Community-oriented democracy in Chiapas (since 1994) and Rojava (since 2011) is another.

The other examples you think of (unless i'm mistaken) are precisely dictatorships of the proletariat that have nothing to do with communism and never intended to build power for the people.

> wind back the clock to 1968, pretend like nothing happened and start ranting about communism?

In 1968, the situation in regards to communism was already as it is today. The counter-revolutionary crimes of marxist-leninists and their State capitalism date from 1917, not after 1968. In 1917, the revolution was one aiming for people's liberation until Lenin, Trotsky and their cliques made a coup d'État and murdered everyone who disagreed with them.

> Sorry, that's just a bit too much

What is? Do you think free food, free housing, free education and free healthcare is too much? Do you think power to the people (not parliaments) is too much? What about libertarian communism (anarchism) disgusts you?
I think, its more about Probable Cause for an arrest and that facial recognition is considered a valid, non-biased trigger for that by the police. The emphasis is on the "non-biased" here. It basically triggered the chain of events where none of the investigators really double-checked. Its kinda similar to the Stop-and-Frisk issue.
I think it doesn't need the rule more because it's a single federal republic and its citizens are citizens of the entire nation not just a single state.

Whilst it's great to make generic EU vs. US statements the EU(/EEA) is still ~30 different sovereign nations with their own citizenships.
It tends to not get blocked in places where other video chat like Skype and WhatsApp Video are blocked by the government, such as the UAE.
I still like Excel for certain things but I don't know why you wouldn't just use Pandas instead of this and cut out Excel.
Huawei Map Kit – ISS Detector Sample App-Huawei Developers
NTFS has never had a limit of other than 32K. MAX_PATH limited 260 characters for the Win32 API (among others). It has always been possible to bypass the 260 character limit, though obviously most applications wouldn't work with a file that exceeded the system-defined MAX_PATH value.

Office does its own thing and doesn't leverage MAX_PATH. No idea why.
How quickly we forget. This is not the first time workers have faced inhumane working conditions. Unions worked as a solution before - why wouldn't they work again?
But they are normal people and so are our lawmakers.

Unfortunately you can't build the system based on assumption that officers, judges or representatives are Vulcan and only use logic. Any system like that will necessarily be pretty bad.

The safety in the system is general public scrutiny, but as we see it is failing miserably, too.
Weren't these all emails already? Weren't you required to retain them for the SEC even before falling into this specific (hypothetical) inbox?
I like it even though i don't speak german. Thanks for sharing!
I'd think the construct of "The shape of something where all points that are x distance away from a certain point" is something that would be universal. (Thinking of spheres rather than circles.)

AFAIK pi crops up in any dimensionality in any type of space for spheres.
That's good to hear. I'm tempted to get the Moonlander. I have ergodox ez at the moment which I really like.

I've never really got into the layer system. It feels like something that would be great to already be fluent with, but the effort involved in getting there doesn't seem to be worth it.
My children's school district uses meet and google classroom. I think it's pretty common in schools in the US.
I sucked at algebra, and the math of physics until 7 or 8th grade, when geometry was introduced; I excelled at geometry and that completely changed my life, I later loved math.
Sources: https://youtu.be/hx7BXih7zx8?t=639 and https://youtu.be/gZ2SeiLjaEc?t=941
Taxes dont go to fund Hezbollah in Lebanon. For one simple reason. Taxes are never collected. If they were the country wouldn't be in a financial crisis.
> humans evolved from a rodent like creature

We are more related with some groups of gliding mammals than with rodents.
You might want to check out Elm. It offers that "if it compiles, it works" guarantee, but does so much more simply and with excellent errors.

You do pay for that in terms of having to write some boilerplate and not having some nice abstractions, but it does mean you don't have that issue of impenetrable errors.
I think what OP specifically meant is that it's a first they actually charge for a product like this, so your predicted outcome is less likely.
Well, given that spying involves lots of tailing, one can hope that the recursion is optimized away.
Well, isn’t it? Except we’re at Middle Ages/ early Renaissance rates of computer science and programming literacy. “The future is already here, it’s just not widely distributed yet” and all that.
Google releases Individual Google Workspace plan
And don't even think about looking at the document and commenting something about it in the chat, and then looking again... because it seems impossible to have the document and the chat open at the same time.

I tend to just ignore the links and download everything because of this.
i am not sure they are doing a bad job, this story was up on the front page for half and hour and then it got flagged.
What other product people in the UK use, then?
Mixing trees and crops can help both farmers and the climate
HN is pretty selective with what gets scored high and not flagged. Guidelines explain most of it for starters (read links at bottom of HN page):

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

3 letter agencies can be interesting, though spying is not news in general.
I guess with your tool collaboration with a few people across one excel sheet would work more smoothly than with an Excel file on OneDrive?

We work in a team of only 3 people with an excel file on OneDrive and what annoys me the most is that it happens quite often that excel "says" that your changes have been saved (e.g. it says it's saved in the header, also the blue onedrive symbol shows no circle. The best indicator is the file in the explorer: If that shows the green checkmark then it's good) while in reality it's not and you only get a notification (that it cannot save because it cannot updates from someone else with yours) when you try to close the file. Annoying. Anyone with solutions is very welcome :)
That’s a bit strong. It’s a bit cryptic maybe..
Doesn't look too far off from working with Vue
Just wanted to stress it because that quote contained the essence of what I was always taught in Karate.
Not really.
TLDR: You cannot trust code you did not botch up yourself.
This "over-connectedness" is also extremely common for brilliant people in finance. When you're surrounded by people playing dirty and things not being as they seem you develop a level of paranoia as a survival/coping mechanism.

Michael Burry, Ray Dalio, Eric Weinstein and the like are not usually paranoid or conspiratorial or contrarian, they're just more outspoken than most.
You're being absurdly condescending. Maybe those people aren't lost, but you're just not seeing something they do, or are used to completely different use cases?

I've used and understood most if not all of the languages you might have in mind as being "superior" to Go, Rust wasn't very difficult other than the initial 2 weeks warmup. I've used it for a few months on a side project. It's fun.

And yet I choose to use Go in my day to day 95% of the time.

Go is an insanely practical language. It's also a very productive one, mostly thanks to the ecosystem and people being very practically-oriented instead of bikeshedding on every little detail. Depending on your area of work, it has an extensive ecosystem of libraries too.

And most of all, it's got the best asynchronicity model I've so far had the pleasure to work with. You can see more about this in my recent comment[0].

Yes, it lacks some features, but it's getting there. And wether I agree with the final form of those features or not, I'm happy they're not being rushed.

And yes, like all tools, for some use cases it is a terrible choice.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27545031
You cannot use 90% of the capabilities of most software-running appliances w/o agreeing to be individual-consumer-behavior tracked and resold to third party marketers. Try to turn on a new Samsung, LG, Sony, read the fine print. This model is not in Apple’s agreements.
Can't they already organize and associate with unions but choose not to?
"Edsger said that Brouwer was the most argumentative person he had ever known (these may not have been the exact words but that was the sentiment) which coming from Edsger was a strong statement"
not if they do it in python.
When you introduce the notion of "logical sense", you're already deviating from an objective standard. For example, Amazon's warehouse bathroom policy is logical from a profit-maximizing perspective, but it's illogical from the perspective of the health and wellbeing of its workers.
I kinda agree. We also have the mounting pressure for getting unconscious bias out of the hiring process. It would seem if we think people are fired also for bias and unfair reasons that the ai would be the likely only way to save the situation.

Seems here with amazon we are quick to suggest humans are the best way but in nearly all other inclusion/diversity posts we are fighting against the humans being faulty.

Interesting problem for sure
For business it's a pretty even split between Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Some still uses Skype for Business - which as you can imagine is a pretty awful experience. Note that we work with global financial services organisations with fairly strict infosec policies and antiquated architectures.

For personal video calls it's Zoom, WhatsApp video or Facetime.
I think Stripe is disturbing Amazon.

I used to order a lot of stuff from Amazon, because it was very convenient.

Now it's a mess of 3rd party resellers, when I search an item I drown in indistinguishable copies of copies.

In the other hand, there is small online shops or companies who have their own shops and sell directly. These sites just look better and you buy a specific brand or product.

Stripe (and similar providers and other developments) made ordering from random Webshops as convenient to me than going to Amazon.

It's like going to Apple, Bose, Levi's store instead of Walmart.
There's quite a few modern HR platforms floating around, like CharlieHR, and it seems (as an outsider) that these platforms have explicitly decided not to enter payroll because it's such a nightmare. From my own experience, payroll is very hands-on because of edge-cases: make one mistake with one employee and you're sixty emails deep with a payroll administrator trying to clear things up (I've been on the receiving end of payroll hell quite a few times in my career!).

I think applying best engineering practices to business problems (i.e: unit testing your payroll logic) is a vastly undervalued opportunity and I think offering a payroll API is a fantastic opportunity for companies like CharlieHR to gain this functionality.

1. If we use CharlieHR as an example, how do you tackle building a relationship with them as a service provider (Payroll API) while competing with them on the product side? CharlieHR would need to disclose the relationship to their customers (since the data would be shared) -- do you plan to spin out a separate "brand" for the API?

2. How do you accommodate the inevitable Payroll hell: do you have (or plan to have) a staff of payroll administrators (and accountants?) to handle the edge-cases? Are you insured against any mistakes? Have you encountered any challenges so far / identified any big wins?

Thanks and good-luck, I'll pass this on to our HR team!
Is this maybe to lend a bump to their new 'Individual' Google Workspace Plan? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27831735
Ask HN: Exclusive Opt-In Search Engine?
What do you think of a search engine in which websites "register" to be listed on?

The exclusive element would come from restrictions as to who can apply. Off the top of my head, not websites with cross-site tracking, no websites of a commercial nature, of high quality, etc.

The idea sprung from wanting a search engine that only searches blogs of indie hackers/scientist. That's just my interests though, I was hoping to broaden that scope.

Basically a search engine that shows original, high quality content - with no financial incentives.
Think might be a misunderstanding. I'm referring to a post that got removed, not one that was simply unpopular. There is no issue with the voting mechanism.
Sure, my bad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo
Trains take a lot more time, even HSR. I'm going to Madrid in the near future and I don't think I'll take a train, it's at least 6+ hours, and most of it is HSR.
There are many things to criticize Amazon about, but I feel like removing a e-book that is being fraudulently sold is a stretch. They have to operate with the legal environment.

In this regard we're not close to 1984. It's not every copy of the old book. The users are free to use their refund to re-purchase the book from the copyright holder. Assuming a 1-to-1 price, it would have been smarter to replace the copy (though this has some other interesting ethical problems).

I'm with you in general though. A while back I stopped using Amazon and kindle for a lot of my reading, preferring Calibre/koreader and sourcing from others where possible. Where there is no alternative to Amazon, I quickly export it to Calibre.

I think cloud companies scanning for unlicensed copies is a much better example. It's only a matter of time until someone scans a book manually, and then X cloud company decides it's "unlicensed". Partly solved by client side encryption and/or owncloud, but still.
the fun part is when the group call is interrupted by an ad based of a participants browsing habits

"30% of our special ointment just for you!"
None of the other metrics come from nature either, that's the point. "Logic" is more of a catchall for "not from nature" than a specific axiomatic system.
Google Workspace is the default option for most small tech companies in India.
Are you suggesting that the problem lies in people losing faith in a god and in a church? Were people happier when they were more religious and when a church told them what's good and bad? And now we don't have that? And we should seek to replace it and the problems will lessen?
It's open source and written in Java.
I'm no mathematician but it's my understanding that axiomatic set theory is considered foundational for both what you call mathematics and also for discrete mathematics (aka logic).
I imagine a lot of businesses who use google workspace use it as it's bundled (why pay for zoom, teams etc. on top).
> This does mean you have to jump through a number of hoops to use FFI.

TBH, I thought the pain of FFI in ports (the only mechanism available in Elm 0.19) was kinda overblown. Function input goes into a command, function output comes back as a message. That's just a few extra lines of standard code.

I think they become annoying if you do lots of small, synchronous, safe calls, like using a JS math library. In that case I suspect I would prefer writing a larger JS function instead of having an Elm function full of JS calls, even if I could use a more permissive unsafe FFI, because every JS invocation is still a chance at runtime errors due to type conversions (even with ports).
For users who signed in from the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are supported by storing data only on servers in the Netherlands, and designating a London-based company as their responsible data controller.[1]

Now, question is, because there is a London-based company, are they allowed to read and store all messages?

[1] as above