skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how it is even legal anywhere?

Should employee have influence on e.g. ma sleep pattern (because it can reduce my work performance) or my eating habits?
There have been at least two innocent people murdered because they got the wrong person.
Yes, there are many people who will continue to demand these products. That's exactly why its so important for everyone else to start now. It's not binary; we can reduce the scale of the issue as more and more people stop demanding these things, and that will have a tangible effect on the emissions.
Being murdered doesn't compare to being robbed?
> much simpler to own and maintain.

As a person who never owned an EV I am curious to know how it is simpler to maintain it?
We could not end Earth's ability to support life even if we tried our best at it.
> Convert these private markets into open markets.
> Tort, fair and impartial judiciary, right to sue, transparency and accountability, etc.

Getting more lawyers involved might make things more fair.

It'll definitely take longer than 7 days, and certainly cost a LOT more! :D
Reminds me about David Foster Wallace's passage from Infinite Jest[0]:

> The 46-year old recipient of the Jarvik IX Exterior Artificial Heart was actively window shopping in Cambridge, Massachusetts' fashionable Harvard Square when a transvestite purse snatcher, a drug addict with a criminal record all too well known to public officials, bizarrely outfitted in a strapless cocktail dress, spike heels, tattered feather boa, and auburn wig, brutally tore the life sustaining purse from the woman's unwitting grasp. The active, alert woman gave chase to the purse snatching 'woman' for as long as she could, plaintively shouting to passers by the words 'Stop her! She stole my heart!' on the fashionable sidewalk crowded with shoppers, reportedly shouting repeatedly, 'She stole my heart, stop her!' In response to her plaintive calls, tragically, misunderstanding shoppers and passers by merely shook their heads at one another, smiling knowingly at what they ignorantly presumed to be yet another alternative lifestyle's relationship gone sour. A duo of Cambridge, Massachusetts, patrolmen, whose names are being withheld from Moment's dogged queries, were publicly heard to passively quip, 'Happens all the time,' as the victimized woman staggered frantically past in the wake of the fleet transvestite, shouting for help with the stolen heart.

[0] Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. New York: Back Bay Books, 10th Anniversary Paperback edition, 1996. Pg 143.
Removing carbon well be a kidding battle without stopping emissions
Firefox 89 delivered more speed–today’s Firefox 90 adds SmartBlock 2.0
It's a fairly inflammatory headline and article, but it doesn't actually say very much.

I suspect the story stretches out over a long time period, and has lots of variables.

I can think of many ways that either side could be cast as villain or protagonist.
"Now available on the App Store and Google Play"

I first heard those words on a TV commercial sometime in 2010. For the decade prior, it would have been "visit site dot com to learn more".

Since 2010 I wonder how many hours worth of ads have aired that drill into consumers' heads the idea that applications live exclusively on app stores. The web may as well not exist, because it's outside the walled garden.
This article has photos and media of the people involved https://www.thesun.ie/news/7263756/rapper-shooting-journalis...
I do not want the kind of 'freedom' that the Heritage Foundation promotes.
You make an excellent point; according to the United Nations [0], in 2021 there are 957 million people across 93 countries who do not have enough to eat.

Clearly extraordinary times require extraordinary measures, while some efforts are being proposed (e.g. recent EU Climate Action [1]), it is far too too little, much too late.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit/news/2021-going-be...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57833807
Coal plants are shutting down as a result of the CO2 tax and there is a shift to natural gas which will reduce the impact of CO2 taxes. The EEG can also be abolished once the CO2 tax is high enough because there won't be a need for a feed in tariff because consumer demand for renewables will be high enough to pay for renewables directly.
Interesting. My stack ranking of unethical tech companies would have Twitter at the very top. None of the others have caused as much societal harm as Twitter. I saw research recently that as much as half of all trending topics in Turkey were manufactured by malicious actors to spread propaganda. Also, it's just an endless pit of addictive negativity. I once had a girlfriend who would browser Twitter for hours on end and was perpetually angry. Not a good way to live.

Google, on the other hand, has a bunch of products like Maps, Drive, Docs, and Meet that are legitimately helpful and useful. I would have no ethical qualms about helping to make Docs better. This is not to say Google is an ethical company in the aggregate, but there are certainly a lot of roles you could take there that would not require you to question your morality every time you start a new task.
A million tps is crazy! I have heard of trading platforms operating at this scale. Curious about your use cases that led to the creation of this.
It’s definitely more complex than just using a monorepo. This tool that all your code runs through is young and not well supported.
I work for another one of these big companies... The other domain thing is exactly how we handle it
Just wanted to add that your "side-projects" don't necessarily need to be done outside of the context of your job. On my resume I list several passion projects I've done at work on the side and have been given positive feedback about them. These projects are usually things that would benefit the company and also give me the chance to learn something new.

Although there's no official "20% time" policy at my company I tend to carve out a few hours a week of company time to work on these projects. One of my more senior colleagues managed to carve out 40-50% of his time working on these types of projects.
I think the price of oil is not key to what happened in France, apart perhaps from somewhat exacerbating the issue at a specific time. Again, they tried to slap an extra tax on fuel "because the environment", which people had no choice but to pay.

Sure, people might drive slightly less if fuel prices get high but this only means less trips that can be avoided. Going to work, going to supermarket, using utility vehicles for business cannot be avoided in most cases.

If you're a tradesperson or on low pay in a small town outside of Paris you depend on your vehicle for everything, you cannot "just drive less" and you cannot afford a band new one. So that extra tax directly reduced your (potentially already low) income without making any difference on emissions and the environment.

Basically many people thought the government disconnected from reality and was treating them as cash cows when they were not that well off to start with.

So, these measures must be staggered in time with a clear schedule so people can plan in advance and there must be viable EV alternatives for people, all the people, to switch to (viable means existing and affordable).
Before the traditional HN comments "isn't this just ...?", the README already does that for you:

> a blazingly-fast, incremental, and reversible implementation of git history filtering
What horribly impractical advice. I mean, in theory, sure, but retaining a lawyer because you run a small public service? Nah.
Just curious, because I'd love to run redox for real one day :D, Is the biggest issue around real hardware support the drivers/firmware? Would it make sense / be possible to reuse the Linux code?
QEMU build system guy here. If you have any questions about the configure and meson scripts, you can catch me on the #qemu channel on OFTC.

Of the features you disabled, the main one to be reinstated seems to be slirp.

--enable-tools builds qemu-img, qemu-nbd and other tools. --enable-coroutine-pool is an optimization that should not be a problem for portability.
This attitude is so infuriating. "Their own conflicts" ->

https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/aantal-vergismoorden-sti...

and that's before we get into those cases where people were slaughtered in front of their spouses and children (and who sometimes were slaughtered right along with them).

Massive shoot outs with automatic weapons on the highways, in the cities and on one occasion on a small beach near Amsterdam.

If it doesn't include you then you are lucky. But it could be you, tomorrow.
Maybe I've just been lucky, but most of my contracts have essentially been worded so that work related to the business belongs to them, but not everything.
Trade secrets are that, but if you willingly disclose, that's on you.

I recall as story about a manufacturer, building a new plant. He took "reasonable security precautions" to protect its design, fences, guards while being built. A competitor hired a plane, flew over, took detailed photos. It was later ruled that the trade secrets were intact, thus could not be used.
> This just blocks the cyber-arms trade. It doesn’t prevent researchers from telling the products’ companies, even if they are outside of China.

Cyberspace Administration of China release -

http://www.cac.gov.cn/2021-07/13/c_1627761607640342.htm

It creates an interesting dynamic. Researchers are encouraged to tell overseas companies, but could be payed by China not to. And China can still buy zero days from overseas.

> Vulnerability information shall not be released before the network product provider provides network product security vulnerabilities repair measures

This in the West is used to create pressure on the companies to make them fix problem.

China removes this pressure for overseas companies, and can punish local companies.
Is there any IP created because you generated a particular program / interface? Perhaps not the code itself but the end product? In the early stages of my career we were advised to never test out a competitors product for fears that we would inadventently copy something of theirs that was protected, but at my current company we compare our product to our competitors regularly. No risk there?
Those contracts are illegal in most European countries.

The employers are not allowed by law to state how you spend your free time, regardless how much they pretend it to be like that.

Naturally you cannot create a busines in competition with the employer using internal knowledge.
It's not about laws or prescriptions. If you really want to do it, you'll figure it out.

Most people don't really want to do it, so they don't figure it out.
> making it very expensive to lie and to make the rewards that can be obtained through lying worthless

Lying is a small, small subset of commercial disputes. When a party loses in front of the Supreme Court, it isn’t because someone lied. It’s because they interpreted the facts differently. Solving for lying could be helpful, but it largely returns us to square one.

> who would've thought that we could solve the double spending problem 15 years ago?

Admire the enthusiasm. But note that the Byzantine general’s problem was solved well before Bitcoin.
Ask HN: How to maintain interest in things for longer?
Hello everyone.

For most of my life, my interests have shifted relatively quickly: I spent a month or two learning thing #1 before then discovering thing #2, putting the first on hold and so on until maybe I discovered some interesting insight that got me back into #1. Learning anything else other than the current interest is a slog, but so far that worked in my favor as being a jack of all trades, master of none was beneficial as an undergraduate.

Working on my final project is making me realize the shortcomings of such approach: I keep procrastinating and sometimes missing deadlines because I get interested in orthogonal topics; I need depth of knowledge rather than breadth; learning as an end in itself makes me uninterested in practical applicability. Despite that, I don't see myself as dysfunctional, but rather just far less productive than I know can be.

I am interested into pursing an academia path, but I can't see myself as I am going through a master's, let alone a PhD. The outlook of going to the industry doesn't seem much better either.

So, cutting the chase short: how can I work on improving this situation? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Even if it was a well built app, anyone that's built an app for an F500 company, knows the hoops you have to jump through for things like compliance.

There's a good chance the app did what it was supposed to just fine, but Delta couldn't sign on because it didn't have Reporting Requirements, SOC2 Compliant or a litany of other things that an Enterprise would require to sign on.
As someone who hires for development-as-a-cost-center I see side projects as a demonstration of interest in software development. I don't need to see a good side project, I just like to hear of one existing. I don't necessarily need passion, but if you view developing software as no different than polishing widgets or inserting pimentos in olives, something you do only for the money, I don't want you.
Energy is still pretty cheap in Germany. How many people choose a smaller car because gas is too expensive? Very few. How many people choose a bike for short trips because gas is too expensive? Very few. How many choose to pay higher rent and move to a city, because commuting from a suburb consumes too much gas? How many people try to form carpools because gas is too expensive?

The problem is that for some reason our politicians don't want to raise prices in a way that doesn't hit the poorest. For example with a tax&dividend system.
I think that is the difference between an echo chamber, where everybody is amplifying the content, and a gateway chamber where who gets there is heavily limited[0] but the conversation is not. In the first the conversation is limited but participation is not[1] in the second participation is limited but the conversation is not.

An echo chamber is bad, but I think a gatewayed chamber is not only not bad but required for effective communication, learning and development of new ideas. You can't enforce the Chatham House Rule unless you get to choose who gets in.

[0]: This doesn't have to be by any external source, it can be just by whom you choose to follow on Twitter.

[1]: Everybody gets to talk about the need to defund the police or #stopthesteal or whatever position the platform supports because more voices behind your position is more power.
Collective blame for the actions of a tiny minority is an excuse to not do anything. If it's everybody's fault, it becomes nobody's fault.
I wonder, how hard is it to bootstrap Pharo on new platform...
X.org-to-Wayland migration chart for app developers
Well, that is the fundamental split between specifying a bunch of features and letting people write clients, vs closely linking the features and clients together.

When I can update my web client every day with a new feature, the advantage of not having an open standard is higher, I can invent new features in days rather than the years it's taken IRC to add things
Even simple stuff. There has been a problem for years that it's actually hard to prove what's actually in a jar of honey on a grocery store shelf, even in a country with strong consumer safety regulation. Is it even honey or is it fake? Where did it really come from and how was it actually produced and what ingredients are actually in it? There is a label that claims to answer all of that, but it often actually doesn't.
Our regular reminder that the union of lifetimes of all known kernel exploits covers the entire history of Linux. There has never been a time during which your Linux systems were not vulnerable to takeover, somehow.
You can get a used Nissan Leaf for about 8k right now.
It's just the matter of time before some of the higher range cars are old enough to be cheap on the used car market.
> Because drive-by shootings that kill innocent, uninvolved people are not a thing?

They really aren’t a thing.

Certainly not in the Netherlands. Even in the US, it’s an exceptionally rare cause of death of no significance at all.
It’s pretty understandable given Europe’s history with inflammatory speech leading to continental war, a process which has been repeating itself ever since the invention of the printing press.
Only if they can buy enough batteries
Ask HN: Setups for Remote Developers
We are a work from anywhere company and I'm trying to find a sustainable computer equipment setup for our 20+ .NET developers.

It needs to be flexible (local admin rights, ability to compile locally) but secure to map to our ISO 27001 and other security policies.

Our developers run Visual Studio IDE, currently they code/compile locally, they will all have a local SQL etc.

The ideal would be to have a cloud based server using RFP/Azure AD but they're against RDP.

So what other options are out there that will allow us to provide standard kit to our team that we can manage access/sign on to in the cloud and facilitates a development environment on their local machines (or RDP if latency definitely won't be an issue?)

Thanks all
Resource depletion followed by mass migration.
Fair enough, but that's also a function of the fact that NL is a huge transshipment point and the gangs here try very hard to lay low to avoid attracting attention to their activities.

Meanwhile, a dutch fruitcompany (https://www.bd.nl/bommelerwaard/fruithandel-de-groot-doelwit...) and its employees are attacked regularly because a load of drugs was caught in transit.
> Hiring companies never confirm past jobs

Very much not true
And in countries with functioning mass media systems, the public responds to pressure from the tv.
Using Benford's Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation
I think in any sort of reasonable business model, there would be fore-warning before access is cut off completely. I have no opinions on this app or the validity of the business (either positive or negative), but I think it's worrisome that google or apple can potentially kill your business with no recourse.
Ben Elton wrote a novel "Stark" around a similar idea (I won't spoil it, but it's a good read!) -- the BBC actually made it into a mini-series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)
XMR is essentially a credit card where it's impossible for anyone to exploit your personal information for any purpose. It's already better than everything out there. The fact it enables some crime is merely a side effect. We need more technology like this. Technology that makes it literally impossible to abuse its users in any way.
I haven't ever seen a more glaring example of corruption as the Soviet black markets for food in the 1980s.

By the late 1980s, Soviet price controls and centralized distribution rules, incentivized black market growth by providing opportunity for tremendous profit. Ultimately, it overtook the regular gov't markets - resulting in the famous empty shelves we iconically associate with the collapse of the USSR.

Most gov't officials participated in these black markets. This also led to massive organized crime groups, which became so profitable, that they became the oligarchs who ultimately took over the country when the gov't collapsed from bankruptcy.

The notion that capitalism creates corruption is laughable with these massive recent examples.
most of opensource contributions happen as a regular job. there is no such a thing as nerds doing opensource for free. Opensource is free to take source code but is creating of this code is usually well paid by big corporations.
Only one in a thousand people with this kind of burning ambition, become successful on the scale that the billionaires you listed have. They're aware of their good fortune, and they undoubtedly know what they have to lose from taking part in an experimental voyage to the edge of space.
> They really aren’t a thing.

They really are in the UK.

> cause of death of no significance at all

Of course, someone's needless death is of no significance. You have probably never heard of John Donne, but:

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
In my experience, it is best to never reveal the whole design, especially those parts which are “secret sauce”, but to craft your presentation in a way that the reviewer appreciates your work but does not recognize the things you aren’t showing. In short, yes, people will steal your ideas and hard work, and it is your responsibility to prevent that from happening and do so in a non-confrontational manner. I have experienced this behavior my entire engineering career—from customers, business teammates and even colleagues. My wife thinks I need to trust people more—but experience has taught me otherwise. Sorry to be a downer.
Indeed. I'm incredibly lucky to live in a western country in this time with low discrimnation, little sexism, low crime. I know war only from stories. If something hurts I can be in front of a doctor within an hour. I never have to be hungry. Really quite incredible what kind of life I can live.
In a word: Rotterdam. We have Mexican cartel bozos operating inside the country in their own labs preparing drugs for further distribution into the european market.
It can be a filter on the output and account for previously observed state. E.g. one trivial (and probably pretty bad) solution in that direction would be to boost the probability of small state changes as opposed to large changes.

> if we saw something there before, the safest course of action is to assume that it's still there until strongly indicated otherwise

Normally I'd agree with you, but driving a car is a bit of a special case since in may cases stomping on the brakes is way worse than doing nothing. Take the video of the tesla seeing spurious traffic lights[0] for instance, should it really do an emergency stop in the middle of traffic in that case?

All the machine learning can do is give you probabilities on what the state of the world around the car might be. The software needs to pick from those probabilities some state to act on in such a way to be the least likely to endanger anyone. There isn't a simple correct answer. all the variables need to be weighed. currently teslas seem to ignore some pretty important variables while driving.

[0] https://twitter.com/sascha_p/status/1400173874285744129
Rotate tires and refill the washer fluid. Done!
I've had a Nissan Leaf since 2014, and that's all I have ever done.
And it works surprisingly well. 95% of the public is either unwilling to do the leg work to find those connections or doesn't know how.

I still have to tell people that waymo is just the self-driving car initiative from Google under a new business organization.
I work with clinical studies, and I've not seen any indication that this would be even remotely true.
The problem with trying to force one single history, is that it ignores deployments. And user onboarding/behavior change. All of which can be relevant when working on a project.

With multi repository projects, this helps some thinking, as it is clear that the changes were not atomic between systems. They are literally separate at all layers, including the commit.

I sympathize with wanting a simpler view. I'm just worried on an inflated value proposition.
Are there any perceived shortcomings of Smalltalk that caused it not to take hold?
you're starting to unravel many of the long-standing but not well supported claims of human genetics. Even with the human genome it's nontrivial to reliably compare people.