skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you also call it a "privacy disaster" when your bank account requires your name and address so they can report interest payments to the government? Or when Robinhood/Schwab/Vanguard/Etc send the IRS a list of all your stock transactions for the year in a form 1099?

This isn't like that at all. This would be like the government requiring Microsoft to KYC every single user of Excel, because people use their software to manage money.
Haven't used the site in a while and just logged in to see if I could share some invite codes but seems as if you only earn invite codes by participating in the community (I haven't commented in a few months).
Same here. I'm sad this is the first I've heard of it because it looks like a really cool and inspiring site. I don't have a product to share and discuss quite yet, but I'm hoping to by the end of the year.
> if you need to coordinate things down to the millisecond

If this coordination needs to happen > 6 months in the future, then UTC is the wrong time standard to use. Use TAI.
My team at work piloted using Mattermost before my company finally settled on Microsoft Teams company-wide. Something about Mattermost was just so much more engaging than Teams. People chimed in with answers and opinions on things way more. There was team bonding in the form of custom reactions and plenty of "off-topic" banter in the appropriate places. Teams just feels so dead in comparison. Maybe it's the way channels and notifications work. Maybe it's the lack of custom reactions. Maybe my team just had too much turnover. I don't know.
> All current ARM server based on N1 has a per core maximum of 3W max.

The N1 based Altra Q80-33 and the Q64-33 both have a per core max over 3W, with the Q64-33 approaching 3.5W/core. Still way under your figure for M1 of course.
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REST has lost a bit of steam in recent years. You still see everyone blogging about it, but the REST chat channels and forums are empty.

Probably the slow realization most of REST's promises were just vapor, and all we need is ad-hoc JSON HTTP APIs.
Up until the mid-1970s in the US, sodas were often sold in eight-packs of thick glass pint* bottles, returnable for deposit at the store. The delivery trucks picked up the returned bottles and took them to the bottling plant, where they were washed and reused. Coca-Cola bottles were famous for being stamped on the bottom with their originating bottling plant.

Then came the thin-wall non-returnable glass bottles, followed quickly by plastic. I don't think it was an improvement.

* US pint = 16 fl. oz. = 473.2 ml
I don't see the issue with LFR. If you want to join a guild and run raids you still can. However, some of us don't feel like joining a guild and would rather just queue up every now and then.
Please don't "dunk" on people. You won't get any free internet points for it and it makes the community a worse place.
> If people put their savings into a bank account, then this savings would nevertheless be available for investments via the banks, arn't they?

No, those two things have nothing to do with each other. When you ask a bank for credit to invest into something, the bank just creates money they don't take money from other customers.
Read the links. Wage growth has barely moved when adjusted for inflation and this year is hardly different.
> It's still wise to at least consider the possibility of a bank failure, qv Northern Rock.

Most industrialized countries have insurance of bank deposits up to a certain point. So even if the bank goes poof your savings are still safe.

It would simply be prudent to have money in more than one bank (or credit union), as if something bad happens then things may get chaotic in the short term.

A second account also helps with IT problems:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_Group_computer_system...

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/27/natwest-and...
Hmm. Every company I've been where they had internal kubernetes, it was a complete mess and constant production issues.
> The hard truth that many companies struggle to wrap their heads around is that they should be paying their long-tenured engineers above market rate.

From an ethical point of view, maybe. From a rational point of view, maybe not.

Jobs are "sticky" — it's a pain to apply for jobs, arrange interviews, deal with the possibility of getting rejected. And if you do get an offer and accept you will be leaving colleagues that may be friends, risk your position being less stimulating, have to move house and/or deal with a new commute.

There is a very real salary range between "low enough that I'll think about applying for other jobs" and "so low I'll actually start applying for jobs". Employers are aware of this and are paying salaries accordingly. It sucks for everyone in that salary band but — ethics and long-term viability aside — it's still the rational economic choice for employers. Every now and again someone will quit and get their deserved 40% increase, but many will delay leaving for years, or simply put up with it indefinitely, saving employers tons of money.

Of course this may not be the case forever. It seems like recently the cohort of people who find interviewing and changing jobs more tolerable (the so-called "job-hoppers") is increasing in size. If you happen to be a part of this cohort, then congratulations, you're winning the job-market pain-of-change-vs-salary arbitrage game and will enjoy above-average year-on-year salary increases for at least the near future.
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The title of these threads needs work!

Possible to group by theme or something?

Or just leave out the specifics. The 2-word pitch is cutting too much to be any sort of useful.
Well either way would work I suppose, but yeah let's speed it up a bit. I propose we move the moon closer.
Spreadsheet users are programmers. Shouldn't be a war.

But, the problem with spreadsheets is that they are an engine of shoddy programming. I don't think it's fundamental. All currently existing spreadsheet implementations hide their functions and make review difficult. If we had spreadsheets that somehow exposed the relations between the cells and made them easier to inspect, ideally minimizing selective interaction (obviously you can mouseover, but that is a far more selective interaction than scrolling a file), they would be less of a problem.

To some degree notebooks (matlab/mathematica/octave, jupyter, pluto, livebook) are solving this problem, and probably being "halfway-between" spreadsheets code, with being fully reviewable is a game-changer, why data scientists like them.

I think you could also improve on the spreadsheet in other ways by being more opinionated. You could have each table be a named entity not on an "infinite-plane of cells" (so you have to set the # of rows and columns, obviously should still be easy to insert/remove rows and columns). I am sure I am not alone in thinking for the last 3 decades that graphs just "hanging out in the middle of the cells" is really stupid.
There are significant safety risks for many other occupations -- truck drivers, construction workers, security guards, even fast food workers. These are not as controversial because the pay is time-based not output-based, and it's easier to unionize and access some level of benefits. All of these occupations are reasonable and available options for nearly any gig worker, and they should be, especially if those aspects are important to someone.

Gig working is an alternative to any of these occupations which have existed for decades -- one that is arguably less dangerous and, more importantly, enables output-based compensation and completely flexible work hours. It's a mostly-unprecedented career option, and it's net new (i.e. there's no evidence that other job opportunities, other than being a taxi driver, of course, have decreased), so no one is forced to pursue it. For those that do, there is major upside, but there are also a few risks. Most notably, the risk of "performing poorly", choosing poor hours/locations and not making enough money, and the very low risk of a safety incident like this unfortunate carjacking.

Uber was generous to cover Morrow's costs in full, it can't be expected to go beyond that for any incident that happens. Those are the risks of the job. And Uber is absolutely well within its rights to ask for an NDA and non-disparagement in exchange. This is standard, whether you accept severance from a job, are raped in an Airbnb, etc. And it's certainly a hell of a lot better than you'd get as a taxi driver.
> I don't see any scientific or technological application that could benefit humanity and would be developed from blockchain technology.

Bitcoin is helping humanity right now as I type. There are millions who live under authoritative regimes that do not have access to banking services. Bitcoin gives anybody with an internet connection the ability to hold, save, and transfer value. You are condemning something you do not understand. Bitcoin is a technology that improves human rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-co...
No code resembles other kinds of code. A Python data processing script resembles nothing of a Django Web server, but both are considered Python. A dotnet MVC server has completely different architectures, standard types and behaviours than a Windows Forms application.

The C and C++ boilerplate Microsoft uses is very much relevant to any driver development or native applicationd development (if that still exists) for their platform. Their example code, MSDN snippets and documentation is very influential to anyone using C++ for Windows applications. Their COM+ libraries are even more relevant because they all live in user land.

There's also plenty of MS code that's written in other languages for platforms like Azure or UWP.

The there's the C and C++ code that's out there on Github. The C style of the Linux kernel, forked over and over, is completely useless for anyone developing network tools. The GTK or QT C++ files are useless for anyone writing wxWidgets code. The conventions, behaviours and style for the source code of libcurl and Linux are as distant from each other as Windows Explorer is from the NT kernel. Yet both have been taken into account by the mighty Algorithm.

How is my shitty early Android app, still written in Java, with clearly C#-inspired naming and almost PHP-like class structure more relevant to anyone than Microsoft's own code base? At least theirs is functional and useful.

"Nobody programs like Microsoft so the code examples is useless" is not an excuse, because you can apply it to almost every project on Github in some way. The machine learning is supposed to distinguish all of that, that's the entire point.
That does not exonerate this industry.

> but nobody is actually trying to show you an ad because you’re on the corner of Scott and Fulton in San Francisco (despite various paranoias to the contrary).

The paranoia isn't about that. It is more about...

> The problem is that programmatic advertising, while perhaps the most technically sophisticated way to buy and sell ads, is leaky when it comes to data, almost necessarily

> This isn’t something uniquely nefarious; just about every app you use that has ads

Well then, at least it isn't "uniquely" nefarious.

Did the priest do anything, or was he just gay? I am aware of the hypocrisy of the catholic church on such topics, but was there something else?
Oh look, an advertisement.

Also, thank you for causing mass disruption in javaland by shutting down your repos on pretty short notice.

Artifactory may be a good piece of software with a good purpose, least of which is the public repository security problem, but every company I have been has used it with a hammer to stifle use of open source and create a "lords of data" style fiefdom in the company with tons of procedures.
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What theory would that be?
Can someone explain this like I’m five please? I don’t know anything about the bond market so the article reads like gibberish.
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The upper income deciles will hate it though since a lot of their quality of life comes from the bottom deciles not having a better option, and hence working for lower prices. As those prices rise, the higher deciles will have to reduce consumption. Should be interesting to see it play out politically.
Good for them. Though, I wonder how this ever was allowed to get this bad in the first place[0]. Perhaps it's how I was raised, my employment history, or I've just "gotten lucky" with (larger) employers[1], but it blows my mind that any large employer allowed an employee to come within a 100 yards of harassing behavior.

I worked in various lead/senior roles in IT Infrastructure, security, support and development at a 5,000-20,000 (depending on the time) employee telecom. I know of one incident in the 17 years I was there that was serious related to sexual harassment. In that case, the "victimized employee" remained with the company, the harasser handled by suspension during a (hours long) investigation where they were fired with cause (also the only case in the US that I'm aware of). I was asked to collect his computer; yeah, firing him was a good call.

Women and minorities in IT -- both technical and management (VP was and currently still is the same woman) were represented well above the average[2] and promoted at no different rate. On our team and among our larger team -- 17 years -- all of the staff acted like adults (some had quirks, but nothing more). I don't ever recall a frat-boy like attitude and I know none of my co-workers would tolerate it. I don't even recall an incident of inappropriate humor. The only thing that came close was one colleague who dropped an F-Bomb casually about every 3 words (usually a "Fckin'" or "Fcked Up" -- despite the word, I don't recall him using the word sexually). He lasted a year or so and didn't get fired for the F-Bombs -- everyone talked about it but nobody really cared[3].

[0] In fairness, I've not followed this story closely, so that may be my perception.

[1] The tempting explanation of "I didn't experience it, myself, therefore I was blind to it" isn't something I can prove I wasn't affected by, but my unusual set of jobs/position in the company allowed for few places to hide this kind of behavior from me at times.

[2] I'm always uncomfortable mentioning this -- we had higher than average because we actively recruited from places that would increase the number of minority candidates. We did not in any way apply hiring practices that favored under-represented races/genders -- and ended up having a very diverse team.

[3] I'm not suggesting harassing/racist behavior be ignored, however, another part of being an adult is tolerating things that we feel are "moral faults" in others without being uptight about it. "It takes a lot of people to make a world" ... My casually-swearing colleague never swore at people or about people -- he swore about things sometimes, and swore casually, even though he chose a word that many in the US feel to be among the most offensive profanities, co-workers used to just comment about "how strange it is to hear so much profanity out of one guy when nobody else is swearing at all".
To call vegetarians flat earthers? Yes, that is rude and dishonest.
Yeah, I think the more conventional way to integrate heat-to-electricty into heating applications is the reverse of that: feed the high-grade heat from fuel combustion into the converter, and use the rejected waste heat from it for heating. This gives a big enough thermal gradient to get useful amounts of electricity out, and the waste heat can still be plenty hot enough to be used for heating.
I agree with a lot of the points raised here. I think many of the problems with spreadsheets are due to the software rather than the users. As mentioned in the article, its hard to slowly iterate from a small manageable spreadsheet to an larger software solution.

For example, Excel would be a lot more usable and maintainable for me if there was a way to make a special "data sheet" in which data types are forced to be consistent within columns and there was a concept of column names. Still GUI-based and user-friendly. That would encourage a logical seperation between data entry, data output, and computations. In my experience, the main challenge of helping users with spreadsheets is when they create spaghetti code that mixes data and computation together.
Stealing sovereignty from one person is too much. Oppressing 700k is a crime against humanity.
My issue with spreadsheets is that they don't encourage reproducible science. For example, if you write code in R or python to log transform your data, you can look at the code and see that it has been done. If you have a spreadsheet that you (or worse, someone else) has created, you can maybe look at the values and guess it has been log transformed, but you can't know for certain that was the case and no other transformations were applied.
And they'll keep recommending reruns until they get the answer they want.
There’s nothing “defense” about it; it applies even to things like plane tickets.
It means now is a great time for the German government to make some investments into crumbling infrastructure, even if that means taking on debt.
Electronics can be more trouble than they're worth in cars. If they made modern cars with no electronics in the engine or controls, maybe I'd buy new cars. It's frustrating when my old Cherokee won't start because the antitheft system is having some kind of conniption for example, and I have to go through this ritual of locking and unlocking the doors, reconnecting the battery with the key in the ignition, flipping this mystery switch the previous owner has no clue about but seems to contribute somehow. There's a process to disable this system by buying a new ECU or something but I haven't gotten around to it.
Hey it worked for the EU.
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Would you provide your physical home router to me for an “audit”? I promise not to do anything with it and you can be assured you can continue using it afterwards with no worries about your security.

I imagine Maricopa county has no interest in throwing away all these routers and buying new ones. This is on top of the disruption of service that providing the physical routers will cause.

The whole letter is worth a read by the way:

https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/70435/Final-Sig...
Well, you're right, my comment actually lacks of the spelling out of the negative part of this technology!!

As the usefulness is very doubtful but the energy consumption is utterly real, that is a net negative for the environment.

The electronic garbage, too, a huge problem.
Yeah, but it's not always the right thing either. If a VC wants to give a buddy a CEO position and they sense the ability to push out a founder, they'll do it and still say it's for the good of the company. It's hard to tell what really happened without knowing the people involved.

That's the whole point of the charade, of course, but it makes reputational information valuable, especially when a founder is deciding whether or not they want to get in bed with a particular VC.
NDAs are rampantly abused to hide misconduct and mistreatment and should be reigned in. It's especially an issue when there is a large power difference dynamic at play between two parties. In particular, any business that is a platform for people or businesses should be banned from using NDAs that limit speech about the platform.
Isn't this always the trade-off? While I do appreciate useful software, it gets tiring that it's almost always at the expense of a little bit of privacy or tracking. Seems like the death of a thousand cuts of our anonymity online. Although, I don't really harbor illusions that we (at least Americans) haven't been tracked since the invention of the credit card. I guess I'm a little jaded at this point as there doesn't seem to be anything I, personally, can do about it and I get a touch of FOMO when I hear about the capabilities of the latest and greatest apps.
I understand that data collection is inherently necessary for AI, I just don't like who's in charge of it and making the innovations.
Noon is when the Sun is at maximum height, so it is approximately half time between sunrise and sunset.

The time of the noon varies from place to place depending on the longitude.

In the beginning, every major town had its own local time, with noon at 12:00. After the time zones were introduced, noon should have been everywhere some time between 11:30 and 12:30.

With DST, you can have a difference of up to 90 minutes between noon and the official 12:00, but there are countries which occupy more than one time zone, but do not bother to have so many time zones as necessary to minimize the differences between noon and 12:00, so there are places where there can be more than 2 hours between the true noon and 12:00.

It does not matter how far east/west you are but only how the time zones are set in your country, together with the DST.

If you would want to use the traditional boy scout technique of finding the south using a watch and either the Sun or the Moon, you would need to know the hour of the true noon in that place, otherwise the angular errors would be excessive.
Arguable like anything.

Another relevant fact is that Uber screened and directed him to the two people who carjacked him with an assault rifle.
Probably true. However, on the past or even in rural India people fit parents and a number of children in small abodes. So, it’s possible. People have done it and lived, people do it and live in some places. Some people just don’t want to and don’t have to either.
To call "preservation of slave labor through prison" a "primary purpose" of the 13th amendment is just insane.

Sentencing people to hard labor for certain crimes had been done for thousands of years by that point. The prison carve out was a reflection of the fact that the states passing the amendment were interested in getting rid of commercial slavery as it existed in the south, not throwing a wrench into their own prison systems. The idea that some fraction of prisoners would be doing hard labor for the duration of their sentence or some fraction was completely (edit:)uncontroversial status quo at the time. Contrast with lifetime enslavement for commercial purposes which was was controversial enough to fight a war over.
Slavery is still allowed in US as punishment for crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...
At current iteration LFR is nothing but an improvement for the game IMO. Everyone who wants to play on a high level, have no reason to visit LFR. LFR is very easy to implement, as it's the same raid with nerfed numbers, so it takes very little resources for development. And apparently there are enough people who want to experience game in a story mode, so they get that content.

There was time when LFR was boring, yet necessary for hardcore players, but that's just bad game tuning, not failure of LFR mode itself.