skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expect class action suit for Google. See how legal is that to cut salary without having that clause in the contract. And even if for some obscureness they manage to weasel in, expect mass resignation or defectiom with company secrets. On the bright side this is a fair move to give smaller companies the knowledge know-how that accumulated in Google. If I'm the CEO in charged, HR will be the first getting sack for making Google the scapegoat for being the first prominent company to do so. This is what you get when having less than capable HR team.
They changed their name for non futile reasons.

And contextually, 'slave' comes from 'Slav', not the opposite: you meet a Pispathian, you decide that a "pisp" (which incidentally in local language with a good chance means "valiant" or similar) is a reifiable one of a reifiable people, and after the insult they should also change their name?!
Does using this to bypass Dropbox's device limit violate the EULA? is it possible this could get a Dropbox account banned?
So now goint meta: is this actually a fault? I mean this flaw is only in hindsight, from the perspective of the character everything was done right (at the moment to moment decisions without the gift of clearvoyance). Maybe the criticism shd be more that opening the ark is actually a deus ex machina (literally and figuratively), since nothing else could have saved indy in that situation).
InstallRogueFirmware.exe. double-click.

This is about protecting a VM from people who have admin rights and hardware access outside the VM.
No, I am not assuming anything, I gave you the facts, so 4.7 bn trees was past year in Russia, Australia's 2019-2020 more than 10 million hectares of land burned, California 2020 4,397,809 acres (1,779,730 ha).

So, yes indigenous people used those techniques, to replenish forest but biologist say that 2019-2020 was not normal event. Especially considering number of animals burned was around 3 billion.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-53549936

So, of course they will stop burning when there is nothing to burn anymore, they will stop burning. Also our ability to plant new so far was not exemplary, and as I said, ability of sapling to sequester CO2 is very small. And each tree needs 15-20 years to grow to full size that can sequester more considerable amounts of CO2.

One more issue with trees worth mentioning is that past certain temperature, trees like humans, suffer a heat shock so they start dying. Which is again complication for growing new forest as saplings get exposed to higher temperature (not having collective cooling effect of fully grown forest)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.12417
See: Pussy
> Why not just use clang?

Because clang is painful to use.
How JavaScript works: best practices for data compliance
I guess that physically proves they are on the red team? /j
That's a nice interview. With the parts about Simula, I really feel like we should have some kind of history of computer science easily accessible, so that we don't do a complete circle every X years. It seems like every "new" feature has already been tested in an old language.
You can't really mitigate this entirely as you can't really write software without bugs.

There will always be a need for this eventual "please roll back or block the bad actors". And more money you put into the game more it will be demanded when someone gets hurt.

I don't like crypto but this way of fixing things is pretty normal and standard in software and orher industries also. You simply can run into situations which weren't planned. So i don't think there is a problem with these fixes
Bypassing paywalls has never been more economical.
IT is one of the few places in the industry where its seen as a problem or a fault if a project is finished and fulfills its purpose.
I've been recycling, downsizing and cutting waste the last thirty years, all the while industry just moved around to sidestep legislation, in a two punch combo of increasing the local cost of living and destroying the local economy, so fuck that, effort done here had been worthless globally and damaging locally.
My track saw is designed to plunge to the depth I set. It cuts exactly at the rubber edging. It has no chip-out on either side of the blade. It leaves a cabinet-grade edge, your hack does not compare at all.
You are supposed to get a tetanus defense shot every 10 years too.

The logic for a booster actually would be defense, it boosts antibodies which helps block more infections. An injection designed to modulate immune response by exposing the immune system to the target antigen is certainly a vaccine though.
x-style="max-w:80; mx:auto; radius:md; e:2; e.hover:4; transition:all 0.25s; cursor:pointer"

How many times do we have to be told they're not reinventing the wheel while reinventing the wheel! This is not better than just writing CSS.

'Proxy' DSLs are not a solution to anything other than "how to do I make sure the next person taking on this codebase will want to delete all my shit and start again clean and coherent"

If you're at the point where you're getting people to write the style attribute in your own DSL so you can claim some marginal utility gains then you're missing the point of what makes CSS difficult for coders to deal with: how do you describe visual complexity in code. How does x-style="e:2;" solve a problem that the 'contract' between designer and developer has?
The bathroom example is well chosen, to this day you will find apartment buildings in Berlin with a shared bathroom/toilets for all the apartments in the building (and no individual bathrooms in the aparment). Given the tight housing situation, landlords exploit that fact by asking very high rent for those apartments and still find people willing to rent.
Tech shouldn't be involved too much, we should be talking about people that get in touch with kids. Educators, doctors and maybe police.

I see tech in a role to provide information about symptoms of abuse. Tech is sadly too often deployed for surveillance purposes and I think people working in that field give it a very bad name.

On the other hand I wouldn't want my 14 year old kid to be exposed to everything the net has to offer. But I also don't want to put them under surveillance, they will only become compliant idiots that way. I am aware that most mechanisms will be doomed to fail because they will very likely surpass my abilities with anything technical. I have few ideas how to implement this without a great firewall for kids.

Still, would be nice to a compromise between a catholic boarding school for girls and modern abusive teenage social networks.

You have to leave behind some dogmatism prevalent in tech, as some naivete is worth preserving, not only for kids btw.

Putting people under general suspicion is a complete wrong way and while I think chastising Apple isn't too sincere, I don't mind people doing it. Compliance like this should be punished. Although that should also be true for Google and co.
There is also WindiCSS - a superset of Tailwind with some very cool features.

https://windicss.org/
Shit, I wanted fart.computer! I don't remember what the project was, but perhaps it's better that way.
ANN neurons are Pitts-McCulloch neurons, an extremely stylized model of the 1940's understanding of neurons. Each neuron represents a dot product plus a function application.

A biological neuron is 6e17 Daltons[0], so on the order of quadrillions of atoms. A single synapse is a huge landscape studded with receptors of various kinds, and the whole thing is swimming in salt solution where chemicals diffuse stochastically. And then there's the glia.

This is why I dismiss any claims about the computational power of the human brain, most of which seem to begin with the assumption that "1 spike = 1 FLOP", and that'll all that goes on in the brain.

[0]: https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html and https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1E-06+grams+in+dalton
http://hmpg.net/
I think that any workplace that would do this in the future, is already doing similarly toxic things. This isn't an excuse - there's a danger in commodifying and making things like this even easier - but there's already shit workplaces out there with plenty of red flags.
What’s the Best Z-Wave Hub?
More about the selection criteria for the Z-Wave Hub. Which device is better and why.
That Electron is an unpleasant experience and is a resource pig that makes Java look svelte? No, that is not misinformation.

That AgileBits has been doing everything it can to force people to the subscription model and that this push to subscriptions very coincidentally lines up with two rounds of VC investment for over $300M over the past couple of years? No, that is not misinformation.

It may have been easier for the dev team to use Electron as their cross-platform toolkit, it is not easier for the users to put up with the attendant bloat and reduced performance.

The ones who should stop spreading misinformation regarding the forced subscription all seem to be working for AgileBits.
However, in my social circles I have found that more educated people (some with PhDs) are more likely to want to be vaccinated, and less likely to display any hesitancy. Then again, it's not a representative sample as it's mostly people working in science or with PhDs in biology.
but once a system is in place, it becomes easier to do things that are a variation on what that system already does. As opposed to doing it from scratch.

Also, I think the outcry would be larger if they did it from scratch compared to if they did it as an extension to some existing, known capability. If that's the case, they'd have less to lose in doing such a thing if the base system is already in place.
An if statement and a function call have different forms in C. They have the same form/syntax in lisp. It's like the power of everything is a file/bytestream in unix. Because everything has the same form (uniform interface) then if you write a tool it can be made to work on everything. Grep works with all processes because they all have a uniform output stream. Macros in lisp work with all constructs in the language. Usually the basic form has to be quite primitive to do this. If it is too primitive you end up with what is known as a "turing tar-pit". But people can fall in love with the power of this uniform interface so much that they do not realize that they have ended up with a tar-pit at a high level. This can happen with macros but it doesn't have to.
GCC will never completely die. MS though have been moving in the Clang/LLVM direction for years, so I would have zero surprise if VC++ was completely removed tomorrow.

My feeling is, as soon as they can be sure they have achieved 100% binary compatibility, MS will jump. The optimizers in VC++ are light years behind, and companies like Apple are embarrassing them on the compatibility front with things like Rosetta 2 (which is a much harder problem to solve)
I used to own “taps.af” based on a way you might describe the weather in some parts of Scotland - if it’s warm it’s “taps aff” (tops/shirts off) weather. It checked your location, fired off an API call to some service and showed either AYE or NAW (yes/no) depending on whether it was over 20°C in that location. It’s gone now (the .af domain was pricey for a joke service) but there’s screenshots at https://blog.mclemon.org/taps-aff
Pretty much in computer vision / image processing related companies and software products. The performance related advantage on Intel x86 architectures in particular is not to be neglected.
> He seems to know enough that I don’t believe he’s scared of them finding his identity

I don't know about this but I agree that he doesn't seem to set out wanting to steal $600mio. Sounds like the typical "hacker" mentality where he's prodding around for security holes and just happened to find one.
If I'm reading this correctly, this is based off a Facebook survey in which you self select your education level. The survey responses had enough blatantly transphobic entries to warrant mentioning in the limitations, and the % of responders with PhD's is a fair amount higher than the % of Americans with PhD's. I'd bet many people were dishonest about their education.
i don't see any real security model here. online only is insecure by design. Hopefully for customers who stick around the user experience continues to be first class, at least, but I have my doubts about that as well. I don't know anything about this company or who makes the decisions, but as a user, in my opinion, 1password used to make every decision in a way that I would have considered correct. 1password made good decision after good decision after good decision as they grew as a company over the years. Every decision was user and security focused, and the product was consistently excellent. those days are over, apparently. from my perspective, there has been a massive shift in company/product values since the shift to the subscription service. I wish them well.
What that sentence actually means is "we don't want to help our competition (AMD, NVIDIA) but we don't want to re-implement the wheel".

The API and fundamental part of LLVM is its IR, LLVM-IR, which is where most optimizations happen.

From this point-of-view, LLVM is a "platform", and an extremely brittle one: every release has breaking changes to the IR, the IR is constantly evolved to support new hardware and new optimizations, etc.

When you build a tool on top of LLVM, you are buying into this rapidly changing platform.

The only proven way of using the LLVM platform competitively is to be part of its future: follow upstream closely, upstream most of your code, and actively participate in the platform evolution so that your competitors can't turn it against you.

If you keep most of your code private, following upstream gets very hard. You skip one release, and then its 10x harder, so you skip another release and stop participating in LLVM's evolution cause you'll have to wait years for changes to upstream to land on your compiler. Your competitors do what's best for them, and those can be things that are bad for you, and then you are proper screwed, cause you can't migrate away from LLVM either.

Companies like Intel and NVIDIA do this, e.g., nvcc and ISPC are stuck on LLVM 7 (~4 years old), but these companies have built huge technology stacks like CUDA or DPC++ on top of it!

Intel and NVIDIA might have enough manpower to maintain their own outdated fork of LLVM forever, but at some point it just stops being LLVM, and these companies are not really much better off than where they started.

IMO, building all your technology on top of a platform that either is or can be under your competitors control is just a really bad idea.

One would hope that these companies would realize this and contribute back and help the community as much as possible, but in practice they just don't. By the time they realize it, it's already too late.
For a personal product with so few size options, most of the capacity won't be used.

Glacier is worth noting as a comparison point, $4 or $1 per TB per month with more limits.

Backblaze said a couple years ago their cost to provide a low-redundancy TB per month was a bit over $3.
What evidence is there for NATO chasing oil or other resources?
> I don't like crypto but this way of fixing things is pretty normal and standard in software and orher industries also. You simply can run into situations which weren't planned. So i don't think there is a problem with these fixes

It's normal in most industries, but it also defeats the main selling point of crypto - "code is law" doesn't actually work, you always end up in a world of humans and politics.
The five design principles applied to every software video codec
Relying on an external authority to control the allocation of money seems to completely undermine the purpose of crypto.

What's to stop these actions being taken for reasons other than theft?
It would be quite ironic if, after all those changes, the words “primary” and “secondary” would simply become the synonyms of “master” and “slave”.

And it wouldn’t be even that improbable, in my opinion at least. In the end, in many languages the word “figuratively” was so overused as a stand in for “literally”, that it became it informal synonym (I know for sure that it is a thing in both English and Polish, but it is probably more widespread). If words of completely opposite meaning can be blurred that way, it wouldn’t be so strange for that effect to emerge as a case of euphemism.
There are "simple" bugs only with proper encapsulation. Everything is a wrongful assumed simple bug
Until this bias controversy came about I had no idea this much effort was put into image cropping. I assumed thumbnails were just shrunk versions of the whole image. If you're going to analyze images with AI before cropping, why not just tell it to keep all the human faces? What kind of tortured spreadsheet sorcery was used to justify trying to create a system that decided which people in a photo were important, and how could that possibly generate enough profit to be worth it?
Just use bit warden. Open source, self hostable, good clients, supports yubikey
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Cryptocurrencies are fascinating but the irreversibility is not a feature but a bug.

I don't get the appeal for irreversibility. A legitimate trade always occurs between willing partners, why would you be so afraid that the transaction would be cancelled?

The only legitimate use that comes to my mind are complex financial instruments where things mostly happens with an assumption that the underlaying assets are very well defined, so you want assets be stable.

Is there a company or cryptocurrencies focusing on solving the human part in the transactions? Huge part of the value with working in traditional systems is their resiliency against human errors. Sometimes mistakes happen(a faulty system, a design bug or straight out human error and people who are trying to take advantage of those), most of the time these are correctable.
Its sometimes just bizarre. I once applied to Facebook from Bangalore and while everything on the website was in English, one of the final questions was about diversity and gender and while the question was in English the multiple choice response was only in Kannada. There was no way to change the language and anyway everything except the multiple choice part was in English. I finally defaulted to using Google Translate to get the correct answer.
I did my first internship in IT in 1999 and worked for the predecessor of NTT Data in Germany. They generously offered me some domains for free "for lifetime".

Somewhen in the mid-2000s, I decided to add another domain to my account: "sonneausdemarsch.de" (sunshine out of the arse.de). Unluckily, they noticed I'm no longer on their paylist and they cancelled the subscription completely.

So long, my "lifetime" account :(

This is also how I lost marienkinder.de (marienkinder being a technophobic christian cult with the most hilarious pamphlet brochures you can imagine.

Ah, those were the times :D
Found the astroturfing employer.
About 10 years or so ago … google was ridiculously good. The web practically jumped out of the screen at you. It’s been piss poor for like the last 5 years or so though.
> SO we should focus the effort on convincing older/weaker to vaccinate and leave the Phds/young

That was a perfectly reasonable argument when vaccine supply was limited and there was a huge number of older/weaker people needing vaccines. And that was, in fact, the approach that almost all countries took at the early stages of vaccine rollout.

But it's not a good argument now. At least not in the countries with high uptake. As the vaccines aren't 100% effective, reducing transmissibility will save lives. Still.

And it is absolutely true that the young are much less likely to get severely affected from catching COVID. And that, in a nutshell, is also likely to be the primary reason for lower uptake in the young. It doesn't affect them so they don't really care. It's an entirely rational approach, if somewhat selfish.
The code has now been competently audited and it costed them less than 600 mil. I'd say it was a bargain when the thing audited is multi-chain crypto financial smart contract.
VS Code remotes are magic. I use a light version of it for 100% of my development on windows with WSL, but I also use it to log into a mac server and edit files on that.

I have no idea what actually went into developing the feature, but I would have to suspect that Electron would have contributed to making the separation of an app client vs server easier than something totally "native".
I can confirm the anecdotal observation, companies are becoming more open to work from home, but most still have a "at least X/days week in the office" rule, which kind of defeats the main benefit for me as I still have to live close to the office (instead of moving to cheaper parts of the country or event world).
I wasn't really trying to be pedantic, Im genuinely curious about what gets meant here. E.g. as you say, do they mean PR or literally one single commit? And in the latter case, is this something localized to the projects they sampled or is this a more general practice?
No it means that statically typed languages are good for everyone. They aren't "training wheels" that you'd want to remove at any point.

A lot of misguided programmers think they don't write bugs and they don't need any help from autocomplete or linting or whatever. It's not just inexperienced programmers! A lot of experienced ones mistakenly think that they don't write bugs and therefore don't need to use anything that helps them detect bugs. How very dare you suggest that I might make a typo?!

I guess it is just hubris.
Sorry, I thought it was part of the collective. ICYMI:

https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/nsa-smiley-face-muscula...
In many ways Apple is also the world leader on consumer privacy, pushing for changes when the rest of the industry is walking in the opposite direction. Paying with Apple Pay makes you safer because it gives out minimal payment information; the Target fiasco would've been avoided.

Sign in with Apple allows users to provide minimal information in signing up for accounts; the idea that casual users should know how to setup email aliases is a joke. Apple private relay is the closest to getting grandma to use TOR. Apple is working on stopping pixel tracking in email.

Apple is also leading on the story of user permissions, which is a broken model where you blame users for accepting all the snooping in their lives, for not reading the TOS, and for their failure to negotiate against Walmart.
I use Apple One (family) and can add storage on top of it. It’s not very many tiers, but 50GiB, 200GiB and 2TiB. Which puts storage at 250, 400 and 2200 in total. Adding 2TiB is 10 dollars a month (on top of the one subscription) which is cheap comparatively to what it used to cost (iirc).
Apple one of course only makes sense if you use other Apple services (I use music and tv+ so for me it’s a win win)
Thanks for the interest!

My most extensive use of Skyscraper to date has been to produce a structured dataset of proceedings, including individual voting results, of Central European parliaments (~500K total pages scraped, ~100M entries). I’ll do a full writeup at some point.
Anti trust legislation doesn't require monopolies, just uncompetitive practices. Which is something monopolies can help facilitate, but it is not a requirement.
It has always been the case that if employee "disagrees" with management decision that their ass should be in the office 5 days a week, then they will have to find a new job. Now this could become up to consensus inside the team, which in my opinion is much better and fairer approach.

BTW team doesn't have to chose between two strict options (WFH or office 5 days a week). Another options could be hybrid office work or allowing _individual_ team members to chose how they work and mandate all meetings to accommodate online participants.