skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
while I would for sure check the permissions of the app (and double-check my employment contract for the possible implications of installing that specific app and logging in with my corporate account).

Playing the devils advocate though: installing an app is not necessarily super invasive, especially if the app don't get any permissions (and / or is one of the apps that are ok with getting installed in for instance an android studio-style android emulator).

That said, for sure it would be super nice to be able to get a "real" information on what tracking things happen (unfortunately that's not realistic) and if there are requirements from the company for me to use the system (that would theoretically rely on the install of an android app for instance) I would personally require that I either get a company cell phone to install them on, or some sufficient guarantees (on the level of physical paper contracts signed signed by the head of HR) of what they will do.

Or if they would accept me installing the app (and their app manifests etc) on an android vm on my laptop (like you can get in android studio), in that case I guess it would maybe be kind of acceptable to do it (at least on the work laptop).

The limit I will personally go to on my personal devices is installing a (generic, unrelated to what the company asks me to do) TOTP app and registering 2fa auth in that app.
Great article, but should be marked (2015) as it is a bit of a classic ;)
I always wondered, doesn't that require the clocks to be synchronized?

Like, what happens if I set my phone to a different time?

What if the server has lost connectivity to an NTP service and its clock is a few minutes off?
That's not fair, gChat / Google Talk worked pretty well back in the day. I could even search my messages on mobile, which is something Hangouts never managed to offer in the many years after the migration.
I've always thought the Post Office should offer something like Option #1.
At this point, I'm leaning to believe it's willful on the company side. This is nuts.
Have we reached a point where vnc is usable for something other than short support sessions?
I got that error on Safari desktop (14.1.2), yes.
> I think the paper is sort of assuming something is happening in which the model forgets information about the scarce groups to make room for even more information about the dense groups, but I don't think that really makes a lot of sense if you think it through

Here's an example. A group of 10 people work together and try to decide where to go for lunch every day. 6 love pizza 3 love burgers 1 loves BBQ. Given the choice, the lover of each would pick their food.

Imagine every day they need to make a decision, so they build an algorithmic "model" to best evaluate where to go for lunch. They do a vote. The majority 6 wins every day so they eat pizza every day all year.

Imagine now instead they choose a different algorithmic model "everyone puts their one preference in a hat, someone picks one and we go there". Now over the course of the year we'd expect ~60% of the time pizza, 30% burgers and 10% BBQ. In both cases there was over/under representation of different groups, but the two different algorithms handled the "bias" differently.

Now take that same type of concept and apply it to an ML model and that's similar to what the author is talking about.
Reading Coders at Work, I discovered that even legends like Donald Knuth, Peter Norvig, and Ken Thompson rely on print statements for debugging.
Most games I’ve played on my Oculus have been paid, the same as Stream.
The thing is, at some point you cross the border from "working to prevent bad things that might happen" to the equivalent of "making up a guy to get mad at".

And when it comes to Apple especially, most of the discourse tend to go deep, deep into the latter.
Yes but you said that we should talk to someone who is black. I just said I did.
Specifically, type I and II are probably male and female. Isn't it immediately obvious that model doesn't make sense if people are talking to the opposite sex? No, Bob and Carlie don't want to have a "meaningful chat" because they both chatted with Alice.
At least in California, it is not illegal to change lanes in an intersection, given that the maneuver does not pose any other risk
Very cool. Has somebody already attempted to make clothing with a visual fiducial system like AprilTag? Like gloves, socks, t-shirts, etc? Could be a really comfortable way to enable full body tracking without a complicated setup.
Also, it's not 14M tons that are at risk of burning from this fire. 14M is the total from which a fraction will be lost. This project (according to other tweets in the thread) is only contributing 2% to a risk pool.

What I'm interested in is, do they have time to make up the losses? If they re-plant, can they wait ~100 years before measuring how successful the project was?
Maker of Popular Covid Test Told Factory to Destroy Inventory
This one aspect aside (porting out barriers/risks/complexities) do you disagree with the advice to separate personal and work accounts and devices? I don't. I've disburdened my personal apple ID and made a work one about 3 years ago, and separated my Google identity precisely so that I don't face these risks. (Google can be ferocious about closing off access to your life, if they deem e.g. you abused advertising norms and t&c, and my company had some risk of this)

BTW you replied in about 5 places to re state your experience of this porting thing. That read as slightly obsessively detailed and specific hence my question because not once have you stated a view about the rest of her piece, except mildly disparagingly.
Have you looked at rates of vaccination, infection, hospitalization and death, and vaccine hesitancy by race or ethnic background? If not, do you stand by this comment after you have looked at some of that data?
Yes, I fully agree with you. However, just connecting people that already know each other doesn't earn as much money as force-feeding them content made by "influencers" and such. Being merely a tool isn't nearly as profitable as being a manipulative villain.
What the hell is D&I performance?
Decades from now everyone will laugh at us for using the sunblock formulations we currently use. It is as if they are designed to cause cancer when used as directed.
I remember a couple years ago on HN someone offered 100k to their employees for recruiting a new employee.

I was thinking to myself if you just put that toward salaries you wouldn’t need all the recruitment gimmicks.
I wear glasses and masks are basically untenable. I have yet to wear a mask and not fog up my glasses. Maybe I'm just an idiot, I don't know, but being able to see properly is far more valuable to me than not getting COVID (in it's current state and threat level to me).
That's ok with me - grifters and scammers don't have enough money.
> Maybe ask her instead: https://twitter.com/desiraethinking

Interesting. Thanks.

Beware, though. My other comment in this thread was flagged. The marxists running this site can't cope with facts.
This is spot on with my own observations, especially as we get into modelling more 'abstract' ideas.

As more NN methods become viable, some more savvy data scientists complain to me "this NN is just approximating SVD/PCA/POD/etc!"
Wonderful, that's explicitly the point! The network we're applying to this problem compares/combines multiple approaches to dimension reduction. The network created a latent space that makes way more semantic sense than just PCA or SVD for this problem (No Free Lunch). It still takes effort and understanding, but the value I've personally gotten over just applying PCA for my problem-sets has been incredible. In fact I'm certain it has made my career. Turns out diagonalizing covariance matrices aren't the only dimension reduction game in town!
That's not thought-terminating, it's just a postponement, and it can be argued against (e.g. "no, it's urgent because of X, let's bump something else").

Contrast this with "best practices", which most people seem afraid to argue against for fear of being singled out as bad developers.
The $100k bonus is one time, the salary is annual.
Pay a monthly bonus based on profits then?
There's already 3D games that can run in browsers, if that's what you mean.

Unity and Unreal both have HTML5 as a first-class platform, I believe.

What webasm will do for games:

- Not much for graphics, those are limited by the graphics APIs

- Maybe allow number-crunching of 32-bit floats and integers to be faster because you don't have to fight JavaScript's native types being doubles

- Reduce overhead because the runtime doesn't have to keep track of its own GC, or things like falling back to a slow interpreted path (which takes some memory, even if the fallback never happens)

- Allow stuff like Unity's C# runtime to be more efficient, since it's just running the C# runtime directly in webasm instead of using something like asm.js where it has to sit atop the larger JS runtime and its GC

It's gonna be nice. There will be complaints, and backlash, but nobody could have prevented this, and it is a benefit to many use cases.
I was hoping the article would mention the recent "security improvement" that prevents daemons from using Bluetooth in Big Sur. I haven't seen anything from Apple (or anyone else) explaining how that improves security.
I forgot whether throughput was at all a function of bandwidth, and google reassured me that so did the entire first page of results

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/5w7yt9/everyone... 100Mb/s seems to be the upper limit of a perfect link? That would be cutting it close for a single family all on zoom/netflix at the same time.

Edit: thought buildings meant like "apartment buildings", not single family residences on both ends
All these half-hearted products Google develops and often cancels makes me think it's a great place for developers and executives to train themselves and gain street cred, kind of like getting an ivy-league degree, and then move on elsewhere to real jobs having a real impact. In other words, it's the best way to get a masters degree with the added benefit of being highly paid while doing it, as opposed to paying highly for it.
Sure, they would have a standard version of it. If you don't have access to it, it isn't relevant to you that it's standardized.

I have clarity. I don't think it would necessarily be good to let everyone scan it for vulnerabilities. They would need to clean it up more first. With web apps, even if the app is open source, the server config will often be hidden.

Otherwise, on some forums they might discuss how to take advantage of a timeshare, or how to get more out of the company managing it. Things like making extra by putting it on AirBnb or VRBO and not taking pains to avoid disruptive parties.

More access, more scrutiny.
100k once is a way better deal than 100k a year. It's better than 25k a year if you expect to retain employees.
AMD really sent my account to the moon. HUBS too.
Back in the mid 80's when I was in collage, my primary CP professor was a huge fan of the 6502 and thought it the ideal chip for undergrads to learn the basics of computer engineering...and it was, for me at least.

Way easier to breadboard and write opcode for then, and more powerful than the Intel 4004 and 8008 (what would eventually become the 8086..the great-great-great grandfather of the i9's we now use of course), my very first working "computer" used a 6502 at its heart for my senior project...we attempted to build a voice-activated phone and actually got something that would pick up and shut off the phone with some noise, but obviously a working voice-activated phone was something that was still many years away.

Also, I remember writing an opcode instruction emulator for the chip as a extra-credit project for one my classes. I wrote a really nice emulator on my beloved Atari ST and, much to my horror, discovered a horrendous bug in he C compiler I used for the project, almost ruining both the project and my grade for the quarter.

The program had a graphical representation all all the primary subsections of a basic computer...CPU, disk memory, the various busses, and some other things that my old brain can no longer remember, and the program would step thru the processors opcodes and show, with literally the 1s and 0s on the screen, how all the parts of the computer processed the opcode instruction set into something that coordinated all the chips into doing very useful stuff.

The problem was that due to some sort of crazy hex arithmetic bug in the compiler, one of the values at one of the nodes was stuck at like x0E or something like that...and no matter what I tried to do to debug it, I could not get the damn thing to work perfectly. I thought I was going to fail the class for sure, and it wasn't even my fault!

Thankfully, I was able to show the results in pure binary form, and the rest of the program was quite impressive. Also, my professor was a HUGE fan of the Atari ST (probably because it used the 68000 and wasn't Intel), so the day of me showing him my work wasn't a total failure...in fact, his face totally lit up when I asked him if I could pop the floppy into the ST in his office, and we verified that, yes, the bug was there in all versions of the compiler.

Only one other student had chosen to do the assignment, and he had used a minicomputer from his work to do it and his results where shown in reams of printouts where mine was there graphically represented in real time updates as you stepped thru the opcode instructions. I remember its addressing modes and GP registers made writing opcode a breeze as you didn't have to waste cycles juggling data and memory addresses at all.

[edit] wow...sorry this was such a long post! I just got lost in remembering old times...
From the article

> "The company also turned down requests where organizations "made a commitment to invest in key growth sites and are working to build their teams and critical mass in those particular hubs," Google told Insider."

That reads like "if someone in your organization chain said they want to build a hub in your region, we'll probably deny your request because headcount need to be filled for those hubs"

Which is fair for the company to do but you can see why that can trigger attrition too.
What's wrong with your 18-29 year-olds making that choice? Freedom means freedom to make sub-ideal choices or even bad choices, including choices that affect others negatively. Really almost every choice we make affects others in some capacity, for good or bad. Do you want to outlaw all choices you deem bad?

The state of COVID is such that if you are an adult you can get vaccinated and you are safe enough, no matter what decisions others make. If you are not an adult then the risks to you are so low that you are safe anyways. The 2009 swine flu killed 3 times as many children in 9 months as COVID has killed in 18 months: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2009/12/cdc-shar....

Yet This flu did not require masking, lockdowns, forced vaccinations, or any shutting down of schools.

If you are immunocompromised, or otherwise vulnerable even with the vaccine, then it is up to you to take extra precautions, like wearing an N95 in public or avoiding crowded areas.

COVID simply isn't deadly enough to warrant the curbing of freedom that is being done or the vilification of those not making choices we think they should. Get vaccinated if you want to and move on with your life. Stop forcing people to get vaccinated, especially those who've already been infected. And finally, get the government out of the business of mandates of any kind. They aren't needed. People have the tools already to protect themselves how they see fit.
I see that way too often. At least there isn't a maximum size here.

The proper way to do it is to check with a compromised password database, and maybe with common rules like "your user name and password must be different". But I've almost never seen it used, I have used passwords that I know are compromised or even common, it always passed as long as it had the right characters.

It shouldn't be that hard. Storage is cheap now, save a few GB for the entire haveibeenpwned database and you know you have a good password. There are even online services that do it securely and, I think, for free.

The only real problem, I think, is a UX problem. Having to enter a password and being told repeatedly "haha, nope, try again" with no explicit way to correct it may be more annoying than clear rules but it doesn't strike me as an unsolvable problem.
The Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1978) offers a more succinct critique [1][2]. There is a big anti-TV rabbit hole you can go down from Marshal McLuhan to David Foster Wallace essays. Given that images are so alluring I place the subject in the asceticism category more than the Luddite/curmudgeon space.

[1] https://youtu.be/m3NBEurnIqY
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimina...
Why would it give different side-effects during fall/winter?
I'm really not sure why you think that, but that's just not true at all. For starters, if it is a JSON API then a CORS request will be done for all cross-domain API requests. Even a missing CORS configuration would then block the CORS request from third-party domains.
> Google is right to cut remote workers' pay. The alternative is inequity and an overpaid nomadic class.

Ie, we have to introduce pay inequality because otherwise there will be inequality. If nobody cuts their pay, they will be overpaid, because they are nomadic? And some discussion about how pay should match cost of living rather than value added or competitive rates? The author may have a good point but the article itself is not great and wanders a lot
No, 'conspiracy theory' is used more as a cliche now. It is a status-quo preserving device in media narratives, because you don't want to be a flat-earther, right?
Not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you can’t circumvent the GPL just by running the code in a different thread.
I edited my comment. It’s not quite as impressive but I think it’s the same idea
This sounds very doable, given how many made-to-internet-order manufacturing options are out there. And I agree: it would quite useful to many.
You are so right.

The last person I want to chat with is someone like me.

(I do think Chatroulette should kindly ask men to refrain from the dick picks though. Then again, it seems like their users only go their to expose themselfs? I remember when it first started, and it was a great idea. Then the penis appeared.)
Yes, that's true. I mean the whole work to be under GPL. The exact terms of your own code is less important, as long as it is GPL compatible.
WebTV Anecdotes
About a month ago, 47 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841725
Hey! I want to buy your used Ikea furniture!

Just a quick safety precaution to make sure: I'm going to text you a code, can you just send it back to me to confirm?

Thanks!
Great project.

If you have that data too: it would be great to also display the losing trades and portfolio + include it on leaderboard.

Also, winning vs losing trades.

For sake of soul (and wallet) of Average Trader Joe
"Customer support" is someone in third world paid 1 dollar per hour, who barely speaks English and does not care about anything - nobody reviews quality of their work, and even if quality is reviewed, they are fired, but nobody reviews "old cases".

Probably some person randomly clicking "accept" and "deny".

Other question is, why there is no escalation; even paid one. Although probably everyone would escalate.
Nothing is worse than trying to pull an all-nighter or two cramming for a math class one didn't pay attention to the rest of the semester. It's really hard to gain an intuitive understanding in 48 sleep-deprived hours. I still have occasional nightmares of showing up to a final math exam unprepared. I could pull that BS off in a literature or history class, but not math. Foreign language didn't work so well, either.
You’re probably saying that as someone with a much more comfortable income than the typical low wage worker. An extra $3000 to a McDonald’s worker means a lot more. If you’re someone who is struggling to make rent every month you’d probably take a one-time bonus of $300 cash over $3000 in ongoing workplace amenities.
How many cars are we talking about here?
https://archive.is/o57Im
If they didn't justify their own value they would be out of business.
About 100k. It’s not a lot of cars, but the cost is almost $1B. Luckily GM hasn’t sold Bolts in volume.

Unfortunately, based on the defect causing this recall, I don’t believe the packs can be remanufactured/refurbished for reuse. Considering the storage potential of the impacted packs, this is somewhat tragic.
Lightning fixes all that.
You can consider the OP an attempt to solicit just such input
> This incentivizes abusive behavior by users who want refunds, and cheapens the cost of abusive behavior.

The status who incentivizes abusive behaviour from the company, and cheapens the cost of mistreating users
I disagree. I think it is a serious public health risk, at a certain probability, and you've provided no sources or math to explain what the probability is. Can you enlighten us as to what the probability of vaccine escape is?

Is the risk of vaccine escape 50%? 5%? .5%? .00005%? I have no idea what the OOM of possibilities is (I am attempting to model it). I appreciate all literature that explores that.

Clearly we've seen a significant drop in VE. I think that's pretty good evidence that the possibility of full vaccine escape needs to at least be considered. And certainly if the probability is ascertained to be above a threshold, then it is a serious public health risk.

Massachusetts now is reporting ~40% of COVID deaths now in fully vaccinated individuals (https://www.mass.gov/doc/daily-covid-19-vaccine-report-augus...).

I think vaccines should be Bayesian (very good bet if over 30 and never had COVID). But there is zero precedent for mass vaccination in the midst of a pandemic, and some people think things could go wrong. I am very very curious what people who model it think the probability of that happening is.

I appreciate the links and position put forward by the commenter, and sad to see that flagged.

I'd prefer to see links to models/code/data that offers arguments to support that odds of vaccine escape are low.
Salaries are high in the Bay area because of the competition for talent from companies with a need to scale and the resources to pay for it.

Currently, remote employees in the middle of nowhere are in local markets without companies with such a burning need to scale and with fewer resources to pay for it. Their BATNA seems to be not much good, so their employer can pay them less now. Right?

I'm not so sure. Won't other side of the remote coin, remote employers, increase competition for remote workers such that they push up pay, particularly if they can identify talent or acceptable proxies thereof?

What does BigTech do when Joe Hotshot, who had their remote work request accepted along with pay cut, gets a better offer from LargeCo? Market forces is what happens, IMO.

I think a likely outcome from all this is increasing inequality - higher salaries for the most talented people, who are competed for globally, and lower salaries further down the curve, where there are more people of equivalent talent in lower cost locations.

I also think some degree of co-location actually matters, though. Time zone especially.