skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like someone else mentioned, this is not a source code issue. I think 90% of the people who got pissed back then thought Microsoft stole the code: get this, they didn't steal anything. One is C++ and the other is C# so it is literally impossible for a license to matter here. This would have been solved only with software patents. But I can very easily guess you're against software patents, aren't you? Or only when they're used by big evil corporations.

I hope next time you put a little thought into things you get outraged about.

Oh, and the cherry on top is you victim-shaming him. "So stupid, he used the wrong license".

You claim to with the good fight but in reality you only want to win Internet battles to enlarge your own ego.
In mathematical writing variable names are usually single-letter. (This, in fact, makes mathematics easier to read and, especially, compute with.)
They already do; they've contracts with Pinkertons to undermine union organizing.
Recently I've found the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit that among other things fights to end civil asset forfeiture practices. They have so many heart-breaking stories on their youtube channel!

For example, did you know that cops can seize all your cash during a traffic stop, regardless of you having receipts of withdrawal? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeS_0NQUZs

Or, government took all of a family’s money (incl. from bank accounts of two teenage daughters) based on mere suspicion that one family member committed a crime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3hHVcIcdY
That’s easy to fix with a $15 alarm clock.
They presume you have a weak bargaining position and will accept a lower salary for want of alternative opportunities.
"War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing!"

If the US/UK are so he'll bent continuously crying wolf and not wiling to negotiate NATO expansion (Ukraine will never join because you need a unanimous vote from all members and even Germany would not vote for such an expansion. It's a mute point.) then impose the damn sanctions already. The only ones it really hurts is Europe but that is why the US government wants them isn't it?

The amount of posts on /r/worldnews saying Russia did this Russia did that is incredible. Western propaganda mostly out of anonymous sources is completely drowning out Russian propaganda which is amazing.
There are two reasons why I continue to use a personal Windows machine - PC Gaming and Microsoft 365 Family. On the gaming topic, almost all of the games that I play are also on console which is where I spend most of my gaming time anyways. On Microsoft 365 Family, OneDrive backup and sync is the top reason why I have it. I use it to sync all of my family photos between my phones, PC, Macbook, and iPad for myself, my wife, and my kids. It is extremely convenient and hard to argue otherwise. Beyond data backups, the biggest reason why we have the subscription is because my wife really really wants to use the Office Apps because it is what she is used to the most (Word, Excel, Publisher). So to my family and I, Microsoft 365 = value and convenience.

For me, if a good OneDrive linux sync client was out there that would be a good reason for me to finally jump ship off of Windows. I suppose I'm just waiting for the right push to move away from Windows. Maybe this is that time. Hell, I already know that my personal PC (which I built early January 2021) "fails" the Windows 11 upgrade readiness check anyways so I already feel burned. All of the reasons why I used Windows for decades was because of its "value" for me. Lots of convenience, tons of community support and tons of software, etc. But not anymore. In my opinion, what Microsoft is doing with Windows is similar to what Disney is doing with their parks. "Value" is being removed while increasing prices and limiting "choice". Maybe I still do have _some_ "convenience" in using Windows. But I'm losing more and more reasons to stick with Windows over time as more of Microsoft's business decisions are impacting you and me, and not necessarily for the better.
I worked for a consultancy when covid started. They decreased salaries in case the economy tanked. They also started recruiting in cheaper places like Colombia.

Low and behold, salaries were never brought back to pre-pandemic levels.
I think the worst part is that the British courts supported the UAE ones, I dont understand why at all.
> . It allows me to take existing installations of entire operating systems and put them in containers

Friend, do you have documentation for this process? Please share your knowledge. ^_^
Great thread on what’s problematic with Canada’s anti-protest actions
I addressed this in some sister comments(including similar work tbsz transferred to other types of devices), but specifically for your comment: in my view, science has higher standards for presentation and communication than start-up submarine posts, and the fact that we are still relying on GPUs to train and other avenues to do this exist is relevant to asses it. I am happy about basic research being done and do not think every paper needs to set a SotA or change the world - but overhype is exactly why every paper needs to try selling it as such, because if you don't go viral and make a big impact on main media, your career might suffer. Hence install of being able to say "we made something cool, a lot of work left to be done", papers need to conjure up a paradigm shift put of every publication (again, not bashing the authors, just the system)
Choose boring technology if you do not care about the quality of the workforce nor about the difficulty of filling open positions.

Dull SpringBoot-Cloud-Netflix-Angular jobs are a hard sell, but businesses that invest in slightly fringe technologies like Closure, Rust, Go, Vue.js, have good candidates at below market prices.

Hell, even Erlang shops are bombarded by high quality applicants. Even plain C positions are quickly filled.
With police you can start a Twitter mob if you're lucky but there are ten thousand other George Floyds out there that didn't get any justice when police took wrenches, tasers, knees, guns to them.

And that doesn't really apply to the CBP and the CBP equivalents of other countries. They're ruthless and can lock you up in cages, there isn't really the opportunity to start a "case" until you're past the CBP. If you aren't a citizen you sadly don't have access to a lawyer if the CBP wants to hit you with a $5 wrench, because you aren't even in the US yet.
I highly value a world where free expression isn’t effectively curtailed by private payment processors acting as censors on behalf of governments. Governments change, and it’s only a matter of time until this is used against you and people you agree with, if it hasn’t been already.
I couldn’t recreate the work of this single page in my entire life. Very cool work.
In fact, since there's no way you can prove that you haven't used deniable encryption, you'll probably be in a really bad place anyway.

That creates an interesting game theory situation though, where nobody has any incentive to disclose anything, since it wouldn't change the outcome anyway, which ends up negating the whole point of torture: the victim needs to believe that the tormentor will stop if they disclose the truth.

(Unfortunately, the real world isn't a game theory problem…).
Since it's not clear from the article: will this affect people who already setup Windows 11 with a local account? Will I one day be confronted with a "Create a Microsoft account to continue using your computer" screen?
I could also see a black market of kids selling each other their old phones so that the kid can have a 'prison phone' they use at night.

Sneaky little devils. I can totally see it, especially pre-teens and older.
EU draft proposes identity requirement for cryptocurrency transactions
I'm not sure I understand how the US government works. Your experience is far from universal.
If i==j==k then they’re not disjoint.
Not the OP, but:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...

18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents was 46 before the pandemic, up to 52% now. Although it is more a regression to the mean, historically.
e-scooters driven at full speed by (drunk) teenagers aren't that awesome when you have to share the same narrow sidewalks. Don't have anything against them when they're on the roads/bike lanes if available, though
O would rather model not wasting money unnecessary
from the article, google isn't lowering anyone's existing pay, but is lowering future new stock grants
Might as well switch now, you can always run your win 10 install in a little VM. Ubuntu and PopOS are great and a nice step up from windows subsystem for linux if you're doing mostly development work.
Because, you know, the only way for businesses to make any money is to gather private data sell ads to the highest bidder. There's just no other way!
If I were wiring a home I would probably run two OS2 cables (just so I do not have to deal with one breaking in the future) from one side of the house to the other and also a termination somewhere central. And then probably Cat7 everywhere else honestly. The cost of the actual cable does not seem to be really all that much comparative to other costs
Both incredibly horrifying and unsurprising.

Apes stronger together and all that.
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wonder if you’d be willing to share what company that you joined was? I gather an academic would readily give away the name of the institution that looked after them, hopefully the same would be true for those who make it in industry?
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> I don't think the workers should expect to be paid the same as higher cost of living areas

Why not? You're paid to create value for your employer. If (and let's handwave and say if) you're creating the same amount of value in location A as location B - why shouldn't _you_ get to pocket the difference in the cost of living?

I'm all for arguing about value creation by having spontaneous meetings and interactions that are easier when people are relatively closer together - but cost of living should have no bearing on what an employer compensates you for my labor - your ability to create value is literally the only thing that should matter.
I'm amazed that they didn't discuss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography as an approach.

There are lots of ways to hide encrypted data such that it is not obvious that there is any data at all to be found.
> A load of companies get together with the aim of making sure they don't pay a penny more than anyone else etc.

Are you referring to a general suspicion you have, or a specific case? Because this is categorically illegal, and has been punished before [1] to the tune of $415 million.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...
> If your career is in software and your decision making process for a programming language is "what can I learn in an hour?" then your decision making abilities are questionable.

I posit Rust has a poor return on investment. If you're going to spend time learning a new language then make it a language that completely changes how you think about programming: something like Clojure, Scheme or Haskell. Even if you never create a single system using these languages you will be a better programmer for having learned them. I'm not so sure the same can be said for Rust.
Facebook also has shadow profiles for non-users that connect directly to name, email address, and/or phone number. At the very least these seem to be populated when people share their contact list with Facebook.

I have long wondered whether they can match these two kinds of shadow profiles together. One profile with personally identifiable information. The other profile with detailed browsing history. That would raise a huge privacy concern especially since these are non-Facebook users and therefore people who have not opted into this at any level.
What ever happened to good old steganography?

Or communicating via trading NFTs with the message encoded in slight differences between the images?

I'm sure there's at least 5 bits of data in the details of a single Bored Ape picture.
Wow, this looks bad whether or not you accept the argument that the same work should result in different pay based on location. Let's say you still accept that pay should be "market-" (location-) based. It still looks like Google is targeting their black and brown employees with lower pay.
They would just strike, no?
Implicitly agree? They explicitly colluded once already.

Expect a fine for their current behaviour that's a tenth of the money they saved, in ten years time.
It's difficult to 'confirm' something that's just your experience. I, conversely, can confirm it's not a mess in that case.

I will admit there are times when I have dig into the system a little to resolve a niggling issue but I consider that the price I pay for avoiding telemetry, vendor lock-in and a mostly proprietary ecosystem. I have not experienced 'drag and drop operations crashing'. '30 minutes' or a 'whole day fucking with dumb shit' hasn't been my experience for many years.

I maintain it is not a mess. It is not ideal, but a 'mess' IS hyperbole.
There are sites like levels.fyi where employees can work together to also see what companies are paying.
It's been a few years but I tried to use mac OSX without signing into an apple account and eventually I was forced to do it to get updates from the app store IIRC. So it's probably possible, but almost certainly not common or advised unfortunately.
Why on earth would anybody want to work there still?
> Mozilla laid off all their servo developers in 2020

Yeah, I know, that’s sad.

> Why wouldn't it be possible?

I don’t know if it’s possible in reality or not, but if I have to, I can imagine some reasons (I’m making them up): maybe it takes too long to write proper safe Rust, or maybe developers get stuck bikeshedding over use of language features, or maybe the language’s learning curve is too steep, or maybe compilation is too long for fast dev iterations, or maybe developers who like Rust don’t like large codebases, or maybe Rust does not provide any tangible benefits over already existing code, or any combination of reasons.

Of course, you can write any program in any general-purpose language, just not everything is practical to be ever made. Like, I doubt people will make a full browser engine in Python, although it’s possible in theory.
I think that you missed my point. I was only speaking about animal-to-animal HGT, which was the essence of the :

> Only last year did scientists first supply solid evidence of animal-to-animal horizontal gene transfer

It was a response to your original statement:

> This is no more likely than for other fish to get the same gene from the original jellyfish humans found it in. Unless there are close relatives of zebrafish in those streams which can cross-breed with the zebrafish, there is no chance of gene transfer.

I am aware of HGT within bacteria and viral domains. Science has done more to study those domains in part because the genomes are much smaller and are more plentiful. Additionally, for species within Kingdom Animalia, biologists have turned toward DNA Barcoding as an identifier rather than whole genome sequencing, which functionally limits the data available for investigation of such anomalies. Hence we really don't have good data on HGT between animal species.
Bad government decisionmaking should very much be a common issue.
from https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21277863/microsoft-winget-...:

"We reached out to Beigi to comment on the blog post and Microsoft’s overall response, but the developer says he’s still in discussions with Microsoft over the issue."

That seems like it happened unrelated to giving him additional credit. I wonder if they offered him something to sign a non-disparagement agreement.
Yeah. I have a friend who works for an organization which is a subcontractor for a critical aerospace system. They're basically sustained by one or two contracts and just had cutbacks because the two contractors they were allied with weren't selected for a new project.
They are 1.4 or 1.6l. Noone in his sane mind would build 2l engines nowadays.
Windows and OSX, not linux.

All the stupid stuff they force down your neck: must be a registered user in their system rather than just a local user. The app stores. The deprecation of perfectly good hardware. Forced updates on their schedule. Monitoring of user actions turned on by default. Changing preferences without asking.

All of it is getting in the way of you actually using your own device on your own terms.
The senate hearings are just theater. Important questions like this should probably be async - compel the companies to provide specific answers on the record.
This is great! Wanted to build one myself as well!

There is also rekt's feed:

https://feed.rekt.news/
This looks great.

> Highly experimental with everything being subject to change.

Makes me a little hesitant to give the tires a serious kick, though.
The core point made here is wrong.

> 6/ Freedom of speech might require such activities like:

> A website

> A pamphlet

> An advertisement

> Paying a graphic designer

> Travelling to a different location

All of those amplify your speech, but they're not prerequisites for speech. You can speak without any of them - I'm doing it right now!

Same for all the other various things mentioned in this thread. None of the things are requirements for the rights. You can worship and pray without a physical building, you can assemble without buying hot dogs etc etc.

> All of which "cost money".

This is the world that crypto folks want, but it's not the reality (at least yet). You can do plenty of things without money, including exercising said rights. The problem is that they can't conceive that because their worldview is centered around trying to monetize everything and every interaction - interactions that don't involve money aren't valid to them.
> You basically can't/don't ever slack off.

I think this is the best part of PP, its a great way to avoid procrastination.
Ha, that is so funny Mr. Zucker! "the ad experiences are the most effective" -- Yes, effective for whom? Surely not the users, because their "ad experience" (even that expression in itself already makes me gag, omg, must be out of some marketing horror movie or something) is surely most effective, when ads do not show up at all. Ads are annoying, manipulating, and getting in the way of productivity. Surely Zucky did not mean to track users to get rid of those pesky ads, which are shown without actual consent.
You will never be paid what a job is "worth". You will (in aggregate) always be paid what the market demands. Value creation needs to be >> value extraction.

I don't believe many companies can compete with Google on salary. Paying "market rate" is well... market rate. The discussion would in fact end there, because if you could easily seek employment for more than that elsewhere then it would no longer be the market rate. The alternative is to settle for the same or less elsewhere which brings into perspective that Google is no more wrong than any other employer.
No, and Ubuntu hasn't included ads in like 5 years.
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Most of them aren’t.

And a lot go undiagnosed as well because the parents don’t care/are ashamed/don’t know how to navigate the system.
The law includes language that says an employer must make a “good faith” determination of the lowest and highest salary it would pay for that position. However, the law itself law does not define what “salary” is; presumably that definition exists elsewhere.

I would therefore hope that if a company posted a range of $1-$1,000,000 for a job (let alone all jobs) they would get some scrutiny from regulators. But I don't know. I don't live there and I'm not a lawyer.
Install Linux.
Yep. Every OS has abstractions, but with Windows you can't see them. It works great 99.9% of the time but the 0.1% leaves you high and dry.
Maybe you should take this as a sign that it's time to switch operating systems? There are many out there. Most of them treat you better than Microsoft does.
Yikes, here is that Jeren Miles at an event for the Boys and Girls club[0].

- [0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyQT5vZUcAAtUDe.jpg
The problem is that many proxies will log passwords sent this way.
> Byzantine regulatory processes that often harm more than help

Right. Regulation is to the economy as bandages to the mummy.

The incentives are deep and perverse.
My observation is that there is a network effect happening with Rust due to the strict ownership model at API boundaries between libraries. You can call code in libraries without having to rely on your understanding of human-written documentation to get the data ownership right.

I don't think the other nice properties of Rust can explain why it's going viral when so many other fast native languages in the C family haven't. Libraries being sound internally doesn't cause a network effect, but soundness at the interfaces between libraries does. The rust ecosystem goes extremely deep in transitive dependencies, and it's not just a tree; you have many libraries that get used by many other libraries, like serde, rayon, anyhow,... and it all still manages to compile and work together almost every single time you pull some random rust project off github. You can serialize almost anything in Rust because your library authors probably include serde support for their types... because ~their dependencies did. In C++ authors are more likely to be afraid to take on an additional dependency, and roll their own little serialization thing that only works within their library. I've seen the rust ecosystem getting locked into one widespread serialization library discussed as a problem, but it's a lot better than having zero widespread serialization libraries.
If I'm reading the actual paper correctly, they looked at Nielsen data from 2016 and figured out that FB trackers fire for a large percentage of web traffic for both FB users and non-users. Their conclusion is that it's likely FB has the data to be able to build shadow profiles, not that they have any indication FB actually does build shadow profiles.

I would be curious about an update based on newer data. 6 years later, even more traffic is mobile where privacy protection is stronger and GDPR has companies more concerned about data sharing and trackers. I'm sure if you included mobile traffic, the trend over time is dropping (with a big dip when iOS 14 came out).
This is good to know. I still need to figure out which distribution of Linux to try out first. Having the ability to use my wacom tablet across a variety of software is a must.
So Google aimed to hire more people in North Carolina so that they would hire more blacks. And now they are lowering salaries there. Which will disproportionately hit blacks.

Guess what this does to pay equity between races within Google?
So what's the point then? You said it's not expenses and then you explain how you think it caused you extra trouble/work/development effort. But what's the reason?