skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the laptop is company property, then depending on your country/where you live .. yes it’s legal.

Outside of legality, you need to ask yourself if you are okay with your company going to that level of monitoring & inspection on what you are doing. Remote Access Tools remove all amounts of privacy that you may have.

I would ask your employer why they want to install the program on computers and also get clarification if they are doing it to all computers (including their own) or just a subset of people’s computers.

By the way, I personally recommend having a secondary device whether it’s your phone, tablet or additional computer and keep that on your desk to use during the work day as your personal device. Whether you want to look up a recipe for dinner, show time for a movie or send a personal message to a friend.. do it on that device. Never use your work computer for anything personal. Ever.

Ok, so if the employer says that everyone’s computers are having it installed.. and they want to install it so they can better see when people are working.. you can still dig in and ask whether they can’t see if people are working today by work activity and what they deliver.

Ultimately though, if they want to do it.. they’ll do it. You agree and allow it, or you disagree and either they don’t install it or you’re looking for a new job.

Determine what your boundaries are for personal space & privacy. If this crosses your boundaries (I’m guessing it likely does or will) then start looking for a new job. Be a model employee in the mean time but find a new place that trusts & respects you.
While I think a Turing check can easily solve the problem without much friction, this only increases my hatred for Outlook scanning. The worse part - to turn it off, you also have to turn off junk mail protection (well, used to, it's been a while since I tried).

Now, having my private links indexed by Bing is a bit too much!? I sincerely hope OP is mistaken and Bingbot is actually the outlook scanner.
I believe it was "shell extensions". There's still a few of these lying around. You can even add your own ones: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/nse-imp...

It's not so easy to add to the filesystem, but you can make things show up in Explorer that you can click on.
It's that the fundraising is manipulative – it creates an impression of a cash-strapped organisation that is struggling to keep Wikipedia up and running when they're richer than ever. Meanwhile, Wikipedia volunteers – all of Wikipedia is written and curated by unpaid volunteers – get posts like this at their help desk:

Dear "Good Folks" At Wikipedia,

First, allow me to sincerely express my gratitude for being one of the finest Web services provided. THANK YOU to eacxh volunteer that unselfishlessly donates their time to Helping make our world a better & more knowledgable/informed place to live.

Second, While I am a very low income Senior [ live in Gov't. H.U.D. Apt.], I do still try to contribute to certain causes. Wikipedia is 1 such Group. I believe that I have given Wikipedia small donations for about 3 years now. While I do not have much to give, It is important that You know we appreciate the great work you undertake.

I do, respectfully, need to point out 1 "process" that Wikipedia implements that "disturbs/upsets" me. I just, accidentally, got rolled over to Wikipedia on a matter I am researcing. The Wikipedia "overlay" writing asking for Donations said this was 4th time You have asked me.

THAT "NOTICE" MADE ME FEEL VERY "GUILTY/BAD"....... Right now, I have $18.00 in my bank account ! That's It !

Soon, I will get my only source of Income [ a monthly Social Security Check] & will try to make a donation at that time. While I do not mind your "Reminding" me that Wikipedia can use Donations, Please quit stating this is 1st, 2nd, 3rd time......you have aqsked !

Thank You & Best Wishes, Thomas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.33.228.209 (talk) 00:16, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising/Archive_6#S...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_de...

And it's just kind of sick that Wikipedia is purposely used to create an impression in millions of people around the world that is so different from reality – just to get more cash for expanding the bureaucracy and creating an ever bigger pile of money.
> What is wandb.ai

Weight & Biases

> Why does it keep asking for an API key

From the README:

the Weight & Biases python package is used to download the DALL·E Mini and DALL·E Mega transformer models

It might not be obvious you need an account if you aren't in the field though.
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I like the comment in the following function:

> If this fails, it means that any user program may lock the CPU hard. Too bad.
This is a neat DB-side last line of defense! I agree that parameterization is the Right Way to ensure safety, but if we're being realistic you'll never actually get everyone to do it the right way, so it's worth putting in safety mechanisms like this that you can implement inside the library where it'll benefit everyone.
T-Mobile is now selling app usage data to advertisers
I work with Unreal Engine which has a whole documentation page [0] on assertions. the default `check` assertion is incredibly useful, and does the "right thing" at so many levels - it pauses the debugger in the callstack on all platforms if attached, _and allows you to resume_ if desired. If not debugging, it will trigger the Unreal runtime's Error handling letting you actually handle the check safely in some error monitoring tools. It's probably my low key favourite feature of Unreal.

[0] https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProgrammingAndScrip...
Modern phones have gigabytes of memory. A normal Xorg DE with typical desktop apps does just fine these days (I know, because I run fluxbox on my Pinephone. I'm on it now in fact with a number of apps running including firefox with 6 tabs open.) What you're saying was true in the days of 512mb phones but those are long over and modern Android couldn't fit there anymore either.
Exoplanets may provide habitable conditions for billions of years
Original blackberry keyboard would like to have a word with you. I wish I could find a decent smartphone with the same keyboard "that tries to emulate a big keyboard"
I think what most people miss is that a FAANG doesn't recruit for a specialized role. When you interview, you're not interviewing to be a full-stack developer for some web application, you're interviewing to be a generalist who might work on anything from embedded code in some smart home device to datacenter resource provisioning.

The FAANGs give you these weird tests because they're not really checking your programming ability so much as your general problem-solving ability, because problem-solving is the biggest part of what you're being hired for, code is just how you write down your solutions.
The methods or refreshing e-ink displays are called "Wave Functions" in e-ink parlance, and they're actually implemented in software.

However, somehow they're so closely guarded, and even if you have top of the line e-ink reader, it might not come with a license for a nice Wave Function which refreshes your display very nicely. For example, one of the most attractive features of Kindles is they use the best Wave Functions available for their displays (they may even licensed it exclusively) which refreshes the screens instantly and smoothly. My Kobo, while using the same screen, has more clunky refreshing modes built in.

Moreover, it seems, not all methods are provided on every CPU architecture, and you can't see the code of these things.

Lastly, these methods are probably improved upon and re-patented to keep the barrier for entry pretty high. New screens are definitely developed with more features, and they need new Wave Functions to work as expected.
I thought one reason for the reduction in crime was the introduction of unleaded fuel in the 90s. The lead tetroxide anti-knocking agent in leaded fuel prior to this had pulled down IQ.
I could never do this. It seems dishonest and unkind!
The last time the Ainur wielded that kind of magic, during the aptly named War of Wrath at the end of the First Age, entire continents were rendered uninhabitable and sunk below the sea. It might or might not have been an admonishment about the unprecedented destructive power of nukes.

The Istari were sent to lead and inspire the peoples of Middle Earth, and being clad in flesh was supposed to give them greater empathy for their plight. By leading with force they likely would not have been able to resist the temptation of the Rings of Power ane would have turned into dark lords themselves, like what happened with Saruman.

They could still access their full power, but were only supposed to use it in extreme emergencies. The Balrog of Moria was unaccounted for in the plans of the Ainur, and likely would have wrecked Gandalf's plans completely even if the Fellowship had managed to escape it.
Not explicitly listed, but obviously hard, by definition, in (theoretical) CS: NP-Hard and NP-Complete problems.

Ex:

* knapsack (fit the most “boxes” into min number of containers, sometimes 4D+ “boxes”)

* traveling salesman
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Vast majority of people could not possibly care less about these differences between their clothes. You're hugely over-estimating how many people in tech care about what they wear.
I think the author is very likely to misunderstand anything as long as they can be snarky about someone perceived as “anti-apple”, even in the most transparent and obvious ways, and even in defense of Apple’s most odious policies.
If you didn't know and you're a VS Code user, there is an implementation of Magit for VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kahole.m...
Yeah I stopped reading at that point, cache invalidation is not 'also known as TTL'.
I am still hoping for a large, reasonable priced eInk display that I can frame and hang up on a wall. Does not even have to be color, I would be fine with just changing through different black&white dithered images over time. But large eInk displays are prohibitively expensive for what is basically a gimmick :-/
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Well, SSI, Medicare and Medicaid aren't socialism by any, let's say, "internationally recognised" definition.
It's a good question. They have spent half a billion dollars during the past five years, and have almost another half billion in reserves. The fundraising seems to have become an end in itself, just because they can.

They keep talking about wanting to grow Wikipedia in the global south (Indian and African languages) but the spending in those regions, even though rising slowly, is still a minute portion of their expenses which mostly go to pay rising US salaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

So you have people in India (where people are currently shown fundraising banners on Wikipedia) donating a couple of dollars ... it takes over 200,000 donations like that to pay the salary of the Wikimedia CEO. $2 doesn't even buy a coffee in San Francisco. You could do a lot more with it in Kolkata. It's not like India doesn not have more pressing needs than sending money to the US because people are made to think money is needed to keep Wikipedia online for everyone.
> mental illness (both mild and extreme forms), medical debt, disability, poverty traps, veterans, homeless, prisoners.
Might https://www.vitalfrog.com be interesting for your case? Basically does that, checks page speed after every change
Vacuum bagging this stuff seems risky... I could imagine a technique could be developed to keep all the coloured beads in place while getting the item out. For example, heating the bag so the beads stick to it? Or flushing through a glue followed by a solvent.
I'm a bit older than you and it passed me by along with CompuServe and other BBSs. It was mentioned in magazines such as PC Pro but I didn't get a modem until Windows 95 came out. After a quick play with the Microsoft Network the web took over for me.
CSS flex is still flaky in WebKit almost a decade on. It used to be equally flaky in Chrome, but it is now better in Chrome

Thankfully grid support in Safari is solid
It is called Freiwirtschaft.

They mayor Unterguggenberger implemented a demurrage currency during the great depression in Wörgl and it solved the unemployment and budget deficit problem without inflation.
> The tests select for people that will put themselves through hell just to work for you.

Assuming this is true, are you suggesting this is done knowingly and deliberately by those conducting the interview? I wonder if there is data suggesting the approach works (employees who undergo whiteboarding are more productive than those that don't), but perhaps the reason why it works is not understood?
They are inside the "enclosed alphanumerics" Unicode block: https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/enclosed-alphanumerics/
That's an argument for opposing metros or light rail (though I'm not sure it's true even there). But a bike lane takes weeks, not years.
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Vacuum sealing something often leaves wrinkles in the bag material, especially when sealing soft items. Those wrinkles are very hard to reproduce if the seal is broken.

That effect could be used to be less 'obvious' that the package is protected.
My grandparents live in a village with a few hundred inhabitants, and have a train connection to the "big" city(30k) nearby multiple times per day. In the poorest country in the EU.

Of course that's not feasible anywhere, that's why there's the concept of Park and Ride. You take the train to a station which has a big car parking and you can use your car from there. The usual use is for people commuting by car to be able to leave their cars there and take the train into the city, in order to avoid traffic (and this concept gets abused in the US and Canada with train stations and lines only for that single use case and unusable for anyone without a car), but it can go both ways.
So the registry allowed laws created under a democratic system to be implemented, and that's.. bad?
The problem is many of these leetcode tests can be practiced - whether it’s spotting repeated problem structures or simply recycling questions. As a result they don’t really test problem solving ability but how much effort went into prep work. This makes it a really poor signal.
I find Leetcode discussions strange. I recently changed jobs so I was preparing by doing some Leetcode problems. The actual problems I was asked during the interview process were very simple compared to what I expected. Interviewers even explicitly stated that they wanted to see how I think, and the solution didn't even have to compile. So in my experience the whole idea that «Leetcode is harmful» is overblown a little bit.

To me the value of coding interviews are knowing enough algorithms/data structures to apply and adapt them to problems, being able to quickly sketch out your idea, and explain trade-ffs.
Top 10 States for Aerospace are Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, Georgia, New York, and Texas.

>> A lot of automotive design is done in the LA basin for the auto majors.

Source...

>when I need parts machined there are still plenty of local machine shops etc.

There are plenty of machine shops in my town, I would not proclaim my town to be a mecca of engineering.

> I’ve brought in welders from the Central Valley when local ones were too busy.

Ok, and?
A "high write volume" requires fast disks, and billions of rows require large disks. Two simple requirements that are the same for any relational or less relational database.

What's interesting is query performance, and a RDBMS supports explicit control over indexing (usually including analyzing execution plans to find out which queries are going to work well). Where do you see "a terrible waste of engineering effort"?
Earliest evidence of wildfire found in Wales
Also being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903480
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I disagree. If we would not age and stay 25 years old until we have an accident, we could have hundreds of children each, which would drastically increase reproduction and should therefore be preferred by evolutionary selection.
Excellent essay, thank you!
No it means that disputes are settled via a fair legal process, as opposed to something like vigilantism or wealth.
Sorry, I definitely did not mean regulated in the sense of "rent control". I meant regulated in the sense of "guaranteeing certain rights for the tenants". I'm aware of the massive housing squeeze in big German cities, and you make a great point — I just wanted to underscore that it's not at heart a rent v buy issue.
It just isn't the same to me without the legacy video game controller. That spinning wheel made Tempest that much better.
It defaults to JAX. To use torch, add --torch parameter
Truly modern tools, when used as they seem to be intended, aren't skills, they're vague familiarities.

Even programming language take only weeks to do useful work in, if you know any similar language.

If VSCode vanishes there will be some other similar open source tool, that will probably be better somehow. And I'll probably be up and running fast because everything will be labeled with tooltips.

I don't have any custom scripts and modifications, so it's not like I'll be losing a lot.

GUI tools are interactive and largely guide the user, so there can be close to zero learning time for the better ones, on simple tasks. There's some learning to be maximally effective, but... everyone else will have that same time too, it's not like you'll be fired or the world ends if you're a little slower for a bit with a new tool.

Then again, I don't have any strong muscle memory or spatial thinking ability, so I don't get as attached to details of tools anyway.

I just try to make sure everything uses common standard formats like Markdown, and avoid things that are based on customization.
Unfortunately not - the links were indexed and shown in Bing search results
BBC isn’t free you need a tv license
That's so simple that it could actually become a product.
Would you buy one if the picture was at the top of the page?

If not, then they don't need to.
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Some of that is local zoning laws that prohibit the kind of small affordable "starter" homes from being built

Things like Minimum Lot size, out right restriction on size of home, and other "building codes" that have nothing to do with the safety or long term viability of a construction project

It is unlikely the development my grandparents home is in would get zoning approval should a developer seek to build a similar neighborhood today. The lots sizes would be too small, the homes would be too small, and various other things would be non-compliant with modern building codes which does not mean it would be unsafe.
I was referring to the second paragraph. Orcs usually don't pay taxes to Gondor.
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> Do not use GIFs like this. Use a proper video codec.

Not a defense, but worth noting in the interest of full advice here that Github's README preview (what's showing here) does not support embedded videos, which is why GIFs are a popular choice.

That said, a good workaround for this is simply putting something like:

[![Watch the video](path/to/still/thumbnail.jpeg)](path/to/video/file/or/youtube/link)

This has the double advantage of not hitting your gpu/cpu on load (especially good for mobile) since there's no autoplay.
This is a very useful tool -- thank you.
It has always amused me when developers try to make their application's database layer vendor-agnostic. Not only does that restrict you to the most vanilla dialect of SQL imaginable, it's also a pointless exercise generally because it is orders of magnitude more likely that your app will be replaced and the database kept than the other way round.
Just wait for WW3, and wait for all big cities and gvt building who don't care about life and nature gets destroyed. Then you'll have left the country people - the one who know how to survive with land, grow their own food - without lobbies telling them to have their seeds patented in order to sell them - and restore the landscape and the environment. Nothing to do - just wait. If that doesn't happen - then we're all doomed. All we'll have left is Matrix - or Brave new world - no freedom - which will eventually lead to human extinction.
I would be much more likely to not immediately close the tab, yes.
Sure, it's much easier to discount competing thoughts and opinions if you just discard them as bigotry.

If anyone is radicalizing others it is those that treat everyone that does not 100% agree with them as radicals that must be pushed out instead of as people.
There’s a pretty cool kids show in Germany (Sendung mit der Maus) and in one of the last sequels they showed how the customized seat padding for a wheelchair is made. And that involves a shit-ton of back and forth, measuring, cnc-cutting, fine tuning, adjusting and all of it mostly one-off manual labor with expensive machiner. I’m certain someone is making money off that, but given the amount of highly specialized labor that went into this, I believe 2200 USD is reasonable.

(If you run the math, that’s roughly 2-3 days of work for an engineer that earns 250k, without even considering all attached costs)
Felony or not, calling the cops and telling them that you suspect that someone has recorded you without your permission is never going to result in any action unless you have some sort of influence or your local cops are very bored and overzealous.