skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Profiling what languages you code in

* Profiling your work hours

* Tracking the physical locations of software professionals

* Profiling the nature of the projects you are working on

* Perhaps: training GitHub Copilot?
It would get a lot more value from that funding if the Tories (and to be fair, also the last Labour gov a decade and a half ago, though not as much) hadn't been pushing so much of it towards embedding privatisation through the NHS such that profits are pointlessly being taken out at all stages. (Well, obviously not pointless for the shareholders, who happen to often coincidentally be tory party donors.)

A hospital having a 20% bigger budget for their janitorial staff isn't in a better position if it's also been required to move from hiring full time cleaners in-house to contracting an approved cleaning company that has 30% profit margin baked in. An NHS patient isn't helped knowing that 50% more funding goes into paying consultants for the problem they have, if gradually more and more of those consultants are moving to private health companies and having to be rented back to the NHS at a markup that pays both the doctor and the company's shareholders. Etc etc.

Sure, the population demographics are related, but even if we had the exact same population as 20 years ago we'd be in a much worse situation; plus it's the government's job to pay attention to things like demo changes in their population, and to listen to the warnings that have been coming from the medical community for many years, and should have been proactively funding better social care (instead of completely abandoning it to local councils while also lowering their funding) AND making the NHS even better (rather than gradually turning it into an umbrella for private companies who eat up any budget increases).
After getting lost in a few: « what design? »
Took me a while to get the joke...
It’s possible Arm is the ISA for the next century, with all the others mere footnotes of history, the same way the 8-but micros have become a dead-end in computing history.
What did you do after weed whacker usage? If you didn't remove all cuttings, there's your main problem. (also: 10 hours? how large is that piece of land?)
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I recommend reassessing what you consider a weed as well. I only pull up stuff with thorns that don't produce edible fruit and anything that might compete with that I've intentionally planted. That means the rest of my yard has dandelions, violets, clover, creeping Charlie, other random wildflowers throughout the grass. Mowing occasionally deals with the baby trees.
There are significant issues with E-Verify's error rate. It is a poor idea to enable the government to unilaterally strip someone of their right to work, particularly given the error rate, when the only recourse is a lengthy kafka-esque process involving multiple government agencies that can drag on for months.

The fact that after decades they still haven't adequately addressed the error rates or the recourse process does not lend confidence that this is something that should be mandated.
Namely, the ability for shareholders to sue Twitter.
The problem with all the proposals I've seen in those articles about earnings is that basically all of them are guaranteed to get someone even more interested in what's behind the curtain. A strange fellowship keeping the population fearful of what's hidden in the caverns? Let's try and sneak in and see what they're hiding!
Doesn't HR usually filter messages so as to leave no meat for any possible wrongful termination litigation or libelous tort?
And whose fault is it that GenZ cannot afford to live on such a smaller income, hmm? The right to life shouldn't be predicated on working your ass off - it should be enough to just put in a day, or three-quarters of a day, of honest work.
>I'm really not sure where it stands with regard to instructional content in general - however some such content has been constrained before; usually regarding weapons (or really any content that the government can argue is weapons related

Common misconception.

You can post the machinist drawings for any unclassified (or classified, if somehow you came across them without having signed any paperwork related to security clearances). That is protected by the Courts.

Where you get into hot water is ITAR and restricted exports where free speech runs into the whole national security/foreign affairs jurisdiction by the Feds. You cannot post the manual for an F-16 for instance, in such a way as it could be accessed by adversaries of the United States. Access to that type of information has to be gated behind some form of arcane onboarding process to ensure one is actually authorized to see it.

There was an attempt at gating 3d printed gun patterns I think, but all the courts would let through is that a manufacturer must ensure the recipient is a U.S. Citizen, so it switched from published on website, to shipped on CD iirc.

Haven't checked on recent developments.
I don't think they share the index as all three parts are different projects.
> Why pad priority with dots? Why pad priority at all?

It's optional, so I'd assume it's for people who want to start the sentence from same aligned column.

> The date format will allow bad clients to do the American yyyy-dd-mm thing, using a standard would make it unambiguous.

Isn't 2022-08-23 the standard format; ISO 8601?
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Telemetry is godsend for developers, since it lets them track down actual product usage and issues.

Telemetry is a privacy nightmare for users, since it sends data to the developers outside of an average user's control - data which is probably easily associated with an individual and kept for eons (disk space is cheap after all).

I think telemetry collection is starting to become a professional ethics issue for developers, and should be talked about more.
could you link to that pointing out? which parts don't stack up? the 12+ hour wait times, the hospital occupancy, the discharge rate, the aging population and the slashed spending are all seem to be hard numbers (dare I say facts?) ... what doesn't add up?
He was apparently arrested for actual criminal activity related to the mixer, and not for code contributions.

Jeffrey Blockinger, general counsel at Quadrata, says most developers don’t need to be concerned about an arrest. “While privacy concerns are legitimate, this arrest is reportedly focused on evidence of actual criminal activity,” he told Protocol.

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-fintech/tornad...
I'm sure there's lawyers somewhere willing to take the case, perhaps even pro bono, just for the publicity.

Discovery would be hilarious.
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> "The rights to any intellectual property created by employee during his work shall be transferred to employer in full."

It says "during work", so anything created in your spare time is out of the question, isn't it?
Wow! Down the rabbit hole we go! Looks like I got some reading to do. I love this topic.
I thought that was run on hydrogen, which would be a nightmare for many reasons. Pure solar (either PV or direct heating) seems like it’s way simpler, if slightly less efficient.
If it's not true, it is libel or slander depending on how it was delivered.

It may be that Twitter's HR records say "fired for cause: ineffective leadership and poor performance" in which case the statement would be technically true.

It's much more likely that Twitter's HR records say something like "fired, not a good fit" in which case it's back to reputational harm.
FTA: "Visual Studio Code collects telemetry data, which is used to help understand how to improve the product. For example, this usage data helps to debug issues, such as slow start-up times, and to prioritize new features."

I don't work at Microsoft but I work somewhere similar on a product that collects similar types of telemetry and those words are not empty, they are very, very true. We absolutely add, remove, and change things about the UI based on what our telemetry says people do.

And it's not just about moving things around (which I know HN hates), it's about making the page load faster (which I know HN loves!). We are going through a concerted effort to lower page TTVC at the moment and a big part is going to have to be turning off some features that show by default that take too long to load and guess how we'll be making the call about which features to turn off?
From all the anecdotes in this thread, I estimate a 50% chance of it happening.
Back in college I bought the only car I could afford at the time, a '69 AMC Rambler station wagon painted pink with purple stripes on the hoods.. This was mid 90's in Atlanta and I got all kinds of positive comments about that car. Which was weird, being the introvert I was. My wife still says she's glad she met me before seeing my car, lol.
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”.

I really wish thermal throttling was the first major point of discussion for ALL laptop CPU's.
One of my work laptops never reached full cpu speeds in the real world because it would get thermally throttled!
I 100% make purchases based on colour. Not just colour but it is very important to me in deciding.
The TL;DR is Microsoft won't tell you what they collect and ignore settings that limit telemetry.

If you use VSCode or its extensions you can't keep commercial secrets from those working at Microsoft unless you block network traffic from VSCode. This seems to be true even in the open source builds like VSCodium.
> Lots of people are rushing to defend Mudge, and maybe it's warranted, but being an alumnus of cDc and l0pht doesn't make one a competent executive.

He was also a DARPA PM, which definitely requires management/executive skills.
It's a bit complicated. Private providers can have different staff mixes, so you might have more healthcare assistants and fewer nurses. You might have more unregistered nurses and fewer registered nurses. You might find more staff are on zero-hour contracts, or things like "hotel services" (food, cleaning) are contracted out to companies that are low pay poor condition companies.
This is probably not an accurate comparison. Here's the benchmarks for the two processors:

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/intel-core-i7-1280p-vs...

That has the M2 winning single core but losing multicore. I didn't watch the video because 8 minutes is ridiculous so I don't know what they're doing. But it's probably not apples to apples.
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Offers : https://greenmountainpower.com/rebates-programs/

I wish all utilities were this customer friendly!
Your rug is also removable. That means even if it's there while the house is for sale some day, the potential buyers will know that it won't be their problem if they don't like the color. Also, I think accent colors are required to make a home look great even if it's a color I don't like, it's better IMHO than all the bland stuff going around.
Matrix is its own thing. I'm mostly talking about federation: Someone on iMessage should be able to talk to someone on Google Chat, like XMPP was trying to do.
It's not paranoia if these devices are, in fact, listening. That's their whole purpose. I've grown comfortable with Google Home only because I intend to eventually replace it with a homegrown solution.
New York City is forcing some cars to slow down
These models would exist, just without painterly style. Most of the training data is photos of real things, a lot of which is stock photography that has been ripped off much in the same way like those artists. It is a challenge to copyright law, but if artists are allowed learn by looking at other peoples work, why treat an AI differently?
Ah, thank you! I mistakenly thought ammonia was produced from the process somehow. It's not, it's just used in a closed loop as a refrigerant.
> I see no reason why the girls wouldn't have done the same thing if it were a regular bicycle.

It takes effort to lug your own mass and a bicycle up a hill. If you manage it, you are likely in okay shape, alert and sharp--since you wouldn't be capable or motivated to do it otherwise. All of these conditions reduce chances of an accident. Powered transport removes this barrier. Sometimes lowered approachability is a feature.
thanks, for a moment I was disappointed that I just ordered a fully-loaded Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10 since I need to run x86 Ubuntu

> If you want to run x86, you can use qemu which works fine.

Are there any benchmarks for x86 Ubuntu under QEMU on M1/M2?
Will it be usable?
even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing

Source for this? Does VSCodium with no extensions send telemetry, or is it the extension issue?

EDIT: Oh the quote from VSCodium is in the article:

Even though we do not pass the telemetry build flags (and go out of our way to cripple the baked-in telemetry), Microsoft will still track usage by default.

The funny thing is that I was about to install VSCodium for the first time TODAY, because I want live markdown preview. (I want a doc editor, not necessarily a code editor)

The rationale for VSCodium says it's about telemetry, although strictly speaking it's doesn't promise they removed all the telemetry!

https://vscodium.com/

but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking

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I should also say that on the dev side, crash reports are EXTREMELY useful and really do improve the quality of the software. But you used to have to confirm this data would be sent.
It may appear that this may get Musk off the hook for buying Twitter because "Look how bad they are!" but, as I recall, Musk's problem is that his offer with without contingency - e.g. "Yah, I'll buy it, whatever".

So it may just be another event which will drive Twitter's price down even further and make it a _worse_ deal for him.

From Bloomberg "The buyers could only back out of the agreement in the case of a material adverse effect, a high bar that excludes issues like market volatility or industry challenges." (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-07-13/elon-m...).

I suppose one could argue that the Whistleblower's report is "material adverse affect", something I'm sure will come out in the trial.
Ammonia is also naturally occurring, from decomposition of urine.
I would argue for the vast majority of people language is not the primary indicator of what they consider good or bad music. I would assume it doesn't go into the algorithm at all and I certainly would not want it too. I have discovered some really cool music that I'm not even sure what language they are in this way.
The "methodology" is that people look at 100 accounts a day and determine whether they are bots. They have never disclosed any of the signals that go into this determination. You have a lot of faith in the immediately efficient market here.
RCS is the successor/replacement of MMS. Carriers will charge for it and that will be the end of the protocol.

It is explicitly designed to give carriers back control of messaging.

Why am I even saying this? We all remember how much fun carriers control over SMS was. It killed sms. There were never any new features. Cost made lots of stuff, such as multi party chats effectively impossible for teenagers ... It was always very unclear how much everything cost. There were "traps" with premium services, often not advertised as such. Now there's fraud with international SMSes. And things have gotten worse' several states made clear they use phones to find abortions ... And RCS is designed to bring this back. No.

Just. NO.
It doesn't really sound like you want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
There's always vscodium which which doesn't have the tracking, similar to Chromium browser vs Chrome: https://vscodium.com/
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I understand you pretty well. But see, the majority of people in this forum are from the USA so most of the scenarios that you draw like "freak cases" are normal day to day things that happen in the USA where most healthcare is for-profit.

For someone that is used to social/universal healthcare (like UK, Norway, France, Germany) the prospect of having to deal with stupid for-profit situations during an emergency are laughable. But for someone living in that hell, it is something normal. Not for anything you read countless of anecdotes of people deciding to stay at home and use some superglue or rolled towels when they have an accident and bleed.

I've had the opportunity of experience the two systems (UK' NHS, Germany´s Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, Mexico's IMSS for public, and Mexico's private system) and really makes me angry that society is moving toward for-profit privatized systems instead of looking to fix the issues in universal/public systems. (It's like if when we saw that the police or the firefighters were not working, we decided to make law enforcement private... throwing the baby out with the bathwater)
My wild guess is that it's paradoxically due to life being more comfortable for people than ever before. The most resilient people I know came from rough-and-tumble upbringings like you describe.
Apple says they don't currently scan, due to the previous backlash. But the capability is there in iOS, waiting for the mothership to remotely enable the feature flag.
I think they compared it to a i5 1240p or did the dell have different specs?
> The load times and performance for applets were all pretty dismal

Javascript was abysmally slow as well, but then it got some insane amount of man-hours spent on it. Also, with that internet speed, everything was slow - I don’t see why would that be a valid criticism against java, especially that Java byte code is insanely compact, much more so than minified js.

I think it was just ahead of its time, and Java itself could have easily been used as the web-native language if it is made to interact with the DOM natively.
Just opened youtube.com and 6/8 of the videos on the top section of my front page are from channels I'm subscribed to. That happens for me every time. Sorry your subscribe button doesn't work.
Scale. A small personal fridge in an RV or small apartment isn't a big deal. But a system big enough to power comercial refrigeration or air conditioning to a residential building will involve enough coolant that any leak would be serious problem.
As a developer tool, I think it is absolutely possible for Microsoft and extension developers to write a very deep and detail explanation to the users and explain why do they need to collect what telemetry data.

As a user and engineer, I am more than happy to share the usage and crash data with them, but at the same time, I would appreciate if they can be fair to us the user.
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Like Dall-E. What you'll get is music which apes music tropes really well, but strangely intentionless and disassociated. For genres like ambient where the intention is to be intentionless and disassociated (or can be), the result is like 'oh hey, AI is here!'.

It's weird. You could extrude endless amounts of The Caretaker, "Everywhere At The End Of Time" if you specified the recipe, with a 'deterioration dial' and some coding to determine how you vary the output. But you'd be free-riding on a pre-existing artistic intention that was originally implemented in dramatic, bold manner. To extrude endless amounts of this stuff is both fairly trivial and missing the point completely…
> "given Mudge was accountable for many aspects of this work that he is now inaccurately portraying"

Is he not shooting himself in the foot here? This makes it look more like they got rid of him for trying to do his job accurately and was annoying everyone with all of these "security problems."
Interesting tie-in with the excellent Gervais Principle series https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-...
I seem to read fairly often about security folk (or even plain ol' sysadmins) bemoaning their companies' security, like their presence or oversight is a box checking exercise rather than a real commitment.
Ugh, there’s so little information in either the linked article or the original video or even the Parallels website, but apparently, Parallels does (not*, in fact, run Intel Windows on Apple Silicon according to this page: https://machow2.com/windows-on-m1-mac/

(and even that page had confusing wording that made me think the opposite for a while).
In the last few years I've seen a lot more of these "flat-ish" paint colors on new cars. They've got a gloss finish, but the color coat reminds me of a battleship, truck, tank, or other military vehicle. Initially they really stood out to me because they were different than the usual car paint colors / formulations (lacking any metallic element and being much less "shiny").

I know I report my car's paint color to the DMV when I registered it. (Paint colors are also encoded in many manufacturers' VINs, I believe.) It would be neat to make some kind of visualization of car paint color popularity over time using DMV data.