skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've held that opinion for so long, why did you even apply to Kraken at all? What would have swayed you to accept their offer?
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It is personal data regardless of how it is used. The only question is if that use of personal data is permissive.

Using it for user analytics, which is neither required to run the service, nor in the users interest, nor reasonably expected by the user, is almost definitly illegitimate use.
Interesting, why would they do this?
Let’s take a few steps back…

What’s even easier than that?

- Was this video taken within a geofenced area between these times?

- does audio contain any filtered words?
As we all read stories about bullied kids, or even this study above, not having help to resolve peer conflict isn't especially useful to kids' development either. So, how exactly should they handle it by themselves? Gang up? Outgun the bullies? I'm sorry but I can't even imagine a good way, any good way, how a bullied nerd kid can get out of bullying by themselves.
This is exactly my issue with stalebot and I think it is a great disservice to the community. Closing issues without a maintainer looking at the issue is bad. I expect at least some triaging from the maintainer before the stalebot comes in and swipes the issue under the carpet.
300Mhz SGI o2: ~650 Vax MIPS

Rpi 3: ~6000 Vax MIPS

You might think the Pi would lag on FP but...

o2: 131MFlops

Rpi 3: ~180 MFlops

So basically a Pi is better than an o2. And it's the size of a credit card.

And mostly used for toy projects.
That distinction doesn't exist when dealing with nation-state size entities with revolving doors to government like Apple.
Are there any write ups on how you simultaneously terminate this many employees from a logistical point of view?

Ie: does HR numbers need to be bolstered to handle it? How do you choose the 1200+ individuals?
Zac did not at all make millions playing poker
Picked it up in university, starting with java. We did a course in high school learning cocoa but I'm pretty sure none of that stuck.
> my daily caloric intake to about 3500 calories

How tall/big are you if you don't mind me asking? I'm 6'0" 180lbs and my caloric intake is about 3500 when I'm in a bulk cycle (I do a lot of cardio/fencing in addition to weightlifting, so my calorie needs are quite high). Was just curious of your composition given your caloric needs are similar to my own.
Those technique don't work very well when the edits are done on the RAW files directly. I creates a lot of false positive and negatives. When a picture is shared by the original photographer directly, it's extremely hard to differentiate between fake and real.

Just to name a few reasons for it that come to mind:

-The original resolution is wayyy bigger than what you see online. When you go from 300Mpx (eg. a panorama) down to 2 - 10 mpx and add compression, it will hide most of the artefacts.

-better lenses means they have less distortion and sharpness problem at the edge of the frame. Makes it easier to blend different pictures together seamlessly

-raw files editing allows a lot more modification to the colors without degradation or leaving traces. You are effectively changing the choices that the camera makes when it creates the colors. There is no difference between changing the color temperature in the camera and in photoshop if you use RAW.

With jpg editing done by a third party... yeah, those are easy to spot with the right tools
It appears this has been done for all employees. So no in this case.
My understanding is that most commenters are less critical of this specific implementation, but are alarmed by how this new technique could be used by other more nefarious parties in the future.

Counting visits is probably still not a fully GDPR-complaint use case, as the server stores data on the client's machine which is indistinguishable from a cookie containing a counter.
maybe the law is wrong?

yeah, rhetorical question, but the issue here isn't necessarily adherence to local laws, but rather having some principled stance.

yeah, I'm hearing it, "principled stance"... one can dream
It's always best to be laid off first in a downturn. These packages start to disappear later in the cycle.
I have strong feeling that whole Green Deal will end up like biofuels fiasco - after lot of cheering, slowly forgotten and mostly scrapped.
In every HN thread about layoffs, there is some number of comments that are written as:

"It's good that the company paid [nearly unfathomable severance benefits], but what ACCOUNTABILITY is there?"

My brother in Christ, the accountability is that the company is paying unfathomable severance benefits, watching their stock price tank, and getting dragged in the public sphere.

What would you like the CEO to do? Quit?
This is not tracking. Could you explain why you think it is?
I guess we all have different instincts when it comes to this, but I find it much more expected and acceptable that a website can see that I’m returning, than that they get to know about random other interests I have based on my general browsing history.
Even without changing processes, hundreds of years of time could be saved by reducing the frequency we have to interact with government at all

For example, almost 20 American states require license renewal every 4 years or more frequently:

https://ballotpedia.org/Driver%27s_license_costs_by_state,_2...

When I renew, there's no test (not even vision), and they don't even retake my picture or let me update my height. They just print the same ID with new dates

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Obviously, Americans filing tax information the government already knows every year is another canonical example
Absolutely agree. The law I ran afoul of was called the “Safe Schools Act” and predictably did nothing of the sort. Zero-tolerance is zero-accountability and zero-sense. It does nothing to address or resolve problems, just makes the lives of petty bureaucrats easier.
Krakenites eh?

I was hoping they called themselves Krackheads
>The surveillance is already there, but it is not acted on for the most part in everyday life. But there may be a clock on how long that will last.

Yes it is. Think advertising, marketing, and product placement. It's so pervasive you can't even see it.
For me, I use the simple stuff (Semigroup, Monoid, Monads, Functors, ..) the most. Often times I'll be reasoning about a problem I'm working on in Haskell and realize it is a monad and I can reuse all of the existing monadic control structures. It is also helpful the other way, where you start working with someone else's code and seeing that it is a e.g. Monad immediately tells you so much concrete info about the structure, where in a less structured language you might need to reed through a bunch of docs to understand how to manipulate some objects. The "killer app" is all of that extra structure shared throughout all of the codebases.
Who's "we"? I don't mind it. I want advertisers to give me more relevant advertising.
Notably, DoorDash is providing the benefit equally to all fired employees [0].

[0] At least those working within the US.
>> Also, FWIW, the skill in fighting games is knowing when to use special moves, not memorizing them. Anyone that has invested even a tiny amount of time getting good at a fighting game has memorized all the inputs/combos, that is not the challenging aspect of fighting games.

A prerequisite to using them is memorizing them. You said it yourself right there. Not my thing, that's all.
> Are you really saying that it's normal to be harder to port some software into Windows than into z/OS?

No, I'm saying that from 89 OSes mentioned on that picture, a lot of them are better at being *nix because they are *nix.

But answering your question, sure! The only good thing in POSIX is that you have easy access to a lot of *nix software. Other than that, POSIX is a spectacularly bad API.

Windows doesn't really care about running *nix software natively, because most of Windows userbase just want and use different things. Therefore, why invest into a bad API? For those wanting to use *nix software on Windows, there is Cygwin or WSL anyway.
The demo doesn't work in safari on my mac. It sometimes gets to 2, but on refresh goes back to 1. Actually, got it up to 4 one time. Seems like the claims of "Works in any browser and any server" are overstated.
Your last paragraph is a little ridiculous. Hindsight is 20/20. If you knew there was a recession coming, why didn’t you short the market and become rich? Nobody, including CEOs, knew for certain when the pandemic would end or how that would affect the markets.
Discrimination laws apply to protected classes. Visa holders are not a protected class.
Been a couple hours, usually my shadowban ends by now. Lets see if I can reply.

>I disagree, they are just not necessarily associated. Less intelligent people have problems too. Children constantly throw tantrums, for instance.

It's not me necessarily saying the above. I will defend it.

The thing with 'becoming intelligent' is you often have to make sacrifices to do so. Those sacrifices like friends or family will result in unhappiness.

Once you realize this issue, you can work toward fixing this issue. You dont have to be unhappy.
I'm skeptical videos are being deleted from the device by Huawei, which the title suggests, until actually proven. More likely is a cloud file storage provider is automatically deleting videos from a server based on some hash/identifier. Similar to how Google/Dropbox can flag copyrighted media.
Idk. we just have to assume people are fine even if it is not expressed through their face. There are other indicators for distress, such as tears or literally angry faces.
I guess they should also kick US citizen employees out of the country by March 1?
To be fair, not even the US govt recognizes the Taiwan flag. One could say that Apple it's following US guidance on this.

> the White House deleted a social media post on COVID-19 vaccine donations that included Taiwan's flag. A spokesman for the White House National Security Council called the use of the flag "an honest mistake" by the team handling graphics and social media that should not be viewed as a shift in U.S. policy towards Taipei

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-asks-us-no...
The amendment passed.

"US Government-Funded Domestic Propaganda Has Officially Hit The Airwaves"

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-domestic-propaganda-offic...
>They run a lean team

Isn't this at odds with your previous comment about redundancy being a no-brainer?

He was a principle engineer in an optics lab. Having worked in both optics labs and aerospace, I can say there is very little reason to think that a "bad back" in those roles puts astronauts at additional risk.
> Some people just look like assholes

Something I wonder about is how much of an effect movies and TV have had on what we generally consider to be mean-looking or friendly-looking traits.

I don’t know which way the cause-and-effect goes though. Do we instinctively as humans think that people who look a certain way give off an “evil” vibe, and that’s why Hollywood chooses actors with those faces? Or have they trained us that certain faces are “evil” because they’re always typecast as bad guys?

One random example: when I first saw Kylo Ren in the recent Star Wars trilogy, my first thought was… I bet he’s gonna turn good. His face is too friendly. If he were bad to the core they would’ve picked an evil-looking guy.
> obscenely paid PR hacks

I genuinely don't understand comments like this. Do you know who wrote the letter? Do you know how much they get paid?

Communications is a real skill with actual, real people that devote their careers to doing it well. And they get paid fairly, unless you know something I don't.

Nobody wants to write this letter, least of all the PR person who wrote it.

What would you have the CEO say, if not what they all say when this happens? "Our business isn't growing like we hoped now get fucked"?
You can back up your data from Huawei phones, too. Apple had plans to scan the photos on your phone and automatically report you to the police if the algorithm thinks something is off. I wouldn't trust them at all.
Did they somehow figure out online voting or are they courting disaster here?
> he also have so f*g wrong opinions about so much s*t

Care to provide examples?
I'm an immigrant in the US, I don't think they're mean (albeit very bureaucratic)! I can just imagine the relief these guys have over Xmas though.
Until there's a solar flare and instead it's just cost them 1640 years. Or a catastrophic computer virus. Or any number of black swan disaster scenarios.

I'm a tech guy and I do think that this is good news. I just hope that the people in charge of designing these systems have also thought about what happens if these systems catastrophically fail. And that measuring things like '820 years saved' are only really claims you can make after waiting a long period of time to ensure it's proven itself stable.
Ah, yes, like the extreme position of being against affirmative action:
https://www.thefire.org/news/ilya-shapiro-resigns-georgetown...
Renewing online sure takes a lot of the burden out of the regular renewals.

Of course, I'm now 33 and still using a picture of 21yo me on my license which gets me second glances from bar tenders, TSA, etc. But if it keeps me from having to go in to the DMV...
Storing a cookie with a counter still requires consent afaik. If I am right, then this technique is not sufficiently different and also requires consent.
Oh yeah. Heterophobia. It’s all over the place now.
It's not like the record company is giving them a greater cut to compensate. Plus I'm sure they are still selling merch
I've been told, by a coworker no less, that I have RBF (resting bitch face).
How could being the second and third largest donor to Dems/Reps respectively at the same time be a good strategy? Genuinely curious.
No. But they're not allowed to tell me that :)

Unless as a user I am actively knowledgeable about the choices available to me Apple wins by holding a monopoly of ability to disseminate information
The way If-None-Match is that the browser says "give me the latest if this ETag represents an out-of-date resource, otherwise I'll keep using my copy." It's not clear to me how you're proposing this work instead?

(Also, in many cases the server uses a hash of the inputs to generating the resource, which isn't something externally verifiable)
For a company built on a Ponzi-scheme (crypto) they sure are being good to their employees and that’s laudable.

“Separation pay: We will pay 16 weeks of base pay for all departing Krakenites inclusive of the paid leave period.

Performance bonus: For those eligible, we will pay each departing Krakenite their bonus as determined by their manager.

Benefits: We will offer eligible Krakenites 4 months of healthcare continuation coverage inclusive of the paid leave period.

All Krakenites will continue to have access to counseling services during this period.

Extension of exercise window: We will extend departing Krakenites’ window to exercise their vested stock options.

Immigration support: Kraken will provide dedicated visa and immigration support for those currently on company-sponsored visas.

Outplacement support: We will provide career support for departing Krakenites, including networking opportunities, job search best practices, interview guidance, and more.”
I acknowledge my hyperbole. My point is just that while you try to convince a patient that they need to improve their willpower, they are suffering from the effects of obesity, which has innumerable other comorbidities. Every day that they spend obese is courting health problems related to obesity.

> I don't share your surprise, but might agree awareness is only the first step to individual progress. I think

I can say with near certainty that awareness is in fact only the first step. The question is what the next steps are. Saying "psychological help" is a dodge -- what specific psychological methodologies have been proven to work in this regard (I'll give a hint here, none of them). So what comes next? If you lecture them about willpower and stop the mollycoddling (which I assure you, no mainstream medical professional has anything but the harshest things to say about diet or fat positivity), and you give them an exam that proves that they understand what it comes down to, but they keep the weight or gain more weight, then what? Lock 'em up? Put them in a more advanced class to teach them?

> surgical procedures cannot be considered breakthroughs

Sure they can be. We have to be very very very cautious about surgical approaches, because our understanding of human physiology is far from perfect, and there might be long-term problems, etc. But if we make a better, less impactful procedure with fewer side effects, then surely that can count as a breakthrough. The transformation from open surgery for gastric bypass to laproscopic procedures (lap bands and later sleeve gastroplasties) was huge because it greatly reduced complications, and the move to endoscopic procedures (which are non-surgical) has dropped the risk of surgical complications to close to zero. Similarly the progress on GLP-1 agonists have shown some impressive improvements over previous generations of drugs (like fen-phen) that were actively dangerous.

Pursuing healthy weight change or trying to address the food chain issues or other problems may present better long-term alternatives to having healthier weight, but in the meantime, these procedures/drugs can significantly reduce the health risks that come organically from excess weight.
I don't think Google changed their position. It seems it's just a PR made by a random person. Their account was created two days ago and they have no other contributions.
If I gave you a list of all the last-modified headers from a day, how would you use that information to identify a person?
In Ruby and many other languages, you have this idea of a string concatenation:

"foo" + "bar" -> "foobar"
"foo" + "" -> "foo"

That makes it a monoid. Instead of talking about OOP patterns, knowing that the "+" operator is a monoid for string objects lets us write code that is composable.

Similarly, with arrays:

[:foo,:bar] + [:baz] -> [:foo,:bar,:baz]
[:foo,:bar] + [] -> [:foo,:bar]

Some language platforms will implement the first concat, but not the latter. Without the latter, you couldn't do things like, accept an empty user input. You would have to write code like:

defaults + user_input unless user_input_array.empty?

This applies to things like, hashes, or even more complex objects -- such as ActiveRecord named scopes, even if they don't use a "+" operator. (But maybe, Hash objects can be "+" together instead of calling merge())

This is all applicable to how you can design libraries and DSLs that seem intuitive and easy to use. Instead of just thinking about bundling a number of methods together with a data structure, you can make sure that a single method within that bundle works the way you expected across a number of objects. You might even be using these ideas in your code, but don't realize it.
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Hi, former O'Reilly editor and current CTO here.

"Improve technical writing" is broad. First, I'd make sure everyone knows what kinds of docs it's possible to write. The Diátaxis Framework <https://diataxis.fr/> is good for that. Have a good discussion about what types of docs make sense for your environment -- who is the audience, what do they come with, what are they trying to do?

If they need help at the micro level of putting words together well, check out Lynn Dupre's "Bugs in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose" <https://www.amazon.com/BUGS-Writing-Revised-Guide-Debugging/...>.

If they're curious about the skills of a technical writer, Google has some good courses. <https://developers.google.com/tech-writing> We have had some first time tech writers and they identified this as a useful resource.

Structure is an overlooked aspect of writing -- we're familiar with alphabetical lists of API function names but this is only useful for reference material. Much of writing consists of modelling the reader in your head and structuring your prose so that you don't confuse that reader by talking about things before they're defined. Readers are a lot like simple compilers in that respect -- if you want to talk about something before it's covered in detail, you have to declare it first. A lot of becoming a good writer is just internalizing the literary smells for "this will confuse".

Like everything they want to improve at, your engineers need to attempt writing and then receive feedback on it. When I give people feedback, it's not just a rewrite -- I talk them through my changes, from language choice to overall structure, and explain why I made the change and think the change is better than the original. And if they wrote something particularly well, then I check they understand why it works.

Good luck!
Lots of folks including myself have experienced church hurt within the Christian community. I’m just leaving the door open to acknowledge those experiences and set them apart as being distinct from the message of the gospel.
I find people who complain about the PC community far more annoying, tbh. The PC community is just a bunch of young altruists trying to do the right thing (however misguided the attempt is). The anti-PC community has always struck me as childish.
Could someone please explain why this note reads identically to the Meta and Stripe note?
That's mostly an american problem, not a "government bad" problem.
Dunno about Canada, but in the US schools have very limited options for dealing with problem kids, and class sizes are way bigger than they'd be if we really wanted every kid to have a great education (we would be aiming for about half what they are now, in that case)—more social problems is one consequence of that.

If we could "sacrifice" the top ~10% most-disruptive students—just keep them out of the ordinary classrooms—it'd improve everyone else's experience and ultimate educational attainment immensely. My wife used to be a teacher and days when the right couple kids both happened to be sick, all the lessons got done faster than the time she'd allotted, giving time to cover bonus material, and she said you could just feel how much more relaxed and jovial the atmosphere was, and could see it on the kids' faces. Consider how much benefit it would convey if that were every day and those effects could compound over years. First person who figures out a way to do that that doesn't condemn the 10%ers who actually have a chance of reforming, and that's palatable to constituents, will have done more for US education than anyone else has in a century, probably.
EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation
It's not the best time to be looking for work.
I suspect that twitter mostly slowing Elon is a function of twitter being used mostly to discuss twitter and Elon now.

Most people I follow have either stopped tweeting, or largely tweet about Elon. Even popular YouTubers I follow can’t shut up about twitter/Elon.

Maybe I’m providing your point by not seeing non-twitter tweets but it feels like Elon starved twitter of real discourse.
Category theory does provide new algorithms if you unroll all of its definitions. For example, it reveals that SQL conjunctive queries can be run both "forward" and "backward" - an algorithm that is invisible in traditional SQL literature because that literature lacks the vocabulary to even talk about what "running backward" even means - it isn't an 'inverse' relationship but an 'adjoint' one. We also use it to provide a new semantics for data integration. Link: https://www.categoricaldata.net
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* https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN
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