skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's OK for a company to do this, as long as two conditions are met: that the device and software are owned by the company, and that the company clearly publishes what means they use to monitor employees in this way.

I suppose that publishing their methods may enable employees to game the system, but if you've gotten to that point, I suppose you have bigger fish to fry.

It is not clear from the article whether the keylogger was logging the content of what workers typed, but it seems that the company was interested only in the rate at which they were typing.

It seems that the worker had suddenly run into mental health issues. I hope that her management would be understanding, that communication would happen on both sides of this, and if she needed any accommodations, or time off, or consideration, that she would've asked permission, rather than just sort of disappearing, but that's the nature of a mental health crisis.

Is there a kind or degree of monitoring that would be unacceptable for remote workers? What if they were working in the office?

It seems that this time, the keylogging and monitoring simply detected loafing or AFK behavior. I can think of many worse things that may be detected.
People are hating on your thread, but I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said. Perhaps a bit intense, but it all matches my experience.

I wrote ad nauseam about this (see my comment history), but yeah, I am looking to retire asap from a tech career (hopefully before I turn 40), and the thing I look forward to the most is not having to deal with a manager ever again. I have had dozens of managers throughout my career: good ones, bad ones, technical, not technical, etc. I despised interacting with each one of them. At the end of the day, it is not in my personality to be managed.

Fortunately I’m paid very well and I am used to live extremely frugally, so I'm quickly racking up a few million dollars and then I’ll eject myself out of this crap.

I am still very much in love with tech, mind you, so I might pursue some sort of solo online business to keep my skills up, but never again I will want to be “managed”.
Lol. They're talking about meta running an expirement where they're threatening the government to change legislation that will lead to lower revenue and run the risk of losing that revenue anyway by removing news permanently.

The government isn't running any experiments, as always it's meta running the unsanctioned experiments.
Can someone elaborate on what this is?
We live in an open society: the public is entitled to know when the police arrest citizens based on faulty evidence. Nobody made them perform an arrest here or in the other five cases; any damage to the police's image in the eyes of the public can be identified solely with their own actions.

In this situation, the reporting seems pretty dispassionate to me (arguably more than it should be, given that a pregnant woman was arrested for a crime she manifestly could not have committed). I don't see a lack of proportion here.
To back this up, I used to go to the dentist regularly as a child. I got the regular cleaning and such until I went to college and had to pay for things myself. I didn't have any dental insurance so I stopped going around then.

Maybe 10 years later, after countless people warning me that I was gambling with my health by never going to a dentist, I thought I'd try again. I went to the local university dental school, where they need problems to work on.

They told me I was totally fine.

I haven't been to a dentist in the maybe 15 years since that experience. It turns out there is almost no evidence to support routine cleanings or consulting with a dentist.

HN anecdotal data is not medical advice - but if you aren't suffering from any dental issues, it could be worth your time to do some research before you schedule your next dental appointment, and if you get a diagnosis of an issue it might be worth a second opinion. I highly recommend checking to see if your local dental school is taking appointments, because they have no incentive to push additional procedures on you (they can always find somebody who really needs it).
You’re going to have to explain how HIPPA privacy slows things down because, frankly, it’s one of the most important privacy laws for citizens I can can think of.
There is such a thing as lighting, type of lighting, using brighter lights, and processing of images[1][2][3]. From a technological and photography point of view, these types of issues can be resolved. Often the issue is the refusal to create a different setup for darker subjects, or purposefully injecting stereotypes or bias to not find or use obvious solutions.

Furthermore, because people have dark skin, doesn't mean they have the exact same bone structure, facial proportions, or symmetry.

[1]: https://creativecloud.adobe.com/discover/article/10-tips-for...

[2]: https://organicheadshots.com/how-to-photograph-people-of-col...

[3]: https://calgaryjournal.ca/2021/02/28/time-for-a-new-lens-the...
The facial ID standards should move towards adding a 3D scan of the face (especially now that biometrics are digitalized and stored on chips on ID cards and passports). That would solve this kind of problems.

Neuronal networks could then just add that in their training and be accurate again, and surveillance systems could use a complementary lidar.
Pretty funny, but what seemed disturbingly true:

> Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should've declared CS. I still wouldn't have any women, but at least I'd be rolling in cash.

I wish academia pays better.
A lot of boomers still are not comfortable enough with navigating the internet. Apps like Facebook are easier for them.
The double irony would be for the author to have persevered in physics and now hold several patents over solid state batteries that are going to revolutionize society and fix climate change, while their CS major friends just got fired by some GAFAM for not getting enough minimum-pay workers to click on funny cat memes.
Nowadays if somebody wants to commit murder and go unpunished ironically one of the few remaining options is to enter the police.
You're back to arguing whether China or the US should receive the nationalistic medal. The discussion should be on why both are so nationalistic in the first place and how to get out of that.
Something doesn't smell right.

Such sloppy errors with measurement and comparison (from people who are supposedly experts?), and cageyness about answering technical questions, reminds me of the era of crypto currency scams..
There are a whole bunch of edge cases you aren’t thinking about. Markets can be highly local (hospital markets, eg.), firms go out of business, new products enter new markets (smart phones, tablets), even defining “the market” is hard (does Sirius XM have a meaningful “monopoly” on satellite radio?). So your “make 95% market share illegal” idea is quite challenging (actually impossible) to work out
Then I got the wrong impression. I didn't expect someone to write a article about something they don't really care about.
Hey. I think I understand the .toml format. What do you want to know?
But I thought the talking point was that "the news orga are benefiting from meta/google more before the law than after"

If that's the case then why would media companies pursue deals that would lead to them getting removed from the site?
You would have to make them a lot funnier.
There's no leads to follow that could reasonably get us there. What's the point spending time on it?

NASA does engineering, not scifi.
You might just want an FPGA at that point. It won't be competitive with modern CPUs (by an order of magnitude), but it will be fairly well-documented and more flexible than most other boards. You could target RISC-V with emulated cores, or try your hand at implementing custom logic.
My guess is that they are asexual, not sure why everyone is jumping to them not requiring food for some reason.
What's this cancer drug you're discussing?
That won't be hard to arrange. Just park it on the street in Denver overnight and your catalytic converter will be gone.
They allow substantially less than 5. Tho trying is indeed slower for most people.
WebFX: JavaFX to JavaScript Transpiler
And most people think the asteroid belt looks like Star Wars instead of 4 big rocks and a bunch of dust with a whole lot of nothing in between.

> Not to mention, asteroid hunting will be a lot more effective from the moon anyway

But, why? There are science reasons to study them, but not much more. We're not short of any of the compounds they contain. Mining them would take enormous amounts of energy and time because they are way the hell out there. They're too small to provide stability for a manufacturing base.

We need to inhabit the Moon and Mars long before we inhabit the asteroid belt.
You can't just blame to tools for annoying hospital policy, but similarly to https://chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of... there's a nasty feedback loop that the provisioning of software for administration and tracking (vs direct use as tools) unlocks and enhance.

The perceived ability to have more detailed documents means all the effort goes into the detail of the documents and, with finite effort (or at least finite amount the higher-ups are willing to spend on individual contributors to give them more time to do things), more effort is spent on record-keeping than on the actual job.

Now that you have more record-keeping you can dig into "stats" and "trends" etc that may not have any statistical significance at the level you're inspecting them, but are suddenly much more visible, and pushes you towards tinkering with the process instead of the what of the work.

And then that slows down the doing, which makes you more interested in tracking and improving the process, repeat repeat repeat.
There is actually not much regulatory capture in the EHR market. The FDA doesn't classify most of those products as regulated medical devices. Provider organizations are required to implement certain open interoperability standards so that authorized parties can securely access patient charts so they are unlikely to buy an EHR without those features. But the required APIs are fairly easy for any competent engineering team to build, and there are open source libraries like HAPI FHIR which already get you halfway there.

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/oncs-cures-act-final-rule

The real barrier to entry is relationships. Epic has made huge investments in direct sales and consulting services to give the decision makers in large provider organizations exactly what they want.
Reading the article, to me this sounds like a person who turned their hobby into their job, reasonably common in our industry and for anyone who ends up doing this, it will mostly end in frustration.

> Consider a painter who is used to getting inspired and painting in long sessions. Imagine that they find themselves in a corporate setting where they can’t follow their intuitions and have to follow the laid-out process.

Imagine a "team" of painters who all need to come up with a cohesive end result? You can't have Frank doing a bit of cubism in the bottom-left corner and Mitch doing some abstract realism in the top-right. And the reason you work in a team is because is most scenarios, having a single person doing all the work is a liability, especially when it comes to knowledge work.

The work is based on a "brief", i.e. a set of requirements. These are given to you and with your knowledge and experience it is up to you (together with your team) to come up with the best result (taking into account a lot of trade offs such as cost, delivery schedule, maintainability etc). The work you deliver is not your work, it belongs to your client/employer.
Given that hand dryers are ubiquitous in Japan, they're certainly working on a large part of nonwhite people.
They stayed fixed because they were fixed devices in a simple computer. Basic keyboard support, legacy interrupt controller, legacy timers, VGA… stuff that still to this day to an extent makes a PC actually “a PC”, and that may even still be used to various extents in early stages of the boot chain.

In early computers, most device resources were fixed, especially critical stuff like keyboard and interrupt controller. Sometimes device were jumpered, but even then you’d have the choice between a few well known ranges.

There wasn’t any configuration/negotiation protocol in the early days, it was literally defined by how the wires were connected, and a few fixed logic gates. For compatibility, it had to stay that way. x86 PCs have a lot of legacy cruft.

But early boot is also where use of that legacy stuff usually ends with modern operating systems. Pretty much all these devices have been replaced by additional modern variants that are now mostly just using regular MMIO as well (I don’t think x86 I/O ports have relevant advantages, would appreciate to be told otherwise). For devices that are supposed to work on other machines than PCs (nowadays that mostly means ARM stuff), it can even get in the way, since they don’t know about this weird I/O port address space.

So modern OSes of course prefer the newer device variants (most are also decades old by now) of keyboard, interrupt controller, etc., and since those don’t tend to use I/O ports for the aforementioned reasons, modern OSes don’t use them too much in general anymore.
I like how everybody is giving you shit. Having used all three fairly recently:

The desktop Linux environment has never been worse. With Wayland and High DPI, you're kinda forced to use KDE or Gnome to have a smooth experience. Other desktop environments are either bad at Wayland or bad at DPI scaling. But even the two poster children for Linux desktop environments are plagued by issues. Those are always minor or temporary but sometimes breaking something critically. I've had web pages just put KDE into a loop. Always crashing and then restarting. And that was weeks ago. And this happens every time. The install I had before that with gnome made every DPI scales app blurry. This simply does not happen on Windows.

Regqrsing Macs: I don't trust Apple to not do something stupid either but also at least until the 15 inch MacBook air you either lived with 13 inch or you paid a lot more. Need more than one external screen? That's mbp for you. More ports? Mbp. Better GPU? Mbp. And then we really quickly get into a price range where you are comparing the most expensive Windows machines (which actually have some build quality) vs a mid range 14 inch mbp.

I like the arm machines but I'm personally not convinced that anything past the base model is actually worth it. Especially outside of the high CoL areas of the US. Like, if you compare rent payment per week to the cost of the machine, you can totally see why Macs sell so well in US urban centers.
My dad worked on the Apollo program In The 60s. They were using analog computers to simulate fuel slosh in the tanks. He also had a flight sim display that allegedly could go from space (earth as a circle?) To low level horizon and grid. I never saw either but am about to toss schematics for the later with the rest of his stuff. Personal note - he died in '03 and I'm done hanging on to stuff. :-)
Yes, except for some higher end defense tech (minus semiconductor).
I saw it in undergrad, 2001.
> cannot be successfully photographed

I highly, highly doubt that is the case.

Maybe it is hard to take a good photo with a phone in point and shoot mode. But any professional photographer and most experienced amateurs can absolutely take a good photo of them.

There are only two provisos: they have to use a manually adjustable camera, and they have to be able to control the lighting (even if only by asking the subjects to move around).
Huge? An overall ten percent reduction in demand would be massive and unprecedented. Meanwhile on the supply side we're adding renewable energy at about the rate of 5% of demand per year.
So this is asynchronous replication between different DBMS? For example, watch a MariaDB server and replicate data to PostgreSQL?
The first thing I ever wrote in Perl was a CGI script that printed out a form in Postscript. I wrote ps to draw boxes and fit the text the user had entered.

It wasn't pretty to mix perl and ps, and I don't think I have ever written anything as wacky as that code, but it was fun.

Folie de la jeunesse.
> [2019] in the early 90s and early 2000s

What's the statue of limitations on this stuff?
The comment was actually a critique of the US education system :)
The Xcel Energy rebate doesn't cover all of Colorado. There are a lot of counties Xcel doesn't service - like El Paso (Colorado's largest county with CS, the second largest metro area in CO). This is mostly just for Denver.
Just seems like some fun art to me, could have been named anything.
I would like to check later on if the rules for this "cellular automata" (if it is one) are documented and the fractal nature naturally concludes from it or whether the fractal was simply manually forced when you zoom a certain level.
> Having the opposite effect where there is less traffic going to these media sites, and will have a big impact on their bottom line from their innability to run ads on their own domains and make revenue that way.

I think this happened to France early on. What they did was to force Google to pay no matter what. Optically, it looks like extortion and protectionist laws for incumbents too big to fail.

I’m not sure Canada can go that route though since they probably care about their relationship with the US unlike France.
> But healthy people are more productive and are productive for longer

Not nearly as long as they live, sucking up healthcare resources.

"Unhealthy" people like smokers and the obese are more cost-effective, because they're nearly as productive per year and they die before needing the absurdly expensive medical care for old age.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230728192509/https://www.nytim...
That is simply misinformation. HIPAA rules do not prevent healthcare providers from following up with patients. You should read the actual HIPAA final rule.
That's a shame, we had tax-free transit and commuter rail benefits when I lived in Chicago. There's probably some cap, but every tax free benefit is income at your highest tax bracket. Apparently it's now $265/month for the train, with another $265/month for station parking.
this one is much smoother: https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422948
That’s what makes this whole subject so hard to argue. You can’t just be persecuted for being successful. They have to prove you’re actually preventing others from being successful. And how the do you do that without a whole bunch of wishy washy woulda coulda shoulda’s?

And I agree that it shouldn’t have been “allowed” but here we are.
>> People need to realize their privacy has value, a lot of value actually,

I mean… maybe? (How much is your data worth to google in dollars? Probably not that much.) But I think consumers understand how google makes their money. If your argument in court is “consumers are misunderstanding in dollar terms how much this is harming them,” then you are going to lose.
Ninja, Icecream, ccache (I personally don't use that one), LLD or mold, breaking up the largest compilation units, avoiding internal static libraries at least for debug builds, not choosing the maximum amount of debug info... can result in edit-compile-run cycles under five seconds. Time for clean builds strongly depends on project size and template usage, obviously.
Assuming this is real, it looks like he measured some high quality noise. No way the resistivity would jump 2x over 5 degrees and stay constant at constant temperature (the biggest suspect according to his own confessions).

When you do it right you get this sort of picture.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3753/2b8a21825d66633f33684a...
There are no impartial sources. Oryx estimates a ratio of nearly 3:1, but do you class that as impartial?
Good piece if you are interested in "History and Philosophy of Medicine."
QOS (Quality-of-Service) rules might starve your traffic of bandwidth. Are you sure you have perfect "Net Neutrality" on your side?

You would be well advised to use services where the traffic travels through https on port 443 on the server (because it's been my experience that it tends to get pretty good QOS favorability). My own little rule of thumb: "you can connect to any port you want, so long as it's port 443 https." ;)
It also decouples frame rate from simulation speed so even if frames are dropped the whole thing doesn’t feel sluggish.
Not replying to something isn't pushing back. Chances are this one feedback post item got lost in the sea of them. If it's any consolation I'll reply to this feedback post saying it's planned and in progress.

As for the QR code login, I built that feature. Although it does offer a venue for social engineering, we've done a lot since launch to ensure people understand that they're logging into a new device using it. From day 1, it's always included red text that said roughly "you're logging into a new device using this" and to "not scan codes that random people have sent you." Of course, some people don't really read. That being said, millions of users every week use the QR code login legitimately, and it's a feature that most other chat platforms offer. It's also very very beneficial when you're using a shared device (i.e. you live in South Korea and visit PC bangs often.)

As well, you'd be surprised, webauthn adoption within companies is not nearly as ubiquitous as you'd think. Shipping out yubikeys around the world during a pandemic was a gargantuan task. Either way, any post advocating for more broad adoption of webauthn and also showing success does the industry as a whole good.
You should upload them to the Internet Archive.
What this demonstrates is that wait times are widely variable by specialty and region. Arguments like "for most Americans" are wrong on their face, because most Americans don't live in the same area or have the same issues.

My wife and I have both had to see various specialists. Some had very long wait times, many didn't, and of those that did, we were (fortunately) able to call around to different clinics to find one that wasn't too bad.
There's a big area between "obsessed with" and "don't really care about"! I clearly care about it and think it's interesting and important, hence writing the article, but I have better things to be obsessed with. I don't think painting things in extreme terms like that is particularly helpful.
Exactly. This issue is very solvable and people have been using various solutions for many years. The hurdle is not technology, its other factors.
And/or donate them to somewhere that'd be interested in preserving them.
The Impact of ChatGPT on Physics Research and Education [video]
Those aren’t big players on a global basis. Canada is concerned its culture is at risk from globalisation, and those concerns are not without merit.
Can you give more sources into the 2017 FPTP not happening event?

That was one of the biggest issues I was rooting for, and they claimed "it wouldnt have benefit the system", which I mark as bullshit on the theory [1]

So I was always curious about the inside baseball of why it failed

[1] I did my Msc. thesis on game theory - not on public choice stuff but still I'd consider myself versed in the matter