skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly there could be an exception for localhost right?
I don't agree with the article, but I think your reasoning is dangerous. If a means is introduced to serve a noble purpose, but it does not serve that purpose, then the nobility of the purpose is not a defense of the means. Right now there's an article on the front page about the consequences of applying that reasoning to dubious forensic sciences that were introduced with the noble intention of ensuring justice but in fact undermine it.

If a means doesn't serve an end, then continuing to pursue it despite the perverse consequences doesn't prove your commitment to the to the desired result.
> Wow! And here was me naively thinking that we have for-profit companies to bring profit to their owners/shareholders.

Yeah, that is pretty naive thinking. We're talking about society as a whole, but that line stops at the motivations of a particular actor in it.

An ideal society allows for the seeking of personal profit, but only so long as the side effects of that profit-seeking are beneficial overall. When it isn't, you get things like externalities that need to be curtailed somehow.
It used to be, anyway. These days it’s a shortcut to the top tier support team. I believe I spoke with Austin on the “Executive Support Team”.
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After a few days of testimony it's surely related to how that's going. The stakes get really high when your fate is in 10 random people's hands...
I have a 28" 4K display (~150% UI scale), the vast majority of apps on Windows look perfect. Zero pain points.
Property is not an artificial construct; it is a natural right. You must physically harm me to remove that which is inside of my closed fist.

Intellectual Property, however, is made-up fairytale nonsense.
Full disclosure: I prefer to walk and public transport, so I generally use those when I’m late. This means that I rarely use any and I tend to pick whichever seems to work seamlessly, namely the one not asking me for my credit card number, asking to confirm my phone number with a SMS handshake that takes five minutes, etc. I remember navigating between several options including Addison Lee (a local equivalent in London), local taxis if they have an app (in Stockholm: great service, inexplicably expensive).

That does mean that Google Maps will win and its default option too. I suspect that the way they display services, notably prices and availability will have a dramatic impact too: at the moment, it’s a band. It’s all too easy to show a cheap low price for instance and I suspect that Google Maps might want to argue that they should review estimates and compare them to actual charges to enforce consistent labelling. Same for availability: you can say a car will be there in three minutes, but have that change to five once you clic, etc.

Overall, it does look like an anti-trust issue. I guess, in that case, a China-Wall between Google Maps and Waymo, transparent ranking process, etc. would be necessary. I can’t imagine not having access to either a mapping service, or the convenience of comparing public transport with ride-hailing.

I’ve been an advocate for auditing a lot of algorithms by publicly-appointed experts for a while now. You need a good understanding of machine learning to audit the political impacts of Facebook News Feed and the Call to Vote button, for instance. Not all countries can appoint their expert though, so we might need to have smaller countries agree to trust the expert from larger nation groups.
This is great! I was trying to play some somewhat obscure media files the other day with foobar and it wasn't doing a great job of it. Then I remembered that VLC must play it and not only did it, it played them almost flawlessly.

In the way a smartphone has replaced dozens of other pieces of electronics in most people's lives, VLC kind of replaces many other pieces of software. Sustaining a project like this to 3.0 is a huge accomplishment.
There are in fact laws for that. Soros' investments were perfectly legal from what I know. We could change this if we wanted to, Capitalism is a man-made system after all. Demonizing successful players is just pointless.
At times, emailing Jeff is the only option. Recently did so after a chat rep 'gave me incorrect info' that didn't work and then literally told me to "ask a friend."
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Alright then. Hard to tell because there are actual draft RFCs out there.
Odds are high
The trial was turning into a circus. (Just look at Sarah Jeong's tweet storms about it.) I'm not surprised this happened in that light: it was terrible for the image of both companies and self-driving cars in general.
Just make a good case and email that Jeff address. My letter was well composed and not accusatory. Tried to be as friendly as possible. Even offered my cell # if they wanted to follow up.
None of which would be useful for a judge or jury. Heck, I'm generally pretty decent technically compared to the rest of the population and what you wrote here is barely relevant to me.
Folks aren't generally getting rich from HUD: In Indiana, at least, lots won't accept HUD due to regulations and not paying on time. The last bit should be fixed, the first bit should just be standard for rentals. Landlords wouldn't necessarily know if they just let it be shown as regular income.

Besides, this does hinge on there being enough housing - including a few empty places. It is better to generally have empty units available just like you want a little unemployment to have a pool of employees to choose from.
Parameters are probably the lowest hanging fruit in any machine learning optimisation, being a trade secret is a big stretch.

Also use LBFG so you never worry about learning rate.
I hear you; I'm only a hobbyist programmer myself. I worked in investment banking at the beginning of my career and did an MBA so know lots of consultants and work a lot with lawyers in my work at startups, and I know those can be grueling jobs and that most people don't make nearly as much as the lucky few at the top firms

I was referring more to the intellectual challenge of the work. In investment banking there is basically no intellectual challenge at a jr level and at senior level it's all relationship management. The trading side can be hard but increasingly that's a programming job

I'm sure there are some super challenging law assignments but from what I understand from friends at top firms there's a lot of template changing and standard cases for a lot of stuff. At startups I try to do as much of that basic work myself so we can save on legal fees. Of course I get lawywers to review / sign off, but it's usually easy for them to do so

But programming is hard at an intellectual level in a way that is different from banking and consulting work and from what I understand, legal work. The first time I did a problem set in C involving memory allocation it took me like 20 hours to get it right. And the engineers working on massive systems that have to run perfectly, fast and be maintainable by hundreds of random people have work that is orders of magnitude harder. In programming, the difficulty of the work seeks to scale as your skill does. Don't know many other professions like that

I interned at google not as a programmer, and you are right that the work life balance there can be amazing, but it probably is the best company in the world for work life balance. Lots of programmers at other companies like work crazy hours as well, and often for non technical bosses or poor managers who make those long hours unpleasant
I strongly believe that the case wasn't ever really that strong. Call me crazy, but I think the strong negative press was created to drive down the value of Uber, which in turn help build the case that those with Uber options should sell, allowing Softbank to scoop up even more equity during the large transaction that occurred recently.
Personally I'd like to see improved performence. I really don't see why a CPU core would have to be pegged at 100%.

JMAP support would be nice too.
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You can split a bitcoin key up using Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (or just multisig) and store the key geographically-distributed such that if any one location is destroyed you don't lose the money, and if any one location is stolen the thief doesn't get the money.

You can also replace "one" with an arbitrarily-large number, depending on how many locations you want to store the money in.
Right, that'd be a big leap since we also plan to make it viable for non-tech users. If we put those kinds of feature in plugin, we can keep the app simple & clean.
Yep. I've talked before that we are doing a huge disservice by not focusing on the sequential logic of programming, which is the first barrier to overcome. Also, we reinforce memorization over problem solving in maths throughout school. Hearing students say, "When are we ever going to use this?", was not uncommon when I was in school 15+ years ago. And as far as I can tell, the push for standardized curriculum and testing has only made this worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164948#15168430

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12589473#12592521
I suffer from deuteranopia and use the Spectrum extension in Chrome from Yehor Lvivski.

It's ok for switching between different color modes so I can see differences in them.

I am intrigued by the Enchroma glasses, haven't wanted to gamble $300+ on them yet.
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I sort of have the reverse problem. I would like to use a websocket to connect to an insecure host on the local network from a secure context. I realise that this is incredibly niche and would probably need independent confirmation through the browser to prevent abuse. But it's needed to connect to a local weechat instance from Glowing Bear, which is essentially a web UI for WeeChat, an IRC client: https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear. Right now we have an https and a non-https-version of the website, which is arguably even worse.
I use in on windows because it has great windows support (official installer, all the things), but on unix, mpv is the way to go (especially if you prefer GTK apps, there's gnome-mpv).
Congratulations on the release. VLC has been my player of choice for quite some time now. I've been using the 3.x nightlies for some time now to get hardware decoding of 4k. Is there any way to see whilst a video is playing:
a) Is the video being hardware accelerated?
b) Is HDR being displayed? Most TV's pop up a little HDR icon in the top right if it is.
How long do you think it would take to explain that to 10 random strangers?
I've noticed that Amazon has been silently bumping shipping estimates for my prime account. Ordered something on Monday morning that said it would arrive Wednesday. I get to Wednesday and didn't notice a shipping notification - I look at my amazon account and my formerly "guaranteed" delivery date now just said expected by February 7-8. Wednesday "or" Thursday.

On the other hand, I ordered something from bestbuy with their normal free shipping and it showed up on my doorstep literally the day after.
It comes off as insincere to me. The rapid rise in anti-tech sentiments really seems like someone with an agenda is targeting tech companies, rather than a genuine response to perceived wrongs.

It seems that entrenched media companies and other businesses that are most threatened by Facebook, Google, and Amazon are the ones who are the quickest to jump on the bandwagon and publish anything they can against big tech.

I think there are valid concerns to be had about big tech companies and the data and influence they have, but a genuine response is to consider the best way to deal with those concerns. Aggressively pushing for the breakup or destruction of their business is an indicator of other motives.
Call centers and remote offices under perform their Head Quarters counterpart. The best building to work (for your career) is almost always the one where the C-suite has their offices.
This is quite interesting - I'm actually quite curious about what makes farming more intellectually challenging and difficult than programming, especially from somebody who does both. (Honest curiosity!)
You forgot to mention deliveries arriving late Sunday evening from unmarked white rental vans.
Insanely low, given that Waymo could have crippled Uber if successful.
How many of your belongings can you hold in your closed fist?
Also, GTK is the "native" GUI toolkit on most Linux distros, whereas a Java-based one is almost guaranteed to look out of place.
That's not the solution. That's the bit that gets a real solution in place.

The current status quo is "you're screwed if you are not rich and/or politically connected, but it's not a big deal if you know people" - so absolutely nothing will change.

You must make "important" people feel the same pain as the little people or they will never care enough to take any amount of action.
"But the prospect that a couple of Waymo employees may have inappropriately solicited others to join Otto, and that they may have potentially left with Google files in their possession, in retrospect, raised some hard questions."

"Hard questions" -- That's a good one! Not only because of its velvety-smooth use of euphemism, but because it's basically true: We enlist the help of the judicial system to answer questions that are hard. And an accusation that the accused denies, fits in that category. Filing a lawsuit is essentially asking a "hard question" along the lines of "Should the other party be obligated to compensate us for damages?" One side says yes, the other says no. Hard question!

I'll have to use that one sometime. I really need to learn the art of executive-speak if I'm to advance in this life. But I suspect I'll just stubbornly stay my same tactless self.
What else would you compare that time to then?
What is annoying is many groups like this make it hard for us that have employers that will match donations for non-profits to donate.

I tried to get OpenBSD added to our companies system awhile back but the group that manages that process said they did not get a response from the OpenBSD group when they reached out to them to get a bit of information.

I can (and do) donate outside of my companies process, but they are missing out on additional money.
Probably both. As someone following the case it really seems like Waymo's case fell apart.

It doesn't seem like anything changes. This just looks like a large waste of time and money.
It is easy to be critical of the wild fluctuations in price and the "pump and dump" nature of cryptocurrencies, however you only ever notice big governments and companies paying attention to the technology (the actual innovation) only after the price has rapidly risen.
They overlap significantly, and some of it is by accident and some is by design. Most of this resulted from convergent evolution by some of the same authors; HTTP/2's transport innovations over HTTP/1.1 were largely lifted from SPDY by Google.

QUIC is a more holistic view of the transport techniques to achieve some of the same design goals of SPDY, so the ultimate vision is HTTP/2-over-QUIC, and this is being reconciled [1]. In earlier versions of QUIC, it even included a homebrew transport encryption protocol [2], but this has since been downplayed in favor of TLS 1.3.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-quic-http/ [2] https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/92/slides/slides-92-saag-5....
On Windows Phone, the option does not disable auto-rotation (thus, forcing portrait mode). Instead, it locks the screen to the current rotation state, so you can stay in landscape mode even if you rotate your device. Found this to be much better.
Makes me wonder whatefver happened to PGM Reliable Transport Protocol Specification

- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3208

Not an entirely dissimilar concept. LBM/29West being its successor.
I agree and my comment was mostly aimed at the supporting services rather than the actual game servers. However, they mentioned that they flew out Mongo experts to help on site and during weekend peaks. That sounds pretty expensive to me.
Many times, the cost of the infrastructure is the cheap part, and the salaries of the humans managing and tuning it are the expensive part.

I wonder if they really hit the point where doing this part in house rather than offloading it is a net win.
If you need this on a regular basis, check out Emby or Plex. They do transcoding on the fly for your entire media collection and fetch metadata online automatically for a really nice browsing experience. I certainly wouldn't describe either as crapware.

VLC does seem great for a one-off use case though.
I think I have to disagree with both statements.

banking - extremely long hours with unpredictable work, huge attrition rate (most people who start in banking don't stay in banking), eventual career progression is into sales

consulting - long hours, weekly travel, huge attrition rate (most people who start in consulting don't stay in consulting), eventual career progression is into sales

law - long hours, high attrition rate (most people who start in big law don't stay in big law), eventual career progression is into sales

At least for me software engineering is much easier than any of those.
Won't they make money in absolute terms? Maybe it was a waste of time. But, 0.37% of Uber is $245 million. I can't imagine Waymo spent that on lawyers, investigators, etc.
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In the UK I have had the exact opposite experience. Amazon Logistics was a bit patchy to begin with but they have improved a lot over the past 18 months.

My only bugbear is that the I seem to always be one of the last stops for the guy who does our area so deliveries are always around 7 pm.
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I don't think so, the point there is that SF physically has no room for suburban sprawl because it's a single stranded peninsula. Berlin is both currently less dense, and also has further room to expand geographically. One might disagree but it makes sense that way to me
Super cool. Where are you finding the skins? I went looking for some skins I made and put up on deviantart, but the download links are all broken. Do you just scrape the web or are they your personal collection, or are you querying a specific site?
I just recently started experimenting with Qt and it is an actual charm to work with. I haven't tried out any bindings or languages outside of C++ with it yet, and haven't built anything serious, but I understand the love some people have for it better after trying it.
Yeah I'm on linux so I'm just using vanilla mpv.
When I was on Windows, I used MPC with MadVR. Have you tried that?
I didn't know the United States had unrestricted immigration. :) You're probably right that Silicon Valley developers on average are a little bit sharper than most everyone else. But not by that much. People have other priorities than getting the best colleagues, such as living close to family and in places that feel like home.
This is exactly what I do. I don't like working on other people's things. I like working on my things. So I do a short contract every 1-2 years, and live on a monastic budget. I have not seen any premiums though. Quite the opposite.
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Here is the direct link to library: https://github.com/kaushik94/Alex
Aroma doesn't show up on a balance sheet, but I'm sure people enjoyed it.
Looks like this is a feature of MS SQL (I meant, only on MS SQL). I will read it and if it easy to implement, I will include it in TablePlus. Otherwise, we can add it by developing a plugin.
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How and who would you tax? Someone that just lost their house to the bank, for example... does the bank pay? The person that got sick and lost their job and home? Only empty rental units?

There is a little merit for the last one, so long as it is reasonable. You want some empty units on the market in most price ranges at all times, just like it is good to have some unemployment so folks can replace workers and have a pool to choose from. You don't really want rental units to sit empty for 6 to 12 months, though, and is probably a sign that there are many short-term rentals or the landlord is charging too much. Even this only works if the landlord can prove he's being prudent with pricing - a simple mortgage + average upkeep + fair set profit percentage would do, so long as it isn't obviously in the landlords favor.
One could argue that having to scale up to 150% is a pain point. If I'm switching to a 4K display I would want to use the maximum resolution at 100% scaling.
Have you written any kind of blog or documentation about the build? I've been interested in a mini-laptop e-ink solution for a while. I think that most of the coding I do takes very little resources and is primarily just talking to the cloud or other servers. No reason to lug around a bunch of resources I don't need, right?
Sure what I just wrote is technobabble, I don't have much self-driving car expertise, but it was just to make a point. From my experience with large scale engineering projects, especially ones with ML involved, the tiniest details can make the stupidest difference.
Would it be feasible for me to run their learning avatar at home? giving it tasks to learn that i assign it?

Or do you really need a server farm for this?
What does this question even mean? Give me one language and I'll implement others as needed. Where do you draw the line between data format, template system, and "language"?
So does this mean perhaps their case wasn't as strong as they thought?
FF Quantum is in the latest Linux build, if that's what you mean. So I'm assuming support has returned?
I'm happy with what I already have on Windows. I've never seen a better client than SQL Server Management Studio or SQL Server Data Tools and this tool doesn't look like it even comes close.

Honestly, I've never seen a native macOS app that I thought was any good though. That's why I typically just use them to compile my stuff for iOS. If I have to use some program on a Mac, I hope it's got a somewhat familiar interface and that's why I prefer Electron apps like VSCode on macOS.
Hell yes, especially during Calendar syncs. Also: startup time. Currently, to reach a fully usable state, on my Linux SSD machine,

- Firefox 59 needs 2s.

- Thunderbird 59 needs 8s.
I've had similar experience with regard to sloppy deliveries from Amazon Logistics. However, recently we had one delivery person that made a real effort to ensure the package would not be stolen. I live in a city, so it's not uncommon for package thieves to stroll around and steal packages that are in plain view. This delivery guy went around the side of our house and tucked the bubble envelope up against a basement window well. If I didn't have surveillance cameras we wouldn't have found this package for weeks. I like his sentiment, but his implementation leaves a lot to be desired.
No. Judge Alsup told them to knock it down into the reasonable range. ("Less than 10") I believe it got stripped down to 9, and then one got thrown out of that group.
Looks like they made it worse. I have 150% UI scale and VLC 3.0 has gigantic buttons even though I don't have a touchscreen. Honestly, 2.x was better.
I love this idea, can I write some guest shitcoin reviews? :)
You can use them across multiple sessions and devices.
What is user research?
You might like mpc-qt.