skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1. My daughter was being treated for Leukemia when she developed Sepsis and hovered near death for a week in the ICU of Boston Children's Hospital, generally considered the best pediatric unit in the world. It was touch and go the whole time, even with the best possible care. For the sake of your children, and children with suppressed immune systems, please vaccinate your children.
The only actual business decisions I've seen corporate lawyers make are "no, that project is too legally risky to do". And even then the decision technically belongs to someone else, it's just that no one involved was both willing and able to contradict them. Anything beyond that pretty much reduces to "here are the legal options available, and their likely legal consequences."

Which is how things should stand - obviously morally, but even from a "ruthlessly maximize shareholder value" perspective. It's at least possible that reputational damage cashes out as a bigger financial risk (e.g. via lost staff, failed recruitment, or new regulations) than increased damages from lawsuits. Corporate counsel is almost certainly not the most qualified to calculate the size and likelihood of those risks. (And morally, of course, it would amount to Pichai et al abdicating responsibility for Google's decisions.)

I suspect counsel does have an outsize effect on these decisions, but not because they have final authority. Rather, the risks they present are generally large, immediate, and quantifiable. People tend to prioritize even unlikely risks of that sort against the slow, ambiguous decay of destroying a reputation or failing to follow a changing industry.
Is the solution to ignore bias then? Taken separately those incidents may not scream racism, but most incidents don’t. Taken together they give reason to ask the question at least.

Being openly racist in public is no longer acceptable in most of America, but these types of subtle racism are very common and it’s easy to dismiss them because they’re not explicit.
I guess they gave up on fixing their dogshit powertrains.
I was going to say the same thing and was pleased to see that someone beat me to it. If you combine unit of work pattern with continuation tokens then you can handle bulk transactions involving very large numbers of records with a simple rest interface.
Does anyone remember Hasan Elahi, profiled in Wired back in 2007?

https://web.archive.org/web/20130913190505/http://www.wired....

I wonder what every happened to his Sousveillance project? His map still updates, but I haven't seen any of his other post feeds updated in awhile.

Was what I immediately thought of and it was conveniently also referenced in the linked Wikipedia article.
I wonder how resistant those are to distortion. The examples on the Insight page are pretty impressive, but fairly naive approaches. I feel like, if you knew the algorithm, you could probably manipulate your image data in a way to make it appear almost the same but come up with a very different hash. Similar to adversial images in computer vision.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sen...
According to GDPR you are. If your personal information is not required (from a technical standpoint) in order to use the service, you're not allowed to block access to the service if the user refuses to give you their personal information. That particular law is quite clear that requiring someone to give you their email address in exchange for digital goods that do not need your email address in order to function (like a PDF) is in violation.

GDPR may not apply depending on what jurisdiction this site falls under, but it sets the expectation for all digital goods anywhere in the world. If you're demanding someone's personal information as a currency rather than as a requirement, that is a scam.

If you want to make money, charge money. If you're not trying to make money, there's no need to require my email address in exchange for the product.
Interesting - it's part of the routine childhood schedule in the US but not in the UK. From NHS: "Why isn't the chickenpox vaccination part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule?"

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/chickenpox-vaccin...
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> They are paying you to generate revenue (or save costs).

One of the senior engineers in my company once told me, "business is the dog, technology its tail", not the other way around. While I later argued with a completely different set of engineers that the analogy isn't great, the gist of the idea remains valid: we shouldn't be building beautiful technology just for the sake of it. Rather, we should be building technology that will serve the business best, while balancing out short-term and long-term gains.

> Dealing with Humans (incompetent and otherwise) is actually what most of us get paid for

This is so true as well. I often realize that the problems I solve at work aren't exactly rocket-science. However, I have learned a bit about effectively interacting with humans, and that is probably more important to my company than my pure technical skills.

I didn't have any of these skills and I am still learning. However, I'd HIGHLY recommend the following "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" for anyone wanting to learn soft skills.
Currency and crypto are only made of network effects, so..
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One of the first things you notice upon visiting developing countries is that household waste is often dumped in very visible places where it tends to spread naturally and easily, including near watercourses used for drinking. With consumer waste it's less the gains of industrialisation (after all, they consume a lot less than us) and more a lack of interest in ensuring it's dumped further away from their homes and water supplies. Pre-industrial European societies generally saw absolutely nothing strange about dumping excrement literally outside their front doorsteps, so it's not as if we can claim any longstanding cultural obsession with cleanliness either.

Having the resources to deal with clearing it up is certainly part of the equation, and clearly there are still many people in developed countries that happily litter and sneer at the concept of recycling, but I think it's a stretch to say that environmental education and campaigning doesn't have a significant effect on attitudes.
At least in Firefox, the user can enforce their font preferences and ignore the fonts specified by the web page. Icon fonts break that.
eh, it's usually not the anti vaxers, but their children, who suffer. so it's not some cosmic justice, just a sad case of parental neglect
Seeing Z related article at the top of HN is pleasantly surprising :). The Z systems are a beast and have some very good features
You definitely see them prosecuting people who accept cash from cartels and terrorist cells or engineering financial entities explicitly to do so. Tether looks a whole whole lot like one of those.
From your link:

>f. People/exchanges/entities rarely use shell companies for legitimate purposes. And by rarely, I mean almost never.
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The bigger problem with FOSS is that FOSS isn't actually user-editable at all. It's developer-editable - which is not even remotely close to being the same thing, except for that tiny subset of projects where end-users are developers.

It's basically open blueprints, not open systems - with predictable results.

There's never been a truly open system, although Hypercard, Excel, VBS, and Smalltalk have all tried (and failed) to edge into that space in their different ways.

FOSS has certainly never shown the slightest interest in developing an open system.

It has always been more of a charter for tinkering than a glorious liberation for end-users frustrated with bugs, poor UI choices, and all the other things that end-users hate.
I use Exim and Heirloom-mailx (although you can use a different user program, since the server is only Exim).

On the Debian setup menu, I selected smarthost, to use the ISP's server for sending (required because of the way the internet service works; your own service is still used for receiving). And then, in order to reduce spam, modified the configuration so that only aliases can be used and not real usernames, and set up several aliases in the /etc/aliases file, so that a different one can be used for each service or correspondent. I then set up the router to allow incoming SMTP connections.

(If necessary, you may need to disable NAT with your internet service provider. If they won't let you to do this, or won't allow arbitrary port numbers, then it isn't a real internet service.)
ok, here's a citation: Google made this change to their rules in the first place because a bunch of their employees got angry and shamed and criticized them publicly, which those employees were encouraged to do by the past 1-2 years of public criticism and shaming of rapists.

I know companies generally follow market incentives. That doesn't mean those are good or should be excused as acceptable human behavior which is what your original comment serves to do.
My sister was sick enough from chicken pox that her doctor told her to take aspirin. She died about a week later from Reye's Syndrome. So no, we were all not well again.
pure gold ! I think bataille of the Marne starts in episode 2. https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-51-bluepr...
I did not know that. My apologies to Pixar.
Except you can’t just go hide in your attic. Everyone is more risk averse than ever as the cost of housing, healthcare, and education relentlessly increase faster than wages.
>> because you'll never find someone else who understands any of these at a time when it would actually be useful.

I understand what you are saying, but I'm going to make a guess here... you have never served in the military, have you? There is a whole subset of the population(veterans) around you, who had (from the article) smoke signals, hand signals, and morse code drilled into our heads. We may be rusty, but it's like riding a bike. It might not be as nifty as making a fire by rubbing 2 sticks together, but a couple of us each with a piece of broken glass can communicate miles away by signal flashing morse code.

Also, the article was about communicating. Your reply seems to be more about self-preservation during an emergency. There is some overlap in those 2 domains, but they are not the same.
WebRTC, the Real Time Web API
Fabiano Caruana could be first American world chess champion since 1972
This won't work

He's stuck with BFR because WE like BFR

Do you know what you get if you call a cat a dog?

A cat.
Yes. It is better to ignore implicit bias. Every time you talk about it, you are reenforcing it. Because every time you talk about it, you are more likely make more people to have this idea, instead of making less people to have this idea.
The Great War youtube channel is a good follow. Although perhaps was, they were doing week by week of 100 years ago, so I don't know if there'll be new content...

https://m.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar/featured
Once upon a time, researchers were independently wealthy

https://nadiaeghbal.com/independent-research
If you've ever seen "Comics Unleashed" you know that Byron Allen is basically unable to create or recognize entertaining programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Unleashed
Could be a double-edged sword. Have you seen Black Mirror -- first series, episode 3?
Are you aware that it's difficult to get your message from such form and some people might ignore your posts?
I got the Starbucks barista effect last dec. When it pumped, people with no money asked me about it.

Glad i told them to stay away.
Some great advice already in this thread.

To add on to it

I'm reading that you don't like your new manager. 2 option s are to go above his head and become his boss or find a new job

If you decide finding a new job is your move then I recommend using some of the advice here to sell your accomplishments and ability to lead to acquire the position and authority you want.

Politics do happen but there are people who have the necessary "no bullshit" political attitude that keeps others in check. If you are that person then get the authority to execute that prerogative and improve people's lives.

Tech culture tends to forget the interpersonal side of careers which is critical for advancing goals.

Have you taken the StrengthsFinder assessment before? https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/
You're right. IMO, there should be a "Download with your email OR pay $1 to access this file" option.
You don’t need proof to start a trail. You just need weak evidence. How could I, a random person outside Comcast, collect information about Comcast’s internal processes?

A trial can be opened on suspicion with evidence, then you use the subpoena power of the court to try to prove it.

> This kind of law suit properly will increase implicit racial bias

That’s a pretty big quantitative claim. How high is your confidence in it?

Are you an example of someone whose bias has gone up from reading about this? Or are you basing this off your expertise in what causes shifts in biased people?
"13. After months or years of flat to downward USD/BTC motion, the only people left holding bitcoin are those who understood it and wouldn't sell at any price."

Lol
It appears that you need a second Node.js server to implement your custom resolvers deployed via docker. This second server merges its schema with the automatically generated schema from PG.

This is a bit disappointing. I was expecting to just "point" parts of the automatic schema to some cloud functions hosted anywhere (Now v2, Lambda, etc) much like what AppSync does. This would bring all the benefits of going serverless and decoupling the schema from implementation. Some cloud functions could be written in Node, but others could be written in Go in a different provider.
Which is why I said "will be highly, highly correlated to any reasonable objective metric", rather than "is an objective metric".

This is a technique used all the time in science and engineering, when the underlying hypothetical metric is either impossible to obtain or may not strictly speaking exist.
> could be made even better if X had a means of not having to draw everything but left it up to the toolkit on the other end

that a thousand times!

does wayland work in that direction?
Calling a black man "boy" is not subtly racist. It's blatantly racist.
And Einstein didn't write his breakthrough papers while employed at a university either
I've found the Mobius B action cam useful and affordable for general sousveillance. It's a primitive interface, but can be configured via a text file across any platform. I presently have mine configured as a motion cam, which is sensitive enough to effectively use as a standard camera too. Vids and pics can be viewed through mini usb on a phone or pc. The B has a wide angle lens and the text file has an option for narrow view. I often use it as a rear facing dashcam when someone gets too aggressive, eg tailgating, etc. For home I use a webcam and the Motion program, which works quite well for me. Lots of options in the Motion config file.
I'm always surprised that these web 2.0 sites don't pay people to surf and flag content. It doesn't take much google-fu to find all sorts of stuff on the clearnet that shouldn't be there. I understand that removing offending stuff from Google search itself is very difficult but the walled garden sites like tumblr are much easier as most of the offending stuff is usually linked together by repost and/or likes. Find one page doing something it shouldn't and follow the likes and reposts down the rabbit hole flagging and removing as you go along.
> Follow the rule of three...tell people what you are going to do and why it is important. Tell people what you are doing. Tell people what you've done. And not just anybody; decision makers.

An interesting corollary: Find out what's bothering decision makers. What're their annual or quarterly (or whatever) goals? If you know what those are - not only can you say "Hey, by the way, I did what I'm being paid to do, but, by the way, it helps to address that thing that's been bugging you."
I think the bell that rung at the top was the same bell I've seen in other speculative markets: The main people you would expect to see cheerleading throw in the towel and say it's crazy. That happened writ large at the beginning of 2018. There was one presentation at a Bitcoin conference I went to in early 2018 where this long haired huppy guy went through CoinMarketCap and called out every single thing on there as bullshit and scams.
The code to reproduce my results can be found at [1] (Linux only for now, but porting is welcome). Basically `run-all.sh` generates the results and `plot-all.sh` plots them.

It would be especially interesting to see Zen2 results since that's the first AMD chip with 256-bit wide loads executed in a single op, so the first one that can do better than 16 bytes per cycle from any level of the cache.

[1] https://github.com/travisdowns/uarch-bench/tree/master/scrip...
So a guy who was born and raised in Pakistan and has a Pakistani accent is culturally white? What exactly does that mean? Does it mean that he’s educated and wealthy?
Common after layoff to have to return at an arranged later date (exit interview?) to collect belongings. But can be a bummer if your car keys are in your desk!
But it’ll get from space dominated by Earth’s gravity well out into the sun’s!
Definitely — in Europe too — but I still fail. I try new vegan cheese substitutes every time I see a new one in the shops. All of them in the UK have been worse than plain bread.

On the other hand, soy milk comes in many good flavours now, both in the UK and Germany, as does soy yoghurt.

My biggest weakness is where non-vegan stuff is an ingredient: cake (eggs, milk), chocolate (milk), bread often has milk powder too.

It is getting easier though.
No true Bitcoin has this problem, of course.
In response to/summary of some of the other comments, to keep it brief:

1) Your colleague is not managing. They are politicking. A good manager gives credit where due and listens to the people doing the work.

2) You don’t want to work in a culture that rewards politics over solid engineering. They need to coexist, by staying in their own lanes.

3) It’s too late with this role. Move on and bring these lessons with you.

The alternative is a fairly ugly and costly series of discussions and confrontations with the company during which you will need to make the argument that what you say is happening is happening and you will need to change the company culture along the way in order to win those battles.

Not worth your time or energy.
I never scroll past 3 pages. It's always such an effort to browse an infinite scrolling page. When surfing, they often interrupt a browsing session and demand more attention than other pages. They are a dark pattern[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
Think of yourself removed from the situation, perhaps think of yourself meeting these same people in another context, and realize that it's the time and the place, rather than the people, that distorts things enough such that you are in conflict.

For a long time I thought of such people as my enemies. But it is the context that makes them so.

A lot of them may not have the maturity to come to these conclusions, and some folks on the periphery may take their side too. That's OK. You know the truth for yourself.

Change jobs if you have to. It's not great to keep working for people who hold up these illusions.
> In this conclusion to our 4 part series, you'll learn how to used Gatsby.js and TakeShape to make your JAMstack site sweeter.

There is a grammatical typo in the opening headline which should read 'how to use Gatsby.js ...'.
I must admit I liked it. A different way to consume the written content by looking at the pictures.

Currently I'm reading Martin Gilbert's "The First World War: A Complete History". It's great to be able to put pictures on what I've read already. With hindsight it's mind-boggling to know that Germans (and Austrians) expected a very quick war, and they disregarded a lot of warning.
Put up a toll booth on the highway in? Doesn't London do something like this where it costs a ton to come into the city center?
as good a shoe in as anything else

better than the electricity tax angle anyway
> a Russian KGB asset who has been compromised and being blackmailed

I miss the days when only half the country was consumed with insane conspiracy theories.
You're missing my point. Those alternatives typically provide you LESS money than selling. How are people supposedly "leaving" the market? Parking an unused car on the street?
I wish there were a better way than this of correcting bad posts.
The researcher who coined the phrase, Steve Mann, has been working on wearable computing since the 80s. In any picture I’ve seen of him over the years he’s had some kind of camera on his face. He also invented the hdr image merging algorithm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
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Sigh, so true. Heartening that Shor has the same thoughts about the grant system that I do.

I don't have quite the same critical perspective as the blogger, but I think there's a certain misguided attitude underlying the phenomena observed by Shor.

Yesterday or the day before I was listening to the radio and someone with a physics background was talking about something (I think quantum entanglement) and started asserting that physics has basically figured out almost everything. This is probably a somewhat unfair paraphrase, but not too unfair.

What irritated me about it was the assumption that, if most of your predictions are correct, your model is almost entirely correct, and just needs to be tweaked a bit. This is certainly true some of the time, but sometimes those little empirical cracks are what brings down a major paradigm, and leads to another one, one that has the same predictions as in 99% of the cases, but in the other 1% has totally different predictions with very different implications.

This carries over to grant funding, etc. in that the prevailing community often assumes that what they're doing is fine, and all that's left are these little empirical tweaks. That's certainly helpful some of the time, but it seems to dominate too much. Academics needs to leave more room for people to fail at high rates with good ideas, to increase those small percent of times they succeed wildly.
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"Scaling code is great, but don't pay the price for 10^8 when you're never going to pass 10^3."

I am responsible for applications both where holding open a DB transaction as I describe would be suicidal levels of stupid as I expect hundreds of events per second as the applications hits maturity, and perfectly acceptable because the load of the application is measured in single-digit write sessions per week. (They're high-value sessions on a per-session basis, having massive effects, but there aren't a lot of them.) It's obviously a fail to engineer the 10^8 system to 10^-2 standards; it's less obviously a fail, but still a fail, to make the opposite error.
An app was created to use smartphones for this very purpose!

https://news.wisc.edu/physicist-turns-smartphones-into-pocke...
It is with iMessages. Not sure if you can leave one you've started, but I've left some that others have started (my email address was similar to their friend's).
Wait, isn't that basically the basis for civil forfeiture? "We don't know why you would have this much cash, so prove it isn't related to drugs/laundering"?
Well considering that we know everything pretty much about most of everyday physics and new physics requires energies that are almost unreachable and billions of dollars in experimental investment and/or years and decades to collect sufficient data, it's not a surprise at all that foundations of physics progress has slowed. I don't think the physics community is to blame here. Just the nature of reality