skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If I said that a company wants to get employees on the same page for company strategic goals and initiatives, would you think that utter BS?"

I work at a very large multinational company. I worked at such companies for roughly two thirds of my career. The other one third I worked at a mid-size company which later on became a multinational conglomerate. Based on those experiences, I would absolutely say that it's utter bullshit. You bet I would.
You sound a lot like me (not a designer). Definitely going to look into flutter plans for the web. Thanks!
We could get imported hemp products but our farmers weren't allowed to grow it.
Since there's nobody else responsible for releasing Apple's closed source OS, what makes you think Apple is not to blame on this?
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Vehicle size has minimal impact on collision safty. People regularly survive collisions with Semi Trucks for example.

Also those SUV’s often look huge, but a Honda Accord weighs 2/3 as much as a Chevy Suburban before adding passengers. Weight reduces acceleration and fuel economy so they use body styles that look huge while being mostly hollow.
Not trying to be snide, but why do you type this into a comment field and wait up to an hour for someone to summarize it for you rather than googling "coal fire"?
Couldn't a custom hook have a map of maps that keep track of this?

The first map gets the symbol that was passed to the custom hook as keys and the maps inside that map would use symbols only the custom hook knows about.

I think your solution is superior in that is more concise and I at least think I understand why you went that way. I'm just trying to understand why the symbol approach wouldn't work.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/thatschina

> After seven years building up a magazine empire in China, I had it stolen by the state. I lived in the grey zone that is China's media business and, despite my commitment to the country, paid a high price

https://www.baldingsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/An-...

> A few weeks later over beers with a lawyer colleague, I recounted my tale of hysterical woe. He informed me that in reality, much of Chinese dispute resolution from neighborhood quarrels all the way through to significant civil and criminal litigation follow a similar pattern with open conflict avoided. According to him, recompense for damages all the way through to incidents involving death can allow people to avoid jail time. What I first thought a mistranslation, Negotiation Rooms existed to serve that purpose where every dispute from noise complaints to many business disputes to many acts that would qualify as felonies resolved themselves with official help in a Negotiation Room. In China as a foreigner, you become so used to being treated differently, both good and bad, that it surprises you to find out your experience is just like everyone else.
It is good and all that they provide more services but why can't they provide the bread and butter of IAAS: virtual networking (aka VPC) - the ability to set up a virtual router and other nodes inside a private network. We are DO customer currently and need to hack around this limitation for quite a while now and it is the main reason we want to switch away.
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A market subject to regulation would just move what’s considered the easiest 90%. Maybe in a small startup, one would write a fancy nonlinear or deep ML model in TensorFlow while for a regulated/compliance-oriented codebase, you’d stick to linear algebra for the ML model to guarantee convergence.
>To me it's very strange, if you wanted to say "anyone can be a scientist/engineer regardless of sex" then surely you'd de-emphasise sex.

It is because historically there has been a tendency for the contributions of women to be actively de-emphasized by most, that some work to re-emphasize.

For sure the end-goal should be for us to reach a place where we just don't worry about it at all, but if over the last 50 years nobody had been actively talking and writing about women in science, many young women growing up would likely see very few examples they could relate to and be inspired by.
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The Saudis themselves aren’t claiming they didn’t kill Khashoggi, only that MBS was unaware of it. This boils down to semantics, doesn’t it? I’d be a lot more concerned if they took a position that this was a total farce. They haven’t. Why do you think some kind of fake video or audio was needed then to convince world leaders that this has crossed a line?

Also, how are the collective of regular people at all qualified to verify such a video? There are people whose job it is to do this kind of thing and if we think that is a broken system, that’s another issue altogether.
Australia is essentially upsidedown America, so that doesn't surprise me. I wonder why the demand in China though; maybe they just have enough population that everything is viable to sell?
That's true. People see stock footage from After Effects in a Youtube video or a lens flare or a bad Maya model and believe it's credible evidence of ghosts or UFOs or politicians secretly revealing themselves to be reptilians. Not a lot of people actually need video to be convincing to be convinced by it - bias is self sustaining.
Well as a CAD/IDE/VIDEO EDITOR power user I liked the following UI concepts:

I LIKE:

- Keyboard shortcuts!

- Hide/Add menu items

- Save a copy of your settings configuration

- Scripting system in a well documented language

- Clean icon-based tabbed menu at top, like MS Word.

- Large work-space, for editing/viewing

- File browser tree on left

- Definitely a plugin system/store

I HATE:

- I hate to see thousands of menu items...

- I hate to see a lot of space dedicated to small menus that don't get used much/ever. If I don't need it, then hide it.

- When there's no way to create a shortcut
this image brings a wistful tear to my eye
It gives you a calm focus. Sometimes (rarely) I realize I'm cranky for no reason after I respond to something with more emotion than it deserved, which isn't good on relationships. L-theanine works great for me to take the edge off.
What's wrong with decriminalizing every drug?

I highly recommend the book Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs (Practical Ethics Series) by Doug Husak

https://www.amazon.com/Legalize-This-Decriminalizing-Practic...
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Using organoids to study color vision
If one state didn't offer a tax break, then another would and win the business. There are 50 states, and most of them compete for businesses with tax incentives fairly competitively.
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Ag is huge, as you might expect from flyover country. Pipelines. Marketing data.
I guess I feel you like you are not arguing in good faith if you can't see why a woman being the first to achieve a physically demanding task at world class level is not interesting. Even if we were to put reality aside and assuming that men and women have equal physical talents on average it would still be interesting if only because it is rare for such things to happen and I can't believe I am bothering to explain this.
Did two things:
1. Got my caffeine intake to zero over a month. Basically, no coffee or tea (don't drink sodas or anything else) for four weeks.
2. Started to have a strong espresso with two L-Theanine pills very morning before workout.

Noticed a much improved ability to concentrate on mundane tasks, and much less procrastination. I think, effect lasted for some 6-8 weeks, after that got off by drinking coffee during the day as well, so not sure what actually stopped the effect - caffeine or l-theanine tolerance.
It depends.

Another commenter mentioned Cram, which I would look into if checking stdout/stderr (mostly) is enough for my use case.

If I am already using a specific framework to write the pipelines, I would also look into whether it already provides ways for testing.

I am not aware of other tools that test for pre-/post- conditions, so I would probably start with mine and see if need to tweak things along the way.

One thing I am not too happy about the plugin is that sometimes setting up the process as a fixture can be quite verbose. It feels like this part can be improved with some more thought.
Ah, I somehow missed that. Thanks!
This is simply not true, at least for the ones I've been to. They typically contain beds, a lab, and their own OR suite. They actually have extra overhead since they are self contained and do not have other departments to lean on. They are located in areas far from their main hospital, essentially extending fast emergency service to those regions. If patients need additional services they are transferred to the main hospital.
I would love to see this data for Singles' Day (the Chinese holiday). Alibaba's claims are staggering.
If cash was invented today it would be illegal. It's grandfathered in for now, but new cash-like instruments aren't going to get the same treatment.

(Also, cryptocurrency is more powerful and thus more dangerous than cash because it can be transmitted electronically and it has no volume or mass. These differences are relevant if you consider that organized crime incurs nontrivial costs in handling large amounts of cash.)
It's very bitter, decaffeinated tea and coffee both taste very mild relative to normal tea and coffee.
> Mac is now left with Programming, and Video / Graphics Editing.

You forgot Audio, which is HUGE on the Mac.
Opera launches cryptocurrency-oriented browser for the decentralized web
The highest marginal tax rate in NYC is 3.65%. The effective rate on a $140,000 salary is about 2.6%. Leaving a local tax liability of about $3500.

On the same income, NY state has a marginal rate of 6.45% and an effective rate of about 4.3%, for a liability of $6,000.

So, in year one, that's a bit over $9000 in revenue from a highly compensated employee. If the $25k figure stated above it true and a one-time incentive, it takes 2.5-3 years to pay off. Employees earning less than $140k will take 3+ years to pay off. If the incentives are recurring in any way, then the payoff is pushed out even more.

But, as mentioned, the employee doesn't just have to "pay back" the initial incentive, she has to produce tax revenue to pay for increased services and infrastructure demand, pushing the timeline out even further.

Anyway, the NYC deal doesn't sound to bad. Even at a 5-8 year pay-off, if the positions are relatively long-lived, it's a long-term positive. But, when we consider the Foxconn deal in the Mid-West, ouch, that one's going to sting the local community for a long time.
On paper, the results are amazing, but researchers are always biased to produce positive results.

BTW, a match between StockFish 10 and LeelaChessZero, an open source implementation of the same idea, will be organized in a couple of days. From the LC0 blog:

Lichess.org will host a match between the mighty Stockfish 10 and Leela. It will be a 6 games match with time control of 5'+2" with ChessNetwork commentary.
Games will be played on 15th December at 17:00 UTC.

Stockfish 10 will run on 64 cores 2.3GHz Xeon, while Leela will use the latest v19.1 Lc0 with 11248 network and will run on one GTX 1080 Ti + one RTX 2080 GPU.
Yes, but do I need all that or could I live with a small subset of it for cheaper?
I read for fun and mental enhancement. If articles become simple just for SEO optimization, I'm quitting the internet.

Even Wikipedia is starting to reflect this.
Is there a AFL type CI work flow for fuzzing pdf.js?

google it seems only return how to fuzz js engine kind of links.

Love to see write up of how to fuzz a JS application by doing AFL type mutations on the server return data, etc.
Counterpoint: who do you think is behind the Swift language?
So, lots of opinions and critics. But: Did you donate? I did :-) And I did it because of the donation matching being done. This way my donation results in 50USD instead of 25USD.
There's a level of fame, the more superstar type level, where simply walking by yourself in public is much less feasible because of the tendency to get mobbed or attract unwanted attention. This is probably the level where problems like stalkers are much more serious. I'd guess that this is the level where it isn't "as nice". You no longer can do things without considering potentially crazy fans or overly uncomfortable levels of recognition.

A long time ago, I remember the difference being illustrated at a Dragoncon in the early 2000s. Guests on the fame level of, say, Babylon 5 cast members, could walk around the convention just fine. They could do standard things like, say, go to the restaurant and have a meal without being heavily interrupted. Walking around they'd maybe get some hellos and photo poses and whatnot but it didn't seem terribly intrusive.

And then there was Alice Cooper, who walked around the main convention floor one day and instantly got mobbed by a huge crowd.

My hunch is that Taylor Swift probably is at the fame level where she needs security of some sort merely to walk around in public. That's a negative in my mind.
“Same story with Nvidia and gaming consoles - last few gens of consoles have not used Nvidia chips and Nvidia doesn't see it as a big loss. The margins must be too low.“

The Nintendo Switch uses a NVIDIA Tegra, and NVIDIA put a decent amount of work into selling it - the NVIDIA Shield TV console is basically a tech demo for the thing after all.
You assume correctly :)

I read it in English. The Burgin/O'Connor translation.

I don't recall not understanding anything, but I'm sure there are parts that I would have enjoyed more had I known about the history and culture, or had I read it in Russian.

To compensate a bit I read the notes at the end of the book and the Wikipedia article. E.g., apparently there are some abbreviations that are meant to be ironic: that was completely lost on me.
Probably not; 2 years is overly optimistic. See my reply above.
Was Saddam's WMD coverage from CNN a Deepfake? I'm curious as to how people would classify this.
I found quite a few areas that were vague when I was working with it.

The advantage of the office formats is they are Zip files with a ton of XML, ie they are well defined. The application parts are another matter of course.
"Not all of us can afford to burn $12k."

Getting an education is never burning money. I could have made the minimum payments of a couple of hundred dollars per month for the next ten years but I wanted to live free so I mercilessly paid it off as fast as I could because freedom is dear to me, I had my entire life ahead of me (I was 21 at the time) and many plans fueled by megalomaniacal ambition. I paid it all off from my salary working in IT.

If you think like you do, then it's no wonder a mere $12,000 USD is a lot of money to you. Not only was I a full time student, but I also worked full time and for about six months I'd rack up another 30 hours working part time every weekend, just in case I lost my first job. I did the bulk of my homework on the bus and then I studied when I got home. 134 miles round trip every day.

Moving on to your comment about Brian: all he is saying is that computer science education is well worth it if one works in the computer industry, and he is qualified to say so because not only is he a computer scientist but also a kernel engineer and exceptionally good at both writing and debugging code. And yes he's super smart.

Finally, I want to touch upon your remark that my comment was elitist. I thought about that for quite a while, and I concluded that yes, it is elitist, and there should be no apologies made for that: computer science is hard, and managing to get a degree in it does make one intellectual elite. It's elitist because it's hard and challenging to earn. I studied like crazy, graduated at the top of my class, I applied myself because I lived for computers and therefore I refuse to make any apologies for becoming the elite just as I refuse to feel bad about it.
People generally reach grandmaster when they're very young and I'm not restricting my statement to only those that continue to play in international tournaments. One may retire from high level competitive chess, but people rarely give up the game altogether.
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This.

Think of it as a three axis space with people capacity, indoor cargo space and outdoor cargo space on all three axis (I'm approximating here, there's more things than that people consider in a vehicle purchase but those are the big ones that determine which models you're considering).

Crew cab and extended cab trucks have a lot of all three of those things (even more if you toss on a cap) making them capable of checking all the "must have" boxes of many potential buyers. The people that don't need the outdoor space get crossovers. The people that need more indoor space or seating get three row SUVs and minivans. The people that need the same blend of indoor/outdoor/seating but less of it get midsize trucks.

The husband wants a driver's car with a manual and the wife wants a convertible with AWD and two rows of seating so they get a 4dr Jeep Wrangler (facepalm implied).

Of course most vehicles are at least partially a luxury purchase so people higher on the economic spectrum will purchase more capacity than they "need" (three row SUV for two kids, 3/4-ton truck to tow a pop up camper).
Ask HN: Good supplier of server hardware for a medium sized business?
Our current infrastructure is more than 10 years old and we would like to move to using docker to visualize our services. Now we are looking for recommendations in terms of where to buy hardware.
> I remember marveling at how smooth the gradient was!

Ironically, you used to be able to run KDE1 in 8 bits per pixel color mode (256-color palette - quite important for performance back then) and that did support titlebar gradients, unlike Win98 in the same hardware mode. That gradient was far from "smooth" of course, but like its Windows equivalent, it was still very helpful in making it easier to spot the titlebar at a glance.
The case for regime change in Iraq was fabricated with far less, so I don't think the introduction of deepfakes really upsets the status quo in that regard. It's not as if there's an actual discussion in which the American people have a say - if the US wants regime change, it'll get it whether you like it or not.
Since iron has good thermal conductivity, the cold water would act as a heat-sink. There could be a significant thermal gradient, I suppose...
How do you differentiate between a producer and a consumer? What if a mine is bought by a vertically integrated company that both mines the ore and then processes is as well - and because of, say, some unpredicted difficulties in different parts of it business, has sometimes buy additional ore (to keep smelters running), and sometimes has to sell it because it mined too much?
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great point. thanks, assblaster.
Oof yeah, Maya. That's a learning curve.
Note that this recommends "sh" package, which made an _interesting_ decision to run processes in tty by default. This goes against unix conventions that batch processes should not be using tty, and breaks a number of utilities like git and systemctl. This is so bad that even their example from the front page is broken(!):

$ python3
>>> import sh
>>> sh.git.show('HEAD').count('\n')
49
# Now resize your terminal window to be 10 lines tall
>>> sh.git.show('HEAD').count('\n')
9

Yep, it truncated "git show" output to the height of your terminal window. Do you want this in your code?

While you can append special flag for this, it is very easy to forget to do so, and the documentation does not help either. Their FAQ states that they are aware of the issue and won't fix it [0].

So my advice is: stay away from "sh" package, as it makes it very simple to generate unreliable code. Instead, use built-in tools which are pretty nice and just a bit more verbose:

>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.check_output('git show HEAD', shell=True).decode().count('\n')
49

[0] https://amoffat.github.io/sh/sections/faq.html#why-is-tty-ou...
>hemp's industrial value was the reason it was made illegal 100 years ago

Do you have a source for this? I would like to investigate this angle further.
it's a very real physiological reaction to caffeine. I took some aspirin/caffeine tablets once for a headache.. i wasn't aware of the additional caffeine content (a few cups of coffee worth) , but was an anxious mess an entire night, heart racing, didn't sleep.

Coffee has a smaller but similar effect.
> This is a cohort study conducted over 15 years. You can't really criticize it only based on those numbers

You absolutely can.

Scientific studies should be judged on their potential to produce interesting results. This study has too small a sample size to provide results that merit making even the weakest claims about. Even the initial sample size was, frankly, just barely large enough to maybe provide suggestions for future research.

If a meaningful drop-out rate is expected, I would argue that the researchers running these sorts of studies are mostly wasting everyone's time and money for the sake of publishing a few papers.
It’s really not. I used to be an EMT; one of my most memorable calls was as backup to a police call to a hotel where a famous singer was staying because a known stalker was in the lobby. Talking to the guy, you could tell he was trying to downplay the creep factor but he had definitely crossed a line and he seemed to know it. One particular exchange:

Him: “I’ve sent her a few letters”
The cop: “How many is a few?”
Him: “A few, not that many”
The singer’s bodyguard: “two hundred in the last six months”
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Well, since it's inside the plant instead of outside, it's less likely to wash into runoff. It's also presumably less toxic and carcinogenic to humans and to plants and animals that aren't pests.

Not that I think this is even vaguely a good idea.
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