skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To those unsure as to why this is particularly relevant: the Patriot Act is notable for drastically expanding the surveillance powers of the US government [1]. I wonder what this lawyer will do at Facebook?

[1] https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-su...
Isn't that the same?

I suppose that technically, the 'arrows are matrices' definition rules out infinite dimensional vector spaces, but I'd guess that OP meant to include them.

An argument against would be to keep to a small category.
Alumni here that graduated a few years ago. I'm a brown guy (that matters in this context.)

During my time there, the university was super obsessed with being in the top XX list. From what I could see, that obsession wasn't channeled through research but through superficial things like new buildings and multi-million dollar stadium. Why? Because that's what all big and famous universities have! Look at that big lawn. It does nothing of function but boy does it look majestic.

The push for fairness and equality etc was REALLY needed. Racism was just a way of life. I witnessed tenured professors in the CS department make very causal racist remarks. There was a black guy who was upset that the professor always chose his project/team to be the "Black team". After he left, the prof casually said "well at least he didn't shoot the place up". Perhaps the most ironic was an Indian prof who seemed to hate all other Indians. If you were black people assumed you were there for sports and not because you really were smart and interested in education.

Some of the comments in the linked article will give you an idea of the bubble that Tulsa/Oklahoma lives in. People claiming it's the liberal agenda and "social justice" that was unnecessary and ruined it. Sure, if you're white and born in Oklahoma it's unnecessary.

Funny enough after graduating and moving to the west coast I'm not reminded of my skin color every day.
I would strongly suggest not using Airflow if your company doesn't already... and that's coming from someone working at the company that made it.

1) It has no knowledge of data dependencies. This means task success is very primitive and you end up with a bunch of "polling" tasks waiting eg; for a table partition to land.
2) The UI constantly hangs and/or crashes
3) Airflow "workers" using Celery are rarely correctly given the right numbers of tasks. OOM-ing, etc. are all commonplace even if using Docker.

And many, many more.

I strongly suggest using Apache Beam or Argo w/ Kubernetes instead. They can scale quite a bit more and deal with long running tasks well.
I for one don't let Facebook use me. This makes little difference to me.
I believe you are at the wrong stage, mentally. This is all about the compositor that puts the final image on your screen together. The input to this component is always a list of textures with associated meta information (offset on screen, scaling, alpha mixing, Z position.. whatever your compositor offers). How these textures are created is not the business of the compositor - and the routine case is of course through GPU drawing!

There are two things to mention here that are of particular importance on mobile systems. Lots of chips now have compositor hardware - separate silicon from the GPU that can read textures, scale them, blend them and push the resulting pixels directly to the screen. And second, the word "texture" is used here to mean "any format that GPU, compositor and video decode engine can read or produce" - in stark contrast to the old framebuffer approach, it is essential that things stay in their "native" format for as much of the pipeline as possible and are never CPU read or modified, which would require conversion.
Even a lot of that NIMBYism is focused on making sure the "wrong kinds of people" don't move into the neighborhood. People have complained about public transit because they don't want "those people" being able to get to their neighborhoods, even if it makes life objectively easier for them to not be dependent on a car. Even our school districts have functionally been racially segregated by how district lines are drawn and property taxes are assessed.

It's hard not to understate the extent to which racism permeates the policy frameworks we operate under in the US. It's very deeply embedded to the point where many of its effects are invisible.
Seashore (a severely gimped GIMP) is a decent simple editor for OSX.

https://github.com/robaho/seashore
Yeah, I would never hire someone using dynamic variables, any occurrence of "$$" is a no-no and just denotes poor engineering.
US education spending is somewhat tied to property taxes[1], Boston in particular has had historically terrible problems with inner city schools being underfunded while the suburbs throw around LCDs and laptops like they're candy - again due to a sort of terrible "the capitalist can do no wrong" ideal in the US a lot of money ends up being wasted by administrators on stupid technology that does nothing to help students learn.

[1] In most places AFAIK, and certainly in all the places I've ever lived
The CLI is open-source: https://github.com/wasmerio/wapm-cli

We are also planning to open-source the registry as well :)
Why AI + Consumer Tech?
Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws?
Not me, you generally can assume that an ifixit link is related to laptops or mobile devices.
"The decision to abandon the council was made as employees criticized the inclusion of the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation. "

Note that TheVerge does not name Kay Cole James. Ms. James served as Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources under then-Governor George Allen and was the dean of Regent University's government school. She is currently a member of the NASA Advisory Council. She is the president and founder of the Gloucester Institute, a leadership training center for young African Americans.

In other words, she is eminently qualified. Yet Meredith Whittaker organized people against her because she disagrees with her politics.

Ms. James has not one incident on record where she caused harm to anyone. She is merely the head of a conservative think-tank.

Diversity of thought is very important. I feel little sympathy for the trouble-causers.
OAuth2 Flows
No, we aren't missing the point.

We understand exactly what Microsoft is doing.

Now, do you understand what happens when you bundle a basic app with the OS?

Personally, I don't care either way since I don't use Windows. Enjoy MS Paint.
for facebook optics is not a thing.

they know they have a stranglehold on people addicted to their products, and advertisers who pay through the nose to sell things to those addicts.

Honestly, why bother with optics? No one's going to like the company ever again except their employees, but no business or politician or organization is going to not take facebook's call.
That's the heart of the matter, isn't it? How can chalking be a search when the fact that the car is parked there is in plain sight? If we regard "search" as a synonym of "google", then yes, we can say that the act of chalking allowed the police to acquire knowledge it didn't have before. I don't think the framers meant that though when they wrote the 4th Amendment. A search needs to involve something that's concealed.
Absolutely. I wanted to move away from the technical side of business as I really enjoy the commercial aspects too, but once you’re a CTO, it’s very hard (and unusual) to become a CEO in an established business.

Now I get to do a bit of everything I enjoy.
This was submitted by a user that only submits articles from the same site, almost none of which are really on topic for HN. Flagged.
This snippet right here might actually convince me to learn Rust. I work in C++ a lot, and deal with problems where visualization would be useful if it were easy. But because nothing in C++ is ever easy, I end up not doing it in a lot of cases, sometimes to my own detriment.
It was a highly relevant but non-local anecdote - who cares where it is? I happened to find it a cute random act of kindness (or rebellion).
Couldn't help but think of this [Planet Money episode](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/14/448718171/epis...) about a man who cornered the onion market with some repercussions.
But how much less work is it do it up front, and continue to maintain and test a multi-provider platform?

I don't think it's 100x or even 20x less work.
Many.

100% of the times I've used one of those local versions, I've ran into incompatibilities with the real service.
30 years ago we could say the purpose is simply to "exist in the public space of my community", but the demand for constantly increasing revenue from any and all space has effectively destroyed that.
The Tragedy of SystemD – Benno Rice
About Kay Cole James, Ms. James served as Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources under then-Governor George Allen and was the dean of Regent University's government school. She is currently a member of the NASA Advisory Council. She is the president and founder of the Gloucester Institute, a leadership training center for young African Americans. She is an African-American woman.

In other words, she is eminently qualified. Yet Meredith Whittaker organized people against her because she disagrees with her politics.

Ms. James has not one incident on record where she caused harm to anyone. She is merely the head of a conservative think-tank.

Diversity of thought is very important. I feel little sympathy for the trouble-causers. Google looked idiotic when it disbanded the council.
> Even if US courts find you innocent, it seems you can be found guilty by mob justice and banned from society by new-age fascism.

Unwarranted hyperbole. This is hardly a case of "mob justice" of "new age fascists" (whomsoever they may be[0]) "banning" Zimmerman from society.

He was banned from two (albeit popular) dating apps. There is no shortage of other dating apps and sites out there, including ones that cater specifically to a 2nd Amendment-friendly crowd. A cursory search reveals "Concealed Carry Match", "Pro-Gun Dating", and "Date a Gun Lover", for example.

So lets not go overboard here. While he may be experiencing some harassment (which isn't cool), Zimmerman is not being denied his fundamental right to participate in Hookup Culture.

[0] The phrase "New Age Fascism" conjures up visions in my mind of patchouli-scented paisley-shirted brigades shipping people with "bad auras" off to camps. I don't even want to think about the bloody internecine struggles between the Druids, Shamans, Pyramid Power, and Crystal Energy factions.
I’m not familiar with either of those two projects. Perhaps the latter is the aggregation of numerous “good customer” scores, plus actual credit rating, plus the no-fly list. But I haven’t heard about an actual program that implements a social credit score that FB is implementing.
"How can we possibly form a legal case that justifies mass surveillance?"

'I think I know just the guy...'

Edit: I was going to pre-emptively delete this as a joke/low-effort comment, but I think it's a tad useful in highlighting what Facebook "use case" this lawyer would be good for.
I personally used this practice and it helped me tremendously. It freed me from following the blackboard word by word and let me take briefer notes, sometimes incomplete, only to return and redo all the notes comprehensively. It felt like take attending the course twice. However, I only did this for the classes that I was very interested in. For all the others it can easily turn into a waste of time.
It's easy to criticize someone when you're not the doing the work. The world was a lot more racist a few centuries ago, so considering what they had to work with, the founding fathers did well. The alternative is that there still would have been civil war, and slavery could have continued to this day.
Why bother with optics? Well, for one thing, presumably they still need to recruit people once in a while (including people with lots and lots of options).
Not cute or kind for people who want a fair shot at parking like everyone else and can't because people are abusing the system for their own selfish reasons, enabled by someone rubbing the chalk off.
Especially with the controversy surrounding the Galaxy Fold this week...

Outside that context, the name "Galaxy Fold" wouldn't register as a phone with me either.
Yes they can. This follows from singular value decomposition. Let S be the matrix representation of a shear transformation. There exist rotation matrices R, B and a diagonal matrix D such that S = RDC, where C is the transpose of B. D is the matrix representation of a scaling transformation and R, B are the matrix representations of rotation transformations. Since S is a product of rotation and scaling matrices, its corresponding linear transformation is a composition of rotations and scalings.

It would ordinarily be weird to represent shear transformations using rotations and scalings because shear matrices are elementary. But it checks out.
Shopify vs. Magento: A Developer's Perspective
ehhhh... Simplot (major potato producer/processor). Then there is the Amalgamated Sugar Factory (turns sugar beets into sugar). Outside of that, plenty of service level work. More tech in neighboring Ada county with Micron, HP and a lot of other startups etc.
> Also I'd like to thank Ferenc Huszar for highlighting some drawbacks of these kinds of models.

As someone who understands ML concepts but hasn't used ML in practice, can someone elaborate on these drawbacks compared to using a traditional neural network?
Saudi Arabia executes 37 people, crucifying one, for terror-related crimes
It's called sarcasm
Anyone who will work for facebook now doesn't care about optics.
Facebook probably has a lot of data on you regardless. Are you in any friends' address book? Do you use a loyalty card at the grocery store? Ever walk in a mall? Own a car? Pay property tax? Have a mailing address?
I think there is value in flipped classrooms, but they do have an impact on the classroom experience. Did you see this NYT article from last week?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/technology/silicon-valley...
It might also be worth including some or possibly all of the $7,403 which is allocated to Institutional support (in the tables).

This page offers a summary of what that classification includes and it includes some clearly essential activities:

https://www.wisconsin.edu/financial-administration/accountin...

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I think if PHP is the only language you know this pattern probably feels extremely elegant. The JS guys also like to do stuff like this.
Something that gets missed out a lot from the conversations about VC firms is the problem of generating deal flow. Good VC firms (and great investors) need to not only know how to invest and support a great company but also how to get them through the door. I suspect it's why socially adept people thrive in VC so much - they can quickly learn how to create a spider's web around them and listen in for deals.

For most of its life, KPCB had a web around the firm. Great companies would come in and pitch themselves. So, for the most part, the job was to "only" pick whom to invest in (picking is just as hard!). As an extreme outsider, it seems that their operating rubric is so focused on this that they've lost the institutional capacity to spin new webs of their own. They are reliant on outsized personalities delivering the win rather than the institution itself pulling it in.

That's a tricky spot for the firm to be in. And it's a tricker spot to navigate out of. They'll have to rebuild institutional knowledge and prospect like other firms now; a mindset shift that could be hard for most veterans to get into as early on this would have been a negative signal in their careers and for their firm. Now, that it's a requirement; it has to be a tough sell to everyone involved (note: I don't know anyone at the firm. I have simply seen this pattern play out a few times).

They can hire fantastic new investors who know how to hunt, but will the firm be able to listen to them? This is a firm where getting rid of nametags was noteworthy enough to make it into Fortune; imagine how hard a sell getting down into the mud must be.

FWIW, such firms eventually recover. Eventually. They're just too big not to. But it is a painful road until that point. I wish the best of luck to them.
See also Organic Valley, and Kerrygold (which I just learned) are also co-ops.
People who build self-driving cars don't attempt to solve the trolley problem because it would require superhuman intelligence. But since we allow regular humans to drive (and kill people) it would not be reasonable to expect self-driving cars to solve problems humans don't. And these systems can save many more lives without having to solve trolley-level moral/ethical/weighted judgement problems (most car deaths are banal).
[I started the Twitter thread this article links to, and work with Paul and Brad.]

Some context via a timeline:

* Dec 12, 2017: The Microsoft Paint utility in Windows was officially deprecated [1].

* Dec 20, 2017: A Product Alert button [2] was added to the app that, when clicked, indicated Microsoft Paint was going to move to the Microsoft Store [3]. That is, it was going to be available on-demand rather than ship in-box with the operating system [4].

* ~1H 2019: Microsoft has now fully reversed this decision [5] and removed the Product Alert button from the application altogether [6]. There is no official communication as to why this change was made.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-th...

[2] https://i0.wp.com/www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/...

[3] https://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2017/12/windows-10-paint-3d-...

[4] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-pa...

[5] https://twitter.com/brandonleblanc/status/112055486957057229...

[6] https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1119940129450184704
I think a REC is more like offsetting your Starbucks by paying someone else in line to skip coffee that day.

I can agree REC's could be abused. Although this part: gap between the actual cost of removing carbon from the air I think reflects the immature science of removing carbon from the air, more than anything else. Renewable energy is fifty or seventy years along its development, carbon capture is pretty young, maybe a decade?
One requires a text entry interface and one requires a battery and a quartz crystal
Or "speculation"
> "Imposter syndrome is lies you tell yourself in the absence of valuable feedback."

This sentence alone is a worthwhile comment, though the rest is great too. Thank you.
>> the person who forced him out

Worth noting that probably everyone here has seen something like this happen. Not sure if it is specific to tech, but some of the egos and pathologies are extreme.
And Obama promised to repeal the "PATRIOT" Act but instead signed to extend and expand it... If he had not signed anything, it would have expired all by itself...

edit: sorry if you don't like the truth (I know that a lot of you commit to only one political party, but still... the truth is the truth.).
That would heavily depend on whether you are coming at it from a theoretical math p.o.v. or a more applied p.o.v.

Not that the applied approach should leave out the theory, because theoretical stuff like this article give a great and intuitive understanding of linear algebra. However, the more theoretical treatments should set up things like rings, modules, and even category theory that are much less useful from an applied perspective.

For the theoretical approach I've heard good things about 'linear algebra done right'. I imagine it is less appealing for the applied approach. All I can say is be wary of the 'shut up and calculate' mindset in linear algebra. Getting the ideas behind the concepts is essentially a shortcut to understanding linear algebra without any downsides.
Hard agree with most of this. There's something to the notion that the US (and possibly Canada) should be in a wealth tier beyond other rich countries.

But the security thing is a real thing that affects even people who make good money. American cars/bigger houses/etc. can be transitory because our healthcare system sucks and our education system is too expensive. I wouldn't dismiss these things because there's two generations now that are experiencing all of the insecurity in healthcare & education costs without experiencing the benefits that accrued to prior generations. Our current model may not be sustainable.

(Also & this isn't 100% germane to your argument, but most of the US population is eligible for some part of the safety net at some point. Notably, most infants are eligible for WIC because they are not born to well-off families. Obviously ditto the Social Security & Medicare. It's probably fair to say that most Americans will lean on the safety net at some point in their lives.)
I believe in my city a car parked on the streets has to be moved at least once every three days.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19724969
Argentina on Two Steaks a Day (2006)
The fact X11, as the "standard" windowing environment for Unix operating systems, was ditched by literally all major Unix operating systems created in the last 20 years like Mac OS X, Android, iOS, etc, tells us that X11 is not good enough.

For example here is an Apple developer explaining why X11 wasn't chosen for Mac OS X: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/168980/if-os-x-doe...

(By "Unix operating system" I mean an OS based on a Unix/Linux kernel.)
> Hold on. I'm old enough to remember the 1970s where we were being warned about global COOLING in the New York Times and National Geographic

There was never more than a small number of scientists who speculated there might be net cooling. Those scientists agreed with the rest that greenhouse gases lead to warming. They thought, however, that the cooling effect from small particulate pollution might be stronger than the warming effect from greenhouse gases, because they didn't think we'd address the rampant and growing smog problem of the time.

But we did address that, with amendments to the Clean Air Act and the creation of the EPA. Small particulate pollution was greatly reduced, putting an end to speculation that we might pollute our way our of warming.
This was stupid comment, long day. Totally looking at this the wrong way.
Am I the only one who read this title and immediately thought of a wiretap?
That couldn't possibly work in a country with so many black people.
phc is dead, so there's that :)

Apart from that, it seems to be following a similar path, but is a little bit earlier down it. Could probably look at the code we generated and copy some of the solutions.

PHC was also designed to support eval/dynamic features by embedding the PHP interpreter and optimizing around it. Not sure that this implementation is going down that path, which has upsides and downsides, the upside being that eval can be handled. Would be interested to see what he ends up doing.
how many more people go outside and behold nature's beauty who wouldn't have done so without the social media drive? I'm sure it's been the primary reason many people go to scenic places.
That would require a constitutional amendment.
Good for you. I also do not agree to their terms of service. It's good to see others standing up for what is right.
Recording and retaking the notes from the audio/snapshot is actually reinforcing the knowledge twofold, one is recalling the info and then rewriting it. I don't know if this is for everyone (most likely not) but it did work well for me.
You should look up "shadow profiles". Facebook knows almost everything about you from people you interact with by collecting that data into your shadow profile. Also, regardless of what you do, Facebook (along with other big tech companies, but Facebook in particular) is a menace for society and should be treated as such.