skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this was the case for Rome. The republic and the empire had officials whose job was to make sure that Rome had enough food. Also by this time, the Public grain dole was important and would later expand to include meat and wine.
I’ve been writing Python for a little over a year mostly as glue code and scripting around AWS. I always had a sneaking suspicion that there was more I needed to learn and that I wasn’t doing things the “Pythonic” way.

This article confirmed my suspicions. Great post.
From what I could gather the resolution on the Rift S is 1,280 × 1,440 per-eye (2,560 × 1,440 total) and the Quest is 1,440 × 1,600 per-eye (2,880 × 1,600 total) [0], shouldn't the one rending on a desktop GPU have higher resolution? Maybe the source is nor right as it's slightly outdated, but I couldn't find actual numbers in the website.

Also, it would have been nice to get the snap855, but probably would have made the headset a bit too expensive for the target market. The only thing that is miles ahead of the Go is the tracking from what I can see. Not worth updating for how little I use it.

[0] https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-rift-s-vs-quest-specs-differ...
Google’s AI can now translate your speech while keeping your voice
But isn't the caste system marked by lack of mobility, in terms of the ability to transcend your caste?
Smartphone penetration in the US is over 75%. That's not just San Francisco tech bubbles, that's most of America.

Over half of China has a smartphone. Venezuela, the country where it's hard to buy bread, has 40% smartphone penetration.
Mind Fixers by Anne Harrington
If the employees only "own" part of the company while they're employed in good standing, that's not ownership at all. They're just leasing that share, and paying for it quite dearly with 996-ICU work, for that matter. While control and decision-making authority is definitely not held by those employees.
It's not just you. I had the same experience, with the exact same video.
What a lovely question. Top of mind for us, too. Our first Guide, on Equity Compensation, is entirely free. Think of it like our public sandbox. For now, we're thinking all future Guides will be available for purchase (one-time payment and you get digital access + updates). The first Guide we'll launch for purchase is The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital (https://www.holloway.com/g/venture-capital/about), which we're hoping to have out in June. This post is an excerpt from that.

We'll also be posting more on our blog, like this post, to build up awareness of what we're up to. Our policy internally is that if we're going to post content to promote one of our products, though, it needs to be helpful to readers on its own. It can't just be content marketing junk to get you to click.

So, fingers crossed. We're making a bet on people being willing to pay for what we're creating!
>that Colombus et al enslaved/raped/pillaged because that's just what societies do (while ignoring that it was the debt that the explorers owed to their financiers that drove most of that bad behavior).

Would you mind extrapolating on that a bit? In my totally 'unbiased' and 'truthful' American public school they never mentioned a word of this. I've always wanted to learn more about the real origins of this broken country.
Huawei's theft of Cisco's IP is common knowledge, and well documented.

https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...
I don't think this is quite true. And if I were to accept it as a hypothetical, what you are saying is that if too many people need to see a specialist, many of them should outright not be able to because they do not have enough resources. Which is ethically horrific.
But “if the purpose for which the information was obtained” was to enable better ad targeting, then “data retention” is still “appropriate”, eh?

Under this reading, is there even an obligation to anonymize? And how anonymous does anonymous need to be? Does a simple base64 encoding count as “anonymized”?
Everybody involved in something like this should be suing the phone company that gave away their phone number in violation of policy.

https://www.silvermillerlaw.com/current-investigations/crypt... comes up on a search and says they'll do contingency in cases like this. Got nothing to lose.
> and it certainly doesn't look like Apple did anything to improve thermal capacity in this refresh

Well, it says they did, but I guess you know better.
It's for consistency across their product line:

force touch -> force touchbar

;)
It brings protection in general. Protection against sickness, famine, servitude, and so on. The more present these threats are, the more valuable the signaling power of money becomes.

In a world where most people are infected by a zombie virus, it might become very important to be able to signal that you're not infected. In this world, the fact that I'm not infected by a zombie virus is literally one of the least interesting things about me and will rarely warrant even a passing mention.

Likewise, to me, your t-shirt that just says the word GUCCI in massive letters tells me that you have rich parents and no aesthetic sense. In other circumstances, to other people, it might signal that their quality of life could be improved many times over by being with this person.

The irony becomes that these signals of disposable wealth can be so coveted that in certain places, people's priorities will shift such that they'll sacrifice all areas of their lives, eat nothing but the cheapest instant noodles, and spend a year's savings on, say, a Louis Vuitton wallet which, sadly, they'll no longer have any money to put in.
You can buy a like-new, souped-up 2015 Macbook Pro on ebay. I am very happy with mine, except for the new OS.
15" Retina MBP late 2013 with original battery. System reports 142 cycles (I mostly use it at a desk) and condition Normal.

Unfortunately it's not at all normal, it's swollen to the extent that the bottom of the case is slightly warped and the macbook will no longer sit flat. It's also affected the trackpad which doesn't click very well any more. I noticed these things a while back but didn't realise that the battery was the cause until I opened it up a couple of days ago to clean it out (something I do once or twice a year).

Now awaiting a battery replacement kit from iFixit and not looking forward to removing the old one. Probably going to try the dental floss method someone mentioned above (very, very carefully and far away from anything flammable).
This is just... weird.

We have centralized services for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that they're more reliable than decentralized systems. Phones get lost, stolen, drowned, and crushed. People drive through tunnels or into mountains without cell signal. Batteries die.

It seems patently absurd to think that a P2P network of handsets is somehow going to replace The Datacenter, on any timescale.
> Eg a disabled speaker could have some very interesting insights on tech, especially when it comes to UI

I do understand their lived experience often differs from that of most of us and thus they can provide value sharing it, but that is not really the kind of normalization we should aim to achieve. In a similar vein, I'm disappointed whenever women speakers are still predominantly presenting gender issues. This might be necessary for now to break all those self reinforcing feedback loops that lead us to the current status quo, but just shows how long the road ahead of us still is.

> but that doesn't mean we should try to make the conference have an equal amount of disabled people as speakers

Pretending like anyone would generally want 50:50 representation of disabled is a bit of a straw man, isn't it? Its just that half of all humans tend to be female, thus this particular split when talking about sexes.

> It makes more sense to pick topics and technical ability in the vast majority of cases, because that's what people are there for.

I'd expect them to have done pretty much that, considering only 2 of 9 speakers are female.
Most of Texas does not have red-light cameras. There are few areas that have them and even then by Texas law in its existence an officer must be present at the time of the citation being issued. It can't be mailed.
What makes it better? Well, "man" and "woman" are Anglo-Saxon terms, not Roman, so there's that...

But, in the main, it's just my experience that anybody insisting on using the terms "male(s)" or "female(s)", when it comes to people, is up to no good.
I work with a lot of C# devs using Visual Studio for some things and VSCode for others. I assume it is not uncommon in industry.
I'm pretty sure those aren't the expensive 1k phones the author was highlighting.

Also the world is bigger than America + China.
User Studies report on getting started with F#
It's worth pointing out that while modern hash functions are believed to be infeasible to unscramble (technically, to require exponential time), none have been proven so. In fact, proving the mere existence of such a function would prove P!=NP.
you. you are the one out of step with reality.

here is the dictionary definition of violence for your reference.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence
Situations like this show why it's very important to have a complete understanding of the system when debugging --- the more complete your knowledge, the less likely it will be forgotten in panic/frustration and lead you to assume things about the system such as the correctness of certain parts.

I've been a TA for a course that did something very similar, and whenever a student came to me with a noticeably vague understanding (usually expressed as "it doesn't work, I've spent days on this and I don't know why"), I would observe him/her debugging it for a few minutes and showing it to me, and almost always I'd spot the problem right away; but instead of pointing it out, I would ask the student to print several copies of the circuit onto paper, then tell him/her to annotate all the signals with their expected values for the few cycles leading up to, including, and after the problematic one.

At this point a lot of them would look at me like I was insane, and reply with some variant of "I can't do it" or "we were never taught how to do that" and want to reach for the computer, whereupon I would stop them and show how. Once they figured it out, they would usually reach a point and say "I think this was my problem" --- wanting to go back to the computer again, and again I'd intervene to tell him/her to finish the whole annotation first (because they'd often have more bugs to be discovered.) Once finished, however, I'd let them use the computer again and compare, and then they would always have no problem finding and fixing the original bug, and perhaps several more after that.

I believe this is closely related to another phenomenon I've observed, which I call "debugger tunnel-vision", where a human using a tool and trying to debug a system essentially starts to blindly trust parts of it as being correct, because his/her own understanding of the functioning is itself unclear. My insistence on not using the computer and going back to pencil and paper (and brain) is, albeit probably quite "old-school" to some here, I believe an extremely important technique in being able to understand and debug effectively. It's worked not only for low-level hardware courses, but more high-level ones too --- where I tell students struggling with their code to "mentally execute" each step and compare the resultant expected values with those obtained. One of my favourite sayings is: How can you expect to be able to tell a computer what to do, if you yourself don't know how to do it?
You don't just misspell his surname, but you serve him coffee rather than a shaken (not stirred) Martini...? You sir, are an evil villain.
It matters that they were women because women’s contributions in that past era were consistently overlooked or outright stolen. Fran Allen, the first woman to win the Turing Award, said in her “Coders at Work” interview that she knew of several women whose work in computation was stolen by men.
This. From the article:

"The games simultaneously register the completion of the task, which is tracked by scanning devices, and can pit individuals, teams or entire floors against one another to be fastest"
Connecting the sequence dots: shedding light on the genesis of antibodies reported to be designed in silico

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19420862.2019.16...
If you look at the CVEs for browsers, I would say a great majority is due to errors that would've been prevented in any memory safe language - not specifically Rust.

However due to the other requirements (like performance) and its adoption at Mozilla, Rust is a real contender.
In the case stated though, they were talking about a silverlight player.

I don’t think they quite got to the point where they had to rewrite it.
Not in the realm of 5G network equipment. As BT's McRae says, they are way ahead of their competitors, not something you can achieve by simply copying others' technology:

https://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/bts-mcrae-huawei-is-t...

The reality is that Huawei has been outspending its competitors in R&D by a wide margin for over two decades, because the latter are managed by bean counters in thrall to the stock market's short-term horizon. Eventually, the difference would show.

One further wrinkle is that Chinese 5G uses frequencies like 3-4 GHz that are hogged by the military in the US. US carriers have to resort to millimeter wave frequencies in the 30+ GHz range that can't penetrate a door, let alone a building, and are thus mostly useless for 5G penetration outside a very few congested open-air locations, and thus their 5G technology is at a severe disadvantage over the Chinese one:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/how-am...

Most countries not aligned with China or the West will prefer the Huawei technology: superior technology yet cheaper, and far less expensive to deploy and operate. Any country that doesn't puts itself at a competitive disadvantage over others that do. The US may yet convince its European allies to shun Huawei, but it will come at a severe cost.
Have you considered exposing yourself?
Genius by James Gleick is the best biography I've ever read. It's about the life of Richard Feynman.

Gleick's Isaac Newton is also fantastic.
Yes, Paypal is bad, they took away their support for the Symantec 2FA codes and forced users in many countries to use SMS instead.

This is pretty easy for the telco to prevent, though. Your existing telco should simply phone you and ask if you wish to leave them before letting the number get ported out.

Note that all telcos will prevent the number being ported out if you owe them any money on the account.
If the code still fit the problem then you wouldn't need to pay a cobol programmer. If its hard to change the code because its too expensive to change, then you have tech debt.
Are Hollywood or Washington any better? I think recent scandals are sufficient evidence that any large human organization is going to suffer from serious misconduct by powerful people.

And that is in fact another (even better) example of selective coverage. That cover up by the CC has received vastly more coverage than churches doing good things.
You are free to start your own store which you cant do in communist countries or you would need to bribe lot of people to get the permission.
He could have mentioned it, but I don't understand why you think it's important?

The authors of the actual scientific study are Richard Border and his co-authors. Scott Alexander is just a well-known blogger who gets credit for writing about it in a vivid way that got people's attention. He's not a primary source, so for the purposes of this article, it doesn't really matter whether he's using an alias or even whether he's a psychiatrist. (It's not a credential in the relevant field anyway.) You can verify the quotes by following the link.

Calling up other scientists in the field and asking questions about a scientific paper is how science writers verify a science article, and Ed Yong did that.
What exactly is a toxic community? How does one identify that they are in one?
I read the joke as making fun of anti-semites, not being anti-semitic.
I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t follow any; I can’t imagine any significant benefit (if you’re not chasing strict compatibility, general SQL should take you more than far enough on the beginner-friendly front) and significant benefit from doing a custom SQL
How's this anti-semitic? I doesn't portray jews in a negative way. If anything, it points out antisemitism.
Just using a Linux desktop vanilla out of the box is setting yourself up for failure. If you plan to be in Linux full-time, you'll have to meet it half-way, and do a lot of customization work. I've got scripts checked into github that setup the machine how I like, which includes XMonad as a window manager, tmux + a heavily customized neovim for terminal and coding, and Brave+Vimium as my browser. I almost never have to touch the mouse and it's fast as hell. Sharp learning curve but one you are over it it's much more efficient and out of your way than windows or os x. If you are going to be using computers professionally for more than a year, as most of us probably are, it's almost certainly worth a few months of effort to have a low level hotrod as your environment.
Can confirm. 10 years ago I burned motherboard and processor trying to overclock my Dell PC. Within 24h a Dell support guy was at my home with all parts of the PC and replaced it without questions asked.

After the quick replacement I even told him it was probably my fault but he replied saying it doesn't matter because on average customers don't abuse and I was just a number to them.
Haptic feedback. I don't understand how they can understand how essential this is and implement it with increasing sophistication in both phones and trackpads but abdicate it entirely with the Touch Bar. To the point that third party software to use the trackpad haptics on touchbar clicks is a thing now: https://www.haptictouchbar.com/
I had a miserable time with the Broadcom drivers as well-- I actually abandoned them completely to instead use an adapter with Ralink driver. No hiccups, let alone crashes, since.
Odds are you're burning coal right now so that you can read this comment. It's so funny to me when people cite the environment when taking of paper. Paper requires no power to use, and is therefore miles better for the environment than your laptop is.
First, understand that there isn't really a Canadian federal health care system. The Canadian government (federal) transfers funds to the provinces, which operate health plans for provincial residents. The provincial health plans control the number of available specialists. A health care provider can only bill the provincial plan if they have a billing number, and the provincial plans manage billing numbers to limit/encourage specialists and to make sure doctors provide services in less populous areas. I don't know if it's still the case, but historically there was no private alternative available (so doctors couldn't operate a private practice that didn't need a billing number from the provincial plan). If provinces chose to allow private practices, the federal government threatened to withhold funds from the plan.

As with most western democracies, Canadian doctors are well compensated in comparison to the rest of society. But it is generally understood that they can make more money in the US if they qualify for immigration (and many can because of rules allowing people with specialist skills to get immigrant visas). This also contributes to reduced supply of specialists, and longer waiting times.

To get to see one of the available specialists in Canada, you have to have a referral from a primary care provider. Here in the US (in my experience) a referral is as simple as saying to your GP, "I want to see a cardiologist." Then your GP says "Oh, sure, this one's very good. I'll refer you." In Canada, your GP has to follow plan guidelines for referrals, and confirm that it is warranted. Then you get on the waiting list for the specialist. You'll wait for a consultation. At the consultation the specialist will determine whether or not you need treatment, and the urgency. Then you go on the waiting list for treatment.

Of course, Canadians with the financial resources are free to travel to other countries to obtain medical treatment more quickly. The provincial medical plans do not pay for treatments obtained outside of Canada. Medical "tourism" is not that unusual, including travel to the US and other countries.
This strikes me as a brilliant opportunity to push for a complete Free Software stack for a phone.

There will soon be a heap of 5G phone hardware going cheap. Software support will be lacking. The hardware manufacturer may well be open to publicly releasing the information independent third party developers will require to write software for their otherwise useless phones. If you're reading this Huawei, why not dump all the required information on your web site right now?
No, but you didn't read the rest of the comment to find out why.
Lol he is a capitalist. Obviously we aren’t solving climate change with unfettered capitalism. It’s gross swing Sam Altman thinking he needs to defend a billionaire. Talk about having your priorities out of order
Taming the Apex Predators of Tech
I was involved in the software stack for developing antenna software for the antennas themselves, which used a Linux stack with C (and even Lisp!).
I'm really drawn on this. It's not like I want people to stay in abusive relationships, but the statistics around single parent homes in the US aren't great. I'm sure there's all sorts of chicken-and-egg problems in the data, and I'm not claiming that I know the best way of sorting those out without the sort of study that would never pass an ethics board ("group A was assigned to divorce, while group B was forced to continue marriage despite child abuse and other family issues"). I suspect that there is some amount of misery in a relationship which, if the parents endure rather than throwing in the towel, results in a happier/healthier childhood for the children. I don't know exactly where that threshold is, and where the "oh shit this nightmare has gone too far and it's leaving psychological trauma on the children" zone begins. Trying to get the parents to want to stay together is a worthy effort, but when you've decided to make children I socially expect you to put their needs first; I don't think it's unreasonable to encourage people to stay in an unhappy marriage rather than leaving their kids with a broken home, assuming the current home wouldn't be worse for the kids than the broken one. I doubt that marriages of the past struck a good balance there, and I doubt that modern marriages do either.
You are in a fucking daft dream world to think Tesla is the only carmaker to have computers and data. Jesus Christ.
Yeltsin here looks like just some late-middle-aged executive guy—which he was, as he wasn't president yet.

My favorite pic of his, from the time of actual presidency, is rather different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Clinton_Yeltsin_1995.jpg