skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Took my teenage sons to Paris for their first trip abroad last week. Even they were shaking their heads at the ridiculous lengths to which people were going for a selfish pic:

— wearing wedding dresses into the Sacré Cœur and marching past all the no-photo signs to the altar for a fake I-got-married-here pic

— posing unnaturally with rapid-change outfits and accessories in the middle of street traffic on the Pont d’Iéna facing the Eiffel Tower and at l’Arc de Triomphe, ignoring all the honks and drivers and pedestrians alike yelling at them, until a police car stopped and turned on its sirens

— couples dragging strollers with infants and toddlers up to the Mona Lisa to take selfies

— throngs elbowing for position to take a selfie in front of a piece of art—and then moving on without even spending a single moment contemplating or appreciating the artwork

We saw a dozen or more such scenes every day. It was awful.
That's a big "assuming". I wouldn't want someone assuming when it was my house getting bulldozed.
Word of mouth or "personal research" is a really ineffective way to discover what drugs are suitable for you. It might be better than TV advertising, but that's a pretty low bar to set. You can understand the desire for a compromise solution like "TV advertising, but you can't lie about it too much and you have to mention side effects". And that is more or less the US status quo.
"The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language."
--J. Michael Straczynski
The Trust Crisis
I follow your argument and support what you say.

There are always going to be critics who parrot idiotic points which you're having to refute, even among the "tech literate".

Would the car industry be as far along as it is today in EVs without Tesla? hard to say, I would say probably not. Toyota has been actively shunning EVs (hybrids don't count) and now still insisting on most of its energy into hydrogen fuel cells and BMW just kicked out its CEO for, among other things, stalling on EV development for so long.

Do I prefer being in a world where we have a Tesla? hell yes.
Replace "steal" with "call a registered tow company" and you can do exactly that - have someone remove an improperly-placed item from your property. Cities solved the problem of improperly-parked cars by creating the entire "towing" concept.

Police aren't a service for junk removal, they are for holding guns. You hire a moving company to remove junk and you get the police to come hold guns if the junk-leaver threatens to do you harm because of same.
For photography abuse, I don't see Americans singled out by anyone--not even the author at Petapixel--as being better or worse than any other group of people.
Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for sharing! That is a cool pattern. I definitely have a little too much nesting going on in that function, and it could use some refactoring.

I've always felt funny about multiple return statements though, which is probably one reason why a pattern like this doesn't usually come to my mind when considering how to refactor code. I've always liked having one exit point at the end of functions because programmers naturally expect a function to return at the very end. I think minimizing the number of return statements is generally a good thing, but perhaps I have been too strict about applying that rule.
My sister is currently renting a moldy basement (not a legal apartment) because of her poor credit. She's got two babies, she'd prefer better accommodations but that's all she could find with her credit. No evictions but several judgements against her.
I've been developing a growth framework at my org for the primary reason to ensure that we can have consistent conversations across teams and ultimately, provide a reference point for development teams as they work with their managers on growth.

I think they make a lot of sense.

One question .. has anyone planned out how Staff Developers work within most organizations? I feel the Venn diagram for them between an engineering manager has plenty of overlap, where the people aspect (all things HR, hiring, growth) are on the engineering/people manager.

Can a Staff Developer make decisions? Or are they more of an influencer?
Clickbait fake science sites get too many submittals here.

Oceans can't melt glaciers because glaciers, by definition, are on landforms. Ice over oceans, free-floating or attached, is sea ice.

As Wikipedia puts it, "Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water".

Accelerated melting of sea ice can ease glacial flow by clearing the exit, so to speak, but that's not the same thing.
Which would make it trivial to set up a candidate so that he/she could be investigated (“legally”!) by the FBI under the guise of “protecting democracy”. I’m old enough to remember when Democrats didn’t want to empower the FBI/CIA/etc any further for fear of a police state.
>>I've said many times that raspi-config should allow an option for mounting the filesystems read-only, with an overlay ram based filesystem.

I've had success with this:

http://wiki.psuter.ch/doku.php?id=solve_raspbian_sd_card_cor...
Needs a website you say? I own pineappleday.org. Hit me up on Twitter if you want to help make it : )
Non-Parallel Voice Conversion with Cyclic Variational Autoencoder
Back in 2008, Facebook didn't have nearly the algorithmic curation it has now. For instance, you were much more likely to see posts from friends sharing content you disagreed with. Now, Facebook's algorithms have gotten so good at their primary business objective (increasing engagement with the platform) that you're guaranteed to see almost entirely content that you agree with.

If I share a picture of my kids, Facebook makes sure all of my relatives will see it. If I share a political post, it will only be seen by my friends that agree with me.

Ad targeting was also much less sophisticated back then (did Facebook even have ads yet at that point?).
the HH model is good enough to reproduce almost everything that is recorded from neurons (Thats why H & H got the Nobel prize after all). Even dendritic regenerative spikes are reproduced by such models. I think it's generally acceptable that one does not need to do molecular dynamics to recreate membrane voltages. LIF and AdEx are very crude approximations though (i.e. no dendritic spikes, no plateaus, impossible to use them to approximate compartmentalized calcium levels that induce plasticity). And if you go that route, you have to justify why they are a better choice than e.g. Izhikevich neurons or indeed just sigmoid units.
I think the issue was more than Intel was running behind on their roadmap, unable to deliver on the promised schedule. This is what drove the Apple-Qualcomm settlement. But that settlement gives Apple years to work with this acquisition to bring it to "good enough". And their experience in chip design thus far has shown they can shepherd chips through design and implementation that are more than just "good enough".
The title of the article seems taylor-made to suggest that Russia hacked voting machines. That’s what prompted the top level response. The headline is misleading.

Nobody suggested that Russian disinformation is unimportant.
Getting a Handle on a Scandal
> To traditional cultures, especially word-based ones such as Islam, this is infinitely more threatening than the B-52s ever were.

Interesting that he wrote this prior to 9/11 (but then again, after the original WTC attack, and the African Embassy attacks).
> Of course we want governments, corporations, and other institutions to act. History shows that the fastest most effective way is for each of us to start first.

Exactly what history shows this? Every major case of social change I can think of (civil rights, women's rights, labor rights, what environmental regulations we have) has happened through mass movements not independent individual choices.

The time is for collective action on this. @GretaThunberg has been quite articulate about the need for immediate systemic change not just personal choices. Also, great news today, thanks to action on the part of @sunrisemvmt CNN will host a climate-focused Democratic primary debate. Movements can change what is "possible".
An interesting situation is when you become known as so invaluable by higher levels of management that this dynamic gets inverted.

Maybe it just feels good but there's something that feels right about your manager working for you, getting you the resources, answers, and commitments from others that you need. And in return they get to boast all the cool shit you make to their boss.
Same thing is happening in Monument Valley Utah/AZ... It's like an entire generation just discovered that the earth has some beautiful areas and they're coming to ruin it all.
IIRC most turn into muons or electron/positiron showers, depending on the incident angle. Recall a physics lab long ago playing with NaI scintillators and photomultipliers at 10kV to detect the muons from the showers.
> Just to be perfectly precise, dividends are usually taxed as income

Who is usually getting unqualified dividends? Qualified dividends are taxed as capital gains.
Wait, what now? Read that out loud and consider the idea that rain waters my lawn for free regardless of whether I have a barrel.

Holy good God it’s not totally fabricated. https://www.truthorfiction.com/collecting-rainwater-is-illeg...
Git TIP – Why you should not keep a local master branch?
Government breaking up AT&T had pretty good outcomes, IMHO.
That's a different situation. The digital camera is not creating the work. It's analagous to a compiler generating code. It used to be the fashion of compiler vendors to not give you a free license to the derived work that the compiler generates. GCC even has a separate clause in its license to allow the output not to be GPL. See this license: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/license.html
CPU utilization is an extremely poor indicator for whether or not your system will feel stuttering or freezing. What makes your system freeze is having more tasks to complete than can be reasonably scheduled in a time frame to as to appear continuous/realtime. Most OS schedulers that I am aware of do not provide special treatment to UI processes and defer to the fact that most modern UI's require many programs to respond in a timely fashion to provide a user interface and do not assign priority unless specially instructed. Most provide (relatively) even priority and have high priority interrupts like Window's ctrl-alt-delete and higher priority to kernel threads.

In Linux actual scenarios for stuttering/freezing are generally represented as a load average >1, and stuttering for me generally starts to happen when I get above 3 and I assure you no Linux system will work without observable stutter when you start getting into the 20+ load average range.

In earnest I have no idea why you tried to use a JavaScript based benchmark to support your point. Even after observing it the number of nonvoluntary ctxt switches barely even registered from baseline, probably from the variety of ways browsers do their own internal threading strategies. I could not see how to change that JavaScript benchmark to make it actually provide an interesting load on my system, so I'll just leave it at that.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s1247/text
There's no law saying it's illegal to develop on github specifically. If it's against the law, it's against the law regardless of github's policies.
It depends on the problem domain. Transformers are useful for NLP (language modeling, machine translation), but RNNs (and CNNs) are still being used in speech-to-text. When the input/output relationships are monotonic, transformers are probably too general.
They aggregate every piece of information they can get out of every database they can access about you.
I have read the bill.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s1247/text

It sounds reasonable to me.
Consider a simple linear function f(x)=ax. It maps the whole real axis bijectively to itself so long as “a” is not 0. However if a=0 everything collapses into the origin.

The math that wraps some infinite process inside can be counterintuitive even as it makes things easier to compute. However it is not clear if the physical picture that involves singularity is real or just idealized approximation.
It's not untrue, Amazon is largely a retail business and you can't compare it's P/E to tech socks, that'd just be silly. You clearly know enough to know that, so I don't get why you insist.

As for producing the numbers on the YoY for the retail companies you listed - I hope somebody else does that. I'm busy.
Lets ignore the nomenclature for a minute. Russians used American social media to manipulate public opinion to help implement a Russian sympathizing Administration. Ignore the verbiage. Start with that.
Yep, that's why I chose to implement it that way. I generally prefer single return statements. Plus my day job enforces it as part of the coding convention, so force of habit too haha.
Well, in recent years they've managed to develop reasonably decent integrated GPU's that are perfectly adequate for anyone that isn't using graphics programs extensively or more than (very) casual gaming.
I went to what can only be described as an "Instagram trap" earlier this month. It was the Rose Mansion exhibit (?) in NYC, I can only describe it as a mix between a fun house where the rooms are explicitly designed for Instagram and a cut rate wine tour. [0]

I sense a market for a consulting firm that specializes in managing photoshoots at locations like the one in the post explicitly for Instagram.

0: https://www.rosewinemansion.com/about-2019
Commision (sic). A flat 75% Commision (sic) on sales.

Yikes.
A Panamax bulk carrier already has seven cargo holds.
Cool. Thank you. It seems that my assumption was correct :-)
The Marvels of Tick Saliva
I love seeing submissions like this on the front page. I come for the post-mortems of severe outages and I stay for the discussion of algae.
That's always such a weird flex to me, if you make a decent priced knock off why shy away from that label?
You're describing a broken and unusable cryptosystem. What you believe requires "substantial computation" to break today requires a consumer GPU tomorrow.

There is no minimizing the risk. Your concept is broken. It does not -- and cannot -- provide security of any use. And I don't care what the government thinks about it.
one can only hope
"The consequences of global warming have had the most impact in developing and mountainous countries like Nepal..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation_in_N...
The actual report is available on the Senate's website[1]. It is written for a non-technical audience so the specifics are sparse and it is heavily redacted in certain sections, but there are some details. For example, "SQL Injection" is mentioned 8 times and it appears those injection attacks were noticed in three states with one successful attack and two failures.

[1] - https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
Waifu Labs – AI Generated Custom Waifus
If you exclude the CEO at many SV companies there are most certainly ICs who make as much as people at that level all over the Bay. Certainly that’s true at Square.
From my reading of the law the vast majority of tip pools are not legal, to wit:

>Tip Pool: The requirement that an employee must retain all tips does not preclude a valid tip pooling or sharing
arrangement among employees who customarily and regularly receive tips, such as waiters, waitresses, bellhops,
counter personnel (who serve customers), bussers, and service bartenders. A valid tip pool may not include
employees who do not customarily and regularly received tips, such as dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and janitors.

I haven’t yet seen a tip pooling scheme that didn’t also include back of house, i.e. chefs/cooks, and often supervisors or managers which cannot be included by federal law.

But your point stands, my statement was overly broad.
Good self driving cars maybe but if you don't mind an iffy one here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaOB-ErYq6Y
Would the Clinton campaign have to report its (indirect) $1.02M payment for the Steele (who, let's not forget, is a foreign agent) "dossier" under this law? If not, it's not worth the paper it's written on.

I'm not a lawyer but upon cursory reading it looks like it would not, unless you were solicited by a foreign agent in the first place. If you go out and have your PAC hire Perkins Coie to pay for kompromat without explicit solicitation, it'd seem you don't have to report it.

Then there's a question of what happens after you report. Is your campaign then put under counterintelligence surveillance? How difficult is it to direct a foreign agent to solicit a payment from e.g. a dem campaign to lawfully trigger this? This is something that doesn't even have to be done by a campaign, some idiot from 4-chan could do it.
I might be in the minority on this issue, but I personally think it is reasonable for a political candidate to be investigated prior to running for office once they publicly announce that they are running. Tax returns, felonies, misdemeanors, credit reports, the whole kit and kaboodle. There are professions where interview candidates already go through varying levels of background checks, and I've gone through a few myself. Running for political office is very much a personal choice, and obtaining that office unlocks varying amounts of power and control over the lives of fellow citizens. If the candidate runs through that investigative gauntlet and comes out clean, then the corresponding voters have a much better idea of who is on the election night ticket.
Even with easy leetcode, there's still a lot of issues. If a company must do leetcode, it should be like this:

* Both candidate and interviewer enter the room.

* A small script randomly pulls a leetcode easy question from the website.

* They both spend the next hour together working on a solution.

I can already hear the objections from leetcode fanatics, things like I have to know the answer already so I can "calibrate" (basically see how fast they can regurgitate the rote memorized solution). A bullshit reason, so an engineer who solves something 1 minute faster than another is better? Or I need to always use the same question so I can compare candidates. Another bullshit reason, I thought it was about seeing how they reason about a problem, why do you need the same question for that? Whatever question you get, it should be clear if they're good at reasoning or not.

The truth is, it's just a hazing ritual by insecure engineers who want to be the one with the one true answer they can use to feel better than the candidate. That's all it is and that's why I ignore companies with this kind of process.
This is true of the first anecdote about the private property, but the other issues are still issues. We have a few “hot” locations in Colorado, most notably Maroon Bells in leaf season, and the level of general disrespect is shocking: ladders, fights, overcrowded parking, and so on. Sadly I have no idea what a solution is - the land is public and limiting access numbers is exclusionary and easy for the privileged to “hack.” It’s really a challenging cultural and philosophical question: how does one define and perpetuate common decency in an increasingly crowded world? And, going back to the distaste for people “in the shot” and the DIY attempts to make locations less appealing, is anyone entitled to an “unspoiled” view by their own definition? To some extent Christo and Jeanne-Claude explored this concept from an artistic perspective decades ago, but cultural shift doesn’t have a finite end in the way an installation does.
What type of issue would you expect these monitors to prevent or uncover?

Election monitors make sense in third-world countries, where elections are administrated by corrupt government officials and literal ballot-box-stuffing is a possibility. But in the US, civilian volunteers with known party affiliations administer elections, and many states cast ballots electronically.

If you’re really concerned about the integrity of our elections at a ballot-box level, the best thing you could do would be to volunteer to administer elections in your local precinct.
> but something like FOIA broadly applies to local governments as well

The second of the two sentences in the grandparent comment addresses the similar state laws.
Aquanaut, the Underwater Transformer
yes this was my problem, as well as they actual SD card itself and the SD card slot going out sometimes from frequent rewriting
There's more to "capital" than a physical machine.

Compare the cost of creating software (often many millions) to the per unit cost of copies of that software (zero).

Compare the cost of developing a new processor architecture and setting up the manufacturing plant (billions and billions) compared with the per-unit cost.

Compare the cost of building out a physical network infrastructure to cover a city (many millions) compared with the cost of connecting a single user to the box down the street.

Compare the cost to create all of Facebook's hardware and software infrastructure to the marginal cost of adding one more user to the platform.
California's property tax rate is too low to cover the services that residents use. That's the rotten pistachio right there.
>I honestly expected this article to be another "damn kids, get off my lawn" post

Weeell...technically it is. (At least it's not far off.)
But sometimes "get off my lawn" is justified.
Have you checked out similiar devices? The Critter and Guittari Organelle is a fantastic looking device and half the price, but lacking in some features of the op1.

Theres also the sonicware elz1 but it looks to be focused on being a synth.
Just in case you've not thought or knew about it, have you tried using folder symlinks on macOS? Might be an answer to those situations where you have to have files in a special folder or its subfolder, but unfortunately will require setup on each device. On Windows there are different folder symlink types available as well (an `mklink` command line program makes them), plus the common things like documents and pictures are actually "collections" where you can add several folders for the Explorer to combine when viewing these collections
You counted Marin but not Fremont as part of the “core” Bay Area?
Yeah, myelination usually has more pronounced effects on peripheral nerves as they had long wrapped axons. I’m glad your son did not have severe demyelination problem. I don’t want to sound brutal but the mild effect mutation caused could also be the reason he survived the mutation
Single tugs moving multiple barges are common on the Mississippi River, for example.
Show HN: Play rock paper and scissors against a untrained neural network
They can't because their business is fundamentally built on the "leave anywhere" promise to their customers, who are the ones that actually leave the scooters illegally.

There's just no customer-acceptable way of disincentivizing their bad behavior and unlike parked cars, the scooters can be trivially moved from "legal" to "illegal" parking by a single person, which means that the customer may not even be at fault.
Here are examples of the software for some upcoming cars. Prove that Bosch "controls" the software for these cars:

- Mercedes EQC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JTew1D5Tk8

- Audi e-tron GT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvNw15W_EK8

- Honda e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKq8jmckz0

- Volkswagen ID.3: https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/14/vw-id-3-interior-reveale...

If you can't prove it then simply admit you don't know what you're talking about.
The Case for Promoting over Hiring
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511459