skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For better or worse, this helps establish neural networks that are not (or less?) vulnerable to deception via e.g. fake eyeglasses [ LINK: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2978392 ] and adversarial stickers [ LINK: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09665 ].

From the post:

"We’ve developed a method to assess whether a neural network classifier can reliably defend against adversarial attacks not seen during training [such as Elastic, Fog, Gabor, and Snow]. Our method yields a new metric, UAR (Unforeseen Attack Robustness), which evaluates the robustness of a single model against an unanticipated attack, and highlights the need to measure performance across a more diverse range of unforeseen attacks."

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08016
Code: https://github.com/ddkang/advex-uar

If anyone w/relevant expertise is willing to share thoughts on this: please do.

For further reading: this just in -> "Robust Machine Learning Algorithms and Systems for Detection and Mitigation of Adversarial Attacks and Anomalies: Proceedings of a Workshop" (2019) an open-access publication from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: https://doi.org/10.17226/25534.
I mean, you aren't wrong, it's a dang good sandwich. I too waited 20 minutes in a line of 2 cars for it. I wonder though, how much of the hype is because of people who are frustrated with the Chick Fil A owner's beliefs, and not necessarily because it's a great meal? I would wager it has definitely contributed.
>What the Heck is Crab Rangoon Anyway?

Delicious, that's what it is.
Seattle should consider instituting Outpatient Commitment [1] if they haven't already... it could be a good middle ground between throwing addicts in jail and letting them walk free with no obligations.

Drug addiction is a health problem, not a criminal one, but decriminalizing only works in conjunction with a strong mental health care system; judging by the comments here, it sounds like Seattle might be lacking in that area (and they're probably not the only city with this problem).

Deinstitutionalization [2] was a good idea in theory, but the execution seems to have been botched.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpatient_commitment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation
It's pretty trivial to keep an open "project.org" buffer open for whatever project I'm working on. This is pretty natural in emacs but sometimes vim users aren't as confident with tabs or buffers.

There is also https://github.com/alphapapa/outshine

Which gives you "full" orgmode in comment sections of your normal source code (haven't actually tried it myself).

Overall I think you are on the right track with your goals but, yes, orgmode does a great job of solving them already with a bunch of additional features too.
I am not sure if google could have done that but there is always the realization to be made that small is beautiful. At some point growth turns into taking on more useless people and then you need more money to fund all of them and then you need to turn to unethical practices. Perhaps the google founders could at some point have decided to buy back as much of their stock as possible and after that they no longer would have needed to make as much money as possible and could have just kept having the greatest search engine with a little advertising on the side.
You haven't mentioned any evidence which would inculpate Monsanto. Pesticides are used for both GMO and non-GMO crops. What is so vicious about the cycle of 'pesticide, GMOs, and debt' which is less vicious for 'pesticide, non-GMOs and debt'?
You are misrepresenting their point.

There are many reasons why women don't go into IT. And whilst you can look at at it holistically it is ultimately a personal decision.

And so if you take that personal decision and instead make it about some gender stereotype e.g. they aren't physically suited then it discourages women from entering IT.
For me, it's that Amazon has virtually everything. I would be much happier if I could buy everything I buy from Amazon from Costco instead, but Costco's model isn't the same as Amazon's "A to Z" model. Costco wants to offer good deals on a smaller selection of stuff, rather than go for a broad selection.

It also doesn't hurt that Prime Video is bundled with Prime. On a per annum basis, Prime costs me about 2/3 what Netflix does, but I'd say I get roughly half to a third the value of Netflix out of Prime Video alone.
People loyal to the CCP.
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> I know a few folks who have been forcefully committed

Long term? After the deinstitutionalization movement in the US, it's possible to get people forcibly committed for short term evaluations (a 72 hour "Baker Act" evaluation), but long term involuntary commitment is quite rare.
This is partly why I really love the terminal Vim / tmux combo.

Getting back into the swing of things is effortless. You can switch between projects within literally 2 seconds. It's so easy to resume exactly where you left off from the previous session. There's no need to tinker with window layouts or re-open code editors.

Last month I made a video that goes over this workflow at (8:02 is the specifics on switching between projects): https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-tmux-sessions-windows-p...
This was extremely helpful. Thanks for taking out time to write this.
My point is that those puritanical beliefs create grieving parents, because we seek to punish addicts instead of treating them.

America sees addiction as a moral failing which can be flagellated away, not as a medical condition requiring treatment.
Seattle is far from "destroyed." There are obviously issues, sure. But this smells like hyperbolic political rhetoric to me and I don't appreciate it.
I had a Fit3D total body scan done at a local clinic when starting a weight loss program. I was surprised by the detail level for something that cost me $5/scan. I had to switch to wearing bicycle shorts during the scans because the first time I wore just underwear and the result produced an inappropriate amount of detail in that area. My plan is to 3D print my "before" body and display it in my exercise area to motivate me. Might have to make a pair of shorts for it to wear or edit out those details in the obj file.
My empathy is reserved for victims of the prison industrial complex (that includes your concept of victims, btw). I do see how your sort of hardline dehumanization of undesirables...sorry, 'tough on crime'...approach in the latter half of the 20th century has resulted in many of the problems being discussed in this thread.

I'm a felon that committed a crime and violated my probation a year after my original sentencing (I've since discharged my sentence). My crime was almost killing my passengers and myself in a drunken single-vehicle collision when I was 19. My violation was being a drunk passenger on my 21st birthday, after the designated driver was pulled over for simple lane violations (right/left turns into far lanes). They were let go with a warning, and I was taken to jail. If I didn't come from the privileged background I do, I could very well still be in prison today.

I'm a contrarian hipster, don't get me wrong, but I come by this empathy honestly. I empathize with your fear too, but I'm telling you to get over it because it only makes the problems you fear worse.
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But there really are people that purposefully went from git to hg. Calling hg a "pre-git" version control system makes some assumptions that just aren't true.
Sure! It can be used on any screen. Make sure to keep it in its protective holder when not in use though, so no unwanted particles attach to it and scratch your glasses and screens.
Having lived where it cools off nicely at night, and then where it doesn't - this is just not a generally applicable solution.

When it only gets down into the upper 80s (thats around 31C for those afflicted with metric) at night with humidity at 90% or higher, AC is mandatory.

When its up around 98 (37C) with high humidity during the day, not having AC can be a killer.
> Shouldn't the effects of the trade war be objective and easy to measure with typical macroeconomic indicators?

No.

Typical macroeconomic indicators often don't result in undisputed broad characteristizations of conditions (good, bad, teetering on the edge of recession), and, even moreso, don't tell you how they would be different if you changed a particular factor (e.g., the trade war.)
It's valuable for us to be able to tell the community "you can see everything that gets killed if you want to". Many HN users want to decide for themselves how good a job we (moderators, software, user flags, etc.) do of deciding what should get killed vs. not. If some posts got blanked out altogether, that would no longer be possible, and then we'd get complaints about "unaccountable moderators censoring things they don't like", etc. We get those anyway, but the showdead setting helps to mitigate them and keep the bulk of the community satisfied. We'd lose a lot of good faith if we changed that.

Of course if we added a second level of deadness, we could add a "show-dead-dead" setting to make it visible, but that would be too complicated.

Edit: I should add that there HN also has deletion, meaning a post is no longer visible even to users with showdead on, but we only do that when the author of a post has requested it, or (in extremely rare cases) because our lawyers told us we had to.
^So much of this. HN != Reddit_2.0
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barnacl.es is HN for bootstrappers, iirc.
There is an Amazon Fund.

https://www.dw.com/en/no-need-for-german-amazon-aid-brazils-...
I take that back: there have been plenty of posts in the past about the Koch family, of which haven't been largely positive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10337014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467135

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17377055

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552286

Some of these have been flagged as well.
Justin is a trustworthy guy and, while unfortunate, I believe the Chrome security team was acting in good faith with the manifest v3 changes.
>you will never directly convince anyone of anything

Policy is the surface level of a deep tree of rational beliefs. No one will ever be convinced of policy because each sees their favored policy as rational due to the underpinning structure of beliefs.

Discussions that don't begin with the core beliefs are bound to lead nowhere, you're right.
Yes. For a number of reasons, not least of all that such feedback optional, and to be sent to the people who managed the class.

So it wasn't an assignment, and sharing it with everyone wasn't the way to handle it.
He may think he is, yes. He's not issuing a legally valid order, and he's not issuing it by a legally valid medium. (At least, I'm pretty sure it's not, but IANAL.)

In fact, if he thinks that Twitter is a legally valid medium and that anything he says is a legally valid order, that would explain a lot...
I’ve used an Einscan-SE/SP. How do the 20k+ scanners reduce the part-to-cad workflow? Is the software that’s included do a 10x better job of cleaning up the scan?
>The memo made some very poignant points, but then the author expressed some strange opinions that I would never attempt to defend.

Yeah but why have a discussion group about politics if you can only defend the mainstream points of view?
I'm not sure if this is a typo, but you need a certain speed to be able to steer the ship. Going too slow downstream is like stalling a airplane, you lose control over it.
Google was also smaller, which both makes political discussions feel more personal and allows maintaining a political bias in recruiting/hiring because you don't need to fill headcount as urgently. I would absolutely believe that a company of 100 SJWs bringing their whole self to work contracting with a company of 100 MAGA hat wearers bringing their whole self to work would be more productive than putting all 200 of them in a single company and imposing the traditional politeness restrictions of a corporate job.

So the question in my mind is, why did Google need to grow?
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted? I was in Tucson in the summer in a rammed earth house (about 2-3 feet thick as you mention) and it was comfortably cool inside. The whole house had very large eaves, as well [1]

[1] I don't recall the other design details that made it so cool in temperature, but it was all analog/natural (i.e. no AC)
It is said Rust runs on RISC-V. Is the toolchain really ready for production?
What has your experience been in places outside of Google? I've worked in a couple of non-FAANG companies over the years and politics never enters into the conversation. People just agree not to discuss controversial political stuff except may out over a beer or something.
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Are wages really rising for the target market of Popeyes?
The key to diversity is figuring out what unites people.

Politics, religion etc. divides people.
I don't blame them. Even aside from the President and GOP media machine attacking them for anti-conservative bias, Why would you want people to talk politics at work in the first place? At work you should be working. Argue about politics on your own time.

(He said, posting from work.)

And the difference is my employer doesn't host Hacker News. I'm posting on my own recognizance.
Many moons ago I worked for a company that did some outsource work for another company who asked for responses to an anonymous survey.

So I responded.

1. I shouldn't have gotten the survey as I didn't work for the company who sent it, but nobody at either company was very smart or careful because it went to everyone.

2. I misread the email and didn't notice it wasn't my company asking for responses it was the company we did outsource work for.

I made some pretty tepid constructive criticism. So did a couple other people.

The next day we were in a conference room with people we never met before angry that we responded to the survey. They hadn't realized we were actually sent the email just like everyone at the company (like I said these were not smart people) ...

It also raised the question about how anonymous this survey was. Of course it wasn't, you could see in the URL when responding your name, email address, etc ;)
It was the beginning, but our extreme right president doesn't like it because it gives money to NGO. For him all NGOs are communist.

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhea...
There are lots of horrific weapons like this to ever torment the universe. e.g. http://p99.gforge.inria.fr/p99-html/index.html
On the bright side, the people who work for Chick-fil-A have at least one known, consistent day off each and every week. For most of you who have not worked a job outside of tech, that's a pretty big deal.
well the chemicals turn them into soulless husks of a person. They dont start out that way, but over time thats what happens.
At the expense of accessibility.
Active as in currently shooting up.
You understand that the whole point of this article is that Seattle is turning away from the traditional view of drug use - a moral failing that needs to be punished - and toward a more modern view - a medical condition that needs treatment - right?

Punishment of drug use does nothing to prevent drug use. Its only value, therefore, is sadism.
The further we abstract ourselves from understanding of the platforms our code runs on, the worse off we are going to be.

Our job as developers is to write software that transforms data from one form to another. Any code that does not go directly to solving the transformation problem you have for the data you have is wasted time and wasted effort today, and will cost you additional time in performance and maintenance so long as that software is in service. The best code, the most big-free code, the most stable code, is the code that doesn't exist because it didn't need to be written in the first place. Browse an Enterprise Java application and tell me that there is no code there that couldn't have been written much more succinctly and run much faster in another language.

Software development is not an art. It is a science - everything about programming and software execution can be measured and therefore measurable improvements can be observed. Almost no one does this -- why? Because of the "CPUs are cheap" and "RAM is cheap" excuses I have heard throughout my entire career.

I have never even heard of a study of OOP that found OOP to be a superior methodology in any meaningful way whatsoever, and I don't think I ever will. I don't think that result could ever be observed without a very strong bias in the study.
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But that isn't one off Google's workplace rules, and evaluation of whether or not someone is being "just" should be partially based on how well they apply their own rules.

If I say "this thing is permitted" and then punish someone for doing that thing, it should be unjust in your eyes whether or not you would have said "this thing is permitted."
When I see conflicting stories like that, especially regarding a topic like this, I'd immediately check the definitions each party is using.
>A lot of the need for AC (and having lights on) is just really, really bad modern house design.

You can design a house however you want, but without AC it's going to be hot and miserable here in Indiana when it's in the 80's or 90's with 80%+ humidity unless you have AC.
I think the problem is that the US has developed for various reasons (including a lack of discussing politics) a series of echo chambers and people don't connect politically beyond their echo chambers. In urban California, among software developers, you are likely to have one or two political views represented at most, and these represent a small racial and class-based cross-section of urban California. The first of course is the Neoliberal views of the Rainbow Capitalism camp that brought us Hillary Clinton's candidacy. If there is a second view it is the Business Liberalism view of the elite GOP members such as the Koch brothers.

You aren't going to get the political concerns of rust-belt America, or the political concerns of black families down in Watts recognized, nor will you get the communitarianism of rural America in there either.

And so that sense of justice gets warped, even regarding national issues of the US today.

What happens when these things go world wide? Someone's sense of justice gets offended by economic orders where procreative/childrearing families hold businesses which are inherited and passed on to kids, and where there are solid gender roles associated (my kids' second culture for example)? I guess we better do what we can to make the world safe for American Capitalism to come in and liberate people from family expectations. But that means opening up such cultures to economic exploitation by foreign business and that harm is waved away as if it doesn't matter.

The arrogance does matter, because the arrogance can easily lead to outright economic colonialism ("for their own good" as much now as a century ago). The way to hold it in check is for other viewpoints to actually be entertained and discussed.
The King County Needle Exchange is why there's needles absolutely everywhere. Safe injection won, and now you can't walk anywhere barefoot.
I've been meaning to learn how to read and understand an S1. Does anybody have any recommendations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
Nice!

I think Nix and NixOS is the best thing that happened to the Linux ecosystem in the last ten years. Good that it spreads to mobile.
Someone points out the crime rates are better, not worse? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20781556
I had some minor luck with capturing 3D objects in Meshroom, then using Blender to refine/simplify the model, before taking it into Meshmixer to prepare for actual 3D printing.

I don't know how phone cameras hold up, but I was able to achieve decent results with a DSLR and some daylight lighting.
Hi there. I am sorry to hear about your misfortunes. Keep your head up something will come up. Meanwhile (although it might not cover all your bills) you may wish to register on http://www.mooctors.com as a technology tutor for MOOC students. You set your fees and availability (best set it for a month out). I hope this could help a bit.

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The economically most efficient pricing model is to install a brain scanner onto every single potential purchaser and then price the item at a penny below their maximum price or the marginal cost, whichever is greater.

Since this is impossible and consumers would revolt, the next best thing is to get consumers to self sort into buckets based on willingness to pay. This process is necessarily going to be imperfect and the tactics can vary but what unifies it is that the goal of designing your product offering is to elicit the revealed preference of the consumer with the goal of increasing profit.

Did Apple choose to offer different storage tiers to provide benefit to the customer or increase margins? Probably a little bit of both.
I'm sure your answer is right from an enlightened rationalist position, and I respect your desire to defend the community. Unfortunately I believe there should also be room for stronger emotional responses to truly damaging behavior in the real world. And I suppose finally going separate way from this community is required for that value.
while I agree with most of your points, being more open about emotions is definitely not a prerequisite for creativity.
Remember that first iconic, heartwrenching photo of kids in fucking cages that started to circulate on social media? It was literally a photo from 2014 that was being misrepresented from the Trump era - and it keeps happening. Apparently some Democrat congressional members managed to misrepresent other photos from the same set just last month: https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/house-dems-use-obama-era-photo...

No-one described those kids in cages as kids in cages until Trump was elected. From what I could tell, only one local news outlet even ran with that shocking, arresting image of a kid in a cage looking into the camera when it was actually news.
I recently had a conversation with someone who works at Google, and she mentioned how in her opinion Google hires a lot of smart people but has a good chunk of them doing very lame work.

So perhaps that's not too far fetched. I've had jobs that didn't keep me interested or seemed menial, and I will admit to holding a lot of online threads during those work hours. Nowadays, when I'm at work I'm often too busy and interested in what I'm doing to think about other things that are happening.
I think you're confused. It's definitely not illegal in any state to have informal political discussions with coworkers. Maybe what you're referring to is that it's illegal for employers to tell employees to vote a certain a way or retaliate against them for holding certain political views.
Can you extrapolate more on this?

Am I understanding correctly that Amazon will not allow me to buy something off their site with prime shipping if i intend to resell that product?

Is the the scope of this limited to only include me taking orders for item X at price y on my own Amazon marketplace account and then placing my order with an FBA partner who's price for X is below y?

Otherwise wouldn't you run into all kinds of issues with first sale doctrine? Who is amazon to tell me I cant sell something I bought through them?
I guess you're right, then, if it's truly always a result of user reporting and HN never overrides that. I know that's not the case for Reddit, so kudos to HN.
It's usually the vegetarian (vegan) that starts it, so if it doesn't turn into an issue, your SO has the non-escalation skills, not all of your meat-eating normies.