skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems most people on HN (and to their credit, they also admit), they have limited recent experience with MySQL, so they don't know that they are 99% functionally equivalent (with edge cases being better for one or the other).
Simulating a drop of water falling on the floor accurately at the molecular level would take thousands (if not millions) of years on the best supercomputer today.

Does it mean my water dropper is a better physical computer than regular computers?
And how that matters? Show us the code!
No. Companies that big have the resources and stability do it themselves, and want control over their space as well. They have no need for a middleman other than real-estate brokers or construction companies to actually get the space.
Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to look.
Most of the good stuff is designed for early childhood professionals, not parents. Parent stuff tends to be plausible sounding nonsense. It's when you have a group of a dozen kids in a preschool that you need stuff that works. Compare levels of order the versus at home. It's a bit of work to adopt but not too much.
Where does it say they provide facial recognition software? I looked through the attached "Limited Sources Justification" PDF and the three areas they claim to be using Adobe software for are "Digital Media" (this is Acrobat and Reader), "Digital Marketing" (Creative Suite) and "Digital Meetings".

Maybe this is the wrong contract??
Agreed, however the murders were real.
Some thoughts I've had on these details and a few points I think are worth mentioning:

First: we have to be careful about comparing mental/physical states like sleep or even deep comatose unconsciousness with notions of mind/body replacement and revival of consciousness. I say this because it's possible that extremely subtle processes might be at work in the former two states that do indeed give us a continuity of perception of same self which wouldn't be the case if you perfectly copied someone and then destroyed them in the instant of reanimating the new perfect copy.

second: for the above i'm not even really taking into consideration the possibility of consciousness being a a partly quantum phenomenon that's impossible to emulate, clone or copy in any way that really recreates the original person's self into a new substrate

Third: assuming we can actually perform whole mind emulation, cloning of a new body and transfer of a self into a new physical or digital substrate (that the brain is capable of being perfectly recreated as if it truly were the original in terms of all functional, practical measurements and subject perception), this still has to keep in mind the danger of what I call uncopied tail end consciousness in the original. In other words, if a person's original self even for a split second or two perceives consciousness beyond the moment of emulation, then truly, they will die and with a knowledge of the copy being just a copy, separate from them, But if on the other hand the transition of consciousness can be made totally seamless as far as perception is concerned, or graduated to that the two gently merge into a new copy, then it would really possibly be possible to create a continuous, clean perception of self.

Fourth, as a tangent of Third. One idea I've always had is of conscious perception having a granular quality, in that we can perceive increments of self awareness/time down to some fraction of a second, and any emulation process would have to create a "backup" for emulation to a new copy at a rate just slightly faster than that natural granularity of perception in order to give us seamless continuity of self-perception in case the original has to suddenly be destroyed and the new copy of your consciousness reanimated.
I would say the current situation is better than the 90s, in which the CD pushed acts to make albums far longer than they had any sense being (despite being an amazing period for hip hop, it's hard to sit through a lot of the very best acts albums). Acts now have the freedom to make things whatever length they feel suits. Minor releases can be album length, major releases can be EP length, it's all whatever people want to make it.

The biggest issue right now is that gameifying streaming is leading to similar issues (Chris Brown's 5 disc album being an extreme example) but Kanye West's series of 20 minutes albums points towards another direction that could be a much better fit for the modern musician (making an album that's so concise that it results in the listener playing the whole thing over and over instead of just adding their favourite song to a playlist.
When this came out I was skeptical and looked at transactions that I had metrics for to corroborate with some colleagues. Not at liberty to discuss specifics, but we all rejected the proportions that the study used.

End of the day, complex processes get completed when offered to the public, and computer based processes are generally the norm. People somehow get hunting licenses, navigate complex DMV processes, book transportation, and get passports, even when they are not above average IQ.

I think if you asked these questions based on end goal rather than method, you’d see smaller numbers of level 0/1 people.

It sounded to me like the assessment was framed around PC use — most people don’t use PCs! I’ve seen scenarios where complex workflows delivered in social services scenarios (where education, literacy and language competency are an issue) where getting tasks completed in mobile (which is ubiquitous and often more complex) is significantly better than a similar complexity task (travel vouchers) with a professional audience on PC.

If less than 5% of the population is capable of performing complex tasks, society would break down. Something is wrong with the assessment of complexity or questions asked.
>> That's kind of the point. The goal of systemd is to provide a single, unified, comprehensive Linux platform and undo some of the fragmentation that has occurred in the Linux space between distributions.

Huh I guess I hadn't thought of it that way. I've always viewed the "fragmentation" (opinionated differences giving the end-user more choice) between distros as a feature, not a bug. I don't know, I still feel the "systemd or not" choice still comes off a bit ham-handed. But maybe it doesn't matter anymore (considering that all old/big distros that wanted to implement it probably already have, and any new one is free to use it or not). Probably also has to do with the barrier-to-entry of using Linux being far lower than it used to be (maybe in part due to systemd?)
Colonialism is theft. If they bought land from the natives that would be moral. Native people have all rights to home it has built, the land it has tilled and the livestock it has raised. Nothing to do with capitalism.
Somebody should implement this in the physical form.

Here's an idea:
Strong magnets (or just pieces of strongly ferromagnetic material) would be embedded at the bottom of the chess pieces; the board would use a strong solenoid on each square to fix the piece once it touches down. Alternatively, the bottom of each chess piece could have a hermetic seal ring, and there's a hole at the centre of each square that will create a vacuum to fix the chess piece in place.

The pieces could be (3D printed) in translucent material with an induction circuit with an LED inside. The LED will glow at various intensities to represent the cooldown.
This is a good post. Why is it grayed out?
When the author says LRT they seem to be explicitly referring to streetcars. Which are, yeah, generally pretty stupid. Build real rapid transit or run buses. If you want to get rich people to ride the buses, add express routes that bypass poor neighborhoods.
I found that the cries were very quickly pretty distinct about what was the source of the problem. Even 3 month olds communicate if you listen.
He didn't say all Asian interviewers were racist. But I certainly saw that subtle "not one of us" bias at Google for black candidates and employees.

FAANGs are still American companies. They didn't check their historical baggage at the door.
Rest in Peace, Nog.

I mentioned to my wife, wondered if Rahm and Quark would show up for the funeral in costume. She said it sounded insane, but I liked the idea.
My organization has been very happy with using systemd on servers. Having an init system that can automatically restart failed services, and with decent sdependency management is a big win. We've also been able to replace many 50-100 line long init scripts with systemd unit definitions that are 10 lines long, and considerably more readable than the bash init scripts they replaced. We've had some bad experiences too, logins being "slow" because something went wrong and left 1000s of leftover session units in a weird state, systemd vulnerabilities requiring reboots occasionally. But systemd has had a net-positive impact.
Where does this discuss facial recognition? All I see is information related to the standard Adobe products, Acrobat/PDF, Creative Suite and others. They may be used in support for a facial recognition application but that’s all I see.
If that was true then they would be, but they aren't. Companies that big can easily afford one or many full-time employees focused on office and resource management which is more than enough to figure out a few leases.

Remember this is a company that already has a major international business in one of the most regulation industries. Adding in a few real-estate deals is unlikely to be a major source of friction.
> As for your first question, I'm getting into murky waters but I'll admit that it is difficult to put aside the fact that every Asian you hire, makes it harder for another black candidate to get hired. But it's definitely not as simple as rejecting every asian candidate, definitely don't want to leave a pattern behind :) i'l leave it there.

This has to be Poe's law. This is incredibly racist.
Montreal’s subway is phenomenal.
I'm probably in the minority but I find WeWork spaces horrible - just a collection of fishbowls. I can't get out of there fast enough.
My point was that many who tried to avoid systemd found it to be very difficult, despite the vague assurances up front that it would be "optional." Now "the maintainers" (i.e., Lennart and friends) are contemplating making the file system more opaque.

Instead of saying it will be optional, just say it up front: this is what Red Hat wants, so it's coming to your distro soon too, whether you like it or not, because it will become a dependency of systemd, or vice versa.

It's the lying about it that I can't stand.
All I've got to say is that I'm glad the BSDs make decent workstations even though desktop isn't their primary use case. Because I'm reading this and thinking, "Oh, hell no."

I'm reacting like this because I honestly don't get it. Why does systemd need a subsystem that touches /home?
That site has horrible design, that hurts my eyes so much. I've resorted to just copy/paste the text there to my preferred editor to read it. That said, I did enjoyed the story, so thank you.
I see the car analogy used regularly and I think it’s completely off base. A much better analogy for computer skills is literacy and numeracy. We don’t tell people “don’t bother learning how to read, you can listen to audio books on audible!” just as we shouldn’t tell people that computer programming is only for professional software developers (or anything else involving intensive skill mastery related to computers).
If this is wrong why is this not still taken out ?
It's perfectly legal and fine for companies to provide products and services to their home governments. What's the issue here?
Shit, I run our developer services group at my company, meaning we design and manage tools for our own developers.

I am always shocked at how many people respond to emails asking questions that are answered IN BOLD in the first paragraph of the email announcing a new tool or service.

The smartest people can sometimes miss the simplest of details.
It's a racial stereotype and one that becomes self-fulfilling. There were Asian interviewers, therefore I as Black candidate will be discriminated against. There were Black interviewers, therefore I will assume I will be discriminated against.

You're just re-enforcing Us vs Them mentality that many of us have worked very hard to abolish.
Legal maybe, moral idk, given what they do.
One bigger host meams less management overhead. (see other comments about being u willing to run multiple ips and what not)

It may be a bit early to have a presentation from the latest Epyc processors. Most of the work was likely done with previous processors, but their slides said their AMD boxes are single socket.
Your argument re-enforces the author's point. Amsterdam has lots of light rail, and is almost entirely gentrified. It's one of the top-10 most expensive cities in all of Europe.

The American version of this argument, is like saying "if rail was less scarce, there'd be less gentrification when it gets built. Just look at all the subway lines in New York City" -- without recognizing that NYC is one of the most hyper-gentrified expensive places in the entire nation.
Ok, but sometimes our moral compass points away from these things and we need to make hard decisions to do the right thing.
The only thing I can come up with is there is a part that says something like “user-facing, business-facing” which seems like what may have been confused? The LSG only talks about using well known adobe products.

https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=6f4e5737cc7bd661210bf56766...
Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (1976) [pdf]
If there's a morality issue, that should be directed at the government.
The title is false. There is no mention of facial recognition.
What happens to Asians when they get pulled over by police?
Then change the government. This proxy war against corporations is just silly.
The author answers that quite clearly.

1 - LRT is much more expensive than buses, but stations have the same catchment area.

2 - Because LRT is desirable, housing prices in the catchment, ie those walkable and bikable to the station, increase rapidly.

3 - Therefore, the majority of the gains are captured by the people who bought or buy housing in the catchment area. This also precludes use of the LRT by poor people, because they can't afford the housing that makes the LRT station usable.

4 - Buses can be used to increase the catchment area and provide essentially last-mile transit, but they generally aren't. Also, the increase of expense of LRT over bus lines often precludes this.

The subtext to all of the above is not only is LRT much more expensive, but it's also much less flexible. Moving bus routes is (my guessing?) 5-7 orders of magnitude less expensive than moving LRT.
what color of skin has anything to do with coding test?
They put money-recognition into Photoshop in the past -

https://petapixel.com/2011/08/09/heres-what-happens-when-you...

So perhaps they are putting facial-recognition in too?

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/14/18678782/adobe-machine-le...
I honestly couldn't tell if the comment was just really good satire. It sounds like something right out of a dystopian anthology series.
Yes, unpopular opinion these days, but car owners should really know how to do at least the bare minimum of basic car maintenance. I'm not talking about replacing the suspension or re-building the transmission, but things like changing oil, brake pads, and refilling washer fluid. The very basic basics. Not only does it save you money (who wants to have a mechanic do something for $200 that you can do for $30 + a little time) but knowledge of a tool you use every day is valuable in and of itself.

Wow, -2 in 40 minutes. I knew unpopular but is it that controversial a view??
> I'm assuming this is methemoglobinemia or something analogous to that

You don't have to assume. "Woman, 25, diagnosed with methemoglobinemia" is the first sentence after the title.

> The two meds I can think of that would cause this are dapsone and benzocaine.

"Doctors say numbing agent for toothache to blame" is the next sentence after that. "Warren said the condition had been triggered by a numbing agent containing benzocaine" is further down.

> It's an easily treatable disease where we have the patient take methylene blue

"The woman was treated with an antidote, methylene blue" is in there too.
I'll see that, and raise you a quote: "Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things." --Douglas Adams
Why? This way also works. Good luck changing the govt.
Extra-long or double-decker buses have crush load capacities around 120 pax.
A single Bart trainset can have a crush load capacity of about 2000 pax and can depart every 2 minutes.
So you would need a double decker bus departing roughly every 7.2 seconds to match that peak throughput. It just doesn't scale.
> Second: if you're building for mass market, you've got to keep things exceedingly and painfully simple.

Not the primary reason, but anyway one of the reasons google+ failed.
If Alexa were streaming recordings 24/7, someone would have noticed it by now. It's not that hard to inspect a device's data usage, even over WiFi.
Well that person doing the repair work isn’t going to use some dumbed down tools. Somebody has to specialize.

Plus the point is that as cars became more ubiquitous, once esoteric skills became the norm, such as checking oil, filling up gas. At some point the baseline has to advance.
With Japan, they've got a bunch of older folks that aren't computer literate. The anecdotes I hear about non-tech Japanese companies trying to use email is pretty disheartening. Japan also has a thriving tech industry, with particularly robotics shining.
This study is still a bit surprising, but also believable.
Agree -- I scanned this myself, looking for the 'Facial Recognition' mentions. Broadly this seems a justification to purchase Adobe by brand (rather than competitive tendering) for Digital Media, Digital Marketing, and Digital Meeting functionalities.

Pretty hi-tech stuff, but from what I could gather "Digital Media" means using Acrobat/ Reader for forms.

Much as I dislike Adobe, there doesn't seem much going on here.
In cases where they are, you're probably using a central account management system like ldap anyway.
> i know it’s not going to be a popular opinion, but yes most people are stupid.

No, most people are not stupid. Ignorant or unskilled about many subjects? Sure, but we all are.

Consider any speciality you like. There are those whom are Masters in it, fluent in its nuance and implication. And yet those same Masters are novices in most other domains. Are they stupid as well?

To put a fine point on it, consider this haiku:

Fishermen can fish,
But if you want a new roof,
Hire a carpenter.
This way just creates chaos and rarely results in any long-term change.

And the government changes all the time. It's called voting, and interacting with your representatives. If you have time to be outraged at corporations then you certainly have time to be involved with politics to create change.
I’ve got 20 years in tech and I find products like Snapchat extremely difficult to use. It’s NOT intuitive at all. Is it just me, or is it terrible?
That he doesn't use it is his problem. I run sshd on all my laptops and regularly ssh into a machine in another room.
I wonder what goes through the minds of the guardian's editors when they write titles like this. "Woman treated by doctors" isn't a story. One hopes that _everyone_ whose blood turns blue would be treated by doctors.
I see your Douglas Adams quote and raise you an Albert Einstein quote:

Common sense is the collection of
prejudices acquired by age eighteen.[0]

:-D

0 - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/albert_einstein_125365
You're probably right :)

It was rugged too. One problem I had years later when I went to start using it again was that it would drain the batteries too fast - they were seemingly always flat.
Because demand might be elastic and you can keep costs closer to utilization and outsource stuff you don't want to do like manage an office

Same reason companies pay Google and Amazon for cloud servers
Sunlight increases the incidence of melanoma, but reduces mortality:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15687362
> Systemd has always been hyper focused on the desktop/laptop experience

No, most features of systemd are focused in Servers (systemd-resolved itself is one example, it can be used by Desktops, however the reason for its creation was containers that needed to have faster DNS resolution).

Actually, systemd-homed is the first systemd feature that I know that the reason to exist is for Laptop users (and Desktop users somewhat less). Most new features of systemd are created for either servers or embedded users. For example:

- Portable services (user case: servers): http://0pointer.net/blog/walkthrough-for-portable-services.h...

- IP Accounting (user case: servers): http://0pointer.net/blog/category/projects.html

- Dynamic users (user case: servers): http://0pointer.net/blog/dynamic-users-with-systemd.html

- SD-event (user case: all): http://0pointer.net/blog/introducing-sd-event.html

- SD-bus (user case: all): http://0pointer.net/blog/the-new-sd-bus-api-of-systemd.html

- Stateless systems (user case: embedded): http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...

For all of those features, only SD-bus is more relevant to Desktop user case since it is where DBus is more common. However Dbus is also used in server/embedded user cases sometimes. The rest of features may be interesting for Desktop however they mostly are used for either servers or embedded systems.

> it will be forced upon server setups

I am really curious of which systemd features are being forced in any distro. systemd-resolved for example is not used by default in any distro that I know (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, NixOS).
Mobile app discoverability is terrible, it’s not just you. I guess you’re just supposed to monkey around with it and hope you find new features.
Was it this?

https://apxhard.com/2019/09/21/how-it-feels-to-eat-exactly-h...
I wonder if this has a lot to do with the economic system we live under. Marx wrote a lot about the alienation of labor, and one form of alienation was alienation from fellow workers. I wonder if we surveyed company executives or small business owners whether you'd find a different breakdown.
Thanks; this sounds amazing. I’m gonna do some more research on it to see if there’s any more information about the safety and technique. I just purchased an 850nm setup on Amazon to try it out. Does this look anything like what you use? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075F7NV56/
This is an Australian site but it's an evidence based, government funded initiative for new and upcoming parents like yourself: https://raisingchildren.net.au/

As a recently new father myself I've found it incredibly valuable. There's so much noise out there and it's great to have a solid starting point which you can then branch out from if you need to.
Do you have a source for her abuse? A quick search didn’t turn up anything—your comment is the top google result :)
But the ability of hospital staff to feel protected is still a lot better than the alternative.
This is the cannonical example of why HN gets it wrong. You really are not an expert in 99.99% of the topics on HN, so having this kind of holier than thou attitude is just really obnoxious.
Firefox's reading mode solved this problem for me.
There’s no reason it would put them out of business unless they outcompete them.
Has nothing to do with it. I am like him. People drain me whether I'm young or old, rich or poor.