skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the solution for a specific phone. A solution for the problem of having malware on phones period is to stop buying phones with malware.
This weather pattern has made for a much cooler southern hemisphere spring this year, at least down in New Zealand where I live.
We store pHash'es in a database, but just quickly checking on my laptop, between 1-2ms to generate a single image pHash. IO could be significant for many images.
The protests are no longer about the extradition law. It has been fully withdrawn.

The current violent (and often visibly anti-China) actions ensure that the mainland's public opinion fully supports the government in taking a tough and inflexible stance against the protesters as long as violence and disturbances continue.

The protesters should take a page from Gandhi's book: You couldn't fault him. In HK the government does not even need to try to fault the protesters...
> Despite best intentions, sometimes things just go off into the weeds.

True. Happens in every meeting. In which case anyone present can (and in my view) should get the meeting back on track.

“This is off topic”, “can you/we discuss this later”, “this has nothing to do with why we’re here for”.

Having strict time limits, a clear intent, and of course people enforcing it does make it possible.

>> and unites the team as a tribe
> Ugh, gross. We're not a "tribe", "family", whatever.

Agreed. This stuff makes me gag.
Hey @romain_g, huge thanks for sharing my blogpost!
Can a Machine Learn to Write for the New Yorker?
> * People sharing their opinion (frustration) about blocking issues

IMHO that would be okay, if not beneficial.

>and that developing into a discussion.

That not so much.
I actually doubt this to be a current and feasible attack vector for mass surveillance.

You could still route around it with software if these components are indeed compromised. Random number generation has always been a hot topic and a problem for deterministic machines, but I doubt there are usable hardware exploits to crack modern encryption.

It could be viable for industrial espionage where systems are even more uniform and it is imperative to keep an eye on that topic and hold hardware developers accountable.
What a strange rant about blockers.

Standups are supposed to take a few minutes and everyone becomes aware of what everyone is working on or blocked by. The person that controls the gate should become cognizant that its effecting someone else, and then it gets solved.

I love this.

I hate when standups are long winded. That removes the usefulness.

People dont need to interrupt the whole team and fish out who can help with the blockage, it just comes up and out. Thats the point anyway.

I use logs of standups and git commits to track dev progress.
I assume you're not trolling; people don't troll on HN, right?

"2015"

Cool. That's four years ago.

I use toasters to toast stuff. Mainly pre-sliced bread, sometimes bread I sliced by hand. Occasionally bread I baked myself. Srsly - I'm not trying to toast building materials, or bathroom tiles, or garden waste.

And I don't know why four years is supposed to be a good lifespan for a device that has no parts that have any kind of failure-plan. I mean, a toaster should last forever.

"Survivorship bias": The "ones I see surviving" have all failed, in point of fact. They've all broken down. The only "machines" I own that are older than five years are [1] a ROTEL audio amplifier (cheap == < £120, works well), and [2] Monitor Audio bookshelf speakers (about £400 for the pair, they look nice too). Both of these are more than 20 years old.

But my beef isn't about toasters; a cheap toaster costs about EU20, who gives a shit. It's about washing machines and dishwashers. These things cost from EU300 to EU700; and as far as I can tell, it doesn't matter how much you are prepared to spend, it's going to fail within five years (and you're going to have to call out a mechanic several times during that interval).

There's no "survivorship bias" going on here; the stuff I've referred to that survived belonged to my parents. Dude, they've both died.
An interesting article, I grew up near here and have spent many hours clambering up and over the rock. It's absolutely packed on a sunny day.

Perhaps strangely I feel like the scale of the graffiti makes it better than if there was just a bit. It's not a small blemish, but absolutely part of the rock itself.
That would mean a pretty draconian anonymity policy. Haven't seen that anywhere yet. But beyond that, you start banning people for revealing gender pronouns, you risk finding yourself trending on Twitter for sexual discrimination and transphobia - after all, you've been banning people for revealing their gender pronouns, which will be shortened to "for their gender pronouns"...
I used 1Password before (and my old company still does), and use now Bitwarden with my new company.

I would say they are similar, but I always had problems with 1Password's syncing across clients. Not sure if they resolved that in the meantime.

What I like also about Bitwarden is that it's open-source, and in general the UI feels more light-weight and performant.
Well in France I can tell you that bank services are a big joke, no one ever called me when my card was blocked, worst, most of the time they don't even know why the card doesn't work. Happened to me on multiple occasions with different banks in different regions in France.

And if you dare pointing out how incompetent they are they'll just close you account and leave you in the wild.
A persons that have trouble distinguishing colors are ~10%, but I don't see websites having option to turn colors off and use black and white (it would be nice, but I won't make it a end of the world event). Or I don't see moderator discussions that referring to something as "red" or "green" is bad for color blind people.

If one already uses gender neutral pronoun, it should be enough, if it is not, then that person is a jerk similar to e.g. someone that whats to be called a "sir" (as in "yes, sir").
What’s the point of knowing what the rest of 10 people are working on? You won’t remember all of it anyway. There is no need to add so much cognitive load to your brain every single morning. Engineers should imho start their day with clear mind.
+1 for Xiaomi A2 as well. I would never buy a non-Android One device again, after seeing the experience on this one.

My only complaints is lack of NFC on this device, and that A3 is worse performance/weight wise.
FAA Certifies Ups to Operate Nation’s First Drone-Delivery Airline
True, the analogy doesn't really hold in that sense. The point of not apologizing for the 'what' but only the 'how' still stands I think.
Gigantic Collision in the Asteroid Belt – Boost for Biodiversity on Earth?
Algo Capital Loses Crypto Funds After CTO’s Phone Is Hacked
Stuff they acquired. This is something originating from Nervana Systems and I think there are also some Altera chips out there. Intel's custom foundry offering has historically been poor so chances are anyone they buy will have been using someone else (why take the risk and change that).
I am absolutely not a believer in anyone who talks about agile techniques as having 'Rules'. That is a trademark of agile gone wrong to me.

Small teams are better, but not always possible. Agile is about having team mechanics that make your specific team more productive and changing them as your team changes.
>They'll be looking for someone to blame when they're 40 and jaded.

No need to wait. I'm 23 and I already feel jaded.

I can't comprehend why anyone would want to treat their primary residence as an investment. My mom bought a tiny apartment in an eastern European country 30 years ago for almost nothing that has appreciated and is now worth $35000. The problem? She wants to move and an actually desirable apartment costs twice as much. Two times almost nothing is still almost nothing. Two times $35000 is $70000 which is something she can't afford.

House appreciation ends up being a a net loss because it kills any potential exit strategy.
Want to cash out? You will have to sell your house and then rent for obscene prices. Want to upgrade? Better houses appreciate faster than your low end house, so you have to cough up more money. Want to move to a different location that costs the same? Your taxes have appreciated too.

So the only way this investment strategy can pay off is if you want to move away from the place which is obviously what doesn't happen because people buy homes to stay there, not to move away in 30 years after their homes have appreciated.
The Bloody Beginnings of the Barber's Pole
I have a similar experience. Standups keep me at least vaguely informed on what other people are doing, provide an opportunity to take the pressure off poor souls buried under a new influx of tasks, and are perhaps some light team building (such as the canned joke that a burndown chart isn't supposed to look even remotely like that, or something in the lines of "help me, those goddamn morons from $OVERSEAS_BRANCH at it again"). 10 minutes tops, and back to work.

If I were to compile a list of workspace annoyances, even the most pointless standup would be way after serious business like "people standing behind my back while talking to someone".
You mean as long as PLA keeps planting undercover operatives amongst the protesters as agent provocateurs to incite the violence that's then used as an excuse for a 'harder' stance?

Please, ask me for sources. I have probably over a hundred unspinnable photos and videos collected from r/HongKong by now. New ones keep coming every day.

Here's an appetiser:

https://i.redd.it/0o2411874tj31.jpg
This resignation notice [0] coincided closely with the Judaism moderator's firing by SE. It should provide a bit more context with respect to their apology to the LGBTQ+ community that felt let down by SE:

0: https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1195/res...
Generating a random float always takes that into account: for instance, the samples will be less than 0.01 only 1% of the time. A method that just interpreted a uniformly random bit pattern (that is, integer) as a float would only be useful in very specialised situations.
Gender/sex roles are a part of a bigger cultural story we all participate in. Sex is in everything. You can't remove it, without losing an essential part of humanity.

A lot of young men work hard for symbols of masculinity as a form of validation. A job that doesn't pay can still be rewarding in part if it increases the validity or reputation of your sex drive. Gender can change how you reward people.

Compsci may be discussing video games where women prefer completion and fantasy while men prefer destruction and competition. Knowing the gender of the writer and the context of the post can cut down the time and awkward social questions needed to deliver the relevant information.

Gender can change your attitude for risk taking. Suggesting a low risk low reward solution to a young guy looking to prove himself will likely get ignored.

Estimations of the trustworthiness and gut level assessment of competence of a answerer offering an answer that has an unknown quality to the questioner can be assessed on non-rational levels like their competence in other areas of life, including perceived gender role success or attractiveness.

You can't cut out the gender of the speaker and maintain a human conversation that uses most tools of conversation available. Some people work towards a better sex life via money and competence. Cutting out the ability to discern what is important to the questioner makes for spammy answers before you figure out what he/she wants.

It is fundamentally anti-human to cut out the motive force that propagates the species or recreation from a discussion about what people want to achieve in life. It may work as an experiment or produce hyper rational results and be heralded a success. I don't think people will favour the move over all.

The removal of pronouns is fine for the symbol of masculinity at the moment, as a part of a much bigger story. But the symbol of femininity is taking a hit for it, whether you want to continue that trend or reverse it is up to you.
Move the daily to just before noon: it does not stop you during work and people tend to keep it short because they're hungry. And you can have people coming in late in the morning and not be a problem.

They're a good way to handle people who don't communicate well: if it looks like a junior is blocked on something and does not like to ask for help another dev can easily propose a pair-coding session.

But you need to only have devs or former devs so you don't get the feeling you get judged because your "what have I done last day" is "mainly nothing, this ticket is not exciting so I'm going slow".
Why not join the meetup with afterwork drinks?

Mandatory after work 'fun' can be highly controversial.
I've had daily standup calls spanning multiple time zones (US, India, UK) with 30+ people in which take an hour.

I've had in-person standups which regularly turn into design meetings between two people, which everyone else has to listen to for half an hour.

I've had 5 minute 9:30am daily standups which always start between 5 and 20 minutes late, thus are significantly disruptive. Arrive at 9, get a drink, try to pick up where I left off yesterday, oh it's time for the standup. Not yet? OK, where was I? Oh now? But Dan is on the phone? Alright, in 5 mins? ...First hour of the day down the toilet.

I've had standups where people are told off for trying to communicate any sort of useful information - so people just list the people they need to talk to that day.

And of course in a small company there might only be 8 developers, often working on 4 totally separate things for different clients, but there has to be a standup with everyone just because management can't figure out how to use Jira properly.

I've had enough of standups. I've switched to working afternoons only for my current client so I can avoid the bloody things.
> Grosser also points out that unlike Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook, TikTok prevents users from keeping track of the time by covering the clock displayed at the top of their iPhones.

Oh, just like how casinos don't have any clocks or windows. I guess it's a step towards social media admitting that it's just there to milk users without providing anything of value in the same way a slot machine does.
In some cases (certainly not all) the answer to your question is: Because you actually study the clinical trials. Because you read all the epidemiological studies. Because you try to understand the pharmacokinetics of the vaccines. And after then you make a (very hard) decision weighing all the risks and unknowns on both ends.
I see what you mean. I guess perhaps another way of characterizing PG's advice would be to keep your identity as small as possible, but no smaller.

I think it's a pretty good idea to think about how to not be a "Java programmer" or a "kitesurfer" (to pick two things that I could be identified as), since the former sets my brain up to be implicitly against, say, Kotlin or Haskell, and the latter sets my brain up to be against windsurfing. And I like all of those things too!

But certainly, there are things that are core to someone's identity, and I guess that's where each of us needs to find our own boundaries.
> I know "fascism" is the wrong word here

I think the proper word is "authoritarian", which is a classification they would likely agree with.

As an aside, I think traditionally political labels like "the Left" are becoming very problematic and are part of the problem. It's generally no longer enough to ask someone whether they're left or right and then correctly assume their stance on things. Instead - and I argue that we should have started doing that before this current upheaval - instead, you have to query a person specifically about their positions on specific things.

For example, that way some confusion about the so-called Social Justice Warriors could have been avoided on all sides. They are a heterogenous group, but do tend to represent leftist values (inclusiveness, equality, a belief that society should take care of disadvantaged individuals disproportionately), at the same time they are not liberals in most regards. They tend to believe in progress through force, and they do generally favor strict rules and harsh/permanent punishment. They're authoritarians.

One might argue that the SJW movement has more in common with conservatives and reactionaries than traditional leftist liberals, if you disregard their disparate political goals for a moment. Leftist liberals and SJWs often cannot successfully communicate and as a result are often in conflict, despite overlapping goals.

This may also be the reason why, as the article describes in one instance, an openly anti-trans moderator was mostly seen as A-OK, whereas the leftist liberal author was fired.
There is a huge difference. In one instance they government pays direct money to make something cheaper.

In the other they do not collect tax on something. The argument that the "could have had" the money is moot because they never had it in the first place like with subsidies.

It's like saying the US government is subsidising iphones since they could have had 100% sales tax on them but do not.

And lastly, the tax they collect on the ICE cars is a pollution and/or CO2 tax so it is not applicable to EVs anyway as they do not have an indirect cost to society in form of pollution. I think they should tax ICE cars even more and same with petrol and CO2 release in general.
Confidence can be trained as a muscle every day: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Six-Pillars-of-Self-Esteem-Au...
If you have to ask the question, you don't need it nor truly want it, so why bother?|

A Masters is good enough; you are above most people but not too deep into the trenches.
Show HN: Spotify for the Terminal Written in Rust
I'm curious as to what part of the issue was about "social justice warriorisms", especially since Monica herself and most of the other mods who resigned were okay with the principle of calling people by the pronoun they prefer to be called by.
Looking at the videos and how much emphasis they've placed on the quality of the scenery, I get the feeling this version will be mostly focused on VFR flying, rather than flying in to big commercial airports with ATC and lots of traffic.
> its literally 10 minutes

Even if the meeting itself was instant it would take more than 10 minutes. You would have to stop whatever you're working on, even if you're in the middle of a valuable flow state. Then after the meeting you have to get back into whatever it was, which alone can take you more than 10 minutes depending on the depth of your work.

If that's not bad enough then what you talked about in the meeting can also linger. You'll think of problems others have had and it causes your mind to lose focus, now you have thoughts about your problem mixed with other problems. These meetings also tend to happen during the mornings, smack in the middle of the most productive hours of the day.

No, a daily standup takes much more time than 10 minutes.
I think the purpose of the "do" disciplines is maybe getting lost somehow; it's supposed to deemphasize violence as a matter of ethics. This essay reflects my understanding well:

https://iainabernethy.co.uk/article/jutsu-vs-do
'A deadly problem': should we ban SUVs from our cities?
Seems like now is the time for the new CEO to make themself public.
We had issues with MS coded-ui tests failing, found them so unreliable.

It was a problem too as the tests themselves would take at least an hour to run, and then to have a test fail after an hour and the solution was just to rerun the suite.

Often times it was coded-ui failing to find a control which was definitely on the screen. Selenium may be better but I thought coded-ui was effort >>> reward.
> The problem is that your "1 Billion" have virtually no reduction in their security

Yes they do. Ambitions tend to grow with opportunities. That is especially true for government, you just have to look at China and other regimes.

Your personal conquest against crime doesn't justify compromising security.
I agree with you, I don't think that it's different for Haskell.
Standups can be great. And they can be useless. It depends on how they are designed and used. For example, the frequency should be matched to the needs of the team. It only makes sense to meet when there is relevant new information. For example, at the Broad institute at MIT, lab teams meet daily to discuss the output from the last day to identify bottlenecks. It’s important to identify problems quickly so meeting every day makes sense. In other systems, meeting every two or three days would make more sense. It’s not that standups are useless, but that poorly designed stand ups are useless.
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React Async v9 with Suspense release announcement
I love the era of people making practical effects to look like computer graphics. The Hitchhikers Guide tv-show also had hand-drawn animation which was supposed to look like computer graphics.
Here are a couple real ones, ex-moderators Caleb[0] and Nathaniel[1].

Edit: Also, for context, an eight year old post from Caleb.[2]

0) https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6718/b...

1) https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6717/r...

2) https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/193/br...
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To give ideas based on your experience. To raise questions that might not have been considered. To build a team instead of a collection of independent cogs. To know what expertise your teammates have so you know who to go to with a question in the future.

It really shouldn't be much cognitive load to listen to what other people are working on for 10 minutes. If it is, it might mean the standup is running at the wrong level of abstraction or perhaps you aren't really a team that has a shared goal.
Your own public cloud – why not?
Right, all those hundreds, if not more of people are all undercover operatives and without them the protests would have stopped long ago. It was them who stormed the LegCo... This is not serious.
Yeah, this has been my feeling for quite a while now, so it's 'nice' to see it being extrapolated from a situational observation.

Some individuals are trusted* while most are not trusted at all.

* Ts and Cs apply
I read this thread, read topvoted links to meta and still not sure if I get what’s happening.

Is it that ‘they’ does not count as a neutral addressing anymore? If yes, what’s the solution?
Interesting, thanks for sharing.

That seems like a very shortsighted time to cut and run from NVIDIA, but they probably spent more time thinking about it than I have.
Whether it is actually here in part, what votes go where, etc. does not alter that it is not considered on-topic here.

"The rule is already broken in one direction, so it should be right to break it in another" isn't a helpful take IMO.
An ad-hominem response.
what about people fucking for the sake of proving a political point?

what decides which way their motivation swings, legally?

perhaps they, and others, shouldn't consider the lines between censored topics to be so vividly painted as 'indecent' or 'not'.

it's an issue that some of the most important law-shaping courts in the world have argued back and fourth about for years; the criteria for concluding what is or isn't indecent.
Include me in the screencap