skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only zero if you exclude actions that are unlikely to work while requiring great sacrifices and/or likely to get you killed. Of course, no one should blame you for not:

- Joining/founding an underground resistance group

- Distributing anti-government propaganda

- Rising through the ranks of the party until you're influential.

- Emigrating (This won't directly influence your government. But losing skilled workers (I assume you are one) harms the economy, making a revolution more likely.

- If that is not possible, being as unproductive as you can get away with.

- Becoming friends with high-ranking officials, then influence them.

- Protesting. You can technically make sure you won't get punished by setting yourself on fire.

> And you people being racist pos because there is nothing I can do about my gov. Wtf do you want?

No one's being racist here. The entity people don't trust is the Chinese government. Governments act through the people they govern so that distrust extends to your potentially involuntary actions (but not to your character). Note that Gitlab doesn't trust employees living in China independently of their ethnicity.
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I'm looking for an entry level data science / machine learning position. I have a couple of years experience assisting PHD students with their research, i.e. modeling, creating datasets or conducting text analysis on big datasets (mainly Wikipedia dumps) using the Hadoop cluster and PySpark.

A paid internship would also be nice. Location wise, I would like to work in a big city (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, etc).

Location: Germany
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Python, PySpark, Hadoop, data science libraries (scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, etc)
Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/patricksaad
Email: patrick-saad@web.de
And maybe 10-years old would be right. Not because of becoming best in the world, but because there would be zero harm to his development, really.
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I would expect authorization and validation to be a real pain with PostgREST (I don't know enough about it to tell definitively, though).

Even row-level access control, while not widespread any way, is often not enough. Complex validation in SQL can be done, of course, but SQL isn't exactly meant for these things, IMHO.
Shameless plug: As an alternative to solutions like WebTorrent, if you do need to rely on a signaling server but don't want to send your signaling data (ICE candidates containing IP addresses in this case) unencrypted over a cloud service like Firebase, it's possible to use an end-to-end encrypted protocol for this use case: https://saltyrtc.org/ The good thing about this protocol is that you don't need to trust the server.

(Of course it would be nice if we could just send an UDP broadcast or announce the device via mDNS/Avahi, but browsers do not allow direct network socket access, due to reasons™.)
For licensing reasons alone, almost got hit by one dependency switching from LGPL 2 to GPL 3 and one project we bought dropped dead once someone went over its dependency tree and noticed the mess of highly incompatible licenses, it would have taken years to get to a point where we could legally publish anything. Not knowing about all of your dependencies is a liability.
I like the idea that their slogan was really "we put the second dot in dot-com-dot".

"You know, the one you've never heard of."
> I do not see how independence will solve them. In some cases, I think all this "proces" is just making it worse.

If these problems were solved without us having to resort to become independent we would not do that. In fact if most of them were "solved" the independence movement would diminish a lot.

But right now there's too much immobilism and cronyism in Spain. There are some of these questions that are met with a direct "no" from some parties (culture), and most of them are guilty of the main problems (corruption and public services) and will not solve them.

Having a blank slate would make it easier to solve them (theoretically).

Do you want to help solve the independence "problem" without "breaking" Spain up? Vote correctly this weekend, and help others choose any of the correct options, that do not want the power for the sake of the power.
I'm surprised education is even mentioned. Every MBA I know has always stated the real value of the degree was for the network is provided[1]. A general management degree would naturally be useless in a world that increasingly values specialization.

From this perspective, MBA programs are just expensive signaling, or even a luxury good. As usual for elite education, these who meet the strict and competitive entry requirements are highly talented individuals, so the programs real value to employers is the sorting they provide by filtering from a large set of candidates.

[1] I have a PhD, but I work and know many MBAs. My father, wife, and several former bosses have been MBAs. Very capable, but none mentioned much value in the degree program.
Tried it on “Halleluwah” by CAN, had to hear those drums:

https://soundcloud.com/alezzzz/can-halleluwah-drums-extracte...

Finding drum breaks in music is very time consuming. This is gonna be amazing for music production. Think how 90s jungle would’ve been if they had access to every drum take ever
Research shows Bitcoin 2017 rally caused by single whale
What really got me was the line about ‘assuming there isn’t a problem with bias’

the universe is supposedly expanding very rapidly, with objects moving very rapidly. I would imagine there is a huge bias that is probably wrong.

I understand gravitational lensing and all, but there are huge assumptions made about formations and clusters of celestial bodies where there is a lot of room for these crafted images of stars and black holes to be completely wrong.

What if there is no black hole but just points in the universe where there is so much clutter the light cannot jump around, leading physicist to believe there is a black hole?

Like when I shine my flashlight over a corner, sure you can see the shadow, what if you are two rooms away? Wouldn’t you not be able to see anything at all?

It seems we don’t know anything about the universe and rather than say the equations are wrong and look for more abstract formalizations with larger rooms for error, we continue to hold dogmatic practice to very strict and rigid formalizations. Don’t get me wrong quantum mechanics show the waviness of the world (both metaphorically and literally), it just seems based off of some assumptions we snowball. The snowball effect causes generations upon generations to practice dogma rather than facilitating questioning and looking for contradiction. It seems the physics community has fallen to a confirmation bias.
I would be more interested in knowing how the companies scoring customers operate. If their goal is to detect fraudsters they must be able to aggregate accounts with a different name and/or email from different systems, as surely a fraudster will use a different identity on each service?
This will only serve to inflate property prices even further.
I am extremely skeptical of a cop in LA making 400k/year. My skepticism is supported by the fact the police chief of LA makes 350k [0]

[0]https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2018/11/21/publ...
> First three episodes for the "For All Mankind" (scifi) are good so are the three episodes for "See". The "The Morning Show" seems to be very good although I'm not in the target audience.

Which is funny because many critics/reviewers have panned all the new shows. I've only watched TMS so far and found it intriguing.
Yeah I would assume most only don't have them on the list because they weren't actually dealing with them in the first place and had no expectation to have a use for them.
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It requires installing proprietary software on all devices though, while your browser already brings along an open source and mostly standardized P2P stack.
Regarding the naming, the backtick notation is useful sometimes to allow you to do stuff that goes against normal conventions in Kotlin for identifiers. But generally sticking with naming conventions (that you are also dodging with various annotations top opt out of warnings for non ascii characters) is probably helpful from a code readability and autocomplete predictability point of view; which I would argue is important in an API and DSL.

I'd suggest just spelling out what is what instead of relying on names that by themselves are meaningless. So e.g. Dimension1, Dimension2x2, etc. make it clear that 1) it's a class 2) it's intended as syntactic sugar for something else. Could type aliases work here? In any case, there are only so many vector and matrix dimensions you can predefine. Your approach kind of breaks down for larger vectors/matrices and you lose compile time checks for those.

Nevertheless, kudos for pushing the type system this far.
Well, I at least try to be consistent, and do query my USA friends about the current administration and it's actions. Recent political changes in the USA have made it the norm to have similar populist leaders or parties gain strength all around the world, it's actually quite distressing for me to see.
That and Azure data studio were what I was thinking of.
As long as companies are operating faithfully within the law, they’re free to do that. And you’re free to criticize it and boycott it.

Companies like Apple and others should be allowed to be concerned about theft of sensitive data just as much as the government. Just because it’s not a matter of national security doesn’t mean it’s okay.

Nobody here is trying to discriminate against a race. The problem is having ties to relatives living under a government that is known for making people disappear. The same would apply for a white person with many relatives there, etc.

Your argument of companies not being allowed to take cautionary steps against a foreign government doesn’t hold water.
> Already, there are a few companies that have applied to YC, gotten accepted, and ostentatiously turned it down.

Can anyone shed some light into this? Why do companies turn down YC after being accepted?
Just requested all of my data from the companies listed. I'm very curious to see the data they return.
Deploy Kong in front?
Common Errors in Writing Manuscripts in English for Chinese Researchers
If you combine this with the CO2 capturing aspects of concrete itself as mentioned by other commentators, would that mean you can actually have a net CO2 level decrease?
> If you are a citizen of a state that is known to coerce its people to work for it, you are not an individual, you're a state-level actor.

You are putting collective blame on a billion people for the actions of their dictatorial government. This is not a reasonable position to hold in a supposedly enlightened society, it is rather just a thinly veiled excuse for run-of-the-mill xenophobia.
There are open source alternatives like syncthing, which is still not as user friendly.

Also single file sharing seems interesting, but this is not what you usually do on daily basis... You just want to drop some file to shared folder most of the time, or to have a ton of different files synced automatically.
Think further a few more steps. There will be an equilibrium around a pay where there is a long enough line for unskilled labor to fill all demand. Assuming an Econ 101 efficient transparent market.
Funny, the quote you reference is kind of why much of UX research is not asking people what they want, but divining what they need.
No kidding. CERN takes in public money which it turns into research. It then gifts that research to businesses (frequently owned privately by CERN employees) who then sell products which generate billions in profits. Following the money at CERN is a very complex task, but to the best of my knowledge none of those profits go back to CERN. The gifting of patents seemed like a good thing at the time, but now I think if CERN had a different model, where they kept a small percentage stake in the patents, they would have more than enough cash now to fund themselves and build the next collider, without all this daft lobbying and
begging for public money.
A few reasons I've encountered:

They require founders to relocate

They take a non-trivial equity stake as the price of admission

It's a huge time commitment

Not stating that YC isn't an incredible program and a great value proposition. Just that it has some challenges.
I believe that statement is incorrect :-)
>Or, What about if one of their employees is married (or wants to get married) to a legal resident of one of these countries? How far removed does the employee have to be from this risk?

Security clearance background checks will cover this sort of thing. For sensitive government contract work, clearances are generally required for the relevant contractor employees.

For non-government customers who still have these concerns, I’m not sure there’s a good answer. I guess you could define your own clearance process and run similar background checks - many of the government’s own background checks are done by private investigators already.
>Unless you have some particular type of software in mind perhaps?

Webservices. May be its fine for couple of hundred users, but when there are thousands of concurrent users with heavy I/O I've been forced to replace asyncio with uvloop, replacing coroutine with gevent, implementing pre-fork worker models etc. to get decent performance.

I've since then moved any webservices development to Golang and has been perfect.

I understand there are large scale companies like Instagram which supposedly use Python and I don't detest it. It's just there are better tools for job now, especially for a lean startup and of-course Python has it's advantages like being a good first programming language and large library ecosystem.
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To be fair, I expect the major corporation to have the "resources of a hotel" and handle the rebooking/room swap. They get a big fee on every booking, right? Am I just paying tens-to-hundreds per booking for the privilege of using their search engine and (apparently worthless) rating system?
I don't know who came up with that definition. Gen-Y is born late 80s and 90s. Millenials are born in the new MILLENIUM.
They'll simply accuse you of being an anti-Semite ;-)
I think the question is:

1) are they getting tax breaks because they are giving money towards affordable housing; or

2) are they getting tax breaks anyway and then choosing to give this money towards affordable housing?
The Lifespan of News Cycles
A more trusted bootstrap build than the DoD
It appears Gnu Guix is soon going to have a more secure bootstrap build than the US Department of Defense. https://github.com/oriansj/talk-notes/raw/master/Current%20bootstrap%20map.pdf
with the recent release of https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools-seed
Yes, but the basic Internet from 1990 is still there. E.g. small websites, self-hosted email, IRC servers.
This looks nice. However, when it does the automatic fallback to WebSockets, will the file be sent unencrypted? The FAQ does not mention encryption, it only says that data is not stored on the server...
> Eric Johnson @edjdev · 5 days ago
> Owner

> @cciresi I appreciate your position. Please be aware there is an active, time-sensitive contract negotiation linked to this matter. And you need to advocate to the DRI that the company walk away from that contract in order to enact your proposal.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555#not...

Well now, that's interesting.
Why not? And Australians, they're explicitly (by law) required to be spies.

And your comment suggests as much - why would opsec about consumer / sensitive data be important unless you expect your employees to act in less-than-fair manner (be that for personal gain, a competitor's gain, a national gain, ...)?
You don't really have to live in SV though. There are tech hubs in US with much more reasonable cost of living.
"roslaunch is a tool for easily launching multiple ROS nodes locally and remotely via SSH, as well as setting parameters on the Parameter Server. "
sounds like a form of orchestration to me
imagine your government neck deep in debts with privately owned companies. ok ok you got me... , now imagine that's not banks :'D ... ok not much changes :D, government giving out their powers and money to some companies. its what they do i guess
The same argument would apply if the person was white and had many relatives in China. Or real estate, or other leverage that can be used against them.

You can’t ignore the fact that the PRC uses those things as leverage against people abroad in order to get information. Until that stops, what are companies and governments supposed to do? Roll over and allow espionage because we’re so tolerant?
Yeah but shields are sci fi and were used as a storytelling device. Electrostatic repulsion is a real thing.
This feels honestly like a pretty weak criticism of the original paper. First there are all kinds of red herring details about Rosenhan’s “life of the party” demeanor and a book deal, very much as if to set you up to believe he was a manipulator on these accounts alone.

After that there is literally just one fact that possibly indicates manipulating the original study data, which is allegedly omitting one participant’s experiences which were “positive” (as self-reported decades later).

Even if true, the overall study only included some tiny sample size, and if even only 1-2 had harrowing or abusive experiences, which Rosenhan himself had in his own faked hospital stay, wouldn’t that be enough to prove the general point that abuse was shockingly common and patient treatment in these facilities at that time was seriously troubled?

Meanwhile this article itself is also pushing various book ads for the author’s own book.

My takeaway is that Rosenhan may have selectively excluded data, but the point of his paper was much more qualitative and directional in a direction that turned out to be true and led to a huge overhaul of mental health facilities for the better.

If we can prove Rosenhan manipulated data, we should acknowledge that, and it should not be treated lightly. But it also doesn’t seem to invite sweeping reassessment of the original paper at all.

This piece just seems like somewhat of a publicity grab.
Specifying first-level versions is not the same as a lockfile and does not ensure you have the same tree of dependencies each time, and is no way to ensure that your builds are reproducible. I'm not sure you're clear on exactly what a lockfile is, but the problem it solves is this:

You depend on `cool-package==1.0`. That depends on `another-package` with a loose specifier, i.e `another-package=LATEST`.

Now when `another-package` is updated you suddenly have a different tree of dependencies, because the package resolution is run again and `another-package=LATEST` is installed. Imagine you're in the middle of rolling back (or rolling out) a deploy to your product. Suddently what you've been testing and working with has changed, and `another-package=LATEST` breaks the deploy due to some changes or bugs.

What's worse is that it's now harder to roll back, as a re-build and a re-deploy will still bring in the broken `another-package=LATEST`!

The solution is to lock the tree of dependencies, including all sub-dependencies. This has the advantage of speeding up installation as resolution doesn't need to happen. So, your package tree is locked to:

cool-package==1.0
another-package==0.1 # Non-broken!

That makes any updates to your packages safe, versioned and able to be reverted.

The lack of this feature makes Conda a no-go for anything serious.

> specific gcc for extensions that need it, because relying on the system gcc is not reproducible

apt install gcc:4:4.9.2-2
If you read about the world of scams, people routinely receive calls from people claiming to represent entities such as the IRS or a Sheriff's Department, and convince the victim they are in legal jeopardy which can be alleviated immediately by transferring significant sums of money in the form of eBay, iTunes or Amazon gift cards. So, it's not just about tech repair.

I don't think it can be argued that it's reasonable to think the sheriff or the IRS can be paid through iTunes gift cards.
Why do ISPs need to see DNS data?
I think the point is exactly that fraudsters have no history. The system probably starts with a low score that increases as more data is collected. And then it can actually score you on the data rather than a "probably fraudulent account" flag.
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I was at a loss for why Sift was collecting data like this from companies like airbnb / etc, I worked a project using them around curbing some pretty gnarly levels of credit card fraud. I think it must be that these companies are utilizing their user content fraud scanning (“content integrity”) systems. I don’t know about calling this a consumer score though, but it is truly frightening if that’s how companies are utilizing that technology. I really enjoyed working with them — so I might be biased to see the good here — but they totally pushed back on biz folks on our side when they tried to nudge on things that the technology was not designed to do. So I would imagine / hope that they would have done the same in the case of something like constructing a “consumer score”, the tech is for flagging outright fraud, not for relatively scoring how good a customer is...
If you want to sign up without subscribing to marketing e-mail, this seems to be the actual registration url:
https://roamresearch.com/#/secretinvite
Having been inured to loading 100KB-200KB of boilerplate CSS for a web project, I'm just amazed that the raw CSS for this is 43KB, un-minified:

https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-lace/blob/master/style...
Apple Commits $2.5B to Fight California Housing Crisis
Camera+ didn't use a hidden API - they just used a standard system volume control but placed it offscreen and monitored if the volume changed (and then lower it imperceptibly if you hit 100%). And Apple has still not added an API to do this officially, last I checked all third party camera apps use a similar hack.

What changed was just the interpretation of the app store rules - the rules said something like "you're not allowed to use hardware buttons in a non-standard way". Once they added the volume shutter feature to the system camera, now it's not a non-standard way and it's not against the rules.
Obligatory xkcd :)

https://xkcd.com/949/
Be careful.

This way you may end up justifying terrorist attacks against American citizens coming as a retribution for the foreign policy and military adventures of the democratically elected American government.
Goes to show, you can never trust politicians, even when they seem nice at the time.

It's a shame the opposition are so divided and inept. Obviously control of old world media is still pretty important.
Phone scams are definitely getting worse. It's small measure, but I've disabled my voicemail. I still get the scam calls, but they're that much less annoying.
On another note, as a German, I think the acceptability of mobile payments is slowly but surely increasing. In my town, all of the shops and restaurants I use take NFC payments and I pay with Apple Pay multiple times a day.

An exception are typical money laundering and tax evasion businesses such as many Vietnamese restaurants.
Hopefully this will happen everywhere. Electron apps are shit. If you don't want to write a native app. Don't support that platform.
The discussion on Gitlab is completely out of control now. Gitlab should never have opened that can of worms. Geopolitics and all, first started talking about limiting nationals of China and Russia to do certain jobs and now so many have conflated this to ethnicity, political views, hacking and anything in between.