skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there is no answer to this question yet, but thats the point. Just because a thought experiment doesn't solve it, doesn't mean it cannot be physically produced.

For all we know in actual implementation you would simply eat the bagel, time travel back and bias the oracle, but your conscious experience only ever consists of finding that your oracle was modified and has your fingerprints on it somehow.
The tech industry does have a strong fungibility / "seller's market for labor" advantage.

A software engineer who leaves a position at a company (especially in the cities where the companies we've heard of have offices) is extremely likely to get snapped up quickly by another company, often at about the same salary. That gives individual employees a lot of freedom to exit on ideological grounds that other industries with tighter labor markets may not have.
Definitionally, no. If you can come back, you're just ill.

It's like asking, "can erased data be recovered?" If it can, it's not erased.
In my organization there are certain operations that we require you to have authenticated with 2fa in order to perform them. For the CLI or terraform this means using something like awsmfa. There's no way of doing that with a FIDO key.

It would be nice to be able to use a FIDO dongle for the web console and TOTP for cli tools but the (bad) AWS restriction forcing you to only use one or the other means I'm stuck on TOTP for everything.
There are concentration camps on the southern US border.
One of the ideas being kicked around inside the bit of Pivotal that works on Cloud Foundry, back when i was there, was the need for some abstraction that lets you cleanly separate those things. You want your sysadmin/SRE/cloud provider/platform team to be able to do all the hardware/unix/networking stuff, and then people who know the managed software really well to be able to look after them, without having to worry about the rest.

Cloud Foundry (and things like it) does a reasonable job of separating those things for "applications", ie web apps, pretty well, but didn't have an equivalent for data services. Nobody was quite sure what it should look like.

I suppose part of Kubernetes's success has been that it looks like a solution to this. I'm not sure how well it really works, though.

If something like this worked, it would technically enable a marketplace model, where AWS or GCP do their efficient hardware thing, then the software experts provide a value-added service on top of that. What we would then be missing is a way to economically enable that model, where it doesn't make sense for AWS etc to just provide their own version of the service and capture all the profit.
Lots and lots of outside money.
From the article:

"At over 17 million tons of food, Los Angeles County received more food than any other county in 2012, our study year. It shipped out even more: 22 million tons."

I think that statement is backwards. The graphic shows Los Angeles with an OUTFLOW of 16.6b and an INFLOW of 21.9b.
Other countries off-shoring their spycraft. <cough> <cough>
There's also been a noted change in how people handle things thrown at them that make them uncomfortable. A little over a decade ago universities started to notice that students, when presented with something they didn't agree with, would attack the messenger in an attempt to discredit what they were communicating.

There has been a shift in how people interact. Studies have found an increase in narcissism [1] and a decrease in empathy [2].

There is more than manager / IC power shifts going on here.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008....
[2] http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/7724-empathy-college-studen...
Like half the people commenting here, I wrote my own (https://bitbucket.org/koalephant/mallard/) in shell, after using another similar tool that’s written in python (and contributing some fixes to it).

Same general concept as most others use, apply sql files by date, track what’s applied in the db itself, deploy the sql files with your code.
They did get away with it, over and over again. And when the scam was discovered, they went dark. They could have even switched to alternate accounts, alternate platforms, or even a different scam that utilizes those empty properties.

Not getting away with something in perpetuity is not the same as not getting away with it. Had they been more timid with their margins, maybe they would have been busted before making the money they did make.
As an American citizen, this is one of the most laughable statements I've heard all day.
Why don’t they ever just have a virtual mouse api or whatever, with some lag and some jitter just to make it an actual apples to apples comparison?

The AI is supposed to call this API. Then actions per minute would be irrelevant.
> Glad to see a website exercising critical thinking.

So "critical thinking" to you means rejecting the notion of gender being anything but binary and static, despite scientific evidence to the contrary? Interesting definition you've got there.

> Is it sexually suggestive?

Nope, no subjective opinions or controversial judgment calls there.

> that's a policy ignorant of reality.

It's a policy that doesn't allow neanderthals to deny others' reality, and IMO the fact that it makes those neanderthals uncomfortable is a bonus.
I think there is a pretty clear difference between publishers which sell speech to people that want to buy it and advertisers that take money in return for putting speech in front of people automatically.

Maybe both forms of money entangled speech are worthy of the same protections. But they are two different things.
Unlike ayatollahs, not only did your parent not suggest the person they were quoting was right, they actually suggested the person they were quoting was wrong: "It appears his hopes would bring disappointment were he still around."

You're confused about the point your parent was making. Let me try to explain the context to you:

Top of thread: we think this way in Denmark (a country in Europe)

Reply: we think this way in America

Reply: "This is such blatant and obvious nonsense. ... That is a supremely American way of looking at the world."

Your parent: actually this way of thinking comes from Europe

Your parent is not saying this way of thinking is correct, only that your grandparent is silly to call this way of thinking "supremely American" and imply that it's inferior to European thinking.
Yet, strangely, these people curiously will often protest loudly about things they personally disagree with, rather than taking their own advice of shutting up and leaving.

It's really about disagreeing with the views being espoused by the employees in question, not their methodology.
It's certainly better to have source, but this seems like a matter of degree? You don't really know what's in Signal unless you compile it yourself, and/or they have reproducible builds and you verify checksums. Instead you're trusting that the source matches the binary, and probably also that someone else who knows more about crypto is reviewing the source carefully.

In the modern world we basically outsource everything, including trust and verification. An open, social process of verification can be better, though.
^this. As of the most recent quarter, only 12% of their whole revenue came from the ENTIRE Asia-Pacific region (which includes China, but a bunch of other countries as well), while US made up 55% and Europe did 33%.[0]

0. https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
It will be awesome. Loved the idea about the api thing.
Sad to see you're downvoted. The state of open source on Android is quite dire - it's difficult to run a fully patched ASOP - and the alternative is "customized" os installs with tons of crap. If nothing else, the more code that runs, the more bugs to exploit.
Saying "stay out of their way" about ICE seems pretty political to me.

And I believe the same applies to anyone else who does not support the way that ICE is being run currently.

I can't speak to the perspective of the other side of this issue, though.
In my case, the mistrust in Apple comes from the fact that in the almost two years I've been working on server side Swift I've seen the Swift core team constantly prioritising things that are mostly relevant for app developers (like SwiftUI and the associated function builders changes, or ABI stability), while not caring at all about things that are relevant for server side developers such as:

- support for platforms beyond Ubuntu

- fixing the myriad weird bugs on Linux (here's two particularly bad examples: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-10613, https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-10344)

- coming up with an error handling solution for when your app crashes on the server that is better than "just have your load balancer restart the instance"

- improving compile times for large applications

- improving modularisation concerns (e.g. submodules)

- creating an alternative to Foundation (recently, foundation on Linux was split into different modules, which makes the code that compiles fine on a mac break on Linux until you add additional imports ... go figure)
It would be comically ironic if we decided to categorize it as a planet, and not a moon.... but then continued calling it "The Moon".
PG wrote an essay about how he and and Sam Altman prefer to invest in companies that run scams, as long as they aren't too evil.

Remember that AirBnB's first marketing campaign was hiring women (or men using female names online) to violate Craiglist ToS to spam people posting housing listings.

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
Kudos to him and his team! Fantastic achievement.

Slightly surprising that he is not a Sherpa, but a Newar (most probably, but I might be wrong). Sherpa people live in the high mountains and are thus better equipped to handle the challenges with mountaineering, I would think. The Newar people who are primarily valley dwellers are better known for their artistic endeavors.
> Is there a way that technologies from companies can help ICE and organizations like it treat the people they deal with better?

One thing GitHub could have done, if it was serious about its "but ICE also stops human trafficking and terrorists" narrative, is insisted on selling them professional services / consulting work (perhaps at a discount - they'd already decided to donate more than the revenue of the contract, so working for ICE out of the goodness of their hearts is definitely not out of the question) which let them understand what teams and projects at ICE are using their work and how. But in their letter to employees, they listed it as a positive that they weren't doing this, they just gave ICE the product and told them to have fun. https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-deve...

"GitHub does not have a professional services agreement with ICE, and GitHub is not consulting with ICE on any of their projects or initiatives. GitHub has no visibility into how this software is being used, other than presumably for software development and version control."

I think if you believed you could make some change for the better working within the system, the way to start is by, first, deciding what your principles are and what your approach is when your customer wants to be at odds with that (refuse to support projects you disagree with? try to change hearts and minds? etc.) in a codified way and getting agreement within the company on it, and second, insisting on a close enough consulting relationship where you can enforce that. (I also suspect that unless you have an uncommonly good product, most customers won't be a fan and will just buy from someone else.)

Also GitHub, being a platform and not a direct tool for work, isn't really in a great position to influence ICE's work. "You can check in the code you use to track terrorists, but not the code you use to track DACA recipients" isn't particularly technically meaningful.
I mean, that's just a reimplementation of segments.
So Long, Wunderground
Restic has that option with “restic check”, I have it run weekly and email me the results.
Pointer aliasing is not valid in FORTRAN, so the compiler has the freedom to make some optimizations that a C compiler can't.
Nah, turn tail and leave when you could fight to change the company? Not gonna happen.
Tech worker’s transition from a life sentence to a career is a lesson
DOJ asks Facebook to halt end-to-end encryption plans
People Who Try to Be Environmentally-Friendly Are Happier
It's common for different languages to have libraries that aim to solve the same problems like ORM and web server. Perl and Lisp have these as well.

But this doesn't necessarily mean that these languages share a great deal of sensible usecases.

Rust and Go make very different tradeoffs.
> ICE is not a partisan organization,

Only if you have your head deliberately under the sand in the face of all the reporting that has been done so far about wanton cruelty inflicted on human beings by this agency, including but not limited to:

* separation of toddlers from their parents
* horrific conditions in detention facilities
* detaining immigrants for as long as they possibly can
* arresting and trying to deport brown people in suspicion of being illegal immigrants

If none of these policies affect you, yeah you can say "By the laws of the US, ICE is a non partisan branch of the Government". But the actions of the agency and its leadership have shown that its decidedly not so.
Why should I trust entities that regularly prove they give zero fucks about anything other than the bottom line? Why should I give them the benefit of the doubt? That's like believing an abusive spouse will change.

Corporations regularly flout environmental protection laws, they regularly flout human rights, they spy on us, they do skirt any and all laws they can, they abuse tax systems, they're responsible for large environmental disasters and end up throwing money at things to make everyone shut up about it, they lobby governments to get laws changed in their favour, they exploit children and impoverished people, they go after drinking water, healthcare and the basic necessities of a modern civilization in search of more profit at the expense.of people. Fuck corporations.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs?
Right, and IBM was also leaving out politics when they built custom tabulating machines to help Nazi Germany's logistics.

Obvious hyperbole but you get the idea.
Kotlin for Android development.
That's a fantastic SO answer.
I see a lot of people asking for more advanced notebooks.

Recently I was asked to participate in a competition to identify brain hemorrhages (https://www.kaggle.com/c/rsna-intracranial-hemorrhage-detect...). It turns out jhoward has published a lot of Kaggle notebooks walking through the entire process of gathering the data, cleaning it, implementing a learning algorithm, and submitting an entry.

If you're trying to do practical end to end machine learning, these are definitely worth studying.

Notebooks:

https://www.kaggle.com/jhoward/from-prototyping-to-submissio...

https://www.kaggle.com/jhoward/cleaning-the-data-for-rapid-p...

https://www.kaggle.com/jhoward/some-dicom-gotchas-to-be-awar...

https://www.kaggle.com/jhoward/don-t-see-like-a-radiologist-...

The last one is particularly interesting, and proposes a new color map for seeing 65536 different greyscale values. Turbo is also an alternative: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-col...
Xcode 11.2 (11B52)
Two weeks ago we launched Pipedream in beta and it has been great to see the response. In particular, one customer emailed us and said, “Wow! This is definitively the fastest way to run a script on a schedule!”

When you launch a new product it is tempting to list a laundry list of features that you think can address every potential use case. However, it is often better to have a simple value proposition that every developer can understand, relate to and benefit from.

So, now when people ask me what Pipedream is, my shortcut answer is to say it’s the fastest way to run a script on a schedule. If they engage, I have an opportunity to share all the other integration capabilities, features and benefits.

As always, we think there’s a lot we can improve and are eager for feedback. Also, if you want a specific app or API fully integrated, let us know. You can reach us here or on Github [1], Twitter [2] or Slack [3].

[1] https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/roadmap
[2] https://twitter.com/PipedreamHQ
[3] https://pipedream.com/community
I think that downplaying the achievement is more like defensive mechanism which exists to protect illusion of human brain superiority.
Ask HN: Blogs that you read daily/weekly?
Cube1 solved the problem by keeping the communication stack closed source so you couldn't build a aerver-compatible client. The OSS version of Cube1 used a different communication stack.
If someone else registered with an email address you actually own, why not just reset the password?

I'm guessing you wouldn't be screwing over whoever registered the account, since presumably they wouldn't have had a chance to validate their (your) email address.
That sounds like a good system! I check every now and then by mounting and checking that a recent file is there, not sure why I didn't think of doing this instead.
I’ll burn a candle in favor of giving Node the Adobe Flash treatment it deserves.

(Burn karma burn!)
No it’s a neutral position not taking a stance for or against a particular business because of politics. So while it may look to someone like it’s “for” something, they’d also take business from an “ICE-alert” system, so from some PoV that would look like it’s “against”, but it’s not. It’s staying neutral.
Whoop-de-do. If you don't like the company, fight to change what you don't like.
You might be right, but I think it's interesting to note that the gender ratio of Blizzard consumers is more balanced than is typical in the gaming industry. Still not balanced, but more balanced.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch/overwatch-female-player-c...
Ok, that's certainly a good thing that it does support it now. Borg also allows to specify the name of that file, it does not restrict it to being "CACHEDIR.TAG". Giving an option to support both "CACHEDIR.TAG" and any other filename is a good thing. (One might want to exclude other directories that way, unrelated to cache directories.)
I completely agree with the sentiment here. As an engineer tasked with building data driven systems and architectures, I'm well aware of the amount of buzzword / enterprise nonsense floating around in this space - and it is enormous. You can couple that with the fact that its really difficult to find any practical books and resources that you can actually apply to solve real-world problems when working in small-teams and on quick deadlines. Getting business to act in a data driven and analytic way, and building the architecture for it - is a non-trivial task. This looks like it could be one of those rare good resources in the space.

Great work by the guys from chartio!
So why don't they walk out of work until Bizzard makes a change?
yes indeed, it seems the most recent batch of games brings interesting new things
If separating children from their parents (who have committed a crime) is "child abuse", then our government is responsible for a whole lot of abuse. It's not clear what this has to do with ICE specifically.
What exactly does Hong Kong nationalism (which is pro-democracy) have to do with White nationalism in the US (which is pro-racism)?
South Africa's future energy mix makes little room for nuclear
My wife and I recently stayed near the beach in an apartment under an elderly couple's home. All the reviews mentioned how friendly Bill and Betty (I can't actually remember their names) were and how much they enjoyed visiting. That was the last thing we were interested in. So in our comments to the hosts we said we were coming to get away from the kids and were just looking for time to ourselves with no interaction from other people. Fortunately that worked! Other than briefly talking to them when we checked in, we didn't interact with them at all the remainder of the time we were there. It was great!
The other clear option being to attempt to affect what you believe would be a positive change in the organization.

If that doesn't work, then you should leave.
That's my point. Every Unicode character may not be universally appropriate, but it's just as silly to age-rate a dictionary as it is a keyboard that simply contains a list of Unicode characters.
Why? Why shouldn't employees have principles at work? Why shouldn't employees of a company work to affect positive outcomes at a place to which they have invested a lot of social and time capital?

Labor is not nearly as transactional in reality as you make it sound. "Just quit" is like "just leave the country" in politics.
And on the off chance someone reading this is OK with the government doing that for law enforcement purposes, also consider that

>At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have been caught using secret government surveillance tools to spy on the emails or phone calls of their current or former spouses and lovers in the past decade, according to the intelligence agency’s internal watchdog.

before giving them carte blanche to collect whatever information they want about everyone and store it in a database forever.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...
AWS Region in Spain
Agreed. Anecdotally, some friends had a cat that was always angry, at everyone. He never purred in his life. I said he wanted a bath. They had never bathed him. They said I was insane and that he would claw my eyes out.

I got into boxer shorts, started a bath, grabbed the cat. He loved it. It was the first time in his life he had ever purred. I made a friend that day. My friends were completely taken aback. I think his joints were inflamed, probably arthritis.
> even in scenario with a completely untrusted client receiving only final video output, there's no guarantee that the actions being input are human.

I imagine it would be a fairly trivial application of computer vision to make an aimbot for first person shooters that works most of the time.
That kind of characterization is hysterical nonsense.
That is surely in the mix. To me, its about human decency. I support immigration, but even if you do not support immigration you should support human decency. Making people sleep in cages on concrete, limiting supplies, limiting legal assistance, separating families - those are horrible ways to treat other humans, other humans simply seeking a better life.

We are largely a nation of immigrants. We've lost sight of our roots. Its proper to stand up against this inhumane and unnecessary behavior. The government is experiencing social consequences of its own making.
> That company is a front for the Chinese military, because if you do a reverse WHOIS search you will see http://pacbasin.com was also registered by the same organization...it is an autonomous drone hardware and extended flight operations firm.

Alternative explanation: Pacific Basin decided at some point that they needed an internet presence, and in addition to their main site pacificbasin.com they also registered pacbasin.com to prevent typo-squatting. Some time later, they decided that was no longer necessary and let the domain lapse. Subsequently, it was picked up for cheap to host the glossy marketing website of what appears to be a drone company.

Problems with that website: the social media icons are just for show; the contact email is for the likely unrelated startech.com; I can't find any way to buy their product; the company is called "星彩网平台航拍无人机系统", "星彩" evoking associations to lotteries. It's also completely unrelated to the domain name.

My personal interpretation: the website is intended to scam Chinese investors with a gambling mentality into throwing their money at a fake "high-tech company."

Do you have any data that would be able to distinguish between your hypothesis and my alternative?
Why do noise cancelling headphones add a feeling of pressure