skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a named task runner shellscript (as compared to a Makefile full of .PHONY being used as a named task runner).

#!/bin/sh
set -e

case "$1" in
build)
;;
run)
;;
clean)
;;
*)
echo "unknown: $1"; exit 2
;;
esac

Someone else ITT hinted it could be done like the following. But the last line is dubious because it will happily run anything on PATH.

#!/bin/sh
set -e

test $# -gt 0

build() {
:
}

run() {
:
}

clean() {
:
}

"$@"
Messenger is encrypted, just not by default. You have to choose "private conversation" to encrypt. This is probably the right choice for most users since they'd rather have access to their messages across devices than e2e encryption.
I have little desire to decompile every update and/or constantly analyse what their app is doing. They've proven to be untrustworthy on multiple occasions, and haven't given me much reason to think they've changed.

They might convince me if they open their client and server code, but even then they're yet another walled garden only interested in keeping their monopoly by building inferior products and using regularly capture to prevent any competition from doing the same thing they did to MySpace.
Am I right in thinking that the concept of a social welfare function - which gives us a chance to specify that having you or anyone else as God-king is not the solution we want - is also considered part of welfare economics?
is there any proof "magnesium, K2 MK-7, K2 MK-4 and D3" works for this?
Can you briefly explain (or link an existing explanation) a summary of the changes the Qt Company is asking for, to someone who's interested but not intimately familiar with the details?
Hey, hey, hey, some of these people just smell a chance for profit and don't have a moral framework that gets in the way. Stop using such a broad brush!
>I would trade pain and recuperation for 3% less mortality.

May not only be pain, a relative had open heart surgery and can’t read anymore. Some risk of permanent brain and/or lung damage from surgery itself from strokes or pulmonary embolism (although not sure how that compares long term to stents).

I’d also take into account the percent of remaining life expectancy the recovery period takes up (although if it’s a few months that’s probably less than 3%).

Most worrying was another comment pointed out that lifestyle changes take better in the open heart surgery patients. Dietary intervention is effective for heart disease but most people can’t follow through. So it seems very plausible that some or all of the benefit (or even more than all) could come from essentially torturing people enough to scare them into making a lifestyle change. Which is still a real effect I guess, but some people may be capable of following through without that.
I am curious -- were the departments, in fact, consulting the instructional designers? And, if yes, was it by choice?
> People that are particularly entrepreneur-minded often don't make for great employees (I'm in that group).

No boss, I can't meet that deadline, I'm too smart.
Announcing the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest
I did this with every high end pro Mac since I was about eight years old. I still have the B&W G3/Cinema Display posters in storage, though I never actually had one.

A couple years ago, I finally got to a place where I could do that and then click Buy. My main workstation is a big black 18 core iMac Pro with an asston of ram, and I love it dearly. It was $15k or so, and I used it to earn well over 20x that during the year I bought it—it was a relatively small expense.

Shake it if you got it.
I have seen many macos server installations on Mac mini.
I think tuition can keep going up as long as its offset with grants and aid (insured by the federal government). A few weeks ago there was an article about how University of Chicago was on track to have 100K per year tuition. That would put you at almost half a million to send you kids to school.
It shows a guy who confused correlation for causation got laid off at Apple.
there's a longer writeup here: https://onezero.medium.com/the-influencer-and-the-hit-man-6c...
Honestly what we need is the re-instatement of the Fairness Doctrine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

Between that and maybe some kind of regulation of websites or other internet media that purport to be "news" but are something else (ie - make it a requirement that such sites conspicuously show a "for entertainment purposes only" or "satire" or similar banner). Perhaps with penalties for those who don't comply.

Of course, there's a fine line to the above; simple bloggers or even HN could potentially overstep it. There's also the issue of false accusations...

I doubt, though, that any of these things will likely occur.
I'll bite. Define "better" here.
ARM and the Long Game Against Intel in the Datacenter
Right in between those.

The Orion Nebula is about 24 light years across, a million c would mean we pass through it in about 750 seconds. The point of view clearly moves faster than that. How hard exactly is hard to judge (I think it also changes speed) but it looks like going through the whole nebula would take somewhere between 75s (10 million c) and 7.5s (100 million c).
In America, retailers wanted the freedom of owning their terminals. This was rational, given near-usurious fees from credit card companies in the past. However, it means that now, retailers must finance their own upgrades, and so we all suffer.
USGS Topo tiles are available to use with web-mapping libraries: https://basemap.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/USGSTop...
Asciinema is great and a joy to use, but one of the coolest things about how Asciinema is made is that the web player implements a virtual terminal emulator in Clojure:

https://github.com/asciinema/vt/blob/master/src/asciinema/vt...

It's cljc, which means it runs on both JVM and in JS. I have no idea if they actually use the JVM bit.
What's so sleazy about asking your brother to like your Facebook post?

What's so sleazy about asking for feedback on a fake product mockup?

Who exactly is hurt by this?
The chart for teachers shows elementary and secondary schools. I wouldn't be surprised to see that the proportion of teachers in colleges has increased, but I'd need to know how much of the increase comes from adjuncts teaching a class or two per semester.

Let me add that there were some very large class sizes during the peak of the baby boom. I don't think that I ever had fewer the fifty kids in my classes until I transferred out of parochial school in sixth grade.

[edit: teach -> teaching]
laughs in gigabytes
Your 90s website is cool and all that, but this is hardly a Flash replacement.
Two of my three cards can be used that way, but I use my watch/phone instead when I have a chance.
Something is missing from your family member's story.

Seniority rules in unions are chapter-based, and chapters themselves are city- or business-based. If someone is moving in from a different chapter, that seniority generally doesn't carry over to their new chapter, and even when seniority does carry over it can't result in the transferring member displacing another union member's job.
IANAMD, im just wandering if something like this may work:

* The app has an alarm (like a clock). You can configure the time, let's say 9am.

* When it rings, the app put a message in the screen "Time to take your medicine. Please pick the pillbox and take a photo".

If he doesn't take the photo, make the app sound and show the message again after 2 minutes. After a few tries, send a message to some relative that is the guardian.

It will need some calibration to recognize the pillbox.

* After the photo of the pillbox, show a message: "Great. Today is Monday. Open the Monday slot and take another photo".

Repeat if there is no photo, and send a message to the guardian after some time. I'm not sure if in case of failure it is better to go to the previos step or not.

* After the photo of the open pillbox, show a message: "Take your medicine and then and take another photo"

It will need some calibration to distinguish the pills and the empty slot.

* After the photo of the empty pillbox, show a message: "Close the pillbox and store it. Great. See you tomorrow."

Something like this will need a lot of testing and perhaps FDA approval, but it doesn't look impossible.

(Perhaps it is easier to start with contraceptives pills, that have younger users that are more use to apps and don't have memory problems.)
The book by Michael Benton is intriguing. I remember when I was a kid reading a dinosaur encyclopedia he wrote that I really liked. He talked all about the connection between birds and dinosaurs in it. Really engaging writer.
...or encourage them to dissent.

/when you don't have any dissent, manufacture it
I hear this all the time but I don't understand why it's true. The security of your encrypted messages already relies on the security of the company providing the service. Facebook (and any other messaging app) can read all of your messages in plain text. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to display them to you. Allowing the government to get a warrant to retrieve those messages changes nothing about the overall security of the messaging platform.

What am I missing?
I guess I'm not entirely clear on what I would need to implement to use ALSA's PCM interface with an arbitrary transport, given a defined memory area and buffer size.

I appear to be fuzzy on the topic of what parts I need to write and what is already provided, generally.

The class-compliant USB interfaces do indeed generally "just work"
(with the configuration issues I mentioned on my particular system, but I'm not clear on where this occurs, "channel mapping" or somesuch calling my 8 outputs a singular surround interface etc...)
What a coincidence! I discovered OpenLayers yesterday when looking for a way to display a 1 Terapixel image. I got it up and running in a few hours. Kudos to the developers!
> The ethics are "If your article returns in Google, I should be able to read it." If I can't read it, it shouldn't appear on Google.

Why is that?
If we could all agree what the Constitution says, we wouldn't need constitutional law professors and there wouldn't be endless debates over what "bear arms" meant in 18th century English.
I find it extremely annoying.
I also would like to know how "better" is defined.

Is it developer ergonomics? That's the only thing I can think of, and even then that's debatable.
A few reviews from last year's edition of Startup School: https://www.classcentral.com/course/independent-startup-scho...

Disclaimer: Self plug
Semi-random idea of the day.

Would there be a market for something like a dye pack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye_pack

emitting fake MacBook-like Bluetooth signals?

(and would they be legal?)

You'll still have your car window broken, but someone will need a lot of time to get clean ...
It’s unfortunate that you are getting downvoted. It’s difficult to say whether the “majority” of bad actors are using insecure communications but certainly a very large number of the ones who get caught are. Search any legal database for “Facebook,” or visit a criminal court, and you’ll find lots of examples of people who have been caught grooming children or discussing other crimes on insecure channels. Here’s is a typical child abuse example from Australia, two months ago: https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/5d95952ce4b0c3247d71...
Where are you seeing this?

All the contracts I've seen in California have a disclosure sheet of the law, specifically non-solicitation and IP ownership (on company time/premises with company resources) and don't ask you to waive rights.
Yeah right. I was in Beijing last week, how in the world is China ranked alongside India in terms of English proficiency? I could hardly find anyone even at the Beijing Capital airport to speak a coherent English sentence, let alone grammatically correct.
It's clearly delusional to think that computer vision will go from soft computing (erroneous) to hard computing in less than a decade, at the rate of current incremental improvements.
We will soon hit an accuracy wall that only breakthrough research will allow to beat.
The problem being: there's too much research exploring the search space in the same direction and not enough foundational research.
I'm not sure if you meant that you would take the surgery or not. But Heart disease isn't a few weeks of recuperation. It's life. I'm at 25 percent after 8 months. I'll never be above 70 percent. I'd roll the dice and take the surgery. I'm already getting an implant in two weeks which is slightly beyond experimental but definitely not wide spread.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because your username ends in an underscore, my brain wants to associate the number from the timestamp with your username. So I really want to read "k_ 3 hours ago" as "k_3" for your username.
>So what can you do to keep your stuff safe? Putting a device in airplane mode or entirely powering it off will both work [...] For additional protection, you can place those devices in a Faraday fabric sleeve

...or you know, turn off bluetooth.
https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2019-20...

I think UC is first and foremost a research institution. A lot of these professors are barely involved in undergraduate teaching, and the massive staff employee count I think is a lot of people related to research and assisting these researchers. That's why the undergraduate student experience is going down at UCs, with worse class sizes, and less engagement.
New NASA eBook Reveals Insights of Earth Seen at Night from Space
Doing so would violate their contract with the credit card companies. In some states, it might even violate the law.
> Not only would this be perfectly legal, I consider it an excellent idea.

An excellent idea in the abstract sense of hey, that's a really clever way to update the constitution, or an excellent idea in the sense of the politicians operating in America today can be trusted to update the constitution properly so let's do that? Only one of those isn't totally crazy...
Bonus points if it turns the thief's teeth a satisfyingly deep blue.
At KDE, we don't require signing CLA to contribute, this is a requirement in our manifesto[1]. But contributor can assign their right to the KDE e.V. if they want using a Fiduciary Licensing Agreement[2].

[1]: https://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html

[2]: https://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php
So, you seriously consider that a person who can get a salary that would cover child care costs wouldn't be able to borrow a single month salary worth of cash to make the transition?
> And if you go dig into `objects/`, you'll find your (possibly compressed) 100 MB object under its hash, and can view it with "git cat-file -p $hash" without ever having committed it :)
>
> Edit: And I bet if you dig around your index file enough, you'll find that hash someplace in there.

And if you want to know how that works, there's an article in the next issue of Code Words that goes into that as well: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/unpacking-git-pac...
Since I'd imagine, then, that 99% or more aren't encrypted, what has been the biggest issue that has resulted from this? We could then judge that against the negative outcomes of law enforcement not having access to, say, WhatsApp messages.
For $53K I'd imagine you can get yourself a better machine and a software developer to hackintosh it for you and provide support. :P
You mean that right now you think the world is in a Pareto efficient state, and the only question is distribution? You have a much more optimistic view of the world than I do.

Everyone agrees that Pareto efficiency isn't everything. But even there, the Second Welfare Theorem literally tells you how to efficiently redistribute wealth away from the trillionaire, to move to a different Pareto outcome.

Real policymaking is much messier than any of this, of course.
This is the way bitcoin ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.
> Most strikingly to me from the complaint is the fact that apple claims that he 1> used his design knowledge to found another company (jeez, people do this all the time) and 2> did so while working at apple (ditto).

IANAL, but my impression having read through the actual file is that most of the claims are on the basis of this fellow allegedly having done all these things while employed at Apple. Apple alleges that he was routinely working on his own business, conducting phone calls related to that business, etc, while in the office, and that he was actively recruiting his coworkers before he had left the company.

I'm never a fan of big companies stomping on previous employees, but it sounds to me like the crux of the case is based around point (2). Had he quit the company and then founded his startup and poached his old coworkers - that would likely have been consistent with the law. But if he did indeed do these things _while still actively working there_ then his contract would have been in place at the time and therefore breachable.
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12802949

A bit from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793069

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9272249
I work for a small startup and have never felt right about "fake it till you make it", sometimes it just goes too far.

- Lie about user count

- Lie about product features

- Lie about your products existence?

Enough with the lies...
This is happening with Uber and Ola in India too. A lot of the times when I have taken a cab from the airport, the cabbie has given me his card or number and suggested that for long rides I directly call them. Last time I needed a cab, I directly called the guy and he arrived a full hour before the time and had a better cab ride than I got when I go through the app with cancellations and peak hour pricing and other crap.
Because people are upvoting it.
What is the clinical significance of the plaque being calcified? Is that worse (or better?) than "regular" cholesterol plaque? Or is that just another term for the same thing?
The behavior is pretty intentional - you can use `git add -p` explicitly to only add parts of a given file to the index.
That's a little misleading. It's more like this technique has made stealing stuff from cars more rewarding than just swiping off-brand sunglasses and a CD wallet. It goes from smash & grab at quantity to targeted smashing for quality.
In the entire country, not compared to just tech companies. Read the articles.
You just need to download more ram.
As a TA, I was only privy to certain discussions. There was talk of the instructional designer, mostly in the sense of "Maybe we should get the instructional designer involved!", but I never encountered the instructional designer in the wild.
> Audio on Linux is actually better at a technical level than on other OS's, but the user experience is frequently poor. That's a very different story, and one that doesn't really lie at ALSA's feet at all.

Well, if it wasn't for the lack of a driver for my sound card (ESI audio), I would use linux for my DAW. Jackd alone with the proper configuration software is a godsend.
I haven't been able to find much online historical tuition data, but the little I have found (about 100 years of Stanford tuition) shows that it was increasing before there were government loans at about the same rate it increased after government loans.

This makes me doubt the theory that government loans are behind high tuition.
We've banned this account for trolling. Could you please stop creating accounts to break HN's guidelines with?

Also, please don't make accounts for every few comments you post. We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
That’s a hilariously narrow minded generalization. If that’s your honest opinion then I have to assume you’ve never actually sat down and had a real conversation with any of these “MBA types” and talked about what they do. My guess is that the reason you think all they do is crack the whip and hold pointless meetings because that’s the only interaction you have with them, but I can guarantee you that every organization you have ever worked in has had plenty of “MBA types” working in ways that are invisible to you building exactly the team chemistries, culture, planning, processes etc that you mentioned.
> hence my question stands: I would like to understand why priority inversion is not a solved problem.

I believe it's because although complete solutions do exist, they have prohibitive overheads.

Annoyingly I can't find the relevant paper I'm thinking of.
Why Most Psychologists Are Wrong about P-Values?
I mean it's obviously a marketing piece. It's a blog post on a SAAS website. What else can you expect?
I think “better” here might be defined by `du -s .` inside the application directory. :)
Paedophiles too – they target children on unencrypted social media sites. The victims have no desire to switch to a more secure platform, but if Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat were to become secure by default then those companies would stop sending law enforcement a continual stream of unsophisticated paedophiles to investigate. Many of them even use emails and IP addresses that are trivially linked to their real identities.
I disagree. There is a huge amount of research on adversarially robust classifiers and detectors going on. One can also programmatically test a neural network on real data, synthetically damaged data, fully synthetic data, and adversarial data, and everything in between. You can statistically ensure you get any desired accuracy level on those tests. While that's not a hard proof of anything, it can allow you to be very confident in the nets abilities.
Why Cryptocurrencies?: Private Money
Bloomberg had essentially the same article (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-10/apple-s-n...), clearly intended to provoke shock at the price. While at the base level it feels a bit pricy, for example in comparison to the base iMac Pro, on the other end of the spectrum if you need 28 cores and >1TB of ram... if you need that kind of capacity, then chances are you can afford it.
S'well water bottles as another example of this. These are just made in China water bottles with some printed pattern on them, but some people are talking about them like it's this new awesome thing.
> But designing bigger versions of ObjectNet, with its added viewing angles and orientations, won’t necessarily lead to better results, the researchers warn.

Curious if there's supporting reasoning for this type of statement? Imho most of these "objects" should still be learnable with vanilla CNNs if you had sufficient data, especially more angles. Starving a vision network of data is an interesting problem, but I don't think it can be used as a blanket statement for all state of the art techniques. And if I'm allowed to make a naive comparison to human intelligence, I don't think lack of viewing angles is a factor.
Yeah I have cloud services with them. Or had. I dropped it because their stuff is just pure chaos.

Of all the companies that might be collecting my info via some dark sorcery...theyre not on my worry list
I wonder if he meant BOS-HND instead, which is a very common route. (HND is Haneda airport in Tokyo.)
>It assumes that the readers of this forum will be familiar with them

It assumes users of this forum are redditors, but the way they say it shows how they view reddit as the center of discussion