skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This allows using any language really, as long as you can produce a shared library that matches the ABI/API. Which should be good enough for those who have some issue with a particular scripting language.
I simply do not believe that one piece of legislation could accomplish this. This is how money makes money. It will not stop for the law.
Amendment right? who's their lawyers? ...Lionel Hutz attorney at law?
Employee panopticons only work if you want your employees to perform a precisely defined task with no improvisation. As soon as you watch someone their creativity drops to ~0.
If you honestly believe that Trump is in any way on the same "corruption level" as any previous sitting President you're delusional. I'm sorry that reality is getting in the way of the narrative, but it's fairly obvious that he's far worse than any side has elected within living memory. Maybe Nixon is a distant second?
There are latex foam mattresses. I've purchased two from Sleep on Latex (sleeponlatex.com, or Pure Green on Amazon).

That said, whether latex, polyurethane, or whatever, with foam mattresses you're supposed to use a mattress protector to prevent sweat and accidents from soiling the foam. Alternatively or in addition to that, Sleep on Latex uses a wool topper, as I'm sure many other brands do. And then on top of that most people use sheets. I would think all of that covering would trap any particles so they can conveniently be washed out to sea with all the other microplastics from the laundry.
DO never struck me as a company that would go public. Do you think they will?
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Fair enough but I bet there were plenty of times before/after a round where they interacted closely.
This isn't a "debate". There's no stage, no hosting organization, no moderator, no judges, no rules. This is, at best, a conversation. At best.

I definitely decide how I'm going to spend my time. My goal in having these conversations is to end patriarchy and white supremacy.

Most of the people supporting those things, wittingly or otherwise, will carry their views to their graves. And a good fraction of those people will argue just as long. This is pretty obvious from history. Look at the number of people still today, 150 years later, who are eager to lionize America's pro-slavery traitors, for example.

My aim is not to convince the diehards, because they are not open to learning anything. I'm going to reach the people I can reach, and leave a reasonable record for the members of the audience who are, like I was, willing to change their minds. But I owe exactly zero to randos who are eager to defend race- and gender-based oppression. Which includes the regrettably large number of people who get mad that people are just discussing those problems.

If you think something is owed to them, you go right ahead and have whatever "debate" you think is their due.
This discussion reminds me of when I read in our database server's documentation something along the lines of "for very wide tables (more than 10 columns)" and I literally had to laugh out loud, as the main table at work is over 500 columns wide...

Gotta love organic db schemas with long history...
Are you new to this specific company or the software industry in general? This post reads like the latter. People come barging out of school with a pathological focus on "efficiency", which less-charitably stated is just lighting yourself on fire to serve the company dollar.

Software engineering has a phenomenal burnout rate. By the time they're 30 almost everyone I know starts thinking about their exit. I honestly don't believe software engineers can consistently put in more than 4 hours of good work a day on corporate code without being ground down in the long term. The people who stick around tend to be those who sit in meetings all day rather than actually writing code.

All of this is to say that you should prioritize things people have in short supply (happiness, dignity) over things corporations have in spades (money, time). Don't be that person who starts keeping track of how others use their work hours.
> The 'problem' with vector icons as well is pixel boundaries and anti aliasing producing blurry lines.

Level of details is also a major issue when scaling down. Nice features of an icon at large size become sub-pixel when scaled down and their rounding up or down messes with the icon and destroys its balance.
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I use it and it's ok.
First Amendment seems to mean whatever the hell we want it to mean, these days.

A group of gun's rights advocates marching in Virginia recently argued that not being allowed to brandish assault weapons at the capitol was violation of their "symbolic" speech.[0]

I'm just waiting for the point where someone tries to make the defense in court that shooting another person in the head was an exercise of their freedom of speech.

[0]https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/01/gun-groups-want-firearms-b...
It's not bungled logic at all.

R0 and lethality are unrelated. COVID-19 has a higher R0 and a lower lethality than SARS.

COVID-19 has a higher lethality than the common cold.

Those are the data points I extracted from what you've quoted.
No. Compare Linode and DigitalOcean. Linode bootstrapped, took very few financial instruments to aid the journey, had a few missteps along the way, completely reinvented the entire business more than once, and still serves a niche that makes them a successful (and profitable, as in real profitable, not imaginary profitable) company. Their margins are quite good. Slicehost had a solid business when Rackspace bought them, too, despite Rackspace subsequently burying that business in their wandering-through-tech mass grave.

DigitalOcean, on the other hand, took a Sand Hill approach and is throwing money at becoming an AWS unicorn without realizing they are never going to be AWS. Read this carefully, DO: you will never, ever, ever be AWS. Full stop. You are not in the conversation, nor is Linode, nor is prgmr (but lsc knows that), nor is Vultr, and so on, and so on. Ask IBM about trying to take on AWS.

DigitalOcean is an incredible waste of capital and appears almost as if they didn’t bother to look at Linode’s story at all. The companies are nearly identical behind the scenes and are pursuing the exact same addressable market, but one is a VC darling intent on burning capital on a completely solved problem and therefore gets VC ecosystem attention and expands to fill that attention. Seriously, you can address this market with Excel and some Python scripts; I exaggerate, but not much. The amount of money DigitalOcean spends given my intimate familiarity with the problem space has been baffling to me for the last decade.

DigitalOcean should buy Linode with this debt so the Linode people can come in and fire the right people at DO and shed about seven hundred pounds of weight. When, not if, when DigitalOcean collapses, Linode will continue on and enjoy a sudden inflow of DO’s market share. Linode long predates DO and will postdate them, too.

I have a poor opinion of Linode in a lot of ways, by the way, so.
Note that Virgil actually wrote "...omnia vincit Amor...", not "Amor vincit omnia" like the article claims. See lines 68-70 here:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
It can work in favor of but also against you :)

Where I work, once most of the candidates have been filtered out and there are only 1-5 remaining, managers get help from the senior engineers to assess the candidate's technical skills before interviewing. In my specific team we try to find code samples from github and contributions to open source communities (we love ohloh.net).

But we also do a "technical interview" with some fizzbuzz stuff. More than once we found candidates with good-looking open source patches but that couldn't implement fizzbuzz-like stuff on a whiteboard.
Exactly this. tptacek's article talks about issues like someone replying (with the messages quoted) in cleartext by mistake, or leaking their keys. In a messenger like Signal, there's no easy way to accidentally reply in cleartext, and key management is handled for you so it's not possible to accidentally send the private key instead of the public key. It's not enough for _you_ to never do those things, you have to trust your correspondent to be capable to do those things without error (which is different than trusting them to not intentionally disclose).
Recently I saw a good video showing Tesla's pedestrian prediction.

You can see it on reddit here: https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/f4fbfu/nav_on_...

In the video (https://reddit.com/link/f4fbfu/video/5yg4oclye5h41/player), skip to 0:38. There is a construction worker walking at a constant speed towards the car's lane. The car could only assume he would keep walking and swerved and stopped.

For a human, we'd probably assume the worker is paying attention and will not walk in front of us. Though at times that also ends up being wrong.
@freeone3000 GitHub is amazing for building and collaborating on source code, we're building services to enable safe and private collaboration on streaming data (whether text, images, video, your own format)
I might agree with you if all you quoted was the low quality part. My experience in software is that it’s typical to only get ~4 good hours out of someone per day. That’s 2or3 1.5-2hr streches. So the 4 hours worth of breaks, just means it takes 8 hours to get those 4 hours in. I’ve worked with devs who can maybe squeeze in another period into an 8 hour day (and if you’re reading HN you are probably more likely to be one), but I don’t think that’s something you can force someone to do, and probably shouldn’t assume you can hire for.

As for the low quality output, I’ve seen teams improve significantly by implementing good biweekly retros (note that bad retros can make things worse). Fostering the right atmosphere can do wonders to bring out latent talent. Also things like tooling can really help. CI with linting, and a no-judgement ‘you broke the build you fix the build’ rule can also really help.
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It is a Markdown Presentations Editor. To have an idea of what it is, imagine Ulysses and Keynote have a baby.
It is called Slideas (https://www.slideas.app/)

You can use the app from the outline to the final presentation.

It has all the features we can expect from a decent presentation application:
- Multiple themes, palettes and layouts
- Various types of content: basic markdown but also graphs, diagrams, vector icons, math, ...
- Presenter mode, PDF export

I keep the list sort because it is better to see it in action:
- Video: https://vimeo.com/385002379
> Icons are abstract representations, like letters. Do you insist on adding ornamentation to your letters at large font sizes?

Letters have that exact issue, vector fonts were essentially unusable on computers until font hinting was invented.
> I was a background checked employee and had to meet with compliance once a year,

That doesn't protect you from accessing and leaking data.
I wonder who "invented" the blink tag? Or the other hundreds of thousands of APIs every web browser implements? And who is responsible for those browser API implementations shipped to millions end users in hundreds of thousands of products? If you thought patent trolling was bad, Oracle just turned that into a molehill.
Now stratify by age and cause. In the case of SARS.
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> not one to anyone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)
Tinder is explicitly a hookup app.
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Unfortunately while off-gassing is a legitimate concern (particularly in poorly ventilated rooms) it is harder and harder to avoid, as spring mattresses now also often contain one or several layers of foam.

I'd like to see some high quality research on this using realistic test environments, or even monitoring in actual bedrooms. I don't know who is willing to fund that though.
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I agree. Kuh-sha-ya in Sanskrit means a decoction made from any herb(s). And despite knowing that, I was a bit befuddled about how to pronounce the word, until I saw the logo.
Right, but presumably we don't want the model to learn those, since they're an impractically low-level model. If you're training an AI for flying a plane, you want it to learn "the simplest model that works"—presumably something like aerodynamics—not a far more computationally-intensive (and data-intensive!) model, like e.g. quantum chromodynamics.
Oh fair enough - I wasn't thinking of that direction.

Lots of ideas are just bad. The ones that work out though, are very rarely original I think (in this context, at least).
Going from the parent comment's assertion, the answer would be that if you want to train something to predict physics, the original physics simulation that's generating the data is either:

1. Already doing that, in which case it's already the superior model.

or

2. Not doing that correctly, in which case the synthetic data output is equally poor.
This is amazing, thank you. Would there be a firefox version?
>Then call the CEO out, Alex Wilhelm (author), if you think its BS!

Isn't that what the parenthetical is doing? Maybe subtly, but it seems pretty clear what the author is trying to convey.
When we used to run BBSes, we were repeatedly warned by lawyers and courts that if we start actively manage the content of other people's posts, we become publishers and our legal protection vanishes.
Why is this not the case for large social media orgs that do exactly that?
> Was my mattress so cheaply-made that the manufacturer could afford to give them away?

Shipping is expensive, especially for something as heavy and bulky as an uncompressed foam mattress. Among other things, I have a free stroller (sans cup holder) and a life-time supply of Feather razor blades (they accidentally sent the bulk packaging) because Amazon didn't want to pay for return shipping.

Factor in the risks and headaches of trying to resell a used mattress, and I can easily see never wanting to take one back even if it means having to factor into the regular price the costs of finicky buyers. The mattress market is weird: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/
Seems like a yes to me. Disagreement usually comes in the form of a logical justification for why there is a disagreement. Lack of response indicates to me that someone disagrees but can't construct a logical argument to justify a disagreement.
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Certainly a court challenge would pit the 1st Amendment rights of the consumer against that of a corporation. Something along the lines of citizens have the right of freedom of expression that is not accumulated and traded. In a sane world, a corporation would not trump the rights of a private citizen: the purveyor of goods and services meant to improve the lives of citizens. Right..? right?! But after Citizens United, who could really be sure that the average citizen is any more important than a corporation's personhood.
Maintain a system with low entropy, always means injecting more energy from the outside. Because the entropy in an adiabatic(closed) system always increases.

Sometimes the energy cost/(effort) can be higher than the benefit, or the cost of the opportunity of having a mud/noise system can be negligible. As other human constructions, sometimes best is not better, it depends on the metric.
Yes of course, but it's the business need that should drive that discussion, not the DB architecture. "I'm not putting X in my database" is very different than "Well, if we need to do Y, I think we'll have to change A, B & C". Up to others to decided if it is worth it or not.
"Although water temperatures at Looe Key exceeded the 30.5 °C bleaching threshold repeatedly over the 3-decade study, the three mass bleaching events occurred only when DIN:SRP ratios increased following heavy rainfall and increased Everglades runoff."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-019-3538-9

"Porter, who has studied coral for 50 years, says the new research finds that coral die-offs happened long before high water temperatures reach the reef."

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742050975/floridas-corals-are...
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Global warming involves changes in ocean PH levels due to increases in CO2 concentration and changes in weather patterns not just temperature changes. So, while some species of coral can survive higher temperatures that’s far from the only problem.
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Honest question: What does the dev process actually look like for AAA games?

- Do they create levels/scenes without a visual tool to set the positions of everything?

- Or, if AAA studios tend to use some kind of visual tool, is it not a WYSIWYG tool? How does it differ?

I'm not a game developer, but I've tried gamedev as a regular developer, trying to do everything in code. Laying out the positions of objects in code, rather than visually, is a huge time sink. So I'm really curious how this could be done quickly at a large scale without some kind of visual tool.
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Does anyone here know if HSBC is still using this sapience software? I know they bought into this a couple of years ago.
Somewhat more information, including the plaintiffs (America's Communications Association, CTIA, NCTA, and USTelecom), in the referenced Ars Technica article:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/isps-sue-maine-c...
You should mention on the README that the production dockerfile (and posthog/posthog:latest) are busted, they do not create any database. Spent last hour debugging it :) Otherwise, looking really good!
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I'm sorry but what, lol? The media has barely talked about anything else for more than the past two weeks. If you got banned somewhere it's probably because you were spreading misinformation or suggesting there are conspiracies, kind of like you're doing right now.
I work in this space, at the intersection of synthetic data and security:

https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

The market opportunity is very large, but also insanely difficult to tap.

For one, you have an uphill battle on trust. Customers have to trust your data is secure, and btw it’ll never be 100% secure by many standards.

On the other hand, people have to trust the synthetic data is good enough to use Practically.

So you have to both convince management and convince engineers. Arguably management is easier to convince, but.. best of luck on the endeavor!

That’s not even discussing the technical challenges - I’ve implemented this all technically and have had it deployed to production systems. Building a robust system that is secure and produces valid synthetic data is a challenge.
I mean, if (1) is true but you get faster performance, then it's useful, right?
> With JavaScript you get method completion and debugging.

a) now your QA team needs to know JavaScript

b) method completion is crap when you don't know the language.

c) "You can setup a DSL in scala.js and you can get the best of both worlds" OMG You want to add Scala to the mix too? AND write your own DSL from scratch, and take on its maintenance to support your QA team's needs instead of leveraging an existing one?

your solution:

1. teach the QA team Javascript interaction with custom scala created dsl

2. have the dev team spend time creating a dsl

3. have the dev team devote some of its resources to maintaining the new DSL

their solution:

1. use english-like DSL much easier to learn than JS

2. that is already created

3. that someone else maintains

both solutions are going to have limitations in that what you want the DSL to do will be more than the DSL can _currently_ do.
Numeric type, as supported by other SQL databases, does exactly this. I do not want reinvent it on the application level.

I know how to do it, it is just not practical.
> Using Facebook Inc.’s “like” or “share” button to distribute right-wing or anti-semitic material could be a crime if the information ends up being circulated to a third party, Switzerland’s top court ruled.

> The Swiss Federal Court upheld a fine imposed on a man for “repeated defamation” by a Zurich court, ruling that “activating both ‘like’ and ‘share’ buttons in Facebook can improve visibility and thereby contribute to the dissemination within the social network of marked content.
It's not always clear when to use absolute and when to use relative units.

I would suggest that each dead person is mourned by approximately the same number of people, and therefore absolute units are more appropriate.

Also, the world of 1918 was much less interconnected. It's not clear if that makes losing n% of the population better or worse, but I would bet on worse.
I have no interest in owning a self-driving car myself because I enjoy driving and would never put myself in a situation where I rely on a car, but I'll be very glad if it takes drivers like the one in front off the road. Drivers who can't control their speed without using brakes infuriate me. Not just because it spoils my driving experience but also because I don't like seeing inefficient use of machines.

Back on topic, one thing that is invaluable for human drivers is eye contact. I assume that should be taken into account here, ie. if the pedestrian makes eye contact with the vehicle we can assume he has seen it. Otherwise it will result in a lot of unnecessary swerves and stops especially in towns where pedestrians walk right up the side of the carriageway.
You only need a transponder when flying an aircraft in controlled airspaces (Class A, B, C). You can fly without a transponder in a lot of places as long as you are in VFR conditions and not within 30 miles of most airports. It's just not a good idea. This is why gliders and paramotors can fly without a transponder in VFR conditions.

This is just basic safety for vehicles that can't see each other traveling at 100-1000 miles per hour in conflicting space.

Although it's a little concerning that ADS-B makes it so much easier to identify WHO is flying the planes.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.215
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Wouldn't most of that be handled by corporations making agreements among themselves? I don't think "the entire financial system" is really based on hooking individual people on unsustainable credit.
I'm confused by this comment because he had more issues on his page than anyone else and was constantly adding more and updating them as he was talking to average day Americans and trying to better understand their day to day problems.
Python has Decimal, JavaScript has BigNum and so on. I disagree with you - most languages support arbitrary precision numbers. Floats are not needed or wanted.

You so not want to invent your own arbitrary precision numbers

https://floating-point-gui.de/formats/integer/
Just wait until they make this retroactive, flag every post you may have "liked" as a teen and now jail you as an adult.

Can't wait for thought crime to be a thing.
Wondering the same. This is the first I am hearing about Amazon having a payment service too.
Some of these essays (probably including a few of PG's) should be automatically put on the front page every two years or so! It looks like this (excellent) article averages about that.
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I'm making the argument that the authority to moderate discussions is being misused and you are replying as if I am suggesting removal of this authority.
That's another option, but it's not what I was talking about. If corporations exist, then sure we can let them create contracts among themselves.