skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What do you think would happen when a powerful entity and a less-powerful entity disagree?

Nothing out of the ordinary really. If you were to put up your company at some multiple of its market value you'd either pay the tax or be bought out.

The only novel thing here is the tax btw, large corporations acquiring smaller companies at a multiple of their value is the wet dream of people who run startups
My guess is Symantec due to their change of corporate direction/vision in 2019 (selling enterprise sec biz to Broadcom, concentrating on consumer/smallbiz cybersecurity). see https://www.pcmag.com/news/symantec-sells-off-name-enterpris...

Would line up well with Troy Hunt's mention of "It was a change in business model that not only made the deal infeasible from their perspective, but also from mine; some of the most important criteria for the possible suitor were simply no longer there"

But then I saw the date for the pcmag article above (Aug 2019) and I'm not sure now. Seems Symantec's divestiture is too early for this broken deal. Or would it take several months after the sale? I found an article from 2019 Nov 4 about Broadcom closing the Symantec purchase - https://www.crn.com/news/security/done-deal-10-7-billion-bro...
"Cleaning up" is a phrase reserved for exits. Thoma Bravo is merely "acquisitive". They just raised a big new fund; it is common to have a couple of transactions lined up when raising a new fund so you can begin with a bang and deploy capital sooner rather than later.
That’s an impressive collection of many popular household and enterprise brands. Never heard about Thomas Bravo before.
Oh right. All these libraries starting with the word S.
For many people the difference between a prototype and a product is very small. In this safety critical business, the difference is huge.
I use and love DigiKam[0] for organizing my ≈230k RAW & JPG media library, and both RawTherapee[1] and Darktable[2] are great for more specific editing (though I haven't settled on an ideal workflow yet). One cool thing about DigiKam is that you can have it use a remote MySQL server for its db, theoretically allowing you to work with your library from the road (I think... it's been several months since I've spent a weekend working on my photo libraries).

Adobe's Lightroom truly is a great and powerful tool like so many of their other apps, but I just can't stomach having years' worth of work locked up in a proprietary subscription-model app. And I just consider Apple Photos untrustworthy, though I do like to use it + iCloud shared photo albums to publish my edited "selects" instead of my full library.

Now if only there was a real F/LOSS contender to replace FCPX...

[0] https://www.digikam.org/

[1] https://rawtherapee.com/

[2] https://www.darktable.org/
Relativity says it’s impossible for two observers to agree on things like simultaneity, distance, duration, etc. Without reference to astronomical landmarks (observed within a given proximity of the solar system, at low speed) how could anyone agree on the meanings of time intervals?
The CDC does not really inspire confidence given the botched manner in which testing was conducted and the lack of strong leadership.
This is free but it is Python 2.X not 3.X:
codecademy.com/learn/learn-python

It should teach you the basics of Python in a tutorial.
No I live between Sacramento and Tahoe. A hub in the Bay Area would be fine if I only went once or twice a month. I don’t like 100% distributed remote model. We need to be anchored to something.

A company doesn’t need employees in every state.
Posts used to get down voted for not providing compensation range. Now nobody does it. Do people not care anymore?
Subroutine calls, now with RAM [video]
You're acting like it's your money they've spent or tax payer money that's been spent? Why does it matter how much has been spent? Is this like some kind of weird entitlement where you get to be upset because companies made aspirational promises (to their shareholders mind you, not to you)
That sounds like what I had during the southern hemisphere's flu season last year. It started in late March, before the shot was ready, and just kept coming back over a number of months.
I live and work in a metro area of about 3 million people. This area was pretty heavily hit be Coronavirus with 6 deaths so far, so let's say there are 3000 infected people walking around.

So far, not too bad, right? I only have a 1/1000 chance of running across one of those people.

But, I take the bus to work, which holds around 50 people, and any of those people could be harboring the virus (possibly completely symptom free), so my chance of just being exposed to it on the bus is 1/20.

That ignores the chance of being exposed from the ~100 people on my office floor, or the ~200 or so people in the office cafeteria, etc. Though the bus is the most likely avenue of exposure -- I trust my coworker to stay home when they feel ill, but not everyone that rides the bus has the luxury to take sick leave when they need it (or even to visit the doctor when they are ill)

Granted, just being exposed is no guarantee that I'll contract the disease and I don't know what that chance is, but my risk of exposure is not exactly low.

I do wash my hands and try to avoid touching my face, etc, but none of that matters if the guy standing in the bus in front of me sneezes without properly covering his mouth and I inhale his viral mist.
What do you dislike about tech Interview?
Because Photos is a horrible app with multiple issues that doesn't come close to any if the previous Apple offerings (esp. Aperture)?

Just a small sample of issues:

- https://grumpy.website/post/0SUrgqNju

- https://grumpy.website/post/0SZmcHq7V

- https://grumpy.website/post/0Rz1BBnjz
Chinese is one such language. Both “sky” and “sun” are also used for “day”
Location: Bengaluru, India

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate:Yes

Technologies: Python, MySQL, MongoDB,Hadoop

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4eoj1z0dkebgzds/DeepResume.pdf?dl=0

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/deep-dave-95b29877/

Email:deep.dave04@gmail.com

I have one year of experience as a Data analyst. I have been looking for a permanent role in the data science field.

My skill sets are Python, MySQL, MongoDB, and Hadoop, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, Keras and Tensorflow.
When did you join the Austin office? I'm guessing things changed over time. When I visited there definitely was not a security person (not for the building nor for the Cloudflare suite in the building) and there were no badges. I was able to walk into the Cloudflare office through the unlocked door and walk around inside the office for at least a couple minutes before anyone paid any attention to me (and even that was only because I was trying to get someone's attention to tell me where to go).

Regarding the reception desk, it shouldn't matter if it's a shared building. Unless it's a small company (CF is not), even in shared buildings it's common to have at least one person sitting at a desk in the office suite to act as a gatekeeper and assist visitors, etc.
If you need color profiles, then you are beyond tweaking the HSL values by hand in CSS. The main value in using color profiles is so you can use an exact color match with an image using that profile, and if you're doing that, it's more natural to have an RGB value. So, providing HSL doesn't really add any value here, as far as I can tell.
> I basically want to get as far away from Node and React and CSS as possible. What's a good path out?

.net core or spring boot?
>I think we need to teach people who think they can solve every problem with some ML system a lesson in economics because this stuff is getting out of hand.

AI/ML has become one of the most hyped buzzwords lately. People are trying to find any and every area possible to push some kind of ML system into the project.
Smart toothbrush that uses "AI" to predict the buildup of plaques.
Smart shoes that uses AI to do some niche task... and so on.
PBS Eons on YT is a great channel for this kind of stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA/vid...

Earth has gone through a few Iceball stages, purple eras, red ones, and blue ones too. Our days have been much shorter and the moon caused massive tides too. Like life, she constantly evolves and will continue to do so.
That shouldn’t be that case for a well designed battery pack.

An unavoidable issue with all lithium ion batteries is plating during charging. This process increases the output impedance of the battery reducing its ability to deliver power to a load, regardless of how much energy is inside it.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140903105638.h...
HSL is not really abstracted. Instead, it is just a different way of specifying RGB values. So you can't have HSL switch to the P3 color space, because you would end up with color shifts.

In other words, same HSL => same RGB, and same RGB but different space => often a different color.
Not from Chihuahua, but I live in Baja California, and the last 2 decades saw a surge in popularity in Tex-mex style burritos, at least in my city, Mexicali.
The US makes burritos really big with really crazy, heavily unhealthy fillings, stuff like boneless buffalo wings, rice and fries in the same burrito, smothered in creamy and hot sauces.
For some it's delicious, for others it's disgusting. But they were definitely not this way originally.
I would compare original burritos to tacos, in a rolled form.
On the other hand, US style burritos are more akin to wraps, mainly because of size and ingredient variety inside and outside of the tortilla.
More than one sticker in different planes.
The common assumption is that the company-issued VPN client will only ever be installed on hardware owned and controlled by the company, and never inside a VM.

Realistically, the usual plan is to create controls that are impossible for most non-technical users to bypass, inconvenient for anyone else to bypass, and back them up with the threat of disciplinary action.
Waymo is likely trying to pull all the big money that would otherwise feed the other players. With Softbank out, there are only so many options. This round is probably a lot more about draining opportunities for capital from others and less about paying for cars (a factory would be about $1b) or cloud (which they get wholesale from G, not to mention software for free).
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I’m an employee I’d rather have in the office. At home, my productivity is either 20-30% lower or 20-50% higher than in the office. The problem is I can never predict which one it will be on any given day. My productivity in the office is much less variable than that. There are, of course, better and worse days, but I like to keep things as predictable as possible. This, coincidentally, probably makes me easier to manage than if my performance were more variable.
Another issue is that as you increase the gamut, you decrease precision. So you sometimes see wide gamuts like scRGB only used with higher precision images.
There’s an $80M driving simulator in Iowa, and we tried it out
I'll be happily surprised if we get a postmortem. Pulling everything out as soon as I can.
Maybe a bicycle wouldn’t work, but could there be something else that would?
You can also take a look at SimpleLogin, quite similar to AnonAddy but could be selt-hosted. Just ping its founder for possible collaboration, he answers very quickly.
That is a pretty optimistic view of US government agencies that I don't share. Most fight tooth and nail to increase their budgets so I think don't heathcare being socialized (and becoming the largest agency in the government) would likely increase the government interest in a healthy population.
I'd rather wait until after the big wave of infections hit so there's still bed space available, but doctors know exactly how to treat this. I'd rather be the 100th case of COVID-19 my doctor has treated than the 1st.
> Since PII have not found so far and Microsoft stated privacy principles with no personal content

I'm going to have to disagree with the authors of the paper, here.

Whilst the information they've found may not appear to be PII at first, it is very far from anonymous.

It has everything required for active fingerprinting of individual devices - namely, the UIDs of the hardware of the computer. Things that don't regularly change, and things that may show habits.

Combining this dataset with another is all it would take to break from pseudo-anonymous to known individuals. However, enough information is there to uniquely fingerprint most users.
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes, been successfully remote for last 2 yrs
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rails, Go, Node, Vue.js
twos.dev
linkedin.com/in/ben
github.com/glacials
qhiiyr@gmail.com

I recently built my side project into a $500 MRR business, but it's not enough of a salary to continue. Since I'm coming down off a year of building my own company, I want to join somewhere that can give me the same thrill of wearing a lot of hats and being very close to both the product and the customer.
The Terraform AzureRM 2.0 Provider release
So, if Canadian lawmakers don’t approve self-driving cars, they lose their retirement.
> Maybe the 10% of companies that aren't deterred by this opinion simply don't have websites that necessitate a "web application,"

The further your features get from a static html page the less JS frameworks helps. For example you can pretty easily write super mario in vanilla JS using normal html elements for rendering, doing that in JS frameworks would not be very fun at all. However if all you want to do is display data from servers or let the user fill in forms then JS frameworks are pretty good.
I always liked to think of it in terms of car ownership. You can immutably borrow my car (&car) but if you modify it, you're a jerk (you obviously can't modify it in Rust). Or if you're a mechanic you can mutably borrow (&mut car) it and upgrade it or something. Orr, if I sell my car to you, you've taken ownership of it.

fn borrow_car(car: &Car);
fn modify_car(car: &mut Car);
fn sell_car(car: Car);

Obviously there'd be other parameters in the functions, but yeah that's the gist of it.
I jumped to Etrade a while back and it's been a relatively positive experience. Power Etrade is garbage though - consistently crashes during spike traffic times
>I don't know what that chance is

The people who do know, the CDC aren't recommending you stay home.
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
Who is a better authority?
I've recently started using socks proxies via ssh and I was surprised about how far you can go with such solution.

Unless you want permanent connection with routing and everything, ssh socks proxy work awesomely.

Point a firefox profile to use it and you can really act as if you were in a different subnet: it can proxy dns resolution too.
Like reverse culture shock.
I suspect that a lot of the "productivity drop" in general is a result of trying to measure productivity for remote workers but not office workers. If someone is in the office, managers commonly assume they're working, even if they're spending most of the day faffing around on the internet. If they're at home, you can't see what they're doing so you try to measure it by results. Which shows that they're only doing a couple hours of real work in a day, which gets called a productivity drop even though it was just the baseline.

I mean think about it. If people were less productive then to do the same work you'd need them to work more hours, not fewer, right?

And it's even worse if your metrics do something silly like measure by lines of code or time spent typing. If someone spends an hour walking in a park figuring out how to implement something and then five minutes when they get home to type it into a computer, it's obviously bad accounting to call that an hour of leisure and five minutes of working.
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Thanks for the insights.

I can't shake the feeling that the dominating factor in growth of LOC isn't the number of features per se, but the number of features worked on in parallel by separate teams.
Amazon bought 44.192.0.0/10 for "over $50M" so a /8 would be worth over $200M.
Yes, lots of people were. The market closed down 6 days in a row which almost never happens. There's no major collapse like 2008, just a powerful catalyst that led to a fast correction of 10% from all-time highs and released a lot of downward pressure.
> Curiously it became a poem that doesn't have to be taken literally after it was proven to be completely wrong.

Not really. The Mishnah, of the Talmud, originates from around 200CE. The first commentary on the poem treats it as a purely symbolic construction. These commentaries sum up thinking that was already common at the time, based on long oral traditions.
Another potentially useful data structure that has good asymptotic complexity, but probably also poor cache locality is the Van Emde Boas tree [0]. I've never seen one in practice, but they sure make for excellent p-set problems!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Emde_Boas_tree
If you write a serverless server correctly then when you run it, the server disappears but the code keeps running.
The key aspect is that this is a liquidity event that allows the execs and the engineers to cash out. That's what they've been working so hard for with the Chandler rollout and the remote-controlled driverless demos.
Maybe? If r only exceeded g in the past 20 years or so, though, we would expect that most of the wealthy would have acquired their wealth at a time that g > r.

Point being that wealth is a lagging indicator. If I'm 25, I'm making my way in a different world than the one my grandfather grew up in.
There are 2 reserved addresses in a /24 that can't be used - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Addresses_ending_in_0_or_...
Yet again, the British courts acting illegally as it suites them. I am pretty sure that Assange's trial already has a written ending.

Why, for example, is he even being held in prison? He's innocent until proven guilty, even by the law of the land. Instead he is held in maximum security reserved for the worst of criminals.
Does culture relate to national and race related culture?
How Serverless enables new software delivery models for SaaS products in cloud
Shelf Engine (YC S18) is hiring tech positions in Seattle. Help us stop food waste
Messenger was never in React Native
https://reactnative.dev/showcase
Short answer: because it's way more feasible to remodel your kitchen than to tear down your entire house and rebuild it.

And then your bathroom. And then convert the garage. And then add an addition. And in 10 years you have this cobbled-together monstrosity
I've always wondered why we don't use that as our subject for all sorts of business needs. I'm talking about normal employee-to-employee business in addition to more technical things like security groups and so forth. Don't email Karen, email [whatever her role is], at least for official requests pertaining explicitly to defined job responsibilities.

That way the sender doesn't get delayed by unknown turnover, and the new recipient has full history to look back upon instead of starting cold.
The year is 2047, the ugly informational page is now a sprawling social network platform and is still in production.
I remember having a toy like this where you had to put multiple balls to different holes by tilting and shaking.
Incentives augment the motivation to achieve, not determine it.
People in governmental authority positions seem to want to make an example of Julian Assange in order to discourage others from following in his steps.
Chloroquine: A potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread (2005)
I think he's cherry piketting data.
What conferences have been cancelled due to Covid-19?
> hardware devices with serial numbers;

Ouch. That sounds a lot like personally identifiable information.
Messenger was never written in React Native
https://reactnative.dev/showcase
Try machine learning bookcamp: http://bit.ly/mlbookcamp
Learning machine learning by doing projects
Would suggest way better resources found in /r/learnpython
Small nit, Haxe doesn’t have the upper case X anymore...

One more caveat to add to the end of your note here... Actionscript was probably the biggest standardized language across all web browsers at one time. It’s dead largely because of a business decision, and this left a lot of developers in the lurch. This will undoubtedly happen again.

Haxe is run by a group of developers that insists on keeping control of their tooling and means of development, regardless of what other platforms emerge. This always involves dealing with some rough spots and friction getting things to work initially, but in the long run it pays of with greater flexibility and peace of mind.

Full disclosure - Member of the Haxe compiler team
I believe the cosmic microwave background provides a reasonably universal rest frame to anchor your definitions of time. It should at the very least be a lot less local than using the rest frame of a particular solar system.
> 27 inch monitors cost $129.00 each

Heh yes, that's what I thought as well. And what's more, he only needed 24". Let's assume that 129 is the going rate for the author and he wanted 3 monitors to work on. Since he has undoubtedly spent more than three hours building and schlepping around this setup, I don't think it was worth it.

But then again, that's probably not what this is about :)
The small amount of people who work on Wikipedia is it's greatest weakness. Petty power plays and individual politics all bubble up from those few into a resource so many millions use. It deserves more but how can anyone even start with all the rules, bots and reverts. It's really demoralizing to try and put in any effort there as you'll quickly encroach on some editors "territory".
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I feel worse for Lightspeed web server software. Who I'm sure are after some of the search terms mentioned in this post.
I should have cited it; great read on this stuff and was ahead of the curve!
Is this US only or worldwide?
Take a break if you were working too much before spend a day or two relaxing, rejuvenate, read books.

Else, whenever I get some free time, I use to clear my Pocket reading list, read my open tabs which I opened to read but couldn't get time, after clearing my tabs I really feel good :P

Or you can always learn something not just technical but also a life skill.
Interesting article. I think in this specific example call centre employees almost NEED to be remote to be successful whereas tech work don’t.

>It is not so simple. There are lots of factors that could lead to such a ban, including a culture in which remote workers tend to be slacking due to low morale. Also, we were studying call-centre work, which is easily measured and easily performed remotely.
The only solution is to build a castle where you hoard crude oil and IPv4 addresses NOW.