skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much business travel, in-person meetings, working in offices, etc won't rebound after this?
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I'm guessing I just upload a Spotify playlist.

This is a worrying trend. The "culture" fit is a maddening moving target. Culture is grown, it evolves. If we keep "selecting" a homogeneous "culture" (if we self-select) then we shouldn't expect very create results out of the team.
I guess one good thing of this panic is that a lot of companies will realize they can do a lot more remote work than they were doing, which is a great thing for the planet.
There's a big concern here of algorithmic discrimination. How do you stop a black box algorithm from descriminating based on gender, class, age, or sexual orientation? Even if such discrimintion is inadvertant, it's a dangerous way of screening applicants.
nginx can do the client cert verification for you and pass the results as http headers to the application. so all you have to do in the application is to add some request authentication interceptor that inspects the headers.
You seem very bitter towards Americans, and black people. I hope you figure out how to be a bit happier and less biased. Maybe less Russian troll too, that would be nice.
Thanks, I had forgotten that mode, but I remember it now.

In those days as I recall setting X to work at a good resolution was sometimes much more painful than it had to be. Since the 2000s (after the fork to Xorg for example) autoconfig got a lot better. I seem to recall it was possible to trigger a config that would give you a very low physical resolution but high res virtual desktop.
that's right. 3.5... 5.25 was long past.
doubling about every four days or so, 6 + 31 days would be about 800 cases.
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Humans made a machine print a result based on analytical models and a specific set of inputs created by academics on paper.

We’ve been doing that for years. What a shock we keep doing it.

The machine isn’t telling us squat except that after adding/subtracting in this way we found this value. Even if those models are vetted by academics, academia is a politically manipulated shit hole. Nothing to do with ML is anything close to objective consciousness, decoupled from human ideas.

Humans can still blow up the machine and the political system that pushes such things on them.

When we can’t even tell if we’re guessing right or just close enough to trigger emotional familiarity to get a reaction out of someone who thinks the machine runs on magic, well... sorry y’all but absolutely none of this means anything except as confirmation bias to keep behaving as we are.

The only model we know of capable of creating a consciousness is the universe. All that energy/matter had to flow over eons, at a scale far beyond our conscious comprehension, to end up with us.

Thinking we are engineering anything close to consciousness is a conscious trick we’re buying into to justify working for big tech corp.
C++98/C++03 give no real consideration to multithreaded code, which means that optimizers were free to work on the basis of preserving only single-threaded correctness (and they did!). The only tools you have at your disposal are inline assembly, external function calls acting as natural barriers, and (misusing) volatile. (Or maybe you have compiler-specific builtins, e.g., the GCC __sync_ builtins).

In terms of changes to semantics of pre-C++11 code, the biggest change is that the compiler is no longer able to introduce stores to memory locations that would not have been stored normally. This prohibits the optimization that would change this loop:

for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
*res += A[i];

into this:

int temp = *res;
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
temp += A[i];
*res = temp;

(since res would not have been written if N were 0 or less).

Beyond that, the main effect is that it is now possible to write correct multi-threaded, lock-free code without having to rely on the scattershot nature of volatile. Volatile does not mean what many people take it to mean. The closest approximation to its actual semantics in practice is that any load or store instruction generated from a volatile must not be reordered (with respect only to other such load/store instructions), and it must not be removed (i.e., no dead-store elimination or hoisting outside a loop). In particular, volatile does not prohibit load/store tearing (e.g., reading a 64-bit location via two separate 32-bit loads); it does not prohibit other accesses from being widened to include the volatile memory address.
I wonder if as a company transitions to remote if many employees take advantage and work few hours vs a company that was already remote.

Deadlines and other commitments won't change, it's up to managers to make sure employee output stays on track. Though if the disease spreads many employees may be out of commission with the illness or caring for family members.

My company discourages work from home, but has multiple offices and we all rely on Slack and video conferencing so much that it'd be pretty apparent if everyone was WFH and someone went for a hike ride instead of working.

I find that my productivity improves when I WFH, but I have a dedicated office area to retreat to (plus I save 60 - 90 minutes of commute time)
Because of loopholes inside the tax code.
> I kid you not, was in a meeting at [big tech company] HQ in [HQ location] and a comment was made to the effect that "there is only one service they trust as a white hat (Troy and HIBP) and I'm like "fuck how does one guy corner the market on trust?"

That's invaluable
Not an exhaustive study, but Jestin Coler got in the fake news clickbait game in 2013. He said that liberal targeted stories never gained viral traction like conservative stories.
>>The agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Go in a forested area somewhere and live there. Let us know how a disaster the agro revolution and today's inventions are.

Yeah, life was all peaches back then
Sounds interesting, anyone investing using IP blocks? Seems like it would be an weird non-correlated asset with maybe some tax advantages? How would depreciation work for IP blocks?
> A spacefaring civilization wouldn't care much at all about planetary motion and seasons.

Given france’s failed attempt at rational time, what does that say about us as a species?
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haha yes that's what i tried to explain to my parents. the hedge costs very little money not getting prepared at least a bit is crazy to me
This is associative generalization at its best, also known as prejudice. Not all prejudice is bad, it is bad when you apply it against persons and irreapective of success rate,if even one individual causes the prejudiced test to fail, the test becomes an instrument of injustice.

We all think prejudice in the context of race or sex,but it can be applied in just about any context.

For example: You can be prejudiced when performing facial recognition and you may have some failure rate which can be tolerable for things like authentication or the police finding a suspect. But let's say this is used to perform an airstrike/assasination of a terrorist, is any level of failure rate acceptable? It shouldn't be,not on it's own. You should have independent corroboration and subjective confirmation. The 0.01% false positive times 7billion faces means a lot of people whose potential death you are tolerating.

This is similar to why lie detector is inadmissible in court.even with dna evidence you need to independently prove either motive or plausibility of the crime being committed by the suspect.

This is far from assasinations and criminal cases but the concept of "you're unethical if you tolerate any form of systemic injustice against even one person"

To me this sort of ML matching should never be used in hiring decisions but it can be used to corroborate manager/peer evaluations/sentiment after a probationary period.

In reality this means people have to lie/fake personality quizzes and verbage/vocabulary resulting in the best fakers outperforming the flawed yet better non-fakers. Very sad how history repeats.
China’s Push to Jump-Start Economy Revives Fake Data Worries
Highly questionable. Facebook has been serving me Spanish-language ads for years, just because I said in my profile that I live in Venezuela, a country I've never even visited. None of my friends ever post on FB in Spanish and I don't speak it. I don't think FB has any sophisticated ad targeting tech to speak of. To me it looks like they just go off your profile, which is pretty basic.
Absolutely is a comment in good faith as people are entitled to their opinions and interpretation. I take your comment as condescending; you are not a moderator and shouldn't try to bully people out of expressing their opinions on a message board.
That might not exactly take a Tony Mendez-grade forger, but making a good one is probably not going to be within the skill set of random warehouse workers who enjoy agitating expensive shipments. They have to find a decent forger, get in contact, and arrange for the service. That wasn't going to be cheap to begin with, but the package is constantly in motion, so now someone else has to emplace the forged detector in a different location.

Assuming the warehouse worker can afford all that, someone offering anti-tamper-bypass-as-a-service is going to run headfirst into the FBI, SCA, and other well-resourced government organizations with which a sane individual would never consider fucking. That does not lead to rising property values in Tokyo.
How do you preserve the carbonation of soft drinks, then?

In order for drinks to stay fizzy, the container has to be filled under pressure. Even if you offer customers some fancy machine that can fill their bottles under pressure, you still risk issues with customers bringing in old, flimsy containers that cannot withstand those pressures.
Perhaps -- I have a feeling it'll go the other way (business will see how challenging remote workers are). Most businesses are not setup for "at home" work, the management style, communication requirements, etc. Further, and perhaps more importantly our infrastructure really isn't setup for that.

Imagine, suddenly having many times the bandwidth usage from VPNs and video conferencing. I'm wondering if the whole U.S. does this, if our national ISP infrastructure can hold up.
You've misunderstood the growth term. It's the growth of the entire economy, not just of wages. If average growth is X and capital grows faster than X (on average), then we can deduce that non-capital growth is slower than X (on average).
Every path along that road goes back to the same thing, including Piketty's: extreme control by a very small group of people over everyone else.

Piketty is merely suggesting control by a different group. The non-wealthy often respond very positively to that, thinking their sandwich will be bigger and they'll have some enhanced influence - which never actually happens in practice. The types of people that pursue power in very concentrated systems of any sort, almost never like to share their accumulated power.

You have to either nationalize wealth and production formally (Socialism), so that bureaucrats or authoritarian citizen boards/panels (or the military as often happens) govern the use & distribution of all wealth and production; or you have to aggressively regulate all possible uses of private wealth, which also requires similar authoritarian control groups for oversight & dictate, that will de facto rule as fascist entities (a veneer of private ownership scenario).

This is Socialism vs Fascism, in which one formally nationalizes and doesn't usually bother to pretend about who owns & controls what; and the other de facto nationalizes but leaves you with fake property ownership & control (which they can and will revoke at any time). If you want to pursue any Piketty style premise, all roads go to the same place. There will be no exceptions, there has never been an exception. You can vary the details, it doesn't matter, you get inherently violent, humanity crushing authoritarianism in every scenario if you actually pursue it very far. Piketty requires authoritarian-heavy structures, you can't redistribute and equalize enough in any other manner.

We've already figured out the furthest you can go before you tip over: various European nations have experimented out in the open with very hefty welfare state concepts for generations now. They've taken it as far as it can go, before tipping into authoritarianism. Several have had to roll back their burdensome welfare states at times, including eg Sweden, as they rolled into stagnation. It's a challenging balancing act that requires careful management to continue operating well.

Piketty has proposed nothing new, these are very old ideas and they've all been trialed in the real world repeatedly, all have failed repeatedly. Piketty is a rehash for modern times, Marx lite. The only response you will ever get when you point out that it has all been tried already, is: well, they didn't crush enough skulls (insert alternative fantasy story here: they didn't invent a technocratic utopia smart AI solution that was good enough to achieve harmony), or it would have worked.
Is this a widespread issue or only certain car models? I’ve been very interested in purchasing a Comma. Thanks!
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As someone that's taking the train to work in the Bay area I so hope my employer does this soon...
Hopefully quite a lot, assuming workplaces realise the benefits.
I can verify that he isn't an Okta shill but he also glosses over some of the problems and limitations that I've experienced with the ScaleFT product compared to our co-existing OpenVPN solution.

We have used multiple OpenVPN servers with password protected cerificates and TOTP. Even if someone were to obtain access to my credentials and certs, they wouldn't be able to access the production services without also obtaining access to the authenticator device. Once your machine is enrolled in ScaleFT and while you're authenticated with your identity provider, malware or just a malicious coworker could access the production services with a single command line.

There are upsides to ScaleFT as well, though. As long as you're all in on Okta or can federate with it, user management is a no brainer. And having the IdP integration is much more user (and malware) friendly and is likely more reliable for server to server use compared to OpenVPN. Limiting access to particular services is likely easier, too.

Downsides with this product include having all sorts of reoccuring configuration problems where a server just disappears from the list of available services, which requires ops involement to restore access. If you're using macOS and RDP (I just outed myself to Matt...) you have to use the sub-par FreeRDP client. And ultimately you're tunnelling TCP over TCP, which works ok in the office but which might not always work as well in mobile or higher latency network situations.
I work remote and I really miss more interactions, even some of the pointless meetings. Obviously thats just the loneliness talking, but I wish remote companies had some hubs you needed to live near so you could go in when you needed it.
An 80/20 (remote/office) model would be perfect.
If the earth's landmass was flat, you don't need as much water to cover the continents.

If the earth had just "recently" cooled from being a ball of magma, it makes sense that there weren't major upheavals yet. It was only after significant tectonic motion, subduction, etc, that you got the variety of geographic terrain and continents we have now.
>However, creating a practical wealth tax seems a bit tricky especially in terms of assessing wealth.

the radicalXChange people have revitalized a somewhat older idea, harberger taxation. The mechanism is relatively straight forward, people self-assess the value of their stuff and pay a periodical tax on it. At any point in time, anyone can force the sale of said commodity.

Point being that if someone sets the price at above market rate, they're reducing allocative efficiency (by exercising monopoly power over their property) so they pay a tax. If goods are exchanged at market rate, then that improves the utilization of the property.
> Arguably, 3M should have put the price up as soon as demand shot up, so that stock would not run out.

No. Raising prices is the econ 101 solution, but we don't live in an econ 101 world. There are other ways to deal with shortages, and 3M chose one of those other ways:

https://news.3m.com/blog/3m-stories/3m-responds-2019-novel-c...:

> We notified 3M authorized distributors that we are prioritizing orders to help serve our base business – including hospitals – due to high global demand.

Some retailers are also implementing non-price-based solutions to the shortages:

https://www.ajc.com/news/home-depot-limits-coronavirus-mask-...:

> As fears continue rising about the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Atlanta-based The Home Depot is limiting the number of protective respirators to 10 per purchase.
Of course it can. The limitation would be vpn appliances but you can elastically create them in awe if u really need to.
The receiver could always test it after the fact. If it didn’t work then I’m sure they would look closely for tampering and would have pretty good evidence that someone tried to defraud them. Seems risky.
Thoma Bravo has been acquiring companies in the infosec space. I’m assuming they’re trying to build a portfolio and maybe consolidate at some point.
What are the practical differences in registering a block with ARIN vs APNIC vs RIPE? If one buys a legacy block does one have to transfer it to ARIN?
Discourse (forum) used to hijack Ctrl+F (Command+F) shortcut which makes it super irritating! Not sure if they have changed that.
Pretty much all of the significant early civilizations appeared around large rivers (I guess a good source of water and nutrient rich soil is necessary for a large civilization) seems reasonable that a major flood would have to happen at each of those places eventually thus becoming their flood myth?
> I'm wondering if the whole U.S. does this, if our national ISP infrastructure can hold up.

I'd be more concerned with bandwidth from people watching Netflix at 4k while at home, despite their Open Connect Appliance.
3nm: Blurring Lines Between SoCs, PCBs and Packages
The chances that it was also down exactly 4 years ago today (it was) are astronomical though.
> What kind of system is he proposing in which capital doesn’t create leverage?

Creates less leverage (per unit). Make it less efficient for a single investor to invest a lot and reap all the profits, giving more room for multiple people to invest instead.
It'd be nice if Deepmind's AlphaFold could lay a helping hand. ;)

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-sci...
Great for if you want your users to forget about how long they are spending on your site. Less friction and no jarring page loads, just a steady drip of dopamine.
This is the kind of story that gets weirder the more one reads it, and that's of course because all of it actually happened.
Thanks. I was sleep writing.
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You have the wrong library. That fight was in Iothiah (the Sareotic Library).
The key is that the pie would get bigger faster, in the long run, if wealth were more evenly distributed. As inequality grows, the behavior of the market approaches a command economy, with all the fragility and inefficiency that brings. As wealth distribution approaches uniform, market decision-making approaches maximally distributed. There's some optima of wealth distribution which maximizes risk-adjusted growth. We've probably gone a little too centralized, at least for some industries.
I work on ECUs and surrounding software for various smaller engines, and it requires a lot of massaging, but you can scrape the bottom of the barrel and still get alright results. An FPGA isn't strictly necessary, save maybe some extreme cases in the high end of the automotive market. If you happened to have the expertise on hand, it may be easier, but you can certainly make do without one.
> People were using their student loan money in their brokerage accounts

Doesn't sound like the smartest thing to do.
You realize you're talking to a guy who's actually seen the internal deadlines, all of the secret data, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And you're telling me the PR talking points as if it's something I don't already know to be complete and utter bullshit.

So how about this: wanna bet?