skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to read about the sort of malfeasance that has put us in this situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...

TLDR: A $3000 ventilator was “on schedule to file for market approval in September 2013” and then Covidien bought out the competition to prevent it coming to fruition.
As a poor man's red team, the reward of being a jerk is the compensation paid to the troll.
Hi! I'm a full-stack software engineer, with some background in Machine Learning/Data Analysis.
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If my blood is on the touchscreen, it shouldn't break my car or prevent me from getting to the hospital. Who needs more controls? I want physical levers and switches on the dash. Case in point, Ford Mustangs have electronic controls to pull heat off the engine, but the valve only opens when the thermostat says it okay so when it breaks (and costs $250 to fix, and breaks regularly) you're stuck with cold air in the winter until you exceed 50MPH. Just give me a freaking lever that manually/physically opens the valve to and pull the heat off the engine. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> Yes, underrepresentation of the population is literally the definition of bias.

It's literally not.

Men account for 90% of convictions for homicide and other serious forms of violence in the US, and the overwhelming majority of countries abroad. Is that evidence of overwhelming misandry and bias in criminal justice? There's been demonstration of some bias, IIRC men tend to get 40-60% longer sentences. But that's nowhere near enough to account for this disparity. The reality is men do commit more violence than women and the disparity of men in prison for violence so this overrepresentation of men is not the product of bias, but rather men's own decisions.

Similarly, women make up the majority of professions like speech pathology, education, publishing with some of these over 90% female. Do we conclude that this is because of rampant bias against men? Perhaps, but in order to prove that we'd have to prove that these institutions prefer female applicants over male applicants. A non-bias explanation is that 90% of applicants are female, because 90% of people who want to go into these jobs are women.

Not only is underrepresentation not evidence of bias, the lack of underrepresentation does not absolve a group of bias. For instance, say a tech company decided it wanted to have an engineering workforce representative of the general population with respect to gender. 20% of the applications it gets are from women, so the company randomly throws away 75% of the male applications to make it so that an equal number of people go on to the phone screen, and subsequent on-site. This produces an engineering workforce that is perfectly representative of the population's gender distribution. But it is overwhelmingly biased against men and in favor of women. Obviously real-world tech companies are rarely this extreme - I've personally only seen OKRs calling for 33% at most. The point is, force equal or closer-to-equal outcomes in spite of unequal decisions made by people often entails the creation of bias, rather than its elimination. Do you really think that a company can achieve 50% women in tech without biasing their interview process in favor of women? The only company that even gets close to 50/50 practices explicit quota hiring:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThoughtWorks#Hiring_and_divers...

Ultimately, at this point I think your conception that bias has a 1:1 relationship with representation relative to general population is fundamentally different from mine in a way that makes it difficult to productively explore the value of affirmative action in the hiring process.
The underlying idea here seems to be something like "Decouple the workstation physical hardware -- from the VM's that actually do the work".

For a business, this model looks like this: You buy a physical workstation for every person that needs to have access to the network. You buy a bunch of physical servers too.

But, but, each workstation no longer runs its own OS, nor is an island onto itself. Instead, it connects to a VM instance, which runs on one of the servers.

In that respect, the workstation is a whole lot like a dumb terminal -- except that it has better graphics...

Each server runs multiple VM's, but does not have an infinite capacity. When more VM's are needed, servers are either expanded in terms of capacities, and/or more servers are added...

VM's could also be ran in the cloud, that is, locally managed (if the servers are local), or remotely managed (if servers are in the cloud)...

Diskspace can similarly be decoupled... that is, no longer does one user use one physical drive, but a virtual one, where the "unused space" (virtual unused space) is actually apportioned out to other users...

If I am incorrect about any of these points, please feel free to correct and/or elaborate...

(Also, yes, I am aware that VMWare and other virtualization platforms -- might also work similarly...)
Omni Group Layoffs
I'm a current Lambda School (LS) student, one small note:

- LS is listed as being in New York, it's actually an online school
I had similar thoughts. I hadn’t even heard of Houseparty until now.
For the sake of Economic Piety. It's an easy number to track, but it's not all there is.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/emphasize-...

I lived in Germany for a couple years and now live in one of the poor(er) states. A comment above this says to jettisoning Idaho will game GDP numbers for the US. I'm currently experiencing earthquake aftershocks AND low GDP.

I honestly think for most people, Germany had a high quality of living (if you ignore AC when it's 35 degrees in summer). But in the US, we've got Mammon and, for better or worse, GDP is how we track that.
I’m curious if the Feds will start to crack down on this kind of behavior. Think of the impact on veggie prices once a good portion of Americans are growing their own food. The New Deal already showed the US could come in a demand you pay fines for not buying crops you don’t need. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Just archive.org every page on the wiki. Their api will let you do 15/minute.
By the time my kid pays for his sandbox he'll be too old to care about it.
James, Witten, Hastie, and Tibshirani, "An Introduction to Statistical Learning."
Available for download: http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/ISL/

Taylor and Karlin, "An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling"
For more on the origins of FM and other related tech, see _The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age_, Woolley and Hoye, 2016, https://www.worldcat.org/title/network-the-battle-for-the-ai...
Basically now we're back to forcing Google to work the way AltaVista did in 1997.
Fully agree with you, Google -as a lot of us expected- has turned into a corporate scourge.

Which makes their mission statement "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" come across like a bad joke. They really should update it since they don't even bother to keep up appearances anymore.
Is someone thinking so? Really?
THIS is how computer works:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm

I remember we started our University course of low-level programming from writing in machine codes. No jokes, took binary representation of assembly instructions from that manual and wrote in HEX editor. Then we disassembled simple C applications, understanding unfolding our high-level instructions into x86 assembly. Passing parameters through registres, through stack, two models of stack restoration (yeah, cdecl and stdcall, that moment I realized what does it mean), and other stuff you won't be ever bothered to think about writing in C/C++.
And only after that started writing in actual Assembly.
THIS is knowledge how computer works. If you know only C, you know nothing.
Or perhaps just a pin they have to enter in order to get the first phone to actually ring. Basically 2fa for the right to bother me.
We're told (correctly) by all YC's public communication that raising is a distraction and founders should focus on real work as much as possible. If what you say is the case, YC is either broken or lying, and they're not lying since it's 100% true that raising is a distraction.
This is a good reason to carry a fake ID and a corporate credit card issued in the same name. (Most banks will allow you to issue subaccount cards on a corporate credit line in any name you type in the box.)

Being able to predict when you might be at a given hotel in the future (which is possible from one's stay history, e.g. a conference you attend every year) is tremendously useful for blackmailers, kidnappers, and the like.

I personally refuse to allow my PII in these databases on these grounds, and these days it's impossible to get a hotel room without an ID, so this is the only option.
Urban gardens are a thing. Urban squirrel isn't recommended for the menu.
New App Attempts to Detect Signs of Covid-19 Using Voice Analysis
Even a 2% pay cut is basically a big “the company doesn’t value you anymore, best move along.” signal. They can say it’s about cutting costs all they want but you’re the one being asked to take the hit not the company worth millions or billions.
Isn't this the perfect application for ASR technology? Instead of fiddling around with buttons, or worse, a touchscreen, you could just say "Honda: heat up", "Honda: heat two down", "Honda: aircon off". I would love that in my car.
It's a psychic stench, detected through the third nostril, that infuses the bits of their email electrohomeopathically when they send their resumes.
Bill Gates: Here’s how to make up for lost time on Covid-19
I still use both on KDE Plasma desktop. Life is great.

Many other options like fire-on-window-close and zooming are also available.

I believe you could get them just using kwin the window manager.
No, the problem is that people keep reinventing the wheel over and over again, instead of picking one app and improving it so that their efforts are cumulative.
The first version of Dark Sky was web application called forecast.io. This sparked an interest in me that web apps can be beautiful and to the ordinary user, look like an "app".

I feel they were one of the early adopters of the "PWA" mindset, before the term was coined. Great blog post from 2013: It’s not a web app. It’s an app you install from the web.
https://web.archive.org/web/20161221014014/https://blog.dark...

Secondly DuckDuckGo uses Dark Sky for its own weather information. I wonder what the alternative will be now.
Sounds good. If you build it I'll use it.
Yeah, thinking we'll see this in Hollywood soon. Maybe "Jurassic Virus: The Beginning".
The news stations here are saying make your zoom session private and make sure desktop sharing is host only.
China's audacious global propaganda campaign
Exactly what I told my sister few months ago. The windows just feel stiff and unnatural.
Beryl was the shit when I was in high school. Those wobbly windows were mind-blowing at the time.
Even modern AAA computer games sometimes miss mouse clicks, because they foolishly poll for transitions of the button up/down state in the main loop, for each frame they render, instead of properly tracking the OS event queue.

It's a very common (and lazy) way of programming games (and other more mission-critical apps): naively polling the input device state in the main simulation or rendering loop, instead of actually responding to each and every queued operating system event like mouse clicks.

It's entirely possible to get multiple mouse down/move/up/click events per render frame, if the system has frozen or stalled for any reason (which happens all the time in the real world). But polling just can't deal with that, so it sometimes ignores legitimate user input (often at a critical time, when other things are happening).

So it's still unfortunately quite common for many apps to sometimes miss quick mouse clicks or screen touches, just because the system freezes up for an instant or lags behind (like when the CPU overheats and the fan turns on madly and SpeedStep clocks the CPU waaaay down, or even the web browser opens up another tab, or anything else blocks the user interface thread), and it just doesn't notice the quick down/up mouse button transition that it would have known about if it were actually tracking operating system events instead of polling.
Michael Gove has an illustrious history with his private emails as well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17235168
As someone else said, Hanson is an economist.

Signaling is taught in Game Theory 101 in undergrad econ. Varian, Pyndick etc probably have plenty of "more rigorous analysis".
It's hard to put my finger on it but this pandemic has really put a clear division between these two types of people. The ThomPete Joe Biden
"dont rock the boat normies" and the HN/Bernie Sanders revolutionaries. I hope the Biden people lose.
They can put in optimization and skew the results with opinion, but not doing that might have more to do with lawyers than desire. There is a keen eye on their search results as far as political and business results are concerned.
Honda has good safety and UX in this. Touchscreens are sexy but distracting and probably not sensible. Tesla will fight back I am sure.
Fix an Overloaded Server
My surfacebook also has a terrible screen resolution. 3000x2000. I don’t know why, but windows can’t seem to handle interface scaling at all, and a lot of the apps I used failed to be usable on that super high res monitor. I wanted it to work, but just couldn’t deal with it.
> Tesla’s giant laggy touchscreen included

This is false, full stop.
Same here. I tried one of the mills, but they had closed their online store due to increased demand.

We ended up getting some from a baking school that had been forced to close.
What I've personally found frustrating: I'm looking for things (yeast and flour) that I know will be back in stock eventually; it would be nice if sites would let me backorder it so I can get into the queue for when they have stock again rather than having to check on it constantly.
Chromium Edge reimplemented it in their devtools: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/23/debug-z-index...
I'm not sure why pointing out the fact that this forces members of the same race or gender to compete against each other for a limited number of spots is justification. The fact that we're allocating some hiring slots for certain races and genders, while others have to compete for a more limited number of slots is the problem.

Furthermore, this policy announced when the company's tech workforce was already higher than the industry's representation in the metro area. So they were using discrimination to increase an already existing overrepresentation.
In 2011, every developer where I was working knew that the company was on its last legs. Management was completely honest with us. We stuck around any way because we enjoyed what we were doing and knew that we would be able to get a job quickly. We were right, from looking at LinkedIn everyone had another job in less than a month.

The people that were left survived three rounds of layoffs.

I know this time it’s different than 2008-2011. But no job is stable. The only hope you have is to keep your skillset in line with the market and to have a strong network.
How did you generate this animated SVG terminal screen capture?
One more thing to consider as you plan the layoffs: You may be eligible for one (or more) of the loans from the latest relief bill. The loans come with a near-zero interest rate and a big chunk of it may be forgiven.[1]

However, there are stipulations related to layoffs and reduced salaries, which is why you should evaluate this option before making the irreversible decision to fire people.

[1] Here's a decent summary: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/30/heres-how...
Also why recycling plastic is a massive scam perpetrated by the producers themselves
Ask HN: How do you decide to release a new ML model in production?
I am an ML engineer and have my own workflow that I use now and an aspirational workflow that I want to use. But I was curious how other ML engineers make this call. Here are some options to kickstart your thinking:
a) Release it if it performs well in offline training
b) A/B test in production alongside existing model(s)
c) Use contextual bandits in production
d) Some other way (details appreciated :-) )
Schools are a net benefit to a community. According to some studies, it’s an annual 18% return on investment and a lifetime 11x return per dollar spent. There are not many places that one can get that kind of return over many decades. We’re pretty foolish for not investing more.
You could sequester a tonne of CO2 for under $30 right now, although the lack of demand of oil may be better for the environment if it manages to long-term reduce production.
Presumably if you don't like Zoom's shadiness, you may not like Homebrew's bundled spyware either. Disable it with

brew analytics off
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I'd find it more convincing if the writing there was better.

I don't say that S&W is or should be the end-all-be-all of English; by all means, pick and choose.
NPR did better reporting on this phenomenon than German media, well done!
He accidentally let slip that he lives at 10 Downing Street too.
Absolutely. Had exactly this issue with wanting to move monitors just 3 weeks ago in a company where a previous union drive failed and had a lot of people spouting this sort of hoary, old cliche.
Where did congress grant the FCC the authorities for that order?
The companies selling video streaming and conferencing have other issues, such as service costs. And they typically don't retain very good engineering teams.
Doesn't that also just open up a lot more community feedback/pushback? I'm thinking somebody saw it coming in any case and made the call.
It's a Wikipedia category page; you can add it if you like...

Reading the plot at Wikipedia's other page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem - I must say, it sounds pretty interesting!
1. The gallery view (aka 'Brady Bunch' view) works significantly better than any other system, with a large number of users. Especially now where everyone is working remotely and you have large group chats IMO this is the biggest factor.

2. Related to the above, I have rarely, if ever, had a problem with Zoom quality.

3. The onboarding for new users (basically just share a link) is dead simple. Zoom realized that the install process was a significant barrier and did more than anyone else to lower that barrier (of course, with lots of security/privacy issues to boot, but your average Joe isn't aware of those).

4. A smaller factor but perhaps a bigger one for people using Zoom for personal reasons (e.g. teenagers and college kids) are the 'fun' features like virtual backgrounds.
I'm guessing they talk with the carriers regularly about being complaint. I asked them about it recently and they said in a response ticket they were following along with progressions in authentication. There may be someone who works for Twilio on this thread that has more info though.
No, my guess is it was hacked so they shut it down. That is probably why they say "security risk"
US gas prices are down to $0.95 - $0.97 / gallon.

Seems like it could go lower, but maybe stations and refineries won't reduce prices to maintain profits.
Zoom has this. Mute yourself, then you can use space bar as a PTT button.
Bay Area Pollutant Levels Drop for Second Week
There is a good chance that you're more qualified than all your interviewers except the 3rd one, who looks like a tenured "staff" engineer or manager. This is the reason you don't leave your job before you've landed a better one.
There's also vim^4 which is great for writing in Forth
I have a requirement of checking group membership wherein a group may contain > 10K members. Each member is an 8byte ID. Do you think Xor filter would be a better fit compared to Bloom here? Or am I looking at it the wrong way? Thanks.
Ah that's really interesting, thanks for the info.

I'm curious then what users see in Seattle when it's raining out the window but the Dark Sky radar maps says it isn't.

Are there swiss-cheese holes that are obvious processing artifacts? Is the whole city somehow below some threshold so it doesn't show rain anywhere? Are there patterns of extreme local variation in rain that get mistaken for noise and deleted?

The solution is not necessarily simple, but identifying the culprit should be fairly obvious, no?
Like democracies, unions will exploit the people in them if the people in them do not organize and agitate actively for their own interests.

Like democracies, unions suck, but they are not as bad as the alternative -- unless you're the boss or the generalissimo.
>a typical Ponzi scheme that just collapsed.

doesn't sound that way https://www.grupeer.com/why-grupeer

"Grupeer is different from other p2p investment platforms. We are creating a safe environment for our clients and offer three different investment types. Our primary objective is to bring high returns to our clients with minimal risk."

and on the same page below:

"Secondly, investments are secured with BuyBack Guarantee. This means that if the borrower goes bust, our partner- the loan originator is required to buyback the defaulted loan and insure the repayment of the principal and interest in full amount."
Show HN: Adless Distributed Tube
2018. probably more relevant now.
4 chan exist like 20 years or something. Does anyone ever thought about a legal way to shut it down and lock up couple of admins? I'm sure their stupid troll raids cost billions since it started.
I've been using it for a few months and the group I work with has been using it much longer. The reason is because:

It is easy

It just works

It works cross platform (why the hell is this such an issue!)

Quality is good

You can record meetings
Finally! Bring back some sanity to machine controls.

I much prefer knobs, dials, and switches to control things inside the car. And especially if I need to modulate it while operating the car.
asciinema to generate a raw json file, then svg-term to convert it to svg

https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema

https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

(I ended up moving the SVG assets to GitHub Pages which hopefully fixes the issue others were seeing.)
Last I saw was $1.88 here in Iowa. I guess it could be headed lower though.