skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think I was in a particularly bad mood when I wrote this.

But I also stand by the sentiment that a schizophrenic is in a better position than Weinberg because the schizophrenic hears God directly and so has reason for believing what he hears. Weinberg doesn't believe in God but somehow has convinced himself that his aesthetic preferences have something to do with the intrinsic nature of the universe.

Weinberg has been out of the physics game in and in the world of letters for my entire lifetime. He won a Nobel Prize (which is generally a tombstone for careers) before I was born. I don't want to say that his insights are completely worthless, but they're already conventional wisdom (so they don't add much to what we already commonly think) and he's just gotten so used to talking about the nature of the universe that he isn't trouble by the fact that he has nothing more than a hunch to back him up.

In this case, I have to be ad hominem because there's nothing but the man to discuss. He has a hunch. His hunch is worth printing because he's a Great Physicist (or whatever the original title was). To point out that the hunch is just a hunch, I have to point out that the Great Physicist is just a person and the hunch has no grounding whatsoever.
That’s a very small dataset. Just use a normal HashSet / dict / whatever is normal in the language you’re using.
“Team spirit or no way!” is how you end up with layoffs.

A team/company’s culture is WAY more than your own personal work ethic. Some people won’t think how you do. And that’s fine and should be encouraged!
In some fields sure. I suspect we'll see a lot more web development/software engineering companies allow/offering remote work than before, since the current situation has basically confirmed said fields don't require employees to be in an office.

Same with digital marketing companies, design companies, advertising agencies, etc.

I don't think it'll affect all fields though.
Yeah, there seem to be multiple statements by Apple saying they can't access the content of FaceTime calls, without any qualification that it only applies to one-to-one calls. So it's probably a reasonable assumption that even the group ones are e2e encrypted.

How many participants can you have in a FaceTime group call?

I have also noticed that FaceTime drops the video much more often that other software.
But so what? All it’s doing is installing the tool he needs.

He knows theoretically that this could be spyware or worse, but hey, everybody else is using it. Seems like no big deal.

Same with that curl script. What are the chances it’s bad? Small. So you run it and hope for the best.
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IMO, whether you are for or against Trump, he deserves credit for not using the virus as a way of advancing his office's powers.

This includes both not passing legislation (such as Bush who used a crises to pass the PATRIOT ACT, or stuffing a relief package with unrelated items), and not creating a fait accompli (passing rules that will be accepted in the current environment, but would make for precedent, as is happening in some countries now).

Now, it could be argued that he SHOULD be passing sweeping laws and/or legislation, and that both the PATRIOT act and the expansion of powers in various countries are worth it.

But still, the good of his restraint is worth appreciating, since it is by no means a given. (Especially considering that he is often depicted as being very authoritarian.)
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But they only do this stuff to make their software seem fast and easy to install for the non-technical users because of the lock down restrictions...

App Store, Gatekeeper, etc are now working against what they were supposed to solve and encouraging worse developer behavior.

Really the best solution would be tackling the reasons why Zoom are doing this in the first place. Like how they provided a gentler version of Sandboxing to work around pro creative apps being basically unusable in the first versions.

The more you lock it down the more bad behavior you'll encourage from less ethical developers.
I remember for a while it seemed like every conference talk on Ruby (and/or Rails) involved someone dropping into Textmate and showing off something cool. I'm sure people weren't using it just to show off - but it was good marketing for a product in a space where most folks use free editors. Now I'm looking back and seeing it through the lens of signalling. I suppose they were sending a message that it's worth spending something for your tools.
The woman in the bottom left corner has the right idea.
A white wall!
And you're right about their houses. However with everyone home and the plods out on the empty streets. Now is not the time for a B&E
The flip side of it is that OmniFocus needs to be so customizable because the defaults are not great. (I feel the same about the default styles in OmniGraffle.)

I was a die-hard OF1 user, but they've completely lost me with the OF2 redesign. Large checkboxes on the right stress me out on mobile (that's where my scrolling finger rests), and it took months before there were layouts in OF2 for Mac that had the same information density as in OF1. I haven't even tried OF3.
And OneNote 2016, I hate the web/app version.
Outlook has always been a bizarre mess, it is the only application I have seen with a 'cancel server request' because it has stopped responding. 17 years later (I think since office 2003), it is now needed on every Office desktop app because of horrible lag interacting with OneDrive/SharePoint. I've actually installed LibreOffice because I can't stand the shitty performance. In 1997, MS Word opened in about 3 seconds on a fast PC, and now it is an ordeal.
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If you don't pay them to stay home they'll come back to work sick and infect others. Not everyone can rely on a hefty savings to pay their rent.
Guys asking stupid questions want to believe they are clever.
Saying you aren't interested might make them feel offended.
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I think there are few things to consider here,

1) Google CANNOT provide you with technical search, because choice of index/query filters is always limited (ie. Do I prefer exact matches over multiple matches?)

2) Google has shareholder & public responsibility. It means that service is adjusted (and it's 'algorithms') towards biggest type of queries performed.

All of this is a constant battle between precision and recall for given query. Adding to complexity, Google needs to account for

* Extraordinary amount of users using their search

* Extraordinary amount of data on webpages

* Importance of authority

In smaller search engines (ie. shop full-text search) you usually adjust towards one use case. This in itself is already hard.

Google does that for all possible use cases, for all possible queries while still fighting same precision/recall battle.

To be clear. I think google is terrible, but I also think that there is no other option for them at this point.

All of this became clear for me the moment I've got interested in build search and relevance engines.
Some more shadiness from this company. The Zoom.us-website is explicitly allowing the browser with its content security policy-headers to load scripts from these domains:

https://*.50million.club

https://apiurl.org

https://secure.myshopcouponmac.com

https://serve2.cheqzone.com

https://ad.lkqd.net

Doing a fast google for these domains shows they are mostly known for being associated with malware...
It looks like the current US administration agrees with this line of thinking [1].

[1] https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/3/13/trump-to-fill-us-str...
> Why can't we compress encrypted messages?

Not sure if eli5, but you can compress that message. Counter example: Huffman encoding that message.
The Dark Sky API combines lots of data sources, and its weather data is not limited to the US. I use it for cities all around the world. The US National Weather Service API cannot replace it.
Finally someone dropping to absurd herd mentality and thinking for themselves. Truly revolutionary these days
And Omni truly crafts native apps. Really sad to see them struggle, I used their software for about 5 years, but had to go back to Windows. Outanding quality, maybe Apple ahould have them consult on MacOS...
better to have loved something that's not making someone else more money than what they think your work is worth.
Really needed now
Really fast! Even with heavy meta-programming it stays fast. As an example bootstrapping the latest stable release on my machine takes 1m06s. This is a process that involves compiling the compiler multiple times, just compiling the compiler takes 41s (i7-4770K, so not a sloth of a processor, but still).
In the enterprise space, subscription is just higher cost maintenance with the additional risk of losing the functionality to some high stakes bullshit at renewal time or spending lots of time on some rat race to upgrade.
That's how it's offered in much of the US. Vacation and sick are rolled into a single block of time (which is usually too little for any major health issue).

I'd love for everybody to get 3 (or more) weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of sick leave. But, the chances of American employers jumping from literally nothing (in many cases) to anything resembling a reasonable policy is next to zero. Because stock market. Or profits. Or reasons.
Streamroot is hiring Product Manager in Paris- VISA won't be an issue:)
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"In the 24th century...." https://abstrusegoose.com/323
Is it paywalled? I'm so used to paywalled article links, some days I don't bother.
With zero impact on Zoom’s practices or their popularity, probably.

Edit to add: I mean, I hope they’ll lose a substantial number of paying customers over this? But I doubt it.
counterpoint: fuck off
"The Moscow rollover was the big one. The Russian military’s highly centralized command-and-control system meant that anything truly catastrophic would occur in Moscow first, then radiate outward through linked computer systems or trigger human errors farther afield. Among the Americans’ greatest fears was that a Russian missile commander might receive incorrect early-warning information from a Y2K-affected radar system; this could inspire needless retaliation."

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/when-rus...
This is JSX with parens.
Or Flex Radio for the high end;

https://www.flexradio.com/
Curious why the focus on Zoom specifically given that there are 10,000 different conferencing products out there.

Are they the biggest?
If it was actually a real person calling me about the accident, I'd love to respond with a furious "no it's YOUR fault' and try to convince them I'd literally just had an accident answering the phone whilst driving.

The time I told the robocall bot that this was very worrying because I was on my way to a driving test was actually true though. :D
Really, what's your source for this?
Of course:

From https://nos.nl/artikel/2328827-ic-arts-gommers-binnen-een-we...

(by the end)

In totaal zijn 1200 patiënten opgenomen geweest op de intensive care, van wie er 140 zijn overleden. 19 IC-patiënten zijn uit het ziekenhuis ontslagen, meldt Gommers.

Dead yesterday 1039
https://www.rivm.nl/actuele-informatie-over-coronavirus
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I wonder if that logic goes the other way. If we succeed in creating a being with intelligence equivalent to 100 humans, would experimenting on it be 100x as unethical as experimenting on humans?
China-made 38nm SLC flash memory has been mass produced
We do have a choice now, and that is to pay for good software. When we resign ourselves to "the way things are going", it tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The proposal actually doesn't require coordination beyond a single research trial. If the research trial proves a mechanism to cut death rate 3-30x, people will have incentive to self-variolate by comparing it to their existing risk of COVID death.
I found that making the window smaller greatly reduced CPU usage. It seems to be doing the video decoding on the CPU.
Skype for business + outlook integration doesn't even manage to handle chat history correctly, not without glitches that lose you the history for chats ever so often. Not fit for purpose.
Show HN is for things you made that people can try, not tutorials or blogposts you wrote. (If I'm mistaken and you wrote Chatterbox, the chatterbox project page would be better to submit as a Show HN)
Do JetBrains products still work if the company would go out of business or decided to undo the perpetual license? (I haven't upgraded my license since they switched to the subscription model.) [1]

[1] It would probably be difficult contractually, but such things happen. See e.g. TextDrive hosting lifetime accounts.
This is an article about a report from November 2019 detailing an event in 2018 that does not have any clear malicious intent. The article details how dangerous bad relations between Chinese and American biologists can be, but also seems to be rather inconsequential fearmongering.
The funny thing is, aluminum is even more toxic than plastic is, so they fix one mistake with another :)
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What do you want to write about: flu vaccine effectiveness

Prompt: The annual flu vaccine is an effective way of

Result: The annual flu vaccine is an effective way of preventing the spread of the flu. However, it's not always effective, so it's important to

Ok, decent so far. I extended it with another prompt:

Prompt: still take precautions such as

and now it goes off the rails, completely forgetting what we were writing about

Result: The annual flu vaccine is an effective way of preventing the spread of the flu. However, it's not always effective, so it's important to still take precautions such as blocking websites with a "Spam filter" and scanning your emails for any suspicious messages. But many

Complete waste of time for anything other than SEO spam writing.
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Tweet got deleted :/

Just based on the title, consider that web browsers are signed binaries that run any unsigned script :)
I’d go for the widest real-time BW and best phase noise (clock jitter), as there are things you can do with offset tuning, low IF, and decimation to get around some of the spurs and dynamic range limitations that are inherent in these direct conversion transceivers.

A few external components (LNA, filter) can make a large increase in performance, so specs like noise figure are minimal for many applications.
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Yes, the amount of caffine, food (enzymes, proteins, carbs), and if it is a long running learning process, amount of sleep. all parameters are being tuned all the time.
I think the time to have that discussion is when the volume of neural tissue we're talking about is similar to a mouse's brain, until then it seems too detached from the realities on the ground to be much use.
Australia has recently enacted emergency legislation that suspends certain civil liberties, including allowing the usage of phone data to be used to track and enforce quarantine [0]. What's more, parliarment has also been suspended for an extended period until August, meaning there is no parliarmentary oversight for any decisions made by the PM and co until it resumes.

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/01/labor...
Thanks a lot for trying and providing feedback!

Each time you click complete, a different completion is usually generated, so that is one thing you could try.

Also provide a longer prompt (30-40 words is ideal) to express your intent more clearly, so AI can pick up it up (it needs help!).

To be fair, the original response might be something someone is thinking of writing. For example, a digital marketer.
Italian Social Security site crashes shows other users' private data-in Italian
but neither do the maintenance costs.

That depends. On macOS the churn is high. But there are probably a lot of Windows applications from the nineties that still run unmodified.
c / 1 cm ≅ 30 GHz. No one is going to make a processor faster than that.
That doesn't sound right. I bet we can engineer procedures where you use one person with a known COVID infection to give another person a sufficiently small dose of it with sufficiently high probability.
>* Free of charge

It seems like, in the current use case, this one isn't as important? Institutions would pay for something that does everything else really well. Source: All the paid accounts my institution shelled out for on Zoom in our transition to remote work. So I guess n=1.
Could someone kindly ELI5?
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They're using those \0 to find bit patterns with SIMD instructions. Their approach would fundamentally not work if they were unable to modify the input.
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zoom-cloud-meetings/id54650530...

Yes it is.
There would also be less food waste if the stores just, you know, gave away the products about to spoil to people who, you know, aren't rich enough to be picky about their bananas.
The reason the "year of the Linux desktop" hasn't happened yet and open source hasn't conquered the consumer world isn't because of the lack of money. It's because none of the projects have a goal per-se; everyone works in their corner, on their own time, mostly just scratching their own itch. Donating money to them won't solve this problem. There's also a lack of certain skill sets like user experience design, project management, branding, etc.

If the EU wants an open-source conferencing solution they have to do it in-house (whether from scratch or fork an existing solution) and treat it like a business with a clear objective and actual employees (instead of benevolent devs donating their time & effort) including positions which open source projects often deem unnecessary like UI & UX design, and so on.
In a sandbox, yeah.
If all you want is to get ahead delegating, communicating, and politicking are what matter -- and they can be done well in 40 hours or fewer.
I've used everything on that list, except meet, in an institutional setting. 1-on-1, small groups, large groups. The only one that our institution has used that works straight out of the box 100% of the time for everyone who has access to data, is zoom.
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Indeed when phones started moving over to touchscreen dial pads i always thought it was a step backward usability wise. I had one phone where I couldn't hang up calls easily as you needed to swipe in a particular direction and a number of my calls went though a VOIP number so that had a different way of hanging up. Same with whatsapp calls now answering and hanging up is different from a normal call. It's a real shitshow.
Microphone quality is still not a solved problem on laptops, and Windows' sound preferences UI does not make it easy to switch to a Bluetooth headset (that is, if you even have one on you).
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Where did you get their retail side is suffering? The article is about the massive, holiday like demands and how they’re working to meet it.
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This becomes a self-fullfilling prophesy. A manager can easy see which employees don't really care about the quality of their work.

It should be no surprise that they are the first to be laid off when times get tough.
Any context as to why the tweet was deleted?
That wouldn't be something that could be considered "to the extent reasonably needed to operate and provide the Services to you".

There is no such intent anyway. I'll review it with the lawyer and revise it to something that doesn't scare people away!

I suppose this is applicable in general to content (as far as lawyers are concerned) and to protect us in case there is a need legal necessity for compliance purposes.
Given everything that’s been going on with Instacart and Amazon strikes, can you speak to compensation and safety for their delivery workers?
And I disagree with your disagreement. The following phrase in particular gives me pause.

You may be motivated to do something when you find the new colleague still in college is earning as much as you do after 10 years just because the company wants to promote women and "reverse the wage gap", so they give female college students positions and wages equal or higher than top rated senior engineers that are male. Just saying, I saw many such cases.

I don't know you, but I have known a number of people who said things that sounded like that. (With different concretes.) They were unable to productively work with people who they thought had been unfairly promoted. Their resentment hindered their productivity. And I found myself in disagreement with their self-image about how good and deserving they were.

It didn't matter whether I privately agreed or disagreed with the promotion that they complained about. The fact that they were looking around the workplace and thinking about that lead to the negative behaviors for themselves. And their negative behaviors added toxicity to the workplace.

For this reason and others, I prefer the advice in the letter. Comparing with others might work out in the short run, but in the long run it doesn't seem to work out in our profession.
I still haven’t seen anyone change their mind on remote work. It’s all temporary. I’d love to see it though.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLvnJL8htRR1T9cbSccaoVw/pla...

He is also posting some great corona update videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iMK0Wcykw
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Since all the lockdowns and social distancing rules have come into play for COVID-19, Zoom has seen a huge increase in consumer usage. That in turn has lead to increased scrutiny as more people use it.

Besides that, this certainly isn't the first time Zoom's shady practices have been exposed, where many other conferencing products haven't had such a track record.
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Not exactly shiny technology, but XQuery seems to have a nice syntax [1]:

element html {
element body {
element div {
attribute id {"main"},
"foo bar!",
1 to 15,
element footer { "this is the footer" }
}
}
}

<html>
<body>
<div id="main">foo bar! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15<footer>this is the footer</footer>
</div>
</body>
</html>

1: https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-31/#id-computedConstructors
And at a large Midwest hospital. But with the advent of professional "Hospital Administrators" with a degree and everything, hospitals become a business. Anything they can get for free, they do.
I’m not waiting 18 months to see my Abuela, sir. She only has a few years left.
It's going to be a problem for some systems for sure, but as the STIR framework is used to attest the number, the caller itself doesn't need to do anything. The originating carrier then attests with a level certainty A, B or C who the caller is, and adds a crypto signature to the signaling.
The key here is the attestation. If the calling carrier (usually the provider of the DID in retail but in commercial, not necessarily the same carrier) can attest by the caller, then the call will go through regardless. So tele-center company can agree with the calling carrier that, basically, tele-center company really owns the number (A) or it's more or less certain of it (B) and the call will be sent attested.
For a variety of reasons, many deaths are not being reported as caused by Covid-19, but rather other preexisting conditions which may have been complicated by Covid-19

Isn't it the other way around? That deaths are being recorded as COVID-19 even when there were severe underlying conditions and the person probably died of that? The latter seems to be the more common issue.

It makes death rates meaningless. What does it mean to say someone died of COVID-19 if they were 89 and had heart disease?