skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine the problem with this is it becomes a game-able system if it's purely automated. Sort of like the stereotype in Law and Order where they always pay hitmen $9,999 because "the IRS only monitors transfers over 10k."
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I'm guessing the FAQ is targeted at the non-technical audience, so I'm not surprised this doesn't show up as a question, but - why Python?

I often wonder if imperative programming is actually a beginner-friendly abstraction - in particular, because of name rebinding and interior mutability. My university's CS course is highly technical, but also targeted at non-programmers (officially, the lecturers cannot expect any computing experience at all) - and it teaches Haskell, which addresses some of those concerns.
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That’s just a severity.

People tend to be consistent in their behavior.
I'm relatively sure that saying "That chicken was alright, but the brine set in too strong and it was just too salty" doesn't fall within anyone's definition of food insecure.
I agree with you (and upvoted).

However wish to point out that, if the study gave a clear result, great you have something to work with, but if it gave a negative result, that wouldn't prove Reiki per se doesn't work.

Instead it would prove that Reiki training is not necessary to obtain the same outcome in this setting. Which would also be great as something to work with.

But because of logical possibilities like "actors perfoming the actions they are told to do automatically draw on natural Reiki ability that we all have" (among others), it would be incorrect to rule out Reiki itself from a result like that without a much tighter definition of what is being ruled out.

(And people would likely argue over such definitions and talk past one another while doing so.)

Generally: Proving negatives is hard, and requires us to describe carefully what we're really proving, which is invariably narrower than we would like (non-generalisability of negatives).

That's one of the difficulties with studying this sort of thing in a genuinely scientific way.
COVID-19 can live on cardboard for up to 24 hours, 3 days on plastic. I would suggest using gloves (if available) to open the package, have someone else remove contents, and then with gloves still on, dispose of the box in a container of some sort (garbage bag, etc). Wash hands after all contact with incoming material.

EDIT: Washing your hands well is probably sufficient; excuse my paranoia suggesting gloves, extraordinary times.
I found it harder to take OODA seriously after I came across "Observe, Overreact, Deny, Apologise".
Not really, but you should learn it anyways. I bought a bunch of lisp books and have been working through them. It is not really objective but I already feel like I'm a better programmer after learning lisp. It has also been a great history lesson in programming languages. I see pieces of lisp in nearly all other languages.
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We did post this originally 24h ago but took it down a few minutes later to refine it and post again today. This should be the good post. Cheers!
Managing groups of Windows client PCs without Active Directory still hasn't reached feature parity w/ Active Directory. I do not welcome going back to the "herding cats" days of "workgroups", personally.
I have read most of the chapters in this book.
I would say it's mostly about learning the concepts themselves and in this regard the book is extremely helpful. Additionally, each chapter has a historical context about Lamport's work and how it influenced future systems, research, etc. It's more like a related work section in a paper. But you could easily skip these parts if you're not interested in them.
So am I every time I go grocery shopping. There are still a lot of people out shopping and not taking the distancing guidelines seriously. Enough so that when I went shopping earlier this week I found myself in multiple situations where it was impossible to maintain 6 feet.
A similar model taught to pilots is DECIDE:

- Detect that change has occurred
- Estimate the need to counter or react to the change
- Choose a desirable outcome
- Identify actions to achieve the outcome
- Do the necessary action
- Evaluate the effects of the action

It suffers a bit from being a backronym, and I don't know anyone who explicitly applies it "in real life," but I do emphasize the last item with students because it's so often overlooked. A lot of people will see a need for a change, do something to make the change, and then fail to notice that the desired outcome wasn't achieved.

I see this omission in software systems a lot too, which manifests as a lack of monitoring, control, verification, and/or alerting. An ETL process that doesn't verify the correctness of its output, for example.
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Thank you. I think.
"128 bits, each bit can be 0 or 1, there you go, 256 bits!"
Peter, thanks for your time. We recently interviewed a master's student from a local university for a position with our company. She's an international student on an F-1 Visa, and she was initially hoping to join the team as an intern. It does not look like an internship will be approved until she finishes the first year of her program (OPT requirement, I believe). Can you offer any guidance on her eligibility to work with us as a paid contractor, or recommend other ways we could work together? Also, has anything changed re: OPT / CPT given covid-19?
You need to look at the billing tab to see what's costing you.

I recently reduced a company's spend by 60%

- increase VM size in k8s, force cluster pool size down
- turn off stackdriver logs (want to run EFK here instead)

Why do you need a cluster per project? The point of k8s is to run lots of applications in the same cluster to reduce costs.

FYI, your k8s clusters will start costing ~$72 / month in June (iirc)
I think the best way to understand this reality is that when it comes down to it, a lot more things are political than one would think.

For example, "I don't like cats" is apolitical because it doesn't take into consideration anyone but you. But as soon as you say, "we like cats too much", that's political.

An example I would give is someone that's debating which feature an open-source project should work on. That's inherently political. The only difference between that and whether or not we should fund smartphones for homeless people, for example, is a matter of scale.

An issue I see right off the bat, how do you deal with the reality that politics can and does exist without and within, not just between political parties?

I think the best definition of politics is anything that relates to the making of decisions that concern a group of people. If whatever you are doing or talking about concerns how we should make decisions, then it is political. And I don't think that's an issue. To try to limit politics to what happens in an electoral party state is pretty sad and reductive, and contributes to political apathy.
Anybody that thinks 3m isn't doing anything but war profiteering during a pandemic is fooling themselves.

If as*holes buying up pallets of toilet paper can't sell it on amazon, why should 3m be allowed to sell to the highest bidder on a world market.
More likely than the SLS being ready.
Hurting the feelings of global investors..
Since iPhone microphone quality is well below market average maybe it would improve?
This seems to ignore the diseases we don't understand, that don't fit clearly those criteria, like PSC.
"Technology right wing" (my phrasing) numero uno apple fanboy John Gruber used to post so much about Mac mini colocs. Haven't seen much from him lately about that stuff.
He specifically mentions that he's in the Netherlands in the article.

And based on the writing in the "banking standards" paragraph it appears he understands the difference between debit / credit cards and that banking network they operate on doesn't determine the type of finance they provide
When you use a credit card, it's not just a single transaction that happens between you and the merchant. There are 2 more stakeholders here: your bank and the credit card company. In the background, that's a lot of transactions that happen at different times. So, not everyone gets their money at the same time.

This creates risks: as debts are created and exchanged, it may be that that debt won't be settled (i.e. maybe you went bankrupt). So, that's why clearing houses exist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_house_(finance)

During the 1970's, automated clearing houses became a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_clearing_house

These don't always process transactions in real time, but in batches for various complex reasons. Legal framework and compliancy being one of them, reducing risks was another reason.

In the U.S., the legal framework was recently changed to allow processing within the same business day:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/ach.asp

That network of clearing houses is not just used for domestic debts, it's also used for large financial transactions. These are institutions that are build on immense amounts of trust. And so, simply re-tooling them to be "instantly responsive" towards someone who wants to buy pop from a vending machine? That's not gonna happen.

The author assumes that cryptocurrency is going to change this because "open source". Well, no. Not really.

First, buying from your own crypto wallet is more like debet then it is credit. Second, being able to take out a small cryptocoin credit or loans has little to do with the fact that a blockchain prevents you from spending the same coin twice.

The idea of credit is that you take out a debt you'll settle up at a later time, i.e. 3 weeks later. There's still the issue of risk and you still need to do the entire transaction dance done by lenders, merchants and borrower. That's not something cryptocoins make fundamentally can dispense with.

Finally, the author is a student. Large organisations, like higher ed, often offer a local e-wallet solutions that allows payment for everything within their facilities (also barring outsiders from enjoying benefits reserved for organization members such as staff and students). You simply wire money to your account from your bank and your good to go. Another option is... simply asking if that vending machine could be swapped for one that accepts debet cards and cash.
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Can we revisit this now that it's clear how wrong John was? The US already has 6000 deaths from only 250k confirmed cases. It is assured we will cross the 10kthreshold,and likely the 100k one.

It's important to hold people accountable for their (massive, scary, indefensible) assertions.
Debit cards are a dumpster fire in my opinion, at least if you own a car.

When you use a debit card to buy gas they put a hold for a few hundred dollars, as if you were filling up the side saddle gas tanks of a huge pickup truck at $6 a gallon instead of filling up a compact. The holds last for days instead of the one minute it takes for me to fill my Honda, or the ten minutes it takes somebody to fill an Escalade.

If it works at all, you can go on a road trip and wind up with enough holds that you have overdraft fees, bouncing checks, fees because you wrote bouncing checks, late fees because of payments that failed, etc.

The "short term loan" from a credit card is not a rip-off, but it means you are laying off risk on them.

If somebody steals your debit card number then they can clean out your bank account and you have little recourse. When I did have my debit card number stolen the bank told me that I had to be careful because they could only change one digit in the number because the rest of it was based on my bank account number.

I told them to turn off debit card transactions on my ATM card.
Yes. The kernel does this quite a bit. See https://lwn.net/Articles/620640/ for the port of the alternative patching framework to arm64, and https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6859741/ for an example using it to use the ARM v8.1 LSE atomics when available.

Another use case is kprobes.
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This strikes me as deeply ahistorical in two ways.

One is that there are always Dean Radins. In the 1970s we had a wave of interest in ESP and other paranormal phenomena. In the 1920s it was spiritualism and seances. And there are many other, smaller excitements. We're always at the start of a wave of discovery around the mystical. Somehow it never comes! Anybody suggesting it will be different this time really needs to grapple with the other waves.

The other is that overliteral reductionism, definitely a force in science [1], has quite regularly been beaten back. When that happens, it comes through data. Look at the rise of quantum mechanics, which seemed so weird that Einstein talked about "spooky action at a distance". Eventually everybody was like, "Yes, turns out reality is just that weird," and now we're building things with it.

Like any force, reductionism can be harmful when overapplied. But it's a useful balance to other forces. The human mind is an extremely fertile place, where ideas rapidly grow and branch and flower. But all gardens need pruning, so we must assiduously apply Occam's razor lest we be overwhelmed with nonsense.

[1] To the point where it's a joke: https://xkcd.com/793/
Interesting username, that's for sure!
Somebody should write this down!
This makes me glad to live in the UK, where it seems to me we might just have the best payments industry in the world.

\* Faster (instant) payments 24/7.

\* All purchase transactions are generally assumed to be debit card, credit cards are never required and very much optional (I don't have a credit card)

\* Contactless payments are instant, easy and completely standard, everything from the corner shop upward has them. You don't need your PIN for less than £30 (£45 quid from next week).

\* A banking industry that is quick to refund anything from any fraud without asking, which makes for a low case of fraud because they pro-actively block odd transactions.

\* Up to £75k insured per bank

I've often heard stories about payments that I just can't relate to because it seems our payment industry is so good. We have no need for bitcoin and the trendy start-ups don't even gain much traction because the banks own apps are normally just as good anyway.
Way cheaper than a Mac Pro to run Filemaker and a small fileserver on. They even made a Mac Mini Server that came with dual HDD's.
I’ve heard many stories like this, but I’m wondering how it could have had that much transmission that long ago without there being a noticeable number of unusual pneumonia deaths in those regions.
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> instead turned into the opposition party to the President

If you think the last 3 years of kid-glove reporting has been "opposition party", then an actual critical news media would blow your mind.
Ironically, this leads me to trust the rest of the reviews on their site. Maybe they're not all fake.
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Mobile developers build huge mac mini rack farms because they need to virtualize osx on top of Apple hardware for CI/CD/testing/store releases (or they used to back when I last worked in mobile dev). That's the bulk of where I've seen MacOS used to control and provision minis (usually with plenty of ansible/chef/etc as well).
Maybe it’s because I’ve never been poor enough so I don’t get it, but I’m a lot more worried about losing housing and healthcare than food. Food’s super cheap compared to those (unless you’re a meat-with-every-meal type, and picky about which meat) and there are tons of government and community programs to provide it.
Obesity is strongly tied in with the fact that the food we're consuming is unhealthy - rather than the fact that it's purely excessive. One of those unhealthy factors is an overabundance of sugar and salt both of which fight satiation fueling the brain to overeat.

We have plenty of food, but we've turned a large portion of it into unhealthy crap.
There are masks to buy. The FDA also lifted the import restrictions on KN95, but those would not even necessarily be needed by a warehouse work force. If you can get the freight to the US and you are willing to pay for it, you can buy masks that would be good enough to equip a warehouse workforce.

Other small warehouses I have personal knowledge of have been equipping their workers with masks and gloves daily in addition to hazard pay. It is just lack of attention to the issue that has caused the problem at Amazon. 99 out of 100 times I would support Amazon in any labor dispute. However, in this case, Amazon has not acted intelligently and the demands were very reasonable. The cost of equipping employees is much lower than the cost of more warehouse shutdowns due to illness and the comparison is so ridiculously in favor of "equip the employees" that even the hardest-hearted, self-interested Scrooge of a manager should be able to see the utility in equipping employees appropriately. As other even larger employers like Walmart have moved to make protective equipment available to all employees, Amazon is left looking stupid/evil/self-destructive in its approach here.
I think there's an issue with saying that extremism is necessarily an issue. For most theoretical thinkers, extremism is a necessary result of theory. And there is nothing wrong with that, if extremism in an ideology is an issue it's generally that the ideology itself is problematic.
There's no doubt action (and speed of adaptability) is important, but I'd also highlight a 2nd virtue - patience.

Action for the sake of action is called panic. People who like to control things (executives, leaders, me, etc) often feel like they need to be doing something to have a sense of control in the midst of chaos.

The only thing that needs action right now is triage - cost-cutting. Cash flow to survive and keep payroll going for the next 12-18 months. Once the safety net is in place, the mood changes from frantic survival to calm.

At that point, the ratio of thinking:acting time should arguably double. Recessions take plenty of time to unwind. Take 30 days (not 2) to gather information from across the org and evaluate trending opportunities. “Measure twice, cut once.” applies to pivots, too.

Re-developing new models for recognizing opportunities and a new decision framework for when to act upon those opportunities takes time. The folks who spend more time thinking about where the puck is going to be vs. reacting to its every jitter are the ones who will come out ahead.
> What do you think is providing the authentication and user management in those private clouds?

SAML. Yes, the provider's own network probably hosts a directory service as the default SAML backend, but for integrating with enterprise clients who already have their own directories? SAML. Now, rather than making ACL assertions about local users, you have to make ACL assertions about what ACL assertions each foreign directory is allowed to make on behalf of its own "guest" users in your environment.
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Perhaps this is regional thing, but in my country I get exact same level of protection for both credit and debit cards. Regulatory pressure can be useful at times.
sure if the patient is sufferring from anxiety

Feeling nervous, restless or tense

Having an increased heart rate

Breathing rapidly (hyperventilation)

Thats not what the article is talking about though. GP is talking about promoting some sort of "well being" thorough anxiety reduction. Has nothing to do if the person is sweating or breathing rapidly.
I have never seen anybody migrate out of PostgreSQL, but I HAVE seen people migrate out of Oracle, and DB2 because they are so expensive its worth the cost to migrate.
>> living large on steaks and top shelf liquor

More like frozen foods and sugary drinks
Well, no, they dug up the street to build the railway.

A true flipping would've been the construction of a new street level above the old one, and then the dedication of the old one to railway uses.

Chicago did do this, but for the purposes of building sewers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
Detecting RNA on cardboard after 24 hours doesn't equal "massive exposure risk."

The odds of getting a virus from a mailed package are astronomical and then some
Best I can make out you can only have a limited number of ebooks at a time, there is some sort of DRM I think. So if you want to borrow more than N, you need to "return" one. It's similar to Amazon's lending system.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree with what Apple gave him, I'm just stating that's why. His proof of concept wasn't god-mode, it was access to the webcam. If he wants the extra $75k, and the exploit allows full access, I'd imagine he'd be incentivized to show full access.
This is already done. It's called data augmentation and is extremely helpful in computer vision
I think its game-able automated or not. Fraud exists today and is playing on these exact systems.
does it say at what hour is the course?
This is what Tepperman's (furniture store) did in Canada in 2008
I don't understand what is expected here. Nobody can get masks or sanitizer. What little there is is getting redirected to hospitals. It's not even a money thing.

This person is advocating boycotting Amazon and going to local grocery stores instead. What the hell? How is that better?
I'm really interested to see if organized crime would do similar things this time around if they really declare a depression. I don't think they will.
To be fair, how many blue-sky days were there in industrial England?
I find it shocking that your comment is being downvoted.

If Zoom is “Chinese tech” because of the CEO’s ethnicity, then I suppose NVIDIA and AMD are now “Chinese tech.”
They are using EBC mode? I don't know of a single crypto library that would pick that as a default, so someone actually made this decision (like actively lowered encryption capability). I thought of some of the previous issues of not being too bad, but this leaves me wondering...
I am not sure how this article got ranked so high. I am suspicious about reading these article written by non experts. I would prefer to go to authentic sources and read the original paper. Most of the time information in these articles are misleading and wrong.