skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I understand! I wasn't aware that was how they worked!
I was failing to understand the purpose of the delta. :)
We paid for that product. If they can't deliver the service, we are owed our money back. This would be fraud. Congress sells out the american people to corporations on these things. If revolution happens in the USA, it will be because congress and corporations pull this kind of corruption.
That goes in direct contradiction to what you just said above. Either global supply chains are devastated or they are not. You very clearly said that global supply chains were not hit.
It's the same mentality as people buying guns.

What situation that could conceivably arise from a pandemic requires an automatic rifle?

It's a generalised sense of "bad things are happening, I need to be prepared for bad things to happen to me".
I always thought the non-specificity of the term Data Science was a strange criticism for those in the tech industry to make. How many types of SWE are there? Front-end, back-end, full-stack, devops, security, QA...

I agree wholeheartedly with your recommendation. Like any other job, each company has different needs and expectations and if you want something else out of the role you'd best avoid that company.
I have a huge folder of iOS apps, but.. unfortunately in I think iOS 9 or so, Apple made it so backing up your iPhone stopped backing up the applications, and I believe made it impossible to install applications from your hard drive backups (that may have happened in a later iOS version - I forget). Meaning... iOS apps are now simply unrecoverable once they aren't on App Store anymore. Good thing I have a couple old iPhones which actually allow installing these old backed up applications. Even then, the entire ecosystem is completely reliant on internet authentication to even install the OS, so if your phone needs to be restored -- good luck. Very sad times, indeed.

Yeah the personal effect of this for me is, I can't show people the song I had in Tap Tap Revenge anymore. I do have an old iPhone that still has it installed, but it's not like I carry that around with me. The app is no longer on App Store and I thus could never install it on my newer iPhone, nor restore my backed up copy to it (and even if I could restore it, it wouldn't run anyways because of the breaking of backwards compatibility in recent iOS updates). Overall, a whole ton of user-hostile product choices in the iOS ecosystem, sadly. Not the Apple I grew up with, where I could modify anything to my heart's content (ResEdit, anyone?)...
This could use a lot more visual aids.

Here's a film that goes over a lot of the basics: "BASIC MECHANISMS IN FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS" [1]. It's a 1953 US Navy instructional film explaining how mechanical fire control computers worked.

These machines took inputs giving the speed and direction the ship was traveling, the speed and direction the target was moving, the distance and direction to the target, the wind speed and direction, and other factors, and computed how to aim the guns to shell the target.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug
Design guidance aside, this is not a good article because it doesn't show how to fix the presented problem scenarios.

"This is not first normal form" - OK, how would you fix it?

"This is not second normal form" - OK, how would you fix it?

"This is neither second nor third normal form" - OK, how would you fix it?

If you're going to show problems, show solutions as well.

The rest is a big red flag list of falsehoods that programmers believe about names and addresses.
I believe there is a better forum for virtue signaling, too.
From the article:

> the co-working company and SoftBank agreed to a set of performance milestones that WeWork agreed to meet in exchange for the secondary liquidity. Such terms are customary in most financial transactions... SoftBank in its statement last week said that WeWork failed to meet a number of those performance requirements, and said that it was within its rights under the tender offer contract to walk away from the deal.
Have you tried decompiling it? Telerik Just Decompile will decompile it back out to C#. It ultimately depends on agreement you had with the original developer as to whether it is legal or not.
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Do you know Trump voters? Your depiction of them seems extremely bigoted and does not reflect the reality I've experienced living in an overwhelming Republican state. Trump's approval rating has been increasing and his disapproval rating decreasing over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, so your read on the situation does not seem to match reality.

While I agree that the handling could be better, I don't think Trump looks that incompetent, especially when compared to other countries' leaders (most of Europe is doing about as badly as the US) and organizations like the CDC (masks don't work), the WHO (closing borders is racist), and the government of New York (encouraging people to go to the movies and restaurants in March).

I think your view of Trump is preventing you from getting an accurate read on reality. FYI I'm not a Republican and did not vote for Trump.
Because it's not hip enough to support them.

UBI? hip.
girls' education? hip.
girls' health? hip.

boys? uh uh, not hip enough! We don't need support for future predators.
I work as a data scientist. Some of the author's points are workplace-specific: lack of leadership, being the only data person, ethical concerns. The others are just aspects of the job - communicating about your job and impact, dealing with vague specs or managing low-quality datasets.

Neither of those quite match the articles title, perhaps it just refers to the author's personal expectations. Neither of them seem that specific to data science, or without parallels in other software jobs. And neither of the points read like a slight towards data science to me, like some of the other commenters here suggest.
Corp.com is a great name. Incorporate, get website, logos, web-hosting,marketing, taxes, all in one. IMO, $1.7 M is cheap
You seem to be assuming that each field:

1. Could not contain whitespace.

2. Would have a minimum length.

TFA specifies neither of these requirements. You could have someone's first name (which I would recommend calling given name) be "Pablo Emilio" and their surname be "Escobar Gaviria". Or alternatively you could have someone with a given name of "Sukarno" and an empty string for the family name. Patronyms and matronyms are sort of ambiguous, but would probably be categorized as surnames.

I use a single name field, but I don't think a given name and surname split is crazy.
Love this. If I had one to add, don't be afraid to go back to a previous idea with a fresh perspective. I spent several months researching a similarity technique. After making no headway, and realizing that a "crutch" was doing all the work, I dropped the first idea to pursue the crutch exclusively. After many more months, I realized that crutch would not work after all, and was depressed. But then I had a different idea about the original technique. I went back to that, applied the new twist, and eureka!

It is like those old coyote road runner cartoons. The frustrating thing about the coyote was that he never went back and fixed tiny problems with his attempts, instead he dropped every nearly-successful attempt and moved on to something completely different, just to find that it had different bugs in it.
Window functions are in draft, we will release them imminently. We will support moving averages. In fact we plan to support generic multi-pass and window functions. Having multi-pass will allow you to do things like `select sum(x -sum(x)) from tab`.
In a way, this is very much a story of a classic hack: the victims build a system that they belive to be foolproof without proper proof. The hacker manages to find a weakness through careful analysis and then goes on to exploit it in a spectacular and kind of fun way that isn't all that harmful. I don't think CBS was harmed that much by that amount of price money.
> If I had the patience (and a machine close at hand) I'd boot MS-DOS and run thru a little test in DEBUG to see how it acts on a real card to write beyond address 0xFF via the auto-increment feature.

Good excuse to load up a bunch of old games and see how they work, or fail to. The old Raymond Chen test: Grab a bunch of old software and let the application programmers bang on the emulation layer. Abandonware and old shareware on archive.org makes this a lot cheaper than you might imagine.

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos
> Can you sterilize a 3D print easily

You can – depending on the material. The problem is keeping them sterile because, as you point out, there's gaps between layers. And there's wear on the material with most sterilization processes. Which doesn't really help with the end goal. Ideally these would be quickly discarded.

> A machine could probably stamp out 10 of these in the time it takes to print one layer in a typical FDM printer

An Apple machine, right? Have they shared their designs so that other manufacturing facilities can build them? If they did not... then you'll get the obsession with 3d printing.
Issue a chargeback.
I don't understand what's so big about this. It's akin to telling someone that they forgot to use passwords on their mongodb database. Does that really deserve $350k compensation?
YouTube's view counts update at a notoriously slow rate. It's not hard to find new videos with more likes/dislikes than views.
Landlords don't need to "predict human behavior" they only need to reduce their risk a little more than their competitors to have a slight edge in the market.
That's a great way to put themselves out of business. If they don't want to play a fair game, you can well be assured that people will stop using their products as much as they could be.
From the post above “These pack flat, one hundred per box..." it's clear they are packaged for large organizations. They almost certainly have zero interest in developing individual packaging for consumers.

Didn't vote him down, but it is a bit silly. Apple isn't becoming a medical supply company, they are producing a product to fill an urgent medical need. They don't have the distribution network to supply these to retail, nor is it likely they ever will.
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You inadvertently touch your face way more often when wearing a mask, that much is pretty obvious. You also are more likely to be more confident about your safety and behave in a slightly more risky way. Kind of like how cars drive closer to bikers with helmets than bikers without them.
I believe the focus is on girls health and education is in 3rd world countries.

The reason for picking this is very likely because it is rated highly by project drawdown

https://drawdown.org/sectors/health-and-education
Though I'm actually in favor of your point of view, I will say that those who oppose it would be correct in pointing that Constitutional freedom of speech guarantees do not apply to non-government entities such as Amazon.
Physicists want to forbid people from exploring ‘philosophies of sciences’ in public? You can only discuss official ideas codified by peer review?

And of course it’s one of the main open problems. Obviously people in the community discuss it and it’s widely known. I meant in general, all the people talking sports, politics, business, finance, technology and reality TV, you know 99% of human communication, never ever discuss any ideas interesting in physics. Maybe because the authoritarians motivate normal people to avoid it thus only charlatans and a few science popularizers drive public awareness.

And I meant some of the math and physics he’s describing are true. I’m not saying his theories are true but not all his perspectives on them are unfounded. He’s had highly intellectual conversations with physicists on his podcast. Including Penrose. And Lisi, whom he strongly criticized.

My point is, he doesn’t need a license to talk and the criticism towards new ideas is wrong. Plus we need more cool ideas in the public sphere, right or wrong.
Like I posted below, you can make an improvised "face shield" out of plastic food wrap in about 15 seconds. No parts needed. Wrap it around your head at forehead level so it sticks to itself. Keep the bottom part loose, so you can freely breathe.

Readily available, cheap, disposable, lightweight, does not restrict visibility.

If you're working in the wind, you might need to weigh down the bottom part with something, but that's also trivial to do.
How does it work for data other than Open Images, if trained on Open Images? If it recognizes fur, it's going to be great on cat videos.
You know, it's hard to say. I've never been in the position where I have both investors, and several thousand employees to answer to; let alone having to dictate who's going to get let go. As such, I'm by no means an authority on this nor can I fathom what the C-Suite must be going through. Obviously, there is an emotional tax associated with these kind of decisions.

Based on various articles I've read here on HN, it would have been nice to have more transparency into the financials of the company versus all messaging completely devastating morale, and leaving an air of uncertainty. We know we're hemorrhaging cash right now; who isn't, though?

That being said, I would've furloughed everyone that isn't absolutely vital to maintaining bare minimum operations. Made one painfully large cut -- kinda like peeling a bandaid quickly instead of ripping out fifty individual hairs multiple times. I think this alone would've offered a much better sense of security for those that remained, as well as allowing them to stay at their normal salaries.

Next, I would proceed with identifying the clients that are most likely be unable to continue operations themselves, and proactively suspend services. After that, renegotiate quicker payments, and potentially rate increases on services with the remaining active clients.

That would enable the company to turn down anything that's deemed as nice-to-have in our service offerings (no room for luxuries right now), and evaluate all infrastructure costs. We would then have full insight into knowing how much we could scale down our IT infrastructure. We could then proceed to contact vendors, and renegotiate service agreements, further maximizing savings, and decreasing our burn rate.

I would've done everything possible to keep the remaining employees secure, and confident. By performing more drastic cuts initially, scaling back operations, and retaining core teams, everyone could have kept their pay at normal levels, and I think the burn rate would've been significantly less.

Like I said, though, I've never been in the captain's seat and right now may not be a great time to try to say what I'd do. Each day brings less inspiring news and being kept in the dark hasn't helped anyone be more productive.
Nearly all image formats have image dimensions in their header, so a hundred-byte prefetch per image should give the browser the image size IF it's not specified in the html or css.
Is AngelList still active for seed investments?!

Especially for finding new potential investors outside the immediate network.
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> You're free to start your own web site and allow hate speech to be posted there.

And we’re done.

That’s two strawmen in two posts.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sq6s-osm/tategaki.html has numbers as an exception, too.
Some of those NES and Gameboy games might not work as originally intended. Lots of them had internal batteries in order to save information and those batteries are starting to die. Floppies from that era and early CDs are also at the age in which they are likely to degrade. So while some of this old tech might have a longer shelf life than tech today, as the video says, entropy will get us all in the end.
I have worked with SAP Gateway for a long time but I don't think it's a major issue that it used OData. Maybe it's because our ABAP developer had a good sense. Compared to the Dynamics CRM it made more sense.
I think city, postal code, state/province (optional), and country would be fairly standard. At least in North America, Japan, Australia, and the UK. Of course for country you would want to use standardized country codes, which are somewhat political.
And for those too squeamish for class warfare, Henry George should at least get a resurgence of interest.
This doesn't let the index overflow with the minimum amount of hassle. The behavior of unsigned overflow is well-defined in C, so there's no point writing code with an explicit check that is tricky to do correctly.
This essentially happened after 9/11. We saw broad consolidation into the Big Three. The argument was that the restructuring meant we'd finally have an air industry with structurally bigger margins. This was sorta true- during a bull market.

Ultimately, I think large scale personal air travel (or mass transit in general) isn't feasible in all economic climates. By definition, it's high upfront costs and low margins. The only airlines who seem to always make it work are regional and shuttles between high-income cities (Alaska, JetBlue.) As for why don't we just nationalize them, I'd say we de facto have already. Airlines know bankruptcy-level downside is covered by the government.

It's not all bad though; there's an argument to be made that this system is pareto efficient. During bull times, you want private operators pushing for network expansions and price efficiencies, even if that means levering up. But these are a de facto utility, so having the government pinch their nose and cover the downside in a bear market is an efficient use of dollars. You could try and put in regulation to force them to reserve X months (years isn't realistic) of operation costs, but you can't get around the basic unit economics of the problem: planes are expensive, even if they're grounded and don't make money if they can't fly.
On the face of it that statement appears to be self-contradictory, given that viruses use RNA or DNA, like all life on Earth?
You don't think Apple has literally one of the best distribution networks in the world? What percent of the country is within a few miles of an Apple store that already receives shipments a few times a week?
I’d hate to see what the market looks like after that level of consolidation.
Crusty stalwart here. I'd love to get off crusty VPN concentrators. I'd personally love to see something in the open source space that supports 2FA and a rich, user-based policy language. Tailscale is trying to deliver an enterprise product that builds this on top of Wireguard. I'm not aware of any open source approaches tackling this problem like Tailscale, but I'm keenly interested.
> With Docker, I feel it's still a bit kinda-sorta.

What makes you think that? Only difference I can think of is use of hemorrhaging edge kernel primitives in your application. Even networking is handled by docker-compose and you don't have to worry about port collision.
Some viruses have only 2 genes. One for a protease enzyme, one for their outer shell. 2 genes. Isn't that incredible?
I'm aware of those clinical issues but I didn't want to obfuscate my original comment with a lot of irrelevant details. The point is that the decision about whether a particular disease is "real" or not is at some level a matter of semantics and arbitrary definitions. It's real because we all agree that it's real, and it seems to have some negative impact on the patient's life. And that's only partially correlated with what's actually going on inside the patient's body and mind. Quantitative blood tests are somewhat more reliable and consistent than subjective reports of psychological symptoms, but nothing is 100%. What level of certainty do we expect?
Yeah this guy seems to think Data Science work should be like doing a problem set for CS class. Sorry that you have to deal with messy data, fragile infra, and limited resources - I know it's not "fun", but frankly that's what the money is for.
Ask HN: Resources on learning about Carbon Credits
What does it mean when companies and individuals purchased 98.4 million metric tons of offsets for the reasonable fee of $295.7 million, and how does it prevent climate change?
Frankly I have the same criticism of those who use the term software engineer. Engineering is a pretty established profession with a set of standards, ethics and practices. Most of us who work in software are not engineers. We are developers. Similarly, a scientist is one who follows the scientific method to do research. So by that logic a data scientist should be a person who uses the scientific method to do research on data. Does that make any sense? And let's be serious, is that what most data scientists are being hired to do?
Well, I wonder how we get that information out there. Maybe you should make a youtube video for other doctors, and show them 20 example X-rays, and indicate why they are or aren't covid.
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Yes!

But he still has hunderds of millions..
Or just put a two-gallon sandwich bag over your head.

Not recommended for infants and small children, of course...
> Should we be stockpiling oil like crazy right now when prices are low just in case (while also artificially driving up demand)?

yes? there's a national strategic oil reserve. that's exactly the thing it should do.
That could be the case, I just find it difficult to believe that an ICT3 role at Apple of all companies would be about programming language trivia, given that the specific team I spoke with mentioned how they were very cross-collaborative with other LOBs.
Yeah, UI5 is quite a nightmare. Working with OData is a dream with it. I always found it really difficult to make the dreams of designers work with SAPUI5. Hard to customise components or write custom ones.
It is fortunate, not unfortunate, that YouTube prevents editing of the video itself after a video has been uploaded, viewed, interacted with, shared, commented on, and started to accumulate karma of various sorts.
> The only reason this is a story is because of the security risks it presents, and holding that risk hostage is pretty obviously unsociable behavior (even if it is Microsoft's dime).

Not really, right, Microsoft could go back and fix this another way. They could release patches to all the major OS versions that had this bug, and push their customers to upgrade or face security issues at their own peril. I'd have to imagine all the customers with this problem have long-term support contracts, and if they don't, well, I don't know what to tell you.

What he's providing Microsoft is a dramatically cheaper, easier way out of a problem they made for themselves with poor/buggy domain resolution. He didn't create the bug. He's selling them a patch that costs a fraction of a fraction of what they'd have to pay to get themselves out of their own mess.

Think of it more as someone who acquired a tow truck as an inheritance, and sees an armored car in the ditch. The armored car could get themselves out, they could remove their gold bricks one piece at a time, then pull the car out and load the bricks back on. Or, they could give a brick to this guy and call it a day.

He didn't push them in, he's offering them a much more cost effective way out.

You may not like it, but this is capitalism.
You're saying to literally wrap your face in plastic wrap and leave a little hole to breathe? I think someone's going to try this advice and suffocate.
Even with the cramped open plan workspaces?
> Where and when have we had communism on a nation-state scale? Cuba arguably comes closest to the ideal, and they're doing well.

Sure, Cuba does well in some important metrics like education and healthcare, but overall it is still an impoverished authoritarian state. Not exactly a communist utopia.
> A lot of 'senior dev' roles are much more about programming language trivia and much less about leadership.

I am curious - where do you work?

Asking so that I can potentially avoid that company, as this is the most inane and borderline backwards thing I've ever seen written about senior engineering.