skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just pointing out what I had heard when I was subscribed to someone who had experiences with Yelp. Honestly, I found his latest video on the subject, after searching for 'yelp extortion,' which doesn't appear to be the best one to start with.

https://youtu.be/BHEbVh3Yhrw?t=442 may be better, as he talks with two of the people behind the movie Billion Dollar Bully. (I didn't re-watch it completely, as I don't want to get myself wrapped back up in his world.)

As it notes in https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/billion-dollar-bully-do... and the above, if Yelp's culture means that employees are getting away with it, and sharing that, and tend to work with people who aren't web-savvy, there's certainly the opportunity for certain individuals within the company to give the company a bad name.

For-profit businesses, especially ones that want everyone to use them, generally don't like to talk about the fact that some part of why they exist is for the money and/or they have stakeholders that want to see a return on their investment.

It's also possible that Yelp has since gotten better, and they're still fighting off the old perspectives. Not OP so not sure where their evidence came from.

(I personally rarely use Yelp, don't have an account, and prefer the reviews built into Google Maps since that's my navigation app of choice. I didn't know about issues with Yelp until I was subscribed about the above, and after unsubscribing numerous months ago haven't heard anything else about Yelp until now.)
‘How Do I Get Help?’ Dying Coronavirus Patient Asked Alexa
How much % of young people end up in ICUs or hospital ?
The numbers are always elusive about that.
So what? Nobody claimed that they can't. If you can't learn a programming language, you're not a programmer. I'm 47 myself and learned Go in a week or so (7 years ago). What I wrote is that they won't, in my experience as CEO/CTO I've had enough people who used "the one true language" for 20+ years and outright refused to touch anything else. This emotional attachment to languages (or, more recently, frameworks) and the fact that you get away with it too often (there's always another job for your favourite language) is what makes hiring difficult and different. Imagine a car mechanic who refuses to repair a BMW...
In which case, maybe the labor of getting everybody onboard and bought in would be better put to getting everybody to learn to not create the problem in the first place.
> curl and pipe this to your kernel parameters

What an incredibly convenient idea that is!

.....

AAAAAAAaaaaaaaa [screams in infosec]
I understand not signing on Windows — it's a nightmare of incompetent, but expensive CAs, and unusable poorly documented mostly-broken tooling from the '90s. And in the end it hardly does anything, as you still get the executable blocked for a month.

But for macOS it's way easier, and more needed. It actually silences the scary warnings. It's even a real security improvement, as you get your app's keychain protected.
I think the comment is positing that each major city making it's own preparations is inefficient and ineffective. What if the pathogen escapes that city and is now floating around the country?

We got lucky. Covid19, while deadly, is not as deadly as it could be. If we'd run into Spanish Flu, we'd be in a world of hurt right now. The more deadly pathogens out there are just not to be met with half measures. If you're talking Spanish Flu, you don't want to be putting Dallas on lockdown, and still have who knows how many people on the road to Norman, or Tyler, or Nacogdoches. All because they left before the city of Dallas was able to close the city. The city of Dallas would not even have the ability to know where those people are, or where they are headed, or what planes they are on, or what cars they are in. There really are no other options here, if you want to ensure maximum survival, you must have the coordination be at the federal level.

Again, with something like covid19, it probably doesn't make much difference. Sloppiness is not going to kill 10 or 20 percent of your population in the case of covid19. So we can tolerate the kind of Keystone Kops thing we've got going on right now. But if something comes along like Spanish Flu? I'm sorry, but we shouldn't be pussy footing around with a bug like that.
Same here. Confusion at first, then I started liking the whole thing. I consider it an improvement.

Would be nice to have a setting for enabling/disabling it so everyone could make it work the way they like; I feel lucky to like it the way it is now.
> having full, unfettered access to everything else on the system, then it's fine to disable the fixes.

You should say READ access. There is no risk of write access with Spectre or Meltdown.
yeah it looks great for air-gapped machines or if you've disabled the tcp/ip stack in the menuconfig AND can guarantee that nobody else ever has physical access to your machine
I didn't see the NDA, but it has this forbidding message (which I think the author of the article ignored):

"(II) PURCHASER IS PURCHASING THE PRODUCTS FOR COMMERCIAL USE AND/OR IN A BUSINESS CAPACITY. ORDERS PLACED BY CONSUMERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED."
I have been eying the remarkable. I would literally like to try it, but I am not aware of any German shops carrying it. I am very hesitant to order an expensive gadget I might not like.

As you have one: what is the basis for sharing documents? I would mostly be using it as an ebook reader, how do you upload ebooks, what formats are supported?
> America is finished if this is the best we got.

Thank goodness NYC isn't America, or even the best America's got.
Because the whole issue of IFR is irrelevant to my argument and the range provided is wide enough to cover all estimates.
SQL command to show how a database engine will execute a given query. I wouldn't necessarily expect a CTO to know about it, to be honest, unless their background was somewhat database-y.
That's interesting, it doesn't auto-expand for me. When I make a new tab, the URL bar is active, but it doesn't expand the dropdown thingy. If I start typing, or click on the URL bar, then it shows the dropdown. Maybe it's a platform difference (I'm on Linux), or some configuration tweak (I use the "compact" layout option), or buggy for one of us :)
I'm guessing this change was pushed forward after a Mozilla employee noticed the new Chrome and Google Search design [1] (click on the search bar to see it pop out and expand in a similar way), and nobody found the power to protest against it internally. This was a deliberate move by Google to reduce the visual distinction between Chrome's browser frame and the search site, and it was copied by Firefox without consideration.

Experimentation is needed, but there should be more checks along the way, and feedback should be requested from the target audience, so that a designer's fever dream does not land on hundreds of millions of devices, to the bemusement of everyone.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?gl=us&hl=en&gws_rd=cr&q=firefo...
Interestingly (maybe not), a lot of people seem to be upset about the new address bar. To me, this is the biggest improvement. I don’t have a lot of custom config in Firefox, mainly use it and DuckDuckGo to no be using Google, and find it refreshingly easy to see my search engines and have more information available in a spot that I use all the time rather than having to know where to look or have it hidden in the first place
Do you think the flu doesn't respond to the measures taken against corona-chan?
That ticket is only five years old. Try again when it's old enough to drink.
Yeah....no. Funny how this line of thinking goes. Serological studies starting to come out and they are showing rates above 25% of the population being infected. Study out of Germany reports that CFR is 0.3%. Theres a news article out of Chicago where the drive thru testing reported more people had the antibodies than tested positive.
It is what Dennett thinks. Actually, it's what Dennett thinks he thinks, because that idea of Dennett's is inherently non-sensical; it is self-contradictory.

Here's why.

To explain qualia as a "trick" is to void the onotological status of qualia itself. He can't do that. It doesn't matter if it's all an illusion or a trick, it doesn't matter what its ultimate epistemological status is. Qualia is experienced and it's the experience itself, whatever its biological underpinning turns out to be (you can't have sight without eyes), which is relevant.

Yes, all experience could be fallible and illusory but the fact of experience itself cannnot be an illusion.

Experience qua experience is the thing no scientific theory of perception and cognition needs. So why does it exist? In other words, why are we not as not-conscious as rocks and chemical processes and planets and electrical activity, doing all we do, saying all the things we say? It's certainly possible.

Dennett, and I am inferring this I haven't heard him say it, is an ontological positivist. Only those things which the methods of science reveal to exist are "real" and everything else is, as you say, some kind of illusion. Sonunds good. But an illusion (which is some experience whose epistemology we have misconstrued) is not itself an illusion. Its ontgological status as "a thing which does exist" is secure.
It's a feature I absolutely depend on, I can't even imagine being productive without it.

At any rate, if you use GNOME, you can disable it. Open Tweaks, go to "Keyboard & Mouse" and disable "Middle Click Paste"
That the guy is, frankly, fringe.

This isn't the first anti-RF study he's published and I doubt it will be the last.

Looking further into his claims, he's said everything from "Alzheimer's is caused by WiFi" to "previous non ionizing studies were all flawed because that used the wrong test animal".

I expect when 6G rolls out he'll publish exactly the same study with an equally scary title.

I know, I'm committing an ad hominem fallacy. But at the end of the day I'm not buying his article see the rest of the claims. It is good enough for me that consensuses of much larger studies over longer periods are pretty much all against his study.
Does anyone know what is the keyboard shortcut in dEbugger to "Go to line" , I am unable to find the action in the UI or by a google. I think all actions should be put there in the context menu.
I think a novel take home test may work. Anybody have horror stories about candidates who did well on a take home but bombed at the job?
Alternatively, if this approach actually works, all the countries in the world that can appropriately adapt their regulations will survive, and the ones that choose not to won't.

Natural selection versus bureaucracy!
Such a good project. Reminds me of some of the projects people hacked using our solutions - for example this Digital Picture frame that is displaying the latest tweet from Donald Trump: https://www.visionect.com/blog/sign-of-the-times/.
You are welcome!
If you have Instagram, you should also have a look at afpphoto and worldpressphoto accounts.
I like your idea a lot. It seems that a 12 nucleotide insertion mutation is responsible for a lot of the Covid-19 virulence. If such a large mutation is possible, how would we prevent your loss of function asymptomatic strain from reverting its mutation in the wild? How big of a mutation are you envisioning? Is it impossible for it to be reverted in the wild or just unlikely?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Shut the fuck up boomer
htop at top,my neck.
Fork My Code, Please (2012)
>But the two phenomena are where I think the casual disdain comes from in the tech industry for non-engineering managers.

I don't disagree but I'd add that a lot of tech people are often (and often correctly) focused on some narrow aspect of a problem. At the same time, they're often not aware of or even outright dismissive of broader questions of company strategy, market fit, etc. So they think decisions that are made in a broader context than their particular project are clearly a pointy-hair-boss/MBA/etc. problem.
The EU is not at all comparable to the United States. The US is most certainly not composed of 50 sovereign countries, and the US has a powerful central government - something the EU almost entirely lacks.

A much better comparison is the Federal Republic of Germany, which has a strongly federal constitution, much like the United States. The Federal government in Germany has very little formal ability to impose quarantine measures on the states, but it effectively managed to do so. The Federal government called a meeting with all of the state governments, which are individually run by different, competing political parties, and managed to have all the states agree to take a similar set of measures.

The Federal government in the United States could have done the same, but chose not to. The political reason for that inaction is clear. The President's #1 priority is the economy and, specifically, the stock market. He doesn't like the idea of quarantine measures, because of their impact on the economy. He spent two months downplaying the virus, and has now shifted to blaming the WHO for his own government's failure to contain the outbreak.

> There was a time not that long ago when many Americans more closely identified with their State citizenship than their Federal citizenship.

That time was over 150 years ago.
Remote Leaf[1] founder here, I would like to offer Yelp employees who lost their jobs a free month of membership, that might help you land a remote job. We hand-pick thousands of remote jobs from tons of job boards and only sends the ones that apply to you. Just ping me on Twitter[2] and send me an email to avail this :)

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Sadly bodypic is very slow. You're only achieving 8-15fps, so any motion is very sluggish. Additionally the detection is on many cases very inaccurate: Too much or too less is detected belonging to the body so you can really only use a blur filter because a virtual background looks very strange if parts of your shoulders/hair or half an ear is missing etc.

But i am really impressed by the detection of Microsoft Teams, i would love having this quality and speed available in a browser.
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This is silly to say. Why deliberately miss the point?

"Finding" some hateful is not the same as being on the receiving end of types of hate that have caused a lot of violence and persecution over centuries.
People who complain about this are mostly just being preciously prescriptivist, and they typically do a shockingly
poor job of explaining the issue.

To "beg the question", canonically, is to argue in a way that only makes sense if whatever you're arguing to support is true. It's a difficult sort of fallacy to provide examples for because it's quite rare, so most examples you see tend to be constructed for the sake of complaining about the supposed misuse of the phrase "beg the question", and so either trivial or incomprehensible or both.

Too, the phrase "beg the question" itself relies on a rather outmoded sense of the word "beg", whose rarity in modern usage makes the prescribed meaning of the phrase very difficult to intuit compared to the supposedly incorrect one.

All of which begs the question: why should anyone care what complaints linguistic prescriptivists make in the case of this phrase, any more than in the case of any other?
From the point of view of interviewer.

I find that take-home exercises have two major flaws:

1. The push the effort onto interviewee. Interviewee should not be punished for the interviewer's inability to prepare good questions and exercises and inability to design the process so that bad candidates are filtered out early in the process.

2. They are not really meaningful. I've been there as a candidate. It is difficult to voluntarily stick to the timelines given when you know you could do this or do that to improve the solution and that other candidates will not hesitate to do it. As an interviewer, I have no idea if the candidate did the exercise by themselves or with outside help. Some (not all) candidates will do anything to game the system. You don't want to get these people onboard.

Based on that I am strongly against take home tasks.

On the other hand I like whiteboard exercises because they let me discuss things in an environment and closely to circumstances we could be having at work.

It is normal for me to draw algorithms or even implement pieces of (pseudo) code on the whiteboard and to use it for discussion.

What I try to keep in mind that different people deal differently with the whiteboard. Some people like to visualize, some think a little bit more abstract. I had to work hard to be able to draw anything in a way that will be digestible by other people and I still think am doing only mediocre job of it.
It had a lot of cranky pieces when it made the 64 bit transition, and afaik it never got GPU support. I'm pretty sure it was ultimately abandoned because students didn't like it.
Yes, Elm is eventually turn out to be inspiration for other languages and go nowhere itself. As a professional Elm developer makes me sad.
Yeah yeah, it's totally a preference thing. I can't ignore it, because I use the scroll wheel a _ton_ (have you ever used the middle-click autoscroll thing in Firefox? it rules). So sometimes the scroll wheel gets accidentally clicked and I paste some junk into the middle of the document I happen to be scrolling through. I'd much rather have a strong, confirmative action like pressing Ctrl-C and V to interact with the clipboard, rather than overloaded functions like highlighting text or interacting with the scroll wheel. It sucks, but after 10+ years on X11, I've mostly gotten used to it.
What makes him think they didn’t invent it earlier? It takes time to publish a patent.

People like that are the worst. The sorest losers. I have unfortunately known quite a few of them and they tend to overestimate their abilities by a lot.
Here's the thing - you really don't know until you're asked to give them up, and it's usually implied that you will only be giving them up for the duration of the crisis, but in reality you hardly ever get them back. This is how they get chipped away over time, so an abundance of caution must be used when deciding what you're will to give up, even during a crisis.
Pence suggests coronavirus social distancing won’t end soon
Oh trust, me I've tried. That setting only affects Gnome/GTK applications. Some applications that use other toolkits, or no toolkit, have direct support for middle-click paste, which then can't be disabled at all. It's just a platform convention I dislike; I know it won't be going away.
Is there anything like this for macOS (for systems that do not run any untrusted code/scripts or are not internet connected, of course)?
Something like this would probably be a step back towards sanity (vs my current habit of consuming news and social media from my iPad, which generally makes me unhappy, but darn it's addictive). Just the headlines and leads. If I want more, I can check the full website later.

If it was $300 instead of $1500+, I'd be all in. Heck, a larger format Kindle might work too. The current book reader is just too small for newspaper consumption.
Gave me some death stranding flashbacks there, gotta complete the chiral network!
The cities that can lay claim to being the greatest city in the world without getting laughed out of the room can - unless I'm missing a few - be counted on one hand. I wonder what other cities in the United States you believe qualify.
Because you are idiots?
It has since been changed to use the NI RoboRio https://www.andymark.com/products/ni-roborio

C++ was also always supported but from the one year we used that I can guarantee our team's dev speed was much less than LabVIEW. Something about the data-flow UI and live probing of values and VI controls view made it so much more intuitive to develop a robot with. We had a mecanum drive that we developed a dual layer PID system to control individual wheel power using a PID, but also a PID control on wheel rate. The effect was a super smooth but extremely fast control scheme that also had the effect of the robot pushing back if it were moved without user input. Great application in 2014 where the field was entirely open and physical defense was key, but I would have preferred to have normal wheels and all of the traction benefits that come with them that year instead.
Getting into Performance Budgets
I agree the new experience is poor, and "select all" part is the worst. I haven't needed or wanted that feature since 1993 and I don't know why someone thought it was the thing for me in 2020. Every desktop environment I've used provides an easy way to select lots of text (double- or triple-click). That's still how every other application works, so what's the point here? Who really needs to select-all-and-copy the URL bar all the time?
Supporting all that flexibility is challenging for development, and could cause issues for the end user.

I can imagine that people over-customize Firefox, forget about their changes, then have bugs, finally abandon Firefox thinking it's unstable.
Short term trades can go up or down within a range bound by fundamentals. The further things get from their ‘correct’ value the more obvious the correlation becomes.

Aka, when people change their vacation plans etc based on currency fluctuations that’s a massive effect in aggregate.
Whats important is not total positives but how many beds/ventilators/docs are available in a region when things suddenly spike.

In those moments, where 1000 people suddenly show up at the same time, outcomes start going down the drain.

But if the number coming in everyday are well within the regions capacity (cause of good social distancing/mask wearing/early travel bans etc OR/AND they have plans in place to handle Overflow/Sudden Surges such as Korea) then the story is very different.
Cities and also states will be in a precarious financial situation after this. There is a danger this allows for the federal government to exert further power and control. Since history often rhymes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/four-ti...

Rather than a single state attempting to withdraw, it would likely have to be a coalition of states acting upon a unified effort for increased state rights. If representatives in NY/Tri-state, CA, IL, MA, etc. acted in unison, it would likely be more effective.
It's the "figure out if it actually works" part that is going to take most of the time for any potential prophylactic option for COVID-19. The bureaucratic overhead in this particular case is not going to be the inner loop.
In March of 2019 there were no world wide pandemics forcing hundreds of millions to shelter in place.

The point is you vaccinate before a illness starts spreading if you can, because things spread quickly when you do not and can create quite a mess.
There are plenty of shortcuts in medicine. Think how you would stop this strain from being spread by individuals once it was identified. This strain will spread no matter what the FDA says.

Personally I think the regulatory authorities would rapid approve it based on the epidemiology data collected in the process of finding the strain. The FDA has already shown that it can move faster than its usual glacial pace given sufficient motivation.

The much more important question is when are we going to start seriously looking for such a strain?