skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government wants to expand surveillance so that way potentially disruptive social movements can be monitored and disrupted. Activists use signal too.

In case you hadn't noticed, the government is currently on its backfoot and disruptive social policy reforms are back on the table. They want to make sure that corporations get everything and the people get nothing.

The encryption fight has been going on for decades, but at root their complaints about terrorists and child trafficking are covers for expanding a lazy version of COINTELPRO. Lazy meaning that they can just sit in an office and see everything. Let's not forget the FBI's role in trying to get MLK to commit suicide. These shadowy agencies are not in any way the good guys.
You have bought into the CCP is China bullshit. Without the murdering CCP China could have been Taiwan. Instead you are a new country with 70 years of history that only occupies the space of the great historic nation of China.
You'll be able to do low level research (e.g. deformable convolutions) in a high level language (Swift), rather than needing to write CUDA

Not sure I understand - will Swift automatically generate efficient GPU kernels for these low level ops, or will it be making calls to CuDNN, etc?
Memories... （⊙ｏ⊙）
There's a fairly sophisticated transpiler from a computer algebra system language called Singular, to Julia, here:

https://github.com/tthsqe12/SingularInterpreter/

It's still being developed, but Basically Works TM.

It does give some speedups over the original interpreter for the language, which has been in use for about 30 years:

https://github.com/tthsqe12/SingularInterpreter/blob/master/...
A holographic model solves a cosmological mystery (2017)
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Postman documentation". Is this Postman's documentation or documentation for other APIs (not sure if Postman has an OpenAPI spec?).

I found slate, and it's super cool, but I haven't used it myself. There might be some pipelining involved, from my understanding of projects like https://github.com/Mermade/widdershins where you convert OpenAPI specs to markdown?

I think the good folks over at getstream.io used slate as a base for their docs CMS and loved it enough to write about it, and I'd love to read more about slate in production. Looking forward to when you finish your migration and if you write about it!
One of the hardest parts of leading a startup (or any company really) in a major downturn is managing your employees expectations for their career growth. Many of them will have joined a rapidly growing company - ones with the most rapid career path opportunities - only to see the rug pulled out.

Imagine joining a company as a software engineer with expectations of becoming a lead and then a manager?

Imagine joining as a manager and expecting to grow your team from 5->50?

Managing these expectations as an executive and coaching your team through the crisis is a vastly underappreciated skill. We focus too often on what your equity will be worth as a means of motivation.

Convincing a talented engineer whose equity went from $1m->zero overnight that all it takes is 'grit' to make through to the other side, that's when experienced management pays off.
Besides the fact that FDIC would have covered those ( anyone remembers FDIC fridays? ), banks are not servers. Your analogy is wrong. If they failed, the disruption would be great, but money would not be lost, the houses, cars, equipment, factories, people would still be there. The bailout was aimed at the real owners in the US. And they got it. Simply because golden rule works.
You can't maintain democracy or the rule of law with these laws in place. This isn't about privacy, making it about that is missing the point. Privacy is a nice side benefit, something we give up routinely for safety. Democracy isn't.
Ask HN: Salary negotiations – should I bother getting a competing offer?
Long story short, I am unemployed. I went through most of Facebook's interview process before interviewing at any other company. I'm wondering if it's worth it to get other offers or just go with FB without negotiating.

I am at the onsite stage at FB and can push that back as much as needed. I am also in the middle of interviewing at Google (which takes ~2 months) and just started interviewing at Twitter and a couple other companies (that take ~1 month). Purely just to up my TC.

I am concerned about opportunity cost. I have two options: be unemployed for 1+ months and get a slightly larger salary at Facebook, or accept a smaller salary now and start working sooner. Advice?
> Writing line of business applications for Windows environments (server and/or desktop) is one of them.

I disagree that this is common. Most people are on web + browser + Office these days.
I don't think so, fwiw.

"Call it Dukas notation until proved otherwise."
cribbing your music picks :)
> Although the goal of the legislation, which has bipartisan support, is to stamp out online child exploitation, it does so by letting the US government regulate how internet companies should combat the problem—even if it means undermining the end-to-end encryption protecting your messages from snoops.

As usual, one of the Horsemen of the Infocalypse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
I play a decent amount of flight sims in VR, and my eyes simply wouldn't be able to handle any more of this than they already do for the sake of game immersion. Unless theres some new headsets out there that fix this problem, I'm not sure if this will work for me yet.

I do await the day my whole system is a AR/VR hybrid, but I suspect it'll be a while still.
> But for radio waves? There's nothing, no hint of how any harm might occur, short of being put in a microwave oven and receiving thermal burns.

To preface: I don't think there's any evidence at this time that standard levels of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation are harmful to humans.

But it's not inconceivable that there could be some harm caused which we're not aware of yet and which is eventually discovered in the future. The body and brain are extremely complex and not fully understood, etc. Molecular biology is sensitive. It's not implausible that there could hypothetically be certain chemical reactions or cell processes which are subtly disrupted by certain frequency bands at certain amplitudes.

I personally don't think there will be such a finding, but people still need to keep an open mind, I think.
I work in a massive research institution with a lot of medical doctors. They almost all use R if they can program. I try to encourage the use of Python to help them slowly pick up better programming fundamentals so they dont miss out on whatever the next wave is in a decade. Learning R doesn't teach you much about other languages but IMO learning Python can help you move languages.
Thing is, I was there in the 90s, on crappy 14/28/56k dialup. I remember it, and it was shit.
What additional evidence can you provide? This is concerning to say the least.
"Our governments will screw over its citizens in the most blatant way imaginable; they will even exploit a health disaster as an opportunity to push the agendas of their corporate masters."

.. and to enrich themselves.
My friends who own or help run local small businesses have told me it happened to them, so I believe my friends. Of course, it's not explicit extortion like "pay us $500 a month or else", so there's no hard evidence for anything. Instead, magically not too long after they refuse a cold-call sales pitch, they have a bunch of bad/fraudulent reviews surface to the top of their Yelp page and then get another sales call later on.
https://github.com/Checksum/elm-compiler

I just feel like people are right that the core team is not reasonable but at the same time, if there are that many people that like Elm, why not create a total fork?

It might come down to the people that would care enough to do the fork and a server or whatever have already had so much Koolaid that they just accept those negatives. And the other ones that can't accept it don't like it enough anymore to go to the trouble of making a fork.

But to me it seems like the best outcome is a fork that becomes successful.
It's funny, I've got almost the inverse of your inverse experience. An old group of friends, formed over IRC/TS2/MMOs, had in recent years traded a lot of that sort of thing for less-frequent IRL hangouts as lives and interests developed. Recently, all the old lines of communication have come back to life and it honestly feels like going home.

That said, I'd probably change my tune after a year or two. I think a lot of "quarantine is the best thing ever" floating around right now is driven by various forms of novelty/nostalgia bias.
Oh please, maybe if all you're doing is reading hackernews articles. The language hasn't really changed that much in the last few years. The only major feature is async/await.
My main objection to using tabs has always been that the Tab key is heavily overloaded: it navigates (one Tab press to move the cursor to the correct indentation point), selects (tab completion), and it puts a variable-width character into my monospace-defined text file.

I'd rather drop the insertion part and have my editor handle adding an appropriate number of spaces.

Let me add this: there's actually nothing stopping you from displaying a four-space indented file as a two-space indented file. Just parse, replace indentation-dictated groups of four spaces with two spaces, you're done.

I don't know of a plugin that does this for $your-favorite-editor but it's, y'know, software. There's nothing which prevents it.
Firefox and the Samsung Browser also support custom tabs. The default launching code will prefer your device's default browser.
(First, thank you for continuing this discussion. I feel I have to say that because often they fall apart.)

(edit: oops, this was to comment on the wikipedia article you posted)

So, it seems to me this critique of Peterson's Boogymen of cultural Post-structuralist Neo-Marxists (or something like that) comes down to "He didn't use the right words to describe what he's talking about." as opposed to "What he's describing doesn't exist" or what I seem to smell in the most muddy of critiques "He's a dangerous idiot".

In addition, looking at this article:

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-jordan-peterson-slavoj-z...

The author says:

"He then proceeded to stumble his way through Marxist philosophy with such a shallow assessment as to be laughably incorrect."

But then doesn't back it up with anything. And shallow doesn't mean incorrect.

So it seems to me that his detractors are grasping at straws.

Again, a hearty shrug from me.

Though, looking at the work from Andray Domise, the author of above, like his articles and his TED talk "TEDx Toronto: Colour Coded: race, gender, and representation in video games" He seems very very occupied with group identity.
I agree that what you say is possible, but it's also possible that consciousness does lie inside known physics, so I reckon it's worth people investigating that angle, as formidable as it seems.

I've edited my comment above to be a bit less absolutist
> The answer is that we erroneously conclude that the facts we perceive are first-person, but this perception is a sensory trick, similar to an optical illusion.

I'm extremely skeptical of answers that involve labeling difficult challenges to a theory as "illusions."
> Without serious infusion of cash there is a notable nonzero change they would fail

This is an exaggeration. Many companies purposely have junk bonds so they can borrow more money at a low rate, compared to investment grade bonds.
Empirically, I'd say it's doing very well.

The world has more trade than ever, and fewer wars than ever.

If you're referring to WW1, lowering a risk and completely eliminating it are different things.
Yes! In fact, games use another method that could also be very beneficial in VR: signed distance-field rendering. As far as I know it's mainly used for text, but there is nothing specific stopping it from working with other kinds of images.

Essentially you get your vector data, and map it into a texture of distance from the boundary, with positive being outside the boundary, and negative inside. Then you apply a shader to that resulting texture to make it presentable for the user. This means crisp contours/outlines at all but the most extreme proximity, and easy implementation of other common vector effects (such as bevels, shadows, etc).
Big over reaction and this is making him sound far worse than he is. Its more passion than rage with Paul as Red Hat is everything to him an he believes in the company 100%. There is also a lot more to Red Hat for its leadership. Jim is still up a level and then you have Chris Wright the CTO, a genuinely soft spoken sweet man.
No.

There's questions about the general increase of wireless traffic in general, but nothing has be proven at all since cell phones came about. Let alone microwaves, or household appliances. At least not to my knowledge.
No business should prepare for their business to become illegal. Air demand is down only partly due to consumer behavior. The majority of the demand is down due to government action. Your argument is like arguing alcohol producers should have prepared for Prohibition.

No the best recourse when your business becomes illegal is to grant a large dividend to shareholders before your creditors liquidate the company. Preparing for your business to become illegal is a waste of money
> I've found that being in lockdown has made me happier.

For how long have you been in lockdown? Given that in my country (Italy) I started doing that on March 3rd.

Even though I'm fairly privileged (part of the family in the same building, being able to work and earn money) and that I do not particularly long for social contact, the lockdown has been a very heavy hit on my mind.

This is the fifth week. Almost every morning I wake up with a feeling of dread, and a couple of times, before I stopped listening to the news altogether (save for a very short press roundup) this degenerated into full-scale anxiety attacks. Work is also pretty stressful and I realized how much my subway + train commute was useful to clear my mind when coming home, now every weekday is a constant struggle to keep focused or to do anything save the routine.

One family member has also the same problem, and another one said that it's getting really hard on them, too.

On weekends I end up playing online with a long time friend of mine, but as others said, it's not the same as meeting in person.

I end up talking sometimes to the porter (he's deemed essential as he also does the cleaning and trash collecting ,etc) just to have some extra conversation with someone who is not afraid of me (like all shopkeepers for the few times I go out to get stuff).

That's why I say this can't go on for too long. It's not a matter of money only. Long time withdrawal from social contacts, even superficial, can be potentially deleterious for one's mind.
> The only difference between those things

You listed two things that easily and obviously line up with a Bill of Rights amendment... not sure there is one of those for encryption. Unless I’m just blanking...
Ok, but if you get "\t[space][space][space][space]", how do you know this wasn't supposed to be "\t\t"? That is, how do you know trailing spaces are for alignment and not for indentation?
There's also reputation issues with a "hire them back later" attitude. Engineers are likely to become skeptical of recruiters from companies with a policy like that, and then you start struggling to hire anyone.
I suggest that the third factor is US policy.

Before World War II, Britain had its trading empire, France had its empire, Japan had its empire, etc. Oceanic trade between nations not in the same empire ran a high risk of the cargo simply being confiscated or destroyed by one of the imperial navies. A key pillar of the US's strategy in the Cold War was to use its naval supremacy to prevent the return to the imperial trading system; in other words, it extended to nations an offer of the ability to trade freely on the world's oceans in exchange for that nation's joining the US in opposing the Soviets.

The United States also suppressed wars. For example, the 2 nations that arguably had the most powerful pre-WWII militaries (Britain and France) allied with Israel to attack Egypt after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal, but the United States, worried that the Soviets could enter the conflict, threatened Britain and France with economic sanctions unless they withdrew, which they did.
The quality of products on the market will improve beyond a margin if people buy after research and thorough reviews rather than being told something is good. Then companies might have to compete beyond having the flashiest ads.
Check out Tin Pest on youtube (can't do it at the moment). A most curious behaviour for a metal.
What I've seen is that salespeople are lot more fungible than veteran engineers who have a lot of knowledge of the companies system. Sales armies tend to have a lot of more junior staff too. They might not hire back the same salespeople, but they should be able to hire what they need. There will be a lot of people looking for work.
The market isn't rallying because investors are becoming optimistic about the prospects of the real economy. The real economy is going to be a disaster, because we have no roadmap for leaving lockdown anytime soon.

It's rallying because all sorts of zombie businesses can now stay alive, thanks to the government lending them unlimited amounts of money.

All this does is it kicks the can down the road for a year.
As things start to fracture more and more, the big studios kind of find themselves in the same position. Disney+ probably has one of the strongest single-publisher back catalogs, and there's still a lot of talk about there being nothing to watch after you finish the few originals and whatever old thing you were interested in.
I recommend the meta-cognition course: Learning how to Learn.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

The primary instructor, Dr. Barbara Oakley, wrote the book, _A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)_ that isn't just about learning math.
Also, one of the conspiracy theories against 5g is that the towers are literally sucking the air out of your lungs. :-|

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/4/21207927/5g-towers-burning...
"Reducing" and "completely eliminating" are very different things.
I enjoyed taking Model Thinking: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking

It's designed to be a foundation course for subsequent social science classes, but I personally found the exposure to models from different fields of study to be quite insightful.

If you're interested, there's also a book by the professor on the same topic: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39088592-the-model-th...
The tech is still getting better, so it isn't like VR headsets are stagnant technology wise. I can see resolutions getting hire and maybe using AMOLEDs for less backlighting hitting your eyes all the time.

I've been spending an hour and a half in VR everyday as part of my quarantine workout, and it seems fine, though I'm not really reading anything in that environment.
Yes, nuclear war would be very unexpected/random. Every war always is. It is no different than the pandemic or any other black swan event.
The problem is that Elm's crowning achievement is that it took a lot of ideas from functional programming and produced an end product that is stunningly simple and easy to use -- even simpler and easier than most non-functional languages. Speaking as an avid Haskeller who revels in the arcane and abstract, PureScript is just another inaccessible and alien functional language that most people will be immediately turned off by. It's not at all a replacement for what Elm achieved.
I was on a fairly serious First Robotics team in high school. Nothing else during my pre-professional years prepared me as well for what it would be like to run/work on a team to solve challenging problems. I really appreciate that it was a space where adults treated me like one, and taught my how to execute on that level way before my peers.
This is similar to what was happening with me too. Someone had to basically say "get to work now".

So maybe it will help you to hear too. Sit down, make a list, work through it.
Postgres.app comes with PostGIS plus GDAL etc. There’s no good reason to use Homebrew Postgres over Postgres.app.
To explain: a Swedish company warehoused millions of masks in France. Two million of these masks (million each) were supposed to be sent to Spain and Italy. France had confiscated all of these masks. It took two weeks of pressure by Sweden (and other EU countries) for them to release the masks and for them to finally be sent to Spain and Italy.
That is a charitable view of private equity - that it improves margins without hurting operations.

Another explanation lies in reputation mining. Think of it like doing something profitable but unsustainable.

Curious what kind of experience or data sources you base your first graph on — the Pareto principle piece makes sense. But isn’t it possible the very end of the tail is still profitable, albeit less so, than the head?
And its not all deception. For all those that are convinced to stay on a sinking ship, there are a few that flee only to discover they missed the big payout.

I know one who was an early Tandem employee. He left because he had only a Masters' degree, among all those PhDs. They never respected him, never considered him for responsibility nor much equity. So he left to pursue another degree. Later of course had he stayed, he'd have been a millionaire many times over from even the little equity he'd had.

Another was working on a 3270 emulator for the PC, only to have IBM announce their upcoming product just as his was about to release. So he left the floundering company to get an MBA. Later they pivoted to release the network part of their software as Banyan Vines, which was a worldwide best-seller.

And so on.
Total false claim.