skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False premise. Building failures occur all the time.

By relative frequency, not so often: physical structures are simpler, tangible, better understood.

But they still fail often.

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=building+collapse

https://youtube.com/watch?v=d8u83VY59Ww

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5PZyXvp1mLw

In 1st-world countries as well:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dfYLk9dktAY

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EMpQxLfqNNs

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VnvGwFegbC8
Well, they are pretty close to that then.

A friend of mine recently joined Google as a L5 SWE, and is making around 400k a year (he's on the upper band for L5 - couldn't make the cut for L6).

That's about 3x what very good engineers in high cost-of-living cities in the US normally make. I'd say 135k is probably the median for very good engineers at the average company.

(Of course, you could argue whether they're "very good", but I'd say they are, while noting that Google et al is obviously a different caliber, but one partially achievable with many hours of grinding on leetcode/hckerrank/etc.)
The Cataloging of Free Software
I've noticed that a lot of students seem to have issues with "word problems"–as in, they have difficulty translating the problem into its mathematical form–and it's often treated as an entirely separate class of problem that you can be bad at. I guess that there's a lack of early training (it doesn't even have to be that much) to do this conversion?
You at least can use pocket, bookmark, or email yourself a link.
This just happened in Seattle. The program for gifted students was canceled after being found to be inequitable.
Shameless plug:
I've a similar chrome extension called Baitblock (https://baitblock.app)

- It even offers you summaries of links before you click them where available.

- Blocks cookie notices.

- Hides Facebook/YouTube feed.

- 1st party tracking resistance (deletes cookies on every page load for websites that you're not signed in to)

- Website blocking

The upcoming version even has in page reader mode so you dont leave the page (video in tweet): https://twitter.com/BaitblockApp/status/1252623683266494464

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/baitblock-distract... - for chrome

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/baitblock - for firefox
But I'd just work at a company that pays SF salaries (or almost), but working remotely. Why doesn't everyone just do that? I think that will happen more because right now, SF people are all working remotely anyway.
There's absolutely more than zero risk. In Denmark a medium sized taxi company was fined $200,000 for keeping their customer data longer than necessary.

Also: How are Google and Facebook offenders of GDPR?
> And indeed 57 looks a bit prime for some psychological reason

It tricked me, until I read the link.
Democracy is not about running private companies. CCI and monopoly laws should take care of that.
How is it misinformation? It's mathematics and statistics. There isn't a field associated with it.
Why would leaving with a non-compete be so bad that the owner thought they somehow had an upper hand?
Not really - it makes it easy to research. I want a desktop computer, Apple offers me 3 choices. Easy to compare and choose.

Compare that to AMD Ryzen™ 3 3300X and AMD Ryzen™ 3 3250U.

It's easy to get confused due to the the similar naming nomenclature and not realize that one is a desktop CPU and the other a laptop / mobile CPU.
> And while American 7th grade program does not cover quadratic equations, it includes intro to probability and statistics

Depends on your program, of course. I did quadratic equations in 7th grade, and the first class that actually did any non-trivial probability was in 10th grade.
But it works.

If it's clever and it doesn't work, it's surely clever ... but it doesn't work
Apple’s new Mac Pro Wheels Kit is utterly mind-boggling
Netflix beats growth predictions with 15.77M net new subscribers
I am a bit sad you forgot to mention Teams also works fine in Linux (Ubuntu) as I use it every day.
Ambani fared well under every govt. Can you cite what this govt has done that has been favorable to Ambani?
I don't know about the Soviets, but American books always seem to take longer to say less than other countries texts. I think it's a volume thing: Americans see 400 pages and think it must be twice the product of a 200 page alternative...
Can you explain 'extreme nationalist'. Im just curious, what qualities make a person or a leader as such?
You got caught, spin it as much as you want. This has nothing to do with fraud. We know you got caught because of the speed of your response. This is called damage control, there is also a more scientific name for it called plausible deniability.

I am disgusted with this form of surveillance. I will make sure that I won`t use Stripe in the future and force vendors to use something else.
> Because many of these languages were created when Unicode already existed. Someone listed Java and Javascript, both of them started from the point that python 3 tries to bring.

That was me in a parallel thread. Java and JavaScript internally use UTF-16 encoding. I also mentioned C, which treats strings as byte arrays, and C++, which supports C strings as well as introducing a string class that is still just byte arrays.

> As for your second argument, many people bring out Go, that had such amazing idea of using everything as UTF-8 and it works great.

Has Go ever broken backwards compatibility? Let me clarify my second argument: if you are going to break backwards compatibility, you should do so in a minimal way that eases the pain of migration. The Python maintainers decided that breaking backwards compatibility meant throwing in the kitchen sink, succumbing to second system effect, and essentially forking the language for over a decade. The migration from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 was less painful, though in fairness I suppose the migration from Perl 5 to Perl 6 was even more painful.
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Telecoms in India are in a tremendous amount of debt. So much so, Vodafone and Idea had to merge but still they have immense financial problems. They are asking for the moratorium because Jio gave away their services for free, undercutting every player there is and the telecom regulator did nothing about it. WRT your first link, it was posted on November 21, 2019. This year the Supreme Court ordered the telecoms to pay their dues:
https://m.economictimes.com/industry/telecom/telecom-news/sc...

As to your second link (Dec 23, 2019), yes, the Govt. did try to stop the 20% sale to Aramco, but "Aramco officials and bankers on the deal have been working at Reliance’s offices in Mumbai" says otherwise: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-18/reliance-...
Source please? Are these your opinions or do you have articles (not blogs or tweets) to support your claims?
Irodov is also a great resource when preparing for the USA Physics Olympiad. (Other, slightly easier but still good ones are Morin's books.)
WHO Taps Technology to Combat Covid-19 Pandemic
I don't think it's PII. My point is just that your scheme of signed tokens doesn't avoid an association. There isn't a way to.

And that's fine because it's not PII and it's the only way to implement this (in my mind). What you're proposing is just shuffling around deck chairs, not actually sinking the ship.
“Most of the population exposed”? Um, the (highly controversial) studies that have come out in the past few days calculate an exposure rate of around 3%. That’s hardly everyone in California, or even most.

There’s also zero evidence that anyone was exposed in the USA before mid-January.
You know, I would argue India is a much more functional democracy than USA at the moment. Unfortunately, it isn't because India has suddenly become more democratic. Fortunately, we are at least not committing guillotine-level crimes. For example, we don't have the biggest businesses being bailed out while 20+ million people are simultaneously unemployed. But let us leave that aside for a minute.

People make these dire predictions like "Well.. you know, now that India has an extreme nationalist as the leader, he will be in power forever and India will soon exterminate non-Hindus..how does it get worse than that?" etc. Except, the population growth rate of non-Hindus has been higher even when counted very recently [1]. I suppose it is much easier to have opinions which are based on nothing but more opinions, rather than based on facts.

>>How does it get worse than that?

Here is how. We can overthrow the extreme nationalist leader via an election. If things get really dire, sometimes these overbearing folks actually get assassinated. We cannot even kick out WhatsApp from the country, let alone assassinate Mark Z (which I would argue is good not just for India, but for the entire planet).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth#India
> Ambani’s fortunes are closely tied to Modi.

Source please?
Why should i believe a new poster with such randomly typed username?
Nice presentation website. I've also just tried your app. I think it needs an exit button. It's not obvious how to exit it (unless you know the shortcut) once you activate it.
But how can they teach probability and stats without any calculus or real analysis? Are they just teaching a few cookbook formulas and leaving it at that?
> This question should have said "woman" instead of "female".

So women are not female?
https://shanavas.org - Jekyll with gitlab pages
Interesting - I’ve been given the advice twice UK UK solicitors when signing VC deals that non-competes are unenforceable in the UK and not to bother fighting to remove them (we will did on the first raise and the VC took it off). I think the main argument used by the solicitor is that it’s illegal to stop someone from making a living. I’m not a lawyer, just going on experience here. You may well be correct
How... How can grep possibly work on a strange non-utf8 encoding if you don't say to it?
This is incorrect. You are mixing two separate (but related) things.

Under the terms of the original Rafale deal[1], HAL was supposed to manufacture/assemble Rafale aircraft in India. This deal never materialized.

A new deal was made under whose terms, Dassault and others were to supply 36 Rafale aircraft in fly-away condition in return to which, they were to invest 50% of the cost of the deal (or about €3.9 billion) back in India, under an offset clause.

Of this €3.9 billion, €100 million was awarded [2] to Dassault Reliance Aviation limited as an offset contract to manufacture components for a passenger aircraft (Dassault Falcon 2000). This was a decision by Dassault, not the Government of India.

There were about 30 offset partners among which Reliance was one. This contract was worth about 3% of the entire investment under the offset clause.

So Reliance was not "chosen over" HAL.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_MRCA_competition

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafale_deal_controversy
Sure, and that kind of confirms my point, doesn't it?
I think that's a great way to get an intuitive understanding of the concepts, as an introduction to the subject, but at some point you really do have to sit down with numbers and equations and learn the theory behind it all and apply it to examples that aren't constrained by the reality you can physically experience in a classroom.
Not every business wants you as a customer. Shocking right? You were kinda getting the hint but pressed on anyway.
I'm working n an IDE for music composition. Launching soon. http://ngrid.com
Fortnite Maker Epic Games Is Fundraising at Above $15B Value
That's standard behavior for object oriented languages. A different example with functions:

function add(x, y) {
return x + y
}
a = 5
add(a, 1)
print(a)

A language printing 6 is pass by reference. A language printing 5 is pass by value.
Both would print 6 for this code

a = add(a, 1)
print(a)

However a language like Erlang would end with an error when trying to reassign a new value to a.
> Click It or Ticket

I've always hated this one because there is a significant contingent of people who disagree with seatbelt laws -- even if they themselves always wear their seatbelts -- because it's a central example of a law that shouldn't exist when the role of criminal law is to save innocent people from bad people and not idiots from themselves.

And then the campaign feels like a direct attack on the people who don't agree with the law, which encourages defiance, which is the exact opposite of the intended effect. With the further effect of making people angry while they're driving a car, which dangerous in itself.

The cynic may also notice that such laws are commonly passed in order to generate revenue, in which case stimulating defiance could be fully intentional because more defiance generates more revenue.
Would politicians go so far as human vaccine testing on inmates?
Try `cat /usr/bin/*` in your terminal
No, what I think he is suggesting is that everything private companies do is defended to the extreme, just becasuse the alternative of having govt. controlled entities is undesirable.

Even I agree, there is too much worship of capitalist and free market structures.

There ought to be a good balance between free market and govt. regulations, where public interests in protected.
Haskell and Idris both have very slow compilation time.
I believe Jack Ma is now the richest man in Asia. In fact, it’s probably really Ayatollah Khamenei :/
You can’t arbitrarily change the syllabus to a student’s detriment. I’d have argued up the chain.
Because many schools aren't teaching via the web, they're closing for the year. Many (but not all) kids, without the threat of a failing grade, just aren't that interested in furthering their education.
> We're thinking very differently about the same topic.

Yes and no. I recognize the same edge cases you do, and I err on the side of caution. Sometimes, it's even quite worthwhile to make seemingly outlandish arguments such as "literally every compiler and library dealing with this topic out there is broken".

But in this case the compilers and libraries have reasonable rationale behind their decisions that I can't entirely tear apart. If I ruled the ecosystem with an iron fist, I might have made different ones... if there was a diversity of implementation decisions, it might be worthwhile to agitate in favor of said difference choices... but the ecosystem seems to near-unanimously agree in the other direction. So in this case, caution and defense on an individual level means working within the reality of that ecosystem. That reality is allowed by the C++ standard. One could perhaps argue the C++ standard is broken, and I've certainly taken many a tilt at the C++ standard windmill, but I feel I have many more dangerous - and more slayable - dragons to face down first.

I could replace every single mov with an xchg in all code I have access to, but it still wouldn't fix the problem: I link against closed source libs, compiled with movs, with their own alignment requirements, and their own multithreading nonsense. I must align my types or I will suffer the bugs.

> There's no testing harness on earth that allows you to enter two sections of code on two cores with a cycle-accurate delay and with a 100% defined state of the CPU (TLB, cache contents, branch predictor status...).

There have been some interesting research projects into this FWIW focusing on symbolic execution, static analysis, executable instrumentation, etc. - Maple, Thread Sanitizer, Helgrind - but cycle and bug accurate CPU emulators are mostly a retro community thing, not cheap, and not generalizable to the wide variety of hardware I need to deal with.

> That demonstrates how little faith you are allowed to have in the alignment of an instance of your type if you didn't allocate it yourself.

You're not entirely wrong. But by the time I get my hands on a given T with an alignment less than alignof(T), the nasal demons of undefined behavior have already been well and truly invoked. Trying to partially paper over the problem with misalignment tolerant code at that point is a waste of my time that merely encourages more subtle heisenbugs. The better use of my time, and the better solution to my lack of faith, is to verify alignment - and sometimes catch and fix misalignment - not to give up and assume I'm unaligned.

You're not entirely right either. Several ARM ports in multiple, large codebases, have turned up suprisingly few alignment bugs in my experience. They're suprisingly rare. You have to go out of your way to create most of them.

> The same thing may happen if you make such a type part of packed struct.

Modern Clang, GCC, and MSVC can all warn about this, which you can upgrade to an error: https://clang.godbolt.org/z/hNjao6

As can Rust: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
In this case it would be "natural causes" or something else like that which can be written off as not due to any sort of neglect or misbehavior on the part of the prison operators.

COVID deaths have already been frequently written off in general as natural causes or "pneumonia" etc as of late because either the victim wasn't tested or there was a desire to minimize the # of reported cases.
This looks like a cool accelerator. We plan to apply to it.
In the US at least, tech companies have been consistently ahead of the curve throughout the pandemic. They started closing offices while Fauci was telling people to go cruising! If this crisis hasn't shaken your faith in expertise, hasn't made you question the idea that experts have special insight the average smart person can't replicate, I don't think you've been paying attention.
QNAP also offers cheap 10G unmanaged switches that I've bought. It looks like more consumer-oriented compared to Ubiquiti/MikroTik.
All of the Intel 9100 series are 4 Core 4 Threads. For AMD $99 you get 8 Thread.

And as someone else mentioned, you also get a decent cooler out of the box.
Yeah? It is clearly personally identifiable. In fact it is pyschologically identifiable when Stripe can associate that with your name, credit card, Ip address, time of the purchase, the vendor, type of the item, how you get to the store, the items you are paying for, how much time you spent on the item or the store, which links you clicked, the browser you are using, the device you are on, your location etc. Do you want me to list all the possibilities they are recording?. You are out of touch with reality here.
notable co-releases along with PyTorch 1.5:

- TorchServe: model serving infrastructure for scalable model deployment

- TorchElastic w/Kubernetes: fault-tolerant "elastic" neural network training, allowing nodes to join and leave (for eg. to leverage spot pricing)

- Torch_XLA: updates for PyTorch TPU support

- New releases of torchvision, torchaudio and torchtext

Summary blogpost at https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-library-updates-new-model-s...
I have seen plenty of them in the last 30 years, specially since 2006 doing consulting for Fortune 500, where docking station/thinkpad combos are pretty much standard.

A very famous Finish telecommunication company, several well known German companies in medicament production and life sciences domains, and a couple of car and package delivery companies.

Anecdotes.
Oh, I mistook you for the previous commenter. Yeah, I agree that what I proposed doesn't really buy you anything unless you for some reason need the mouse data not to touch the server that's processing the transaction, which seemed to be what they were saying was required. There are multiple layers to why what they're saying doesn't make sense.
Probably the closest comparison would be the US to the whole European Union. Similar sized population, a broad a mix of left/right leaning states, some more affluent than others, that are largely operating independently.

About two weeks ago the EU was around 800k cases and 57k deaths, the US is there now and at 40k deaths - so maybe doing better, but possibly could have been a lot better if the Fed Gov had taken charge early.

But we don't know precisely how many non-hospital deaths have occurred in either case. They estimated the UK was out by 40%, and Wuhan added 50% to their total recently.
Women in Workspace
It’s not just California. The combination of “no child left behind” legislation, combined with modern political movements (CRT/I in particular), has rendered large swaths of American public education devoted to bringing everyone up to a minimum standard (not necessarily a bad thing in itself, mind you), but all the while sacrificing the potential of gifted students by not placing everyone into separate (and significantly varying) tracks according to their varying abilities.

In addition, schools are funded based on standardized test scores, which encourages many schools, especially in poorer areas, to teach to the tests—instead of teaching students to think.
Puppeteer and Cheerio versus Scrapy
I have been building out some scrapers using Puppeteer, but I'm wondering if I should have just used Scrapy to do this instead.
Theory and language-agnostic algorithmic implementation generally is appropriate for 'intermediate' level to my understanding. Read PRML or MLaPP, and then please tell me that you know of a suitable modern successor. Not Goodfellow. Sorry Ian.
I haven't used it in a year so things might have changed, but it seemed to only have the last 20 or so messages with a person stored in memory and I'd have to wait for it to load if scrolling up to see more, and then only load them in batches of 20 or so at a time after that as well. It also didn't like me trying to paste screenshots directly in to it. instead I'd have to save them as a file and then upload that.

For my use case at the time, which was getting engineering support as a software salesperson in an organisation with poor documentation, that was a huge downgrade from slack. Those extra seconds waiting or it to load or messing around with image files hurt when you're on the phone with someone.
In San Francisco, I attempted to use their service once, and I recall there being a tiny number of cars in the city, and none of them were anywhere near my home.
In rural areas, Uber can be downright expensive. In my hometown, Uber easily charges $30-45 for a quick trip across town.
Maybe related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683750
Sorry, can't help you with your scrubbing. You can Google for it.
Gsuite has a well integrated group video conference app.
May be its just me, but I think calling a democratically elected leader of the most diverse country in the world, an extremist, is more disrespectful.
[I was wrong, ignore]
It's one thing of accusing him of cronyism. It's another to accuse him of swaying elections for political convenience.
I think that's a silly notion. Many countries have political systems with many political parties, e.g. Germany has 14 and Denmark has 11.
Certainly these parties often pair up to form government in (reasonably) established political blocks, but it still allows for intra-block disagreements and even parties from different blocks working together on issues they care particularly much about.
Sure there is, even if as concept, or milestone mark of what it is supposed to mean in language features.

The team does speak about it, as the Go 2.0 labels are pretty much still being used, and mentioned in code reviews or occasional emails.
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