skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be great if we a group of people whose entire job was to watch over the programmer's shoulder, and every time they make any kind of mistake, SHAME THEM. Because shaming the developers is more important than anything else, apparently. All we need is other people who can 100% reliably detect errors in code... oh. They could simply be the developers instead!

> So what is the responsibility of the key-puncher if it isn't turning requirements into robust, correct code?

How can it be a responsibility to never make a mistake? Nobody can never make a mistake.

> Many comments here seem to suggest that programmers are just there to produce some sort of fuzzy first-stage approximation of what the code could be.

Many comments here seem to suggest that producing high quality code is a team effort supported by a company or department which values high quality code. If you had mythical no-mistake employees you could do away with most everything else. Why even have tools, tests, revision control systems if you're not making mistakes?

And if you are using tools, tests, etc. as part of not making mistakes, why not reviewers, bug testers, quality analysts, as well?
The Critical Role of Computer Vision in a Covid-19 World
Happens all the time when you are type setting, like writing in LaTeX. Its not designed to be your word processor and its easy to think you making minor edits/fixes when you are really quietly destroying everything you had already revised dozens of times.
Nor microsoft, apple or cisco...
The expensive bits of the pizza are the cheese and toppings, no?
I’m not sure how they’re trying to bill it these days, but certainly actions speak louder than words. All of Canonical’s design decisions seem to be aimed at making a consumer OS rather than a workstation or server one.
iOS 13.4.5 Beta 2 (17F5044d) Bypass iCloud Activation Lock Screen
I was just reading this the other day: https://community.clearlinux.org/t/changes-coming-to-clear-l...

I wonder what is about to happen to the desktop experience for Clear Linux.
Because they aren't really low risk. There's two different kinds of risk being referenced here.

Risk 1: High chance of default. This is the risk you take by lending to borrowers with poor credit.

Risk 2: Low chance of default, but when defaults happen you take a big hit. These are jumbo loans.

Banks recognize that Risk 2 has inherent costs that require a higher interest rate. My previous wording of "More profit with less risk" was false. More profit with less Risk 1, but that's because you're taking on Risk 2.
SF vs. Uber Eats: Service stops food delivery to Treasure Island citing fee cap
But stack overflow explicitly discourages such open ended questions, like what package manager to use. Any such discussion will be full of arguments and counter arguments, which is better suited for reddit anyways.
It seemed in-kind with the “dystopia is here” rhetoric, but I understand answering in the same vein doesn’t make things better.

If I could still edit the comment, I would replace the first “you” with “we”, as none of the comment is meant to be directed personally at OP.

The dystopia we have is purely one of our own creation. One which TFA seems to not only welcome with open arms, but seeks to capitalize upon. It’s really quite sad.
> Hard drives that look like tapes.

Tapes don't have fast (by spinning rust standards) random reads.

Hinting in ext4 or NTFS is of course a waste of time, but CoW filesystems like ZFS or btrfs are in a much better position to handle host-managed SMR.

And a generic "SMRTL" layer that utilizes (hopefully mirrored) SSDs as a write staging area could do massively better than the dumb host-managed SMR on these drives.
> R0<1

A nit: you can’t change R0 without changing the virus — it’s the reproduction constant without intervention.

We want to get R < 1!
Perhaps it's an object lesson in existential philosophy?
I would argue that "don't make fun of Asian culture" would make being around it awkward and make people feel like they were walking on eggshells. Everything is lambasted in media from politics to food culture, and it's normal for familiar things to be made fun of. The more familiar they are, in fact, the broader the appeal there is in making fun of them. I might suggest that introducing "endangered species status" to any culture that doesn't have it would be a step away from familiarity and towards alienation.
What kind of weird comment is this? Universities are supposed to not consider race in admissions. Racial groups should have no reason to start "their own" university.
Nintendo Confirms Some 160k Accounts Might've Been Hacked
Not enough votes to make a difference.

We need an Asian University to take on these elite universities. Asian community has enough money and surely enough smart professors to make this happen.

We need just need an Asian billionaire to stand up and make it happen.

Could that be a startup idea?
Sorry, but I don't believe that top-notch Asian-American students have any trouble getting into an excellent school, unless they aim for only one in particular and assume that not getting into that particular school is a failure.

If Harvard wanted to, it could require perfect SAT scores, straight-A GPA, and whatever other concrete objective criteria it wanted and STILL have far more students applying than it can accept. They could then use a lottery to select students. But they don't do this. No school does this, even if they could.

Elite schools aim for a well rounded student body. This includes even making room for students that show promise but don't meet the usual criteria. It includes legacy admissions, it includes a number of foreign students who pay full tuition, it includes underrepresented minorities. It includes "unicorn" students of all races who have excellent academic records.
We used this with our youngest. It’s a decent product but now it’s turning into a brick at the end of next month when they kill the app. Guess we need to figure something else out.
> you graduated in 2008-2010/now

Any advice for that?
Not only you, but everyone who was recently within six feet of you as determined by contact tracing (manual now, bluetooth later). If you don't live alone, you go to a mandatory isolation center, possibly a designated hotel. Kids can be separated from parents.

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/04/03/contact-tracing...

Now is the time to express opinions on these "proposals"..
$1052 for men ($54,808)

$852 for women ($44,304)

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

Average it out (more men than women in full time workforce) and it's $50k a year or so
thats amazing ahah for some reason when ppl write dialogue i can hear the voices perfectly. its as if new episodes are being created right there
I wonder if there's an east/west variation on usage in Canada. Out west here I've only seen spelled (and other similar words with ed rather than t) used. I suspect the closer to the maritime provinces you get, the more British influence on the usage.
if you wouldn't mind providing sources regarding long term performance, I'd actually love to read it so that I can have more balanced view.
And it should be, because it’s equally valid. Having Boeing build F-35s instead of 787s lowers our standard of living.
("this person" is Orwell)
Allow me to ensure I understand your position. Overall, you believe that lower speed limits will result in more accidents?

I am certainly on the side of raising speed limits to 100 mph where possible. Or providing turbo lanes for "Class C+" drivers or something. But that's because I think I'm willing to make the trade-off in lives. Your opinion is more that we're making not a trade-off but costing ourselves both lives and speed?
Maybe stringsAsFactors was a mistake in the original design, but there is so much code out there reliant on this behavior now and since it was the default you don't really know where the new behavorior will bite you besides looking for calls to data.frame that don't set the parameter.

Plus, it's not such a bad feature when you know it's coming.

As far as the tidyverse goes, I get it now however it seems to discourage the creation of a nice, well organized set of functions to limit the amount you need to keep in your head at the same time, and a lot of R users are very smart people capable of understanding very disorganized code. Instead of functions you get copy/pasted incantations, in Base R it's at least broken down into steps which is a start.
It's gotten to the point where it seems that the projects that do more of the Agile "stuff" move much slower because they're spending so much of the working time doing that stuff than slinging code. Where I'm at, we're running something around 4 dozen projects at once and the teams that really focus on doing all the ceremonies are simply left in the dust by the teams that don't.

Here's another anecdote, a couple big teams that went the full SAFe route spent 3 years building something that ended up being thrown away and replaced in 4 weeks by 3 staff working part-time who were just given some instructions, some deadlines, and told to go code.

It's become repeatable, big teams toiling for years getting outpaced by smaller, more "agile", teams.

The balance has gotten out of whack again and it's really time to start over again. When I go back and read the original manifesto, what I see today in modern practice looks nothing like what was intended. The point in too many shops has been to accomplish the Agile things, not to deliver.
“ It was all acidic and awful, probably because the machine had never been cleaned since it was installed god-only-knows how many years before.”

This. This was your problem. I have a $2k Rocket Milano (not the fanciest, but not bad), and I clean it thoroughly every couple weeks. It makes a world of difference each time I do, and the first pulls after putting in the effort are wonderful.

Of course, I also spent nearly a year before I found decent beans near me.

Cheers and good luck!
This is just anime. Well it seems like you just don't understand us asians.
The highest capacity drives are not SMR, they're CMR. Why? Because nobody who stores large amounts of data wants to buy SMR drives. SMR drives are garbage and will continue to remain garbage. They're a dead end technology.

For those wondering why SMR drives are so bad, consider the following: SMR drives basically make the same trade-off that flash makes, but with a magnetic media that has a significant seek time and bandwidth penalty compared to flash. Any time a non-sequential write is made to an SMR drive, the whole "block" (which can be many megabytes in size) needs to be read from the disk into memory, written out somewhere else on the disk after which you can finally perform the equivalent of a flash sector erase and start writing data out sequentially again. The catch is that your hard drive can only perform sequential i/o at maybe 200MB/s vs the 3GB/s flash can. Flash sectors are also measured in kilobytes (128KB is a common size), while SMR "sectors" can end up being 16-128MB in size. Do the math. The latency is a disaster as we're talking hundreds to thousands of milliseconds of latency to do an erase. Flash can erase a sector in a millisecond, and you can have multiple erases occurring in parallel across multiple planes and dies. An SMR drive can have exactly 1 erase operation in flight at a time.

If SMR drives were of any value, you'd see them at the high end of the capacity spectrum. It's funny how those products don't seem to exist.
Google unemployment and GDP levels.
What do you think of the article's claim that eliminating the cold virus would be a good thing? I think I read somewhere that early exposure to cold viruses reduces the chance of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which makes me wary of trying to eliminate them completely...
Can’t shadow-cljs already do that, or?
It’s critical to not underestimate the non-technical steps here, in terms of how do you deploy at scale, convince venues to install, deal with throughput rates, tie results to individuals, etc. All solvable, but it’s important to think about those sooner rather than later.
I have some experience on the security side here and how to deploy technologies like this at scale... happy to help (my email is in bio).
IIRC only a few of the warehouses are the highly automated ones where shelves are brought to pickers, most are still people walking isles with carts, biorobots (to borrow a Chernobol term) of a sort but with less radiation (more bear mace though).
No, we definitely don't want a world in which government officials have little kiosks outside every business where they get to decide who has to be removed from society with no due process.
Eh, those of us who work with morons need to figure something out, and a form of this strategy has worked pretty well for me. They're not even really morons, they're just more focused on having something to cover their ass than giving a shit about building the product. I can get away with making stuff up because they don't actually care about how I get the work done, they just need a long list of things they can check off to show progress to whoever is hassling them.
Previously discussed on news.ycombinator.com:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880686
So the raid software thinks it knows better than the drive firmware, ignores the fact that it's operating a drive with no I/O timeouts, and helpfully times out the drive from the array because obviously it's not behaving 'correctly' in line with the unverified assumptions of the RAID software?

It reads to me like the fault here isn't just on the hard drive manufacturers, like everyone's made it appear in top-level comments of both issues about it this week. I'm glad I asked more questions so that I'm better informed to help my friends when they encounter this. I appreciate everyone in the thread offering help with the details.
Yeah but maybe we shouldn't. We have the technology to compartmentalise our society WAY more than it currently is, at relatively little cost. COVID-19 is a fantastic dress rehearsal for the next disease, which will be far scarier and will come relatively soon. Humanity is a monoculture and like all such, is very vulnerable to pathogens. We need to start building social distancing into our culture the same way we built protection for sex into our culture.
Necessity is forcing many people to learn how to cook, bake, garden, clean, cut hair, etc.
I expect there are more blobs than just the modem, for example the USB controller(s).
I think the key fact here is that tests were offered and people lined up and volunteered to take them.

Strict constitutional scrutiny requires that the least disruptive action be taken to obtain the desired effect.

I think no would could possibly argue that widespread free testing would be a bad thing. It’s when it becomes mandatory that it becomes not only wrong, but unconstitutional.
Tele treatment during Covid 19
My daughter has a problem of development delay. I wanted to consult a neuro medicine expert for her better treatment. Now is there any opportunity to take this treatment from home?
It's always so frustrating to see how elite colleges get away with such brazen racial discrimination. Where are the alumni orgs speaking out about this?

I wonder how much of this is rooted in the desire to protect their own kid's chances of admission vs loyalty and the desire to protect their academic "brand". Either way, I don't forsee them fixing this any time soon,

Unfortunately, the Harvard brand seems ingrained in the national consciousness as synonymous with top-notch. So just not applying in protest wouldn't serve the students, especially when other schools do the same thing. I almost wish that Asian Americans had their own equivalent of a prestigious HBCU like Spelman or Howard. It would help siphon off some of the talent from Harvard and the like and probably be an excellent institution in general.
Big data technologies you need to know about
All of AWS' billing criteria are very clearly published, and IMO, reliable. The variable cost in most scenarios is active usage (ie, API calls). The inactive usage (storage) is very cheap and predictable.
Asian people are already alienated. Getting to the position where other minorities are would be a step closer to acceptance in American society, no?
They use a lot of contracting for their warehouses and in some places they completely turn over the entire warehouse on average every year. [0] So they're used to constantly hiring people. They also surge up and down massively already each Christmas, in 2019 they hired 200k workers seasonally for Christmas! [1] They might not have expected to do it now but they have the infrastructure to very quickly hire lots of people.

[0] https://www.nelp.org/publication/amazons-disposable-workers-...

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-double-seasonal-hiring-...
Basically like the porn industry.
Not that useful when they see your name (and face usually).
The originally submitted URL (https://www.catalyzex.com/paper/arxiv:2004.00626) points to

https://github.com/senguptaumd/Background-Matting, which points to

https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/background-matting, which points to

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00626, which points to

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00626.pdf, which is inlined at the originally submitted URL. I'm not sure what's going on here, but on HN the convention is probably to link to the project home page first, and after that maybe the Github page and if neither of those exist, to the arxiv.org homepage (but not the pdf since those change with each revision). So I've changed to the project home page for now.
Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors
Depends which Samsung you have, my last Samsung update was on the 4th of January. Support for their non-flagship devices isn't great.
Excerpt:

"Turns out Seinfeld is actually still an incredibly relevant show whose relatability is timeless, with the show’s streaming rights bought by Netflix recently for half a billion dollars."
This comment adds absolutely nothing to discussion.
Tesla is finally learning the lesson that all other companies doing business in China have already learned.

Prediction: Tesla would be forced to withdraw it's lawsuit.
The reason I'm looking for actual content that shows anti-Semitism, racism or hate that was written by a Breitbart reporter or editor is that I've been burned by taking a popular opinion as fact. Wading into the deepest waters...

I'd taken it as a matter of fact that Trump is deeply racist. The message was loud and clear for years, and the level of conviction displayed by those who repeated it was pretty intense. I didn't initially question it.

Later, I thought about it. He'd beaten Clinton. That means that 50%+ of voters voted for him. His racism seemed to be widely known, which implied that those voting for him would need to be at least tolerant of racism, if not also racist. It occurred to me that I've known literally thousands of people. Out of all of them, there is one I could say for sure was a racist. It didn't add up, even considering selection bias.

Moreover, labeling someone as a racist gives others a moral imperative to harm them. Perhaps passively by not allowing your children to play with theirs, or actively by attacking them in public. Since the label is so powerful, I felt that really, before I repeat that he is racist, I should at least convince myself. So I started looking for it.

I had forgotten this, but I recall now, Trump ran for President in 2000. He got pretty far into his campaign, up to the point of pursuing a vice president running mate. His person of choice was Oprah Winfrey. She declined, and he pressed on for a bit. But then he got endorsed by David Duke. At that point, and he stated for that reason, he suspended his campaign.

There was a point in the 90s when Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow/PUSH lost their lease for their meeting space in New York. Trump provided them a large room in one of his Wall Street buildings at no charge. There is a YouTube video of Trump at one of their meetings, with Jackson thanking him and recognizing Trump's support.

More recently, Trump reinstated the federal death penalty. The first person in line for execution is an avowed white supremacist (double homicide, if I recall correctly).

Trump pushed for prison reform. The reform sought to release inmates who had been given long sentences for minor third strike offenses. So far, more than 3,000 inmates have been released under the program, 90% of whom are black.

I found more in the same vein.

I heard the primary evidence supporting his racism from Joe Biden when he announced his campaign. He said that Trump had called racists fine people. That didn't line up with the information countering it, so I went to the actual video of Trump saying it. It's actually very clear that Trump said the opposite of what Biden claimed.

So... I'm open to any statement or claim, but in cases that it's harmful to others, I like to see the actual evidence that the sentiment is based on.
Which schools are you considering?
The concept of tracking changes, branches, history & blame are pretty universal across different domains and should apply well.

The smallest unit of change in Git is a line (correct me on that), which doesn't work well with something as simple as a text document. E.g. collaboratively working on a ReadMe file on GitHub is quite cumbersome compared to Google Docs or MS Word.

Git is no more than a versioned file repo for CAD or vector files.

It's a reasonable question, though.
The missing piece is "refusing" permission should instead give dummy data: an empty address book, a random location, etc. Better would be profiles: Full, Basic, Public, Anonymous, etc
I have a box of N95s, bought a year ago for unrelated reasons.

Does the same advice still applies for these masks? I fear that handling them increases my risk more than keeping them until I'm back home.
Why do you assume my dad was an immigrant. His side of the family has been in the Hawaii since the 1880s, before it even became a territory. My father was born in post WWII America to two born in America citizens.

His master chief was black, his executive officer was a woman, and his head programmer was white. He was universally loved in the Navy community, especially by his subordinates, and though he did ruffle some feathers with his superiors, I can't believe he pissed them off too much, since they even honored him with a full page cartoon of him explaining his achievement with two other O6s and an O5, and twice with the legion of merit, which you don't get (much less twice) if the admirals are displeased.
Provide the sources, nobody on this forum is going to jump through hoops to change their minds.
Looks kinda nice in the middle there...
Not the parent, but I've also been using KDE in a multi-monitor setup for years (I have a 1440p primary monitor, and two vertical 1080p monitors to the sides). In my experience, applications open on the primary monitor, or on the monitor that is "active" (i.e. if you run Alt+F2 to bring up a run prompt on your secondary monitor and launch an application from there, the application opens on the secondary monitor where you launched it.).

Yes, applications remember which monitor and even location on the monitor they were last at.
I've committed to Northeastern. I also got into UMD and Purdue, but Northeastern was the strongest in PL theory, and FP and PL culture influences the undergraduate curriculum through Felleisen's teaching philosophy.
That's pretty much the point I was making. The CIA and Mossad extensively share intelligence with each other, so it's unlikely that A) The US intelligence agencies didn't know about NSO's activities, and B) They'll punish them in any way.
> You could equally say that all the hard work to make a viable OS is done by Linux, so screw Debian?

No, you couldn't say that. Without toolchains, userlands, and packaging, a kernel is pretty worthless. The barest bones you can go is still gcc, linux, uclibc, and busybox. There is more code that goes into a computer running linux, then there is in the linux kernel. By a wide margin.