skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the problems I set out to solve with Hashplane, this happens to a LOT of orgs heh.
I have to admit this line seems arbitrary to me. So WASM is a register machine to you but if they would simply add those 2 instruction would it suddenly become a stack machine then? Those instructions would actually be trivial to add. I think those terms are relatively well defined and when you argue that WASM is a register machine even though the inventors explicitly claim it's a stack machine you should have really good arguments for that. Personally I would be surprised if you could point me to any literature that supports your definition.
Alphabet tops sales estimates despite virus hammering economy
I was a subscriber for a few years in the 2000s but let it lapse. Just got a lifetime subscription. I hope they survive.
The first somewhat-detailed description of military marching is in a 16th century dance manual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoinot_Arbeau
https://www.descript.com/ and Lyrebird prevent people from making copies of voices that arent their own, but it looks like that cat is out of the bag.

Abuse potential notwithstanding, and ignoring the complete distortion of "reality" coming soon, I'm extremely excited for this technology to become more mainstream. Being able to edit audio and video, like you edit a word document. Record a conversation for a couple hours, compile the transcript, and synthesize it into something tight, all without the need for a traditional video editor. Voice synthesis for words that werent spoken, or misspoken, frame interpolation and morphing to prevent the jaggy youtube cutting effect.
A product/engineering proposal template
As far as I can see, the article has no links at all to the actual product?

A very stupid oversight of mine. Will be fixed once I spend some time getting a wordpress page set up this weekend.
Can the author really answer these question for Python?

I've been using Python for more than 5 years and over 2, full time, professionally and....

>How do I install it? The docs say brew install, but I’m on Windows.

I wouldn't know what to tell you. I gave up and used Anaconda.

> Do I have to use WSL?
No .. Yes. Maybe.

> How am I supposed to be writing this?
I don't know.

> Do I download an IDE?

Maybe. There's a few and they are either underpowered or annoying to use. No canonical IDE.

> Is there a Vim plugin?
Yes, several. Nobody agrees on how to set them up.

> Is this ostensibly editor-agnostic but really supposed to use Emacs?

Yes, and yes. See previous answer.

> Uh oh, there’s two competing plugins. The communities hate each other. Which do I choose?

I'd say there is more than two, but I gave up. I don't think the communities hate each other though.

> So… the language community.
> Where are they? Will I have to join Yet Another Slack? Install >Yet Another Messaging App? Do I have to set up a dedicated machine just to keep connected to an IRC channel?
> Are they friendly to beginners, hostile, passive-aggressive?
> Are there any missing stairs or known abusers?
> Are there high-profile rivalries?
> What innocuous-seeming topics always turn into a flamewar? Is my question even safe to ask?

I have no fucking idea what you are talking about. Just google your problem and you'll find a link to stack overflow.
Isn't parodies are explicitly excluded from requiring to hold copyright to an object of a parody?
The Wikipedia article says how, you need a definition of real numbers that includes nonzero infinitesimals (IOW does not satisfy the Archimedian property).

So let there be an ω with 0.999... = 1 - 1/ω. Then a number between 0.999... and 1 would be 1 - 0.5/ω.
> positioned to go after bare metal (C, C++), yet have the ergonomics one would expect from Java, Python, Go, etc.

The point wasn't that it has better ergonomics than Python, it's that it has similar ergonomics, while being a bare-metal type language.
It's bound to happen when the business is at a complete halt for a few months. :-(
Ha, I drive a VW. Next time I'm at the dealership I should swing by the parts department and see if I can get it delivered to the US. Gotta get the ketchup and plate too.
Our school barely has enough books to cover three classes, let alone the entire grade. Likewise, I've tried calling students on the numbers their parents listed both on the syllabus and on the official enrollment forms have still have sometimes had it unanswered.
Okay...and thanks for being frank
Are you suggesting remote or in-person?
> Der Arzt/die Ärztin, der Pfleger/die Pflegerin (I think "Krankenschwester" isn't being used formally anymore)

Now you are being sexist. Of course Krankenschwester is used but it has a different meaning than Krankenbruder

> Occupations generally have a male and a female variant and as far as I know you are required to address both in formal speech (so I wouldn't call this an "experiment" anymore).

In many languages there are occupations which are specifficaly related to specific genres.

> The only area where I'd say this isn't implemented yet is informal speech. Few people watch their day-to-day language for gender neutrality.

This has become something disgusting. A mother is a mother. A father is a father. A mother can give birth, a father not. Some things will always be gender specific. Or shall we start calling people gender neutral: Mr./Mrs. Donald Trump
>This is a common trope on HN that's strange to me.

It's because HN is not filled with people with knowledge of the industry anymore. People in tech are now the minority.
I think this might be a great thing for those kids. They'll actually get to experience reality outside of the rat race for a bit longer than they otherwise would have.

Based on what I've seen, I'd say the following... Kids who love book learning do it voluntarily, for fun, whether or not they're formally in school. On the other hand, kids who don't love book learning don't get much from it one way or another no matter how hard the parents try, unless the parents resort to measures so overbearing that the kids become psychologically deformed as a result - and even then, those overbearing measures only work on some kids.
Small-government libertarians in my experience are really ok with big-defense. They are the sort who fund NSA and it's incessant attempts to vacuum up all internet data, spy on all people, etc. They rarely understand that those same powers might be turned against us all as easily as flipping a switch. It is a blindness that has always baffled me, especially since we have more proof everyday that that switch has already been flipped.
How to Build a Data Driven Culture in 2020?
But still not human-level performance.
List of Serverless Functions for JAMstack Apps
Reminds me of Maytag Blue Cheese. Are there other food products out there from surprising brands?
I'd love to see some analysis of what's going on as well. I assume this would work better for audio recorded on-device (eg. using screen capture software) than audio recorded externally after being played out on the speaker.
I wonder who got liquidity here. C suite? Rank and file employees? Early team members?
QCObjects Availability on Cdnjs
Airport Stuffed with Airliners
Lithuanian language has it in a very similar way:
Daktaras(male doctor)
Daktarė (female doctor).

A sentence like 'doctor said no' gets translated into 'daktaras pasakė ne'. Even a human could not translate any better unless wider context is known,which could only be derived from other sentences in the paragraph.
Those goals make sense to me, as I think they're all valuable, and I think some people do learn those skills while in school, but I'm not sure they learn them because of school. As the old saying goes: "what gets measured gets done", and schools only really measure test scores and years attended. I am not sure that schools really help people learn many social skills.

Have you seen evidence that schools contribute more to social skills than their alternatives might? I'd like to agree with you, but I am a little skeptical.
My kids are well-behaved. No tantrums, calm, very cooperative and with great attitudes towards learning.
Still, I have to spend at least an hour with the 9 yo and 2-2.5 hours with the 7 yo. There's so much work assigned by the school that even with them it's overwhelming. Add to that having to prepare breakfasts and lunches and it's 4.5 hours taken off my day (at least).

Now, I also work from home which means I actually finish around 10-11 pm. I don't even have time or energy for other chores. Barely coping.

I don't envy parents with problematic kids.
The benefits of transparency in a compliance audit
Ha! Amazon has had this velocity issue locking up legitimate funds for a decade. It's a feature, not a bug. They know it locks up funds for legitimate sellers but they don't really care that much about their 3rd party sellers and they get to retain a lot of cash for longer than usual anyway. It won't get fixed.
I really hate the auto keyword but as I like D so much, I kinda get used to it.
Nonsense. https://www.crustkingdom.com/pizza-oven-cost/
Commercial usage includes any exchange of money, even if you're taking a huge financial loss by using the images, so this license prohibits all of that.
I was thinking of the exact same concept the other day; I need something along these lines for one of my own projects. Anyway, I’ll take a closer look at this during the weekend :)
According to Price's Law 50% of the work is done by the square root of the number of people. As the amount of stuff you need to do grows linearly, the amount of people you need to do that stuff grows exponentially.
I grow tired of the narrative that companies should have seen this coming and hoarded cash. Investors are never going to allow companies to sit on massive war chests of cash in perpetuity because ROI is then zero and that's not what investors lent them the cash for. If they wanted invested cash to be sat on or hyper safe investments, they would buy government bonds or park the cash in a bank for less risk. If companies have tons of cash and aren't doing anything with it, it is inevitable that investors are rightly going to clammor for buy backs or dividends to see ROI. Besides, basically no one has the cash on hand to deal with a long-term collapse, regardless of executive behavior.
Please understand that what I'm about to say isn't to be taken personally. I don't know you, and I'm taking your word for it that you have a healthy relationship with your phone.

Something functional alcoholics will often say is "I don't have a problem, I just like a beer with dinner, nothing wrong with that", and a usual response is "okay, then how about you take a week off? If it's just something you like, then that should be no problem".

Of course, that's where the excuses start!

This May challenge is conceptually similar. Nothing in your morning routine would be disrupted by more than 120 seconds, if you took the time to look at the sky and appreciate it before starting in with the phone.

Again, I'm mentioning this on behalf of other people who might be a bit in denial about how they start their day.

My personal routine starts with plugging the laptop into the monitor and brewing coffee, and browsing Twitter and HN while my brain wakes up. I'm not big on my phone in general, especially not lately.

But I'm intending to add looking at the sky for the month of May (although not joining a Facebook group, yuck!).

It sounds nice.
It is interesting that you can't get the same results with "roll dice" because with "roll a die" you can roll multiple dice, and even its title says "roll dice" instead of die.

Either way, these are neat tricks to know about.
The Fed's policies (at least since 2008) could be described as "socialism for the management upper class" - they got free money that they gave to themselves as bonuses. Their companies were buoyed up, regardless of what the market wanted or whether the business was sound.
Their softening of rules around "verbatim" searches is frustrating. I'll search for 3 words, all mandatory, and will get results that are missing one and have to click "must include X" or preemptively include quotes.

Verbatim quotes aren't compatible with other search filters, which particularly impacts my ability to search for JS things, since that info goes stale so quickly.

so I can't simultaneously search for "all these words in this order" and also newer than 2017
smol was made public yesterday, so I would be very surprised if they considered it.
Uber has tons of regional offices for local expansion, lobbying, marketing, loans, etc. Not sure what % that adds up to but I can imagine they have many many employees in that category internationally.
What a moving redemption arc! Going from guerilla acts of racism to making a company that aids in institutional racism.
Data is hard to automate and standardized pipelines and processes are really helpful. This is interesting.
Amazon Workers Say Warehouse Health Precautions Are Insufficient
This makes me think of the movie The Believer.
Anybody else with the opposite problem? I find the at-home schooling quite fun. At-home work just sucks though -- new product dev right now seems so disconnected with reality. That said, obviously fortunate still to have a job at all.
It would be nice if it was shepherded by those that believe in "public good". My hopes are tempered in that regard.
Ten years of not fixing it is a pretty good indicator that they won't.
I would certainly love to read more about your experience. Not sure if you are tied with some kind of NDA, but if you can share more - please post a complete story!
Design Thinking: B2 APIs (& The Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility) (2018)
Interesting - the diagram isn't SVG based.
I agree with you - one of the nicest I've seen lately.
Was similarly blown away by Whimsical, see https://whimsical.com/P53PjXCBWEi2fdMjP2Hti
16 to 18 years in most countries. Prediction and correlation of cause and effect, spartial awaraness and other cognitive functions take a while to train.
> Yet the workers all chose to work there, implying it was better than the next best option available to them.

That's not how minimum-wage labor effectively works. The workers (many of whom have just entered the workforce, myself included at the time) apply for all the available jobs in their area and hope that at least one hires them.

At that level, the employers are in a race to the bottom, and rather than attempting to be a better choice to attract and support their labor force, their reliance on the workers' desperation means they all push the limits to see how much they can get out of workers for how little in return. It's the entire reason we even have minimum wage laws.

And they all do it. There's nothing particularly noteworthy about any given employer. I saw the same behavior, through my siblings' experience, at four different mega-franchisers.

> For the employees, they are better off for that employer offering the employment, than not doing so.

So, no. The employees aren't any better off being exploited by any given employer, when their only other choice is unemployment or identical exploitation by another employer.
I wonder if it can be filtered out, on the other hand. Does anybody have knowledge on audio fingerprinting/watermarking? Or is it perhaps security theater?
Sure, there's always going to be bloat, but complexity at scale isn't just because there are a lot of employees.

Twitter is a great example. I bet they have 20+ people working on a specific anti-abuse system. Another 20+ working on a specific ad type that makes the company money. Another team that just works on account security. Another team that works on internal tooling. Or the shared UI components team. Etc until you get the current state of Twitter.

All of those teams don't need to exist when Twitter is small, but do when they scale.
You can also query elevation tiles using the `elevatr` package and use them in a similar way.
Waymo Unveils 5th-Gen Self-Driving Car
As others have mentioned, that's an issue already. The solution is to never acknowledge if a user does or doesn't exist on register/sign-up/forgot-password pages and simply state that instructions have been emailed to you in all cases. The key is that you don't act differently if the user does or doesn't exist.
I guess I can't. I'll go back to lurking.
For those who don't want to click through, this is the thesis of the article:

> People with similar names — often a relative of the deceased voter — signed the poll book in the wrong spot, Schmidt said. In no case, he said, did the living voter then cast another vote under his or her actual name.

> Such mistakes most frequently occur when a deceased voter's name appears at the top or bottom of a poll book, Schmidt said.
I currently work at a community college; one of my programs is a re-entry program. The ones that kill me are the people who have marijuana charges and can't get a job.

They're extremely brittle and bitter now that people are being celebrated as geniuses and business leaders for doing exactly what the felons were doing.
Lets be clear, he showed remorse once he was caught, but none before then. What dues did he pay? He appears to have moved on from that stage of his life fairly quickly, and appears to never have been rejected employment/housing via background checks due to a technicality. There are men on death row who committed the exact same crime.

I disagree with your second paragraph entirely. I do not want to live in a society where CEOs of multimillion dollar companies have indiscriminately shot up places of worship when they were 17 years old.
Magazines are the only reason I go to Barnes and Noble. I wonder if it will impact their cafe revenue?
> Summer break began when LAUSD went online for a lot of kids

Summer vacation is highly beneficial and better than typical schools in so many ways: getting to choose more of what you want to do and pursue your own interests, under your own motivation, without stressful testing and evaluation, at your own pace. You also get more exercise and the chance to play less structured games that aren't organized or controlled by adults.

But even if kids sit at home and play video games all day, I'm pretty sure their math, language, and problem solving skills will improve more than they would if they spent the same amount of time in a typical LA classroom.
I've gotten fakes from Amazon, but it is not always obvious that you've got a fake.

There was an article recently with pictures of the real and fake items, both from Amazon. You wouldn't know which was which even if they were side by side.

But the fake will probably fall apart faster, may leak poison and is overall not what you thought to buy.

And that is all aside from the issue of fake reviews, which are so prevalent as to be the nrm. So the product might be an original, but it is not what you thought you were getting in way of reliability or noise et al.
Do you worry about your children having large blind spots in pop-culture making it difficult to relate to peers later in life when discussing things and relating the childhood? I've wondered how music taste was going to continue with out FM, but just today my daughter had a google meet with her class where they have to have teams and discuss songs. Between tiktok, youtube, and dance class she did quite well. I imagine 13 year old boys will talk about fortnite how we talk about mario or zelda...
Self-contained cameras are not good enough. You need to actually quantum-interfere the photons from one optical path with those from the other paths to get the effect of the larger resolution.

You can do this with optical fiber, a pixel at a time, for sufficiently slowly changing scenes. Each big mirror is then responsible for collecting enough photons so they can all interfere constructively and deliver a useful brightness level.

The output goes through a diffraction grating to get a spectrum for each pixel, so they need it pretty bright.
But this was a claim about someone else. Let's hear from his mother. If I said something about you should the claim be believed until proven false?
This reasoning is understandable, but also incorrect, and we can point to where it breaks down: the idea that the 7 is "at a specific decimal" doesn't hold true, due to that pesky ellipsis. The crazy bit about the infinite repetition is that the 7 in 0.666...7 is not at a specific decimal. It's not even at "the last decimal" because there is no last. So, let's show this via a proof by contradiction:

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1. we assert that 0.666...7 is a sequence of digits.

2. we assert that each digit in a sequence can be assigned an integer index corresponding to its position in the sequence. I.e. we can defined each digit's index as "the number of digits that precede this digit".

3. from (1) and (2) it follows that the index for 7 must be an integer.

4. the ellipses represents an infinite number of digits (infinitely repeating the repeated digit pattern preceding it).

5. from (2) and (4) it follows that the index for 7 must be the integer value "infinity", because it has an infinite number of digits preceding it.

6. (3) and (5) cannot both be true, because infinity is not an integer.

7. from (6) it follows that (1), and/or (2), and/or (4) must be false

8. (4) is, by definition, true.

9. from (7) and (8) it follows that (1) and/or (2) must be false.

10. (1) is our fundamental assertion. If (1) was false then there is wouldn't even be a sequence of digits for us to reason about. So (1) is true.

11. from (6), (8), and (10) it follows that (2) must be false for there to be no contradiction.

QED

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Now, certainly, for finite length numbers the assumption that each digit in a sequence has an integer index holds true, but it turns out we have mathematical notation that lets us write down numbers for which that property does not hold.

Infinities are fun. And difficult. But also fun.
If layoffs are the only downside we have to massive unemployment, then I will consider us very lucky.

Another scenario that commonly follows periods of high unemployment is severe political unrest. That’s the kind of fertile environment that has historically preceded some very bad things. I hope the shutdown is worth it.
This is really a terrible feature for anybody who doesn't like DRM. I only can hope clever hackers will identify these steganographic features in video and audio recordings of zoom sessions.
I don't understand how they're the same number.

I will never accept that they are the same. The difference between 0.9 repeating infinitely and 1 is infinitely small, but it isn't zero.
Read up on Uber's infrastructure, and you will be quick to reconsider.
They aren't profitable anyway - is this really in reaction to decreased revenue or is it a culling and reorg, timed and justified opportunistically to avoid bad PR and publicity?
Fair. Maybe the definition is that two real numbers are equal iff there is no real number between them. Which is nonintuitive if you're used to things like natural numbers which have successors. But if you teach people this way of thinking about the real numbers, then arguments like "it's the last number riiight before 1" stop working.
Don’t really know what to say. Your comment reads like someone telling me that they don’t like a pan seared salmon filet. I don’t think anyone will convince you that this music is exciting but 120/130 bpm is a fine speed to dance to and there’s a reason people enjoy music like this
Survivorship bias.

Being able to home school and choosing to home school is NOT the same as having it forced on you without any preparation. My guess is that you're a single income household. Others aren't so privileged.
In my last job we used Basecamp for project management and then we started doing work for Walmart. They flat out said if you want to use a SaaS tool then they have to sign a liability agreement in case any trade secrets were leaked. Needless to say they said no as did everyone else. Which forced us into self hosting a ton of stuff.
>The NSA doesn't have access to US security cams and couldn't care less about them.

The same NSA that has vacuumed up phone and internet data, including that of US citizens?