skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Ryan is mostly right. We can't give everyone a shot at everything, there simply is no way to evaluate every claim from everyone. Imagine if we had to read papers proposing to inject people with disinfectant.

Of course that does leave is with the authority of guilds in each area. They get to define who is a member and who is not, and where the research money goes within each area.

The major problems I find with this approach is that we end up letting the experts decide things that they are not experts in, and we have to trust their own policing.

They cannot within their own guild decide what tradeoffs society should make, it necessarily requires more than one expert opinion, and there's no way to say the concerns of one group must outweigh that of another. It's always a political decision by someone who isn't an expert in every field.

As for their own policing, there are plenty of examples of the experts being wrong. How a non-expert is gonna fix that I don't know, but not having external oversight is a due diligence failure.
Peer review is experimentally demonstrated to be ineffective.
The topography of local news: A new map
A lot of the more popular blogs seem to be about giving advice to the audience. "10 Reasons to do X." "Why You Should Y in Z." And so on. It always made me think that I would have to do the same to draw attention. But the blogs that I really enjoyed reading were technical dives or even what someone's day-to-day life is like. Blogs like Rachel by the Bay really hit this mark for me.

I haven't blogged much myself at all, but I did write about an SVG bug in Internet Explorer years ago that got a decent amount of attention on StackOverflow. That was pretty cool.

Similarly, this can apply to other media, like making games or YouTube videos. OP's advice could be creatively applied to those as well.
From Gleb (CEO) comment on the blog. "Yes - B2 is still a more cost efficient API as it allows customers to connect directly to the final storage location. However, we have built a highly cost efficient load balancing system as we always have - using software to optimize inexpensive hardware - and are swallowing the additional costs for our customers."
> What's stopping me from buying them all up at the Apple store and selling them to overseas customers?

Import duties and VAT. VAT accounts for much of the price difference, OP didn't explain which Europe they're talking about, but assuming a 20% VAT a 2999 machine costs $3598.8 to the end-user.

Means you're working with a 325.2 price difference, which doesn't even cover import duties.

So pretty much as ever, if you're round-tripping through the US, picking up an MBP there is nice. It does not however make for a business.
FWIW, I have BetterTouchTool configured so that a two finger swipe/scroll anywhere on the bar adjusts volume and a three finger one adjusts brightness.
that's why we're here... learning something new everyday is a great things. now imagine how cool it will be implementing this is your projects from here out :)
Unless you have stable enough finances not to work, there are only so many positions many people are qualified for.

I think people forget just how precarious the ever growing precariat class is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat

I suspect is the future of employment for everyone without organized labor fighting back for their own interests.
It's laughable, the UK spends half as much (as a % of GDP) and has similar outcomes (and far better outcomes in areas like maternal death).

It seems the default assumption is that the US government could never run something efficiently, but this is said in the same breath as claiming the US as the greatest country on earth. One of those things must therefore not be true. For a country with the resources and know-how of the USA to not be able to run a health service is not in doubt, what is in doubt is whether bad actors will deliberately underfund it and try to point to it as being badly run as a result.
To be fair, he did say that AWS was quite different. When he started he wasn't a VP, and it looks like firing activists and Covid-19 triggered it, rather than regular working conditions in normal times.
My company didn't have a large presence on there, but the app Blind seems to fit the bill.
Someday they should make a pro model for the 5% of people who don't care about emoji pickers.
Blind.
When to shop: help estimate offpeak times to get groceries
Who cares? If a sex and a race are disproportionately negatively affected, it doesn't matter whether this is definitionally prejudiced or not.
Well, I wasn't worried till I saw that. It reminds me of Trump saying there was no reason to worry about Coronavirus.
This is a nice cover-story because it's endlessly plausible. We don't know the circumstances of your life. If you say you're struggling just to get by with your family, we have no choice but to believe you.

And yet, in this industry–and especially in this forum–I know many are following an ideology that values success only at another's expense, and not in collaboration with others. In a game theoretical sense, defectors.

There's more than one way to feed your family.
Mad respect for this guy.
Yeah as someone who used MagSafe for probably a decade and then switched to a USB-C MBP (now counting 3 years), I much prefer USB-C. And I'm a really clumsy person, and have two small children running around.

I probably went through one Apple MagSafe charger a year. One of them I literally only used on my desk, and the cable fell apart in 6 months, the Apple Store guy accused me of all kinds of abuse to avoid replacing it under warranty. Even with crappy amazon marketplace noname Chinese 90W USB-C cables, I've been totally fine for 3 years now.

With USB-C you can get cheaper third party chargers with all kinds of options (including full-featured Thunderbolt docks), you can use literally any old USB power bank, you can just switch out the cable when it wears out or gets chewed on, charge on the right side of the computer [the latter also really helps with the yanking risk].
"De facto" as opposed to "de jure" means something happening without being mandated by law. This doesn't seem to have much to do with the GP's statement:

>> If the firings disproportionately or systemically impact races or genders, the firings can be racist/sexist -- even if race or gender is not involved in the firing decision.

If race or gender are not involved in the firing decisions, it means that the decision is based on other factors. If some male workers declare an illegal strike because they think they're discriminated, and they are fired as a consequence, this has nothing to do with their gender, but with the illegal strike. If people imprisoned for religious terrorism are all religious, this doesn't mean religious people are discriminated, but that terrorists are imprisoned. Etc.
Just because no company is perfect doesn't mean some aren't worse than others.
Quantum speedups for unstructured problems: Solving two twenty-year-old problems
It's amazing that this is where it arrived. In its early days, the exact opposite was true. People loved Amazon because its going against the "big box stores". Movies were made romanticizing the downfall of the big box stores. Now Amazon became the villain. Similar thing is of course happening with Google.
CVE: SaltStack Authorization Bypass
Ahh... good to hear.

I have been keeping an eye on the system76 stuff too - not just Dell. For a long time system76 seemed to only make laptops with large keyboards with extra number pads and asymetric mouse pads which put me off (many manufacturers do this, so it's not just them).

I notice that they finally have more tenkeyless models, so slowly but surely my checklist is being satisfied. Are you still able to use a recent version of Pop!_OS after all this time, or are you using another recent version of another distro? I'm interested in the longevity in terms of being able to install up to date OSes over the years. I mean that really shouldn't be an issue with Linux - support usually only gets better as time advances and new drivers / modules are written, but it would be nice to know how you got on, regardless.
Retina Ready CSS Icons
With one click on "About" you can find out the author is "a software / site reliability engineer based out of Santa Barbara, California" and does not list any academic credentials. This seems extremely transparent to me.
There are a few explanations I can think of, and each of them is rather strange.

1. The whole thing is a dis-info campaign to hook a near adversary into thinking we have spooky next gen technology. This all being public makes me lean this way. Similarly perhaps this is being used as a cover story for some impressive but not physics defying drones, similarly to how "UFOs" were used as an diversion away from projects like Mogul or the f-117 and B-2.

2. Pais is a conman, scamming the military into funding his fraudulent tech.

3. Pais is a breakthrough genius. The Tech is real and in years it will be revealed to the public.

4. The "Bob Lazar" option. "UFOs" as in foreign objects exist and occasionally crash, and are studied and reverse engineered when they do.

It's interesting to note that Pais was recently transferred to submarine command.
I interviewed for a job there paying more than 2x my current salary in total comp, and I'm already making a lot of money.
> This doesn't follow at all though. Racism and discrimination require intent

Racism doesn't require intent. "I didn't know" or "I didn't intend to" isn't a defense against racist behavior. There are plenty of examples in history of people who believed their behavior was perfectly reasonable (and even equitable) but were absolutely racist.
"polarized vacuum" I'm sure those two words could be elaborated upon, certainly does seem to be a couple of nice words when put together make you go - errrm
> It would be impossible for a daemon to categorize its users into those two groups and decide when to stop itself from running because it cannot see months into the future.

The scheme I outlined doesn't ask anyone to look into the future. It asks that the service look into the past.

> I would argue that it is a trade-off.

Argue if you want—it seems you're predisposed to it. I said it's not an inherent trade-off. The developers/package maintainers are certainly making a trade-off. That's not the same thing as that trade-off being unavoidable.
Yes, you can customize and remove all the buttons so it effectively does nothing. I only have volume control on mine.
This thread is a little odd with the heavy-handed touchbar hate.
I highly disagree with this one. I have one of those brand name diplomas, but the piece of paper is largely irrelevant. Nobody has cared or even asked about it since maybe 3 years out of college.

As a restrospective thought experiment, if you offered me that piece of paper in exchange for a student loan the size of my college education, I would turn it down. But if you offered me the 4-year experience I actually got for that same loan, without the brand name, I would take it in a heartbeat. (You can't actually separate the two since the brand name in part enables the college to implement the product.)

Aside from actual academic knowledge like practice with low level OS and network concepts, here's what I got from those four years that I think made a concrete difference in my life and career:

1. The personal mentorship I got from a professor, who I met during a summer internship, but he was from my comp sci department. It was serendipitous that the two circles collided, but it was crucial, and, to the point, it was enabled by the college network.

2. Meeting people through friends in college who would become co-founders or connections into other jobs.

3. Taking very specific classes on soft skills, such as writing workshops. One in particular, which I took early in college, was like getting two in depth code reviews a week for twelve weeks, except it was for my writing. That course made me fluid and precise at writing. I still suck in comparison to many of my former classmates who write professionally, but it made me a stand-out effective communicator in engineering. In retrospect I would have paid 1/4th of a semester's tuition in a heartbeat for that course (took 4 courses that semester).

4. Being surrounded by people who weren't engineers, who were formidable doers and thinkers, about other fields, such as global health policy and politics. I still remember getting my ass handed to me in a dinnertime debate by someone who was obviously more knowledgeable and more thoughtful about public policy than I was. Getting intellectually smacked down by friends regularly taught me humility and appreciation for the value of expertise in other fields.

5. Spending four years in the company of driven people with high standards. For the people who embrace it, it rubs off on you the same way working on a strong team does. It demystifies high performers and teaches you that you can turn yourself into one.

6. Due to spending time around people who had money/power, you learn to not be (as) intimidated by those people. It's a crash course in walking and talking like an "elite" whether or not you are one.
On Death, Dying, and Writing: In Conversation with John Troyer
> Yes you can rewrite overnight

We have shortages in supermarkets and food rotting on farms at the same time. Rewriting a supply chain is hard, and your amazing line-drawing skills aren't going to fix that overnight.

And you didn't even address how much of that plant matter doesn't meet human quality standards. Even more to significantly rework.
I've always believed telecommuting needs the remote equivalent of the golf course. There are certain human elements that cannot be built over a Zoom call, but do not inherently require a physical presence.

I have never started a company and I was hire #76 at my current place, but if I were to start something remote, I would find a game or hobby appreciated by all the founders and make sure that remained a bedrock of our culture.
> A growing number of alleged sex abusers are seeking to use legal actions of their own to force victims into silence or into dropping their accusations.

> Filing a report to police is not in itself grounds for a defamation action, but if a rape victim goes public with their allegations, a criminal complaint can be filed against them.

My God, that's horrifying.
Apologies, if it wasn't clear given context, I was explicitly talking about hardware support. Dell doesn't do vertical integration of hardware and software, so I doubt they'll send someone to your parents home to help them configure Windows (or Ubuntu).

That said, your parents will still be subject to having to check for appointment slots each day, hoping to get one two weeks out, or waiting in store for hours for the next slot.

They'll also be subject to lots of random bugs in Time Machine, which has become a decidedly second class citizen as far as support within macOS goes. I cannot reliably do a time machine backup over wifi anymore, and am now subject to doing it via USB only instead. This is a much bigger problem now that my USB disk is still stuck in the office, and I've been unable to get into the office for over 2 months.
I meant this article as a "thank you" to the brave doctors and nurses putting in extra time and effort to look after everyone else. Regardless of the state of NHS funding, it's just basic human decency to say thank you to them. I didn't mean it as any kind of political statement.
Anyone else have any insight / advice on this? Would really appreciate it!
Washing Ziplocs, eating bread crusts: Americans are discovering frugality
And sshd is a fairly common thing to fall over in my experience (though particularly on badly-managed clusters). Presumably more so on otherwise-inaccessible systems, by the laws of life. The agent saved systems isolated in places like x-ray hutches a number of times back when I thought using cfengine was a good idea.
Note that the reply was itself written by a software engineer as well. There is no particular reason to believe one over the other.

As for "authorities", I distinguish between people who try to understand and think well, versus those who have been recognized by bureaucracies and politicians. The first group has done astoundingly well. The second group has failed over and over again.

Sadly it is the second group that is in charge. And the result has been repeated institutional failures. :-(
This brought back memories of using my first computer, a Mac IIci my dad gave to me and my brother. We had the mouse set up in front of it in a way that it was way pretty easy to hit the reset and debugger buttons, which seemed to happen more often in the middle of a spited game for some reason...
well... since the project hasn't been touched in 2 years, i doubt that it will be fixed.
The redirection is done by a low-priority PATH. Both the Store install and the "standard" install (both of which are built/maintained/managed by Python.org, fwiw) should install at a higher priority PATH. PATH bugs are just hard to entirely avoid, but PATH management is relatively easy.

(One big for instance is that System PATH and User PATH are concatenated and that the combined PATH when it exceeds a certain character limit sometimes causes subtle bugs like this one. People unfamiliar with Windows-specific PATH issues might not realize that issue.)
A Traveler's Method of Learning Technology
People often gloss over the overwhelming theme in human history of work being extracted with ruthless optimization.

The pyramids got built for free, so did America, that whole Serf system, kids used to work, Colonization, and I think there’s people half way across the world making things for a few cents an hour as we speak.

If you want to know what’s happening, then just look at what already happened. War, technological advancement, and worker bondage are pocket aces you must to bet on when it comes to humanity.
Tangentially related. I've been thinking to create content online. There are a few things I want to share about, and will think of two media of doing it, notably blog posts and videos (mostly on youtube). I don't think I want to engage in twitter/facebook/social media etc.

I see that all these people are using their real name persona on the internet. In this day and age, I think I need to carefully think about anonymity (maybe I also want to write about anonymity, blockchain, security etc, it will be an irony if I don't practice what I preach).

Now my actual question, what is the right balance? How do we create content while at the same time being anonymous. I think this is even harder on video. If there's any resource that can point me out here I'd appreciate it.
Public health policy in the midst of a global pandemic strikes me as the wrong place for innovation by amateurs with zero experience in any relevant fields.
If that's something you're worried about, there are USB-C magnet attachments you can buy. If it's something you don't worry about, now you have way more options for chargers and cables.
Generating HQ Depth Maps from Single Video Input
Not Archlinux. But That's not surprising given arch's policy of keeping things as close to upstream as possible.
Right, and among them are more[0] patents held by the US Navy for high-temperature superconductors and "high frequency gravity wave generators." It's clear he has at least one patron within the DoD; it's a shame that the technical oversight over this program is so credulous.

[0] https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Salvatore+Cezar+Pais
I willfully? missed that the O in the water binds to the Al so is unavailable for combustion (it has to, otherwise what gets consumed?).

Oh, another take, it is a molecular pump that removes oxygen from the environment and turns it into water, via burning.
Blind pretty much does this now, but it's mostly people asking about pay. https://www.teamblind.com/
> If race or gender are not involved in the firing decisions, it means that the decision is based on other factors.

Or it means that race/gender were involved due to implicit biases or systems beyond what the firing party believed they were evaluating.

One can unintentionally have discriminatory behavior. It might not have been a factor in the discussions of the firings, but it still could be a root cause.
I would agree finder when compared to File explorer (and its Linux equivalent) or even file manger in windows 3.1 is the Mac OS's biggest weakness.
I understand the disease-symptom dichotomy, but if amazon is only a symptom then it is one of the biggest ones out there. This makes tackling amazon more important than tackling a mom and pop shop who treats their workers poorly, even if they're both symptoms of a bigger working class oppression disease.
Are you sure?! That is not a 'research paper'. There are no claims to results, no literature review, no methods, no abstract, no conclusions and no references. It is at best a review, and not an academic one.

I'm not trying to disparage the author. He's put a decent chunk of work into wrapping his head around the situation and shared with the world. More power to him. It's just that the output doesn't read like a research paper, or an academic review.
Out of curiosity, are scanned models less efficient to display than hand-crafted ones?
I agree that would be nice if it were true. But that's manifestly not the business VCs are in. Their behavior is a pretty predictable outcome of our society's current ideology around capital.

That could change, of course. The pandemic is making it clear how threadbare that ideology is, so perhaps we'll return to valuing things beyond a high rate of shareholder return.
Yes. Humans with a fiduciary duty (legal obligation) to put shareholder value above all else.
Keep in mind that is not the basic warranty service. If you buy prosupport your call will not be routed to India and you can get the in-home or in-business service. If not, you'll be having a bad time.
I don't think that's what gp meant. Why not use a standard protcol like SFTP?
The Python team themselves were just as interested in being in the Microsoft Store. Python prides itself on trying to be an easy to install language accessible to a wide variety of users.

It should also probably be noted that the Microsoft/Windows Store installed version of Python is the official Python.org release. (It's CIed, and CDed directly from Python.org just as with any other release binary.)
I would recommend restic with B2. Really simple to set up. I use it for nightly homedir backups for multiple machines. Currently at ~400GB and it's costing me < $3/month.
I disagree, I think it makes him more hirable. I guess it depends, perhaps he is less hirable at a company that values profits over humanity, but definitely more hirable at a company that values humanity over profit.
There is nothing stopping this from happening right now and indeed there are various kinds of outreach programs designed to get Americans interested in higher education today. Graduate school requires both aptitude and desire; It is a nativist myth to think you can simply swap out immigrants for Americans. You would have to do some nasty forced education kinda shit and there is little evidence that would work either.

It’s possible that if the population of the US approaches 1 bil or so there may be enough students to fill in (if that ever happens). Otherwise thinking that refocusing on domestic students will help is a pipe dream; there are simply not enough Americans interested in Graduate school.
Eh. Suppose our current theory of relativity was wrong in some specific way or someone came up with something that sidestepped our current understanding - you could still have a logically coherent universe in those scenarios, because it'd just mean that our current understanding and theories of how the universe works were wrong.
I wouldn't hold my breath for a big mainstream corporation to address the needs of 5% of their market share.