skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting mention of Mexico military sending a satellite. Historically Mexico has been a peaceful country, it even signed the Tlalelolco treaty to not develop Nuclear weapons. Probably in the war against drug cartels?
Kinda both. Somebody had to write those complaints to the NKVD and participate in those meetings demanding to put down the traitors like rabid dogs. And if you didn't participate enthusiastically enough, be sure the NKVD would hear about it the next day, from multiple sources (and also would hear about everyone who didn't write). It was a system where participation wasn't optional.
Digital Ocean exposed customer data after leaving internal document online
I agree it would be nice, but I think there's evidence that not every employee will remain civil during such discussions.
I know NYC has extremely construction costs per mile but I've never heard that about Chicago, Washington DC or Philadelphia.
He chose to appear on at least one show that routinely promotes white-nationalist talking points – I don't think his politics is really much of a question.
We (fly.io) use GraphQL pretty extensively with server side clients. We have both a CLI and a Rails app that consume our API. It's pretty good if you need multiple client apps, even when those clients are server side.
Awesome-Python-Environment
The same argument applies to highways or any other type of transportation infrastructure improvements.
If he wanted to risk being treated as a radioactive dumpster all the rest of his time working at that company - sure, he could. Maybe it wouldn't happen - maybe she would turn out a wonderful individual who would thank him for correcting her and educating her about the truth. Or maybe not. Given the risks of "maybe not" - the smart money is on "bite your tongue".
Terminal Village
Be careful. This thread is already full of sensitive dudes who resent the idea that maybe, just maybe, they've gotten to their grand positions because of subtle biases that negatively affected other cohorts while benefiting them.

The fragility is oh so very, very real.
"The Medium is the Message" -- Marshall Mcluhan

What is it about Medium that produces less than stellar articles? Because it is a paid blogging service so people just blow out some smoke and hope to make a little money?
Neoliberals do this, but otherwise most liberals have no love for China. In this case though I'd suggest that you blame Donald Trump for those two deaths, rather than the Chinese government.
COVID19-Japan-Web-API
The app is anticipated to be released this month. Apologies.
I remember the story being picked up by a lot of such news outlets. Thus the story tells me it is the same guy I remember.

Is mentioning that a problem?
I'm really confused. I've only run into maybe one person working as a developer that didn't touch type. Is this really not nearly universal?

My version of this would be learn not to use a mouse.
They ran a crowdfund, but it wasn't very successful: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/draco-may-be-a-cure-for-a...

Still possible to donate, through Rider Institute: https://riderinstitute.org/discovery/

I honestly don't understand what's wrong with humanity's priorities.
Any kind of app where you might reach for a framework. The point is to have a reasonable contrast between "here's how you do it with a framework, here's how you do it without one". I think size is important, as I can imagine that the benefits of a framework might show when there's more to do.

Personally I'd think of a web app, since this is one place the discussion comes up a lot, but I don't know that's a requirement (I also think the idea that you can build command line tools out of a handful of libraries with no framework is pretty widely accepted).
Perhaps look into andotp. freeotp hasn't been updated in ages. It was a fork of the original google app, but didn't see much development after that.
>"A perovskite is any material with the same type of crystal structure as calcium titanium oxide (CaTiO3), known as the perovskite structure."

[...]

"The general chemical formula for perovskite compounds is ABX3, where 'A' and 'B' are two cations of very different sizes, and X is an anion that bonds to both. The 'A' atoms are larger than the 'B' atoms. The ideal cubic structure has the B cation in 6-fold coordination, surrounded by an octahedron of anions, and the A cation in 12-fold cuboctahedral coordination."

[...]

"The perovskite structure is adopted by many oxides that have the chemical formula ABO3."

[...]

"Perovskites can be deposited as epitaxial thin films on top of other perovskites,[10] using techniques such as pulsed laser deposition and molecular-beam epitaxy. These films can be a couple of nanometres thick or as small as a single unit cell.[11] The well-defined and unique structures at the interfaces between the film and substrate can be used for interface engineering, where new types properties can arise.[12] This can happen through several mechanisms, from mismatch strain between the substrate and film, change in the oxygen octahedral rotation, compositional changes, and quantum confinement.[13] An example of this is LaAlO3 grown on SrTiO3, where the interface can exhibit conductivity, even though both LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 is non-conductive.[14]"

[...]

"Perovskite materials exhibit many interesting and intriguing properties from both the theoretical and the application point of view. Colossal magnetoresistance, ferroelectricity, superconductivity, charge ordering, spin dependent transport, high thermopower and the interplay of structural, magnetic and transport properties are commonly observed features in this family. These compounds are used as sensors and catalyst electrodes in certain types of fuel cells[16] and are candidates for memory devices and spintronics applications.[17]

Many superconducting ceramic materials (the high temperature superconductors) have perovskite-like structures, often with 3 or more metals including copper, and some oxygen positions left vacant. One prime example is yttrium barium copper oxide which can be insulating or superconducting depending on the oxygen content."
Do you have a reference for those assertions?
“Encryption makes it impossible to do a full text search of your content” (where all notes aren’t necessarily on your device at one time)?

And yet Apple Photos does full image library search for your friends’ faces, while not having to have all photos on your device.

Two common ways to do this: (a) bring each piece of content to the client device just long enough to add it to an on-device index, (b) let the clients update and re-sync an encrypted global index as content is added locally.

As Apple puts it:

”One of the best things about Photos is how it protects your privacy. iOS and iPadOS are designed to take advantage of the powerful processor built into every iPhone and iPad. So when you search your photos, for instance, all the face recognition and scene and object detection are done completely on your device.”

With Photos, Apple scans and builds the index locally on device, per method (a). If you enable iCloud Photos, it will also sync the index of fingerprints to labels in (b) style so your names, favorites, and key photos match across devices.

Apple’s quite tickled at making this available to you as a dev:

”On-device intelligence: Apple uses machine learning to enhance your experience — and your privacy — by using on-device processing so other people don’t see your data. We’ve used it for on-device image and scene recognition in Photos, predictive text in keyboards, and more. For example, the A13 Bionic chip and the Neural Engine in iPhone can recognize patterns, make predictions, and learn from experience, similar to the way you do. So your device can create personalized experiences without having to analyze personal information on Apple servers. Developers can use our frameworks, such as Create ML and Core ML, to create powerful new app experiences that don’t require your data to leave your device. That means apps can analyze user sentiment, classify scenes, translate text, recognize handwriting, predict text, tag music, and more without putting your privacy at risk.”
That's not what he said. He said on average women do not prefer the field, and optimizing to change that observable fact is a fool's errand.

I don't have an opinion on whether he's right or wrong but I don't think he shouldn't be able to make that argument...
Yes, using less energy is better, dirty or not.

Reducing our dependency on cars also has many other benefits: fewer traffic accidents; reduced parking requirements means more space for people in cities; less sound pollution, which is better for our bodies and for our ecosystems in and around cities; lessen the cost of living by no longer requiring a $15,000 machine as a prerequisite to having a job; increased density means increased foot traffic to small businesses, encouraging healthy competition; increased density can (has the potential to) mean a stronger, more connected community, less segregated by wealth etc. etc. etc.
So... this is typical of the way this argument goes. Many HN readers are essentially "fellow travellers" with Damore. And you agree with him, and with that whitepaper thing he wrote.

But here's the thing: every time this comes up, this is framed, as you do, as a failure of "everyone else" (meaning left-leaning general folks, often women themselves) failing to understand the truth of what he wrote. But what you don't do is actually defend what he wrote.

And that's because what he wrote was really kinda vile. Indeed he didn't say "Women can't be good engineers". He said: "Women at Google aren't good engineers", which is quite frankly no less offensive. Now, sure, sure, his point was that this was because Google's diversity policies were incorrectly boosting these candidates. But that doesn't change what he said.

So... I don't see that the "female engineer" you were talking to really had it that wrong. You're focused on what to her was a minor fact, and while you seem to be oblivious as to why she might find the "correct" interpretation offensive too...

... you aren't. Because you know it's not really that defensible either and don't want to be held to account for Damore's opinions yourself. So you content yourself with what the rest of us view as nitpicking.
> Even theorizing biologic differences exist makes you a sexist.

Eggs vs sperm -- plumbing aside -- is a fundamental biologic difference. And bringing a pregnancy to term, and delivering without bleeding out, sort of requires a uterus.

But of course, it's gotta stop there.

Edit: If someone wants to explain away such differences, I'd love to see the argument.
There are some decent, simple, partial solutions. For example, it would be a good start to issue cryptographic paper receipts. If voting by mail, that means you get a receipt in the mail. If voting by machine, you get a receipt printed out.

When the election is over, you should be able to use your receipt to verify that your vote was counted.
Avoid HN, Reddit, Facebook, twitter and other distractions during working hours.
The virus needs to be studied in further detail before we haphazardly aim for herd immunity. There is still no proof that the immunity gained from it, lasts more than a few months.
Imagine the fall out if a government pushes for herd immunity, knowingly sacrificing 5-10% of the population, and it turns out that country gets wave after wave of fatalities due to the herd not having a lasting immunity.
Learn Unix power tools, study their options (`man` is your friend) -- and use pipes to combine their powers.
Many experts were saying a million deaths in the us.
any history book by Ben MacIntyre is a terrific read. He has written sseveral about WWII: I've read Agent Zig-Zag and Operation Mincemeat. He also wrote a good book about the spy Kim Phiulby, A Spy Among Friends.
Another great book about WWII is Citizens of London by Lynne Olson.
One of the best books I've read recently is Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads that fills in the gaps of history for Westerners. Jaw-dropping details on almost every page--such as the real meaning of the Italian greeting ciao ("I am your slave") because Italian ports were the ceneter of the Roaman slave trade--they had to import 450,000-500,000 per year to keep the empire humming...and the origin of the word slave from the Slavs who were captured by the red-haired Vikings as they moved south...knowns as the Russes, who became known as the Russians..

some others--
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
anything by Erik Larson but especially Isaac's Storm (about the Galveston hurricane of 1900) and In the Garden of Beasts (about the American ambassort to 1930s Nazi Germany)
Travels with Herodotus and Shah of Shas by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum
Parisians by Graham Robb
> not to mention the cost will probably be determined by a multitude of factors,

yes of course, but i included the big ones.

>You're not counting the RD cost that needs to be recouped.

Majority will be sunk costs by the time anyone is making money. But obviously, they will charge what the market will bear - but the margin improvement vs driven vehicles will be very significant.

The first robotaxi fleet be able to put any driver-based taxi company out of business simply by undercutting on price for as long as it takes. The only enemy is time to build that base - but the first company to successfully bring a robotaxi to market will necessarily have absurdly deep pockets because they invested the R&D necessary to build something that drives itself. If someone has a robotaxi that isn't Uber, Uber is going to be in very big trouble.

Also, I'm not really invested because I don't care - but it's really hard to overestimate the implications this has to the cost of (non-mass) transportation.
I always figured that Java folks were

- paid per class

- sought to reduce the number of executable lines per class to 1.
I'm no fan of totalitarian governments, but blaming America's problems with coronavirus on China seems like a reach to me - we had two months warning just from watching what happened in China and our government did literally no preparation during that time. I suspect if we'd had longer warning we would have just spent longer doing nothing.
The kiosk isn't the productivity increase. The app I order 10 minutes before I get there and the foods already finished is.
You said:

> My point is that it is easier to cheat undetectably the more indirection you introduce into the process.

It's not just "any" safeguards. It's existing safeguards that work well at the level of indirection that "vote by mail" represents. Even with ballot pickup.
You are making assumptions about people that you shouldn’t - that’s my point. I was working full time as a Software Engineer and was a new father while I was going to school. My ability to learn outside of the school’s curriculum was limited. The school did not emphasize this area of CS. I don’t expect my professor to hold my hand, but I do expect the school to establish a challenging curriculum.
Poster said "death rate" not number of deaths.
I understood you fine. You want to call the obvious connection between racism and endemic violence "theory" and I'm pointing out that that's it's not theoretical at all.

I mean, think about it:

> the relative prevalence of (especially violent) crime in American minority communities as compared to white communities

That obviously has something to do with the fact that a lot of folks living in "American minority communities" can't call the cops for help, eh?
www.spacedaily.com

Following them since 14 years. Amazing source of news about latest advancements in space (both civil and military use).
That is a daily reality for many people. It's not surprising that many of us are privileged enough to not know, but it is kind of sad.
Maybe Trump Jr ;)
Another one: "この先生きのこるには", which should be broken up at "この先/生きのこるには" to mean "To keep surviving going forward", but since 先生 (teacher) is such a common word, it jumps at your eyes and turns the sentence into "この先生/きのこるには" which means the nonsense "For this teacher to mushroom(verb)". Usually this doesn't happen because the "survive" part is written with more kanji as 生き残る, but here it is written in hiragana to make the きのこ(mushroom) part visible and further mess with lexing.

In both cases, some liberties have been taken with notation to intentionally encourage silly mis-readings; It happens much less often in ordinary text.
did exactly this
OP mentions vim, so I want to add to this that I use vimwiki for this purpose: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
The hyperlink in the section you're quoting points to a Vox article that aims to address that very question. It explains that passenger vehicles are responsible for a major portion of California's emissions and the switch to EVs is not happening anywhere near fast enough to meet the desired reduction targets.
Not an employee but a customer for about 16 years. Not sure their front end ever led the market and they’re far from flawless. But they’re one of a very small number of ethical outfits in a very scummy industry.
She's not wrong.

He shared a manifesto about gender differences in the workplace. In it, he calls women neurotic.

Whether people's read on the manifesto is reductive of his overall argument isn't the point.

He showed a serious lack of judgement writing and posting that in his workplace. He should not have played the part of expert gender/psychology expert. A researcher he cites specifically disagrees with his takeaways.

There are productive ways to have these kinds of conversations, he chose to go to the opposite wrong end of that spectrum.

Women have enough BS to deal with in tech, the last thing they need is a tech bro mis-using uncertain psych research to justify telling them they should find more appropriate roles.
In my notes I had this called "site relative" following this Stack Exchange post: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/71376/12374

But you're right; relative by itself would refer to relative to the current location. Error on my part in not being specific enough. In retrospect "site relative" is not good terminology.
"Women at Google aren't good engineers"

You quote this, which isn't a quote. Feel free to draw out the passages of his memo where this is explicitly or implicitly stated.
Uber has another problem I haven't seen mentioned. Many drivers have quit (for fear of getting sick I presume.) I know this because I drive for them (I like it) and the number of long drives to do a pickup for a short ride is way up, indicating there are no drivers nearby. I'm not going to drive 25 minutes to make $5, so I decline and the customer doesn't get a ride, I assume. If Uber wants drivers to come back they need to do more for driver safety. A really high quality mask would be a start.
Childhood vaccinations plunge since Covid-19 pandemic started, CDC says
Off the cuff, that sounds a lot like Knockout.

https://knockoutjs.com/
Many peaceful countries have military satellites that do earth observation by optical and radar. It's not an offensive technology.

I'm pretty sure Mexico isn't out there developing ballistic missiles and then selling them to other countries in violation of a treaty Mexico signed. That's the actual problem with this particular launch.
> Write your own text editor.

This is what a lot of us Emacs users do, with the advantage that we have a huge base to start from.
ha, I do this too, thought I was the only one
I would love to know more about the kind of math involved in this.
Of course I want voter turnout to be high. But I’m skeptical of any solution that lowers the scalability barrier to voter fraud. Ballot harvesting does that.

Without ballot harvesting, voter fraud is difficult to scale. It requires coordination among large groups of malicious actors. But if you allow individuals to submit ballots in bulk, the scalability problem is reduced such that one bad actor can have an outsized effect on the fairness of the election.

While I agree that increasing voter turnout is a noble goal, I do not agree it should be achieved “at all costs.” Everyone should vote, but everyone who does vote must know that their vote was counted, and that it was counted accurately. And nobody who did not vote should have a vote counted in their name. Ballot harvesting, IMO, seems to increase the difficulty of meeting these requirements of fairness.
> Any progress is better than none. Progress in the wrong direction at least provides education as to the correct direction.

I definitely agree that, if you're going to make 'progress' in the wrong direction, then you might as well learn from it; but I don't think that means that it's better to go in the wrong direction than to stay still.
It has occurred to me in the past that frameworks are often just a way of publicizing a pattern, and that there could be room for something like "open source patterns" that people could reach for and implement themselves without getting locked into an actual dependency and loading a bunch of extra code. That sounds kind of like what you're suggesting.
That did not seem anywhere near a balanced argument at all.

Is skepticism permissible? Do individuals retain any agency and responsibility for balancing risk on their own?

Covid-1984, indeed.
The thing is that your average city council voting LA resident doesn't want to use trains. They were sold on a "vision" of lifestyle where they have a personal plot, personal vehicle for themselves, and use that everywhere. They see the congestion of LA and think the city needs more roads, not more transit.

This also inspires the pandemic of NIMBYism that keeps zoning so ostentatious. Residents of most cities don't want to live in a proper 21st century city - they want it all, a personal separated residence, the ability to go anywhere they want whenever they want via personal car, but also immediate and local access to arts, entertainment, and workplaces while not actually living near any of those because they don't want the people around them.

Its generally just not going to go away until the current populations of these cities age out of them. Its a cultural identifier hallmark now that you can't try to displace with facts and data.
Being at risk and rich is way safer than being poor and nominally healthy. Those of us with more economic power have many ways to mitigate our risk without losing our livelihoods, but the poor work in jobs that require exposure. With or without public health care, the rich have less skin in the game.
> One thing in that Drucker book that always stands out to me is he says something like: You are in charge to make the hard decisions. The easy decisions make themselves.

It sounds like that Perl slogan that I've always liked: making easy things easy, and hard things possible. I've never thought of that as applying to management, but it seems to work there, too.
I have Firefox and works without a problem for me.
Early detection of Twitter trends explained
Boston Dynamics RoboDogs Remind Visitors of Safe Distancing Rules at Public Park
Same realization here, but from JavaScript to Rust. I'm still a bit more productive in JavaScript but I now regard it as technical debt to be rewritten in TypeScript/Rust as soon as possible.
Stop building cities around cars. Create pedestrian only zones.

Another thought: I've always seen public transport as lagging behind the people's needs in the west, as opposed to how it is in China, Korea, Taiwan, HK, etc. (Japan is one extreme)
the introduction should contain screenshots.