skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's my understanding is that Google X is a marketing / PR platform for Google. Google X doesn't ever need to actually produce anything or create any real-world value because their value is in the PR they generate for Google - keeping them positioned through press as a technology company vs. the largest advertising company in the world. Many of the Google X projects are acquisitions/acquihires purchased to continue the narrative. It's why they never ship products and can't get anything out the door. If this works - it'll be one of the first after billions invested. They've done an excellent job I would say.
The whole edifice is corrupt and has wasted and redistributed hundreds of billions, but the issue we should care about is one guy joining a shitty lobby group.

All right, let's watch this closely... not
You seem to want to retain your bias.
Unrelated, but I could have sworn foxnews.com domain was shadow banned on HN? Not trying to troll at all, just honestly thought so.
As a former relatively active amateur mycologist, the question we hated hearing the most from non-mycologists was "is it edible?"

Can't we be interested in fungi just for the sake of being interested? Why do fungi have to serve a purpose for most people in order to be interesting to them?
If it makes you feel any better, I also read that book... 20 years ago? Regardless, thanks!
Would be interesting to see Slack subscribe to MS Teams as an internal fail over and vice-versa
FBI accidentally reveals Saudi official suspected of supporting 9/11 hijackers
> You have voluntarily restricted your own freedoms

No, I've exercised my own freedom to choose what's best for me.

> I’m not sure what we’re arguing about.

First, you made an obviously wrong factual claim, so I called you on it. It is not true that "everyone’s choices impact everyone else in serious, often fatal, ways".

Second, this wrong factual claim is not harmless, because, as you yourself note, it is being used as justification for the government to exercise draconian powers to restrict everyone's freedom. The government cannot be trusted to exercise such powers responsibly. No government can, because governments are run by humans, and no humans can be trusted with that much power over other humans. That was supposed to be the key lesson that got the United States of America started as an independent country, but we seem to have forgotten it.
Actually, you should avoid using vacuum full at all. What that operation does is creating a new table with contents of an old table then deleting the old one. This operation is also requesting an exclusive lock, so any write query will cause lockup.

Another problem is that vacuum full compacts the database, it reduces database size on disk, but doesn't mean it makes database faster, often it might actually reduce performance.

Vacuum full might be useful in scenarios where you want to reclaim space, because autovacuum was not tuned correctly and tables get out of hand, if you need to run vacuum full frequently you should tune autovacuum to run more frequently.
So, they should be doing things for free to get “exposure”?
>But are your features really sentient self-symbols, or are they just mechanically derived by-products - like reflection in a computer language, taken up a level?

Why couldn't we apply the concept to our self?

Self awareness is one commonly believed description for consciousness. Going off of that, we become self aware in three primary ways: 1) We're told about us by our parents at a young age, before the age of one. 2) We observe our selves in the environment often influencing the environment, from looking in a mirror, to social interaction. 3) We get meta about a series of things (body+mind) and self awareness arises from that generalized intelligence.

Though, you could argue that #3 may not be enough alone to create self awareness and ultimately #2 is required.
I just ordered a couple of grow kits from you. Cheers!
You absolutely do not need all that red tape to use a script written for a well-known program. The IT guy just didn't care to spend the teensiest mental energy to save people an enormous amount of work. "No" is the easiest, safest call possible, not a hard call at all. People like him should be shamed.
What are you talking about? It's just a sideeffect of how unemployment + stimulus money was doled out (and how they're treated for tax purposes)
It's a classic example of Goodhart's Law.

Setting a goal of "Zero or Near" down times doesn't necessarily mean less down times, but it usually does mean politics, shell games and 'clever' bookkeeping by middle and lower management, all of which is clearly visible to the rank and file.

Before you had down times and customers wondering if they could trust you. After a goal of "Zero or Near", you still have "down times", and you still have customers wondering if they can trust you while they stare at a status page is clearly lying to them.

But now you have employees watching their managers lying to their bosses, and wondering why they shouldn't do the same. You have a fall in morale, because those pretty numbers usually come at the expense of the things on the "Our Values" page. But to the Suits the graphs look better, and that's the important bit.

This isn't how is always is or always goes, but I've seen it enough.
"Bash for Windows" is just WSL2 (forget WSL1 existed, as a proof of concept market validator it was good, but it has real issues because bridging NT -> Linux syscalls is hard.).

It's not a native Bash experience but it's pretty close. I say "not native" because it's actually running a VM under the hood and bridging the file systems via 9P network protocol.

I know people who are using it and love it. I have not switched yet, but I am definitely going to investigate it at some point.
Ask HN: Are there investors interested in the Middle East?
I am a founder of a promising startup of chatbot for sellers on facebook pages.

I am from Egypt, and my target market is mainly the middle east.

Can I find U.S. investors who are interested in investing in my startup?
And where can I find them?
When I got my statistics degree, a significant amount of time was spent in early classes demonstrating how non-intuitive statistical thinking can be. This, of course, is probably the most memorable example. Another fun one was a TED talk about Peter Donnelly on how juries get fooled that included a bunch of similar examples: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_donnelly_how_juries_are_fool...
Neiman Marcus creditor calls for deal with Saks Fifth Avenue
Try deploying this at scale in a supermarket or warehouse...
I really need to look at Hammerspoon, thanks for the pointer.

Talking about automation, I use BetterTouchTool[1] to give me a few useful touch bar icons:

- Speaker and headphone buttons (using switchaudio-osx[2])

- Start meeting that starts a Zoom call and adds the link to my clipboard

- Write email that gives me a new blank email (and makes it visible)

[1] https://folivora.ai/

[2] https://github.com/deweller/switchaudio-osx
Re: Haskell, not quite as practical as the Go tour but I think the learning curve is similar: http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
Analyzing Dark Crystal RAT, a C# backdoor
You can get an ERV (energy-recovering ventilator) with a good filter and install in your exterior wall/window. Just be careful not to block a window that serves as a fire exit.
It was "banned" because they did not register the offering, not because the "people did not want the gold for themselves", in their childish analogy.
That assumes they want to go 0-100 in an instant, instead of building out a fleet as a region becomes available. Regulation is still a major hurdle.

Cars will quickly start paying off, even if each car only pulls in 10 rides of $10 each every day, it'll probably pay for itself in a year.
Push-to-Talk, but works at Pulseaudio level, so it works on all apps at once. It has a single global "walkie-talkie button" that mutes and unmutes the microphone (I use the Windows key).

Very useful for remote work:

- you can type on mechanical keyboards during calls without annoying your co-workers

- if you move away from your computer for a while, the microphone will be muted, so you avoid background noise and embarrassing situations

- if you un-mute the microphone without touching the trigger key, it will remain un-muted. In case you want to have longer conversations. Touching the trigger key will mute it again
"Useful" as long as you don't care about battery life, memory usage, taking advantage of features of the host platform, or the native UI.

As an end user why do I care about "openness"? If I pay a premium for my platform, why would I want second rate cross platform software?
- Yes

- Yes
For those unfamiliar with the quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbE8E1ez97M
Musk doesn't need to worry about opening his factory. I, for one, will NOT be buying any new Tesla cars while this situation is going on and he is putting the lives of his employees at risk. Remember, luxury cars are not essential products.
Time zones are a huge problem! I can't connect. It's so taxing to find a time that works!
You're right that I was a bit rude, so I am sorry.

> My country curriculum introduces linear algebra through group theory and vector spaces. Matrices come later.

The OPs referring to an intellectually totally different approach to Linear Algebra. One coming firmly out of pure mathematics. Whereas Strang's notion that one should teach matrices first is aimed at students who are probably never going to conceptualize linear algebra in terms of abstract vector spaces and linear operations on them. So, I do still take issue with what you wrote. "Different strokes for different folks" really doesn't cut it here, IMO. Being tendentious, I'm tempted to say it's more like "If you're happy getting practical calculations right but never really understanding what mathematicians mean by linear algebra then Strang's approach might be OK for you." But the point is that the approach to linear algebra that the OP referred to, versus Strang's, are not just equally valid alternatives and whichever one works for you is the best by definition. They are routes to two different places.
Seconded. It's an awesome movie! And I'm not normally a Bollywood fan.
You visit gratefulness.io the most every week!? I'm the creator of Gratefulness and that's incredible!! It's crazy that our small little thing on the corner of the internet is something you use so much.

Thanks so much for the support!!
It was useful for me to understand Linux under the hood (dataflow in memory, syscalls, etc) to help pass SRE interviews. I'm sure (hope?) the knowledge will come handy at some point when debugging some nasty low level bugs.

I probably only read 15% of it to supplement my on-the-job Linux experience.
Australian Government Open Sources COVIDSafe Contact Tracing App
> That said some of my favorite people to work with (smart, easy to work with) are Indian. It's really a shame that the issues affect perception of everybody. It's a good reminder to me not to judge a book by it's cover, metaphorically speaking.

I don't even know why race or color would even matter when it comes to considering one's capability to do some engineering job. At the end of the day just work with whoever can get the job done.
> It seems weird to expect someone with no programming training (an IT guy) to either build or sign off on something they have no understanding of.

Once again, if I wrote my own Python script they would not be involved, and my Python script is as error prone as using AHK.

Think of AHK as similar to a compiler + linker. By rejecting AHK because someone can write a program that could screw things up, you might as well just prevent people from writing scripts and compiling programs.

> I'm not saying a bunch of people typing are error prone, if that's your take on my post. I just think that there's a VERY different set of risks (and therefore mitigations) between a distributed manual process and a large scale automated one.

You've essentially argued that IT should oppose any automation that is not thoroughly tested. And how will they determine how well it is tested? Do they have those skills?

Where I work, IT is more concerned about security (viruses, theft, etc), licensing, and things that can break the machine. They don't prevent people from using APIs to mass edit databases as long as you do it to data you own or have permission from the owner. They don't own the data, so you're free to screw it up if you're careless. Ensuring my program is bug free and well tested is the job of my team/org/data owners, not IT.

You're merely pointing out that this IT person has been given more power than his skills warrant.
Or the alternative is not to have run bloated cross platform apps and run native apps....

Why would you think React Native would be less bloated than native apps?
Hah, I just learned GitHub is using my Go package to access the GitHub GraphQL API v4 in this CLI. That’s neat.

[1] https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/ad3a5903b2d327c1da8959708ef9...
IBM already bought it
More accurately, the typeset output has ”treat like alike” instead of “treat like alike”, which suggests that the TeX input (most likely) had "treat like alike" instead of ``treat like alike?''. Some historical context that led to features like this (or gotchas, today) in TeX and other systems of the time is here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
> Unfortunately, this unnecessary and overreaching regulation, issued under the guise of the current emergency, will only lead to confusion and hurt restaurants and delivery workers...

How will this change lead to confusion?
As someone who originally is from the Rust Belt (Pittsburgh), ended up moving to LA, then SF, then NYC, then Austin: one reason is that VCs congregate in the valley and need to make board meetings. I did a startup in Pittsburgh (though it’s been 11 years...) and you just don’t get the same opportunity to raise.

Another is that folks jump between companies often, and don’t want to move to do it. If you want to attract talent from a FAANG, the people who work there are probably already in these areas and won’t want to move.

I love my hometown dearly but I spent most of my life there. I’d rather be elsewhere.
> two of the surfers were internationally trained lifeguards that had worked in Australia.

Wow. That adds a bit of an extra dimension. What a sad event.

> “They were busy training," he said Tuesday. "They then disappeared under the foam like it was some sort of avalanche.”

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I'm having trouble finding it now, but there's a paper that studied white collar promotions as a factor of how physically close the promoted subordinate sat to their manager. It was pretty correlated.

I wonder how that effect virtualizes.
Debugging IE11 with VirtualBox
Not sure why you're being downvoted; this is true in my experience as well.

Hell, I've been (a software developer) in SV for 16 years now and I hadn't heard of the "Staff" title until a few years ago.
Let’s Be Friends: Comfort Viewing and the Parasocial
well, I made this experiment cause I didn't believed that you would have more chance switching doors. Couldn't wrap my head around the idea...
Web workers launched from the renderer work fairly well if you just need compute. I think I've also seen some apps add an additional BrowserWindow that's never displayed onscreen, although that will increase your memory overhead.
The Twitter post you link to says "Tell @elonmusk to close his factory until health experts say it's safe."

That is not an anti-climate-change statement.
We will see how things play out, but WFH success is not guaranteed. Managing remote workers requires different skills which most managers today do not have.

For now, most big companies have enough cash and are primarily focusing on making sure workers are not going crazy rather than on turning out new software. Give it another 3-4 months though and those companies will have to pivot back to real development which may be harder than they expect if WFH is still practiced en masse. My 2c.
Just not fair /s

More important as Uber tries to monopolize the space by buying GrubHub. These delivery companies are going to encourage fly-by-night/cloud kitchen operators to increase their margins and reduce prices on the already hurting restaurants. Wish a not-for-profit platform for delivery existed that didn't squeeze the maker or the delivery driver.
But Gary, Indiana has a lot more room. In addition, the new well-off people will need coffee, and cars, and groceries, and be able to pay for them. This will rejuvenate other jobs. With more people with money who can now afford tickets and buy merchandise, maybe more bands will start playing in Gary, Indiana, improving the music scene. With more people with more disposable income, maybe some of them will be interested in local artwork. Now artists can move and live in Gary, Indiana.

In addition, well-off people are interested in making sure their kids get a good education. So maybe they start pushing the city to improve public education. In addition, the increased home values and increased businesses are likely to result in greater increase in tax revenue, allowing more money to go to education.

And the nice part is that Gary, Indiana got these benefits without having to try to bribe a large corporation to open an office with tax giveaways.

You may or may not have more inequality, but I would argue that the people in Gary would be better off.
how many times did you play?
> The higher a person’s salary, the most likely they are to be able to work from home

and

> employees unable to work from home, such as restaurant servers, personal trainers or manufacturing workers, may be laid off temporarily or permanently, a burden that seems to be falling disproportionately on low-income workers.

People with higher salaries are more likely to be able to still work, whereas people with lower salaries in different sectors are far more likely to have been laid off due to the physical nature of the job. Hence poor people have been disproportionately hit, increasing income inequality.
You mean the label is a boolean "is this action reasonable"? That sounds worse than just recording all driver's input (which itself is useless afaik).
For anyone curious, because Gemini is relatively new and kind of has flown under the radar:

### 1.1 What is Gemini?

Gemini is a new application-level internet protocol for the
distribution of arbitrary files, with some special consideration for
serving a lightweight hypertext format which facilitates linking
between files.

Gemini is intended to be simple, but not necessarily as simple as
possible. Instead, the design strives to maximise its "power to
weight ratio", while keeping its weight within "acceptable" limits.
Gemini is also intended to be very privacy conscious.

You may think of Gemini as "the web, stripped right back to its
essence" or as "Gopher, souped up and modernised a little", depending
upon your perspective.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.txt

Gopher and finger should be obvious, but just in case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
Essentially. All of these coins have no real world use and everyone knows it, they just think they will the ones profiting on other idiots who buy it at the end.
I think the jobs would go to the most capable and there are capable people everywhere, but not all are willing to relocate to such places ad California or New York. You do see a lot more smart people in these areas because this is where they were all attracted to like magnets by high paying jobs. If a bit less high paying jobs become available no matter where one lives how many people would be willing to relocate?

I think the most absurd thing that is happening is the high rents and low quality living standards that people are putting up with because of the companies that they need to relocate for. And the havoc they produce for the needed locals who can’t afford to live where they have been working all along.

If people in Gary Indiana get these jobs then the local economy would go up for the rest of the people.
> cannot turn around updates at the drop of a dime when Apple decides to give them little notice

Which audio software developers are you talking about ?

The ones that are given a chance in June each year to preview the latest OS like all other devs, but decide to turn a blind eye while most indie devs get to work and release steady updates over the summer ?

And then, when asked in September if they're gonna be ready on day 1, reply "you know, there's not even a release date for this new OS thing yet". And then, when the new OS drops in October like clockwork, e-mail their entire user base with "OMG DON'T UPGRADE ! THEY DROPPED THIS BOMB ON US, WOW, TOTALLY UNEXPECTED, HONESTLY ! We'll check this out and let you know maybe, in the meantime DON'T UPGRADE !! APPLE BROKE STUFF AGAIN, DAMN APPLE!". And then, in December or January if you're lucky (or never), finally release a compatible version. Rinse & repeat for year n+1.

Or, maybe you're talking about those audio software developers that were given "only" 2 years notice that, ELEVEN years after macOS 10.6 introduced 64-bit support, it was finally becoming mandatory in Catalina. But they still decided to wait until it was released to believe it, like rabbits in headlights. Tough...

Seriously, audio software developers are the worst. They only get away with this behavior each year because musicians are some the most conservative and risk-averse userbase you can have. If you go to forums like Gearslutz.com, you'll find people asking you in 2020 if it's now safe to upgrade to macOS Sierra, or how to downgrade a brand new MBP to 10.13 because they don't "trust" the new stuff. It's utterly depressing.
Flagging is closer to that than voting is

Maybe I'm a terrible person but the experiment this suggests to me is a ranking where only flagging is allowed. A brutal agoge which only the best stories survive.
Apple facing data protection probe in Germany over store temperature checks
Could you elaborate please? Not looking for a debate, just want to understand what you mean by "entirely regressive".
Because humans are pattern matchers. We have to strive to eliminate or reduce conscience and subconscious biases to ensure fairness.

I know intelligent and successful people who would never take financial advice from someone with a beard for example.

Edit: maybe an interesting example. I grew up around smart woman and girls. From observation, I “knew” women were smarter than men. I was in college before I heard that some thought that woman were not suited for math. I couldn’t even process that. But people see patterns and extrapolate based on their observations and what they hear, and often start to believe something that does not exist.
Original article: https://cires.colorado.edu/news/continued-co2-emissions-will...
I find the Fox article to be rather short, so have another link with links to more details and news if you're interested in what happened: https://nltimes.nl/2020/05/12/rescuers-find-fifth-dead-body-...
The way this picture was shot (like tilt-shift) makes it look like a miniature scale model.

https://twitter.com/regio15/status/1260070967822503936/photo...
Totally! Simulation is a great way of learning this stuff. I spent a lot of time in R doing similar things over the years.
Absolutely agree that their local economy would get better.
yeas, I wrote this code at least 10 years ago because I didn't believed statistics. I had to see for my self. It was a great exercise for both areas, code and probability.
I don't see how this isn't still necessary.
If anyone is curious about their deployment process https://slack.engineering/deploys-at-slack-cd0d28c61701?gi=e...
Seems hard for a new deployment to cause a global outage since they do a phased deploy. Could be some network glitch causing this issue. We never know until they come up with an update.