skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody know of something similar which doesn't exfiltrate data from my home?
I did that. I dumped my SF job and started traveling the world last November. I just picked a helluva year to start :)
They've raised $3B in 2 months; this round was $750M. The original headline:

"Waymo Adds $750 Million to War Chest as Driverless Cars Prove Tough to Deploy"
> But sometimes, users want to use web browsers on local files

Well, that's just risky computer usage. I'd think it's a reasonable compromise, if users would copy files into a specific up/download folder for the web browser to access. Such can be enforced with, e.g. firejail.
Clearly this is slightly inconvenient, but security has always been at odds with convenience and always will be.
There is so much joy in picking up an unknown book from an unknown author in an actual bookshop, then reading it and discovering that it’s So Good, that Amazon just cannot match.

One of the things I really miss of my Italian youth is having tons of quality bookshops at every corner. England outside London is sorely lacking in that respect.
You are right about the US being scared shirtless about communism, though I'm not convinced labour rights etc were as a direct result.

Also look at all the damage the US did to other societies in the name of preventing "red danger" - the repercussions of which are still being felt in some countries.
Is that a common thing in the tech world? Regardless, I'm not sure what that has to do with the name of the degree one got.
yeah, Finneas uses Logic Pro
This was my favorite part about Ember, and what I miss the most.

The Ember team is one of the least dogmatic teams that I have come across, and has been willing to change their entire strategy when presented with a better idea (while providing a well defined and fairly convenient upgrade path).

I still remember when React first came out, and showed how one way binding was so much better than 2 way bindings, and the Ember team was able to quickly switch to this new philosophy via DDAU, while still providing an easy upgrade path for our code. And all this was before 1.0 if I remember correctly.
I just want the cost on the screen to be a reflection of the actual costs to bring food to my door. Let me make the judgement on whether I want to pay the delivery surcharge. Don’t obfuscate the true cost and silently punish the restaurants.

I think the only reason this model works is because people don’t actually know what is happening. I think if people knew GrubHub was running restaurants out of business they would consider alternative options.
Can anyone explain why does Waymo need to raise any money? Doesn't Alphabet have practically infinite pockets? If they are confident of Waymo, why would they want to share the profits with anyone else ever?

Even if Alphabet was reluctant to invest their own profits, can't they borrow cheaply too?
Video conferencing is pretty bad IME. I think that all too many companies view Slack as an acceptable option for communication most of the time, and I think that's an extremely inhibiting factor for most remote work. I think some innovation around the tools we use for remote work would be great, fwiw.
50,000 deaths so far in the UK's coronavirus epidemic
Empathetic listening, writing, and business accounting!
To make matters far worse, the government subsidizes low-wage employers with the income based social programs in place, and tampers with supply to keep wages in check.

We have nothing close to a free market for labor. Unfortunately, it's called a free market, and so people think the market is ineffective.

Construction was a high paying job until unrestricted labor drove down wages. (Unenforced labor laws meant contractors hiring illegal workers could undercut bids. No payroll taxes, no workman's comp insurance, no chance of legal companies competing.)

Fair wages depend on fair markets, and the labor market at the lower income end of the spectrum is anything but fair.
Ubuntu's Server Installer Leaked Encrypted Storage Passphrase to Its Log
They gradually removed[0] the peer to peer operation because it sucked - quality was bad, calls dropped, outages, bad mobile support.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/skype...
Pure trolling. Disregard.
I highly recommend that people read the full SEC complaint: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-2...

It's pretty obvious that Telegram was simply planning to pump and then dump a bunch of worthless tokens on retail investors.
If you liked Ishmael, I recommend reading The Story of B. Its subject is very similar to Ishmael but I feel that it does a better job of portraying how the us vs them is woven into the very fabric of civilization. It's also a very entertaining read.
Also on the blog (WSJ article has more details):
https://blog.waymo.com/2020/03/waymo-raises-first-external-i...
As you move up the chain in global companies such as Twitter, it becomes more likely that you'll have a superior or direct report based in a different location than you, and this has been true for years. The "people person" executive theory only holds for companies that do not already have a substantial number of teams that are not all located in the same place.
> Out of the 700+ in my graduating class of Computer Science, less than 70-80 are still associated with computers in some for or manner

'700+ graduating class' sounds more like a fraudulent diploma mill than a Tier 2/3 college.

Actual Computer Science and Computer Engineering grads from Indian Tier 1/2/3 colleges have no problem finding jobs.
Testing is fun. But what do you do then? Open the windows? Remove the cars from the freeway down the street?
"Book Lack in Ongar" is my favourite.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/26/books.guardian...
I wish more AAA games industry designers recognized this about a lot of players.
While I agree with the sentiment, if people had the ability to go pick up their own orders they wouldn't be using delivery services in the first place. Remember that it's completely optional for the restaurant to even support it.
I agree that books 3-4 are pretty slow and uninteresting, but one of the major aspects of Dune is the rise and fall of tyrants, and our obsession for saviours, which only really shines in the Heretics/Chapterhouse books, where the empire really falls.

It's difficult not to see modern politics in that light afterwards, with its cult around personalities rather than ideas.
I notice two things about this:

1. The language contains so many obscure words that the intent is unclear. I personally think that if you cannot convey your ideas in simple language you have failed at communication. That goes for philosophers, mathematicians and engineers (of which I am one).

2. There seems to be an unstated assumption the reality we construct, examples including culture and society, are somehow less meaningful or less real than... the real world. But he does not clearly define what this "real world" is. And he's using the term "real" in odd enough ways, that I'm not sure what was meant. Perhaps the exploration of this assumption is what the book is driving at. I would find that a fascinating discussing, if it wasn't couched in such mystical sounding language.

Disclaimer: I have not read the book, only the article.
姜汁撞奶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_milk_curd
Taleb is a good talker but not as smart as he thinks he is. (About halfway through "Black Swan" he starts taking potshots at scientists about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.)

Anyhow, a "Black swan event" is NOT an "event with small probability but massive impact", that's a common misconception.

A BSE is an event that, before it occurs no one credits it ("There are no black swans." because no one (in Europe) had ever seen one until they went to Australia (IIRC)), and after it occurs everyone post-rationalizes it.

There are lost of events "with small probability but massive impact": people win the lottery every day.

It's the ones we ignore, both before and after, that count as Black Swan Events.
Is this really breaking news? Tons of tech companies allow this. If anything it's news that they didn't allow it before.
That's the usual argument, and honestly I'm not even gonna put a lot of effort into arguing. People work differently, fine, it's your XP, sorry it's not working that well for you.

My XP is that remote communication is different, seem to take longer, but is also far superior. When you're forced to communicate via documents, diagrams, chat, etc you put more effort into your content. You try to anticipate questions to avoid wasting a few round trips. It forces you to think more about what you're saying, it forces you to think about edge cases, specific details, etc.
The explicit, declarative model, using tools that don't need a ton of other things deployed.

Ideally the same tool can be run locally and in CI (with the same invocation commands) so that an Op can run tests locally, and even see the potential diff, before putting it up for review.

The advantage of this approach is you can see a diff, and use standard tooling like git / pr reviews to approve changes in day to day, and when the world is on fire, someone can break the glass and run it locally.

Never underestimate the value of peer review on a change to the infra - there is a reason things like ITIL exist, and we should learn from them.
Please no, I've worked for a long time to finally put myself in a marketable position for FAANG and other west coast companies. It'd be hella disappointing to miss out now.
I take well known lists (e.g. Gates') with a grain of salt, but cross referencing with personal recommendations has worked well. I ended up getting a copy of Stoner after it came up a few times in as many weeks, so it was handy last time I went on vacation.

I also usually search HN for threads like these when I'm looking for things to read. I'm fairly certain that's how I came across Seveneves.
It does from a short sighted, tyrannical, perspective.
I love this online free self-hostable open source collaborative whiteboard: https://wbo.ophir.dev/ Unlike many others, this one is nice and lean and hence works smoothly even on old hardware.
Why do I need either of those things? If I'm going to work from home permanently then whatever computers I need can come with me. Face-to-face meetings are a justification for middle management to exist; remote work due to pandemic is going to lay bare the stupidity of managers and their ranks will be greatly reduced. I predict that the written word is going to make a big comeback.
I've been using duet display for using iPad as an external display for nearly two years.

The main negative outcome of such setup is degrading the battery life of the tablet/phone when used with the cable for better latency.

I think if people use sidecar with USB cable for charging all the time, soon Apple might remove the feature due to battery replacement complaints.
Crises tend to accelerate existing trends. Makes sense to me that a forced quarantine would be the giant straw that breaks the camel’s back.
On the other hand everyone I know who has one (a bloomberg terminal) would readily pay more for it. Can't say that about most news subscriptions.
Name 3 other examples of industries that are routinely paying hazard pay or have otherwise increased wages.
This is only my guess, but it should be so much easier to control and regulate Facebook's product rather than Telegram's, right?
For example Teams and Outlook have terrible search. Documents basically go into a black hole to never be seen again. We need the same search quality we have for web searches.
> bribery aka lobbying

Nope. Lobbying is simply petitioning the government to do things. It can be used for good or evil. All that privacy legislation people like is a result of lobbying by pro-privacy organizations, for example.
Is anyone aware of any work for how to apply differential privacy to language models?

So the main question I have is let's say I'm working with sensitive data like emails or doctors notes. How can I train an ML model that would still learn something useful without leaking private data.

When I say "leak", an example would be I train an RNN on some company data email data and when I feed the RNN "$AMZN" the network would say SELL.

How can I quantify how much the model has learnt and how much privacy has been leaked.
Get an engineering degree.

Save money.

Never take it out until you're ready to retire.
America's health care industry will be recast by the pandemic:winners and losers
https://archive.vn/q7lep
it's very likely because you're experiencing a state of "flow". Those games are great at getting your mind in that state.
It seems silly, but I think one of the biggest reasons to have an all-MacBook shop is the microphones built into the laptops. Their far-field noise cancelling just beats the pants off of any alternative I’ve tried.
Theoretically but that’s just a burueacratic hurdle. Struggling towns would likely build if they knew people would come in but could get stonewalled by local people too. (Don’t let in them city slickers!)

The issue is regulation. And I think it’d be better if we just allowed for taller buildings in some of these areas rather than sprawling out everything. Many people don’t want a SFH with a little yard and are happy with an apartment.
I'm happy to report that we haven't had to lay anyone off and we don't plan on it!

We found that there is still a market for our products, Luna Display[0] and Astropad[1]. Apple's Sidecar has limited features and doesn't support older devices.

For the past year, we've been rewriting our code base in Rust and we are nearing completion (you can read about why we chose Rust[2]) Our codebase previously was Objective-C/C and this kept us tied to the Mac platform.

Now with a solid Rust core we will be bringing both Astropad and Luna Display to the Windows ecosystem, a market that is 10x bigger! We are launching for Windows later this year and if you're interested I encourage you to get on our wait list: https://astropad.com/windows/

We also have a slew of new remote work products in development (we've been a remote team since 2013), but I'm not ready to share details yet ;)

- [0] https://www.lunadisplay.com

- [1] https://www.astropad.com

- [2] https://astropad.com/why-rust/

- [3] https://astropad.com/windows/
The scene that sticks in my mind the most is the neo vs. smiths staff fight scene. Appears to referred to as the burly brawl on youtube.

But, when I saw it I thought it looked bad, and I haven't watched the movie since release. So it's not that it hasn't aged well, at release I remember being thinking it was bad. Going back and watching the clip again I'm ambivalent. Maybe it's supposed to look like that? But it looks like a cartoon. It's a good "looking" scene but about every 5 seconds the character's motion is jarringly strange. Sometimes it's rubbery and haha funny, and I respect that to a degree. Like it's supposed to lighten the mood maybe? But sometimes it is just distracting.
> At around the French one, England had a few.

The USA had one too.
There's lots of communication which is hard to do remote. The water cooler is o e thing. But even in a meeting when presenting something the feedback is limited. When sitting in a room it's simpler to see whether people are following and one should go faster or iterate on a point. Also one can simpler intercept with a question or comment. The text based back channel is limited for that.

(I WFH exclusively for 10+ years and still regularly miss the office for anything which isn't deep down coding, but requires communication)
Maybe the word "lockdown" means something different to you. But in my state (IL), we never had a "lockdown" in any sense of that word.

In retrospect, in particular (to use an example from another area of the USA), the state of NY and NYC did not take COVID-19 seriously. Even while supposedly concerned about the spread of COVID-19, they were returning known-infected people to old folk homes. This was not a lockdown action...

The reasons that the USA response to COVID-19 was X and not Y are a lot more complex than the simple statement "because the administration is incompetent". The full history of how well the USA did (including internal geographic areas vs. others) vs. the rest of the world is still to be written.
In Pokémon the players and monsters only “faint” in a battle when lost
Rowhammer memory attacks close in on the real world
So do people get refunds...?
this is a disingenuous post. The crux of the SEC effort against them is because they created this chain and token during the 2017 gold rush (actually in 2018 but obviously the 2017 bull run is what sparked the interest) and very clearly were trying to cash in. When you create what by all accounts is a security specifically for investment and asset appreciation but don't register it as a security with the SEC, they get a little unhappy. Reading back through some of the articles before this when the SEC intervened Telegram had raised 1.7 billion dollars off this. When you make a few billion off an unregistered security offering, people are going to sit up and take notice.

Regardless of your feelings on the SEC, crypto, et al, it's pretty obvious why the SEC intervened and to see this eventual outcome.
> he's saying ... that that's worth sacrificing poor people's jobs

I'm not sure we read the same comment - I didn't read anything about sacrificing anyone's jobs.
I disagree that this is a likely outcome. For many people, this is a worst of both worlds - still requires all the costs of living within commuting distance of your employer (particularly for SFBA and NYC) and likely shrinks the average size/perks of the office you commute to. Partial remote doesn't seem to solve any problem in a way that is any better than the status quo.
If you plan on working from home full time then invest in a decent camera/microphone. I already had focusrite audio interface for guitar, an XLR mic gives amazing sound, decent interface and will probably get a usb camera (is there an action cam like GoPro that can double as a webcam ?)
LaunchNotes is generally available today
Working from home definitely has its benefits. My wife and I can now, more often than not, look at each other and subtly grin when we are confronted with an absurd tantrum.

Usually these interactions with children raise the blood pressure throughout the day, but having both of us around definitely helps.
Case Study on Dice Molecules
It's not like I'm defending them. Just trying to understand the real reasoning behind this decision.
Go has been by far the worst language for me to deal with dependencies. Java probably being the best, especially if you factor in build times.
There is no situation where those with more resources don't have more resources. The best we can achieve is that each rightfully earns their resources.
Well, I for one don't consider this a satisfying solution (you could argue it does not count as a solution at all). How is the host supposed to evaluate the future? As I said in another comment, for that the host either needs iteration or an oracle, and both of those are missing from the premise of the question. It's like asking riddle where the solution is "Use a time-machine" when no time-machine is mentioned in the riddle: it's indicative of a riddle so weak it's almost an insult.
Eleven paragraphs to say, "I'm taking my ball and going home!"

When the SEC shuts down your unregistered securities offering, saying you saw the project as a literal gold mine is maybe a poor choice of analogy.
As more companies are WFH friendly, the potential employee pool expands massively
5-6 hour differences (e.g. US ET to GMT/CET) mostly work OK. Much more than that and at least one side of the call is going to be inconvenienced.
Still doesn't come close to a dedicated microphone
Kickstarter cut its unlimited/flexible vacation policy because "it's typically not a problem" still can be too much ambiguity:

> "It's always been important to us to ensure that our team is able to enjoy a quality work/life balance," the Kickstarter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. "What we found was that by setting specific parameters around the number of days, there was no question about how much time was appropriate to take from work to engage in personal, creative, and family activities."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/at-kic...
The food rule works for anything, but Detroit.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2774
From wearing COVID-19 masks?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764955

Quote:

> Oxygen concentration inhaled by healthy subjects wearing a surgical mask covering an N95 respirator decreases to about 17%, and the concentration of carbon dioxide increases to about 1.2% - 3% in a short period of light work (2-3). Although participants did not show any obvious changes in physical function and did not have any discomfort ratings, the average carbon dioxide concentration inhaled was far higher than the limit of 0.1% of indoor carbon dioxide concentration in many countries. With prolonged mask wearing, untoward reactions may gradually appear. In another long-term study, after wearing an N95 mask for 12 hours the CO2 concentration of subjects increased to 41.0 mmHg, far higher than the baseline value of 32.4mm Hg at the beginning of the test (4). The subjects mainly reported headache, dizziness, feeling tired and communication obstacles. In real life, the situations and time of wearing masks are much longer than the above experimental research settings.
this, the best office I worked at was in a Large room where me and 4 other engineers sat in an open office layout in 4 corners of the room. People from other teams would peek in and talk to us when they need us. When we need to have an engineering meeting people just gathered in our room and we closed the door.
counterpoint - everyone's company is competing against every other competitor who is also doing WFH. they're all on the same playing field. if folks think F2F helps productivity, they'll force that, especially if they know that some competition will stay with WFH.
Check out _The Eden Express_ by Mark Vonnegut (son of Kurt Vonnegut). It is a memoir documenting the author's own psychotic breakdown. Reading this gave me insight into the human mind and what it's like when it goes off the rails.

You say "anything that transforms me into a smarter, wiser person" so I'll add Eliezer Yudkowsky's fanfic _Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ (http://www.hpmor.com/) The whole HP universe is re-imagined, except Harry is smart, a scientist, and empowered with rationality. It is both entertaining and an introduction to the art of rationality.
The value of Live is in the workflow which is very different from Logic or any other classic DAWs. It's much more creative and streamlined. The Suite version includes Max which opens up the creative possibilities way beyond anything Logic can do.

Of course this is only attractive to a smaller part of the DAW market. People working in recording, mixing and mastering will not find any value in those things.

Also people working in media composing have tended to prefer Cubase or Logic because the arrangement view in Live was pretty bad up to version 10.
After trying to make tech workers spend as much time as possible at the workplace with expensive perks became frowned upon - a much cheaper alternative is to have work spend as much time as possible at employee's home.
Diversify the risk.

Even founders who can self fund, raise money from investors as you don't want to own all the risk in any risky endeavor.
That’s a good point. But maybe they don’t have 100% confidence so they want to share the risk.
Or maybe alphabet doesn’t see the self driving VEHICLE as their product. Maybe they see the consumer data as the product and want someone else to pay for the effort to collect it.
It didn't have to be better (since it isn't), it juset had to be backed and pushed by Google.
Risk transfer.