skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Western companies don’t talk about values, Western governments do.

This is completely wrong.

Every other ad on TV in the US is preaching about how much Walmart/Amazon/Pepsi/etc. care about the environment/LGBT rights/safe working conditions/etc.

Western companies talk about their supposed values _all the time_, they're just mostly full of shit when they do.
>the Bruteforcing Processes code doesn’t make sense, are Trend Micro developers not aware of enumerating processes via ZwQuerySystemInformation?

As someone whose work involves screwing around with Windows' internal, whenever I see codes like this, I immediately think that the developer doesn't trust Windows' API. I guess that Trend Micro believes there's a chance that ZwQuerySystemInformation has been hooked by a malicious process and its data is unreliable, and they would rather retrieve the information themselves by scanning the memory manually.
Sure, but do you feel the same way about AirBNB, Google, Facebook, Apple, every major auto manufacturer, Tesla, Amazon, and myriad of other companies that behave in unethical ways?

I can't think of a single tech company that hasn't engaged in some eye brow raising behavior.

There was even some controversy with YCombinator funding a fantasy sports betting company.
1) That argument is false because the comment could be expressed on another platform or their own platform (e.g. a personal website).

2) That doesn't make sense in the context of a privately owned company, the 1st amendment doesn't define a standard for speech, it outlines explicit limitations of the government.
Tom from Grafana Labs here! Super proud of this release, especially the tracing support. Let me know if you have any questions?
Rift S is connected to a far more powerful gaming PC. It seems like Oculus simply treats the Rift S and their customers as a second-class.
Some of this is also just hitting the undo button. Softbank had a murky habit of leading back to back rounds, so they were effectively dictating the market for their own investments. It’s like if you invest in my business at a $10 valuation, and then a year later you invest at a $30 valuation, and a year after that your accountants force you to carry it at the original $10 valuation. You’re undoing previous paper gains, but nothing really changed.
There is:

sudo spctl --master-disable

Then choose "Anywhere" under "Allow apps from..." in the Security & Privacy preferences. You'll never be bothered again.
I could argue that Atlanta is tier 3 as well, the distinction between tier 2/3 could just be a simple rule of numbers (over a 1M pop vs. under 1M pop) and not a tech center. Or in my case that when I've interviewed people from the given locations that they didn't meet the bar by a given level. UIUC produces some amazing engineers, but UChicago doesn't...
^ This is a really interesting perspective.

If we take this line of reasoning, then the various unicorns didn't detect and ride user behavior but used their massive piles of cash to distort it in non-sustainable ways. Now that the cash is drying up, people are bouncing back to the old patterns and approaches.

I wonder how many of those alternatives disappeared/closed in the meantime?
“But that is true in many areas of American life, and it hasn't until now caused the country or states to be locked down.”

Yes it has, in the 1918 pandemic. This is a false equivalency anyway, and can be made an anti-vaccination argument, where parents decide upon the lives of their children
Compared to most other western countries, sure, Canada is on the easier side.

However, even with that in mind, it is still a very difficult and complicated process, with tons of hard limitations that can put a complete stop to the whole thing due to something trivial, like not having a degree. And even with that barrier of hard requirements cleared, it is still a pretty draconian experience.

Having gone through a similar thing myself (not with Canada, but I ended up coincidentally reading a lot about Canadian immigration laws), I can assure you, it is way more difficult than getting any job, even if you are a successful Google engineer, and by a far margin.

I am pretty sure that any person who went through an immigration process to another country can attest to that. And I am talking purely about the legal-paper-stuff aspect of immigration to another country, not things like getting adapted to your new country or anything like that.
How do you feel about the German proscription on Nazi symbolism/speech? It's not absolute; for example, Mein Kampf is still published in Germany, but in academic critical editions which provide extensive historical information to place it in context.
Because people (on different sides of political divides, at different times) are happy to have any, arbitrary, damping coefficient on the pace of social change.

The ceremony of interpreting the document is all a bit silly, but it's better than letting they majority party write a new one.
Are elderly Europeans just so much better at tech than elderly Americans? Smartphone apps. QR codes. 2FA pins.

I know folks in their 60s who positively would not be able to do any of this with any level of success.
Stores are locked in on pricing due to emergency order. I expect new stores to pop up with the ability to set new prices and pay more from suppliers.
>Why would they be incapable of serving their electorate?

I'm not claiming they are incapable, but with a constantly re-elected congress that's on an upward trend and just now hitting 30% approval rating it seems they don't serve their constituents effectively.
Washington Restaurants Will Collect Diners' Personal Info for Covid Tracking
Fantastic answer! Thanks for taking the time to respond here - looking forward to your next book :)
I've been thinking about this comment a lot today. It's cool that you have relationship with the owner of a local restaurant! I know the owners of a local coffee shop pretty well and it's been really interesting (and a bit depressing) discussing the economics of owning a small business with them.

And when you know your local business owners by name, opportunities like this emerge.
I've been following minimaxir's work with GPT-2 for a while - I've tried building things on https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple for example - and this looks like a HUGE leap forward in terms of developer usability. The old stuff was pretty good on that front, but this looks absolutely amazing. Really exciting project.
Hotels tend to view high-touch service as a sign of luxury, so moving to low/no-touch check-ins is a huge shift. I'd expect more automation in hotels as a result of this crisis.

As a business traveler who spent 160 nights in a hotel last year, I'm actually grateful for these changes. Front desk staff are usually extremely kind and want to be helpful, but I usually wait in line for 10 minutes to get a keycard and be asked "Have you stayed with us before? Do you need an overview of the amenities?" even at hotels where I have stayed every week for months. I'm looking forward to a future where my hotel app is my key and I can go straight to my room.
Won’t the future tax revenue generated by that child (on average) easily cover that cost many times over?

(And maybe even help cover your own retirement?)
People support _forcing_ parents to take {ma,pa}ternity leave? I am skeptical, as this is a position I have never ever heard of before.

As a parent, I can see why one could advocate for equal (+generous) paid parental leave (disclaimer: I support that idea), but I've never heard (nor would I understand) the idea that one should be forced to _take_ such leave.
> I worry the most about Scooters and AV as those are arguably core to urban mobility

Scooters are a fad that was never needed. Bikes or mopeds like Revel are 10 times more useful. I don't think scooters replace anything of note, since you can pretty much walk the same distance. They're only fun for tourists and left in the sidewalk for everyone else to stumble over.
The complete destruction of domestic labor markets could be considered a "negative"
This strategy is the opposite of a portfolio play. It is great if your winners stay winners. I think if you are aligned well with the overall market direction that is great.

Basically by only keeping the strongest you should get the highest rate of return until these is a failure. A portfolio play gives you more modest returns but more consistent over time -- you should still trim the losers who do not have potential.
I agree it is a viable business, but they still may not be charging enough for it to be profitable. If they need to charge more, growth may slow or reverse.
In the framework of "hate speech" it is completely aribtrary and mutable.
I don't think most people want AMD to win completely, as no one expects Intel to ever fold. Also historically, Intel has been much scummier, and it's paid off for them. When AMD was previously top dog (most recently with Athlon64), I don't remember them being as anticompetitive as Intel has been.

Intel has 5x the market cap and 10x the revenue compared to AMD, and AMD is the underdog in its dGPU competition with nVidia too! If you want innovation, you'd want to equalize investment in R&D for both these two competing pairs, it makes sense to be pro-AMD.
>A lot of folks on HN seems to be approaching this whole situation from the I have a ton of money, can work from home, have a car mental model.

You think poor people are using Uber to get around?
It's an extension of the reason we fund schools.
Worked for Google for 5 years. Red badges were largely confined to QA testers, physical security, and the kitchen, along with a few UI designers or engineers that didn't want to be employees because they liked the freedom that being a contractor allowed (eg. being able to work for someone else on the side). Basically everyone I interacted with on a daily basis was a FTE. Product area could have something to do with it: I was on a core product (Search), it's possible red badges are more common in peripheral products.
They're (correctly) pointing out that communists are worse than nazis. Why would we offer them more protection in any way?
Do you need tests to do that? Are tests the only way?

Are you doing formal verification of your software? Why not? If you're not bothering to do that why are you criticising researchers for not bothering to use tests?
go mod init github.com/your/project

Then, go get -v will download your dependencies to GOPATH, and (re)generate go.mod, go.sum. For info on how to update dependencies, read `go help get`.

When using modules (presence of a valid go.mod file), GOPATH won't be used for resolving imports. So you don't have to actually work in GOPATH anymore, dependencies are just stored there.
On the cost-saving point, I always understood that the limited 4kb texture memory led to lots of games having really muddy, blurry textures. How much more would have 8kb or 16kb cost? It seems a small cost saving that had a pretty large, negative impact.
> This is my case, but in a near future, how I can advertise my users or future users that my app behaviour is different due to COVID, I have no chance

Why do you want to advertise that to your future users?

From your description, your app appears to be an event finder that started out for only physical events, and you later expanded that to include online events.

The app itself does not appear to have anything to do with COVID. COVID was simply what personally motivated you to add online events, and so it's not clear to me that including COVID related words in the description will actually help anyone find or understand your app on the store.
Power users can use Android.

The problem with side loading us social engineering attacks.

Imagine how many iPhone users could be persuaded to sideload ‘corona 5g bioshield app detunes the software radio in your phone away from the harmful frequencies the NWO is trying to expose us to’.
That's a MUCH clearer story! Folks maybe just publish their memos vs these I guess hashed news stories.

The Reuters article focused on the layoffs, lack of confirmation on number of layoffs, and PR quote etc - I wish I'd seen this article earlier.
> I think this is starting to change and it gives me a lot of hope.

Hope for what exactly? Honest question.
The military intervention in Libya was initially led by the United States and then handed off to NATO. The US contribution to direct attacks consisted mostly of cruise missile strikes. The British, French and Canadian air forces also played a major roles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...
> Perhaps this would address the problem you're talking about?

He's talking about physical keyboard layout, nothing you suggested will help with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
Hey alter-me, it's a nice thought. But, realistically, many people are faced with living a subpar life in the bay area (rent small apartments for the rest of your life) or working for a big corp and living a better life (own a home - can afford many things). It's not like these people are going to find a company that is perfectly ethical on every side while also still paying $400k+/yr for senior software engineers.

A lot of engineers are wage slaves as much as anyone else. It's not like everyone wants to do this stuff.

EDIT: On a more personal note - I hope your name is actually "Bradly" and you're not "Bradley". And that you actually go by that in real life instead of "Brad". As I know there's some "Brad"s out there that like to buy up Bradly variations without actually going by it. It's killing me.
Automating Gmail with Python
Yeah but from Uber's perspective they aren't paying drivers as salaried employees but contractors only for a completed fare. So Uber isn't incurring any overhead expense by having cars in less desirable pick up points, or having a car travel 10-15 minutes for a pick up before they can start a fare.

Also keep in mind that the majority of Uber's revenue is from metropolitan areas, not rural areas. And in the metro areas there was a lot of convenience to be gained from their app and matching supply and demand side of the equation and a lot of those areas were underserved by the TLC and specifically car services because taxis didn't even operate there. So they actually took the pent up demand and created a better system.

Now they are still grossly unprofitable, but not for the reason you cited here.
Hey you're using my github.com/dave/jennifer package for the code generation. Glad it's helpful!
Not if they company is buying back shares at an inflated valuation, which sadly too often the case.
TL;DR take a huge life risk; just don't forget to be both exceptional and successful!

99% of startups fail (a turn of phrase, not a real statistic AFAIK), and that is usually said in reference to those that do take VC money. Tell me: what happens when my bootstrapped startup fails?
My Journey in STEM from ‘Zero to One’
How do you moderate something you can't define?
>How you scope the entirety of the universe and how you group the people within determines the minority.

That is entirely specious, pedantic and irrelevant. In the context relevant to hate speech, there is no doubt that, say, LGBTQ individuals or Jews are minority groups. I don't think you can really be serious about denying this (given that the numbers are what they are). I am not sure what point you are trying to make here.

>There is no specific connection to "minorities", whatever that means to you.

There is no essential connection between hate speech and minorities, but there's a very obvious connection. Historically, many victims of hate speech and other hate crimes have been members of minority groups. And it's not difficult to see why. It's a lot easier for a majority group to persecute a minority group than vice versa.
In high school we nearly always left out the I term because we didn't mathematically verify our controllers, couldn't risk breaking the systems we were controlling with windup, and cared more about smooth and predictable motion than accuracy.
Apple originally didn’t want custom apps or an app store at all... folks started jail breaking their phones to have insane and cutting edge features from the future like copy and paste.
> I can't help but feel that "working" and "raising children" is having your cake and eating it too.

Just like the 'eternal September' there's the 'eternal desire to return to 1955'. I suppose I should be surprised.
No free view? No review.
My counterpoint is that I know a good amount of people who have a ton of parroted knowledge, and know nothing of how to apply it. I know far, far, fewer people who know how to apply knowledge. There are even fewer people who can start applying freshly acquired knowledge within the same day.

A mindless search engine can parrot and rattle off 50 probability distributions. Only a human can tell you the implications of a specific distribution emerging from your data. Google and DuckDuckGo are free, I don't need to hire someone who can do the same as a search engine.

My opinion of what you refer to as learning, is that it is the absence of learning. It is one of the longest held misconceptions, spanning hundreds of years. It is why we need to retrain everyone fresh out of college. It is why junior vs. senior roles exist. Juniors have all of the rote knowledge and no practical experience. Seniors have immense practical experience and have probably long forgotten all the rote knowledge. The latter gets paid vastly more, the latter is far rarer.
Different countries, 1 result: Stay-at-home orders work
Keep in mind the framers of the constitution in the US realized this type of issue, which led to the Bill of Rights protecting things like free speech and other government encroachments on individual liberty.

I appreciate that corporate platforms are different than public spaces when it comes to free speech, but we've got a long way to go before US society broadly tolerates censorship by foreign entities (at least, I hope).
I don't see that happening anytime soon, for a simple reason. Right now the three major world powers, CCP, Russia, USA, all are benefiting from the status quo. Everyone is prospering, when a real threat, such as ISIS arises you'll notice everyone worked together quickly to stop something that threatened the global order. The posturing over Iran, NK, and the like is just mostly for show.

What we need to be worried about is if any of these powers start to sliding towards a major decline, right now things are good people have a lot to lose if there is a war; however if the balance of power is too lopsided and one of the sides is at real risk of losing, that's when nations get desperate and start to do things that are dangerous.

World War 1 would've never happened if the the Russian Empire wasn't on the brink of collapse, but Russia felt it had to act because it would slip out of the ranks of influential nations. That is when the tinderbox exploded.

What I fear is that in the next World War, the US is currently looking like Germany, with their fancy tech, their super "intellectual" military doctrine, and their entrenched bureaucracy.

Russia is keeping their armies battle ready and tested in the Ukraine and Crimea, the CCP isn't as battle ready but as Vietnam and Korea proved they still can beat the US. Things are going to be interesting over the next 20 years...
So? Counting cards is not illegal if that is what you are trying to insinuate.
Holy shit. They actually put that into a slide deck? Wow
> either you're growing and on top of the world, or you'll be out of business in a couple years. Just ask DEC, Symbolics, SGI, Sun, Yahoo, AOL, Netscape, etc.

I think rather than looking at those names we might ask ourselves about the ones that managed to survive: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, as an example

Sure, we might argue that they have not always been the most ethical companies out there, but it doesn't mean they haven't had to reinvent themselves here and there

How come Oracle and IBM got more money from Java than Sun? Windows is now "free" but MS continues to make money.

Those companies that went away seems to be mostly good examples of the Inventor's dilema. Especially SGI.
Analysis and retrospective of the critical Salt vulnerability on Ghost(Pro)
My CPU definitely spikes when compiling JS.
I don't think that's what OP is asking/stating. It's like: couple A decides someone needs to stay home to support kids/whatever reason, and say they cut back on their spending to do this. Couple B doesn't do this and struggles by wrt home duties, but makes higher income. When both couples have someone go on paid child leave they have the same situation, but couple B gets to keep their higher income. Op is stating couple A pays income taxes which go to a different couple to subsidize their paid leave instead of keeping it for themselves. I think the difference from other govt taxes going to people is the decision to not work ends up with them in a worse situation.

The obvious counterpoint is that couple B paid higher taxes due to their dual income status (and contributed more to the economy) and so deserves to receive the benefit more, but this isn't entirely satisfactory to me since couple A did still play taxes, which some portion of went to this benefit. Perhaps it would make sense for there to be a tax deduction for couple A for the equivalent duration of their caretaking? Maybe equivalent to whatever the paid leave would otherwise have been? Or maybe half of that amount? I don't believe taxes need to be "benefit neutral" on an individual basis, but I do somewhat believe it makes sense for them to be free of weird incentives.
Not everyone has space/resources to do either of those things.
We're coming back to the same question about how to 'count' RC aircraft and drones. Right now, it's a felony to interfere with the operations of any aircraft. But is a quadcopter/drone an aircraft? What about an RC plane? How big can it be before it counts?

Right now, 14 CFR 107 only covers commercial UAS uses and 14 CRF 91 only covers full sized, manned aircraft. Not only do these two parts of the FAA regs not mix, parts are actively incompatible since, for example, an aircraft must stay 1000 feet ABOVE the tallest obstacle within 2000 lateral feet (when over 'congested areas'), and a part 107 regulated drone must stay BELOW 400 feet above the immediate uppermost portion of an obstacle or structure within 400 lateral feet.

Furthermore, neither of these regulations cover hobby flying, except perhaps that drones are generally prohibited from flying more than 400 feet above ground level.
>I think the rule with Elon Musk is all his estimates are extremely optimistic and you need to multiply them by two or three to get closer to reality.

What about all the promises that have been made that never came to fruition? Do we just exclude those from this formula?
I've never heard of dbml before, seems like its been out for about a year. I'm always interested in managing schemas in a db-agnostic fashion. Seems like overtime everything always devolves into db specific schemas (spatial indexes, new datatypes like JSON, etc). I'll read into this and add it to my list to watch.

Thanks for sharing this and your work.
This will create thousands of administrative jobs, which supports one of the goals of the EU: full employment through pointless paperwork!

This is not UBI, it's means tested and adjusted.
Whoever is still being recruited by uber or close to an offer better make sure they have a solid severance clause written into their contract! Nothing less than 1 to 2 years of pay.
"Short-term"? He was CEO for 20 years, and made it one of the most successful companies during that time. One would be very hardpressed to call GE of 2001 a hollowed-out company.
I know a lot of the sources say different things, but the NYT site does not show AZ improving on daily case count - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/arizona-coronavi...