skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weren't his projections for deaths assuming we did a lockdown also much higher than the actual numbers?
dpkg/apt and rpm/yum were doing exactly that for ages. From multiple sources. They managed to handle exactly that.
I don't know how absurd this sounds but on-call is the only reason I have stayed away from backend or frontend/web development. I had worked on both for few months and ran back to native app development. There might be a place where the company has a "follow the sun" policy for on-call but I haven't come across any.
I don't trust an engineer that can't troubleshoot their own software running in production. I think the "you write it, you own it" adage is really smart and raises all tides when engineers are empowered to root cause each issue.
I'm with you, but I think this post also highlights the need for protected land. I'd really hate to see any National Forest land go away because everyone who wants to live somewhere with a view now can.

More people/better infrastructure in Gunnison, CO would be great. Maroon Bells getting a housing development and a golf course? Not so great. I'm worried that more people in small mountain towns near national forests has the potential to slowly eat away the national forest.
Yeah, I very rarely write reflection code (and 90% of the time its attribute related) but I can't remember the last time I worked on a non toy project that didn't leverage reflection somewhere.
My point was that in my org, WFH has been staggeringly successful. 3% drop in the middle of the biggest global crisis in living memory means that there will likely be no loss or a gain from WFH once people get their emotional states back to normal and their kids back in school.
Delores: a forward-chaining reasoning engine for defeasible logic
> taxes on my earnings

Yangs proposal was a VAT, which wouldn't be a tax on your earnings. Am I off here?
In the context of this discussion (silicon valley employers like Facebook and Google), these offices are in the suburbs. Good luck walking to the FB headquarters.
> Something doesn't need to be a 'well defined entity' to speak about it meaningfully.

True, what I meant is that the writer accuses Wikipedia of some sort of agenda, but it's not just one group of people, but many factions with opposite goals, including the one described in the meta pages. Although not being a well defined entity doesn't preclude discussing it, there are things that cannot be said about it because of that.

Another thing that the writer says is that Wikipedia failed, as if it reached an irrevocable state, but Wikipedia is all but in a well defined state (unless you count this as a well defined state, but then we might end up in a Russel paradox), it's content is constantly fluctuating, even if slowly so. When you speak of emergent tendencies, I find the idea compelling, but I wonder if this compatible with a constantly changing set of editors. And even if it is, perhaps this trend is like a disease, and at some point (like in evolutionary algorithms), a cure will emerge?

> That 'fact' and 'opinion' aren't clean categories.

Indeed, perhaps I was guilty of the same mistake as the writer?
However, it is possible to find many pages with annotations criticizing the page content for lack of references or sources. I see that as an attempt to implement fact checking.
Then the other group members will wonder why you get stuff free while they have to pay, or they might doubt why you chose that particular pub. If you really need a physical reward for doing something you enjoy it would make more sense to agree a deal with the pub, like "second drink on the house" for the whole group.
Scouts have fewer movement penalties through terrain and can therefore outrun your soldiers. The way to deal with that was to get horsemen or archers ASAP since your melee footsoldiers can't catch the scout.
We use AWS SQS and Rabbit. At our scale, SQS is easy peasy and we can wrapper it to make http calls instead of using SQS, as we're using AWS Beanstalk workers.
SQS is generally quicker to get up and running with and we can have metrics out the box. With rabbit we use it for some other stuff and it works just fine, it's when things go into a black hole we struggle, but that's our lack of knowledge.

Depending on your scale, we find SQS is cheaper than a managed rabbit service.
Although I'd be interested in using kafka!
HEIC isn't simple, and isn't common.

Apple should convert to JPG or PNG when exporting the image to anywhere anytime.

The same problem happens with webp images too - totally unusable almost everywhere, even in photoshop.

Apple wants to reduce storage space photos take up. Fine - but they should convert back to a standard format when exporting the image to be used on some other system.

With that said, it seems the issue is from students that didn't upload the image from their phone (where Apple correctly converts to JPG), but rather transferred the image to their computer, then uploaded into the AP Exam.

If that's true, then this is absolutely on Apple. Why would they export in a format that literally nobody else supports. What are these people supposed to do with a folder full of HEIC formatted photos, that can't be uploaded anywhere else, edited with any program, or opened even opened on some Operating Systems?

Apple should assume nobody else uses HEIC because... well, nobody else uses HEIC.
> Did you topped out the tool or your personal ability

Both, I'd say.

> Do you have some objective metric for this?

Well my happiness, for one. My sense of accomplishment. How much more I can fit in a day. But no, I don't KPI myself.
My only experience with RabbitMQ is managing an Openstack environment. In that environment, it's a huge resource hog and we had to put it on 3 separate bare metal instances to keep it stable.
Hey, that's angle I've never thought about before.

We support children for years and all we expect them to do is go to school. While a lot of kids could decide to just not work and be taken care of by their family, the vast majority want to work anyway, if only for the fact they want to move out and build their own family.

This may be the key. UBI + Making people go through further education so that they can have the foundation of knowledge and skills to be able to work. Right now, we have a lot of people who go through years of school and in the end it amounts to nothing because no one will give them a real job unless they had the money and a stable environment that allowed them to go to fancy universities instead of being forced to work to provide for themselves. This is a 3 angle attack. UBI + education/training + lowering the barrier for people being able to get a job. With UBI, you will have substantially less people desperate to get any job, so the supply of workers is no longer so high that companies can afford to be picky, because people will be able to tell those companies to go fuck themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but deep respect for you personally since I don't know you. I was talking about more broad western mindset.
I’m sure this library of classes will be useful for somebody. But the stylesheet weighs in at half a megabyte.
What is happening is that your being naive. You are attempting to paint a colorful situation with black and white. This is not a boolean if statement.

You're wondering why wouldn't these farmers just walk away from their farm? Well there are many reasons:

It's been in their family for generations.
It's all they know how to do.
They have legal obligations.

The land may be worth millions but if all the buyers are aware of the fact that it's not worth buying then all those $$'s just mean you can take another loan out against it; which is better than parting with it for nothing.

How about instead of asking questions you go do some research. I am not a farmer I just know a lot of farmers and they all drive old shitty cars and can't afford to get pay for their mothers dialysis.
It does gracefully handle invalid formats. The problem that students did not follow the directions provided on how to take pictures in an appropriate format. Instead they tried their own hacks, such as changing the file extension.

Another user here claims their daughter was informed repeatedly before the test that HEIC was not supported and given instructions on how to change their phone settings to ensure comparability. This is confirmed in the article:

> though it does link to the College Board’s website, which instructs students with iPhones to change their camera settings so that photos save as JPEGs rather than HEICs.
Would you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It damages the container here (i.e. the capacity of this place to sustain curious conversation), and you unfortunately did it repeatedly in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> ex director at the WHO

Regarding his relation to WHO, according to his own claims (dead link on wikipedia) he was "Chief of the Cancer Program from 1997" (to 1999, just two years, two decades ago). But we also know that he falsely claimed to be professor on Imperial College, see also posts here.
It’s worth pointing out why it needs to be “revived”: because the first iteration of the tax would have destroyed grocery stores and was protested by construction unions due to its disastrous policy.

This iteration is targeting the 800 largest employers in Seattle, many of whom aren’t currently profitable.

“Tax Amazon” is classic dishonesty — neither bill has been focused on Amazon, both would be a disaster for Seattle, and proponents try to focus on Amazon to keep people from noticing how damaging their out of control spending is.

In 2010, the Seattle budget was 3.8B; in 2020, it’s 6.5B. An increase of 2.7B and growth of 71% in a decade. (Per capita, the Seattle budget is 37% more now than in 2010.)

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/seattle-socialists-constructio...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-c...
* init

* repo

* community

* kiss

https://github.com/kisslinux/

Which package is the Linux kernel build stuff related? I recently wanted to bundle a quick Alpine install into a shareable `qemu` image. I couldn't figure out how to add a simple kernel module that was not included in the stock config. I would love to get this problem solved.
> Why should FB pay Bay Area living wages to someone in Atlanta, when they can pay them top dollar for their own market?

Because they are now competing globally as an employer as well.
I understand that stance, but the current trend in tech companies, at least in the Bay Area, has been almost exclusively open offices. Saves money for mgmt. and so forth. Perhaps with WFH or at least mixed-WFH policies, with fewer people in the office there could be more available space so that there can be more individual offices?

At any rate, I brought it up because the fix for both noisy neighbors at home or in an open office is the same pat answer: get noise-cancellation headphones.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology
"Wants to work with" doesn't apply here. This is what the phone does by default, so it's not a conscious choice of the user. Also, if the college had written the `accepts` field on their form correctly it would have been converted to JPG automatically when they uploaded it.
Building codes and zoning are constitutional, but it's now the case that nobody is allowed to build up to the limits of zoning, and the approval process has been hijacked to impose all sorts of expensive economic programs.

Mao's Great Leap Forward was similar -- essentially an "Affordable Rice" program which drove producers out of the market.
Facebook's Zuckerberg embraces remote work outside Silicon Valley
As somebody who is originally from Seattle, this comment is right on and hits the mark.
"Pairing is failing on device with A1B2C3 Bluetooth controllers on driver versions 8.2 and 8.3, but not 8.4"

"This is happening for 100% of users with the B2C3D4 controller and is likely a driver bug, but has happened only twice on the C3D5 device, both for the same user - likely a hardware failure"
Yes of course. Afaik there is only one John Rylands Library in the world :)
When you are accepting photos that will be taken from a phone, why wouldn’t you test to make sure that your site worked with the default settings for a large (if not largest) proportion of your users? If you are the College Board, it seems irresponsible to not have tested this better. Or at least saved the data to attempt to convert later (which it doesn’t seem like they did either).

And if they really needed to control the file formats this much, they should have written this functionality into an app (for iOS and Android) and handled taking the picture themselves.

They really screwed things up for a bunch of kids here.
Sorry, I was trying to say that even though I would personally never buy into an HOA, I support the legal rights of those who did to enforce the bylaws/covenants of the HOA agreement.

I think HOAs are stupid, much the same way I think that many other things are stupid, but I also support the right of people to choose to voluntarily do things I find stupid (like worshipping an obviously incorrect deity [because it's different from mine]).
These students are high school students. I'm very doubtful that this course covered material like file types and encoding. First year CS classes are almost exclusively programming basics and architecture.

This line of thinking only really makes sense if you presuppose that every person taking a computer science course in high school has an understanding of file types. Many don't have this knowledge. I don't see why students should need to have additional knowledge that is outside the scope of a course, just to pass the clase.

There's a reason these things are taught in a CS program, often at higher levels. And that's because they're not common knowledge.
> Has it? I'm not really sure how you came to this conclusion.

I explained in the comment you replied to. You seem to be deliberately ignoring that people who are not predisposed to the viewpoint could also be exposed. I do not believe that censoring on YouTube will prevent anyone who already believes this stuff from finding the content elsewhere, and I already admitted as such.

If two groups of people (those who actively seek the misinformation, and those who encounter it by chance) could access the misinformation, it stands to reason that preventing one of those groups from accessing the misinformation results in a lower overall spread of misinformation, even if the other group is unaffected.
Yeah On-call can vary greatly by company, although how On-call issues are handled can have a huge impact on your perception of a job.

At one previous employer, you were on a 2-week rotation for on-call.

But Every time you were on call, it was the same set of problems, always at the same inconvenient times (Mid sunday afternoon, random weekdays but always between 3-5AM, etc.) Admittedly often they were NOPs (Oh, alert came in, but when you check the system it's fine.)

But we didn't fix the false alarms. And we didn't fix the recurring real problems either; the Org's view was that was the entire purpose of the On-call person; that middle child you send to pay the loan shark not-quite enough because you don't care what happens to them.

At later employer, I actually had to deal with -more- on call issues, both in severity and frequency. And yet, I hate being on-call less, because at the very least when we find problems on-call the org puts a focus on fixing them.
It's a means-tested govt program for below-market rate apartments, with tons of red tape. Which in true government fashion exacerbates the problem it is meant to solve.
That's a strong claim. What makes you think so?
it doesn't :) though it works fine if your terminal allows multiline input:

python -c "
for x in stuff:
this(x)
that(x)
"

at some point i even wrote a hacky little wrapper that let you use braces and replaced¹ them with spaces+newlines, something like this:

pyc-wrap "for x in stuff { this(x); that(x); }"

i can dig the code up if you need it :)

========

though after that i sort of went of the deep end adding perl-style "it" ($_) variables for loop variables:

for stuff { this($); that($);

(yes, closing braces at the end were optional...)

and for the result of the previous line:

2; $+1; hex($);
# roughly translates to:
x = 2; x = x+1; x = hex(x);

surprisingly pleasant to use for shell-like tasks actually!

edit: almost forgot - if during execution you used a name `foo` not found in locals/globals, `foo` was treated as an external command, and resolved to something like

lambda *args: os.system('foo', *args)

so that you could (sorta) easily call external commands. fun times :)

---

¹ slightly more involved than a dumb code.replace('{', ':\n') because you need to maintain the indent level... but around that level of sophistication
Also some what misses the fact that a lot of transplant centres stopped implanting patients due to covid-19,

There is a lot of medical debate on how to do implants / transplants safely in the current climate.
Acme-redirect: easy to use acmev2 daemon in rust
hey!

I was shopping around for a good acme implementation and everything I could find was either too invasive (and edited config files), didn't integrate into the rest of the system or expected me to program my own solution with shell scripting. I decided to build my own, opinionated solution in rust that I now use for my servers together with nginx. I finished this just in time because my old setup is going to break due to the acmev1 deprecation. A major design decision was making sure it "just works" after installing the package, and making sure it can be cleanly packaged:

https://github.com/kpcyrd/acme-redirect

Let me know what you think!
I suppose either they didn’t call Apple up for help or it’s no longer possible to do so in any meaningful way. This is bad press for Apple, too.
The word 'reveal' is the current favourite of click-bait title writers.
China by far. Our homeless have iPhones, their homeless get run over by trucks and public busses without any consequence and suffer the indignity of being forced to perform labor to be able to use a toilet.

Now if you mean the lowest overall classes, I've been to rural areas in China where the entire community shits in a hole dug in the ground, it gets filled, a new one is dug. They also all share a single water source. We're talking a few hundred people here. On the opposite end of the spectrum I've met someone in Shenzen who owns two houses in London, one in Toronto, and one in Hawaii. Each house is nicely furnished and has a few luxury sports cars to choose from.
Please don't break the site guidelines yourself, regardless of how wrong or annoying other comments are or you feel they are. It only makes the thread even worse.

I've responded to the other user elsewhere, but actually your replies were worse than what you were replying to, even if you're right on the fundamentals. "Please take your badly-informed $thing elsewhere" and "Seriously, piss off" are well out of bounds here.

If you feel like another user is derailing the discussion, flag the comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). If you feel like more is needed, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look. We frequently moderate off-topic subthreads.
https://aussieazuredevs.github.io/blog/pinball/genesis Is another group's attempt at using machine learning to play existing real games.
I would read a book by this guy.
Largenum – Transforms large numbers into more easily digestible English
-1) Open source the code, so people can check that you really do what you declare.
This is pragmatically correct, but it doesn't make it just. The city was given policing authority over those lands, too; that doesn't mean they should have the right to torture you until you confess, even if the democratic voters are in favor of that — as they might be, for example, if you're black.
I think the issue is that accept is specified only with extensions rather than mime types.
It's very different than volunteering - since most people don't volunteer at a FOR PROFIT company.

I've volunteered at all sorts of community centers, schools, etc... Never once at a for-profit business in town.
Probably Sears Roebuck, Macy's, Ford for a few.
The biggest issues are the public API surface.

If the library were being designed from scratch today, pretty much every method on the model would be Async. After all, if it leads to any network I/O of any kind, that can block.

Working with the current public API, Trying to implement a publish wrapper that never blocks, and returns a task that either completes when the publisher confirm is received, or faults after some provided timeout, is a lot trickier than it might sound.

Recovery from network interruptions is complicated, and auto-recovery features are limited, and in some use cases actually dangerous. For example, if you are manually acknowledging messages to ensure end-to-end at-least-once delivery, then you cannot safely use the auto-recovery, since the delivery numbers would reset when the connection does, and you can accidentally aknowlodge the wrong message with delivery tag 5. (Acknowledge the new one, when you were trying to ack the old one).

In my implementation of that included my own recovery, I ended up needing to pass around the IModel itself with the delivery tags, so I can check if the channel I am about to acknowledge on is really the same one I received the message on. (There is no unique identifier of a channel instance, since even the channel number is likely to get re-used).
you can buy a nice new house in most of the country including many of the largest cities in the country. Only that people always try to find reasons why the cities that are cheap are not cool enough for them
Every experiment in UBI says otherwise. Direct cash grants usually lead people to do more work, because now they can do the work they enjoy.

Also, look around groups of wealthy people. The ones who don't have to work anymore. Sure, some of them live a life of leisure, but many of them still work, because they get bored otherwise.
That totally misses the point though, because if the website only validates on the basis of extension and accepts the format in an unrecognised format, the backend won’t know how to handle it anyway. There’s no point uploading a HEIC file disguised as a PNG (or whatever) if eventually somewhere along the workflow an examiner is actually going to have to open that file in a program that doesn’t know how to parse HEICs.