skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what they would have been called if they had been round? Presumably not ‘barcodes’. The wiki says the bar is the varying thickness strips rather than the collection of them, so the name sort of works if they are circular. However calling round things a bar doesn’t seem right.
I disagree since these days (And especially TV-based) MSM has taken it upon themselves to tell readers what should be important to them.
PathSpot sells a scanner that fact checks your handwashing efficacy
As I said, it involves learning some new skills and new habits, and the adjustment period likely involves some pain from employees.

Three months of a situation assumed to be temporary is not a sufficient adjustment period.
Stalking and harassing moderators won't get you unbanned; instead, it confirms that there should be no place for you anywhere on Reddit.
I would have preferred taking AP stats/physics/CS/Calculus with a computer, and that was over a decade ago. (AP French also used cassette tapes to record yourself with. Looks like they transitioned to the modern digital age in 2017, but I'm sure every year before then they had a sizable number of students with blank tape or broken tape submissions.)

I had already taught myself the basic TeX for math formulas before I took any AP test that could have used it, I even set up a PHP portal to do simple chemical equation balancing that would use LaTeX behind the scenes and spit out PNGs. There are nice JS libraries to do everything client-side now, so in any online portal it could be seamlessly mixed in with a reference and live-preview right next to it. All I'm saying is it's really not hard -- you can learn what you need in under an hour -- and if you step back and think about the type of student taking these tests they're also the type of student likely to pursue these subjects in college, so they're likely going to have to learn much more of LaTeX eventually anyway.

Where neither plain text nor LaTeX help much is when you really need to draw something out. I'd say mouse drawings are better than nothing, but you can also just remove questions/scoring that rely on display of such. Nothing stops a student from drawing privately on their own paper -- indeed as I recall a lot of the questions from some of those AP tests were exactly like that: do your work on paper you throw out after, because the answer is multiple choice.

It's really most surprising that they didn't go with a fully online test (which means no manual submission of purely offline artifacts) and haven't been preparing for such at all over the years...
It is turn based. Each turn taking anything from seconds (early in the game, knowing only the immediate surroundings of the single city, with zero known opponents) to multiple minutes (late in the game, having a complete planet as play area and >100 opponent cities). But in aggregate it's terribly easy to play for hours on end, often into the next morning.
Facebook Embraces Remote Work
Not really.

Shopify is only using FB's merchant APIs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/commerce-platform/ And that's it.

They are allowing Shopify merchants to publish their inventories to the FB store. In exchange Shopify wants 2% of every transaction and 30 bucks a month or 9 bucks for their "lite" version.

Or you can just use FB directly to stock your store & pay Shopify zilch.
Seascape – Graphics Rendering
Thanks for the recommendation! That looks pretty nice and “ops friendly” is definitely a plus. I will investigate this further.
Inertia kills drivers
Right but it requires planning and a “night out in the city.” Meanwhile, I buy symphony tickets an hour before show on a lark because they are cheap on stubhub.
While I agree that Arch is far from minimal, it is one of the distributions that encourage people to build their system up to meet their needs. This is a far cry from the attention grabbing desktop distributions that may or may not offer a server version that can be built upon (which I, perhaps unfairly, interpret as discouraging the build-up approach).
If several possible motivations describe the same behavior, why go for the most cynical one? It is not a sign of intellectual rigor. There is a wide array of emotions, and not every action is driven on fear and selfishness, in fact the best things most certainly aren't.
This is totally unrelated to the article but I keep thinking about this lately: does anyone know what happened to Noah Glass who was a part of the original founding team?
The idea is that everyone receives a basic income, equivalent to a (hopefully) updated minimum wage. Then if people want extra money for luxuries, then you work a job which will pay you on top of your standard basic income.

I imagine most people would continue working.
I think there has been growing momentum behind the idea that some needs aren't met best by a market approach. One of the ideas behind UBI is that people can figure out what they need, and just spend the money.

But that doesn't really solve the needs that may not be optimal for a 100% market approach - probably the big two being health and education.
Guy opens 12 bank accounts. And logged everything
Medicare For All I'm assuming
My solution was just to not use reddit interactively anymore. I used the site for about 10 years before I got tired of wasting afternoons browsing or arguing past other users. Stuff I want to discuss usually gets linked in a discord channel and I talk about it with my friends.

When I browse now I just skim a few subreddits I like and refrain from interacting.
It’s not unprecedented to have different rules apply to private company passed a given reach.

We could see it the same way we see banks. Banks are private entities but tightly regulated and their activity is overseen by their operating country.

Applying a given set of restrictions and requiremnts to services used by more than 50% of the population for instance could be a thing.

In the US I know people would call bloody murder, but other countries could do with sensible rules of that kind.
I strongly disagree. Bad actors thrive just as well if not better in places with moderation and even sign up fees.

Metafilter is a forum which used to be very diverse in opinion and is now basically captured by a small vocal minority. How did they do this? The minority produced a large amount of content for the forum and was very active. 95% of that content was high quality and on topic but the remainder is biased and very opinionated. As a result of their interaction with the site they were closer to the mods, regarded more highly, given the benefit of the doubt in "bad actor" conversations.

Now today Metafilter is a dying community of territorial users who eviscerate anyone who doesn't know how to play the game. The minority won and created their little clubhouse corner of the internet. Metafilter as a forum though is a shell of its former self. There are fundraisers to keep the site alive and formerly paid mods and devs are now either retired or do it for free. Not only did it drive away old and new users but the minority also seems to have become bored without constant drama and moved on (as seen by new posts and commenting activity falling of a cliff).

I know the common refrain on HN and in general is "on a private platform there is no such thing as free speech" but be careful. Don't let blatantly toxic users run your platform but beware of users who are quick to call everything toxic.
OK, I honestly don’t blame them for not supporting HEIC yet. What I do blame them for is clearly not testing their system against the software and hardware students will be using. There would’ve been no problems at all if the system handled the problem and explained how to resolve it, but it sounds like it failed in a somewhat more silent fashion. Without question, they should be resolving this problem on their end.
YouTube is not the ministry of truth, it is a popular entertainment website that people visit voluntarily. People very incorrectly treating YouTube like it's some kind of authoritative source of knowledge is the problem, not YouTube.
Ask a Chinese or Japanese friend why typing is hard.
Because the web is supposed to be a web of multiple sites, built my multiple people, sharing a web of resources.

Localhost is just another site. If you want to make it secure, make it secure.

You realize that anybody on your coffeeshop wifi can also connect to your localhost server, don't you? Just because a server is running on your laptop doesn't mean it's not a server, running on the internet.
Homage – Trusted care where you are
People studied the UBI idea and recognized the costs of giving money to everyone are so enormous that it's unworkable. That's there the means testing has come in to try to limit that.

Something more like a "guaranteed minimum income" where you can't have less money than what is required to have a good standard of living is a cheaper and more effective idea that accomplishes the same goals of ending poverty.
If the government provided food, shelter, and video games, I expect quite a few people would see no purpose in working. Also the surfers and backpackers.
The college board is a pretty badly managed technology and testing monopoly (duopoly). e.g. retrieval of scores in past years for the SAT was gated by region, but if you got on a VPN you could get your scores from unreleased regions. I had a niece provide their credentials to a sketchy website that in the end delivered scores "early", but there was a talk about online security afterwards with the parents and the neice.

I do have some mixed sympathy for having to set up a whole new online testing scheme for the tests due to Covid, but their approach was so odd. Students were also instructed to compose text answers outside the test pages, and copy and paste them into answer boxes. An odd & ugly solution, but it points to at least some thought about trying to mitigate unreliabilities.
Scanners almost universally output in TIFF, and need to be converted to JPG or something more universally accepted. Nobody complains.

Some scanners even will do the conversion to JPG for you, because they know nobody accepts TIFF files.

If Apple does it, then everyone has to accept it?

And why? Because images are large and Apple's trying to reduce the size on the phone? How about giving everyone more than 5GB of iCloud storage in 2020? Google gives you 10-15GB for free, and costs half as much for more storage.

For premium-priced devices, this is absurd.
There is something about the human psyche that makes you partial to something that treats you well.

My work treats me exceptionally well. It does not treat the sales center employees as well. I find it hard to say it's a terrible place to work, because as mentioned earlier, it takes tremendous care of me, and is the reason I am able to have the life I have, the house I have, and support the family I have in the way I can.

It's ok to want to continue to be treated great, and also have them treat others better.
Payroll tax? The website should be taxamazonworkers.net
you can also confuse the paywall by putting an extra dot after the .com
Quarantine has accelerated forecasted job loss. Whether we return to baseline by next year, a lot of companies are going to take this opportunity to lean out without fear of backlash.
> Sorry, Apple buyers, but you've purchased a device that flaunts standards, and you must expect it to cause problems.

Sounds like you're putting blame on the students in this situation.
Data Science Journey for startups: The 5 tweaks that turn Typical to Ideal
But there are marginal projects that don't get built because of the higher cost of construction labor. With shortages like the Bay Area, every bit lost, for any reason, hurts.
> On-call wasn’t (and isn’t) too terrible for my team. At first we averaged 1 page every 2 weeks; now we’re up to about 1 a week.

Wow, I wish I had once a week. This is way better than my previous employer/role. I was on-call for months straight, and would get paged multiple times a night, every day, even at 2am, 4am. I had to carry my laptop to dinners, date nights, game nights, etc.

I got burned out and moved careers into a role that never has on-call. I don't get to code much anymore, but I've found other things to enjoy
Carlos here, sole dev and product at the NIUS.TV.

We have taken a similar approach on NIUS.TV. We've even taken it further by synthesizing an AI anchor.

Check it out:

- https://twitter.com/nius_tv

- https://twitter.com/beyondearthtv

The way we synthesize our videos is a little different from Baidu in practice, but similar on a high level.

For video synthesis we use an event-driven architecture using K8s jobs, and a custom job scheduler built in-house that manages all the steps of the video creation process.

Additionally, because GPUs are expensive and knowing that we synthesize our stories in batches through the day, we built a k8s-cluster-builder, that spins up and down the k8s cluster based on pending stories. This saves us a tremendous amount of cost per month, as the cluster only runs when there is actual work for it. As a bootstrapped project, costs are really important.

Our current video synthesis pipeline is comprised of 20+ steps, this includes speech-synthesis, image generation, speech+text aligners (for captions), language models, text generation, among others.

From my experience building the product, and despite the fact that AI is expensive (training wise), it is feasible to build AI-powered products using off-the-shelf DL technology without having large resources.
'top user' - who gives a fuck?

Kind of like me claiming i'm the 'top user' in GTA V?
Care to clarify and/or add a link? I'm not sure what this means. (Edit: I did not downvote you)
One has to wonder how Salesforce ever got their huge glass building in the SF skyline, what with all the regulations preventing anything from working.

Engineering is all about working within constraints. Too many people in software just want to do everything their way, oftentimes what they see as the easiest and quickest way, without worrying about how it affects other people.
And many of the opponents are ex-military, with tactical knowledge and skills.
What we've learned about remote working (Mark Zuckerberg)
I enjoyed reading this.

'Encourage employees to be critical not just of ideas, but also of expectations.'

From my experience as a developer; I've never really been involved in the process of setting expectations. Something I find incredibly frustrating at times. It's like sure you can give your opinion but it's too late to make any difference. I think it comes back to the main point in the article about open communication.

I think open communication needs to be inclusive. However, that's rarely the case at least in terms of setting business expectations. It's only natural to want to be involved in shaping some objective or some expectation that impacts you and for which you may be one of the more qualified to discuss.
This guy didn't work in/for/on AWS:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/4eu909/i...

The divide between AWS employees and everyone else employed at Amazon seems to be "2007 Google employee" against "sweatshop"; they're run mostly-separately, from what I've read.

This was also four years ago; the gist is a copy of a post from 2015, by the above reddit poster.
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very few people wish to subsist. most humans want a lifestyle that is similar to or better than that of the people that they socialize with
Creation of Twinings Tea and how competitors became clients
This is anecdotal but I haven’t seen guys hanging off garbage trucks in a long time. Around here it’s just one guy with a hydraulic arm on the truck that picks up the cans and dumps out garbage, and he does it very very efficiently. Pretty soon it should be possible to even replace the driver with a self driving truck that goes around pre determined paths in the neighborhood.
Renters.
The whole "psychology" part is what I was thinking of too. I do NOT want a car payment, as I feel like these sorts of games hide how much you really are paying. And car dealerships are a business, so they encourage this sort of behavior for a reason (likely to get as much money as they can out of you).
are you actually banning people or using automod to automatically remove their posts?

There's no benefit to banning the bad folks, since, like your guy, they just create a new account.

author:
name: [baddude1, baddude2]
action: remove
action_reason: "Troll / Spammer"

In my subs, this one condition does the most work. I also filter off low karma and new accounts to prevent spammers, trolls, etc.
> They could have easily made it so that uploading or transferring images, especially to websites, uses a standard format that 99.9% of websites support

They do.
Adventures in Blind Sailing and FPGA Acceleration
no worries, labels like "environmentalist" don't matter nearly as much as intent and action.
You said this much better than I could. I'd expect the power of management to increase over individual ICs, too.
A similar experience happened to me while I was in school, and opened a bank account through the university which had a partnership with $BANK since there weren't any nearby ATMs in-network with the credit union from my hometown. Thinking that having access to cash would be in my best interest in case of needing to buy things secondhand like from Craigslist; and didn't see a clause in the contract which required a minimum balance for both the signup bonus and until seeing a $15 monthly fee withdrawn from the account which had a small deposit made into. It ended up being a net loss-- missing that work to open a bank account with an unattainable minimum balance meant the entire process ended up costing almost 2 hours worth of pay.

Google Wallet solved this problem while they were still around but the service was canceled likely due to being a loss leader for the company, and have since switched to Simple which has several ATMs available in my area.
> What happened?

Somebody did the math.
Why must we rush to blame, instead of solve problems?
Banks are businesses, why can't they charge what they want for services?
I disagree. The Fed is printing so much money that you have to remember that all those stocks are priced in now diluted dollars.

The worst thing you can do is keep your money in cash. When inflation kicks in, the companies will raise their product prices, and their stocks will inflate accordingly. Meanwhile the purchasing power of your savings will dwindle.

This is also why real estate is going up despite the pandemic.
Yeah the best solution is that we, as in our local governments, should be our own landlords and own more of the property that we rent out. Not just housing for the poor, but for every spectrum of wealth. If rental housing is such a good investment, then let's get in on it ourselves.
The Current Overview of the Global Water Crisis
Facebook to Push Remote Hiring, Tells Employees They Can Move
As autonomy in cars becomes more common, organ transplants and small towns that run on speeding ticket income will have to find new solutions.
“As of today, Shopify is a digital by default company” he said.
Some of these thoughts are wishful thinking though. The majority of people will not explore the mountains, travel, visit more their family and friends, exercise and improve their wellbeing, but will probably spend even more time at home, stuck on their smartphones and social media all day, making them miserable and lonelier. I might sound pessimistic but it was already happening before covid19 with all these social media nonsense.
To clarify, I meant some people not all. I’ve observed an uptick in Malthusian sentiment.

It’s not uncommon for people to say things like this: “Honestly is it wrong that I’m happier that the dog survived the car crash than its owner?” or “it would be better if we all just die off and let Mother Nature heal.”
Robert Stone’s Bad Trips
Lol this ! WRITE down that rabbitmq-web-admin passwd. After the setup and first few weeks of checking the speed of your queues you will forget about it and try to login in 1 year later :)
In California, independent contractors and gig workers are allowed to claim unemployment due to COVID, whether or not they were previously a W2 employee. (The same is not true in all states, including presumably the state of the commenter to which I replied.)
Windows lets you view the data that is being gathered on your machine, this would include the package manager:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic-...

MS adheres to GDPR export/delete requirements. Failure to adhere risks litigation so it's not something that MS is just going to willy-nilly flaunt.

It's frustrating reading a lot of comments that are of the form "Why doesn't MS just do XYZ?" from individuals who don't seem to know that MS is already doing that.

[disclaimer, MS employee]
Q&A with technical director of cloud and DevOps
My interpretation of that posters argument is that someone who posts as much as this reddit user can’t be putting much effort into finding these links. That means there’s more lowest-common-denominator type content that people look at very quickly, upvote, and move on. That type of thing pushes out interesting discussion style posts, which is something that happens in every subreddit that gets large enough. Not sure what the solution is.

His point about “most” users disliking it is questionable, and might be misconstruing the thoughts of a vocal minority, but I think there’s some merit to an anti-hedonistic mindset when it comes to reddit style content posting.
See also:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250034

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14161876
They are until we have driverless cars, because we teach the next generation this dangerous behavior. I.e. it is institutionally contagious.
Well I don't see any of those on G2A.
I mean temporarily during this lockdown - not indefinitely.
Because the handover treaty said that it had to happen for the next 50 years. And the 50 years aren't up.
Please learn what you are talking about, on even a basic level, before blaming Apple.

You're wrong about USB-C, too, so please learn about that, too.

And lastly, you're hilariously wrong about revenue from dongles, so again, learn the basics before hurling accusations, not after (or, in your case, never).
haha I think we might be in the same neighborhood
There's a lot of difference between preventing a student shouting down a professor in class with some crap argument and the college telling the student they're not allowed to quietly discuss an "unfounded hypothesis" in some corner with another student.

The beauty (theoretically) of platforms like YouTube is that we can watch what we like and skip what we don't without harming any other user.

And as for qualifications, if an oncologist isn't qualified to have an opinion on COVID-19, YouTube sure as hell isn't.
Despite the fact that I agree with their sentiment, you're 100% in the right here. HN is great because it's NOT the place for that. Thanks for speaking out.
There is a trend among companies that have established themselves as a monopoly of sorts in a niche and stopped innovating.

They can work 'remotely'. Of course they can - they are hardly doing anything :)

Twitter, Basecamp, Shopify - what do all these companies have in common? They don't need to do anything and even if they could, they haven't for so long, that working in an office or remotely changes nothing. They're in maintenance mode - you can do maintenance mode from home while cutting staff/costs. Good.
Agree, but I'd push back on the "single payer healthcare" bit and say that "Single payer" is not the only way to deliver universal healthcare. Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Singapore all have thriving multi-payer systems. In Switzerland and the Netherlands, ALL insurance is private. In Singapore, while the government covers catastrophic care, 70% of total health expenditures are private.

The common theme is that there is some degree of government intervention and regulation, but having the government be the sole payer is definitely an approach, but it's by no means the only approach, nor even the best approach.