skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what academic institutions you're talking about (it means university in my book), but in non of the academic institutions I worked for did the academics have anything to do with IT decision making (except for maybe filling out a survey). Which is unfortunate because then we wouldn't have to deal with stupid IT people coming from large businesses and thinking that universities are just the same as any business. To give you examples of some of the stupidity I have seen from university IT (and yes they are almost completely recruited from other large businesses): operating system researchers not given admin rights, every semester break reimaging the lab pc and never checking that the special drivers and software for the lab equipment is installed correctly (solution: have the professors/academics check every lab PC before semester starts, great thing to check 200 PCs one week before the beginning of the lectures where you have lots of other things to do), no ability to share calendars with outside people because security (suggested workaround just sync to Google on you phone and use that, I kidd you not). Generally, only buy Microsoft (or some other huge proprietary vendor) tech which can never be adjusted to the needs of the academics actually working with it.

TLDR there is lots of things wrong with It in academia, but academics making the decisions is not one of them. Also, generally most universities I know about were reasonably well prepared for online courses and it worked largely seemlessly.
Yet, the idea of infinitesimals is very popular in applications. For example, in undergrad physics courses, when deriving formulas (essentially, doing math!) they keep talking about a "small area" or a "small volume" (where a given function is assumed to stay constant).
Those companies already hire all over the world for the scarce, high dollar engineers. I don't think top end compensation will drop while those companies are monopolies. Most of those salaries balloon because they poach people from each other.
This is such a bad idea. Also, you seemed to miss my points about why advertisers pull ads.

It's actually a good thing if advertisers don't sponsor something because their customers don't like that thing. Those customers are voting with their money, and those customers -- the democratic electorate -- those are the people we want making censorship decisions

This bizarre notion that more regulation (advertisers can't choose what videos they advertise on) would somehow fix the problem we're seeing is completely disconnected from reality
Based on Levels.fyi data for salary by level, how much would the level for that role have paid in the Bay Area?
Fellow happy Amazon SDE - hopefully you're not being literal saying you have depression from HN type crowds displaying their typical amount of empathy. just in case you are, take this as a friendly reminder that you're not the only person with that experience and it's easy to just stop reading the nonsense
Worth mentioning SymbiFlow: https://symbiflow.github.io/, it's a fully open-source flow for FPGAs, Xilinx support (targetting the Arty A7 that the project in this story uses for instance) is on the way so hopefully won't be long until you can build a opensource RISC-V SoC that can run Linux entirely on open source tooling.
I understand, and most media companies are going to be forced to lay off people when they simply don't have enough money to pay them anymore. I don't blame them if there's nothing they can do. This is a relatively unique circumstance where the owner could easily keep paying them if she wanted to, but has chosen not to. Ad revenue and live events are not gone for good, just for a little while.
I've been relearning some math that I forgot so that I can learn general relativity (just for fun), and this was what I worked through to brush off my calculus. Really great book, and far superior to anything else I've seen. There seem to be two approaches to calculus: dumbed down and mechanical (pretty much any modern non-math major text) or abstract and proof based (something like Spivak). This first group of books takes pages and pages to get to the point and provides no understanding of why calculus works. The second book is just too hard for a normal person who doesn't already know the subject pretty well and who is trying to teach themselves. Calculus Made Easy fits right in the sweet spot. While it isn't entirely rigorous, it does justify everything clearly enough that you can see that the manipulations you're learning are valid. At the same time, it always remains focused on calculations, so you don't get lost in abstractions.
First of all, you assume she is running the day-to-day. I don't know that she is. My guess is she isn't and its Emerson plus The The Atlantic. Thats their job.

In terms of "temporarily maintain their jobs", events have been cancelled for months. You can argue that management did try this.

However with no clear Federal management or proper guidance, and states taking opposing approaches, we are going to see this return in waves and events business is not coming back soon.
Journalism is in many ways excempt from the gdpr (although it does vary by member states IIRC)
> I always see comments like this from individual contributors.

Tangent, but did I miss some trend here? Over the recent months, I've started to see the phrase "individual contributor" being used pejoratively, at times almost like a swear word. Is it now a label that's assigned to bad employees or something?
That's a great trick! Any idea how profitable this was?
It's pretty common for grandparents to show and send people physical photos of their grandchildren.
You want to build fifteen 10' x 10' rooms, in a 150' building?

People aren't big on walls, so it might work.
Seems like the perfect problem to apply reinforcement learning to. Just let it play and learn at the same time.

I think they could even skip the explicit implementation of ball position/velocity tracking.
I think it's a double edged sword. Encouraging people to minimize their COL and spend the money on underinvested areas of the country is fantastic for decreasing the wealth gap.

But the other likely outcome is drastic COL inflation in low COL areas which adversely impacts them significantly more.
The whole "Orange Man Bad" thing is the most vapid, discussion-stifling meme I've ever seen, and it's really disappointing that the right has adopted it wholesale. It's practically a guaranteed response to any criticism of Trump whatsoever, no matter how measured or ultimately warranted. Calling people "NPCs" for disagreeing with you is really revealing, and I don't think it leaves the impression that you believe it does.

You can't actually think he's beyond reproach, can you?
I think you're confusing who writes the check vs who bears the cost. The person writing the check isn't always the one bearing the cost.
Billboard calling for Silk Road founder’s release appears in Times Square
I noticed that, too. I think that's mostly coincidence. Velocity is based on story points. Here's a definition of story points as a unit of measure that I like:

A Story Point is a relative unit of measure, decided upon and used by individual Scrum teams, to provide relative estimates of effort for completing requirements.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-do-we-use-story-poi...

It is generally recommend you not include time as a component of that unit. For our teams, we kinda do. (Basically, for us, story point = time + uncertainty + complexity.) So there is a common standard. But with scrum you're supposed to size stories relative to other (previous) stories and I feel it's ok for the standard measure of a story point to drift apart between teams as long as its internally consistent to the team.

So maybe there's some kind of leveling force at work. But probably not.
That's a low bar. The vast majority of helicopter operations are commercial (They're EXPENSIVE, so pleasure helicopters...don't really exist), and the accident rate is far far worse than commerical fixed wing... 20x or more.
Because timezones add massive amounts of friction.
> A sitting president was impeached, but not removed from office. He was charged with high-crimes.

> lots of self-debt that we cant pay back.

Neither of those work that way. I agree on the 2-party stacked system though.
And yet there seem to be many companies that are fine with lackluster?

Seems to be very much a reflection of how engineering is managed at a company.
There are lots of good, simple window managers (not to mention other utilities) for xorg. Window managers in wayland have a lot more work to do, and are typically more complicated.

There are lots of utilities that aren't available in wayland yet, so you'll often end up with an x server installed anyway.
TI's strangle hold on the education market is stupid. Anyone that's looking for an affordable ($99)and modern calculator, check out the Numworks. It's fantastic. It does all the normal things a calculator should do and comes with a Python interpreter out of the box. Check out their simulator[0]. Also the hardware and software are open source[1].

[0] https://www.numworks.com/simulator/
[1] https://github.com/numworks
> Non-green photosynthesizers

We actually have non-green photosynthesizers on Earth: purple ones. There are a variety of reasons why, but one is that it is more optimal in shade (green is certainly more efficient for direct sunlight from Sol).
"Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks..."
> People can nonetheless charge for sitting for a photo shoot.

It's more about royalties. The professional modelling industry (of any kind—hand models, for an unusual example) would be unsustainable if the only payment were direct work-for-hire. Models need to make money from downstream uses of their likeness, just like people who produce music need to make money from downstream sampling of their song. Otherwise, the most profitable position would become that of the "sampler" (who, after all, wouldn't need to license anything, and so would get their source material for free!), strangling out those who rely on original licensed material, and thus killing any demand for those who produce such material.

> Every newspaper does it every day.

The thing that journalists and documentarists are doing, in such cases (though not all—they often do license!) is fair use. And fair use is a defense, not a legal justification (i.e. it's like murder in self-defense, not like executing someone as part of your legal duties as a state executioner.) In other words, doing something under fair use does not protect you from getting sued; it just means you potentially have a good argument to use, if-and-when you do get sued.

Yes, oftentimes certain types of likeness rights are "obvious fair use." For example, a picture taken of a place, where that place contains a crowd—the photographer is unlikely to attempt to acquire likeness rights for anybody in the crowd. But technically, any one of those people could still sue for an infringement of their likeness rights.

Now, normally, such a crowd-member who sued wouldn't win... but if the person in the crowd was an "ex-celebrity" who'd gone into hiding and had made a statement that they didn't want to be in the public eye any more; and the paparazzist took the photo specifically because the ex-celebrity was in the crowd, with the intent of printing it out on the side of a building and highlighting with a spotlight just the little bit of it where the person is? They'd have a very good case. Even though it's still "a picture of a crowd, in public."

As well, you lose any notion of this implicit "obvious" fair-use defense, when you're no longer taking pictures of public places. A nudist beach, for example? Usually they've legally arranged to be considered "public-access private commercial facilities." You have no fair-use defense for pictures taken there, any more than you do for pictures taken inside a Starbucks.

A home is a private place. Grandma isn't taking street photos. In fact, without an explicit grant of rights, she's not just infringing upon the subject's likeness rights; she's surveilling private property. Just like most retail stores say you are, if you go in and take pictures of the shelves.
Amazing how many people are so against remote work here.

Hey, here’s a thought. Let people choose how and where they work best.

/thread.
This looks like the sort of conspiratorially-minded, innuendo-laden thing that the same author has previously written for The Intercept. The Gray Zone having some sort of spat with The Intercept is maybe an interesting spectator sport for those who are into that sort of thing but I think it's a pretty lousy as an HN topic.
I disagree, the detailed headline helped me to predict the story correctly. Her use of Facebook as a grandmother was very typical and the disagreement one I'd heard before.

It'd be irrelevant if she was posting data she'd got e.g. from her job.
What does the “billionaire class” have to do with this? The total cost of bailouts in the US so far is $6 trillion. That is 45 times as much money as all US billionaires earned last year. It is as much money as all US corporations earned in profits in the last four years.

99% of all income isn’t earned by “the billionaire class.” It’s earned by the rest of us. We’re the ones who will be paying for the COVID-19 economic shutdown, because we’re the only ones with enough money to do it.
Wow this is very similar to what I just started working on: https://bifocalnews.com

My strategy for picking headlines is to let it happen democratically on Reddit where the bias is explicit in the community rules of the subreddit. I have not yet found a great "center" news source or community.

I really like your news layout and the scrolling headlines at the bottom!
I can't speak for the Netherlands but in the US most publications are just glorified tabloids. Not enough people appreciate quality journalism to pay for it, at least not enough to cover the operational costs of our bloated news outlets. So they turn to publishing "anonymous sources", hearsay, and outright lies that will be quietly retracted because it pays more than the truth. Spreading FUD has always been the MO of the news, I won't be upset if all these companies go belly up. Make way for a new generation of grass roots journalism.
How far down the road of something like nand2tetris can I take a FPGA ? Can I design my own system in verilog and flash it to a FPGA like this and effectively run on my own computer?
> Cost of living should not dictate your value to the company.

Your "value" to the company depends a lot on your compensation and your compensation depends on the marketplace for other developers with similar skills.
> As a software engineer, of course I think I should make the same regardless of I'm on-site or remote.

Yup, this is super tricky.

Even if the company pays me the same, I don't make the same whether I live in SF BA vs in Denver (13% income tax in CA vs 5% in CO).
Additionally, I don't need to make the same whether I live in SF or in Denver.
I would spend 5% less purely because a similar house in a similar suburb with similar schools costs 25% less to rent in Denver than in SF Bay Area.
In other words, with no discernible drop in quality of life, I could make 10-15% less than in SF BA and live a similar life in Denver.

This isn't even considering quality of life improvements (which are subjective) or the cost of buying (which is also more subjective but also has to factor in risk, appreciation etc)
I'd say it's not too bad, but it's rapidly falling to pieces, and personally I haven't seen the kind of action I think necessary to ensure it functions at all 50 years from now, shit, let alone 20.

And that's a huge chunk of the US population, but still, it's one city. What of Los Angeles, with its buses stuck in permanent traffic, or its subway with, what, 15 stops? What of Houston, with a light rail that travels about the speed of a car but waits at every intersection, and serves something like 10% of the city? What about getting from one city in the US to another?

Sure, it's a big country. Sure, it industrialized the car. Sure. But still.
_Some_ people will do that, like the aforementioned "can't be choosy" cohort I noted in my original comment.

For all the talk about abundance of engineering talent, talk to anyone who's actively had to hire in the past six months and it's a complete slog of unqualified candidates. I would find it hard to believe that engineering talent (_especially_ at FAANG level) is in a market position that doesn't afford them negotiation power. One or two people doing this is certainly nothing, but if enough do it, then it makes a potential difference.

I'll be very curious to see how FBs staff handles this come Jan 1. Probably disappointed, I'm aware... but curious nonetheless.
Yes, but the point is CV19 is only just beginning, and already its rivalling the largest risk Americans face. Where will it peak? 2X? 3X?
From your high horse :-) you seem to have missed that the next line was:

"sales, editorial and events staff are all impacted".

So not just event staff.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. --Henry Ford
Via billboard? Published in the paper?
In the US and presumably many other jurisdictions, that's not true. The owner of the copyright of the photograph is the one who took it, not the subject of the photograph, baring pre-existing contract arrangements. There are limits, but generally speaking if a photograph of an individual is taken in a public space it is owned by the photographer.

This is the legal regime that enables a lot of journalism, good and bad.
> Who took the pictures? In a sane legal system it would boil down purely to who owns the copyright, barring an exceptional circumstance like revealing medical information.

So I could just follow you around taking pictures of your face, kids, family, work, house, car, and then post a big beautiful album online since I would have... the copyright? You're ok with that, right? What a crazy legal landscape the US is.
Are you familiar with the concept of Bullshit Jobs? In short, I'm not convinced that all or even most jobs are actually necessary.

Surely it's reasonable to expect that people will be passionate about the things that actually need to be done, precisely because they are necessary. One of the most intense people I've ever met has cleaned SUPERFUND sites for decades. I'm not sure how well paid they are, but I am sure it isn't about the money. If they have trouble attracting people, they'll raise wages, and surely we can expect that what some people enjoy is making lots of money. Would it be so bad if working a shitty job no one would do voluntarily was well compensated, instead of poorly?

In experiments with UBI, many of the people who quit do so to spend more time with their family - and keep in mind, domestic work is _work_ that is _necessary_ and incredibly valuable to society - or to retire earlier. Doesn't that sound reasonable? Do we really need to force people to work when they could be engaged in other activities valuable to society or to themselves? Wouldn't it be nice if there was more room for young people to be promoted?

Another thing idea I've been toying with is the devil's bargain of trading UBI for eliminating minimum wage. I was watching a video about getting into locksmithing, and the speaker joked that if you made some faux pas, your potential employer would value you at $2/hr and send you packing.

But that begged the question for me; what if I could work for $2/hr, with very few barriers, and get enough experience to earn more? In order to be hireable, I'd have to work at a negative rate, investing money in tools and locks to practice on. I have the privilege of having a family that could support me while I did something like that. But what if we could all do that, not because you won a socioeconomic lottery, but because our society was willing to invest in you and take a chance on you, regardless of your background?
eh. I thought both the article and the headline were fair.
There is a very old saying: “conservatives have no hearts, but liberals have no brains.” It’s quite apt during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lots of people have plenty of (very warranted) empathy, who can’t wrap their minds around what it really means to be spending $2 trillion a month keeping the economy shut down. Innumerates who think “the billionaires should just pay for it.”
The game will shift to a competition among state and local government policies. We already know how this game ends. More profit for corporate; less rights for the workforce.
no, he waffled

in interviews he literally said, when challenged, that "mfa isnt actually a bill" and that "mfa to means xyz" when actually mfi is a bill and specifically defined as a policy not some ambigous goal of "getting everyone covered, lets discuss how to get there"

i was deeply dissapointed in him after that...
Ragnar Locker ransomware deploys virtual Windows XP machine to dodge security
Amazing, thank you so much!
Related ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23264521
But it's built on patented codec (H.265). It's illegal to use it without a patent license, regardless whether it's a standard or not. Even if you wrote your own implementation, it would be illegal for you to use your own code.

Technically HEIF is a good format — it's half the size of WebP. WebP is based on a much weaker codec that is two generations older. AVIF is a freely-licensed HEIF alternative.
Excel merge supports joins, and you can do ordinary SQL joins using Power Query. I don't know if it full complies with all of Codd's 12 rules, I suspect it probably doesn't fully meet the schema definition or non-subversion bits, but I haven't looked into it closely enough, the Excel Data Model functionality looks like it might actually do that.
> That a huge part of the population choose unwisely and footgun themselves and the rest it's quite obvious.

Twitter and media hyperbole aside how exactly is the current admin that much different than the previous? Bush #2 had fake WMDs and leveraged that to go to war. A war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and a ridiculous amount of money. The last admin bailed out Wall Street (with few concessions), re-signed and expanded the Patriot Act, floated the Paris Climate Accord as a victory (but Naomi Klein tells otherwise). Over both of these admins and prior income inequality has increased.

We've been getting shot in the foot, the head, the arse, etc. I'm not a DJT voter or fan but the idea that he's the problem is naive. If W.DC had been doing their job there would have been no opportunity for DJT to rise. Trump is a symptom. Let's not be foolish and blame the symptom.
A question every family should be asking...
No? It’s an ISO standard that’s separate from H.265. Maybe you’re thinking of HEVC, which is like that. (Alternatively I’m wrong, which is totally possible)
Related ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261394
I do agree, I wish we could live in such a world, but we indeed do not. That's why economics professionals receive nobel prices for their investigations into nudge economics and imperfect trade systems

Cows are not perfect spheres, and people are not perfect rational agents and that won't change for the foreseeable future so policy makers need to handle things with their avaliable policy tools, not the tools they wish they had
But if everyone including those in the low COL area was getting UBI then it should equalize no?
There are documents in the WHO's online archive which support the claim. E.g.:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331393/WH-1...
I'm hopeful for enterprise VR, but timezones are a harsh mistress.
Why shouldn't cash be the benchmark when it comes to aiding poor folks? If giving food or shelter really is more helpful than just giving the equivalent cost in cold hard cash, that will be quite interesting. But let's see the proof of that.
I'd be more willing to have this conversation if Youtube had actual competition.