skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that DC is not on the standard with SF or Seattle (what are the other West Coast tech hubs), DC is definitely a tech hub in it's own right.

The problem with DC is that the talent pool is extremely diluted by disillusioned, rent-seeking government contractors who get a certification, claim a bunch of stuff on their resume, and get bid as part of a 20-person team on a contract that really only requires 5-6 committed (for the sake of argument, "SV caliber") people.

The problem is, hardly anyone that is "SV caliber" wants to work on pokey gov't contracts, but enough people on that team care enough about the mission, the project, or their company to allow the freeloaders to get away with it.

There's no incentive to firing them because a) the client understands that govt work is extremely inefficient so they tolerate it b) the freeloaders are very good at not pissing anyone off (they are very friendly and dress well, etc) and c) their employer literally loses money if they are removed.

So the cycle continues.

Having said all that, in amongst the chaff there is a significant kernel of wheat in the DC area, both in the contracting as well as private sector space.

Capital One has a really good engineering culture and hires a lot of very smart kids straight out of school and trains them very well. Many of them don't stay in DC, however, and go on to work at GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, etc for big salaries after their 2-year stint at COF is over.
I interpreted the top-level comment as a list of extra external promises you could add to your class's interface (incremental search, save/restore, etc). If those are easier to test with functions and a state parameter, it might be better to skip the class.
What are you trying to say here? You seem to be agreeing with the OP. Different people like different ways of working and we should have possibilities for both.
nice. going to think on ways to use it!
I don't get it. You open source something (make it public) so everyone can benefit in any way, inspiring, forking, extending, giving back, etc. Someone does so and your offended?
in exchange for Jump selling to Lime, Uber took an increased stake in Lime.
I think this depends, for me at least. I've had jobs where my coworkers and I aren't that close at all even working together in an office setting. We had little attachment to each other during and after the shared job experience was over.

Then, I have had jobs where we worked in office and for extended periods remote and I feel closer and actually have more of a relationship with them, sometimes for many years down the road when we don't even live near each other anymore. I still see them when I visit town and we talk on the phone.

I work remote with some folks in another project and I honestly feel closer to some of them than some on-site groups I have worked with. I guess everyone is a little different in this.

I have some non-work relationships that operate more like you describe and also ones that don't.

It is a little offensive to hear assignment of people who don't operate the same way as described as being far on the autism spectrum.
Counterpoint: the Lomo LC-A.
Glastonbury is a town with a long history, some ancient myths concerning its historic monuments and a very famous music festival which make it attractive to various types of New Age spiritualists and retired hippies.

The UK has plenty of councillors with very unusual views, but Glastonbury is where most satirists would locate a councillor who believed in magic anti-5G fields [just like they'd locate the retired major colonel who's disgruntled about parking issues or lack of respect for royalty in Tunbridge Wells]
I mean, it wasn't merely emphasis. Likewise, "NBA" is not mere emphasis in the statement "Muggsy Bogues is the shortest person in NBA history".
Agreed, I think it is also one of the principles that leads to more success in education. MOOCs notoriously have high drop off rates despite offering all the components we ascribe to positive learning experiences. I think the human component gives students a community of peers that are equally struggling in the course, even if they are explicitly not invested in a peer's progress.
The article title is intentionally click-baity.

The extent to which it's true entirely depends on what "your job" is. Routine, non-creative work that can be performed asynchronously, with limited contact with others - the tech equivalent of craft piecework - sure, that can usually be done from anywhere: things like answering (simple) tech support requests, maintaining a static codebase with no new requirements, or implementing a feature for which the requirements and technical design have already been specified by others.

Having myself worked on teams that located such tasks in lower-cost-of-labor regions, I can attest that most of those cost savings have already been realized.

But creative work, like proposing the problems to solve in the first place, facilitating the discussion of how to solve them, and designing the technical and human solution - especially for problems at the intersection of technology and culture - those are not easily shifted to remote work. If the outsourced/remote worker is competent enough to work in that kind of capacity remotely, they will cost as much the non-remote worker.
U.S. Police Shootings: Breaking Down the Data by Race
According to the article:

> However, there were also "tens of thousands" of older-model bikes that Lime did not inherit as part of the deal.

and it's these.
I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that this tweet alone is how I concluded anything about Dawkins. This tweet was just the most egregious example that I could find, and really made me reconsider whether my admiration of him as a scientist and spokesperson for evolutionary theory was well-placed. There are others [1], not to mention his various appearances on podcasts etc., and more long-form blog posts on his site where he reiterates these things (those are harder to dig up, and I'm too lazy to do so at the moment).

The site linked to in this article is an older example of his thought process, seen through the lens of interpretation, and is a very shallow view of some purported mechanics of evolution. Maybe just useful for illustrating some concepts without attempting to showcase the entirety of evolutionary theory, but worrying, because he never addresses the fundamental ideas of complexity and statistical dispersion of a population, at least in anything that I've seen.

I don't think he's incompetent, just that his understanding (or maybe, just his explanations, to be generous) of evolution are very shallow. Maybe he's just stopped thinking; relying more on his own beliefs and less on the path he took to arrive at them. Collecting rent on his position as a popularizer of evolutionary theory.

In terms of "other reasons", I'll try to address that. I align strongly with almost all of his publicly held beliefs -- I am an atheist, though less anti-religion[2], I am pro-evolution, though less mechanism-oriented. My conclusions have no motivation beyond a desire to assign some prior believe in his future statements.

[1] https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/531154466255667200, https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/111203295062165913... (this one is the worst), https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/313323444299251713

[2]
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/110833954764401049...
tax also could be an issue, it is in my country.
Gnome Foundation should give the money back.
The x32 ABI but for ARM, and maybe it will gain traction because of the oodles of Pis! Thank you for telling me.
Depends on how hard you wanna go. I dunno about any prebuilt console/control panels, but this guy built a whole A-10 cockpit by himself w/ RasbPI's ;) Pretty neat. I too want a control panel for my apps!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJq3cq9N6xYF0fAvTgpwoBg/vid...

Edit: here's the build breakdown video: https://youtu.be/gDy10Wy4vw4?t=57
I would like to see one of those wicked vapor cooled heat pipes on a spreader built for the Pi.
RSS using Inoreader
This is not at all like when restaurants throw away food. The key distinction here is is that the bikes are getting recycled. They will be broken down and sold as scrap materials.
New Commodore PET compatible computer
Except the vast majority of npm modules are literally one function.

There’s no difference between module and function when you see that.
Simply bumping the weight upto 400 would make the site much more readable.
Does anyone know the latest on the Swift-Python bridge from the TensorFlow team[0]? Is this still in development or usable for iOS apps?

[0] https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/tutorials/python_interopera...
If I have a string x = "this is a very long string..." and do y = x[:10], then it's a whole new string? If x is near my memory limits, and I do y = x[:-1] will it basically double my memory usage? Is that what you meant by every string is a new string?
Why do you think people who work from home would consume less?

Where does that excess money go to?
I have a (probably horrible) joke reply to the question "what is a monad?" I say "that's where you put the real programming." I have also never done any serious with Haskell, so don't make the mistake of taking me seriously on this :)
The title is correct. The article says that these are:

> "tens of thousands" of older-model bikes that Lime did not inherit as part of the deal.

> Uber said in a statement. [...] "[...] we decided the best approach was to responsibly recycle them."
actually r/Hinduism is not focused on strict discussion based on scripture also there are many kind of media formate involved like images,videos etc, for example religious groups have many rules and hierarchy based on scriptures to decide the quality of posts which is not found in r/Hinduism.
I saw Anki integration mentioned recently on the TiddlyWiki boards. TiddlyWiki was also mentioned elsewhere here. It can technically do a lot of the things Obsidian/Roam can with modifications. Stroll and Drift are examples of TiddlyWiki variants. I've been trying them out, there's a bit of a learning curve. Look it up on Google Groups.
This may be one of the best 'product' landing pages I've ever seen. Kudos.
1K for a decent standing desk, chair, dock, monitors, webcam, ups... yeah I spent more than that on my personal home work desk setup.

When I was working with a larger company the expected me to provide the furniture (Sans monitor arms), they supplied the electronics.

What have you guys had your workplaces cover?
Docker for Windows is at parity for Docker for Linux, so I don't know what improvement you'd like.
I chalk it down to the pendulum swing. When it was mostly offices, some people wanted to work remotely. Now that it’s mostly remote, some people want to work in offices.

Articles that are upvoted (which I largely associate with “people who identify with the sentiment of the article”) show up will reflect the current state of the pendulum.
The far far away planet of Erath! The stories told far and wide …
2 in office, 2 from home.
Oh yes definitely: some of the “sins” of LaTeX (doing too much with TeX macros, etc) do start with Knuth himself (though he seems to have been doing it for fun rather than prescribing it for general use), and some are in plain TeX too. But though I wouldn't call it conflict, I think there is a difference (of focus at least), which comes across in the way they are used: Knuth does all his writing, editing, and polishing with pencil on paper, and only uses the computer to finally type it up for typesetting and fine-tuning the appearance. (Also, he tends to use not plain TeX necessarily but take ideas from it and create a separate “format” for other documents.)

On the other hand, LaTeX is clearly designed with the vision of being a complete “document preparation system” for authors from the moment they first turn their thoughts into words. The former approach I guess is feasible today if you do most of your “document” stuff in another place (if not pencil and paper, then maybe a plain text editor or Markdown or…) and use TeX only at the end, for typesetting.
Sounds like a quick way to end up in a personal spam filter to me...
That's not true, and it is frustrating to read such a pointless falsehood. I worked in a soup kitchen for years. The Bill Emerson's Good Samaritan Act of 1996 codified in federal law what states had started implementing in the 70s, that good faith donations won't hold people/corporations liable to food injury.
Checkout variable fonts. With them, you only load 1 single font file(abit a bit bigger) and specify the weights and styles through css.
Serotonin is involved in regulating the digestive system so if you take drugs that act on serotonin like LSD or MDMA symptoms like nausea are quite common.
Good idea, I will pass this along to the search team.
Personally, I'm not convinced things would be any better if I were on audio calls all day--although it would let me tune out more. But, at that point, maybe I just shouldn't be in those meetings if I'm just treating them as background noise.

I admit that I'm more accustomed to the video chat thing than many. I work for a heavily remote global company and I'm very rarely in an office (even though I'm officially associated with one).
> I'm assuming here that you're taking "standard precautions":

Under the standard of "standard precautions," iOS has had multiple orders of magnitude more malware infections than Android instead of just one or two due to Xcodeghost.

Also, my statement was about people outside of China, as you can see by the end of the quoted sentence, so many of your reasonable precautions don't apply.

> You actually cannot buy Android phones in China [snip]

You misread my point. My point was that if you're in China, you're already screwed, no matter which device you legally purchase in China. For the rest of us outside of China (including you in Canada and me in the US), Android devices are clearly superior for privacy as I have shown earlier.

> IIRC, the phones with these editions hit a different Android One firmware-update server, one run by the Chinese government.

Android One phones are not legally sold in China because the update server is run by Google, which has no servers in China.
It may be fruitless, but we have to talk about it. We have a growth addiction that threatens to deplete the planet's resources.

Real solutions like working from home, working less, putting real taxes on externalities, reduce the scale of economies are not really taken into account because they reduce GDP, or generate fewer jobs.

We have to think of a post-growth and also post-work society
Found the link to the HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19276113
You're suggesting that we should erect artificial barriers to prevent certain groups from accessing lucrative jobs to protect certain privileged classes from competition. It's morally equivalent to (although more socially acceptable than), e.g., banning the hiring of non-white people or women so that white males can make more money. If you can discriminate on the basis of nationality then why not race and gender and religion also?
Measuring Performance Gains from CloudFront – Testing from the Edge
I'm struggling to think of any other language that has done something like this.

It might seem like a quibble, but it seems better to describe Python 3 as a different language versus Python 2. Newbies seem to get that.

(Or, alternatively, "How many Python 2 scripts will run on a Python 3 interpreter?" Answer: "None of them.")
Surely privacy is a huge concern, especially for something like wearables.
The guys on our team who have been working together in the office for a while are continuing to work together online. No Problem. The two new guys we hired get little help and they're drowning I suspect. Its just too difficult to help them. If anyone has success with onboarding new people remotely I'm interested in hearing tips.
"Yes, that is faith in a nutshell."

Perhaps it is for many, but it isn't for others.

The materialist view inherent in the antagonist's comments isn't necessarily the only rational view.

Materialism, for example, cannot even explain Life, or rather it seems to promote a mechanical basis for it, wherein a more metaphysical view i.e. that 'life is what is expressed through the material, not the material itself' is a pretty obvious opportunity for explenation.

To make the argument: "There is a God" as the basis for Religion, and then "There is only observable material" as the basis for 'Science' is I think wrong on both fronts.

There's quite a lot in between.

My own, personal view is that Spirituality is utterly rational, at least as rational as a materialist who wants to believe that you and I are merely random bags of particles, bouncing through the Universe, and that we're not really having a conversation, that we're two blobs of particles bouncing our 'fingers' of other blobs of particles, in a completely haphazard, random fashion.

I don't even think the Priest was referring to 'rational' in the sense that we might.
Ask HN: What camera apps exist that can blur faces securely? (re: Minneapolis)
Are there apps that can take photos and record videos while automatically obscuring faces securely? Blurring if it's possible to make it sufficiently irreversible, blacking out otherwise.

see the discussion here for details on which methods are NOT safe:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/129683/is-image-blurring-an-unsafe-method-to-obfuscate-information-in-images
I'd even claim a significant productivity boost in the development team, but apparently it's gone unnoticed or is underestimated, plus there are many other apartments, so that there is a rush to get everyone back to office.
Amazon.com was down
"They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus"

This statement (my emphasis) is, as far as I know, still correct, because masks are only effective if fitted properly and people are trained to use them correctly (like absolutely no touching of the mask.)

What's changed (at least in the US) is that early on the focus was on people hoarding surgical masks because they thought it would prevent them from getting infected, in the presence of a widespread shortage.

Lately, the focus has been on the benefit of mask use as a means of reducing transmission of the virus, where the evidence points to mask use being uniformly beneficial and the concerns about mask touching etc don't apply since the assumption is that you may already be infected.

This is also what the "mask protesters" don't seem to understand (or ignore.) They talk about wearing a mask or not as a personal risk decision, when it's actually about whether you expose others to the virus.
It's not that simple. Uber as a company definitely pays taxes at the city, state, and federal level.
Without getting into the weeds of the discussion, is it really dangerous to suggest that there may be potential for election fraud through mail-in ballots?

Is it simply assumed that this is some kind of hack-proof process?

Strange to find that kind of sentiment in this community, assuming that's what being suggested.

This is an election with multiple candidates, if he is lying, his political opponent can reply and point out his point-of-view as well as the lies. Given that this is possible, how is it better for the platform itself to start participating in the debate on a topic requiring some other domain knowledge?
You can put in a normal amount of effort if you want, but then you don't have the right to demand a more than a normal amount of compensation (~$50k/household in the US). I don't think it's unreasonable to demand extra effort for a FAANG salary.
Baidu's Paddle Quantum
Regarding the older CVE-2020-8816:
The code sent in the request is executed using sudo. From there, the code can use curl/wget to download a script from a specified server, and execute the script as root and take over the device.

For this CVE, here is a description:

https://frichetten.com/blog/cve-2020-11108-pihole-rce/
The digital dials also don’t give us the drama in the movies of tapping and unsticking the indicator to reveal the crisis situation. Although I wonder how common that cliché is in real life.
> I'm curious, do you think the Chinese people have been so brainwashed that they are incapable of considering the U.S. as a beacon of hope?

I think Chinese people who think of free countries where they'd rather be are more likely to have in mind Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Japan or other Asian countries than the US.

> The only interest America has in Hong Kong is purely financial.

Yes. This article doesn't even refer to the people of Hong Kong as people, simply as assets for the US to exploit.

> We've not done much to support democracy and freedom over there.

I think there's a tendency for people to forget, or simply disregard, that Hong Kong is part of China. Should China be doing more to support democracy and freedom (independence) in, say, Puerto Rico?
Idea Generation
Is it true that the L2 cache can only cover the first 1GB of RAM?
Like Elixir's Doctests?

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-a...
While access to resources is not evenly distributed (not everybody can consume equally), life itself is a consumption mechanism by design. We're currently only consuming 1 / 10,000th of the energy that reaches Earth from the Sun every day.

I'd be hesitant to paint a future whereby consumptive expansion isn't feasible or possible. In this past decade alone we turned automated prime factorization into a currency just to have an excuse to waste energy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Most older (pre-1980s) buildings in SoCal lack A/C. It all depends on how far you are from the coast, but the evenings in the summer are mostly tolerable with a fan and some open windows.

Nobody except masochists really stay inside a stuffy apartment mid-day in the summer though. The reason you pay so much in living expenses is mostly for the good weather, so people spend their weekends out and about. As a kid in the summer, I remember walking around shops in the mall just to stay cool during the hottest hours of the day, and going to the beach often. My parents would do their grocery store shopping on Saturdays and Sundays mid-day if it was going to be hot. As I got older we'd go catch a matinee, or hit up a restaurant or a bar.

I imagine workers in the L.A. area will largely flood into cafes and co-work-esque places as businesses start opening back up and remote work becomes more dominant.
I checked and checked again before submitting.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/amazon

All green here -- https://status.aws.amazon.com/ -- although I cannot login to AWS as one of the redirects in the flow is through an amazon.com url.
I try to avoid classes as much as possible these days. I do mac/iOS app development, so I can't avoid it since I need them for defining UI components. However, for non-UI code, I tend to use classes to compose separate pieces of state at very high level. The class acts as the "state machine" that updates these separate pieces of data that can only transform in a few explicit ways. Functions define transformations of these pieces state, so they're easy to comprehend and test. I didn't come up with it[1] and it's worked out really well for me.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
Counter point: I’ve gotten three promotions (one of which included a significant change in my role) while only seeing my bosses in person about 2-3 times a year.

I also, in contrast with other commenters, talk to my direct boss 2-3 times every week in a standup. We have weekly 1:1’s. My successes are recognized, my failures are managed.

Getting (or not getting) promotions is a function of your communication, not proximity. Those two-three yearly returns to the office don’t include any more (or less) communication than I had previously.
Hi! I made this. It's made with Rails and Vue with postgres for the DB.