skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another benefit of biased representation, is that it makes error values extremely noticeable.

It is common in automotive situations to reserve part of the representable range to indicate error or SNA (signal not available) conditions. If you wanted to reserve the largest positive numbers for error codes, then their hex representation would look something like 0x7FFF, which can be hard to spot in a data stream. If you used the largest negative numbers, then they would look something like 0x8000, which is also not very intuitive.

By using biased representation, you can use values like 0xFFFF to indicate error values.

Of course, you could use something like bit-flags to represent errors, but that wastes a whole bit of bandwidth. Much more efficient to amortize the enumerated value over the whole signal.

You can see a real-world example of these types of signals as defined by SAE for heavy duty trucks here: https://www.scania.com/content/dam/scanianoe/market/au/produ...
I'm confused, too. Shortly after Pao left is when all the quarantining, admin interventions, bannings, and 18+ warnings popped up on reddit. It was clear that reddit felt going mainstream was the only way for profitability.

When Pao said:

"Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining Reddit’s core principles."

Some, and I agree with them, interpreted this as Pao being the one that actually tried to keep reddit more of a discussion/free-speech site (the "core principles" she referred to), and the mob was wrong all along. Therefore, on the surface, either we were completely wrong, or Pao is changing the narrative today.

Either way, and it goes without saying, there's far more going on here than anyone outside of the board room knows.
Yes, I moved to a new city, into a poorer neighborhood to save on rent, and tried to set up WIFI in my new apartment. While I was at work, the modem that was delivered got stolen off my front porch. I said forget it, and went 2 years without WIFI. I had data on my phone for the regular chores and such, but I went 2 years without youtube, netflix, steam, (many) reddit gifs, or anything else that was bandwidth heavy.

I read more, programmed more (rewrote one of my favorite video games), swam more, and started weight lifting (I can now squat 225 lbs now, and deadlift 315 lbs). I participated in low bandwidth discussion forums more, like Hacker News, and learned that civil online discourse is still a thing in 2018/2019.

So, I mean, life is out there, and sometimes sic accidentally sic culling your addictions before you realize they're addictions is an important first step. As for where I am now, I have since fled this city after COVID became pronounced, and I once again have the usual amenities - like WIFI - but my brain chemistry is fundamentally different. I now would rather program my own projects after work, or go for a walk in the park, or read some fantasy novel. I no longer binge netflix or youtube.
These can lead to discussions similar to "it's a feature, not a bug."

Is "Make app work on device X" or "Add cornercase Y" new or upkeep?
There’s a beta for Mac released about a week ago
> if you needed protection due to crime coming your way/your family's way... you wouldn't call 911?

There is a set of the population for which this is a reality. In time of need, their call for assistance gets met with presumption of guilt, leaving them worse off than if they had not called for help.

> Even if there were 1,000 police brutality related deaths a year (there aren't), police would still be a huge net win for society, no?

Yes, unless you belong to the group from which those 1,000 come from.
I said previously

>To be clear what most people pushing this position want is for Twitter to be so afraid of ruinous lawsuits that they are afraid to ban people who the rest of us find deplorable.

and this absolutely IS your position albeit you would say for more nuanced moral reasons.

From my perspective its a win win. On the one hand I get to see deplorables banned from twitter on the other this ought to be great motivation for decentralized tools that are the only thing that can possibly be actually censorship proof.

I fully believe that your Facebook and twitter ought to be running on a $100 box on your desk where nobody can censor it with a click. Trying to fix after the fact the situation of having your ability to communicate politically depend on the courtesy of another is a losing proposition.

Nobody is going to apply the CDA in the way that the president wants especially not before November and the will to protect conservative voices will disintegrate once they have lost the presidency and the senate as well.

If you care about truly open communication donate money to people making decentralized tools instead of waiting for the injustice department to do anything useful.
Not shown: the millions of other predictions of trouble that didn’t turn out
You've been on team "let the virus rip through the population" from the start.

As such, it is unsurprising that you are taking policies created thoughtfully to try to minimize overall harm and unnecessary deaths, and instead of framing them that way, are pretending that those policies were the result of their least tactful defenders.
I'm willing the accept the 5% extra chance of death entailed by some emergency doctor not knowing my medical history. If I have something crucial, like an allergy to medication, I guess I'd just get that tattooed somewhere obvious.

In the vast majority of emergency cases for the vast majority of patients, I don't think one's medical history is going to be a significant factor in getting them out of the woods far enough to give an "encryption key."

How about just allowing me to register a checklist of what I think doctors should be informed about me with some federal database? A system that is centered around me, and my concerns, rather than just using my safety as a post hoc justification?
The Bhagavad Gita, a very old story, touches on this specific topic. In particular it mentions that everything is interconnected, everything affects everything else - in a way, we are all one.

Under that context, evolution is just change, it is not the improvement of one entity to the detriment of others. Also, given that everything is connected and we are all one, the more we help others, the more we help ourselves. It also says to widen our view of time and life, we usually think in terms of an animal/entity being born/living/dying, instead of thinking about the cycle of all species over thousands or millions of years.
That doesn’t make sense. There are 300 million guns in America and plenty of crime happens every year.

It’s true crime is down from the historical highs of the 70s and 80s, but there are very much still murders and thefts that need to be investigated and punished.

The reality is if police were abolished we’d go back to the bad old days of private detective agencies being used for security. Would you rather have some sort of unholy fusion of Blackwater and the Pinkerton detective agency performing policing tasks in our country?
That's the wrong way to go about it. You want to be pricing based on supply and demand, not based on your costs.

OP stated he wanted to work remotely, hence he's competing in the global (remote work) market. Many US and other companies hire in this market and often pay US-level (but generally not Silicon Valley-level) salaries. A lot of digital nomad types have those jobs.

Judging by OP's good grasp of English and the fact that he reads Hacker News, I'd say that alone makes him more qualified for those jobs than the bulk of developers from his country. I'd wager many of them don't even compete in that market to begin with.
I don’t think this alarmist view makes much sense because all of that has happened, and more. The Right (the group of angry young white men inhabiting r/the_donald not conservative voters) spend every moment outraged about censorship and supposed sleights against them — real or not. Everything you describe is happening every single day and has been since before Donald Trump and will continue after him. If the_donald had been shut down it would have been a positive, without question.
That joke doesn't support the claim that police aren't a force for good, only that they have been a force for less good for blacks. Of course no one is better off by "abolishing the police" (unless you're a fan of a global dark age).
Reopen America – AAPS – Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Most of the big FOSS projects depend on their core contributors being paid to work on them. Most sports teams pay highly too. It doesn't mean that most people playing sports are playing on a professional team. It also doesn't mean the professional teams pay their fans anything—despite said fans doing, in aggregate, as much (in PR et al) to earn the team their high pay scales, as the team itself does. Both big FOSS projects, and professional sports teams, are long-tail efforts, with a hard line between the core contributors (paid) and everybody else who helps (unpaid.)

Also keep in mind that many critical FOSS projects aren't big. Many are one-man shows. HN has a habit of frequently "finding out for the first time"—to much amazement and distress each time—that some project everybody's using is just kept alive by one person in their spare time.
I know that in some 3rd world countries this requires either huge bribes for setting up the company, and/or good connection since it touches on foreign trade (or both)
Despite that list, it actually works against much older devices. I've ran it with a T2i, for example, which is like three generations older than they officially support.
Question: Wouldn’t funding be congress rather than a president?
In regards to funding, every president seems to have been for it. Obama may not have been verbal about it, but certainly “funded” it:

Source: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_3566478
The 1700s Quaker Dwarf Who Challenged Slavery, Meat-Eating, & Racism (2017)
These look great and I'm sure my display isn't even doing justice to them. I imagine you are producing these on-demand, so I wonder if it's possible to allow customers choices like lighting direction and ink color. The Mt. Shasta one for example is illuminated from the north which is interesting but not realistic.
It really doesn't take much to brigade. Write some scripts to get 100 accounts upvoting your posts while they are on new, and chances are after that initial hump you've surmounted with your bots it will catch exponential viewership over the course of the day and make it to the front page.
I think in the big political (and even many of the non-political) subreddits, there is tolerance only for a very narrow band of centrist Dem opinions, and anything outside that band to the left or the right is heavily downvoted.
It hardly suggest we got the corona virus response wrong. That borders on deliberate obtuseness. First-- it doesn't me we got it wrong, it simply means that some levels of outrage are sufficient to override the fear of getting infects. Second, it will be a few weeks before we see the impact these gatherings have on infection rates.
> If you live in a place where people broadly do not support the police as an institution, you live in an odd place.

This could be the case. Tier 3 on the West Coast in the US. Everyone marching and protesting want the police either completely gone or heavily defunded to the point where they basically don't exist.
a truly civil society requires zero policing, when uncivil elements exist then policing is required, the question should arise what is the root cause of incivility?
I don't disagree about the convenience of having the Go runtime handle this automatically for you. I do wish core.async could as well.

That said, all your prior comments seem misleading, at least they confused me because it sounded like you were implying something that didn't feel accurate. Core.async has lightweight processes. The core.async Go macro can yield to other Go blocks and it will be really cheap to do so. You can have hundreds of thousands of them concurrently parked and cooperatively switching between each other, etc.

In effect, it means that you can achieve the same scale of concurrency in Clojure as you can in Go.

Yes, it will be trickier in Clojure, because you have to manage the async IO on your own, and you have to delegate an OS thread on your own when blocking IO is needed. In ClojureScript it won't be as much an issue since all IO is async, but still not as nice as auto-yielding by the runtime under the hood as Go does.
I am talking about participating in unlawful activities. I do not think most people need to be afraid of being seen in public.

The system I am working on is not for law enforcement.

I respect people standing up for what they believe in. I do not respect people destroying the property of others.

I see no harm in «educating» people. Even on HN I think there is few who understands fully modern surveillance capabilities. Knowledge is power, I believe information wants to be free.
Right. It seems to me that many here are making sweeping and unsubstantiated generalizations. There are problems in policing that need to be addressed, but to extrapolate from that that police are not necessary and/or are a net decrease in safety is really a conflation of two separate issues.
That's my thought soldiers not in uniform have no legal protection under the rules of war. They can just be summarily shot for all the law cares.
For a recent history lesson, see tumblr.
Or vine.
This probably had a lot to do with it, I wasn't implying the tear gas itself can melt eyes. But used that way, at close range it can be more damaging than a firearm. She also ended up with some respiratory problems, but I don't know much about that, it wasn't part of my girlfriend's work.
There's a lot of wiping away a tear posts about the 'compassion' of the author of the Crime Bill.
Suspect she's more just looking for something to complain about. In any case, T_D is indeed gone, and no doubt the world is a better place. Or something. I haven't noticed a reduction in vicious posts on Reddit, though.
> Look around. Most Americans would say no to this question.

Actually random polls say the exact opposite of your guarantee.

Only 15% of Americans support cutting police funding.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
Because to some people $500 is a lot and doctor visits are often useless. "See a doctor" is default advice, but it can be very expensive advice.
Rented a Jaguar F-Type from Sixt during a trip to Miami. Service was great, car was awesome, and I paid around the same I would have for a 4cylinder Mustang from somewhere else.
I guess my point was that OP was implying capitalism has no or considerably less corruption, when in reality, this is not true.

I'm not sure an ideology necessarily creates corruption. I'm not advocating for communism or capitalism or anything else, but when the UK PM is okay to start a multibillion dollar novelty project (London's Garden Bridge) and give that contract to his buddies, or the US president can literally charge the US taxpayer over $100 million to golf at his own golf course in less than four years, you cannot claim to be the better person. Capitalism sucks. Communism sucks. Instead of bashing one and praising the other despite both of them being immensely flawed, isn't the solution.

Also why my original comment is flagged is beyond me.
Remember when HuffPo was actually a decent, political scoop/gossip site? It was far more balanced then. It got hot when it veered left, but today it's an unexciting story mill.

I wonder if that's the path reddit is headed towards.
You can do that once you amass wealth in your 20s (and even early 30s if that's your style, not necessary though) and then move to a lower COL.
It really is about the affordances of getting access to space, power and the network. Nothing is hard individually, but not knowing how to navigate the landscape is much more daunting than typing some numbers into a web page.
Way too accurate for comfort.
the wine part was a joke. especially because fruit flies definitely appear to be attracted to fruit, wine, etc

i believe you are underestimating how capable humans really are. all of us can learn to do math and i’m talking serious math not basic math.
They're slowly moving to "at home" sleep studies, so hopefully the cost will come down. Essentially they just loan you a bunch of monitors on a chest belt, teach you how to put it on, and you return it the next day for your consultation.

Here's a video showing how to install the monitor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHvydhYu85o

It is still a "developing area" but I think it will be the norm eventually. It *should reduce the cost (but YMMV, as US healthcare costs don't conform to normal logic).
I'm not new to this issue and I haven't "been woken up". As I just said, I actually have experience living in a crime-ridden area. Of course the police are a problem but again, the facts simply don't line up to your statements. The police killed 1,098 people in 2019.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org

Compare that to the overall murder rate (not including other crimes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicid...

> To some segments of society (who are not criminals), the police absolutely are more of a threat than criminals.

So getting rid of the police will have no effect whatsoever on the amount of criminals or crime? It will simply remain the same? That, again, is extremely naive.

As usual, the predominant political news topic overrides all rational thought. One week, we have a mass shooting and call for more police and less guns. The next, the police unjustly kill someone and everyone wants to abolish them entirely.
They just released the Mac version of EOS Webcam Utility. https://petapixel.com/2020/05/27/canon-unveils-free-webcam-s...
It also means a lot of people don't have to worry about missing work to attend protests. In a way, we may be seeing the actual, truthful level of outrage that has always been inflamed by such events, when the expression of that outrage is not held back economic concerns.
Yes to both questions. Recycling isn't magic. It takes energy. People know big cars pollute. They don't care.
> the original core of the site was very left-leaning

I don't remember it that way. I remember it being very libertarian (Ron Paul was the Bernie Sanders of 2000's reddit) for a very long time. I believed that the shift to a left-wing orientation was organic and representative of the general population UNTIL the whole T_D thing came along... T_D was doing the same thing, pulling the site to the right, until Reddit's owners worked overtime to make sure that didn't happen. That makes me suspect that the liberalism was also artificial.
So are puppies.

We were more of a cat family and I was too young to remember when we got our dogs. I did not understand that romcom trope of buying a man a puppy to see how he'd fare as a father.

Then we got a puppy. Ho. Lee. Shit.

New puppies make it about half again as long as a baby before they wake you up, and take much less time to settle down to 6+ hours of peace and quiet (where you can go to bed early and your partner can do the late shift), but man are you a zombie for a while.
I actually was able to solve this for myself. As often happens, I went to ask for help on Slack but first wanted to understand the problem better. Turns out, our old IT director (who was not loved in the dept because he was constantly taking away permissions) decided to make life 'easy' for us by creating a bash script that created the sbatch file for us. Debugging this file showed that it did not work correctly when using local installs. I was able to simply write my own sbatch file.

I submitted the fix to the IT team but I don't even know if anyone has the permissions to get in and fix it right now.
The current way that police are chosen, trained, and managed seems to have a corrosive effect on members of the police force. Option (b) with a sprinkling of (c) seems best, but it's clear the status quo in depts is not resulting in policing that is positive for the community as a whole.

One would expect that if the system were set up right, it should a) find people who would police well b) setup systems to ensure as few abuses as possible happen c) encourage the good cops to push out the bad cops.

It's pretty clear that it's more than the people themselves that are broken. The system isn't set up to result in good policing.
For Country's or big-business it is relevant
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laws are that which the legal system enforces. Doesn't matter what is written on a piece of paper.
Dan,

Emailed, still shadow banned, should I email again?
I've experience very early stage startups and I've experienced medium size (400 dev) company. To be completely honest I don't think these practices are necessarily functions of company or engineering team size.

I'm convinced that there are startups that have good practices and there are big companies that don't (and vice versa), so I'd say it's more about this particular company rather than all companies around that size/location/industry or whatever attribute.

On a practical note, I think you have a few choices.
1. Leave and join a company with better practices. It's a safe choice.
2. Take it as a challenge and be a change agent at the current company. Good practices have value. Teach them. Bring them in. Negotiate with managers and people above, try to convince them to adopt to better practices. This is hard, really hard, but you'll learn a lot from the process, and you'll be a hero at your company if you succeed.
3. Do nothing. Get frustrated and complain. Sink into the same level of mediocre/bad practices just like everyone else. I don't recommend this one.
1.Cost 2) Real time voice chat is a game changer 3) Better User Management
It's simple, you take the inverse. If you are looking for the right leaning accounts, look at the most downvoted and controversial comments in a given political thread.

I will say that true conservatism is few and far between, and it doesn't help that the viral strategy the GOP has settled on in recent years is heaps and heaps of outright false or racist memes, so there just isn't much good right leaning content being written or created to begin with that isn't far right.
Not triggered, just flabbergasted at your insistence that thinking another person was the asshole after you called them out for not adhering to your own worldview.

Obviously you know you were in the wrong, which is why you just wrote so much defending your position. So I'll leave it at that.

Enjoy your huge house and 3 cars. I am glad that they make you happy.
I would like to see a representation of algorithms. I remember watching some videos in the late 90s by a professor who I think worked at UCLA. They involved algebra and differential equations. The terms of the equation would fly around, transform, and disappear as various operations were performed. I remember thinking that the video captured how I did algebraic manipulation, given that I am a highly spatial thinker.
The Criterion Collection has most if not all of Kurosawa's movies available.

https://www.criterion.com/search#stq=kurosawa
I am surprised there was nothing in support for hongkong, given that vue founder is chinese.