skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue isn't finding the text "Promoted", but coming up with a way to figure out exactly which element containing that text to remove (because simply removing the text itself would not be a good solution). I imagine that Facebook could be doing something like generating a CSS class names on based by using a different seed or producing different element configurations that visually appear the same for each page load (or worse, for each ad on the page...)
Do we know police actually use 99% ?
You might consider Elixir for scripting / systems language as well. LiveView is lightweight but allows amazingly quick Web-dev. Nim incorporates some Pascal concepts too. There's also a nice package to write native functions for Elixir in Nim [1].

1: https://github.com/wltsmrz/nimler
"But it's important to understand the reality we're in rather than indulging in fantasies."

This seems an important point to remember in most US public discussions. If people can't even agree on basic facts, how can you make decisions?
This isn't "hope" that I'm expressing. This is me saying that *if we never try, we'll never succeed, at ANYTHING, not just at this.

You're convinced hard equals impossible. Which is definitely part of why the US is so incompetent when it comes to this (or healthcare in general). People don't care that we suck.

I just find that sad and horrifying.

Let's say you take NYC, where the cases have been tailing off, and you implement a massive contract tracing effort there. MASSIVE. Maybe it doesn't save the whole country. Maybe it doesn't even prevent inbound infections from spreading very well.

But it's also a hell of a lot of practice for the next time we need to accomplish something big.
I think that these should be designated as world heritage sites, rather than as a property of a specific group that is free to destroy it at any time.

Anyway, it is not like there leaders of communities have never been corrupt.
The Surprising Science of Walking
Curiosity cat: Has anyone had success motioning their org away from Zoom? I’ve pondered it, considering the enterprise is heavily O365 anyway, as are multiple partners who host weekly touchpoints via Teams.
Paid leave isn't meant to be a punishment. There is some expectation that police officers will inherently be involved in controversial activities that will require further investigation, some of which may legitimately reveal that the cop did nothing wrong. Paid leave is supposed to be a compromise to remove cops from active duty during the investigation (in case they are guilty, we don't want them still roaming the street potentially doing bad things) but also not be a punishment (in case they aren't guilty).

The problem is that said investigations always seem to drag their feet, never going further than the paid leave, and never seem to actually get to the things that are meant to be a punishment (firing, arrest, etc).
I think it is more complicated than that.

Almost all states very early on had some level of 'lock-down', stay at home order, or what have you. This has limited movement of people, and as a side effect, or maybe even direct order from governors, closed down/ limited many business. Including hospitals.

Hospitals in America, believe it nor not, are for profit businesses. It is un-intuitive, but many of them are in serious financial trouble, despite the influx of Covid-19 patients. At a cursory level, I think most people would assume the hospital business is booming, but this assumption couldn't be more wrong.

At this point, nobody wants to go in for routine examinations or non-emergency procedures. For-profit hospitals (almost all of them are) as a business, depend on providing these non-emergency services/ surgeries/ procedures. Hospitals across the country are laying off health-care workers en-masse.

So it is not correct to imagine all hospitals are running at full capacity, and burning out their workers. In fact, many health care professionals are drawing unemployment at this point.

I know this is doesn't make sense at the surface level, but it is something we all need to consider when continuing to advocate for lock-down or stay at home strategies. Our economy depends on movement of people/ goods/ services. That includes hospitals. I wish there was more serious discussion about this, and how we keep things moving as much as possible, while also protecting one another from spreading the virus.

Lock-down alone is not an solution. If your areas hospitals are at risk of reaching capacity, for sure close it down. But almost nowhere in America outside of NY/NJ is there a risk of that right now. We've tried it for a while, but now we have more understanding. Now I want us to re-imagine how we can continue a life of movement, and also reduce risk of infection.
I think that in some countries at least the moment that an archeological site is discovered it becomes property of the government.
There's an exhibition on Hopper currently running in Switzerland and I think they have some online offerings due to Corona:

https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitions/edward-hopper

Edit: Also, if you're a Hopper fan, there's a movie which brings his paintings to life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcQ4JKxxukY
Project Fugu: A new hope for The Web as an app platform
It's like a Douglas Adams bit:

"We need to unbundle Reddit."

"I'm with you there."

"It's a silo, and it's toxic."

"Indeed."

"Now, how do we do that?"

"Slap a better UI on Usenet and completely de-silo everything. I think we're calling it Mastodon now."

"I got a great idea! Move everyone out! Out! Far out! Out to dozens of silos, each topic-specific!"

"No. That doesn't solve the underlying problem."

"Indeed! Move everyone out to a network. A network where users will be free to be siloed."

"How is that any better?"

"It's much better! It's ten silos instead of one! Surely ten individual platforms can't possibly all go bad."

And then he went off to talk into his phone wearing a face mask and gloves.
My work process goes like this:
0. Talk to or get instruction from someone who understands the problem
1. Understand the problem yourself
2. Think about how to solve it
3. Solve it
4. Go back and clean up the code (making it production ready)
5. Repeat 4 if necessary

Eventually, you learn and get good practices in memory that you can start writing production code before you ever get to step 4. This is how I see developers gain experience
Do you have any data that we could use to find out which hypothesis has the most explanatory power? High black crime rates make it difficult to distinguish racial motivations for police suspicion from other motivations. I would love to see arrest rates by race controlled for crime rates.
My 11 year old laptop battery still has a third of its capacity left. Car batteries are made to last a long longer than laptop batteries.
China got their fair amount of Computer Vision companies anyway.
Sensetime, yitu, megvii, cloudwalk and so on. I even heard one using Gait analysis but I forgot the name.
Hmmm, why SketchUp and not OnShape? When I talked about getting into 3d printing I had two people independently recommend OnShape to me.
Driving under can contribute to reasonable suspicion in conjunction with other factors. If you took this to traffic court, you would want to demonstrate that the slower speed wasn’t impeding traffic and that there were no other factors. You wouldn’t use endangerment as that isn’t the standard.
Yeah but I am not sure it is suggested to be used in any other context than where a human would be comparing faces too. Ie searching for someone in a crowd or cctv, or checking a passport picture against someone at the gate. None of that is burden of proof level of accuracy. But it just allows to better cover a crowd or process more people at the airport.
The E2E encryption hasn't been released yet. Currently and in the future, according to their announcement, all calls will at least be server-client encrypted. Paid ones will apparently be optionally E2E encrypted.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/3/21279355/zoom-end-encrypti...
Appreciate it! Will share with another coworker, he and I have been looking for something like this and considered starting a similar guild within our org (already have buy in from my technology executive and HR, which is dope!)
Say the US gets to herd immunity and the rest of the world has done a really good job at containing the virus, e.g. New Zealand. What are they realistically going to do long term? Shut up their country until a vaccine arrives? Quarantine everyone coming in or going out for two weeks? Who is realistically going to want to travel into or out of there with those kind of restrictions. I seriously wonder if the short term pain isn’t just worth it. It’s cold and calloused but it’s either vaccine or a long drawn out constant state of fear and social distancing. The other option is short burst of mass deaths followed by a return to complete normalcy.

So my question is more like, how are countries that, in say six months, that’s population only have 10% exposed to COVID-19 going to coexist in a global world with countries that are past herd immunity and operating freely again.
Surface pro keyboard is also incredible--this is coming from someone who used thinkpads for over a decade and has a model M attached to his desktop. It isn't as good as a proper mechanical keyboard, but I'm nearly as fast and accurate on the surface type cover as on a proper keyboard.

To the parent- the surface works fine on a lap, provided you use a case with a solid kickstand (the stand on the actual tablet wants to fold in far too easily). For reference, the reason I abandoned the thinkpad is that I am managing a warehouse and spend ~50% of my day using the surface either standing, on my lap, or haphazardly resting on a pallet of product. I wanted something light and portable, I haven't regretted the tablet decision yet. I seriously considered iPad, but unfortunately it is essentially a phone OS. Win10 isn't the greatest, but it is a full-fledged OS for real work. My only gripe is that it isn't 100% touch optimized, so I can barely use the surface if I don't have the keyboard attached. Oh, and I do dearly miss the trackpoint. However, the keyboard has been great, and with WSL I don't really have any issues with getting the development side of my job done either. I have had a /. account long enough to be considered slightly 'rabid', but as much as it pains me to say Microsoft have made an excellent product.
This isn't about being fair to the algorithm, it's about being fair to the people subject to the algorithm's judgement
> Why stick to the insular Silicon Valley club and not get someone who's devoted their life to civil rights? There are a ton of community activists who could actually bring a fresh perspective.

They would. But the sad cold truth of the matter is that no one wants a fresh perspective. They just want to virtue signal the mob as much as they can to preempt the mob storm troopers before they get stoned and cancelled without affecting their business, which is why the pick is a Silicon Valley insider, someone they are sure knows what's best for business and won't try to destroy the business.

> Tech leadership in Silicon Valley does not appear inclined to affect change.

Exactly. Everyone wants change and revolution and mob violence as long as it is outside their gated community. No one, either the rich black NBA players or the Pirates of the Silicon Valley, want change and mobs in their gated community. They really like it as it is.
How so? The terminology is centuries old.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_degree , which mentions things like "The Archbishop of Canterbury's right to grant degrees is derived from Peter's Pence Act of 1533 which empowered the Archbishop to grant dispensations previously granted by the Pope")

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_degree#History_of... - "The M.B. or Bachelor of Medicine was the first medical degree to be granted in the United States and Canada."

Or for a university, http://catalog.yale.edu/gsas/degree-granting-departments-pro... - "Degree-Granting Departments and Programs".
Actually, if you are using 4+ rooms, we will in many cases be better than some other webrtc services because we for these bigger rooms use a server in the middle to distribute all the streams. That will result in lower resource use. You only encode and send once, and it is distributed by the server. But if other webrtc kills CPU on 4 or less, we probably won't be much better.

This "more than 4 room" is not p2p and end-to-end encrypted, since the server (SFU) needs to read and change some headers. So it is a tradeoff. There's now "insertable streams" which allow you to do encryption on the media client side, but it's a test for now: https://webrtchacks.com/true-end-to-end-encryption-with-webr...
1. If a BLM post is all it took to "lose a friend," I'd reconsider your definition.

2. Not everything is about you. Your friends explicitly were not thinking about you when they picked a side.

3. You won't be convinced, but someone else may benefit from a tool I've used to get past this. Would you hold the same beliefs if you were born black in an inner city? Would you want the status quo in terms of police strategies? To be scared for your life at every traffic stop? It's easy to defend a stance from a position of privilege (directly opposed to "my safety".)

You can do the same for your friends with different political beliefs - most stances are based on someone's life experiences or environment. There's likely a reason they believe something, and it has nothing to do with you. If you grew up in their situation, or friends, or life experiences, do you think you'd still hold your same beliefs? Most of the time the answer for me is no, and therefore the beliefs have nothing to do with the person's character.
> They have ultimate power over everything. They could ban my favourite subreddit tomorrow if they wanted.

No well-functioning board would act like that. Sure, they can pressure the CEO to take particular action when the company is under pressure, but normally, that kind of micromanaging by the board would be a sign of serious dysfunction.

They are there to represent the shareholders, appoint the executives, and to ensure the company is being managed well, including complying with laws and adhering to relevant societal expectations.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

Relevant excerpts:

> The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the era's "darkness" (lack of records) with earlier and later periods of "light" (abundance of records)

> As the accomplishments of the era came to be better understood in the 19th and 20th centuries, scholars began restricting the "Dark Ages" appellation to the Early Middle Ages (c. 5th–10th century),[6][7][8] and now scholars also reject its usage in this period.[9] The majority of modern scholars avoid the term altogether due to its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate.
Sort of off-topic, but I have a New-in-box, sealed from the factory, never opened Sun Sparc 20 pizzabox.

Someone was selling new-old-stock on ebay about five years ago and I bought two of them ... one of them I unboxed and have running and one of them remains NIB.
I have nothing to add to the discussion but this so cool :D
That source doesn't support the GP comment. End-to-end encryption 1. doesn't exist yet for any user, and 2. does not mean free user calls will be less encrypted than they are today with server-client encryption. Zoom is not claiming that paid calls today are E2E encrypted.
I'm asking for an easy way to use the same fonts with exactly the same size in both places, I do not really care how it is implemented. Maybe it is already possible and the only missing thing is the documentation to do so. I can do it via some pstricks hackery, and it sort of works, but the process is a bit indirect and not really comfortable.
I wonder what the Ferrari dealership down the street is doing..
And he also has a thing on getting a pretty good woodshop going for under a grand.
https://www.openscad.org/ Its not SchetchUp no - but its an immensely powerful tool if you like building parameterized models. Combined with https://pypi.org/project/openpyscad/ you can program your next project in Python :-)

You write your project in you code editor of choice, auto-run on save, and set the OpenSCAD viewer to ato-load on file changes. So you have the immediate feedback of a 'visual' tool, all text driven, git managed and you are probably already familiar with most of the tools.

Yea this approach is not for everyone I'm sure.
"anarchists who want to overthrow the government" is a group that has never been shown to exist, while the other two are regularly seen marching around. So, that's different.
This is anecdotal, but a friend of mine who works in healthcare once complained that hospitals used to (years ago) provide a cleaning service for scrubs and lab coats, but now the staff are expected to wash theirs at home.
Imagine what may be done as long as grunts are just following orders.
Stating “All Lives Matter” Is in the “Red Zone” at Work. Thoughts Wanted
I work for a large tech company in the Bay Area. Every month they host a broadcast to the entire company to talk about miscellaneous topics, most recent of which has been about the protests. On today's broadcast, various high-ups shared their position on the usage of "All Lives Matter". All of those who shared their thoughts made it clear that the statement "All Lives Matter" categorically belongs to the "red zone", which is defined as "illegal and toxic because the incidents are more frequent or severe". In other words, residing within this spectrum is within bounds of justification for severe repercussions or even firing. Stating "Black Lives Matter", however, is clearly within the "green zone", as is openly stated and encouraged. This isn't codified as official policy yet, but the verbalization of it makes it clear HR will act as if it were.

I felt compelled to share this because I have found it to be deeply concerning. The intent of this post isn't whether "All Lives Matter" or "Black Lives Matter" is the morally superior position, but rather is about the fact that one can now face serious repercussions for holding the wrong political opinion based on what management subjectively interprets as its meaning, all the while a different political opinion is openly endorsed and encouraged without consequence. I have felt a sudden chill today like no other. Political discourse in the company is becoming more common, open and encouraged, but it is clear only those with a particular political bent are allowed to engage. Others that I know who also work within the tech industry are seeing the same swift culture change within their own organizations. After watching this broadcast, I happened to stumble upon this article which I cannot help but make parallels with https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-medias-self-censors-11591829694?mod=hp_opin_pos_2.

I am curious to know if any of you are witnessing the same changes and have the same concerns.
Isn't the issue just drivers?
Denmark has a fairly homogeneous population (discounting the much needed immigration) I swear there are basically 5-8 Danish feature sets that sometimes I amuse myself seeing how they are put together.

This of course means that there are doppelgangers or near doppelgangers all over the place. Even funnier, when i first moved back here from the U.S I was staying at a place in which there was this guy who looked exactly like one of my friends from the U.S, even down to facial expressions and mannerisms (maybe that was because he was always extremely stoned).
Is there any easy way to download large chunks of the Internet Archive? Maybe IPFS mirror?
Lets just say every one is just as clueless about this virus as WHO or CDC or Fauci or whoever. Its just a failure of our not so advanced research in this field that we are in this situation. I can't believe everyone is just so clueless.
Make a list of philosophers, writers, thinkers, playwrights, storytellers, and inventors from western civilization. Chart them out according to their date of writing. See that big gap between the end of the Roman Empire and the middle ages? That's the dark ages, and that's why it's called dark.

Some people see something fashionable about rejecting this term because relativism is 'in' these days, but it's perfectly fitting considering the reality. Some times are bright. Some are dark.
Charges were dropped against the boyfriend a week ago anyway[0].

[0] https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/charges-dropped-a...
I have a gut feeling that the people who try not to spend money on drinks end up drinking before they go out possibly causing traffic accidents etc. Which makes your comparison unfair. The act of paying for shitty UI should not be related to the virtue of abstaining from drinking until at a social gathering or a bar.
I think the interesting question is what is the chance of doppelgangers given population size and genetic similarity of the population.
When I was getting my woodshop going I was hitting up estate sales/auctions. There was one I auction I scored a nearly brand new SawStop table saw, Dewault planer, and ShopFox joiner (kinda crap) for under 600 dollars. All the stuff was pretty much brand new.

I have hit the point where I have more tools than space.
BHP should offer scientific and technical support, as well as time, to study the sites before they are destructed. If this is done seriously, the cultural heritage could actually be augmented, by the knowledge, even after the physical destruction of the sites.
But they are historical due to the aboriginal inhabitants of that land at that time.

How are the owners of that land who are aboriginal not have a right to allow the removal of such places if agreed?
I take it you are afraid of mentioning whatever it is for fear of being labelled likewise? There have been many events, so it's hard to know which real answer you're alluding to.
I find it very telling about the state of policing in the US when the law enforcement community knows they have the world's eyes on them, and they have the audacity to put that someone who was killed had 0 injuries. It doesn't help that the cops had the wrong address, and the person they were looking for was already in custody.
Look at that soy face
Wow. I thought Uber were going for it? The food delivery market share war is really interesting.

For folks in the UK. The Competition Markets and Authority (CMA) delayed a decision on whether Amazon could invest $500m in Deliveroo as of yesterday[1]. Deliveroo are more established in Europe but I can now see the CMA approving Amazon investment into Deliveroo[2]. Why? Just Eat provided evidence to the CMA recently on why the Amazon investment into Deliveroo could be problematic [3]. Just Eat then go off to spend a $7b to secure the U.S market ahaha. In my opinion Takeaway.com/Just Eat are now scrambling for marketshare.

Amazon tried to enter the food delivery market back in 2014-16 and they had every right to![4]. But, competition pushed them out in my opinion. So now Amazon are wanting to re-enter via investment into Deliveroo. It's very smart move because Deliveroo service is pretty amazing already.

[1] Amazon/Deliveroo delayed decision:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/deliveroo-ma-amazon/uk-regula...

[2] Amazon/Deliveroo CMA inquiry:
https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/amazon-deliveroo-merger-inquiry

[3] Just Eat CMA inquiry response:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5ec27cc1e90e0...

[4] Amazon close food delivery business: https://www.engadget.com/2018-11-26-amazon-closes-restaurant...