skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US was set up initially to have a solution for this exact problem! The idea was every state could pick it's own laws and the federal (not capitalized yet) government could NOT override any state or local. The Federalists threw all this out and instilled the foundation for the hyper powerful Fed we have today. This Federalist system led to the rise of things like a national bank and a standing army. I have no idea how history would have played out if the feds didn't win so it's hard to say which system would have been better.
Amazon, FB and Google turn to network of allies to battle antitrust probes
This is not the first time something is fishy. Back in the early stages of the repo. They were advertising on the front page that they are achieving similar MAP to the original C++ version. But only to be found out they haven't train it on COCO dataset and test it.
I think you are right that Google Meet in general is easier to use. However, I think that's at least in part because Zoom is so full of options. I mostly realize this when playing games via Zoom with friends. "your laptop that has no video on is making it so that we cannot see you iPad's video!" - "just turn on 'hide non-video participants'". "you need to get closer together or move the iPad further away because the edges of your video get cut off" - "Just double click the video and it will stop cropping". "Can you stop sharing your screen? I'd much rather see participants" - "Just click the icon in the top right to swap video and shared screen. You could also turn on dual monitor support".
I think Zoom is probably best used for hangouts-on-air type things, where you are literally publishing the contents of the call to the world in realtime anyway; for anything else it's off my list.
And I like it that way actually. If I can't see your site with my adblocker I am not going to ever land it again there. I also have NoScript and what I do is something like this:

Step 1 - open your site. Can't see it? I try to allow JS in NoScript

Step 2 - Still can't see your site due to shitty various techniques? Then I re-enable NoScript and add it to blacklist to never land on it ever.

Step 3 - You're not unique, your info is duplicated by several other dozens as well.
So... pay them to be shitty, but slightly less shitty to you? That just seems like funding them to make the world worse.
> Yeah. Also, don't joke about leaving the company.

One of my personal rules is to not even discuss leaving a company with any colleague. It’s far to easy for this information to leak back to your manager. Even if your colleagues had good intentions bring it up, the fact that you didn’t says enough.
Not really. I think one reason koans are general and kind of vague is that everyone's specifics are different and advice that works for some people may not work for everyone and may be exactly wrong for some.

Once, my then girlfriend was telling me that she was having trouble at work and always felt bad asking people for help. I gave her advice that had really helped me - which was to not worry about it and ask, ask, ask for help! It's the most efficient way, and all that.

My natural inclination is to never ask for help and figure it out myself. That can wind up taking me ten times as long to figure stuff out, so for me, really pushing to ask for help balances my natural tendencies and, if I try to ask for what seems like lots and lots of help, it'll wind up being about right.

My then girlfriend, on the other hand, was already inclined to ask for help. She was rightly worried that she was annoying other people and asking for too much help and I, though well meaning, gave her exactly the wrong advice and pushed her to keep doing exactly the wrong thing. The advice she needed was the exact opposite of what I needed. This is a specific example of how you can't really give advice to people without understanding them and their problems.

To go back to koans (which I quite like) - if you meet the Buddha, kill him. Meaning: you can't listen to other people to find enlightenment, it has to come from within you. Other people cannot tell you what you need to know, only you can do that.

And, of course, I'm not an enlightened guru living a perfect life or anything. I try my best. I think about problems and take steps to solve them.
> I just get a feeling that once you are admitted in a hospital nobody has any power including yourself. Everything is taken over by the "system". This is my biggest fear why I would never want to be hospitalized.

Well, I was admitted and personally walked out with a gall bladder about to explode. Yeah, I was back in the hospital 24 hours later ... not my finest hour. So, I can absolutely confirm that you can be stubborn and buck the system.

I will absolutely defend your ability to spend time and research your treatment when dealing with doctors normally--especially for chronic conditions. Doctors page fault on every patient and if you are being responsible you may very well be better informed than your general practitioner about what is going on with your body.

However, if you are actually admitted to a hospital with something acute, do you really have the wherewithal to diagnose and manage it? By the time I hit the hospital, I was probably on 72 hours with very little sleep and pain that took hydromorphone to even dent. I guarantee I wasn't thinking clearly by then.

The biggest problem with hospitals is that you need an advocate for you, personally. Without someone in the room with you, you won't know if the nurse missed that medication round, isn't paying attention to your increasing temperature, didn't bring you your lunch, etc.

The problem isn't when the system works. The problem is that without someone else there you don't have someone to watch for if the system hiccups.
It's bad. Try this graph to see how bad it really is: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-cases-per-milli...

New infections per capita in the US are not falling and are an order of magnitude higher than in Western Europe. Israel brought new infections down to a few cases/million until they opened schools back up, now they are in line with Western Europe.

The trouble is that there are superspreading events, someone brings the virus to church or university, and everyone present gets it. There are reports of outbreaks in farmworker accomodation and consequent failures of the vegetable harvest. This isn't over at all and only getting worse when cash-strapped universities insist that their students come back on campus in August.
I love this: "My interests are with original and unrestored desk fans made prior to 1916."

Since they were invented in 1885 that is basically a 30 year window for a fairly expensive consumer good that probably sold in the neighborhood of a few thousand units.

There is something wonderful about diving deeply into a particular kind of thing from a particular time. My Dad has a cap gun collection with a similar narrow window, he even has a book which identifies various cap guns, their makers, their relative rarity etc. Why cap guns? Who knows. He has it significantly easier though since they were stamped out in the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, during a similar period and were made so that kids could get them (ie very inexpensively).

It is a level of curiosity and dedication I can really respect.
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I get junk mail from the ACLU, but haven't given anything to them in a few years. They recently sent me an email saying "thanks for your wavering support".

Bringing up Stella Liebeck makes me feel irrationally hostile; I've had a negative reaction to people "busting the myth" of that lawsuit on the internet for probably 20 years.

I certainly believe that suing corporations with deep pockets is a reasonable and moral way to deal with medical bills in a country without universal health care. It's not a good system, but if you can get away with it, why not?

And I know well that on average, the scourge of frivolous lawsuits against corporations is a myth, because I've worked in the legal industry and have a perspective based on many other lawsuits.

And if McDonald's served coffee without a properly secure lid, or some other defect then they should be held responsible for every penny of damages.

However, I am irritated by anyone who may insist that it is a "fact" that serving coffee which is hot (but less than 212 deg) is negligent in itself. And if I continue to see this "myth busted" or "fact checked" for the next 20 years, it's not going to change my opinion, because assuming I live that long, I'm going to be boiling water for coffee on my stove almost every day.
> And the doctors won't try so hard on patients who really don't have any understanding of medicine in the first place.

I have never found this to be the case.

Generally, if I was fighting with a doctor, it was because he was trying to be too aggressive and do too much, not too little.
Not sure why you're being downvotted. Twitch is going through a DRM crisis right now that may make other comparable products impossible to build for other companies.
Unlike hudi and delta lake, iceberg does not support updates/deletes yet.
The most frustrating thing about this hobby in the YouTube age is every "DIY" video employing a full shop with $8,000 worth of tools. How is this different from professional woodworking? Where are the resources for beginners?
I wonder if it silently truncates long password on setup. When you then submit the full password it doesn't match.
Still, would you agree that the wording of the article tries to create an impression that the police fired first, and tries to downplay the fact that the boyfriend fired first?

I do not disagree that the police was wrong to storm the place, but I think that given the well-known bias of NYT, they are trying to create more rage in the community by creating an impression that the police fired first.
Define "technology". Anything invented after the year 1800? 1900? 1980?
This could be life changing for me, very glad I found this.

But for people who want a use case: See that entry called svgbob? That’s pretty incredible. If you need a logo for a minor project, just throw some characters in a file and let it do its thing.

From the results there, it’ll generate something professional quality, and because it’s an SVG, as a logo, it will be superior to any jpg or png file, able to scale to any size without degradation.
I think the increased competition would limit huge valuations, but maybe any overflow could go to other employees. Beyond that though, it's hard to see what would make the most sense. My guess is that we would have a system different than owning stock in a random company. There's probably no reason we need to be tied to what we currently do.
Reusing a thread in C++ for better performance
Most people don't need to do that. You can build things you need as part of the image build. No need to setup a deb or rpm package unless you're also installing it that way somewhere else.
That is strange, I wonder if that's coming later but I didn't see anything to that effect. I'd also have liked to see docker image support (despite ecr) and raw binaries too.
Ah, I misspoke. I meant prjeddie. prjeddie kind of endorsed YOLOv4. Did he endorse YOLOv5?

Although YOLOv4 isn't anything new achitecture-wise, it tried all the tricks in the book on the existing YOLO architecture to increase its speed performance, and its method and experiment results were published as a paper; it provided value to humanity.

YOLOv5 seemed to have taken the YOLO name to seemingly only to increase the startup name value without giving much(it did appear to provided YOLOv3 Pytorch implementation, but that's before taking YOLOv5 name) back. I wonder how prjeddie would think of YOLOv5.
Also, there seems to be A/B testing w.r.t email id requirement when signing up on web i.e. it's not optional all the time.

Doesn't seem to be the case with mobile app, last time I checked.

Seems like another way to push App adoption.
> they aren’t willing to tip

I wish everybody would stop tipping.

If nobody subsidized delivery workers' wages with tips, delivery companies would have to start paying workers enough to make it actually worth their time to begin with, and pass those costs onto VCs and eventually consumers.

More reliable income for the delivery workers, more transparent delivery pricing for consumers. What's not to like?

A similar dynamic will likely play out in other industries where tipping is common as well.

Alas, I do end up tipping in real life because I don't want delivery workers to suffer more than they have to in the mean time until not-tipping becomes the norm and wages increase as a result, so it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem.
I've only done some light dabbling with JS (jQuery, Angular, and a few react/Vue tutorials), and I'm not much of a fan.

Flutter, however, has been awesome.

I'm actually putting the final touches on a project I've built during the quarantine with Flutter. It started out as an Android app built with Java, then I rewrote it in kotlin using the new (at the time) architecture components (which I found to be a big step forward from Java). Eventually I just couldn't find the time to finish the iOS version and decided to start fresh in flutter, and the experience has been amazing.

I find almost all of the framework much much more intuitive than either native platform's, and continually think to myself "this is how app development should have been all along."

Also, the app performance is buttery smooth :)

Anyway, clearly I'm a fan so I'd say Flutter is worth looking at. For me, perhaps the biggest advantage is that I have found the learning curve and tooling to be way easier to get through and understand than with either native platform.
Previously, a story broke out alleging: Pakistan moves to install nationwide ‘web monitoring system’: https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/surveillance/pa...
RPAN should position itself for IRL streams.
You do have to be logged in, and I am logged into YouTube in Safari.
The behavior is toxic. It doesn't matter the intent or context. It is passive aggressive, period.

At best, it is someone who is scared to have difficult conversations. At worst, who knows.. I've slowly learned not to try and rationalize what makes people like that tick. It's their issue, not mine.
It seems like they are making the case that if reality is biased then models of reality will retain that bias.

If so they seem to make the point well.

If the only information you have about a loan applicant is where they live, your decision will be 'biased' if the location of where someone lives is correlated with other factors (as opposed to, say, the fact they live on a flood plain means don't give them a loan).

In this context, saying "Math is Racist" is like saying "Physics hates Fat People" because gravity disproportionately affects heavier people. Accurately reporting what is happening is not biased, making decisions without considering [edit: or not making a decision because you didn't consider] the context is biased.

Maths is a tool (well, collection of tools), and the onus is first on the tool user to use it in a fair way. Yes it is important for educators and tool creators to be mindful of how these tools will be used in practice, but there is a big jump from that idea to "Math is Racist".
> In the USA, colloquially speaking, not legally speaking, George Floyd was murdered.

It occurred in Minnesota, which is one of the handful of states with "third-degree murder", which this does appear to fall under.

One of the things that separates third-degree murder from manslaughter is the use of inherently dangerous acts, such as kneeling on his neck.
Yahoo Mail is one of the best web email clients today. Any gmail user that I've talked to who has tried Yahoo Mail prefers the Yahoo UI overall.

Having said that, the US government installed a linux kernel module (approved by Marissa Mayer) that sniffs traffic on Yahoo Mail servers, so don't send anything you don't want recorded.
MS Skype for Business and Teams also do this, just to give two more examples that I’m aware of.
> Used properly and judiciously, PHP is a powerful tool.

What is a 'powerful' programming language?
So? I dont care who the mods are. Reddit is a glorified collection of web forums. Like all web forums they live and die by the signal to noise ratio. Reddit is popular because most subreddits match up to some subgroup that thinks it has decent signal to noise ratio.
They are pretending alright, but the order is reversed.
Google: We're 99% Spam Free
This led me down an interesting rabbit hole. It turns out that Rablois left and Porter was his replacement. I see that Rabois was on the board in ‘16 from a comment, but I don’t know the timeline behind this.
> Curious, did you background check every employee/contractor to make sure they are Chinese race free?

That's immoral, illegal, and silly; effectively nobody is doing this, and if most people found out about that, they would try to put a stop to it. The PRC is a state, that state does not have a monopoly on representing any race.

This is not a Chinese people problem, it's a CCP problem. Chinese people in the ROC don't do this sort of thing.
這不是華人的問題，這是中共的問題啊。中華民國的華人不這樣做。

> Do you audit every every byte of your network traffic to make sure it is not Chinese IP routable? How often do you update your firewall rules?

Yes, I operate servers and routers that simply do not route to or from PRC IP blocks. It's often the right thing to do, given that “reputable” server operators like Baidu seem to be the source of a huge proportion of the impersonation and spam, and often zero legitimate connections. When I get DMARC reports, more than half of the reports are PRC IPs impersonating my mail host, hopefully for reflection rather than full-on impersonation.
This was a solid read and hits close to home. I lived through this last summer. I'm in Plymouth MA which is just outside the critical zone of the outbreak described in the article (we entered "moderate" risk). I remember the feeling of the EEE reports in August and subsequent personal protection actions. It all felt very similar to coronavirus. I still went in the woods but less often and doused in bug spray. This past winter 2020 was the most mild of my lifetime. I hope the EEE outbreak isn't too crazy this summer; being in nature is an important factor for me for producing good work and the only way to see safely see family & friends right now is outdoors.
this is nowhere near any kind of "home stretch", this is the second inning at best. it is rocketing off in many states now, just not the ones in which it initially took off [1]. it will continue to rocket in various regions of the country, over and over again until a vaccine can be distributed to much of the population or when the government is changed to one that can orchestrate contact tracing, isolation and testing at the national level.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/coronavirus-ca...
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It's disgusting that the "article" doesn't even mention what this is all about. It's not like there are suddenly bad people swarming an innocent sub and "troll" it. There was an event happening in Ireland that is being censored on there and around the globe. Everyone who tries to bring it to light is being labeled a "racist troll" and punished by the machine.

And it's even more disappointing that it works - with multiple people here wondering "why would people do that", without even looking for the real answer.
The US leads the world in prison population, compared to other democracies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in...

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that I don't live in China. But it's pretty embarrassing for the richest and most powerful country in the world (allegedly bearing the mantle of freedom and democracy and Enlightenment values), to have to compare ourselves to totalitarian dictatorships to feel better about ourselves, instead of other democracies, most of whom have yearly counts of deaths by law enforcement in the single digits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
Severity varies greatly by region. Compare NYC and the surrounding areas to the USA as a whole:
https://outbreak.info/epidemiology?location=USA%3BMETRO_3562...

You can see that NYC is way down from the mid-April peak, but the USA as a whole is tailing off much more slowly as new outbreaks elsewhere offset the declines in areas that were initially hit hard.

(But still, note that "way down" for NYC is still around 500 new cases per day.)
No, In fact, I hope I was clear in my description: my assumption is that if a door breaks down, and a confrontation happens, if the people inside have any weapons, I expect them to defend themselves.

(edit: I said Absolutely not... but I changed it to no, I can see how someone would read what was printed as biased/attempting to push a narrative, I just didn't read it that way, and expect better of people who read the news)

That may be where we differ. It's my belief that our homes are private and safe. That's clearly not true given the existence of no-knock warrants, but as long as the two exist together, I will default to the power dynamic being in the hands of the person in the home, not he intruder, legal, or not. Especially when the intruder is a form of authority that I expect to be thoughtful and accountable.

For what it's worth, I might be intentionally ignorant to bias - I read fox news periodically just so I can understand the language used by different views than my own. I am often critical of liberal news sources. I generally agree that news sources, not just the NYT, are involved in low-effort journalism, and a deep lack of critical thinking and introspection. I think this helps me cut through the obvious bullshit, so that when it goes into my memory, it is with less bias than intended maybe? I'm not bias free though.

In this article though, I'm not feeling it, but I will sincerely give it another read with what you mentioned, and try to come back and comment.
There is a very surprising statement on his "Gear Template Generator" page (https://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/index.html):

> I recommend printing the gears with an ink jet printer. Even cheap ink jet printers print very scale accurate but Not all laser printers are accurate.

Does anybody know whether that's still the case, and why?
I still have an EPS-16+ Digital Sampler with 4 whole megabytes of RAM, but unfortunately its floppy drive hasn't survived the decades, so I can't boot it.

http://www.vintagesynth.com/ensoniq/ens_eps16.php