skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I introduced a submodule at my last job to hold common build code used across multiple repositories. I knew going in that some of our developers didn't really understand git, and were not interested in rectifying that. I won't say the submodule was a disaster, but I definitely paid for it with time spent sitting with people and helping them fix messes. I would do it again but only if I knew I could count on the team to make more than a token effort to understand what a submodule was and how it worked. I would not even consider adding multiple submodules unless I felt like everyone knew exactly how to use them.

Another potential source of issues: the submodule remote URI is checked in as part of the .gitmodules file. If your CI system uses a different URI than your developers, you have to work around that. If you change where your source is hosted and you want to check out an old version, you have to figure that out too.

That said, I think the most common reason is the same reason some people prefer monorepos in the first place: they perceive the monorepo as simpler, and adding submodules is not simpler. They want to know about and manage 1 repository clone. They want to commit, push, review, and build out of 1 repository. They want to search for stuff in 1 directory tree. They'd also like to do that with 1 tool, ideally 'git'. Nothing really offers that except monorepos.
I don't agree that it's fair to imply that all police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years without providing any evidence for that claim because of the here and now.

I think I understand what you're aiming at. I think I would agree with you if the title wasn't so rigid, but it feels to me like a significant claim that extends beyond the here and now reality.
I don’t think that’s the only difficulty. There’s something else going on in iOS. YouTube links don’t even open in the YouTube app on my iPhone (I have to load the safari page, add them to Watch Later, then switch to the YouTube app). It does, however, work on my iPad.
> Or are jury trials just inherently untrustworthy?

After sitting through jury selection last year, I think that's definitely part of it.

But you also have to consider that:

(1) the standard for a crime is actually much higher for a police officer than a civvie. It's something like "would a reasonable officer act this way in a similar circumstance" and the attorney spends the rest of the defense case adding to the onus of the prosecutor

(2) the officer's coworkers are the ones gathering/storing the evidence and pressuring the chief + prosecutor to neither bring a case nor follow through with it

(3) just like a criminal is the best person to be able to get away with a crime, so is the person that spends all day investigating and interviewing criminals. Since a lot of felonies require intent, it's especially difficult to investigate intent if the suspect is very knowledgeable about the tools you would use to build that case. And even if the individual officer isn't, they have union reps and lawyers to assist. The investigators might even depend on the same union reps/lawyers and their own dues pay out the longer those services are needed.

(4) police unions are extremely good at disseminating legal information to their members/constituents (for lobbying, voting, and rallying purposes). They have been caught creating "copaganda" (pro-police propaganda) in social media recently.

(5) union leaders poison the well of investigations in the local media as soon as an officer is investigated

(6) the police union pays for the defense attorney most of the time and they specialize in defending officers all of the time

(7) the police unions have crafted very difficult barriers to firing officers (see POBoR, LEOBoR, lots of employment contract clauses) so the bad ones end up staying on the force, even if they collect a large number of complaints

(8) there is inevitably the discussion of how "hard" the job is (it's honestly really physically tiring, occasionally dangerous, requires lots of concentration + short term memory, is emotionally taxing to see the physical and mental toll of crime, ) and the defense attorney will always bring this up

(8) there are specialist police trainers that act as expert witnesses in what the police are trained to do and what the police mentality is when then encounter a suspect (eg. they are taught to always expect at every second that a suspect could be an armed murderer and a suicide terrorist, so they act accordingly)

(9) prosecutors sometimes tank / sandbag the prosecution because they still have to work with all of the coworkers of the defendant who frequently think it's a violation of trust to bring charges against a cop (no matter how bad the officer acted). A DA / ADA who can't get police to supply evidence or work a case isn't a DA much longer. I don't think 99% of police are acquitted / never see trial unless this is a significant component.

(10) the average person that doesn't want off jury duty has hero worship of authority (judges, prosecutors, police, military) and they aren't challenged on that mentality unless they say a couple of key phrases
All the other comments note how risky the approach of giving feedback to your boss is, and they're right.

As a manager, it's on ME to setup the environment for candid feedback. It's something I have to emphasize over and over again and demonstrate very clearly and publicly to everyone that it's ok and it's what I expect.

If the boss isn't creating that environment, then it's a risky, uphill battle for any subordinate to create change. Not impossible, but it's difficult to recommend it.
Aren't all these delivery businesses living in a false vacuum? It seems like a lot of these companies are basically a giant multivariate ponzi scheme.
High resolution light field cameras would really help here as well. That seems a ways off though.

Are you folks able to do any multi-spectral stuff? That seems interesting.
The way things are described make the doctors sound powerless. I've been frustrated by the lack the information on the usefulness of hospitals. The impression I've gotten is that they cannot do much, and if they would go as far as intubation, you're highly likely to die even with intubation.
Not an ER doc, but a doc in long term care facilities which have been hit particularly hard. Fortunately things have slowed down considerably now, but at its peak it was absolutely nerve racking.
There’s an element to this pandemic which many people working in healthcare have felt. We see patients fall sick often, and we see them die often, although this was at an near overwhelming scale. But what we don’t see often is our own colleagues falling sick and, in some cases, dying. This adds a level of despair that I personally had never experienced before, and adds to the stress of the job.
Which is why when it is written off by some as nothing more than a bad flu season, I get upset. This is something worse, and despite all the research that’s been done in a short time, still something we don’t fully understand - and something that is not over.
Humans will never understand more than a fraction of the the universe that we can perceive. Ignorance is infinite, and therefore so is discovery. Nifty :)
If a group has "fewer resources and more stresses" "when growing up", we should try to address that directly.

This doesn't mean universities doesn't present equal opportunity.

The reason someone is not as capable may be just bad luck (bad parents etc.). But still, society should give positions to most capable ones.
I've also read that unions see the writing on the wall that QI might be peeled back and are lobbying to get their renewed employment contracts to get the city/county/state indemnify the department/officers. It's not the QI doctrine of old, but it serves the same purpose.
Right. With Twitch just having given in to copyright trolls and deplatformed all the DJs with multiple strikes against 2-3 year old content and no tools for the Twitch users to practically deal with the new punishments in a timely enough fashion to not get auto-permabanned? I cannot see "a proper streaming platform" happening under his watch. :sigh:
Free Software Supporter – Edição 147, julho 2020
Nice, clear read. It seems like Gloo was the clear winner once you dug in.
The tests were a bit limited, but since you've toyed with both, do you see a case where you'd still run with Ambassador? We've only spun up something really small, but were leaning toward Ambassador for the same reason you had (seemed really clear). Did Ambassador have any positives over Gloo other than how easy the docs were to step into?

My co-worker had been daunted by the Gloo docs, but I don't think he reached out like you did. He said he didn't get far enough to use their UI, which doesn't seem like it matters, but I kind of like the edge stuff for Ambassador. Did you get you try either?

Gah! Just when we thought we were done pre-evaluating.
various 8bit '80s BASIC implementations:

REM

Yes, it's the comment marker, standing for REMARK.

But it's also, metaphorically, a line that is "asleep."

Genius.
Huh? I don’t know about Facebook but Google for sure does not use Mercurial as monorepo backend (nor does it use Git). There are Git and Mercurial-alike clients to interface with the in-house backend which is a Perforce like thing. Neither Git nor Mercurial would be fun to use at Google scale. Dropbox has a much smaller monorepo hence they can clone the whole Git thing on developer machines. I assume doing the same with Mercurial is impractical as no one has patience for something that slow.
Than the old site? Ehhhh. Than the new site? Yes, much better.

The new site looks like someone was told to design a generic social media app for mobile. It doesn’t make any sense. The old site was pretty ugly, but at least used screen real estate effectively and allowed for quick browsing.

Depending on what exactly I’m looking at, I will prefer mobile or web. That said, I am not a fan of the official app and prefer third party ones.
Yikes. I've got my own first@firstlast.com but I've never ran into an instance where I wasn't able to use it.

I do now have a hyphen in my last name which is not accepted everywhere. Some companies accept the hyphen but replace it with a space (some credit cards), some reject the hyphen so I either make it all one word or add my own space.
Wasn't Dick Costolo a standup comic?
Wait...netflix in chrome is only 720p!? How do I get 1080?
Minor instruction to make it work for me:

pip3 install BeautifulSoup
pip3 install mechanize
mkdir data

Guess you can check data directory but not sure about the pip3, python does not like R I am not sure and can it pip3 install when not exist ....
> How many times I've been discriminated against at a conference? Zero.

Hi. I mean the following non-offensively. As a formerly obese person, I really doubt this. People discriminate against fat people in social life, in the workplace, and yes even in a career in tech quite a bit. Educated people are good at not making it overt, or maybe they're not aware that they're doing it. But I think there have been various studies on how it affects people in the workplace (spoiler alert: it does). Also, one way I noticed this is the way people treated me before and after losing 100 lbs. It's ironic, because being treated shabbily was stressful; I would say that stress and lack of social recognition re-enforced my weight problem.

I do wonder how weight might surface in a real technical conversation though. I guess it's proper to avoid certain metaphors, like "bloated" code or the "fat binary" (where fat = multi-architecture) concept they used to have on old Macs. I'm typing this on FreeBSD and I note they have "newfs_msdos" and "mount_msdosfs" instead of "FAT".
Ever go to an Italian restaurant and they have a 30 minute or so variance in how soon they bring your order? That’s because they don’t adjust for the online orders in their kitchen. Either constrained by physical size or staff, also most services don’t rate limit how many orders go to singular restaurants. It’s especially hard for a restaurant to suspend online ordering if they rely on email, fax, or robo called orders.
Orwell was opposed to the USSR when he realized their imperialism, not when he realized that socialism was a bad idea.

In any case, there are living examples of socialism right now. They are small in scale, but seem to be better than capitalism. Millennial socialism is also much closer to the socialism of George Orwell in any case, because it is much more libertarian than that of the 1900s.
What about this alternative:

Capitalism where you can't amass more personal wealth than $100M.

The only reason I would think you would need more money than that is if you wanted to push ideas that the population would not vote for.

I have much more faith in people closer to issues solving them with more good faith and efficiency than unelected billionaires being effectively philanthropic.

I would rather see more rich people relaxing with their wealth than trying to outmaneuver every last civil liberty we have for an extra dollar. Even better if they use their wealth to make their local community better. That way, there are actual human interactions between those making suggestions and voters.

Makes a good environment for natural competition as well.

Would we have a worse quality of life because of this? Important question, but my gut says no.

I'm all for civil liberties, but uber rich people can get away with weird things because they can ignore all the "no's" and essentially bribe decision makers.
You've got 1.4 billion living examples on the other side of the ocean.
No matches for the words 'shirt' or 'tie' or 'dress' in any of the comments.

This probably means nothing to anyone here but it used to be auspicious for people promoted into management to actually dress the part not out of prideful superiority but modesty and respect and and acknowledgement of this duty and responsibility.

Think of it as a flag in software.

A lot of the conversations we have are already on the wrong level when it's a manager in jeans looking like it's his day off but what would anyone know about this when comfort reigns supreme and we're all at best only half invested in anything we do professionally.

If you plan to down vote this rather than doing it in the silent way, put a reasoning for your action or move on.
Seems like the equivalent of p-hacking to me. Sure they could apply complex queries to narrow down the suspects in a fair way, but I don't trust them to do that.
I’m sorry, but I still don’t understand what you mean. Haskell has mature libraries for writing web services. That’s what I use the language for, and it’s hardly a niche.

Plenty of people (including some of my colleagues) write Haskell in Visual Studio Code.

I don’t know anything about Tensorflow (though machine learning seems a bit more “niche” than building websites tbqh), and I haven’t known anyone to use Eclipse for writing code in the past decade or so.

Genuinely, I haven’t a clue what you are talking about. How would three general purpose languages “work out of the box” with X, but a fourth would not? Eclipse is a text editor and you can write Haskell with it. There are Haskell bindings to Tensorflow available.

Your point now doesn’t even seem to be consistent with your original point. How is Eclipse state-of-the-art? How is Haskell behind?
I was interested enough to dive deeper into this quote, but I could only find the slides related to the talk. I then found this blog post which deep dives into Mike's talk and provides some great examples, including the prior art on which his talk is based.

https://medium.com/good-api/api-maturity-fb25560151a3
As another non-OP libertarian leaning commenter taking your off-topic bait, no, I don't think it's essential infrastructure. Healthcare didn't even exist 100 years ago beyond what you can find in any first-aid kit today, and we certainly aren't anywhere close to having a surplus of it available.

As I've commented before, people regularly oversimplify this problem as socialized vs private healthcare without considering why American healthcare is so broken. If you look carefully at the problems, you see that they won't go away if the government replaces private insurance and expands Medicare for everyone.
These problems include a tremendous shortage of doctors [0]. Even Canada and the UK have more doctors per capita, and they are known for extremely high wait times (the jokes of the socialized medicine countries, so to speak). There are a number of possible reasons for this, most notably the hassle of occupational licensing (12-14 years of expensive college + 'indentured servitude' residency in the US).

Nonetheless, American healthcare science is still ahead of the curve and subsidizes socialized countries -- ~60% of all new drugs between 2001-2010 were invented in the US, and foreign dignitaries of socialized medicine countries often still get important procedures done in the US [1]. It would be interesting to see how the R&D dynamic plays out if America loses its market incentive to innovate in the space, and no other developed countries have the financial incentive left.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?end=2018....

[1] https://xconomy.com/seattle/2014/09/02/which-countries-excel....
> Nearly 40 percent of Rekognition’s false matches in our test were of people of color, even though they make up only 20 percent of Congress.

What percentage of the arrest photos were people of color? Was it significantly more or less than the 20 percent people of color in congress or about the same?
I prefer Grubhub/Seamless in NYC. They're typically on bicycles or scooters and will bring the order up to your apartment door. Uber Eats people usually want you to come down outside so they don't have to double-park.

I'm not giving you a $10 delivery tip to drive my Five Guys order eight blocks.. You gotta get out and come up the stairs to my door.
That would not fix the issues of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, exploitation, and so on. But it would be an improvement.
Google is monetizing Wikipedia's content. Even if that content is "free", selling it to advertisers counts as stealing.
I started using this a few months ago to solve the very important problem of my git-status-decorated bash prompt taking too long to display on macOS. I'm very happy with the result, but there are a couple of situations where it seems to get stuck and I have to go kill processes: after I've created a lot of untracked files and then deleted them; and if I've moved back and forth between revisions with thousands of combined file changes.

Still highly recommended for large (or just old) repos.
the tldr is: being a doc in NYC right now is a high stress - maybe battlefield like scenario. Lots of patients, lots of death, hard to cope with a routine like that.
How do you distribute personal wealth after that 100 million? If you distribute it to the workers that create it and make it 20 million instead of 100 I think you'd be on to something.
Thanks for sharing! Learned a lot :)
Twitter tries out new feature that suggests reading an article before sharing it
"not to scale" ... cool thing, nice animation
I recorded a podcast episode with my brother-in-law, a New York City surgeon, that has become one of my most downloaded. He talks about not knowing important information early, the challenge of going between surgery and home, but most of all, seeing the possibility of having to triage between who might live or die.

We cover non-pandemic stuff too.

https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/michael-turner-dds-md
Yes, trans women are women. Agreed.

The challenge is that trans women are women who used to have comparatively vast quantities of testosterone in their bodies, giving them dramatically higher bone density along with all of the other side effects of testosterone on the body.

When they transition fully, the estrogen has a side-effect of preserving the bone density they had previously. Specifically, this gives them a massive advantage in combat sports like MMA. I won't get into the other musculoskeletal aspects that happen.

It's a vexing problem, because I don't like the idea of trans women not being treated like women. It sucks to think about that. It also sucks for non-trans women who are getting their skulls fractured in fights.

The reality is that fans of non trans female athletes aren't going to accept this. When a tiny percentage of the population is trans, and suddenly trans women start winning at the highest levels of female sports at an insanely disproportionate amount, it clearly indicates that being trans provides a massive advantage in female sports. I haven't found any cases of trans men dominating in male sports.

I'm pro trans rights, and also know that my view on this is deeply unpopular in the trans community. I'm not sure what the answer is for this. Sometimes, reality doesn't mesh with our ideals.
Something like that. Obviously the specifics are important, but I think the main advantage from this is the limiting of amassed wealth.
There's some glaringly obvious action they could take in a moment if they actually wanted to do something about fighting hate speech. They don't.
"Curation"?

By five totally unaccountable mods, all pushing brands for money?

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gitwbo/p...

That curation is "The good that comes from inside Reddit"???
Appreciate it!

Nice, I really respect research coming out of NIH. (Happen to know Travis Hoppe?) Coincidentally, our notebook demo for YOLOv5 is on the blood cell count and detection dataset: https://public.roboflow.ai/object-detection/bccd

We've seen 1000+ different use cases. Some of the most popular are in agriculture (weeds vs crops), industrials / production (quality assurance), and OCR.

Send me an email? joseph at roboflow.ai
Why whales sing: it’s a question of culture
Unfortunately, still an effective limit of FL/OSS software.

Not the software's fault, but still still a limit.
If you go from non-functional to functional with extraneous crap that’s a success. Unless you’re working at the forefront of research or at the absolute limits of your capabilities an explicit mental model of what you’re doing is of surprisingly little use. Even that exaggerates how useful it is. The huge majority of improvement is by trial and error, with shoddy and incomplete mental models.

Your last paragraph is just what happens when there’s no force demanding quality. If there’s not strong pressure to maintain or improve quality decline is inevitable.
“Police use” == contractors providing subsequent services to said police and bilking tax payer money for said service, with likely companies founded by public servants’ significant others to do said billing (remember this actually happened in 2009 by wives of bankers setting up companies to get bailout funds)
I know the author, if you have any questions.
I'd like really like to see more support added (Ruby, etc). It could be a great alternative to Artifactory.
In that case can I interest you to market socialism? It is almost exactly that, except that you immediately start sharing your wealth as soon as you have a employees, in different amounts.
So how much life is left in a battery? I assumed they are dead.
The trick is to designate one screen as "main" and keep it centered to view. Then have a secondary screen for notes, email etc off to one side, generally opposite to your mouse hand.
I agree. And as far as food goes, there are usually plenty of options (SNAP, food banks, etc). They might be strained in the current unemployment situation.

I would also say that being poor is not an excuse for stealing. There are plenty of poor people who have never stolen anything. I would not feel bad about working on software to catch shoplifters.