skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can only get to that point via systemic processes to ensure the proper people end up in the positions of power, with proper accountability acting in the limits of a shared morality

Hoping that police/tech companies/miltiary/etc are moral isn't an actionable plan.
The key word being rarely
I could never buy a screen wide enough to display a full path with Symfony. Not quite as bad as its predecessor - Zend Framework - but finding the end of a file path was like jumping down a rabbit hole.
In high school physics class there was one kid that seemed to be really good so one day I asked him what his trick was and he said, "I just pretend I'm the teacher". I thought that was a really clever trick. During class he was figuring out ways of how to copy the teacher and it seemed to work. He would consistently get top marks on tests. He was accumulating tacit knowledge whereas everyone else was copying formulas and drilling problem sets.
"default styles" - are you talking about default fonts, or something else?
Nothing lasts forever.
> I'm not very happy with all of the news trickling out about Zoom but I really do like their product.

That's my position, too. I teach at a large public university in Japan, where the school year begins in April. At the beginning of March, we were expecting to start classes in person as normal a month later. By around March 20, we had decided to teach most of our classes online; a week later, "most" had become "all." Teachers and students had little to no prior experience with online education, and their level of general digital literacy varied widely. From the plethora of tools available, we had to choose software that everyone could use and that would be reliable and scalable.

Despite concerns about security issues, Zoom was chosen as our videoconferencing platform. That seems to have turned out to be a good choice, as it is stable, can handle large groups, and offers features (breakout rooms, video and audio recording, attendance reports, etc.) that are useful for university classes. That fact that it hasn't (yet) been blocked in China was also a factor in choosing it, as we have students stuck overseas who need to take part in classes. Anecdotal reports from colleagues who teach at other universities in Japan suggest that the non-Zoom platforms have not performed as well.

Now that teachers and students are used to online classes, I hope we can also try other tools in the future. But considering how well Zoom performed during our hectic ramp-up to online teaching, I give it my grudging support for the time being.
Sure, but that's not (or equivalent to) AdBlock Plus, which is what I was replying to.

Specifically, iPhones cannot do in-browser content or domain blocking if the browser is not Safari.
Maybe I missed it in the article but I am curious whether the guy was using Facebook's opt-in E2E encryption.
SK Engineering Pleads Guilty to Defrauding U.S. Army, Will $68.4M
In theory you could also do this with visual-inertial odometry eg monocular SLAM. But this is definitely something we're looking at in my group (I do CV for ecology), especially for object detection where geometry (absolute size) is a good way to distinguish between two confusing classes. A good candidate here is aerial imagery. If you've calibrated the camera and you know your altitude, then you know your ground sample distance (m/px).

Most flagships can do this though, any multicamera phone can get some kind of stereo. Google do it with the PDAF pixels for smart bokeh (they have some nice blog posts about it). I don't know if there is a way to so that in an API though (or to obtain the depth map).

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/learning-to-predict-depth-...
> It's not just a programmers' thing, it's pretty much any kind of professional work. Graphics, CAD, word processing, spreadsheets.

Yes, for anything where precise control on the screen itself is the necessary thing, keyboard and mouse reigns supreme.

There are also people who use their devices moving around in the world. I remember watching a realtor using their giant smart phone at once point. Camera, voice to text, scanning documents...it was more like a mobile version of office facilities than manipulating things on the screen. It's different work and the peripherals and mode of interaction are different.
I have an Ericsson MC16 (rebadged HP 360LX) WinCE device from 1998. Was given it circa. 2003 when I was five/six. Despite abusing it for years, it still works today.
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html

AVX (256 bit) instructions also suffer a penalty.
Both the 256 and 512 bit instructions resulted in a slowdown for 9 microseconds featuring a quarter the instructions per clock, but the 512 bit instructions resulted in an additional penalty of 11 microseconds without executing instructions.

The first penalty was associated with voltage, and the second with frequency. Heavier 256 bit instructions would probably have resulted in the frequency transaction as well.
Get back to me when the FOD and Doctor's Unions are depending the illegal organ sellers are reinstated with back pay. Do doctors who commit gross malpractice draw a pension for the PTSD incurred when killing their patients?
Why doesn’t the US just pass a countervailing law against censorship? When China tells a company to censor its employees or users, the company could just point to the US law saying it can’t. Then China has no leverage over it because the company’s hands are tied.
> complaints and feature requests for a free app.

eh, except for those who paid the 2.99 for the Pro upgrade.
Yep the ACLU did a study about this as well: https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te...
Give the original ago. No need to watch it if it doesn't float your boat, but give it a try.
Did you try HTML::Mason or were you stuck with CGI::Application or even plain old cgi? Mason is like PHP but its dependenc on mod_perl made unfortunately made it a non-starter for cheap hosts. Catalyst was an abomination but I think Mojolicious deserves more adoption that it gets.
I lived next to a reservoir that is a popular fishing spot. Police would always target black guys from the city for “routine” checks. Fishing license, car insurance, whatever.

On the way home, the sheriff or some bullshit village police would frequently pull over a black driver I recognized from fishing. You’re talking old men in their 70s.

I won’t claim the same treatment, but I would get pulled over at least monthly for various bs offenses. I found out later it was because my car was purchased and registered in a big city, and you could tell the county of registration from the plate.
I'm impressed with even the new HP printers given the substantial engineering that's gone into reducing cost. It seems both low cost and longevity are achievable with the printers-and-ink business model (which incentivizes both of those for the manufacturer).
Well probably the only "bank" involved was an investment bank. Typically they would issue bonds rather than taking out a mortgage. Some investors like the risk available with such corporate bonds.

Although this may not be a LBO situation, selling junk bonds is often the way that PE firms steal everything from firms they "buy". I have no idea how the "all-stock" claims jive with selling bonds. I suppose the buyer could just issue more of its own stock, if the numbers don't add up. [EDIT:] This last maneuver seems more plausible if the buyer itself was previously a LBO target and the PE dudes haven't totally drained it yet.
>You are killing the golden goose by trying to force people toward the app

I think this is the the type of requests that shows the disconnect between the HN crowd and real users. The majority of users will use the app. It's entirely in reddit's benefit to push the app, that's where they have complete control and can add more tracking and ads without the hindrance of ad/tracking blockers.

old.reddit.com is all I use but some new features (like polls) are already a second class citizen and I don't see it surviving long down the line.
O4UTech is accepting LGBTQ+students for a conference sponsored by top firms
BTW supporting platform for video delivery is also worth. (maybe most HN users don't care for YouTube's profit)
This is a really poor analogy. The position of captain of on a warship is almost entirely unlike that of a corporate board member and corporate board members often represent external interests.
We have definite proof of surveillance by the Five-Eyes, why would China would be better at hiding evidence of surveillance. Claiming that something can't be measured at all doesn't help your argument either. That type of reasoning is only acceptable in theology.
Do you think that Wikipedia doesn't want traffic? When people land on Wikipedia it creates brand recognition and the opportunity for them to ask for support from those visitors, which is what keeps Wikipedia going. Some of those users will edit pages while they are there.

What Google is doing is terrible, especially for smaller sites. Those sites depend on traffic to survive.

AMP makes things even worse, because now the visitors never actually go to the website's own independent servers, even if "the content" loads, and Google dictates how the sites have to be built. Web publishers are in the process of losing control of their websites and independence.
AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
In Peak, Ericsson seems to finally settle on one definition, which was what I used in the end. He calls what you just describe "not being able to deliberately practice like a grandmaster" a completely different thing — purposeful practice.

There's a whole chapter in Peak where he tries to talk about what to do if you are in a field with badly developed pedagogical methods. It's basically a badly written copy of The Power of Intuition (Klein). I was incredibly dissatisfied with it, because I was mostly interested in putting DP to practice, and his recommendations were far from practicable. I wish he had just referred to Hoffman or Klein, both of them practitioners in NDM, and therefore both more familiar with attempts to design training programs for fields where no pedagogical rigour exist.

I know you're inclined to give Ericsson a pass, and pass things off as deliberate practice even when his definition clearly excludes said thing. But my view is that we should call a spade a spade and use the exact definitions the man used. If he thought it was good enough for his popular audience, it should be good enough for me.
(disclaimer: quick back of the envelope research, mistakes might have been made, void where prohibited, kids eat free)

Stella's own doctor testified[1]:

>Lowering the serving temperature to about 160 degrees could make a big difference, because it takes less than three seconds to produce a third-degree burn at 190 degrees, about 12 to 15 seconds at 180 degrees and about 20 seconds at 160 degrees.

The NCA (a coffee industry group) recommends[2] holding at a temperature of 180-185, due to "rapid cooling", and consuming at or below 140.

Stella's injuries were exacerbated by:

* The hot coffee permeating through thin sweatpants and being held against the skin.

* Her age - 81 years old at the time of the injury. Older skin is damaged more easily[3], and would also have implications for her mobility (how fast she could remove the soaked sweatpants)

Some experiments [4] show that coffee served at 180 will cool to around 162 in 5 minutes, 148 within 10, and 138 within 15. 70% of Mcdonalds business is through the drive-through [5], so must customers would be getting their coffee to go.

The question I'm unable to find a satisfactory answer for is how long it takes the average customer to receive their order and return home. I could probably figure that out if I knew how far the average customer was from their store, but that information is not readily available.

If holding at 180 results in optimum drinking temperature of around 130 in about 15 minutes (per 4), then this is the optimal temperature to hold at for product quality if the average customer lives within 15 minutes of a Mcdonalds.

If you were to hold at 160, using the info from [4], the coffee would fall below this optimum temperature in about 10 minutes and require reheating, which alters the flavor.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150923195353/http://www.busine... (page 4, bottom)

[2]: https://www.ncausa.org/About-Coffee/How-to-Brew-Coffee

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377829/ (It is widely accepted that elderly burn patients have significantly increased morbidity and mortality. Irrespective of the type of burn injury, the aged population shows slower recoveries and suffers more complications.)

[4]: https://www.ukessays.com/essays/mathematics/equation-to-mode...

[5]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mcdonalds-meeting-idUSKBN...
> Finally I wonder how they will implement this, I mean after all I can sign up and start using any AWS service with just a credit card what's to stop police departments from simply using a corporate card and signing up for a different account?

Maybe they could work some kind of penalty into the contract? Something like "if you're working on behalf of a police department, you are forbidden from using our facial recognition services. If you sign up despite this term, we will cancel your account and retroactively bill you $100,000 or your usage at a rate 1000x normal, whichever is greater."
Even if they have validation built in when you are signing up! How is it possible that they have taken steps to ensure passwords meet their stringent criteria, but the user still ends up unable to log in?
Most recently, I've experienced this problem with two of the big three credit bureaus.
True, but one can't blame Amazon in this case. The agency can reduce the threshold to 0% (ad absurdum) and claim that Amazon's technology is not working.
> lose a few ad dollars to make positive change

Don't think there is a single company during the entire reign of capitalism that this has happened.

Additionally, Reddit is owned by Advance Publications which is pretty much entirely the Newhouse billionaire family. Don't think we've every seen such as a thing as a compassionate old school billionaire. Their other major holding Condenast, is presently embroiled in accusations of racism/discrimination despite portraying themselves as 'allies'.

By hiring Michael Seibel they do exactly what a profit driven company would do. Hire an incredibly competent person who espouses the same values (cut throat Silicon Valley ideology), has been molded by the same kind of people (Ivy league education), and serves as a great "UNO reverse' card for any accusation of the company unilaterally chasing money over ethics.

If an activist was hired, they would steer the company into a direction that matches their lip service and not actual intentions.

and I don't mean to say it is an evil thing to do or something. It is entirely in line with what almost every other company does. It is a perfectly capitalistic thing to do and will change nothing. As was the original intention.
Good luck mwseibel!
No you should only be ticketed if you're driving dangerously. Speed alone is not enough of a determining factor. If nobody else is on the road go as slow as you want, if its wet or dark you probably shouldn't always be going the maximum allowable speed.
Please don't cross into personal attack on HN. We've had to ask you this before. If you keep doing it we're going to end up having to ban you, so please just don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You know what? You’re right. Let’s call this what it is: pure virtue signaling.

Now that that’s done, what’s next? How can we boost the signal? I like this particular virtue. I think it’s worthy and achievable and more people should be able to tune into it.

Admittedly I’m biased as a person with a few differently complexities of melanin in my skin, that has been treated like an outsider in so many different ways, but hell if were signaling virtues let’s be upfront and own this shit and do some good with it.

What’s to lose? The integrity of Reddit because they put a black man at the helm? Eh. Worth a shot in my opinion.
You're missing the greater picture because you seem to be ignoring the context in which the article itself was published. Which is that we're seeing a large amount of violence being committed by police across the US, including other instances of police tracking down people who record them on social media in cities like Seattle.

The article is about her experience with the local PD, yes. The context of the title relates to the here and now which is a data point in the greater picture of how the police in general behave. It's only sensationalism if you ignore everything else going on around us.
> The human factor stuff can be addressed with engineering rigor and consensus.

How do you add engineering rigor and consensus? Let's say as an Individual Contributor.
> No, complimentary and substitute products are healthy for the market place. Again go back to the grocery store, they don't want General Mills/Post going out of business, they want to fill their shelves with those products.

I don't think the grocery store and the cereal company are competitors in that case.
The income math on doing a CS PhD if you already have a bachelor's I think fairly strongly argues against it. The salary differential for a PhD just doesn't make up for losing out on six years of high paying work. The major exceptions are (right now) an ML PhD, which is highly sought after. Also, if you want to do government/defense work, the PhD is very useful.

On the other hand, if you are a foreigner, it's pretty hard to break into the U.S. IT job market. H1Bs are scarce. If you can get accepted into a U.S. PhD program though, you get a well recognized credential, and you get a year of OPT and it's easier to get an H1B after that (or at least it was -- I know a lot of this is changing). You also get six years to improve your English. Even if you return to your home country, the U.S. PhD is likely to open many doors.
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/inf3-6.pdf

Page 90 first full paragraph.
Entrepreneurs Face a Growing Mental Crisis at Companies
In all fairness, at this point they’re using data to guide their decisions on official platform support and features. But agreed that the mobile web experience and native app experience should be closer tied, and users shouldn’t be pushed so aggressively to the app. I can only imagine the amount of work it would take to refactor that codebase...
Zoom is a US company founded by an immigrant from China with 700 employees in China where the software and product development teams are. All 700 of those employees can be leaned on to break security generally or to break it for one specific person or meeting, even if we don’t believe there management of the Chinese or American parts of the firm won’t just do what the CPC ask them to do.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects, among other things, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition the Government for the redress of grievances. Being able to get together and ask for the Government to do something is core to the American identity; and it protects the rights of Black Lives Matter supporters as much as it protects the rights of a company to request laws be enacted or changed.

(Disclaimer: I work for AWS but my opinion is my own and does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.)
Does having an outside voice actually contribute to better outcomes for the company?

US corporations seem to think so - zillions of businesses have outside directors, it's an established practice.
Ask HN: How do I help get the tech community engaged in the plight of Blacks?
I'm looking for advice or guidance on trying to get more people in tech interested or more informed about the conditions Black people face, especially in America.

I've noticed in the past this community (and other tech heavy ones) seems quite a bit more receptive to content about the protests in Hong Kong but it does not seem to have the same level of interest in the current events and Black America.

Are people interested in things that have a technology aspect to them only?

I am genuinely looking forward to hearing what people think.
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Ask HN: How can I back to school (undergraduate) after working several years?
Right now, I'm in a weird position where I can't go to school affordably because of the obnoxious dependency / residency rules, but let's say I want to get an undergraduate degree in a couple years, when I will be considered independent and a resident of the state I live in. Additionally, let's make the assumption that I'm not interested in an online degree, my company will not pay me to go back to school (at least for some degree I'm interested in) and my family wont take me back in.

So I'd be a mid 20s professional with an ok job that disqualifies me from much aid, but not enough where I can just pay out of pocket instantaneously. While technically, part time out of pocket is possible, but because undergraduate degrees are designed for high school -> full time student, the scheduling is likely to be an issue and the time it would take to complete is probably not worth it. Going back full time, a degree could be completed in a timely manner, no idea how to afford it if not working, as most jobs that would fit that sort of schedule wont pay shit. Unfortunately in that case, I'm paying not only for school, but also essentials (rent, etc.)

So basically, Although I'm pretty well off rn, I might want to go back ot school in a few years, but completing it in a timely manner without pulling out near to six figures in private loans doesnt seem possible. Am I overlooking anything? Are there options I may not know about?
I was stating that plain Linux isn’t an alternative to K8S, not that one should always use Kubernetes ;)
Cops have been intentionally terrorizing 40 million black Americans since forever.
> So that was before Bob Swan became the new CEO?

Yes, BK was fired right around the time I gave my notice.

> Why left?

A lot of reasons that would sound like griping. I was recruited by Google for a similar job, but with a chance to build something from the ground up. That sounded like the adventure I was looking for, so I took the offer. I must say, it's been an adventure!
As of some time last year VB on Ubuntu now signs its modules automatically FWIW.
The humble automotive sealed lead acid battery can also find a second life in a solar setup, be it for a home or a RV. It's a good reuse for truck batteries, I find.

Sure SLA batteries are a mess environmentally, but if you can keep them out of the landfill for a few years this way, why not?