skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you target browsers that are installed by default on operating systems that are still receiving security updates, you have to support Windows 8.1 and thus IE 11 for another two and a half years, alas.
From Bank Machines to Real Estate: Cleaning the Dirty Money
I don't think so, other than by being a colleague of the main designer.
This is factually incorrect
Glad I believe in karma, because the people that cut down that old forest aren't coming back as humans for a very long time.
I have to comment on this. I strongly disagree with the assertion that all professors are dishonest. In my experience the vast majority of academics are honest to a fault (much more so than in many other industries).

I acknowledge that there is a problem, there is a percentage of professors which are abusive, dishonest... The problem is like in many other areas those guys (and it is mostly main) often raise to the top. The other issue is that the way academia is set up (and there are some good reasons for it, e.g. academic freedom) , it's very difficult to detect. You almost always only hear rumors and its very difficult to act on the rumors, especially if nobody wants to come forward (which is a problem) and the rumors are from different institutions.

Another aspect to this is, that there will often be some conflict/disagreement between PhD student and supervisor. This can be for when to finish, when, where and what to publish... That does not always mean there is abuse of power, it's mostly professional disagreements similar to disagreements between an engineer and their manager.
Keras (like) with pytorch back end
I don't think he does. He says "If we get technology to go at speed of light", "at speed of light" the speed of light is 1c.

His previous sentence also makes no sense

> To put some thing in perspective. If we get an instant teleport technology to go there tomorrow, it will be a planet that had passed 5 times more time then we know since our humanity almost went extinct 60k years ago.

The light we see from the planet is 3000 years old not 5 times 60k. Space is big, but not as big as OP seems to think. The diameter of the Milky Way is only 150,000–180,000 light-years light years. All the exoplanets we have detected are within the Milky Way.
> Most of those papers build insanely complex calculi to capture a simple idea that every junior engineer can understand in half a day.

Except that is working code. The insane complexity is almost never in the calculi themselves, but rather in the proofs that go along with them, to clearly show why the approach that has been taken to formalize that "simple idea" works as expected. That modeling work is quite essential if you want to ensure that the "simple" features in a programming language interact together in a sensible and useful way.
if you can run everything on a $10 vm...do you really need k8 ?
I assume you're trolling, but I'll address your question anyway.

It's undeniable that there is a Chinese and WHO coverup. It's ongoing, with Australia receiving trade sanctions after they requested corona data from China.

It's to be seen if there's a coverup between China and the US over the Wuhan Corona Lab, which received funding from the US because of containment lapses. (Video from there shows lab technicians sitting around tables with syringes, etc. wearing no protective gear. So I have to wonder where that money went.)

The fact that clinical trials for the human version of the SARS-1 vaccine were never completed in 2003/2004 is absurd. (I don't know of any corona vaccines for sars or mers, although CNN had some article about "running out of a covid-19 vaccine" last week, which is not searchable today.)

The international media hasn't been diligent on reporting how early corona (SARS-2/covid-19) spread outside China, which is certainly 2019. This is important because the earlier the models start at, the lower the fatality rate calculation result is. In other words, the lockdown in May/June doesn't make sense with a start date of Dec./Jan.

New York is open, yet California, which has had flat corona hospital dashboard stats for months, is still on lockdown because Newsom plans a White House run.

So there are multiple levels of government and press coverups, similar to a Russian doll.

Does that answer your question?

I think the reason that my analysis is at odds with HN readers is that my focus is on mortality and policy, and HNers are focused on individual outcomes and the press cycle. (Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, the US' leading historian, is also a policy guy, and we don't disagree on anything.)

If you want to view more about the details about the effects of moving the goalposts on the initial date of corona infection:

The Failure of Expert Predictions and Models | The Coronavirus and Public Policy (Apr. 30, Hillsdale College)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG2vdyfLv7U
I've found that ECS on AWS works great for similar use-cases. I guess it gets more love than EKS on AWS.

Seems like EKS is great for people to start looking at AWS without vendor lock-in, but then people switch over to ECS and/or Lambdas for compute.
The idea probably comes from bright light versus no light, but I can see why it's easy to make the wrong interpretation, both for a racist or a victim
It’s a public insurer?
If you want to get pedantic then clear text consoles are the core concept behind time sharing systems, the methodology behind Multics and UNIX, and thus pre-dates LISP Machines by decades (we all stand on the shoulders of giants).

But that doesn't mean there isn't still value in someone writing a new library and sharing it with the community.
Because it's not objective?

Everyone seems to have very different opinions of what good or bad code looks like, what's overengineered and what isn't.

Why is the problem even asking for AI? are they applying for an AI position?

And why is it ok to ask people to work for free on a coding project? From what I've seen, people generally ask for pretty high rates to do consulting, with good reason.
My parenthetical suggestions were a joke.

But having to switch names, even to something completely different, would be manageable, I'm sure.
I worked in small company (50-100 employees) and lead team of 7 people before. After company went down, I joined as IC in big corps. Few things mentioned below might not be relevant to your position. But adding them for every one. Not all orgs are same, so take this with pinch of salt.

- Relax, don't boil the ocean. (This is first advice given to me by one of the director after raising concerns over dev practices being followed)

- Learn presentation skills. Charts are important. Executives don't understand technical language but only charts.

- Stay humble but be political. Avoid heated arguments. Give logical choices to people and let them choose instead of proving them wrong. Make sure to get all discussions on mail. So if later blame game starts, you will be saved.

- In such orgs, some folk stays for decades. They don't care about product or team. Deal carefully with them. But then again you can find some real gems with decades of specialist experience. Learn from them as much as possible.

- Learn proprietary technologies. Most of time such techs are not available for individuals or very pricy.

- Get certifications. Big corps provide very expensive certifications with huge discounts. (But before working on them make sure there arn't any traps. E.g. In my org, you had to stay for atleast a year after finishing certifications or pay back)

- Understand KPI well. (e.g. In startup, you may get appraisal on working hard in weekends and shipping. But in megacorps, that won't happen. You may get some praise but not appraisal)

- If you want recognition, try to conduct department wide technical sessions. People will respect you in (those never ending) meetings.

- Don't invest your emotions in projects. Sometimes they get scrapped quarterly.

- Welcome to world of VMs. Organizations are tuned for operations not for engineering. (I miss my Linux)

- Even though your performance is good, you can get canned. Layoffs are done based on budget not on performance. Keep an eye on Gartner index. Also manager plays key role in almost all decisions. So think once before messing with him/her.

- And last but not least. Don't go in comfort zone. Always keep an eye on market & opportunities.
I used this for my blogging platform at https://mdxblog.now.sh.

But i wish it could integrate MDX content, too, so that we could get live React component, too.
I commit frequently and rebase to make it nice afterwards - which seems to be a common pattern. For commits that I know at the time need revisiting (partially complete feature/tests don't work/solution works but needs heavy refactoring) I'll prefix the commit message with "WIP" so I have a hint when I come back to it. When the problem is finished, I go back and neaten up the history into a smaller number of logical commits that would make as much sense as possible to someone reading the history.

Tests (in my opinion) need to run continuously during development. I usually have tests run on file change - either in a terminal window or IDE. They also run on each commit when each branch is pushed.

If you have no option other than to run a test suite that takes hours, that needs fixing. You don't need to run all your tests during development, but pragmatically you need to run enough of them to give you some confidence that you haven't broken things. Some options you might have:

* Separate fast and slow tests (e.g. unit tests and integration tests). Run the fast tests frequently as you develop, and use the slow tests to sanity check what you're doing from time to time

* If there are no fast tests (e.g. everything is almost an end to end or full integration test), write some faster tests just for the feature you're working on and run those. It doesn't need to be perfect; just lay down a start that you and your team can improve on

* If all your tests are fast, but there are just a lot of them and they're so abstracted from the layer of code you're working at you can't tell which are relevant, you can add tracing statements to define a subset of tests that hit the codepaths you're changing. Run the small subset regularly.

* Spilt up your codebase - this doesn't have to be into trendy microservices if your problem domain doesn't support the use case. But you'll almost certainly be able to pull out modules or libraries into separate repos that have their own tests. Version them semantically.

As a discipline, we work across a huge range of problems and I'm wary of making assumptions about yours; but slow tests have a massive impact on how quickly you can deliver in my experience.
That “only angle” is precisely the problem, as the parent commenter explains quite clearly. It makes sense that some doctors could be briefly silenced for a few weeks at the very beginning of a large virus outbreak (but as we saw, even that apparently attempt to silence failed). It doesn’t make sense that a virus with these characteristics could be covered up for many months without even international travel restrictions.
Anti-Money Laundering Guidance for Banks
Same here. The missus is almost crawling on the walls due to the lack of social contact, while I'm having the time of my life; the lack of social interactions gives me so much extra spare time.
Both you and the other reply are focused on blue. I wonder if HN has an affinity for thinking with blue?

Yes, you're all quite right. The word often associated with blue's style of play is "control", and in tabletop card games, control is about restricting what your opponent can do. Control often doesn't directly remove creatures from the battlefield (like red and black can do), or buff your creatures (like white and green), but instead directly removes your opponent's ability to introduce cards to play.

Counterspell is possibly the iconic blue technique. I found this article [0] a really interesting writeup of the mechanism design.

There is interestingly one other style closely associated with blue, called "bouncing". [1] While black tends to be able to permanently remove blockers, i.e. to the graveyard, blue's skill is in temporarily removing blockers back to the hand or library. In addition to being able to decisively change the course of a battle, bouncing can also provide control over several turns, because bounces prevent blue's opponents from being able to set up a proper offensive line, and force opponents to waste mana on fielding units that will be bounced. This latter requirement is analogous to how counterspell forces opponents to waste mana on casting spells that will be fizzled.

[0] https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/c...

[1] https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Bounce
Did the WHO ever change its stance on wearing facemasks (specifically: "only wear a mask if you're symptomatic or in the same household as someone who is", rather than the arguably more responsible "wear a mask, period" guidance of e.g. the CDC)?

I feel like this is an attempt to double-down on that "guidance". I would hope that the WHO cares more about saving lives than saving face.

Either way, this statement is meaningless when unaccompanied by data.
That’s not necessarily what you want. “not working” can manifest itself in false positive matches too. Cue “all X people look the same” stupidness.

And the truth is, the danger zone is when the algo is somewhat ok, but a few percents worse on the discriminated group. If it were obviously stupidly bad (like for example any two black people are a positive match according to it) then people will disregard it. But if its just slightly bad thats harder to notice and suddenly your loan/car rental is rejected because the security system says you look too much like a specific known fraudster. And of course they wont even tell you that thats the reason, because security.
My personal mantra of being a late adopter when it comes to cloud deployment tools has some benefits has served me well. I am even reluctant to integrate docker in my work flow. Git pull, build and deploy bash scripts are serving me well enough for now. Thank you very much.
Depends how spiky the distribution was. 20k a second at 2pm? Gonna have a bad time.
> I don't believe anyone has been piling bodybags in the streets, though it's an excellent scaremongering claim.

New York was. Although the point wasn't intended to be about scaremongering, it was more about how people don't seem to have the ability to pay attention unless life kicks them personally in the balls.

Most people in the Northeast knew someone personally who died of Covid--when someone's Grandma you know dies of Covid, you'll put your mask on and stay locked down so yours doesn't, and you'll get mad about the people who won't.

That's why I chose California, which nominally has a lockdown, to contrast against Texas, which nominally doesn't, to contrast against New York, which really locked down, to show that the US really didn't lockdown very well.

I was in California after the orders--"Hey, we can't hang out inside the coffee shop. I got it! Let's hang out on the sidewalk outside!" <facepalm> Or, "Hey let's have a Mother's Day party"--two of which now account for more than 50% of the Covid cases in Santa Cruz county.

And all this is because we didn't have a unified response in the US to make people pay fucking attention.

And, even in "Open all the things!" Texas, it's not helping much. Most businesses run until they get a Covid case in the employees and then shut down for several weeks--lather, rinse, repeat. So, instead of everybody shutting down simultaneously and cutting down the number of cases, we have individual businesses shutting down hodgepodge which still hammers people's jobs and as a bonus doesn't help bring the Covid numbers down.

Yes, I'm glad we shut down to prevent overrunning the medical system. However, that was just "Step 1".

"Step 2" was not supposed to be "Do nothing else and then throw up your hands in 90 days."
The problem with your argument here is that you're assuming that the person you're replying to is using ES6 and/or JSX when they outright said they prefer just using "plain old JavaScript" which is neither of those things, so you're bypassing their argument fully.

Their point seem to be that no matter what language you prefer to be compiled to JS, in ends up being JS anyway so you might as well write JS directly, because of the reasons provided in the last post. I don't agree with them (ClojureScript is the language of choice for me), but you're not arguing with good faith here.
I can go one better, and make any program at all compile by removing code with the annoying wiggly red lines under it.

The tools and options we have don't exist in a vacuum; you still need good judgement and practice to make the most of them.
You are missing the point, which is that part of the problem for low participation, as experienced with r/Eritrea, is that hate speech is allowed and other anti-government messages banned which drives users away. Add to that the moderator doesn't und
Again you entirely miss the point.

Nobody but you has mentioned rejecting Microsoft contributions to the Rust compiler and library suite. Nobody but you has mentioned there being anything wrong with MS, GOOG, AAPL, ORCL or anybody else contributing to projects.

The topic is people who are not otherwise beholden to Microsoft (and, thus, not employed by Microsoft) writing code that works only in Microsoft execution environments.

I have explained this three times in this one thread. I don't know a way to make it any clearer. What is so hard to grasp about this distinction?
It’s not a “unique symptom” of the disease exactly, but health care disasters like we saw later in Lombardy and New York would not have gone unnoticed even if we had no particular virus test.
Indeed, if you are coming from a world with a lot of legacy systems but want to make Docker and containers orchestration your golden path, but still streamline all of your deployments, Nomad seems like great choice. At one point you might need more then Nomad can give you, but then you are at least familiar with concepts like raft, declarative CI/CD pipelines for containers, vault and secret handling, canary deployments etc.
> You can't, in our current system, shift wealth that readily and quickly.

The Fed seems to be doing just that
> I just found out that their policy framework is open-source on Github (https://github.com/lemonade-hq/policy-2.0). That's huge to me.

That's not their policy framework. They use the same standard policies everyone else does (created by a division of Verisk called ISO). It was their attempt to "show" they can design a "Plain English" policy. In reality, it had nowhere near the effort put into it that could plausibly allow that, and is not used by them in production in any way.
Sorry but the methodology just sounds laughably stupid on its face. It would baffle me if this kind of analysis would meet the bar to identify any kind of epidemic, let alone a novel and possibly evolving virus.

Not to accuse the authors of anything, but I think the level of bias and wishful thinking in some public and political realm, when it comes to the origin of this virus, is bordering on hysteria. Does anyone still remember the evidence that Trump and Pompeo were seeing about the lab leak theory? Why is there no update coming from any "intelligence" source?

I think the fact of the matter is, the origin question won't be scientifically and satisfactorily answered until at least a few years from now, and only with teams of international scientists. In any case, it would be impossible to achieve that in such a politically charged environment.
It's not like they had a lot of medical help to provide in those days anyway.
Better for what reason?

It seems Dokku wins at "easier" since in many cases, you can just push the application code you used for development and the required stack is automatically detected. Adding a database is two commands. No need to know Dockerfiles.
It really depends on which unions you look at. When people hear "union," they think of Teamsters and autoworkers and elementary school teachers.

But Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Lebron James, and Tom Brady are all examples of union members too.
Google meet / hangouts did not work for me.
Zoom did.
My client back then did not use zoom, unfortunately.
k8s and even docker are trying to solve a problem not many people will ever face. However, being the sexy new things loads of people get sucked into integrating it into their stack from the word go.

Being reluctant to adopt new technology unless you really really need might be a more sensible thing to do.
One thing I haven't seen any discussion of is the role that police use of steroids has had on police violence.
If Apple buys DDG, I think it will die.
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Amazon's non-compete was the deciding factor for me not to join the company.

I went through all steps of the recruitment process, but bailed out after receiving the offer. I've had a chat with the hiring contact and I did tell them that I was concerned about the NCA, but they simply waived those away telling me "it's not a big deal". Funnily, even though they were asking if they could change something in the offer to convince me to join, the NCA was something that they wouldn't budge on.

Since me joining Amazon meant moving all the way from Europe, I was really uncomfortable with the prospect of potentially being stuck at Amazon because of that NCA, so I wished them luck and rejected the offer.
Not sure whether it applies here, but _if_ n is the number of unique values, you are limited here by the fact that there are only 2^w unique integers. Hence n < 2^w
Isn't the solution to this to take 2 photos and merge them later?
Part 2 of porting an existing Unity SteamVR game to the Oculus Quest platform
Take up a competitive endurance sport like running or better, if you have access to hills, cycling, you'll start to love that low weight of yours.
Hi, fellow lanky dude here. I blame everything on having a shitty appetite.

It's a slight struggle to maintain 77kg at 190cm. What have you been trying? I used to think nothing works, but they do say to keep a food (intake) and exercise journal so you hold yourself accountable.

I do have a small frame (thin wrists, smaller bones, etc) so I suspect my biology wants me to stay at like 75kg.
Trade secrets law is the stick that keeps people from sharing former company secrets. People don't want to go to jail or have a felony on their record.
There was a sizeable group of folks visiting from Wuhan in CES. Several folks I know fell ill after the event. I've been trying to figure out if CES magnified it, but there is very little information available on this.
The actual Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games...

No idea what WikiZero is. Looks like it's just rehosting Wikipedia content with a different stylesheet and a lot more things getting blocked by uBlock Origin.
500 milliseconds is huge. I don't know what that app does, but in my world if you have as much as 10 microseconds delay you've blown your time budget and you're missing all your KPI and your goals. Have you ever tried to have a voice conversation with a delay of half a second? It's a very frustrating experience. Also, if your framebuffer rendering pipeline has that kind of delay, the user will leave the app in frustration very fast.
The recursion assumes that log(n) > w; if log(n) <= w, then you're in the base case and it's O(n).