skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In every company, no matter how obscene the margins they're making on a given product, there is someone arguing that those margins could be even larger if they just cut a few corners.

Eventually someone listens to that person, and decades of painstakingly built-up brand value gets thrown out the window in order to bring home six nickels tomorrow instead of five.
> lists like that is all we have to actually quantify the problem

That's obviously not the case. We have mountains of data on the problem.
The problem is that (last time I looked) you can't only look at people's tweets. You have to see people's retweets too. So most attempts to only see certain aspects of twitter are too hard or incredibly limiting.
I had a nightmare experience with them this past summer that convinced me to just use Enterprise for the 2-3 times a year I need to rent a car.
The Court recognizes it has limited time and generally tries to choose cases that it feels it can make a solid argument of more than a single vote one way or another. Some cases are likely obvious, but many are contentious. The contentious ones need to be clarified by the elected representatives, as that's most explicitly their job. The obvious ones are frequently simply pointing out the unconstitutionality of some law as it's written, again reflecting on the poor job those same elected representatives have done.
Sattern
Sattern is a JavaScript instrument for creating musical patterns.

It can generate sequences and trigger various targets inside an audio graph.

A graph is a collection of targets or "audio units" and these can be MIDI ports, OSC ports, or internal Samplers and or SOUL patches.

It can also be used in passthrough mode to receive messages from MIDI and or OSC ports and trigger various targets that way.

Sattern can run as standalone or as an AudioUnit (AU) plugin.
The Spreadsheet I Use to Compare Job Offers
Not having read / watched the press brefing my first reaction to this comment was, I admit, a bit eye-rolly. Then I watched it.

If that is your reaction, seriously, go and watch it. It really is an extraordinary set of allegations. It's nine minutes long and it just gets weirder and weirder.
> Any self-respecting Ctrl+F should match "ä" when the user searches for "a." Chrome and Firefox do.

Why? That is horrific! They are different letters. Why would you ever need that?
why css frameworks gain so much traction when there is so much out in there. what is so wrong in existing css frameworks that we cannot improve ? why would someone go to new one when they have invested heavily on some existing frameworks ?
Helpdesk forum?

https://forums.craigslist.org/?forumID=9
I lost my keys one time, called the rental office and asked for another set. They told me that no backup set was available under any circumstances. I was forced to do without a car for 3 days, then called them and told them to pick up the car because I couldn't drive it back to their office. Their form of apology was to knock a day off the rental charge.
WD responded via a blog post when the use of DM-SMR for WD Red drives was first exposed. It basically consisted of an attempt to gaslight those that bought Red drives into believing that this is their fault for choosing drives inappropriate for the purpose they using them for.

Who could think using Red NAS drives in a NAS would be an appropriate technology choice? /s
Since the context is ICE, I would really think about rephrasing your comment about conservative employees being "taken hostage".
ICE only was founded after 9/11, and given that in their short history they've caused so much suffering, it's not unreasonable to demand that the agency be shut down.
That makes a ton of sense, the precedent about sex stereotypes was the missing piece for me. Thanks!
I think it's great that employees can direct this kind of business decision.

It's also unfortunate (I am assuming) that the employees have much less of a stake collectively than other shareholders.

There's a good chance they would make more informed decisions if they were to fail or be successful based on those decisions.

For what it's worth, I think the employees would still make these demands, it would just be nice to be able to show that it was also the right business decision.
What about findings w. R. T. Online learning? I find continuous learning quality of algorithms to be a topic which often seems to be more of a side-concern, although it carries a lot of relevance in applied settings.
Southpole Meets Ungleich
It's convenient.

Example. I recently scheduled 35 podcast episodes with 35 different people.

Each one required me to propose various dates and times to folks, and lock in specific times that didn't overlap. This meant opening my calendar and inbox side by side to see what's available while writing an email to someone to propose a few times.

Then for locking in a specific time, gmail will intelligently auto-complete the calendar event notification email address of the person you have open so you can send them a calendar invite link quickly on their end.

Without this tight integration there would have been a silly amount of copy / pasting.
NixOS is an awesome system and Guix owes much to it and its creator, @edolstra.

Although GNU Guix is my personal preference, I believe that NixOS is an excellent choice and for the most part we have a shared vision.

If you are still using a legacy system, you'll want to try NixOS or GNU Guix!
Just because you aren't thinking about the implications of your decisions doesn't make the consequences any less real.
Yeah this is going over the line as ICE isn’t purely used for evil purposes. They do need to protect boarders, what you need is to change some of ICE’s policies. Is sort of like demanding To end all contracts with companies that does not have a have a good diversity policy
You can cut and drill them with simple power tools and a good desk, it's pretty hard, but doable. The lens and display would be more of a problem for me haha
Have you compared the performance of the atom based Surface to the cheapest iPad?
Microsoft already banned the police from using Rekognition.

I think if the bar is "don't kill minorities" people are mostly going to be OK with you cutting the contract.
To an extent. I'm actually curious about its angular resolution.
Installing Flash used to be one of the very first things I did when configuring a new system. Now? I can't even remember the last time I actually used it.
>have them not say something about how this seems like a bad idea.

I like to think I'd use other language and immediately report them--if only for my own protection.
OOB to RCE: Exploitation of the Hobbes Functional Interpreter
People are not agencies. Protected classes exist to protect people from discrimination, not to protect agencies/companies/organizations.
This is so awesome! Back in 2008 I built a projector from an old unsued laptop and a high powered metal halide overhead projector that I bought off ebay for 50 bucks. It was surprisingly good looking; I was very happy for the total investment. It was unwieldy and pretty power hungry, but none of that really mattered living in my college dorm at the time.

When the laptop screen eventually gave up (I think just the connector) I never ended up rebuilding it. Nowadays you can get a really awesome looking projector setup for so little, it's not really worth trying the same approach.

But from what I skimmed through, this is a build of way higher complexity, cost, and quality. I'm looking forward to watching this video tonight.
AI is on the path to understanding human emotions in a few decades
Isn't that what the status quo in the US is? AFAIK outside of discrimination in a few specific industries (e.g. insurance rates), there is very little discrimination protection for customers.
https://www.pwsweather.com/ is another alternative to wunderground. Lately weatherunderground has kind of sucked - it has been down for a while, and rather slow -- and I the deprecation of the old API after IBM bought them was a pain to deal with. Still, their API is public, and the data that weatherstations send to it can be intercepted and used in your own system, for example openhab or home assistant.
This has been a looooooong time coming. Very few websites still use flash.

The only sad thing about it is that it'll become much harder to play thousands of old-school flash games.
I'm disappointed that they declined, but I suspect they are worried about weighing in on what may be perceived as a partisan question. It's one of the reasons the court has traditionally bunted on cases like this in the past.
I was responding to the obtuse claim that "contracts are negotiated like any other", which opens up a wider scope that the contract itself. I probably should have used the word "arrangement" for the general situation.

Examining the problem constructively, then each aspect does have different details to pay attention to. But they also have similar shapes with momentum and indirection. Civil and administrative penalties need to be fixed through the explicit contract, which takes a contract cycle and can be derailed behind the scenes by corrupt officials. Criminal penalties need DAs willing to uphold the law, which takes an election cycle and can be derailed behind the scenes by corrupt officials. Analogously to what you said - once a DA is in place, "citizens have very restricted ability to change via the political process".

The biggest issue is that a small chance of a twenty million dollar payout in case of an egregious murder isn't worrisome to a municipality, and specifically to its politicians who's liability is limited to possibly losing their job. Meanwhile if they do advocate for reigning in the police, the union will most certainly make them lose their job at the next election. So while we can talk about municipalities being responsible for the paramilitary forces they're creating in the abstract, this is clearly not an effective mechanism for reigning them in.
largely the Supreme Court is a failure and disappointment. Of all the flaws of the US Constitution the manner and scope of the US Supreme Court has to be one of the biggest blunders the founders of this nation committed.
mediasoup has a remarkably well considered API and architecture.
> What a bummer that workers are publicly demanding this, and (presumably) seeking press attention on it.

They have a problem with their employer, and are being heard in the court of public opinion. Why is that "a bummer"?

I don't have a particular opinion on whether or not what they are doing is an effective way to accomplish their aims. But workers speaking out for any reason, ranging from unethical wage suppression to insufficient toilet breaks to disagreement with company policy, should always be cause for rejoicing.

Employers in the US hold a wildly disparate amount of power (with health insurance being tied to employment, and no social safety net) – so employees that speak out tend to help tilt that balance a very tiny bit back to the side of the employee.
A new financial instrument, how familiar!
Suppose that I'm highly religious:

1. I make tools (wedding planning software)

2. I believe (in an informed way) that a group intends to act immorally (use my tools to plan a gay wedding)

3. My tools will make the group more effective at acting immorally

Do I have any responsibility for what happens?

Or (alternatively):

1. I make tools (highly specialized chemicals)

2. I believe (in an informed way) that a group intends to act immorally (use my chemicals to improve abortions)

3. My tools will make the group more effective at acting immorally

Do I have any responsibility for what happens?

=====

IMO, it's better not to attempt to be morality police. Focus on making great tools.
Right, Microsoft is influencing policy at ICE by refusing to provide them facial recognition software, which prevents them from having facial recognition software.

In general, if the idea is that a tool makes you more efficient/effective, denying that tool does the opposite. Making ICE less effective seems laudable, so why not throw roadblocks, even small ones, in the way?
"Inconceivable!"

Few things could symbolize "the YOLO Stock Market" better than the successful issuance of worthless stock by a company that is already in bankruptcy after it has explicitly warned in the prospectus that its stock is worthless unless there is an "unanticipated improvement in business conditions."

Boring details such as "how much is this worth?" or "does it have any value?" or "who gets what in this bankruptcy?" are evidently irrelevant to the buyers of the stock, who must be trying to "beat the gun," as J. M. Keynes described it nine decades ago[a] -- or maybe they just want to burn money with reckless courage and abandon as a novel form of conceptual performance art?

[a] See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23517657 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23515797 .
I am aware that this was a legislating from the bench situation, but it is up to Congress to fix it. Waiting on the courts to get around to it will not be fast enough, or may never come.
I think pokemon snap does it all on the GPU side, but I'm not 100% on that.
A 66M year old evolutionary experiment created sabre-toothed anchovies
Tried that
And a business could refuse to cater a communist or fascist gathering.
>Do you have unified keyboard navigation inside of text editors across all linux applications?

yes

>Can you reliably cut and paste between all applications?

Of course.

>Can you open the menu items with the keyboard?

What, why?

The great thing about OSX is keybinds are standard between programs, so you for all intents and purposes only need to learn one set of keybinds. Other OS' are not as uniform but uniform enough to not cause problems too.

>I would absolutely love to run Libre software for everything, but it isn't possible.

I have it and use it. I don't see the problem.
https://getcommande.com/
Australia too. Quite vulgar but not especially common nor especially rare.
The title alone should give you pause; neutrinos are no easy thing to wrangle. We build giant swimming pools of water underground in the dark to try to catch them.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

"We emphasize that the whole technology is futuristic and thereason should be clear toall the accelerator experts. Actually, even the simplest prototype of our proposal, i.e. theneutrino factory of GeV range needs substantial R & D work. Wealso note that a 1000 TeVmachine requires the accelerator circumference of the order of 1000 km with the magnetsof≃10 Tesla which is totally ridiculous. Only if we can invent a magnet which can reachalmost one order of magnitude higher field than the currentlyavailable magnet, the proposalcan approach the reality. Even if it becomes the reality, thecost of the construction is ofthe order of or more than 100 billion US$. Also we note that thepower required for theoperation of the machine may exceed 50 GW taking the efficiencyinto account. This is abovethe total power of Great Britain. This implies that no singlecountry will be able to affordthe construction of this machine and also the operation timemust be strictly restricted. Webelieve the only way this machine may be built is when all the countries on earth agree todo it by creating an organization which may be called the “World Government” for whichthis device becomes the means of enforcement."
I don't know. The original law is pretty clear. The only reason this is an issue is due to the Supreme Court itself. What is Congress supposed to do? Pass another law that the Supreme Court will then willfully interpret ad its opposite? The fault is completely with the court on this one. They created the problem. They refuse to fix it. Fucking assholes.
Regarding sexual orientation I found this bit of logic interesting:

“By discriminating against homosexuals, the employer intentionally penalizes men for being attracted to men and women for being attracted to women"

Basically, if a particular gay man wasn't a man then he wouldn't have been penalized, so it follows that the discrimination is tied to his sex.
> Why does replacing a handful of offensive terms

You want to rewrite parts the language because a few people are offended? Do you realize how often people are offended at the most miniscule and obnoxious things? I think the slippery slope argument applies here.

Secondly, from looking at the history of the term whitelist/blacklist, they are not rooted racially. Why does there need to be any more discussion here?

This isn't PoC crying for change. This is a bunch of privileged white people sitting around wondering what words they should replace while PoC are getting gunned down by the powers that be.
When you buy an expensive projector you are paying almost entirely for brightness, so this result isn't too surprising.
English is not my first language. I just cannot wrap my head around this sentence, can’t figure out what it means.

“... cases that asked the court to revisit a doctrine which shields police from lawsuits for conduct that does not involve a “clearly established” violation of the law.”
I think css frameworks are one of those things where it’s not one size fits all

Languages are another one where you can stop making new ones, but why would you?
If we change the nationality of the police or immigration force (let's pick.. China), I feel like even people on the "right" will have the opinion that it's wrong to work with them...
Hmm, it definitely wasn't CodeMax but CodeSense rings a bell, but I'm only about 10% sure it was CodeSense.

I think I would immediately know the name if it were mentioned. It was much faster and better than anything at the time when it came out.
If I 'm reading this clearly, this investigation was a material factor in the CEO's departure from eBay! Crazy - he might yet be indicted since the FBI is still investigating..
Let's say you're, say, IBM in the 1920s. At what point does the SS become an organization with which you refuse to do business? They didn't start off running concentration camps, after all.
Company leadership who don't understand the danger of politics are poisoning their own well. If you open the door to what is fundamentally not part of your core values and culture (in this case a programming/engineering platform), then expect the worse.
They're not.

Read the article.
Yes, these are all arguments you might be able to use to varying degrees of success to defend yourself against a discrimination lawsuit, but that's a lot more hassle to deal with than if said lawsuits are already just invalid on their face because discrimination is legal generally except for a few specific kinds.

Also I'm not as optimistic as you are that some of these defenses would work.
Your argument would make perfect sense if we were talking about insurance coops or government-issued insurance. But as long as we're talking about for-profit insurance companies, they can get fucked. There is literally no difference between for-profit insurance and gambling. They knew the risk they were taking, and now they're trying weasel out of paying.
Corporate CEOs have always had an outsized influence on politics, it's just now that said influence is not all pro-right-wing (because many of the right's social stances are completely intolerant), Republicans have started wringing their hands, and clutching their pearls, and predicting bedlam, cats and dogs living together, etc, etc.

Were the outsized influence limited to run-of-the-mill pro-corporatism politics (Or anything that aligned with their social agenda, as in the case of firms like Hobby Lobby), we wouldn't be hearing a peep from that camp on the subject. (As if that's somehow apolitical.)
Does anyone know the newsletter/blog posts that caused these employees to retaliate like this? Obviously no matter what they said this behavior is 100% not acceptable under any circumstances; these 6 employees are definitely in psychopath territory. However, I'm curious as to what exactly triggered this kind of retaliation.
I think the problem is the franchisees that operate the locations. There are a million stories out there of scamming people. Especially at airport locations where they know the person returning the vehicle is likely to be in a rush and not live in that location. It's more of a hassle for you to return and fight for something.

I had a rental company claim I "totalled the right front side of the vehicle" and had $3000+ in damages. I asked for dated photos of the damage and all of a sudden the claim of damage went away. I always take a dozen or so photos of the car before and after I drop it off. Takes 2 minutes but can save a ton of time and money down the road.
Businesses are finding AI hard to adopt
Think about it like this: the absolute vast majority of neutrinos pass through the whole planet without interacting with a single particle. One descriptive saying is that a neutrino can pass through 100 light-years of steel without interacting. This puts in context how hard it is to detect them (have them interact with your detector).

So your communication turns into some random string of detections where you never know if the absence of a detection means there was no neutrino, or it was just missed.
https://www.newgrounds.com/flash/player

Newgrounds, at least, will never have its players lose the ability to play its old Flash games.
You asked for a BC in Ada, but this is SPARK, which we use for formal verification of Ada code, so there is no need to also have it in Ada; besides that you can do much more in SPARK than just BC and even Ada has much more powerful type features than any other language which in very many cases makes memory management or pointer handling unnecessary (e.g. you can declare much more things by value on the stack, even with variable lenght data structures).
I agree with you here wholeheartedly. The figures shown here are not really all that revealing. It sounds like someone who has some money to invest and is trying to drum up a bit of marketing for themselves by being contrarian.
> why are none of these employees taking advantage of their in-demand skillset and moving on to companies that better respect their values?

For one thing, many have. I would expect that those who remain believe they can continue to exert leverage to achieve their goals.
Illegal migration is not enforced by race. Nobody has the right to live in another country, particularly if they have entered the country without permission.

This is more an indication of how political extremists use race-baiting to push forward changes they want.
Depends. If you're going somewhere for just a weekend and you don't go around outside cities all the time, it's probably cheaper to just use Uber for the 3-6 times you need it, rather than having to rent a car. If it's a very different country it's probably easier to go with taxis/uber rather than driving in an unfamiliar environment with regulations and driving culture you don't know 100% as well.
"Easily"
Yeah collectivist and consequentialist views are not without merrit but without a very high threshold things quickly becoming unworkable. There needs to be a balance.
Lot's of people seem to think so. Masterpiece Cake shop was a supreme court decision around, essentially, that question, that upheld the right for the private entity to discriminate.

So yes I think everyone would agree you have some responsibility (otherwise no one would care about the outcome of the case, why request the right to discriminate if you don't feel that you have any responsibility for the resulting acts?)
You maybe right but I'm just saying people would do well to remember that this is what the police are for. To control you. The idea their treatment of people is down to "the law" is obviously false. They exert the power of the state. This, brutality, this abuse of power would happen anywhere people have learnt to dehumanise each other.
> Private entities shouldn't have to take on anyone they don't want as customers (for whatever reason - do you have to justify who you do or don't want in your livingroom?)

Actually that one is illegal in many jurisdictions, e.g. when it's a store refusing service to gays and lesbians.