skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's... a very forthcoming spy.

For additional context: this is part of US DoJ Initiative to target Chinese Nationals for economic espionage. Meng / Huawei was extradited under initiative scoped only for Chinese Nationals. Corporations typically pay fines for sanction busting, but Chinese executives are (now) targeted for extradition for similar crime. Related, few months ago, DoJ also lumped RICO charges against Huawei. Typically reserved for individuals not entire corporate entities. Basically US DoJ is using every tool in the box to disproportionately prosecute Chinese actors. Reflected in analysis that individuals swept up under this initiative receive greater sentencing than norm. Good recent talk on the subject:

Margaret Lewis | The U.S. Department of Justice's China Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9I2TZzcv8g

This guy could be spilling beans for lighter sentencing. But also likely a defection to drum up support for the narrative. His confessions like "level 9 technician" that works for university lab is eerily close to "anecdotes" I've proponents of the initiate echo over the last few years. It almost feels like a manufactured consent soundbite, eerily repeating heads
for someone following the subject. My understanding is there's moderate pushing back at how uncomfortably red-scare and racial coldwar 2.0 policies under this admin's China-hawks has been. Ultimately it may be counterproductive... but election coming up, so time to build that hard on China narrative.
Is it still not possible to fetch the offline history in IRC?
Thank you -- It was an exciting time, working with some amazing people!

Here's something I wrote earlier on HN, in the discussion about Randy Nelson, one of the Flying Karamotzov Brothers, who worked at Kaleida teaching developers ScriptX! He recently retired from his job "teaching leadership-as-jazz to Apple staff worldwide."

Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers (cake.co)

https://www.cake.co/conversations/w3j7jDp/that-time-steve-jo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18772263

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18776444

>Randy Nelson is awesome and brilliant! He deeply understands programming, teaching, performance and entertainment, and is really great to work with and learn from. I was very lucky that we worked together on ScriptX at Kaleida Labs, where he was in charge of training developers to program ScriptX. Yes, of course, he would actually juggle in class!

Here is one of his few public apperances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhXJe8ANws8

>Pixar's Randy Nelson on the Collaborative Age

>The former Dean of Pixar University, Randy Nelson, explains what schools must do to prepare students (and themselves) for new models in the workplace. To learn more about collaboration in education, visit https://www.edutopia.org/integrated-studies

>1. You want to find people with mastery, true depth.

>2. The problem is, that isn’t enough. You need people who had failed and recovered. The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.

>3. Breadth, meaning curiosity about things beyond what you’re deep in.

>4. Collaboration. Not a synonym for cooperation, but the ability to magnify others.

And here's Randy talking about Programming as the fourth "R":

CUE 2012 Closing Keynote - Randy Nelson - Programming as the fourth "R"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_sYSYJfGg

Here is a white paper I wrote about the underlying dynamic web stuff I developed for ScriptX that's shown in the DreamScape demo:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/scriptx/scriptx-www.htm...

ScriptX and the World Wide Web: "Link Globally, Interact Locally"
Technically, there was a new "major" release with version 0.10, but it was just some bug fixes and the same as 0.9.1. The last release with anything new was in July of 2018. Given the rate of the last several releases, I don't expect much to happen for a while, thus "essentially dead".

You cannot control axes plot figure size from seaborn directly. You have to access the figure from the axes (which most people don't know how to do) or create the figure first by importing matplotlib. Really annoying for those that just want to analyze data quickly. Grid plots have the ability to adjust figure size, but return a seaborn object and not a matplotlib figure.

Agreed, docs need to get better. Better datasets, a gallery, etc... I've only spent a week on this, so there will be a lot of improvements in the future.
The mitigating circumstances are the un-nessicary stress and responsibilities of dealing with anyone who doesn't 100% agree with what you're saying. Unfortunately these are pervasive on pretty much any platform you are on, so there's no good way around it.
So here's a nuanced view I'm sure will get downvoted into the ground: both FB and the employee were right, but along different dimensions, and this outcome was not only inevitable, but desirable.

The employee, as a white male in tech, is absolutely morally right to use his privilege to call out other powerful white males for their silence.

And make no mistake, silence is complicity. Many smart philosophers have written about this, see MLK Jr. or Maya Angelou for more.

This is the core of being an ally. Use your privilege to make the hard ask from your peers that a less privileged person, who is decidedly not a peer, cannot.

FB, on the other hand, is also right in a different sense, to maintain internal expectations that singling out colleagues with your political opinion in public is ineffective at best and toxic harassment at worst. FB are signalling to the rest of their employees what behavior they will not tolerate.

In the end, this employee leveraged awareness several orders of magnitude more than had he not been fired (and will likely easily find a new job) and FB protected whatever they believe their culture to be (and whatever other HR lawsuits they believed themselves to be at risk for).
Not trying to be nitpicky but urine sticks are notoriously unreliable:

False-positive when you are first starting because you are not well adapted to utilizing ketones and urinate out most of the BHB.

False-negative when you are well adapted because usable fuel will not be wasted in urine.

It is generally accepted that the only foolproof way to truly know if you are in ketosis is to do a blood BHB measurement.

Other than that, I would only comment that it seems there are certain phenotypes that have much more success with low carb diets and vice versa with high carb diets. I don't think it is as easy as dismissing it because you had a poor experience.

Also, not particularly a fan of many of the observational nonsense coming out of both camps (low carb vs plant based) over the last few years. There was a HN article posted a while back but we really have a legitimacy problem in nutritional science right now. P-value hacking and nonsense correlation is just far too common and then most never read the study to get the true story behind the results.

Finally, this is anecdotal but I have known people whose libidos have dropped on low carb diets and also others who lost libido when they went most vegan (whole food, plant based). This supports the idea:

"Figure out what works for you and ignore the rest."

Crazy concept...
Imagine someone went to Gab (or whatever the right wing mob platform du jour is) and denounced a colleague and published their contact info on it. There's no explicit call to contact or harass the person.

Is this appropriate?
They aren't saints, but McDonald's has several different salads and they're pretty healthy if you don't use dressing.
Nice demo man. That's inspiring!
It's about as complicated as a grapple in Pathfinder.
It can be a respiratory illness and an immune response. It’s not without precedent; influenza can cause a hyperactive immune response that damages the lungs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/
Four Weddings and a Funeral
I can confirm that a C920 works well in Debian Linux -- stable, amd64, on both Intel and AMD CPUs -- so I would guess this is some exciting bug arising from the intersection of the Raspberry Pi hardware and drivers written for it.
It's not mob rule it's those who run the outrage-triathlon where those with the highest blood pressure and boil over tops win. If they can't steam anybody up to join them from their effervescence alone they deserve to fall to the wayside and get out the way. The outrage train is coming.

We must ask ourselves daily, "what am I supposed to be outraged about now?"
Same! #countryliving
Ok, since the article says both that the employee "wrote on Twitter that he was dismissed for publicly scolding a colleague" and "Facebook confirmed [this] characterization of his dismissal", I think we can syllogize our way to "Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague" as a fact that both sides have confirmed.
Haha we both know it's probably best for me not to elucidate here but the gist of it is that I'm convinced that cutting healthcare requirements can vastly increase healthcare access and that access to bad care is far superior to inaccessible good care and that we are in a situation where we are forcing the trade-off. I don't really care to speak more of it on this forum because it's hard to get the nuance out in text.

> And I suppose sometimes someone who, say, wears formal clothes and a suite, does that not because s/he wants to dress like that, but because s/he knows about this too

Almost suspected you knew me. Except that I've since developed an appreciation.
Yea, I'm using the app.
Some cities have similar laws as well.

The City of Seattle "assure[s] equal opportunity to all persons, free from restrictions because of race, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, political ideology, age, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability."

https://library.municode.com/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code...
When someone leads a nation of several hundred million people, it is expected that their public communication be thoroughly vetted. This is even true at a medium to large corporation for an executive.

This is an expectation. I don’t actually believe Trump has anyone filtering his speech and I don’t think he’s educated enough to understand the phrase he said, but with that said, yes, we should expect our leaders to be informed on the nature of the words they say especially in the context of a crisis or emergency.
I have a strong feeling that if the employee was instead protesting Facebook's spying on people he'd be lauded as a hero on here. Or if he posted a particularly long manifesto against diversity policies.

Regardless I can understand why he was fired, since being particularly inflammatory like that will probably lead you to losing your job anywhere. Though that also depends on how high in the food chain you are.
Quite. Plenty of people who've had their small businesses targeted by various social media bandwagons for non-business reasons in the past few years.
Sorry, you said that he received fewer votes. I thought you might not know.
It doesn’t seem minor compared to other countries police forces. Why should being killed by the police be acceptable as long as the risk is lower than that from traffic?
The difference here is the discussion/post itself is almost irrelevant. Anyone can do it. You just can't do it to a coworker without work-policy based consequences.

If you want to do public shaming and cause backlash, nobody can stop you.
On-board hydrogen electrolysis unit to reduce diesel consumption and emissions
A friend really wanted me to play Destiny 2 with him. I was going to give it a shot during one of their free weekends, but didn't do it because my gaming laptop's hard drive is only 500GB, and I didn't want to delete half a dozen games or so just to install Destiny. I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually losing potential players because of it - if the download had been half the size, they certainly could have converted me.
... seriously?

Developers are not the community. Why is that a hard concept?

Apple is a Bay Area company, based in America. It should statistically show something closer to the actual diversity of the country. Pointing at the developer community as being what companies should be reflective of simply says "maintain the same set of biases".
This is something I've thought as well, an easy example would be abortion - one group thinks that abortion is literally murdering a child, another thinks that it's an inalienable right that a woman has to preform any operation to her own body. There's no way to make both these people happy at the same time.

There are a lot of logistic issues, though, I doubt this will ever happen.
Is something missing on mobile or is this literally just decoding a few bytes from a patch?
Thinkpad x220.
Those questions are so they can stop someone and continue investigating. Why do you think there's questions on the visa like "Are you a spy for another country" or "do you intend to commit a crime when you come to the US"? It is easy to __prove__ you lied on a visa application which gives reason to hold someone. Proving spying is much harder, but now they have a reason to hold Weng and interrogate him further.

Also, think Capone and tax evasion.

The law isn't really about people that made a mistake on a visa, the law is about people having ill intentions towards the US.
A little different from posters, but if you're looking for something a little more durable I've had success with CanvasChamp for canvas wraps: https://www.canvaschamp.com/

In comparison to other sites I've used their framing is much more sturdy. Never had any issues with flexing or anything.
Good quality printing, and very
I think there's a difference between individuals committing intellectual property theft, and organised state-sponsored intellectual property theft.
Instead, my question is why are they even featuring a mobile app so prominently at all for a remote conference.
Thanks for dropping all this knowledge, experience, and most of all, perspective with your history lesson. You’re a star.
Let me offer a counterpoint or two:

First, it's not an accident that this happened two months into the COVID lockdowns. Seattle PD seems to be doing much better than 10 years ago, and yet nothing happened back then and we see lots of protests now. People get more anxious being afraid of the illness and from sitting indoors with 1/8th of the usual social contact, and with unclear job prospects, so they are more likely to act on this anxiety. The summer will turnt to fall, the Woodstock will end, the COVID will recede, the anxiety will subside, and the need to earn money will come front and center again.

Second, the kids will grow up and move on. Some people will never grow up, but it's not the same numbers. The next group of kids will have another cause to fight, for the simple reason that they will not be caught dead practicing anything done by the "old people". In fact a key element of all protests is the desire by the young to distance from the old in order to find their own place under the sun. This dynamic is fueling the protests now, and this same dynamic will undo the protest movement.

I appreciate your point that marketing is more about movements today that it was earlier. Still the capitalism has turned Che Guevara into a T-Shirt franchise, so it can go either way I guess.

It could still be that you're right and I'm wrong, but I think it bears listing all considerations.
> It all strikes me as a modern-day example of "Havel's greengrocer"

While partially agreeing, i would note that "Havel's greengrocer" was more about situation where boths sides consired that speech act just as expression of power relations and loyality, ignoring its meaning. In this case it is more a case of "true believer".
> We've learned a whole lot since the "first wave",

We're still in the first wave.
Ahhh, remember those days when you would get back from the shop with a cartridge, rip off the shrink rap, drop it in the slot, hit the on button and you were playing straight away in seconds. Good times.

Fallout 76 was something like a 45gb install and then a 50gb day 1 "patch"...
sky_rw has a good point and the post does not deserve the downvotes.

There very well might be a direct connection between the upcoming election and the protests.
That's all there is on desktop, too
I have my LG TVs hooked up so I can power on/off them via ethernet (with SimpleControl).

Besides that their access to the internet is blocked on my firewall.

I don't want nor need "smart" features and I would have paid more for the same panel with fewer features.
It's almost as if... politics has right and wrong answers!
"...stoic, masculine behaviors I felt expected from society..."

I don't know what society you live in, but being stoic and masculine seems quite rare these days and is often frowned upon...
There have already been three threads about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22568337

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22568601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23081500

So obviously we should bury this one as a dupe, but I can't, because DonHopkins' comment is too good. damn you don
There's difference between a flakey test and test failing due to randomly failing feature. They're not always the same thing. The test failing does not necessarily mean the feature doesn't work.
Why don’t you capture the screenshots and send them to the author?
Yes, English is not my native language. I think I can tell someone to proofread it and correct my mistakes.
Thanks for your feedback.
You don't need an ethernet adapter. You can config ssh and wifi on the boot volume after flashing.
I have fond memories of reading his stories of rich imbeciles wittering about and having their asses repeatedly saved by their silently obedient and scarily smart butlers, but I am not sure I could read them now without the same uncanny change in how I view the "tinny/woody" Python sketch: all these total dumbfucks going on about the most inane thing possible -- while a whole set of servants stand behind them, waiting to serve whatever inane whim they may have.

It does help that it is immensely clear that you are supposed to see Bertie as an idiot, but...
Chief Best said so herself at the June 11 press conference[1].

18:22: Reporter: "So, Chief Best, you stood here on Friday and you said it was going to be your decision and your decision alone to use tear gas. Tear gas was deployed on Sunday. You released a video today to say that it was not your decision to close the East Precinct. So who is making tactical decisions right now, for the Seattle Police Department?"

18:51: Best: "So for the tear gas, it was my decision. ... We suspended the use for 30 days unless it was a 'life safety situation.' And that was the exemption. ... The officers felt like it was a 'life safety situation' ... and I concurred."

19:27: Best: "I own that decision. I made that decision."

Here's a press conference transcript from June 7 where they claimed they would stop using CS gas[2].

Here's a secondary source reporting on the June 11 press conference[3].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rE4VMjClqI

[2]: https://durkan.seattle.gov/2020/06/transcript-mayor-durkans-...

[3]: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/11/43893335/durkan-...
If there culprit wasn't trying to get their victim publicly ostracized, they would have kept their concerns private. And they did it by framing their victim as complicit, via silence. After all, as we've recently been lectured to, silence is violence.

There is literally no other justification for their actions (apart from possibly some form of mental illness, but I'm not a doctor and unqualified to guess at that)
> I do think we will still see a lot of people connecting USB3.0/USB3.1 external spinning drives to their new-generation consoles.

The real question is: How many games will support that configuration?

A game written for a slower HDD can always be run on an SSD, either with no improvement or an improved experience. But a game specifically designed for an SSD may be unplayable or even unstable on a system with an HDD.

We aren't used to this yet, because they're so rare, as games are designed for the lowest common denominator (i.e. HDDs). But sooner or later an SSD will just be a minimum requirement, and if you lack it that open world game might lock up if you move too fast.

Heck some games might just do a speed test and refuse to even run.
Really? Care to tell everyone the layout of your home? How many feet in your room is your bed? How much storage do you have in your dresser? If someone wanted in and out as quick as possible, what's the best route?

Labs have sensitive areas too. Knowing the layout of them helps not just in-and-out operations but can also guide other kinds of educated guesses. Do lab staff in their offices have direct views of the lab equipment or are they separate? etc
This article didn't talk deep enough about PS5 custom storage chip controller or I missed it.

Reference:

1. https://youtu.be/4ehDRCE1Z38?t=480

2. https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1205112-i%E2%80%99ve-di...
Soviets also copied the B-29 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

"... the type entered large-scale service in 1949. Entry into service of the Tu-4 threw the USAF into a panic, since the Tu-4 possessed sufficient range to attack Chicago or Los Angeles on a one-way mission ...

and early Intel microchips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KR580VM80A , which included military versions.
Ideally passwords should not leave user's computer. Use a strong password-hashing function (e.g. argon2) and a PAKE [0] protocol (e.g. OPAQUE) if you can.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_agr...
This is a super interesting idea, that maybe hasn't been explored deeply enough. Of course, for some people, the obsession with precise, day-to-day numbers is an almost-unmitigated inspiration.

In my experience, the trick with body weight is that you actually do have almost perfect control over the day to day.

Assuming you take it in the morning before breakfast and after the bathroom, it's almost a pure function of your weight yesterday and the caloric balance from the day prior. If you control your caloric balance with diet and exercise, you can predict your 1-2lb swings (aka constant swings) pretty accurately.
A draft was discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18874796
It would be great if management would encourage this all up and down the chain including to IC's at the ends. There are many who would want to contribute but usually end the conversation on deaf ears. Or a management chain that is bias against the unknown. But lately, especially in this environment, profitability is speaking over innovation.