skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying. In general, though, I disagree with the notion that newer tech makes old tech automatically -- always -- not good enough. It's the mentality that makes a lot of people rush to buy the latest Kindle (or mobile phone, or whatever) when the one they own does everything they need.

More importantly, it's one thing to say "I prefer this new tech/resolution/gadget" and another to claim "how can you work like this?" (Where "this" can be "without a mac", "without a mechanical keyboard", "without a 4K monitor", "without three 4K monitors", etc).

Software is developed successfully without any of those. It's not only not an impediment, it's not like a sort of martyrdom either. So no, it's not time to upgrade that monitor.

Someone else in this thread commented that for many devs, their gadgets are a proxy for actual skill. It's easier to show you have a 5K monitor "like all hackers should" than to actually be a good developer.
FWIW, I've seen quite a few resumes of software engineers at this point and I would say less than half have LinkedIn on it.

"Can't risk" is interesting, you could say that about anything you could put on your resume if there's a chance it helps, but something like LinkedIn seems just redundant with your resume's content.
Except that we are nowhere near to experiencing the full effects of climate change yet and our models have been making predictions without this information. Our projections are therefore probably more optimistic than they should be.
Platform or Aggregator? Key decisions for business in a box companies
I've heard some stories about abandoned PA wells too. One version claimed that tens (hundreds?) of thousands were from the late 1800s to early 1900s, with old records lost. That means people do NOT know where they are.
That always struck me as an opportunity for some enterprising remote sensing co. (even one formed by HN readers, hint hint!) to step into the breach and find them.
You can't remediate it, if you don't know where it is.
>Don’t try to sell a product that doesn’t exist yet?

To be brutally blunt - that's a genuine engineer question.

If sales staff only sold what is ready to go right now they'd be ten miles behind the competition and out of business within a year. (And engineers would be laid off)

Cutting edge is the bleeding edge here. Sales pushes products that barely exist and engineering float solutions that aren't quite production ready. Whatever company cuts those two factors closest to the bleeding edge without bleeding out wins.

(And no I'm not in sales, just arguing a strong sales perspective for balance cause hn isn't sales crew)
If you look back to Obama's campaign in 2008, Wired championed the part which was pretty similar to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

Back then the ramifications weren't as obvious but there is zero retrospective on how they champion things and it's ok if it's their side. The monster of 'fake news' was also released by the left.

Obama's Secret Weapons: Internet, Databases and Psychology
https://www.wired.com/2008/10/obamas-secret-w/
All I see is a blowhard on a powertrip.
> If there are apps on MacOS that can't handle high dpi mode, I haven't run into them as a developer (or doing photo editing, video editing, plus whatever other hobbies I do). Also, I don't have any trouble with plugging my highDPI MacBook into a crappy 1080p display at work.

PyCharm had high CPU consumption issues with a Macbook connected to a 4k display running in a scaled resolution. Native 4k was fine, using the default resolution was fine but "more space" made it use tons of CPU since it had to rescale text and UI elements on the CPU.
So we can expect the population of the valley to shift towards even more career minded over achievers while normal folks flee. Great.
> That ought to jolt the homeostatic controllers good, and that could well be one of the reasons for the beneficial effects

Indeed, I'm wondering if this is yet another example of eustress. Other examples of eustress are exercise, sauna, and cryotherapy.
I have mostly ditched Facebook (and don't miss it). Considering the piles of studies which suggest people are happier when they drop Facebook, it's hard to argue Facebook in its current state is right for anyone.
I have written something on this topic previously: http://blog.rfox.eu/en/Programmers_critique_of_missing_struc...
Sum types and Generics solve different but related problems. So they are not really comparable. I would like to see both get implemented.
That's a v2 feature.
>Simply removing some of the "bad old blood"

well, that is in some sense that kidney and liver do, and when kidney and liver slow down then the "old blood" may be becoming "bad" (say like with bad oil or fuel filter in the car). Just adding saline water for example improves PH (as older body runs more acidic) and that has a lot of net positive effects.

https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article-pdf/51A/1...

" with increasing age, thereis a significant increase in the steady-state blood [H+] (p < .001), and reduction in steady-state plasma [HCOj] fp <.001), indicative of a progressively worsening low-level metabolic acidosis"

and on effects of increased acidity for example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566456/
I wonder what the cost is when taking second order effects into the equation. Leverage hides the true cost, burying the reality further and further from the obvious.
I was pretty bad at explaining Empirical in the beginning. During alpha testing, I emphasized the technical merits (statically typed Dataframes!) rather than an application domain. Once I figured-out I needed to push time-series analysis, then the user feedback became more focused.

After starting the public beta, I heard the following sentence several dozen times: "This looks amazing! Does it handle streaming?" And thus began the quest I am currently on.

About the only advice I can give is to keep practicing and keep an open mind. The feedback will get less negative the more you hone your pitch.
Every time someone proposes to dethrone Facebook from its position as social media monarch, we get a lecture about the omnipotent 'network effect' and how it ensures that Facebook is unassailable until such time as a critical mass of its users disengage from the service.

What you're missing here is that this network effect is being weaponized by these groups. The 'make your own echo chamber' approach happens all the time, but those sites never really grow and thrive; those that grow implode and those that thrive stay intimate.

With Facebook, things are different -- Facebook's own discoverability and sharing tools get used to shape a user-acquisition funnel just like any business communication major learns about in advertising classes. There's an engage-indoctrinate-radicalize-evangelize cycle that Facebook sharing tools are explicitly compatible with.

Nobody needs technical abilities to run a Facebook group in the way that you need technical abilities to operate a Mastodon server. The barrier to entry is artificially low, the ad tech is artificially strong, and it's prime real estate for turning disgruntled centrists into performative extremists who will say anything for the likes, delete the missteps along the way, and develop into inspirational stories for nutbars. You can't do this on niche platforms, but on Facebook you've got a global stage.
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I have no insight into other buildings but management where I live, a pricey 400+ unit in LIC, haven’t budged on anyone’s rent as leases end. Everyone we socialize with (we have a small daughter and there used to be a big crew of babies) has either left or is leaving in the next few months, the garage is less than half full — it’s a ghost town. They’re still raising rents and refused to negotiate with anyone we know. The building is rent stabilized so maybe they fear that lowering the rent will make it impossible for them to hit certain numbers over the next few years?
Another interesting note - nation wide looting and destruction for BLM. Yet not a single protest from these righteous folks regarding Chinese government for releasing virus and ruining the economy.
This seems to be some form of strawman, given I never even implied there was no attack. Merely that it was misattributed according to leaked documents written by chemical experts.

Also, Assad was by all accounts winning the war and pushing back on all fronts at the time. Do you think he's such a lunatic and so strategically bankrupt that he'd launch a chemical attack on his own people while he's winning? Or is it more likely that ISIS launched a false flag attack using chemical weapons that we know they have in order to get the West to do their bidding against Assad?

The Syrian war is a mess, and there are no good guys. The US-backed rebels commit war crimes and behead children, for example.

The source of leaked documents really doesn't concern me as long as they are authentic. For argument's sake, if Snowden was a Kremlin double agent I wouldn't care because he revealed genuine government wrongdoing.

Attacking the source generally isn't a valid argument, especially given the authenticity of the information.
Honestly, it would be fine to just block re-shares of posts from politicians and the sorts of account that literally only talk politics.
2020 chance to express yourself about issues social media.(survey)
I feel like there's some deeper game here that I don't understand, when Bolton (reportedly) says that the President did many things similar to or worse than the Ukraine episode and the impeachment should have pursued them. And then prominent Democrats fire back saying that he refused to testify, so why is he saying this now? I can't tell what anyone's motivations are. Everybody engages in elaborate dances, everybody agrees the President is terrible, but they accomplish nothing.
I don't think your initial assertion is correct and even if it is nothing requires you to use such a lock.

Most high security locks can be re-keyed. There's no need for it to be keyed to any existing master. I consider that better than "one of these 6 predefined TSA keys that can be 3d printed oh and also it is labelled."

Nor does the threat model of "dedicated attacker" make a lot of sense. If that is your constraint then flying with complete guns is probably not for you.

There are easier ways for criminals to get guns than a mole in the TSA or baggage handling. Like, stores. A decent padlock can secure a gun case beyond the "crime of opportunity" level required for protection in a secured environment like an airport.

If you're really paranoid you can even build in trap pins so attempting picking or using the wrong key can permanently bind the lock. The point is you are in full control of the lock and don't have a government mandated, well understood backdoor included.

Finally, all of this misses the point which is that you can put a firearm such as a starting pistol, flare gun, frame or lower [1] in your luggage and use whatever lock you want. This means you can protect the rest of your stuff from getting swiped by TSA or baggage handlers.

[1]: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-guides-importation-ver...
What you're referring to is the codified freedom of speech protection in the Constitution. That's not what I'm referring to.

My post is about the ideal of freedom of speech. There is a debate to be had about the level to which "platforms" should respect that ideal. My position is that relying on the good faith of platforms to moderate speech is dangerous when those platforms are as dominant as Facebook/Twitter/Google are.

So you see this is separate from Article I.
Author here. You're absolutely right that "understanding" is a fuzzy word. As you pointed out, part of reason we hold this belief is that the model can generate diverse samples and successfully complete out-of-distribution inputs. But the other part is that the model learns (without labels) useful features for classifying objects. Would be very interesting to test it on a broader set of datasets which measure other 2D image characteristics.
I would rather create my own echo chamber than be forced into one of the 3 slightly different narratives that used to be pushed on society by centralized media.
I think this tells you more about their working and sleeping conditions than it does about how the pandemic will play out on a national scale.
I guess I just want the list in the order that it was posted in and without political ads.
It’s because “democratic” is only an adjective while “republican” can also be a noun. Does it make sense to say “The democratics oppose this legislation?” No.

Before you all downvote this, check Webster dictionary if you don’t believe me.
Do you think it's prudent for the intelligence community to allow private organizations to attribute nation state attacks on their behalf without inspecting the evidence?

It's a pretty simple question, and that's what it boils down to.
Gentle Giant – The Power and the Glory (1974)
Anyone know how to use a Yubikey for FIDO or WebAuthN from INSIDE an RDP session?
maybe it's time for ios developers to (temporary) remove their apps from the App Store as a protest?

Taking 30% without providing alternatives to install apps seems totally unfair
> Networking takes by far the longest time to get ready. The main reason is that Ethernet auto-negotiation takes a significant amount of time, about 1 to 3 seconds.

Is this a fundamental limitation of how auto-negotiation works?
Is there a way to speed it up?
How many of these tricks are off the shelf techniques? Seems like a tremendous effort.
I had the same problem and took up a past time learning about complexity theory. Eventually it landed me working in a research programming role at a university (because student's didn't bother applying, they were chasing highly paid internships) and then my work was no longer work it was research, even if all I was doing was designing a dashboard for post-doc's to look at data at first. If this doesn't interest you then look on Angel List for some startup you can be interested in instead of where you currently are or better yet teach what you know, make some youtube videos.
PWM and flicker need to die. I easily tell when a monitor is flickering and I'm convinced they're bad for long term eye health after using one for multiple years and not knowing why my eyes started hurting so often. Refresh rate is a nice-to-have in my book above 60fps. Size and resolution are much more important. Having a 32" over a 24" changed my life.

Affordable, large E-ink screens would be revolutionary for many occupations and I hope there's more investment in the space.
Stingray is the old model. The new model is called Crossbow.
I have been closer to drugs/dealers and crime since I was about 12 than a PhD to books.

Your heart and faith is beautiful, and it’s very very true in some instances. Really wonderful bright people get swept up.

But there are some people out there like cities worth who are just wired for a different ‘normal’ (re crime). I’ve ran with them and even years in their capacity for exploring new levels of instilling fear in innocent people and demonstrating carelessness for property, hard work, and vulnerability. . I can’t type specifics.. just out of a learned built in anxiety over even getting this into it.

People get way f*g addicted. By 8th grade thanks to people smoking oxy, the gentle cool kid from the nicer end of town was stealing cars and punching his mom in the face for cig money. If that is t addiction night and day who is this person behavior 180 degree change strictly due to the pursuit of or gap of time between the possibility of having another hit of whatever.

Rant but struck chord
If you've read Heather Marsh this observation maps well to her writing on endogroups [0]: cosmopolitan life is exosocial, with many permeable boundaries. This attracts everyone, which means it attracts endoselves too. They walk into the space and start remaking it around them, and pretty soon the cosmopolitan life stops, replaced with reenforcement of some endogroup dynamic, which is of course bland and sterile.

The power of the big city - and why it's associated with the cosmopolitan - is that it provides a space too large for any endogroup to fully dominate, and an allowance for the exceptional case.

[0] Outlined in detail in The Creation of Me, Them and Us. But briefer versions can be found in her blog: https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/
Don't be stuck at dev environment setup
I turn off any font/scroll smoothing and animation whenever possible. I use a good bitmap font for coding. It's readable and snappy. No hinting BS. There's no need for animation in Emacs or tmux after all.
If you're on Windows, consider the fancyzones power toy. Break up your screens into an arbitrary set of maximizable zones. Highly recommend if the normal 4 corners isn't enough for you.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/master/src/modul...
It's pretty straight forward re-enabling sub pixel rendering.
Can't iFixit over Ventilator Repair Project
If you live in the US, burner SIMs are cheap and anonymous.
Boy, wait until those customers find out they paid all that money for young plasma when all they needed was a saline and albumin solution.
The reason employers love LinkedIn is that it makes it a lot harder to lie about your work history since it links all your companies and coworkers. In a way it serves a similar function to credit reporting bureaus in providing an accurate background check. This is also why cops love it.
Maybe. I did use 1280x1024 for a year or two back in the day. Mostly I have found vertical pixels to be more prized for reading, software dev, etc.
What is your images of "hypergentrification"

My experience with any gentrification is a place with almost nothing interesting to do or see gets renewed with new restaurants, bar, venues, etc... so a place that was boring with nothing to do suddenly has new an interesting things to do. Attracting new business brings in other things too like festivals, farmers markets, etc..

That's hardly "... tends to have a sterilizing effect on city life" but maybe you have a different experience.
Is this a parody?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have all scholarships based on merit and need? Using either alone as the criteria seems like it would be strictly worse in all cases. Am I missing something obvious?
Visual studio code's launch.json, combined with the extension for your language of choice, is generally a pretty good experience.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive is probably the closest to a tape warehouse, at the standard rate it would cost $99000/month to store 100PB of data.

$0.00099 per GB per month * 100,000,000 GB = $99000
> Including microwaves or refrigerators?

Yes.

> What about game consoles?

Absolutely.

> What about the emissions control systems in our automobiles where bad code causes cancer?

That too.

Whoever wrote the software must take responsibility for the impact it causes on society. If the car manufacturer's code is defective and causing excessive emissions, the car company will be held accountable for that. Same reasoning can be applied to others. If the user replaced the company's well-tested software with their own, the user should be held accountable for the results. If some car performance tuning business wrote custom software for cars, they should be held accountable for the results.

Give people power and allow them to take responsibility for their actions. People should be free to accept whatever defaults they get but they should also have the power to change things if they want to.
LinkedIn is for those who don’t have a GitHub. My work speaks for itself; if it’s somehow not enough, the company isn’t worth my time anyway.
Yeah, this appears to take advantage of the fact that if you know exactly what hardware you're working with, you can skip a whole lot of detection and general support, which helps quite a bit for embedded but less so on ex. your laptop. Honestly, while there may well be dependency issues, I was under the impression that at least the kernel side of things generally is pretty well optimized, and in most cases you're paying for flexibility.
Are you sure he misrepresented science?

On the contrary, I get the impression that Alan took scientific discoveries and matched those onto his philosophical stances.

He objected to the personal beliefs of the stereotypical scientist, and put forward an argument that the science works even if you stop viewing the universe as a purely materialistic mechanism. Which is not to say it then automatically possesses meaning, an intelligent designer or purpose.
What are some of the best online games you can create to teach English
Teaching English has always been more challenging than more deterministic subjects such as math. Was wondering what you all think could be good and meaningful games we can create to teach english
That was never suggested. Zoom is developed almost entirely in China, which means it is effectively a Chinese company under full influence of the CCP.
100% agreed. It's almost exclusively used as an ad hominem by people who lack that particular virtue to dismiss people who espouse a caring viewpoint.

If you want to argue that your target does less to further that particular cause than you do, fine. If you want to argue the cause is misguided, fine.

But using the term is just lazy.
Probably same effect.
So did the gal plead guilty already? Has she been arraigned yet, I couldn't make it out.
Make bloodletting trendy again!
Set fixed values for the speed (i.e. force 1 Gbit/s if you know there will be a capable cable). I'm not sure on if the feature that detects crossover cables can be switched off in userspace.

As for the timing, as long as you don't specify speed / crossover detection you will always have some sort of physical link training and negotiation...
Why are you laughing? I'm crying.
> That's one point in this discussion. The language allows error handling that way. Compared to a language with proper sum types or exceptions, where one would have to actively work against the language to end up with that mess.

I've seen a bunch of code that does the equivalent of the Java I posted above. Mostly when sending errors across the network.
Good deal. The National Parks are truly priceless and one of the best investments the country has ever made.
You don't need to worry: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/

Workers actually launched four days later. Funny, I didn't realize at the time that unmetered mitigation was really a prerequisite for Workers -- obviously you couldn't build very much in Workers if a random DDoS attack could cause it to just shut off. Huh...

(I'm the lead engineer on Workers.)
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-49-curv...

It’s quite a piece of hardware. It lets me plug a USB hub into it. It supports USB-C for its display adapter. So it’s the dream: one USB-C cable to charge the laptop, drive the display, and provide a USB hub for keyboard, mouse, etc.
Why would it be unconstitutional? If cities can give tax breaks for a primary residence, and have a separate commercial tax rate, then why not taxes for unoccupied units? It's basically a financial investment. Tax the fuck out of it.
It's E2EE properly, but just ignore that "CCPBot" user in your server that isn't visible anywhere.
I'm actually a bit surprised it's taken as long as it has for mobile obfuscation to catch up. Both on the Android bytecode and the iOS native code side there are obvious PC analogs in the form of .NET obfuscators for MSIL and packers and game DRM for native code. Of course, the Obj-C runtime throws a little wrench into things on iOS, making it a bit of a hybrid - but the approaches are still similar.

It's still an ultimately pointless cat and mouse game as long as an attacker can trace the hardware (and with full-platform emulation tools like Corellium, this capability is unlikely to go away soon), but still an amusing one to watch.
Maybe the FBI has someone with Shinigami eyes on staff