skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the shot of airline workers acting like old-fashioned stevedores loading packages one-by-one into the passenger cabin.

the cost of fuel, has understandably also become very cheap

Apparently, jet fuel was down around 40 cents a gallon. Kerosene, basically the same stuff, was never anywhere near that. Pretty strange.
IDM? Industrial death metal?
Yes, but the Catholic position is based on St James idea of "living faith". E.g. Faith without works is dead. It also is based on Jesus' instructions about "he who loves me, does my commands". The grace and love are free gifts, but what is love without good actions?

The best analogy I can think of is if a husband says they love their wife, but they never help them, show affection, do anything to serve them, do they really love them? Now in marriage, love should ultimately be unconditional (to a point, all analogies fall down at some point). If a wife loves their husband freely, but the husband says they return the love but do nothing to show it, what can we infer about his love?
Sorry, I should have made it clear I was joking :)
Haven't cities always been centers of trade, power, and innovation?
Under HIPAA laws, basically any healthcare data is "sensitive" data. An "extremely seasonal" healthcare job that deals with "sensitive data" could be someone that works in a call center that answers questions about health insurance -- just my guess.
Isn’t he making more from his ads and speaking and board seats?
In every paragraph I'm expecting CTO/engineering lead/senior dev to appear and punch the guy.

:(
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A few records were announced this week that I'm pretty excited for, if you need some inspiration:

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https://washedout.bandcamp.com/album/purple-noon
I don't know the full details on Kapernick, so I'm going to speak in generalizations.

He does not deserve to be fired for making a political statement. Full stop.

At the same time, he did leverage his employer's platform (the NFL) to make a political statement.

Some sort of disciplinary action in response to that behavior is a legitimate course of action for an employer.

Imagine Kapernick as an engineer working for, say, Instagram.

Imagine that he Tweeted a bunch of pro-Biden memes on his personal Twitter. That seems fine to me.

Now imagine that he wrote, without consulting management, a feature which put a Biden banner at the top of the Instagram website.

That'd be a huge problem, and would merit disciplinary action. Not because he supported Biden, but because he leveraged the company brand and resources to do so, without the support of management.

I think this is where we draw the line, but am also open to other ideas.
Bananas aren't flown though. They can be grown in many places, it's just the current supply chain for them is most cost-effective.
We discussed another company's take on the same idea last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20673723

Pretty neat stuff.
When you deal with ancient history you’re going to end up with at least some imaginings to connect the data points into a narrative of some sort. That narrative will almost certainly be wrong in some significant way given the future discoveries not yet seen.

Moreover measuring which imagining is more true requires speculative criteria building speculation on top of speculation.

I get religious belief, I am very religious, but to hold that an assortment of artifacts, which are still being discovered, unevenly spread by luck and chance, to hold that that proves or disproves a narrative is a leap of faith.

But aside from all that, there’s a common pattern in historical research when there is a looming central question at the center of a field, historiography swings one way heavily, then swings the other way as the excesses of the previous generation are denounced, then there is an attempt to meet in the middle, again denouncing past excesses, then the middle is seen as too wish-washy and full of false equivalence and historiography swings hard in one direction again.

For other examples of this see the history of the Cold War, history of world war 2, history of the US Civil War etc.
That's a great reason to pick an innocuous symbol for this purpose. We don't reasonably expect people to stop using the gesture. But when the symbol does attract unjust backlash, it makes "the libs" look foolish and foam-mouthed because of the exceedingly few if any instances where the gesture has been used as a genuine symbol of white nationalism. It's the perfect troll.
Update Django cache with zero downtime
We are releasing our fork of django-memoize with a feature to update cache at zero downtime.
When I added phone number for OTP(2FA) couple of years back(No TOTP support then) it got automatically added to my profile and guess what? When mobile number is added to the LinkedIn profile it is made visible to all your contacts. I didn't know it was the case until some random person started messaging me on WhatsApp and told me he saw my number on LinkedIn.

Now, they have support for TOTP apps which we can use without giving LinkedIn our phone number and they claim 'Mobile phone numbers added here won't be displayed on your LinkedIn profile.'; But I'm not willing to test it, not entering my phone number in LinkedIn ever.
Some further tidbits in this Quora Q&A: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-July-2020-Twitter-spat-bet...

It looks to me like we might be about to see a pretty big kerfuffle between "tech" and traditional elite journalism, with non-trivial political overtones as well. This is kinda impressive to me since everyone kinda expects them to be politically aligned, but these sorts of alliances can also shift quite suddenly and unexpectedly. Both sides might then try to appeal to their more "grassroots" audiences, claiming that the other party is insincere and lacking in ethics. It won't be an outright call for "canceling", but the subtext will be similar.
climate change denial, it will have probably become obvious by then.
1. Write your updates to a copy of the file.

1a. fsync() the file to ensure the contents are durable.

2. Do an atomic rename of that copy to the original.

2a. fsync() the directory to ensure the rename is durable.
Isn't this the same as expert systems that led to the first AI winter?
Amazingly fascinating field. I have learned a (very) small amount about this from Dr. David Sinclair's book Lifespan
Load a Large SpaCy Model on AWS Lambda
Alas, no. “intelligent dance music”
The research article doesn’t mention UNL a single time, despite it being a really similar effort (encoding texts in an abstract representation, which is generated and use by tools to translate automatically in various languages). The hard part of the project is not encoding facts into cute little RDF triples (that’s the super easy part, and as usual that’s where the SemWeb researchers put their focus on), it’s generating natural language from the abstract representation.

This means precise linguistics information must be present in the abstract representation for generation of correct sentences. Spoiler: those seems absent, and the renders presented in the paper are very basic. The data part of the project seems OK, but I predict it would go well because the NLP is largely ignored.
>So you had screenshots and keystrokes? Our client has printed emails where her boss made unwelcome sexual advances. Did you design this data retention policy to hide systematic sexual harassment in your company? Also anything less than 90days is likely to raise some eyebrows.

Would this be enough to convince a judge/jury? AFAIK a lot of companies/govt agencies have short retention windows specifically to frustrate discovery, so it has to be working?. Granted, they're not as low as 3 days. Is 90 days the magic period where it's long enough to plausibly say you're not doing to frustrate discovery?

>Also your not the one pulling data in all cases. In some events the court will order your cooperation with a neutral third party for ediscovery. They will come in an perform data forensics on the assets in question.

That probably isn't an issue if your third party shreds the data after the retention policy. For "security purposes", of course.
They said they work on machine learning and data engineering, which means they are very likely using very optimized native code libraries with Python bindings. Go's FFI story has a lot of overhead, so it's actually not inconceivable that Python could be faster for their specific needs.
They could, but since so much of healthcare sits inside Citrix these days, it's unlikely that in OP's scenario it would've mattered. It's pretty easy to find out if you are running in a VM on Windows though, so I bet they do.
It really depends on what it is. There's a lot more to healthcare jobs than just salaried people with post-secondary degrees.
In my educated layman guage of the field, I think midway between the minimalist and maximalists is still most respected with recent findings giving momentum to the maximalists but the maximalists are getting more inclined to over reaching claims which will likely undermine their position in the next generation or two
Yes it is likely trade, for we know these time periods had some great surges of trade compared to times before.
Just wanted to say I find this a really great framing, particularly:

> Do the thing for the exuberant joy of the thing itself

It's something that I've started to act on recently, and I'm finding that thinking about activities in this way overcomes the paralysis I often feel when thinking about trying something new. Framing it this way gives me permission to try something, and not feel negatively if I fail or am bored by it. I've discovered so many things that I can enjoy purely for the experience of them, that none of my friends know I do (and that I don't need external validation for), that also happen to be beneficial to other people who I would otherwise have never interacted with.
Twice as fast over the standard library is damn impressive, I wonder where the performance gains were found?
This is strange given how sanctimonious Weiner was about caring for people. Maybe the focus on data theft and advertising of why they haven’t improved the product in a decade.
Magnetic Universe Comes into View
Study confirms new version of coronavirus spreads faster
Had a teammate do something similar but much simpler in the past (think limiting execution and FS permissions). This is unlikely to end with management appreciating your initiative.
I work for a HIPAA covered entity - software such as this is not even close to required to meet our compliance obligations. If I found we were trying to deploy it I would fight tooth and nail to protect the dignity of my coworkers and myself, and if they failed you better believe I would have a new position lined up within a week.

“Bossware” like this is not a security tool, it’s a way for micro-managers and ass-in-seat bosses to be more effective in their misguided management styles.
As a recently ex-hourly "bottom of the barrel" employee, I would ask you to reconsider your position.

We are people too. If you have good management, you really don't need to worry about it. Also, anything useful that you described, sans credit card fraud, could be accomplished by network logging, without any need to invade the privacy of your employees.

In the case of the guy who used the customer CC to order a bed, you would have been alerted whenever they were sued for credit card fraud, unless I'm deeply misunderstanding the system here.

edits: Remove personal attack and increase clarity. Although I still feel justified, I appreciate the quality of discussion on HN to much to risk polluting it.
Generally speaking, part of the point to point trend has also been to downsize planes, not only to serve thin markets but to provide higher frequencies so that passengers have choice of when to travel during the day. Plus there's money to be made with premiums on thin markets still, given that the matrix of East Coast - Europe flights is not anywhere close to being full.
Except on the most popular application platform available of today: the web. Imagine if every website could read your system clipboard at will.

I'm honestly amazed and horrified to learn that smartphone apps on the 2 OSs have this capability. This capability, used legitimately, can only bring a very, very slight UX improvement.

At this point, we know smartphone apps exploit any avenue they have to extract data from their users, regardless of the perceived ethicality of their vendor. The smartphone vendors more than any others know this. If there's an entity to direct the blame towards it's Apple and Google for allowing this, when fixing it on their part would be so trivial.
What if the retention is just long enough to extract coefficients and that's it? Based on coefficients, now you might retain longer in select cases.

FYI - NOT advocating this, more curious. I understand this is often what is done by social media firms when getting data.
At one company that served a lot of requests from an Openresty cache, we used nginx's cache for caching full HTTP responses and lua-resty-mlcache for caching other things. lua-resty-mlcache requires one to provide a callback to get the data as a string, then a way to deserialize the string, because the l2 cache in nginx's shared memory zone will store the item as a string. We used msgpack for this part.
Do they have a control group? From the press article it looks like they are comparing with the global average that is meaningless because there is too much variation.

This is probably a good hospital with good staff and good equipment. Globally many hospitals are not so good.

There may be some involuntary selection of the patients. For example here in Argentina the retired people have a special health plan that include only some hospitals. That may change the population that goes to each hospital and change the expected death rate. Some hospitals get more rich patients. Some hospitals may get more athletes. It is very difficult to be sure, so you need a randomized control group.
Critical theory.
This is a story about a race car game.
“A-blasts will mine ore now inaccessible, and recover oil locked in shale. Subterranean atomic bombs will drive electric power plants. Underground reservoirs dug with nuclear bombs will make deserts bloom. And the atom’s might power will make child’s play of colossal earth-moving feats, to dig harbors, dredge channels, and build great canals.”

This reminds me of the AI/ML hype.
I stopped reading halfway through because this article has sort of mixed agree-ability for me but I guess my takeaway from this is that it's good to be careful about calling extremes and jumping to conclusions when evaluating others.
> The sum of the expenses has to fit the budget.

Is this actually the case? They have a money printer. What’s the problem with using it, as long as inflation stays low?

I mean, I suppose technically seigniorage is part of the budget but then your statement is just a statement of definitions, not an insight.
Even Racing transponders run on subscription service now :/ https://www.mylaps.com/transponders/
this is serverless search. I love it
A good rule to follow is to get it done dirty, add some tests, then refactor. Real-world code is not always pretty or academic quality.

Automation is also a good way to get rid of monotonous tasks and boilerplate.
Skype for Business, Lync, and in the dark ages Office Communicator even had it. If you left IM open and your PC unlocked but you weren't using it, after a user set delay your status would turn to idle. You can't set the timeout in Teams anymore, IIRC.

Does Slack not have this? I'm 99% sure Zoom does as well.
I remember reading the foundation trilogy, and they used the word nuclear the way that modern sf uses the word quantum. Need a watch you don't need to wind, its nuclear! Need a shield generator for your space ship? Nuclear!
I think a better link is probably:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22police+admit+to%22&tbs=qd...

Though it doesn't give a number of results explicitly there are still several pages of results (though they'd need to be deduped)
It’ll be funny if they make 787-6 or -4 like Airbus did with A319.
yep! go wilderness camping. resets everything! circadian rhythm, routine, mental fog, etc. and added benefit of understanding how insignificant you are in the world :) optimistic nihilism.
“You” vs. “Also You”
The real story here is the story of someone who has actively avoided politics all of her life, but Twitter's engagement increasing algorithms got to her. It showed her outrageous Twitter mobs to feed her outrage cycle until she was hooked on politics and seeking out alt-right thinkers.

The interesting thing is that all those people in Twitter mobs that she's so upset about are also in an outrage cycle, hooked on Twitter.

The real hidden enemy here isn't political correctness, it's social media. It's the massive social experiment that no one signed up for, and it's driving us all insane.
Although you may be right, something like [1] showing election manipulation very well could end up in the top 10, I would think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

edit: Change tone to be less snarky/combative. It was unintentional if I came across as rude.
> I sometimes worry about anything I may have said years ago or anything I say now that could be construed as offensive by ... almost anyone at this point.

I hear this complaint a lot and don't quite understand it. I don't think the goal in life is to not offend anyone. Just live your life as best you can and if others get offended that's OK. Learn from it if you want to, if it's nonsense ignore it. If someone injures you, sue them. If someone threatens you call the police. If someone stops being your friend get new friends. People are free to get as offended as they want and you're free to not let it bother you.

When there are laws passed that create penalties for offending someone then we have a problem. Until then the outrage about the outrage is just like the outrage itself.
Attention trackers sound like they would be difficult to get right.

For example, I have three monitors and one is on zoom. During the zoom conf, i've got full view of the screen, etc. But the focus is on another screen, where I continue slack/messaging/typing/coding/etc. Would an attention tracker be smart enough to realize that -- despite not being focused on the Zoom window -- that I indeed am listening and viewing it?
Y'all are awesome!

Any chance that the app will get Chromecast support?
I think part if this is acceptance of “sinking to their level.”

I was talking with a friend who was complaining about a political party lying. She went on about her party that had to lie to combat her opponents. That she had to “play dirty“ in order to succeed.

I think this is wrong as having the moral
high ground is important, especially in politics and ethics. Because if the only right is “what we think” it gets to be hard to convince people who aren’t we.
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>That isn't to say that the media doesn't have biases or get stories wrong.

This understates the reality, dramatically. The biases are extreme, and the bar for accuracy is generally extraordinarily low, especially in new media, but increasingly in old media trying to adapt. Oftentimes there are a number of lies of ommission/misleading statements/snippets taken out of extremely important context in order to make the reality fit into the desired narrative. Frequently they're actively trying to drum up outrage against someone or something. It's becoming a more and more destructive force.

Just go look for the full quotes any time there's a blog shitstorm about something someone famous says. Sometimes, the outrage is justified, but frequently, the context completely changes the meaning of the snippet, sometimes 180 degrees from the way it's being presented in the media.

I'm not at all surprised that the people you mention who've been in the media a lot are annoyed by it, they're right to be.

Also, why are you on a throwaway account?

PS: This reminds me of the old GW Bush "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me... you can't get fooled again". I don't know if this is true, but I've heard it explained that he realized halfway through that he couldn't say "shame on me", or it would be excerpted and used relentlessly against him.
I love that Bandcamp provides FLAC downloads. I have racks of CDs and I'm not keen on buying more physical items which I just rip and listen to digitally. A FLAC download completely replaces a CD for me.

And for my convenience they also provide Ogg Vorbis downloads which I prefer for putting on mobile devices due to reduced storage requirements.

With most any other site you can only get MP3s.

When I first discovered Bandcamp ~5 years ago it was pretty hard to find (metal) bands of interest. By now the site has really caught on and tons of established bands that I have been listening to for years are releasing their music there.

It's still also really good for obscure stuff too. There was a band from my city (in the USA) whose album could only be bought in Germany. Only after they made a Bandcamp release was I finally able to obtain it!
If you build good relationships with people in the real world this can actually help you on LinkedIn.

I have had many job discussions/offers come through my LinkedIn mailbox from competitor companies.
My local library has lots of audiobooks for free through their app, Libby.
Binaural Audio Editor – GUI tool for producing 3D audio
I think also in the modern context we overstate the danger of nuclear fallout from nuclear bombs because we think of plant meltdowns like Chernobyl and not actual nuclear bombs (which to be very clear, nukes are still terrifying)
I’ve always taken that to be the implicit lesson - that there should be no such thing as a sacred cow.

Every opinion must be open for discussion, debate and yes, even ridicule.
I just recently discovered Asciidot. I was browsing Micronaut's documentation and was impressed by it- how it allowed code lines/fragments to be annotated. Did some RE and discovered Asciidot. So far, I am pretty impressed. I hope more and more tooling will support it.
10 Years of Linux Security – A Report Card
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Kza6fdkSU

PDF:
https://grsecurity.net/10_years_of_linux_security.pdf

PPTX:
https://grsecurity.net/10_years_of_linux_security.pptx