skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it weird that so many people seem to think that "attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity" (I guess this is a fancy way of saying cancel culture?) is a big problem, because frankly I have no idea how big a problem it is. Where are the statistics on this? How many are actually impacted by it? There are many articles citing examples and saying how dangerous it is (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/25/online-shaming-d...), and yes there are certainly such examples, but are these just outliers? Is this like air travel, where really for the most part it's ok for people to speak their minds and people get overly freaked out because of rare events?

Actually curious to hear what people on here think about this.
The evil bit is currently little used, I suggest repurposing that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
FYI: NVIDIA is notorious for bullshit benchmarks. There's no way it'll be 2.5x the speed of V100 on any kind of a realistic workload.
Barely on-topic here, but is it just me or did the price for the entry level workstation at https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TLSDS3/intro.html go up?

I could have sworn I saw an option for something like $2.2k a year or so ago.
I don't understand why responses of other countries weigh into the US's response. There are good reasons to have restrictions, there's no good reason not to continue to relax their strict interpretation.

> Do you have any sources for those students typically paying through their teeth?

Not at the moment. I encourage you to read up on where funding for US universities typically comes from. I also would encourage you to try to be empathetic towards an immigrant student in this country.

> We have a gravy train setup for higher education, with students paying full tuition, often displacing the local population.

This is conveniently `othering` framing. Displacing the local population? The ones whose jobs and livelihoods depend entirely on the college towns economy? I'm afraid you're picking and choosing facts and painting a narrative that either assuages your discomfort with what's happening, or worse, betrays a complete lack of empathy.

> If there is just one student saved from coming here, that would've caused an elementary school to go into a month long covid19 shutdown in September, then this by-the-book enforcement is worth it to me. I would never assume a University would adjust their attendance plans for a semester just for foreign students alone. That wouldn't be very rational, or would it be?

I'm sorry, it's hard to engage with this sort of reductive black and white thinking while the same administration still doesn't have a national mask mandate and is still planning to have the RNC convention in a place like Florida. Occam's razor suggests that the simpler explanation, far more consistent with the administration's past actions on DACA, asylum seekers, and recently, skilled immigrant workers -- xenophobia. You really have to cherry pick a convoluted narrative to avoid seeing this.

I think you're being nakedly disingenuous considering your past comments such as this:

> For 2.5 month now we are always two weeks away from a catastrophe with mass graves and hospital parking lots full of dead people. And then two weeks pass and nothing really happens. Reality just doesn't seem to square up with the fearmongering.

And now, even if one person might have caused a chain event you want to shut out potentially close to a million kids looking to educate themselves?
We would love to add support for other calendar platforms, including generic iCal support.

I’d also love to eventually support a super privacy-forward deployment option that, for example, keeps your data on-Prem or in control in your own cloud.

Just need the time, people, and investment to do it. We’re hiring, btw ;)
Sweden did the right thing. Covid-19 is not worse than the flu. Norway recently also admitted the lockdown there was not neccesary according to the data they have now. In March they thought differently.
Sites already have plenty of information in order to run good advertising on their content.
More secure, more stable, better documentation, easier upgrades, less complexity, less aggravation.

OpenBSD makes me happy, bought a Thinkpad for the occasion and it runs great.
I haven't read it, but on the military theme, I've heard good things about " Turn The Ship Around!
A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules"

The author was a submarine captain who turned one of the worst-performing boats in the Navy into one of the best.

https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/turn-the-ship-around-1
"That would at least require some amount of bipartisan consensus, and therefore some amount of actually somewhat reasonable debate..."

What you would get would be a lot of back-room deals and strange bedfellows. Like now, only more so.
Tesla’s Stock Keeps Going Up
Products like MSN messenger, AOL instant messenger, Yahoo messenger, ICQ, etc are either no longer around or are far less popular than they used to be.
Mmhmm turns your boring Zoom call into a Weekend Update-style TV show
What you just described is essentially a scraper/crawler right?
Would scraping them into a sheet you own be sufficient for your use case?
This refers to the "normal" people not businesses or rich execs. Giving them for example 20 years instead of 5 doesn't change much, because 5 is already a lot. If someone does crime, because of poverty, being mentally ill, or because of addiction no jail time will be a strong enough deterrent.

If businesses actually would have fines that significantly hurt the business (and not being able to deduct it from taxes, if they were unable to pay, they would have to close down) would absolutely help and would change the calculation from fine being a cost of doing the business to a punishment for illegal behavior.

Having executives be personally responsible for decisions and go to a real jail would be even a stronger motivator.

The current problem is that there's no real deterrent.
> I wonder if you can make an unpickable lock with MEMS

I'm not sure what you mean. MEMS are generally tiny and I'm not sure why you'd need a ~1mm safe? But MEMS relay switches, which mechanically connect/disconnect circuits, exist.

> The other thing is, can the gears be used to store potential energy?

Springs and fluid reservoirs aren't very energy or power dense; good batteries and capacitors are much more effective and reliable. MEMS flywheels have been built and are potentially competitive, but are also extremely tricky to build.

> The key here might be if you can build a micro electric generator.

This is doable and an area of active research (for, say, charging low-power devices when a human walks, definitely not grid-scale power). Magnets are hard to work with in MEMS, so other techniques (piezoelectricity, triboelectricity) are used. [1] is currently badly-written but mentions most important bits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanogenerator
What happens if that happens? What recourse, if any, does an employee have in that case? Is anyone looking out for those cases?
The whole industry still operates like the 90s right down to license management and terrible tooling. It's one of the few multi-billion dollar industries that was mostly untouched in the dotcom, and is still very old-school today.

The problem is, it's also a very, very tough industry to disrupt. Not for lack of trying though.
Went looking for advice on concurrency/parallelism and error handling.
In my experience, most of the time, the only reason organizations even have Teams is because it comes included in Office 365 subscriptions.
An Unethical Optimisation Principle Can Help Businesses Prevent AI Biases
Anything from the Harvard Negotiation Project [1]. Their books set the standard for universal, transferable, actionable, and evidence-based advise about how to optimise social situations for the benefit of everyone involved. They have online classes for various different skillsets and situations. Almost every mentor I have has recommended either the project as a whole, or a specific resource of theirs, to me.

Just in general I want to commend you for taking the time and energy to learn about this. It's a tragedy of the modern world that highly skilled people tend to be promoted into management roles and then stagnate, so that many tech organisations end up with people who are great at their specialism and terrible at managing people in managerial roles. Taking the initiative to really try to understand and excel at management is going to benefit not just you, but everyone who works with you. Bravo.

1: https://www.pon.harvard.edu/category/research_projects/harva...
This was my first RTS game and I was hooked! So many fond memories of running over baddies with my spice harvester!
Exactly this. I'm surprised that I had to go way down the comments to find someone raising the issue of giving away zoom links that usually are static for recurring events.
It's a little surprising how many are banks. A few random searches showed about 80% of the companies are banks.

On reflection, though, not so surprising.
> It's similar to FB, everyone is on it so you have to use it

FWIW, that's the article's thesis.

For my part, I've never used a chat or company communication tool that was better than Slack. Not saying it's good or that I "enjoy" it. But it's the least bad option available AFAIK.
fear manifests irrationally when control is beyond reach, including wishing the death of someone they don't know other than via press snippets (which is not to say bolsonaro is a saint, but most of us in the US know next to nothing about him except "bad").

This is a terrible viewpoint: it's not difficult at all to find out Bolsonaro's viewpoints and actions. We don't live in the 1950s any longer: politicians broadcast their every move over the network, and through every light you can look at him, Bolsonaro has been terrible for his country; under any sensible light, he's also a terrible human being. Just look at the things he's said, you don't need to restrict what you know to "press snippets."
Well yeah, as youtube deletes these type of videos a lot.
For me at least there are some things I'm fine with. Google Analytics doesn't bother me. Random ad networks and selling my data to 3rd parties does. (Yes I realize google uses analytics data for Google Ads, but I don't have as many issues with google ads as I do with J-Random Ad Network ran by some-unknown-shady-org)
What it says is to not abuse lists, isn't it? I think what they mean is something like, don't use a list as a "object"/tuple that gets picked apart with a lot of cdddaring? Rather, use real structures and other containers as appropriate, keeping in mind the performance characteristics. It specifically says lists are appropriate for macros and functions used by macros at compile-time.
Does it really give them good PR though?
> Forgiveness requires documentation on employees retained, wage history, and is capped at $20k/employee maximum. And of course a piece of that comes back to the government in terms of payroll taxes. Just because a company took a 1M loan, doesn't mean it will be 100% forgiven.

I think your misunderstanding is that the rules actually get followed. What happens when everyone in the scheme comes back and says "the economy is shit, we can't pay that regardless" or more optimistically businesses that have 100's of employees that simply plea with the government that they can't repay their loans, but should be given 100% forgiveness in the spirit of "keeping unemployment low". It's far too political to introduce/enforce anything that makes unemployment numbers worse. It's like a "too big to fail" on a much larger order of magnitude.

> the whole point of this program was to get money to businesses quickly. Means testing takes time. Sure there are going to be some questionable loans. Some fraud too. But overall our government has spent a lot more money and gotten worse returns than the PPP.

I consider rape less evil than murder so hey I guess I shouldn't be so critical of rapists! Look, I know those things aren't totally analogous, but the point is that it's OKAY to be critical of the government, especially when a government program benefits those who need it the least.
What's called in economics, elastic pricing then. The same model that means you can be on the same package holiday as someone else paying a vastly different price. A model that would be criminal if you used it to charge customers in a high street shop. It's charging based on what you think you can screw out of them but, for cosmetic reasons, dressing it up as subsiding poorer students
Look at their track record, or lack thereof.

Easy for non-technical co-founders especially to talk big. Also, talk to users or co-founders that worked with them, and under them.
>an important criteria

In a section of the article about typos, this is annoying to see.
Is it weird that I enjoy reading this, even though I haven't programmed in Common Lisp for a long while?
I maintain an open-source project with a few corporate sponsors. As part of their sponsorship, companies get Slack-based support. Shared channels have made this process incredibly easy. Since they already use Slack, I just create a shared channel in my organization and invite them. They get to decide who is in the channel. Even if you get added later, you can see the whole chat history. It's extremely valuable for doing cross-organization work.
I'm not really sure I follow. I'm a long time IRC/Slack user for personal and side projects, and my company adopted Teams a couple years ago. The core chat functionality is very comparable and we use it regularly for exactly that use case. Every team (organized or virtual) owns a Team with multiple chat channels that most use all day long for talking.

I am not implying that they are equally good - Slack has a huge advantage for power users with non-MSFT integrations and bots, but the core "channel-based chat" use case is pretty much 1:1.
> Like, how does the body know that it should release more dopamin when I scroll HN than when I learn Rust, or ride my bike?

I think dopamine is not "reward", but "anticipation of reward". It's how long your brain can wait untill it evaluates the success of an action. Upon success you gain more dopamine, which enables you to do new tasks.

So dopamine is essential in executive functions like planning and focus.

The problem arises from the evolutionary adaptations we carry, like finding scarce cheap energy like easy carbs (pre agricultural world had nothing sweeter than a carrot), which gives us dopamine from eating sweets today. Your brain also likes new information, which does not leave your model of reality in shambles. There are probably other mundane "self-efficacy" experiences rewarded, like voting and commenting.

I assume there is some feedback loop which will make the pleasant feeling of actual reward greater, the less "anticipation of reward" dopamine was spend. This is basically a scarcity adapted self-improvement algorithm, which is defunct in modern abundance.
Darklang devlog #2: What next?
Google is also mass refactoring internally as well, blacklist/whitelist are now blocklist/allowlist and so on. It's quite a bit of churn.
> This is now the second article or so on the HN front page that attempts a vigorous defense of free speech but then immediately undermines that by spending ink on Trump.

You have to establish your bona fides up front ("Trump's real bad, hell, he might declare himself dictator if he loses the election!!!") before saying this sort of thing, as a sort of preemptive defense against getting called a Nazi.
I'd change the phrasing to: "...work on A thing they're not good at, but that they'd like to be good at."

It's an important lesson - struggling with something that you're bad at, that you don't particularly enjoy (yet), until you get good at it, then (usually) finding that you've begun to actually enjoy the thing. For someone who has only does things which come easy to them, the experience is both humbling and empowering. It also teaches that our interests are a bit malleable, and that they're often based on nothing more than our current ability, which can be improved.
What kind of data are you looking for? Number of people fired for a tweet? Number of colleagues shunned for not being woke enough?
Another reason this subject is taught, besides the topics themselves, is that it develops your logical reasoning, abstraction, and visualization muscles. For example the first problem, he has to argue that L concatenated with L-reversed is regular, and he uses general properties of regular languages to do it. Then to argue the prefix and suffix parts, he has to utilize the automaton for L by making copies of it and drawing transitions between them. A final example is the famous and dreaded "pumping lemma" that gives practice understanding alternating quantifiers: there exists a such that for all b, ....
Show HN: Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js
The point about your mom (and more broadly older faculty) is important. I hope it works out for her.

Vulnerable faculty will likely be forced to hold "in-person" lectures (ergo worsening their risk profiles) for the universities to create quasi-in-person courses: in that, videos will still be recorded and students probably won't show up but, on paper, it wouldn't be classified as an online course. This would likely be coupled with batch-scheduled exams being the only occasion the students need to show up in person for (or perhaps, those too are obviated via take-home exams?). This is essentially identical to some large enrollment, advanced CS theory courses I've taken.
We don’t require a separate app, but we do require access to your calendar data. Not sure how we could do the job without it =P
I created an app for helping people find parking at my college. It was really simple, each parking lot had a traffic light color corresponding with likelihood of being full (Red: likely full, Yellow: possibly full, Green: unlikely to be full).

It was based off of class times, so when more classes were in session near the buildings of those parking lots, the color would change.

I put it on my resume, and had it in the Google Play Store during my time at university. Got asked about it during interviews and every interviewer really liked the fact that I saw a problem, proposed a solution/assistance, and published it to the world.
The New New International version of the Bible is going to be soo awesome.
I'm afraid the only thing that will come out of this is platitudes like this and no real change long term, at least until it all blows up again. Changing packaging is easy and gets you press. Search and replace is a little harder, but can be done with not many resources. Re-culturing a 100+ year old police departments independently while maintaining that police department's purpose is very hard and we have to do it for every bad one out there. Many cases need to be a complete ground-up effort.

I think people who can actually do the work and enact that change are hoping it will just blow over with the next news cycle, because it's hard.

I have hope though. I don't like living with our current justice system.
I'm bad economy means no money for environmental projects. It's not a good thing.
Babysitting at Microsoft
True, good point. That may be better for classification performance. But at least for visualization and interpretability purposes using NMF is extremely simple and versatile (e.g. you can induce sparsity in the representation, setting the rank to be artificially low can cause high-level structure to “pop out”). That is, it gives you a few more knobs to turn than UMAP alone.
Which ones did you enjoyed? I work for an euro telco and we have vendors all over the place, nokia, ericsson, huawei... I work with some (many) software abstraction layers but the few times I had to interact with equipment directly I found Alcatel to be the most difficult.

Anyway the whole space looks obscure and full of propietary solutions.
Short answer is likely yes. Long answer is that depending on individual bank policy regarding depositing 3rd party checks, relationship with tellers/branch manager/what have you, or whether person verifying exceptions for remote deposit is sleepy that day, it may very well end up being undetected. And thats checks. ACH is a whole different can of worms.

In a sense, I am glad it is getting some scrutiny as clearly people who did not need the money benefited ( likely at the expense of people who really needed it - the currently public fraud cases are pretty amazing already ), but I am worried that this kind of scrutiny will make people hesitant to apply in the future just to avoid the headache.
Really?

At least on YouTube, the main channels seem to put up exclusively pseudoscience. I didn't know how religious the movement was until I saw "Behind the Curve" from HBO.
Fantastic, as long as you ignore how whites are being cast as villains in a country where they are becoming a minority, and anyone who brings up statistics refuting this is denounced.

Historically, such a situation always worked out great.
I'm very busy, and it is hard to find slot in my calendar for deep work, if I do not put it manually in advance. I was using similar concept by manually reserving 2h slot windows each day for a deep work. And it worked great! But I want more distinct habits like this, with more flexibility, like you have with "defensive" settings. Really cool stuff, can't wait to try it out!
Right. I’m not saying you can’t, but I am saying that when someone goes to their IT team and says “Hey, we want to buy a few of these” they’ll get met with a groan :).

Did you move all your other gear into Colovore? (That’s one of the challenges, you often need to be close to the rest of your systems / data)
>You sound like a nostalgic grandpa pining for the good old days that are passing

I'm really glad I'm not actually a nostalgic grandpa at 30...I feel like i would probably have made some pretty poor life choices along the way.
Is this robot dangerous to be exposed to? I'm under the impression that UV-C is very dangerous to eyesight.

Side note/digression: the Greater Boston Food Bank can provide somewhere between 3-4 meals for people in need per dollar donated. They are my local foodbank and I've been giving as generously as I can during COVID times. I encourage you to do the same with your local foodbank. Food banks can achieve synergies with grocery chains and food wholesalers that individuals cannot. Your dollars go a long way there!!
The 2nd Great Migration was not 'gentrification', is my point.
I suggest that you review the U.S. presidential election of 1800.

It would be interesting to see the drama of that event replay in our next election.

Our current partisanship would likely be far more destructive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800_United_States_presidentia...
Ah, China...I see
The way I see it: free advertising. Nothing beats piggybacking on a hot topic by presenting a non-issue as an actual issue or a threat. Which is what that is, given that as far as cs is concerned, "master" and "slave" refer to concepts which have nothing in common with slavery, colonialism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, bigotry or whatever other buzzword you may think of. What is a bit worrying is that those exact methods of promotion were used on several occasions in history, and neither of them produced a good result.
I know.

I just don't understand why it's important for text based communication, but not voice.
Trump is stupid, but he is also a germophobe. Bolsonaro is stupid and not a germophobe. Putin, of course, is neither, but quite happy to see the rest of the world in chaos.
Why not owner or subject?

Are accountants not to refer to master records?

Do we have to stop killing child processes?
5. CIOs will be ecstatic and go tell their team that they have to do NLP