skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see how the example you've given of being downvoted can be equated to cancel culture.

You had and clearly still have the ability to express your views on this website so in what sense are you "cancelled"?

If people don't like what you say they're free to downvote it. It can be helpful if someone gives you some feedback on why they downvoted you, but its certainly not an obligation
Oh no, that reminds me that I need to cancel before I pay for another month. Truly terrible service. Amazed they got the funding they did.
That doesn’t sound familiar at all to me. Can you give an example of such an incident?
> I have always been afraid of software engineering becoming a trade similar to medicine or law or (regular) engineering where significant barriers will be put up before you can enter the industry, but this sort of shit makes me feel like it could be for the better.

There's a good chance that the one who wrote this bug had a degree.

Surgeries in medicine still get botched despite all of their degrees and barriers. Degrees don't produce good code, good developers produce good code.
They're not threadrippers but there's not an enormous difference. The equivalent 16-core EPYC has an MSRP that's only 10% more than the desktop chip. The whole stack has similar pricing around core count and performance.

And yeah there is a bit of a gap there. You could always get a low end EPYC but then you miss out on the turbos.
The lone “Standard Oil” gas station in San Francisco is good example of Chevron holding onto a unique usage of that trademark.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/standard-oil-gas-station

EDIT: they have one each in 16 states, so not exactly “lone”
Introduction to compartmental modeling for budding infectious disease modeler [pdf]
> Falsely calling people you don't like evil to cause them harm or for you own economic gain should result in jail time and compensation for the victim.

False speech isn't protected. Also, the parent comment made no claim that the statements made were true or false, just that there were accusation. I don't think that "people shouldn't knowingly lie" is a particularly hard stance on free speech.
I know, but my argument is that a lot of time (not always, of course) the "distributed" issues could just be solved by not building a distributed system in the first place and just having more efficient tech stacks & a few big servers.

Stackoverflow was just using 4 db servers in 2016 (https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...)
Facebook knows how dynamic loading works. (At least, I think so…) However, their many clients may not, as a lot are not multi-billion dollar companies.
> tests apparently have a false negative rate of 20%

no, there are different kinds of tests, and from different manufacturers, and the materials are handled differently.. Please do not spread this information as 'facts'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week

Does that look like a failing of the public sector or a oil crisis that targeted the UK specifically?
Google use Bluetooth to track your Android phone even when Bluetooth is turned off... so what do you expect from this company? Google only want to extract money from your pocket.
Did Bulgaria have huge indemnity to pay like Haiti?
Is there a reason it's always functional languages?

Despite being HNs favourite paradigm, functional languages really are an obscure to most people.

As soon as there is a (convenient, useful) REPL for Java or c#, it will get picked up.

I know Java added a repl a few versions ago, so maybe we will start to see this in the Java world.
Who are EY and RH?
There is a non-virtuous (vicious not the right term) cycle at play.

Many problems are only solvable with compiled languages, for performance, correctness, or other non-functional considerations. Many people are first taught on compiled languages, and bring those approaches to dynamic languages. The popular dynamic languages, in their standard/common toolchains, do not have robust repl support (looking at you Python and Javascript). The absence of a robust repl workflow means people who are exposed to it in those languages aren't really impressed by it. Really too bad.
I don't, but I'm fairly sure there is a solution and others just don't want to try hard enough
> LibreOffice is far better compatible with MSO

Why do you say that? I trialed both of them with an array of complex Word documents and OnlyOffice far outperformed.
Fresh Grad’s Compensation in Silicon Valley
This is the sort of vague "argument"-crafting I expect on Twitter but not on HN where you have unlimited words to make a point and add understanding to the world.

I googled "jk rowling gender critical" and all I see is a great google query if you want to find articles about how supposedly transphobic she is (without explaining what was specifically transphobic about what she said). If you're going to say someone has admitted to being part of a hate group, why not help us out and provide us some links?
We have decided that there are limits to freedom of association, though, for example when it comes to discrimination. Forcing people to interact with others whose opinions they disagree with seems plausibly less imposing than forcing someone to interact with others whose religion they disagree with. I'm not sure this as clear-cut as you make it sound.

And I think it's quite the strawman to suggest that anyone believes that someone should be able to direct profanity at an interviewer and get hired, and I also don't think it's productive to equate "profanity" with "views that someone disagrees with."
Personally £7.99 a month for a piece of software I use 1 hour every 6 months is definitely not worth it. Though I'd pay £100 for it no questions asked.

Subscription plans are stupid.
A link for those who prefer reading: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02053-6

It seems like this method can be generalized to a detection problem. Anyone knows other applications of this technique?
LoG fan?
Many enterprise products have bad design because they need to serve so many complex workflows, not because their design teams completely suck. It's just a hard problem (eg look at Salesforce and tell me how you'd design it well...)

Consumer products are like Chipotle: streamlined menu, built for efficiency and elegance. Enterprise products are like the Cheesecake Factory: you want a steak, pasta, pancakes, and a margarita? Go for it! Why is there a full f*ing bar in the back? Who knows!

It's hard to have great design when you have to do so much.
> there is never† a tax-related reason to refuse to take a higher-paying job

This is usually true but not always.

Where I live, if you as a self-employed contractor make revenue over the VAT threshold you must start charging VAT.

If the clients are VAT registered business, they won't mind, they can reclaim it. But if they are not VAT registered, or if they are regular people not businesses, your price will effectively increase by 20% for them.

To avoid losing business with the people who cannot reclaim the VAT, you may decide to lower the prices you charge to compensate.

That's a cliff. You can be better off turning down a higher-paying job (such as a 3 month contract) that would put you over the VAT threshold, if you are close to it and would have to lower prices to everyone else to compensate, depending on your line of business.
Simple answer, No. Microsofts overall approach to licensing is complex enough that you have to be an expert in their license to even have an inkling of an idea what is permissible and what isn't. The OS layer is just the tip of the iceberg. It's not immediately useful in and of itself without things like SQL server, IIS/Asp or whatever their web app layer is these days, etc. The would have to shift gears on pretty much every technology to make it worthwhile for a Linux/*nix stack developer to look in their direction.
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Why is that? Why browser makers cannot agree on a set of fonts that are good enough for most, and ship them?
Yeah youtube is going down the drain right now automating everything and failing (you can search hn for youtube bans and cam find at least 3 blocks of non violating channels in the last 2 weeks).

For every content creator on youtube, you can still opt out, but once it's enabled on your channel you have to disable it manually or write a tool to do it for you...
> This is the same John Cleese that has decried London becoming a multicultural city that is "no longer English."

That's a weird, centuries-late complaint about the natural consequence of world-spanning empire.

You can't just colonize half the world without getting anyone else’s culture in your capital.
A URL spoofing bug in Firefox, reported 2 years ago and it's still working
I would check in with a local homeschooling Facebook group for 1-on-1 support. We've been homeschooling our kids. The 7 and 9 year old use Kahn Academy for math, which works really well. They also have grammar options they have started.

My opinion is that a "complete" education through 8th grade is a nebulous goal. Reading, writing, math, history, art, life experiences, etc. are important.
Great initiative! How long did it take you to parse through all the papers etc and build this tool?
Reported Israeli Cyberattack Caused Iran Nuclear Site Fire
Most teams look at the data, and see that a vast majority of their customers use the CLI. I'm sure AWS loses out on sales from non-technical folks who only see the console side of things, but I personally would way rather DynamoDB focus on performance rather than a pretty console.

That isn't true for all though, many AWS services seem like they are 'console first' and do wonky shit in the console that is hard to do using APIs. Those services are incredibly frustrating.

Most AWS teams own their own console from what I've read here. And the smaller orgs often don't have any designers - backend engineers build the first iterations of the console.
I have been looking for this as well. So far Khan Academy has been brilliant in remote math curriculum, in fact my children are learning math faster in Khan Academy than with IRL instruction. If there was something equivalent for writing I'd be over the moon happy.
Feel free to email me when you release! My email is in my profile.
Nice! Congrats on the pivot
Coronavirus hijacks cells, forces them to grow tentacles, then invades others
You can hold the idea that a certain religion or philosophy is vile and evil, yet respect and even like certain individuals that are followers or adherents of those beliefs, because individuals are often more than just the essentials of those beliefs.

Take a certain popular religion, for instance. This religion can be judged as evil if you are secular or pro-reason (as opposed to faith). But individuals who practice this religion do so as individuals, and may place more emphasis on certain parts of their religion over others according to their own personal values. In fact it's impossible not to place emphasis on certain aspects of a religion or philosophy when adopting it - even religious zealotry implies an emphasis on perfect obedience and adherence. You can tolerate, accept, or even like a person holding an idea that you can't tolerate due to your own beliefs, for the personal values and virtues exhibited by the individual which are reflected in their emphasis of certain parts of their beliefs.
Much of the revenue generated from space engineers sales (over 10M copies sold on Steam) went towards an "AGI" pursuit.
So if I’d rather not associate with Black folks at my work, I have the right to refuse to hire them? I’ll have to say, this is the first time I’ve heard the freedom-of-association argument against civil rights laws coming from the left.
Threatening violence, yes that will get you in trouble (hopefully). A little different than just minding your business wearing a MAGA hat.
Maybe I don’t understand your point, but our senses are also compressed to some extent. Your synapses fire or don’t fire, providing digitized input for some of your senses like hearing. At any point there is a discrete amount of hormones in your body. etc etc. That doesn’t seem categorically different from any man made sensor.
I left out the word "regularly". I'm sure he would have spent a thousand every few months, at least.
The interesting thing is that advanced encoders might create JPEGs that produce odd results with this decoder.
ScanTailor – Interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages
Course on Description Logic
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No, its visibility gets reduced. It's not invisible. You can see that it's there, it's slightly harder to read.

Flagging a comment can make it invisible, and even then, only if you haven't set your account to show dead comments. Flagging and down voting are different, and flagging a comment because you disagree with but is otherwise not breaking any rules it is considered inappropriate here, while down voting is not.
> What planet do you live on that you think everyone else should have to both listen to what you say, and then not "punish" you for it?

No one is forcing you to listen to anything. I'm sure you've never been forced to read r/TheDonald, or watch Alex Jones talk. If any friends on social media links you to a paper on psychological differences between the sexes being rooted in biology, you are free to ignore the link or block them all-together. If a coworker or employee starts talking about immigration restriction in a way that sounds vaguely xenophobic, you're free to ask them to keep that kind of political talk out of the workplace.

This is about the freedom that the rest of us have to choose to listen to others' speech, and to be free to engage with it and come to our own conclusion about it.

> If you tell your wife she looks fat, she's probably not having sex with you that evening. If you call someone a racial slur, they're probably both going to tell everyone they know about what you said, and refuse to interact with you unless forced to.

Those are not relevant examples.
Tribal Leaders Call on Congress to Invest in Tribal Broadband Infrastructure
Definitely beautiful here.

I work in a hybrid IT - Programming role at a Food company here. I know a few people in the IT community locally but outside of Munson and Hagerty there's not many positions open.

I'm in Grawn, outside of the city limits, so the property tax isn't too bad.
Is Uber asking for donations to help drivers during COVID-19 lockdown in your country?

It does so via push notifications in India, so does its rival Ola but news report says that funds weren't distributed to the drivers properly[1].

[1]https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/uber-ola-hyped-relief-fu...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281534833320222721.html
What's the sense in publishing your PWA in the Play Store? Chrome already prompts the user if they'd like to install a PWA shortcut when you visit the site. I ask because it costs $25 and while I have a lot of time on my hands I'm a cheap ass.
While not given as a percentage of revenue, this post estimates the Catholic Church's charity as anything but 'tiny': https://old.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/6ogy4p/source_...
We went through all this BS, then signed up with them on a year contract.

Then we were shocked to find that it would take them two weeks to set up our first machine.

I noped out of it at that point and just paid the penalty to get the hell out of there. A competing service, that we already used, sets up machines in 1-2 days.

When stuff hits the fan and you really need things to happen, two weeks is just a crazy response time. That's like infinity in internet time.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In light of our limited understanding of how the brain works, claiming it is not possible to recreate its functions inside a computer programming is a much stronger claim than to assume that it’s possible and we just don’t know how. Unless we see a mathematical proof that it’s impossible, I think people who claim that it’s impossible are the same as people who claimed that only birds can fly and that it is impossible for machines to roam the skies.
This is like saying CD players will never be as good as vinyl record players because the first use digital signals (rational numbers) and the second analogue (real numbers).
Philippine Congress Officially Shuts Down Leading Broadcaster
Please enlighten us on how you would negotiate "good terms" (as in, not being a figurative slave) with Uber.
How is that not the same question with fluffier terminology?
I've lost my phone and been able to re-connect to every 2FA service I use without any need for human interaction. For google I was saved because my laptop was still logged in and I could turn google's 2fa off.

Basically everyone else has an "I lost my device" thing and a fallback to SMS codes or email links. This certainly weakens 2FA in general, but strict 2FA is unusable in practice.
I don't believe you. Surely, after a few hints, the FAANG canidates must have been able to figure out the classic gotcha of this question (why does this sometimes overflow and how do you fix {high + low / 2})

If they didn't, than I believe you did a poor job of guiding them. I refuse to believe that this is some esoteric, tough question. If you can solve dynamic programming problems, you can easily solve this one.
What is the name of that blogging software Microsoft is providing in competition with Medium?
> Feel free not to vote for a dog whistling politician but I don't think one should not employ/fire/cancel someone for dog whistling that they believe some unfashionable or objectionable view.

I mean, that's literally what not voting for someone is - choosing to not hire them. But that's semantics.

I'm not sure how you draw the lines on all this - if someone is spending all day tell their Jewish co-worker they need to stop the "international bankers", is that OK? Is speaking hatefully in the abstract about a group of people acceptable?
MS Word 4.x on the Mac was pretty sweet.
That guy must have a lot more interesting photos. Why show only about a dozen?
> Notably the net result was that when the pilots did the right thing (pitching down) and the sensors recovered, a stall warning sounded.

This is to be expected. Pilots learn on their first single-engine prop trainer that stall horns are primitive mechanical devices based on airflow over the wing and warnings may trigger intermittently when the airflow is seriously disturbed. It's additive: blasting alarm indicates that something is wrong, but lack of warning doesn't mean that everything is right.

> were thrown in at the deep end

Shallow end. Like stall warnings, airspeed indicators are also known to become unreliable relatively often. It's like loss of cabin pressure, bird strike or a blown tire. Every pilot can reasonably expect it to happen to them, unlike the 737 MAX crashes that took place in completely uncharted territory that nobody knew to be afraid of or prepare for.

This makes the official animation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-hbWO0gL6g really puzzling. Speed keeps wildly jumping around throughout the event, an obvious sign that it's faulty. At one point, airspeed indication drops by 200 knots in three seconds to almost zero without any other indications supporting it. Everything else remains consistent. Nose is pitched up and stable. Altitude is dropping fast, vertical speed is negative. Stall warning is blasting, albeit intermittently, and the aircraft is experiencing a characteristic stall buffeting as turbulent airflow develops around wings. Why would any pilot look at that and give a nose up command? It goes opposite to their training and the flying instinct that every pilot should have.

If anything, the AF447 case shows that automatic protections should be developed further, to work under wider range of conditions than they currently do.

Had some other failure disoriented the crew instead (eg engine failure), and had the protections remained active, they probably would've saved the flight.
I probably would have a few years ago, now-a-days almost everything I do seems to be deployed as a linux container directly or linux containers by way of 'cloud functions'

funnily enough I use windows as my workstation os
Are they just hoping to grow as AWS grows? Not sure why anyone would choose Rackspace these days.
It’s the same reason that many authors publish under a pseudonym.

A friend of mine is a teacher who has written a couple of books. He likes to publish them under a pseudonym because if a parent took exception with part of the story it could create an issue for him professionally.

In today’s climate, it’s hard to avoid offending somebody.
NSInvalidArgumentException is not intended to be caught. You can, of course, but receiving one indicates a serious run-time error.
Foundations of Description Logic [pdf]
> False speech isn't protected.

It is to the extent that it isn't prosecuted as a matter of policy.

> Also, the parent comment made no claim that the statements made were true or false, just that there were accusation

And I'm saying "No, I think we ought to appropriately punish people who do make false claims" in response to the original question Would you like to judge how limited my speech should be?
Show HN: Computer Vision Boilerplate (CVB)
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Our main idea is that researchers waste too much time managing their projects because tooling is hard to set up. We believe that project plumbing should "just work in a sane way", so we set you up to do YAML configuration management, logging to multiple modalities (image files, Visdom, log files, stdout, etc.) with no changes.

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Git. AWS.
They have shown repeatedly that they don't give a shit, so the best thing you can do for their users is to demonstrate for them why they should uninstall it yesterday.
> And some goods may become inflated if everyone starts consistently receiving UBI payment

Sure, any redistribution of income increases prices of things demanded more by the recipients than the sources of the redistribution. This doesn't, ever, fully offset the effects of redistribution, it just means the effects of any redistribution will be somewhat smaller (both on the recipients and the sources) than they would be expected to be based on a naive projection from pre-redistribution prices.
Are you planning on integrating with tax reporting tools such as TurboTax?
The recent opinion essay she wrote:

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-...

A rebuttal of that essay with citations:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1270787941275762689.html

And an article talking about the banning of the hate subreddit r/gendercritical:

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/29/reddit-bann-transphobi...
My small company is Linux friendly. My workstation is Linux-based. There are maybe one or two others here that use Linux as well. The rest are mostly Mac users. There are some Windows users as well.

I would say this is not uncommon for small companies in my area. The past 3 I have worked at all took the position that devs could pick their setup, but would be responsible for making it work. I can use Linux, but it is up to me to make sure I can do my job with it. There is no internal tech support.

I will say that there is a common mentality that Macs are the default choice for development. (This is probably not the case if you are in a .NET shop, for example). At my last job they purchased a Mac for me without asking my preferences. After I told them I'd prefer Linux, they said I could switch, but I decided to stick with that Mac for that job, actually... and I liked it! But not enough to stick with it long term. I also value being able to customise my system to a degree that is difficult on a Mac.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a Back end Engineer to scale infrastructure