skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in Ann Arbor Michigan, and we've been back in the office for a month now (with lots of precautions). While not as safe for others, an N95 mask isn't too bad to wear if you can get one - about the only issue is the elastic carves indentations into the soft tissue of your skull that takes several hours to return to normal - I'm kind of worried that I'm permanently damaging the bone - but I figure Doctors/Nurses do this for 8 hours/day as well.

Oh, also Coffee can only be drunk on officially (socially distanced) coffee breaks. Which is kind of weird. I figure as long as everyone is wearing a mask, the office is well ventilated (we have open windows), you are socially distanced and clorox-the-hell out of everything a couple times.

And we are also essentially bathing in Ethyl-Alcohol at this point. Dispensers placed around the office and people scrubbing down anytime you touch anything.
Curious why the author declares Container Linux bullshit/unsuccessful? I thought it was a wonderful project that got better over its (brief) lifetime. The active/passive upgrade was an absolute blessing. If the declaration is it was unsuccessful because it no longer exists, Flatcar and Fedora CoreOS are pretty straightforward successors. fcos is basically functionally equivalent if you don't use rpm-ostree layers and if you use podman in place of any rkt containers. If the complaint is "systemd," that's fine—it's not the OS for you—but I don't think that makes it bullshit.

I didn't like having to move cl machines to fcos but it really wasn't that bad and I still get coordinated, active/passive upgrades. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When it gets there, regulatory approval will absolutely be a bottleneck to deployment. They don't say it is a current blocker.

And it won't come close to Theranos. Tesla makes real products that are class-leading. Even if Tesla can't reach level 5, it will be damn close and make driving 10-100x safer than just a human.
The clause is probably there to give GitHub some level of additional power to make judgements calls it may need to make, in situations that can't be anticipated.

It provides (or may provide) a stronger legal backing for GitHub if they have to terminate service for some reasonable reason that cannot be anticipated or enumerated in advance, in other words a judgement call, where the termination of service might be challenged legally or result in a lawsuit.

There are surely situations where action rather than pussy footing would be the right thing for GitHub to do, against a vexatious user with a penchant for abusing the service and using the legal system to incur costs on GitHub while doing so.

It would be much better if the clause was not so draconian. But I'm not sure what kinds of termination clause would protect GitHub in situations where it needs the flexibility to make judgement calls.

(ps. I don't want to imply the OP's GitHub account is in this category; I'm sure it isn't. I'm talking only about why the clause may be in the ToS.)
Banksy hits the London Underground – If you don’t mask – you don’t get
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I know Bari well. She is a strong person. She would not have written this if there were not something very rotten at the NYT.
I downvoted your comment because you didn't present it as your personal perspective, but almost as a moral judgment that anyone who buys or enjoys consumer electronics just lacks impulse control or something. Sorry, but no longer worrying about snagging my headphones cord on workout equipment isn't a sign of a moral failing :)
> This guy used to run infra at uber and was incredibly salty about every single new technology. There were a lot of bad ones, but every conversation was about as constructive, free of evidence, and bitter as this blog post.

I'm going to assume you're a developer?

Infra people are usually much more apprehensive to take on new technology. Crucially I would describe classically trained sysadmins as 'pessimists to the core'. This is why there's memes of operations saying 'no'.

This is what devops was all about, the shared responsibility of it all. I'm going to assume that uber was perfect and got devops exactly right- but adding technology should in my mind always be met with the absolute most critical eye imaginable; and if he's a classically trained sysadmin then it probably comes from that place of being once bitten twice shy.
I think the dances came from musical.ly, which part of Tiktok used to be. Then, it's just people doing what other people are doing, one upping each other, trying to get popular, etc. Same social media stuff and Tiktok's recommendation algorithm is really good, so people get into it really quickly.
It's nice of you to say so. That's the nature of DIY. A hobbyist has some aesthetic or objective performance goals, but they have no economic goals, so the range of things that hobbyists build greatly exceeds the range of commercially available equipment.
Funny how a generic "toxic behaviour" is an accusation good enough against those with a different ideology, but when it's our ideology we go all legalistic.
Really? You're guna bet against Elon Musk? You really think that's wise? XD
The Github issue is for (then) ZFS on Linux, not ZFS on Solaris: whoever can read is at a distinct advantage.

The second link is an opinion from some researcher at Pasteur institute in France.

Both are bogus, but thank you for playing.
Those protocols are designed for surgical masks where the objective is to protect the wearer from droplets. The objective of cloth masks is to protect other people from your droplets (although there is a small protective effect for the wearer too). Even cloth masks with poor fit around the nose have great cost/benefit ratio for reducing transmission.
That's not really a fair comparison though. If FB was pushing US propaganda in China, there would have been no such hearing in the US. That's more equivalent to what TikTok is doing.
Will Your Next Salmon Come from a Land Tank in Florida?
Not having images on HN is occasionally annoying, but mostly it's a feature not a bug.

I have a suspicion that HN will outlast TikTok, but it'll take a decade to find out.
The lack of email walls was so refreshing. I expected an ugly form to show up, and was willing to fill it out. But instead, I was greeted with the actual download - just like that.

I don't know what the opposite of Cognitive Dissonance is called, but now I know what it feels like.
Because they can’t sell the car for what it cost to produce. FSD has added ~$3,000 of essentially pure profit
Think for private repos gitlab has been a viable and fairly popular alternative for a long time.

I reckon for open source the "de facto standard" plays a much bigger role, because of the user expectation to find projects on Github.
Ah yes. The valuable viewpoints and opinions of literally white supremacists like Gavin McInnes. There's being open to dialog, and then there's that.

It'd be one thing if he was able to critically oppose and examine what his guests claim. It's quite another when he seemingly adopts the opinions of whatever person that can speak three or four grammatically coherent sentences to him.
They should simply call it "Driver Assistance" which is very appropriate for such systems.
What happened to gas lighters when street lights were replaced with electric lights?
Can you elaborate on what makes critical theoy less of an underlying philosophical idea of western Civilization than whatever else it is you're referring to?

Philosophical debate didn't end in the mid 18th century. It's just that post enlightenment philosophy hasn't been taught in the west since the mid 1900s.
I have a book somewhere in the basement on organising calculations from the early twentieth century, back when computer was a job title and job runtime was measured in weeks...

===Update===

Couldn't find the one I was looking for, but I did dig up Eckert, Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation (1940).

From Chapter VII "The Multiplication of Series":

p.68 "By a continuation of this process we obtain about 100 groups of cards each with its rate card. Since the capacity of the multiplier is eight digits, those groups which have 9 and 10 digit multipliers and eight digit multiplicand are done in two groups. The few terms with large multiplier and multiplicand are done by hand. In a series with reasonable convergence there may be about 20,000 cards altogether. The reproducer is of course used to check the punching."

10 decimal digits is what, 33 bits?

p.74 "The machine time for 100 series is as follows:

Original punching and verifying . . . . 2 days
Listing and summary punching checksums. 1/4 day
Sorting and gang punching duplicates. . 1 day
Multiplying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 day
Sorting, tabulating, and summary punch. 1 day

In this example the checks would have been exact had we included a card for each product regardless of size, but this would have required about forty thousand cards instead of four or five thousand, and the multiplying time would have been over a week instead of one day."

I guess in principle a punched card could have contained 80 decimal places, but it seemed like the ALU equivalents were much narrower.

(this was published by the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau)
chat bots, automated phone systems etc have been an utter failure thus far. verizon and att have the most convoluted pricing models. telcos should be nationalized like the airline industry.
Awful death, blood flow issues in the brain tissue. RIP
She never said she wanted people fired, but that management should tell employees to not harass other employees with ax emojis in a slack. That seems like a totally reasonable standard to implement.
> HN is filled with liberal SS thugs like you.

Bruh, first time I'm hearing "liberal" and "SS" in the same sentence. Never thought of those folks as liberal before.
If you dislike the article, go ahead and say why. Leaving negative personal comments about the person who wrote it approximates your own comments: unconstructive, free of evidence and bitter
For comparison with the UK, Massachusetts has had 111K cases total with approx. 11K hospitalizations [0], so about 10%. The average age of COVID-19 cases is 51, the average age of hospitalization is 68 and the average age of deaths is 82.

NOTE: The state dashboard doesn't seem to specifically show the total hospitalizations, just a graph only over the last 3 months. However, on Page 19 [0] there's a breakdown of total hospitalization by ethnicity that shows a total of 111,827 cases and 11,611 hospitalizations (across all known and unknown ethnicities).

[0] https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-dashboard-july-13-2020/dow...
Save the world with a personal carbon tax
No one cares about sig figs in mechanical engineering, which is what this is closest to. They only really matter in chemistry.
It's a form of logical argument: the writer is poking holes in the "right to free speech = right to a receptive platform" argument made by Sommers and Weiss by swapping the players.
Sure, the question is why one would feel the need to point that out and explicitly compare this death to others, other than to feel a bit of smug self-satisfaction. It kind of goes without saying that it will affect you more when someone you care about dies (whether you know them or not) than when someone you don't care about dies. For any given death, most people on earth are going to be in the latter camp, and in polite society those people keep their mouths shut out of respect to those in the former camp.

All the rhetoric about how artists (singers and actors) are "vapid" and the like is also pretty emblematic of the worst of "arrogant engineer" thinking.
A majority of Americans supported the shooting of students at Kent State at the time, Americans are always thirsty for blood. That's not a compelling argument.

>Some [students] were told that more students should have been killed to teach student protesters a lesson; some students were disowned by their families.
I believe that Tesla would prefer no advertising to "German court declared our claims about car capabilities a lie."
The feedback loop with BASIC was faster. You could execute the program directly from the editor (if not from an interactive prompt, our computer, a Tandy 1000 circa 1988/1989, didn't have that though). Even without the prompt, it was very close to the REPL experience (write a line or two, hit F5 to run it, see the result, edit, repeat). I didn't come to other languages until later, but even so the feedback loop was just slower: bring up editor, write code, save, compile, run, repeat. That extra bit of friction is noticeable after a while. And then there's just what makes a minimum viable program. In C it's something like:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
printf("Hello, World!");
return 0;
}

In BASIC it's:

10 PRINT "Hello, World!"

4 extra lines don't seem like much, but to the novice it can be a massive difference. Especially when all that other stuff seems like magic, versus the BASIC program which just gets to the point ("I want to print something, so I tell it to print and it does.").
When "choice" effectively limits societal options or generates massive externalities and/or long-term unpredictable impacts, all parties upon whom the "choice" impacts are not given voice, or choice.

Often commonweal is a better guiding light than "choice".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_bottom

Sophie Zawistowska was offered a choice. Did her utility benefit by it?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DZ9bht5H2p4
When are we going to address the elephant in the room?

Advertising regulators aren't able to regulate, or arre taking too long to regulate, and we're leaving this to platforms.

When it should be done by a regulator, and fines should be applied to both the advertiser and the media owner - BECAUSE YES, media owners/platforms have the responsibility and should abide by law. I'm looking at Google/Facebook.

If platforms can't do it, too bad on them, pay up.

False advertising is alive and well, and it's encouraged. People are being defrauded and we're whistling.
> There's nothing wrong with "claiming victimhood" when one is rightly a victim.

Agreed, I only mean it pejoratively inasmuch as the parent ("victim culture that pervades the others") did as well.

That said, she has provided no evidence in this letter, and she is appealing to her identity as a member of a historically oppressed group, so I'm curious as to why her claims of victimhood seem to be believed by people who otherwise tend toward incredulity for such things.
Run infra? Not according to his LinkedIn.
I thought that was clear from my previous comment, so I'm not sure how much clearer I can make it. She used the term "unlawful discrimination". She wants this behavior to stop. She is calling this behavior out as illegal. I don't think it is a leap to think that she wants this behavior that she is against and called illegal to be stopped by the law.
Its safe to say the unix crowd recreated the Windows Registry. I guess it turns out the Microsoft guys weren't idiots its just a messy problem that requires a messy solution.
Why do you need 128-bit floats for storing solar system coordinates? 64-bit floats will give you millimeter precision on Pluto, if your coordinate system has an origin in the sun.
But what exactly is the responsibility of a newspaper in this? I don't want to delve into opinion or ideology, but I think it's objectively true that Donald Trump lies constantly. A news source based on reporting facts should not be giving credence to nonsense because a lot of people believe it. Take climate change for example. Trump and the American right like to portray it as either untrue or unimportant. They are wrong. The NY Times is not serving anyone by running climate change denial opinions. It would be pandering. There's a strong thread of COVID-19 denialism on the right as well. It's all false and misleading. Those voices pushing to reopen quickly may have a lot of followers, but the NY Times absolutely should not amplify their voices.
Media institutions are basically YouTube algorithm that runs on people instead of computers. Of course you are not allowed to have a different option on anything substantial, it breaks users feed
It's the same story across journalism and I wrote about this exact phenomenon in the article I submitted yesterday - journalism had to please the social media, news aggregator and SEO algorithms to stay alive. They write and say what's popular to their audience and suitable for the tech platforms - not what's right.
it is not worse than the worse hit countries in europe, but significantly worse than its neighbouring countries [1]

[1] https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Are you following these brands or is it just too many ads?
That's extremely cheap for a book. Do you work for strangers for free?
That's a great question, I agree this might become a problem down the line, when bad players might try to pressurize package maintainers into fixing problems.

We haven't encountered this problem yet, and believe most developers are decent enough to honestly rate a package based on their experience, as opposed to using it as a leverage.

Few things we're thinking about:

* Allowing maintainers to flag such reviews (for our review)

* Allow users to upvote/downvote reviews, and flag bad behavior (spam, extortion) to stir away bad players.

* Allowing maintainers to publicly to reviews

* Gathering enough data (about review and other previous user reviews) to conceal "bad" or non-useful reviews, in a similar manner to other platforms.

What do you think? Do you have any other suggestions?
Researchers seem nervous about the contrast dye used in the process.

It would seem unwise to do a MRI with GBCA for fun or speculative purposes, on the other hand "makes 1 in a zillion people sick" is actually quite acceptable odds for something that's fatal unless treated.

It seems those dyes can cross the blood-brain barrier as very few things can, which is good during the MRI process, however the body may or may not be terribly good at cleaning them out (and the process of cleaning those dyes out of the blood once they're outta yer brain is also hard on the kidneys).

Also edited to add, we DO know everything there is to know about stupid tricks involving ferrous metal being attracted to giant MRI magnets with squishy humans in the way, and that risk of damage is probably higher than the GBCA risk.
There is a reason no new manufacturers have succeeded in the past 100 years. Auto industry is tough and costly.

Autopilot almost certainly gave them press and coverage that has helped sell cars and keep the company from collapsing.

If a future promise is what it took to drive the battery revolution, it was a reasonable cost.
Large-Scale Field-Programmable Analog Arrays [FPAA] [pdf]
User Onboarding: Is Hey Email Worth It?
The trick I've seen to deal with this problem is to use a pair of doubles: one for the integer part and one for the fractional part.
Debian has stricter rules regarding packaging and vendoring dependencies. Void and Arch packages LXD in a similar fashion by separating all the C dependencies. However, none of us actually separate out the different Go dependencies, they are all vendored inside the LXD package.

Debian separates out all of these into own packages.
If memory serves, every splice reduces the signal to noise ratio and hence the capacity of the fiber. So you get your internet back, but not necessarily 100% of it.
Embedded youtube?
That has not been my experience. I’ve been overnighted replacement iPhones and AirPods without any resistance from online Apple Support. The only time I went in for a physical repair they gave me a loaner device and my repair was completed by noon the next day.
The "orthodoxy" the author writes about is real. I am a skeptic and cynic by nature. In my experience "common wisdom" is usually anything but. In software and technology I've found when you eschew dogma and "best practices" you more often than not get better results.

But, in 2020 you cannot question or be skeptical of the "progressive" agenda. Merely hinting that you are not fully bought in will get you labeled as a racist, or even worse these days, a "Conservative".

The group of folks that screamed to high heaven about the rise of "facism" in 2016 have become the very people they purportedly despised. Using the media as a political propaganda outlet, being intolerant of other viewpoints, using shame and ostracism to control the population etc.

Here's something I don't understand:
Jeff Bezos, maybe the ultimate robber baron of our time, and no fan "of the people", is the owner of the Washington Post. Since his purchase, it has moved so far left as to become almost a caricature of a "news" paper. A skeptical person would ask - what reason could he have for pushing a major media outlet to write so much - what can only reasonably be called - propaganda? A critical thinker would be very concerned indeed about buying too far in to said agenda based on who's pushing it.
I mean, even with all restrictions lifted a significant enough percentage of people would engage in behavior to avoid the disease that would have a real impact on the economy.

We aren’t talking about 3.5% unemployment vs 20% unemployment. We’re talking a deep recession in both cases. One with a deeper recession and less death, and a less deep recession but more death. Good luck trying to quantify that. I’m just gonna keep working from home, and avoiding bars/restaurants/shopping until it passes.
Hi! We do not currently have PyTorch model but it's one of the next items in our roadmap.

If you have a more custom pipeline, we have a custom environment where you can deploy any custom code with specific package versions!
Before git and mercurial I used CVS. It’s pretty easy to set up a server if you have ssh or telnet access. For personal things I used RCS because it was integrated nicely in emacs. So I think one needs to at least compare it to those.

RCS had almost no configuration required. It just wasn’t easily shareable. So, going to git costs cycles for personal projects with the hope of a return from better management of sets of changes, etc.
“Why don’t people just tell their children what to do?”
Similar opinion here. I put it off for when I could learn it better, and so far it's been fine... sometimes nice too when it has a feature I want that's already built-in (depending on version level and all that).
Exactly who else is going to cover the % of negative media coverage on Trump, in your mind, other than a "right wing" source?
It can be difficult if the old registrar won't cooperate.

Especially if you registered under a pseudonym, as then you can't prove legal ownership of the domain either. But even if you register under your real name, you may need a court case to compel transfer if the old registrar won't cooperate.
Calling a racist a racist isn't harassment. Neither is firing a racist. This is all stuff that I would expect my employer to be doing to be responsible.
Outsourcing source control/repositories for software dev. is a suicidal idea and it has always puzzled me that so many devs jumped onto the Github (and friends) bandwagon.
100% accuracy is probably too much to hope for, as there will of course be poor-quality phone calls.

Of course, maybe Google could encode an alternate data stream inside the generated voice, which would enable perfect transcription.

Now I'm imagining a future where robots communicate with each other over audio channels....
> There is an alternative. It is you and I.

How do I tell the difference between an honest citizen journalist, a propagandist, a liar, a lunatic, or a troll?

Conventional journalism of course is not perfectly trustworthy, but at least there is some penalty for extreme untrustworthiness in the form of loss of reputation of the paper and its brand. The NYT is an illustrative case. My opinion of that paper dropped significantly after its role in providing only the most softball criticism of the (then impending) Iraq invasion. I'm not the only person I've heard say this. NYT paid a price for cheerleading for that disaster.