skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can really only give my personal viewpoint of it. But for me personally I just have not been paying my mortgage only because I was lucky enough to have a government backed mortgage loan where I could tell the bank "tough shit" until the end of the year.

Also there have been temporary measures in place for things like utilities, ISPs, mobile phone plans etc. where people will keep accruing obligations on their bills without the services being cutoff. However it seems that those programs are about to come to an end. Locally where I live the utility service here said they will start doing cutoffs in August.

So I think it's a mixture of some amount of savings, some access to credit, and then a kicking of the can down the road for a few months. So my guess overall is that basically we are simply delaying the problem in a bunch of different ways. But at the end of that delay is going to be a lot of economic hurt when those bills actually come due.
This is good advice - as a non-smoker it is hard to relate to the subject, but i find that having kids helps nevertheless.

Apart from trying to be a good parent, i find that improving the chances of being alive as long as possible to maximize the time with the kid is important.

So any one of the things that can prevent this from happening, i try to keep under control, e.g. Smoking, Being overweight, not exercising, Drinking to name just a few.
Interesting how many of these studies assume this kind of media changes people's minds. Are people really that maleable?

It seems more likely they forward or "like" the media because it reinforces a belief they developed over time via multiple sources of data and experience.
> “close enough”

I guess one, admittedly brutal, solution is for customers to act like the immune system. Call up, fudge your way through to something that should be protected, and then escalate to a manager and report that you got access to your own account with vague details; they can listen to the call log to verify.

Worst case is that the rep gets fired (which sucks..) but if enough reps get fired then future reps will be hired and trained more diligently.
The term "social media" kinda puts Twitter on equal footing with Facebook, but it's really not. FB is over 2.5 billion active users worldwide, while Twitter has around 300 million. Twitter can be good for finding original sources around newsworthy events, but it's not that good for connecting socially because the majority of people aren't on Twitter.
This is a great project for users from a privacy-first company. I hope it's good for users, and that Mozilla gets significant support from this project.
In BT it was 3 months later and the only way I could get in that building was if I was personally vouched for by some one the security guards knew.

This was a v high profile project we had two board members as sponsors.

Later on I knew that some team leaders had to be Vetted and this is Developed Vetting - this is the same as TS clearance

I could see this happening in FANG companies to
Shopify App Store ranking algorithm exploit just reported
Author figured out a way to get to the top 1% of the app store rankings easily with any app
Oh interesting:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte...

So Russia/China are already in the "further safeguards needed" camp, along with... almost all of the world?

I studied a bit of EU law in law school, but haven't kept up as much as I should. This is a helpful start to dig back in, thanks!
Yes. We used Rust to drive a few things via GPIO and USB-RS232 a few years ago on a Raspberry Pi, it was a pretty pleasant experience.

Maybe take a look at this I2C lib: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-i2cdev
This should be a monthly census: it needs to be automatic. If you're the manager of a company and you are relying on people to say something about their co-workers, then you will miss most of the information that you could be capturing, and you will get highly biased impression of your workforce, because only a certain type of person will come forward to praise their co-worker.

There are various voting systems that work well, but the easiest is something like "Every month, list 3 of your co-workers who did something impressive."

This avoids the many problems with something like the stack-rank system that Microsoft was committed to, for too many years. In that system, workers were forced to list their co-workers, not just as "good", but also a certain percentage had to belong to the "bad" group, the lowest 30%. Most workers do not want to attack their fellow workers this way.

You can get all the information you need by simply letting your workers upvote each other. You should ration the upvotes so that they are meaningful. On a small team, perhaps people get 1 or 2 votes, in a big company, perhaps they got 5 or 6 votes. If you make the votes a scarce resource, you get better accuracy: people think carefully about who they should upvote.

There will be some workers who never get upvoted by anyone. These are bad workers. There will also be some workers who get very few votes, or who only get votes from "rings" they've formed with other workers, where they vote for each other. These are suspect workers.

In all cases you'll want to apply something like the Google PageRank algorithm to the upvotes. That is, an upvote from someone who is themself highly upvoted should matter more than an upvote from someone who rarely gets upvoted.

I would not ban people from the article's main idea "When your coworker does great work, tell their manager" however, keep in mind, if you are the manager or CTO or CEO, you need to ensure there is also a system in place that is more automatic than simply waiting for people to talk about their co-workers.
I'm really surprised that this is the top comment right now because even the most basic back of the envelope check shows that it is wrong.

Think about your own life: how often do you lose money because an insider hacked your credit accounts and bank accounts? How often do you get pulled over and your car taken away because someone changed the title/tags in DMV records? How often is your identity stolen by an employee at the IRS?

These bad things all happen to some people, of course, but the VAST majority of the time, they do not.

It is obvious that there are effective countermeasures to prevent and mitigate insider threats. Insider threat is not a new concept, and there are well-proven tactics for addressing it.
The comments are informing the reader about the trick that turns npow2 into prevpow2. Your reply seems focused on npow2 itself, not the line npow2(x+1)/2 that I said deserves a comment. I agree that npow2 should have the tests and documentation that you say, but in my example I'm taking that function as given, eg. by a library.
I use it for transferring stuff from a data collection program to a Jupiter notebook. It works quite well for that. Converting big numpy arrays to text and back again would be cumbersome.
There are people flexing indeed and it shows up in my bubble too but I would say average people doing funny skits is what defines TikTok and what made it so appealing to many and still makes up the biggest part of TikTok content.
Exactly.

Theoretically I could get this stuff by using Moonscript, but then I'm using a somewhat esoteric language that brings in a lot of other very unusual ideas.

Although for ternary, I honestly think the "if/elseif/else can be used as an expression" has always been my favorite syntax. Or the CASE...WHEN syntax of SQL.
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Yup. I am quite grateful for SOAPEngine[0]. Even then, I had to do a bit of hackery (using the proper callbacks)[1], to make auth work properly.

[0] https://github.com/priore/SOAPEngine

[1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_ONVIF/blob/master/...
I don’t think the point is being able to use a specific language or to know a specific algorithm, unless the role requires it. If the goal is to test a person’s knowledge and understanding, then the actual implementation is probably less important than their ability to explain and reason about the problem. OTOH, if the goal is to find out whether the person is highly skilled in a specific language and has a lot of experience with an algorithmic domain, then what you’re asking isn’t unreasonable.
I matched with someone on Tinder and she rocked my night... and I woke up to see my laptop was gone!
I cannot easily mute them all, and simply not following them won't work because I cannot be assured that my peers won't retweet or like them.
I believe this is intentional.
First: Snorkel Flow absolutely does not generalize to every ML problem :). IMO defining where different systems and approaches do and don't work best is one of the most important and most challenging problems in ML systems research- as noted, we've worked to give detail on this for Snorkel over the years... no perfect answers, but some notes below:

- As you imply, a lot has to do with the available sources of input signal- whether labeling functions, or 'transformation functions' for data augmentation, or other ops we've worked on... the input is obviously key.

- For data modalities like image, video, etc: Often the most successful approach is to (A) rely on some pre-processed features or "primitives" and write labeling functions over these- as my co-founder Paroma in particular has published about over the years- and/or (B) use metadata

- External models are definitely expressable as labeling functions, and we've worked on exactly that problem of modeling (local) biases and correlations!
Aside from medication and therapy, what other avenues have you explored?
“ only takes a small number of real humans doing unusual trading activity for markets to move” - WHAT? Link? Proof? Obviously false unless “small number of people”=folks like Buffet
At a minimum, you should save enough to your 401K to get the company matching.
Let's say the company match 50% on the first 6% you save.
So if you put 6% of your salary to 401k, the company will add another 3% in addition to what you did. That's a free 3% raise.
Tell me another way that you can get guaranteed 50% return of your money.

In addition, there is the tax advantage where you do not get taxed on your money until you retire. So you money grow without taxes until you actually need them.

Are there bad 401k? yes, but I think very few. Check the rules of your company. But most of them are very good deals and you should take advantage of them if you can.
You are right. "Drooling off to sleep" is a condescending way to put it. I don't want to be condescending - my goal is not to judge people who don't have it easy in life. However, I think it is important that the people who do have it easy in life to realize that, realize the luxuries that they have and not take them for granted. I want people to utilize the resources they have to do good in the world.

But thank you. I should be more empathetic
Thanks for this insightful look into software engineering in tech companies, as a more DevOps person this is very useful to know about, i.e. there are just too many things outside of programming that are interesting so developing full time is not an option.
It is an oversimplification, but there is a lot of evidence behind it. I suspect it's very unlikely for someone to fall into clinical depression from a quick breakup as in the article without something also being mechanically wrong. Fix that issue and they are likely to bounce back to a normal state like everyone else, with or without counseling. Depression is very nuanced and has many possible causes, but has high heritability and is very strongly associated with things like inflammation, nutritional deficiencies, and side effects of medication.
I use a similar solution, I like to modify the CSS of pages I visit, so I can avoid absurd design choices.

Anyway the HN design is almost the pinnacle of perfection to me.
So for what it's worth I deeply agree with your edit of your above post. I just dislike putting the onus on the users themselves rather than the platform.
What if it's both a chemical imbalance and people in distress? I'm a materialist. I don't draw a distinction between the machinery of the brain and the substance of consciousness. When you're happy, that's what one electro-chemical configuration feels like. When you're unhappy, that's what another, different configuration feels like.
My goodness. It is almost as if creating class distinctions leads to tribal behavior. Who would have guessed?
One possibility is that a twitter employee was blackmailed with some personal information and forced to do this.
Honestly, if you would have invested in Microsoft stock then he would've definitely enriched you.
There’s nothing special about “predictions about the future” that means they are incapable of being false or misleading. In fact, our legal system already handles cases like this. For example, fraudulent investment schemes are little more than predictions of what will happen in the future, yet those predictions are prosecuted as being fraudulent.
Who are you to know who is doing good work or not? If managers are not involved, they should have no say.
this. The cash is basically on fire now with all the money printing. Thus inflated asset prices
I’ve long considered why apps don’t have some VOIP client in them; if one can Face ID into their account, and use the VOIP client to connect to a rep - then the metadata associated with the call can inform the rep you are who you say you are. Seems E* is almost there!
This is one of the advantages and disadvantages of democratically-run workplaces (worker cooperatives etc). On the one hand, sometimes the people who are best positioned to make decisions about a person aren't their managers but their coworkers. On the other hand, it would really change the work dynamic if everyone potentially had the power to be your manager.
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It sounds really useless but requiring a signature means a fraudster would have to forge a signature which is a separate, perhaps more easily proven crime that carries extra penalties.
I use YouTube while not logged in and I use an extension that removes all cookies whenever I close a tab. YouTube doesn't remember anything of what I've watched.
If only there was an unfollow button!
> As a quick aside, it’s natural to wonder why this camera doesn’t support RTSP and/or ONVIF. After all, plenty of other Reolink cameras do. Because I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt, I’ll propose the possibility that Reolink ran out of storage on this camera and had to axe some features. After all, a 16MB flash chip would cost a whole 20 cents extra. This is just a cost-saving measure and definitely not vendor lock-in, hmmm?

Don't underestimate the licensing cost of the software. Afaik most camera vendors use http://www.live555.com/mediaServer/ for the RTSP server software. There's a licensing cost for commercial use.
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I expect the impact would be that it would be less about news and products and more about what your friends ate for lunch.
There’s always Twitter for some of that visceral reaction you might be looking for. And Facebook and everything else.
I am a gamedev, and at least to us cancel culture became a really serious issue, it even caused a suicide of a famous indie dev after a Twitter mob made his business partners dump him and disavow him.
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> meaning the compiler is not even obligated to keep it consistent from one build to another.

Way worse than that. The compiler wasn't obligated to act like anything at all. It would be totally legal to compile it so that the first time the value was accessed you got 0, the next time you got 1 - within the same program execution, with no mutation of the value. That is the sort of thing that is observed behavior of UB in the worst cases, and why it's so terrible to just pretend that UB is innocuous.
The latter doesn't (or didn't?) work. I used to youtube from a box which had never had a google account, and it still bubbled.
The categorical pathologizing of ALL human suffering is, of course, stupid. Suffering as such is the result of harm. We may speak of the appropriate amount of suffering, the excess and the deficiency of suffering given the severity and gravity of the harm, but as such, as sensory and affective response to harm, its purpose is no mystery and certainly no pathology.

Mental illness that is constitutional, what used to be called psychosis, may be patholigized, but it is hardly as common as some shrinks seem to think.

There is also another source of mental illness, probably the most common one. In an age that receives the words "sin", "vice", and "immoral" with amusement, discomfort, indifference, or even outright hostility, we seem to have lost the ability to confront this cause of mental illness, namely, sin, vice, and immorality.

There is no crisp line between physical, mental, and moral maladies, so to speak. And in this respect, vice can produce what used to be called neurosis. Sins and vices harm the sinner, and when left unacknowledged and undealt with, the guilt can manifest in a variety of bizarre ways that twist our emotions, appetites, motives, perceptions, and reasoning. It can reinforce cycles of vice. Pathologizing can be one way to find temporary, illusory relief by scapegoating one's guilt by invoking "chemical imabalance". Sure, there may be a chemical change in the brain, but that change in this scenario is the effect and not the cause.
Most of this is run at the State level. What State is at fault?
Yes there's a fixed cost because of the std library, panics unwinding code (i.e. clean recovery instead of aborting when something goes wrong), and the tendency to statically compile everything in adds some more, but in embedded context (a.k.a. "no_std") you can observe C and Rust code are very comparable.

Especially in your case you'll find Rust to be a joy to use: you'll have way more confidence in your code being able to run for months without segfaults or memory leaks. And if you have a good understanding of the C memory model using Rust will be a breeze.
I don't know. Most of the prepper material I read before the pandemic predicted a breakdown in civilisation type situation. Even through the stress of this pandemic, the world has remained remarkably intact.

A pandemic was consistently predicted as one of the biggest risks to the world by people like Bill Gates. But the preppers were not super interested.
It seems obvious. Hannity, Carlson, and Ingraham are the top rated “news” programs. All are opinion shows, not straight news.
Yes indeed. Of the kind social media optimize on, most people are NOT educated enough for, or rather, society have not enough controls for; fringe outrage growing into trends and mob.

Beware empty belief in general principles.
Another way to look at this... not every natzi personally committed crimes. I would suspect that far less than 50% personally murdered anyone. But they were part of an organization that murdered millions, and did nothing to stop it. That makes them complicit.
Roughly 1 in 3 american households are behind on their housing payments.

Most states (and all federally backed mortgages) have temporarily suspended evictions so the short answer is that people in financial distress dropped that expense, which is usually the single largest on most people's budgets (for low-income people this can often be 50% or more of take-home depending on the city - yes, the rule of thumb is that it shouldn't be higher than 25% but you simply can't find affordable housing in a lot of areas).

However that one eventually is going to come due because the federal mortgage eviction moratorium doesn't prevent you from going in default on your mortgage, it only prevents evictions. The 3-month timer is still running and as soon as the moratorium on evictions is lifted, they can kick you out immediately. So as soon as that lets up in a month or two there's going to be a massive surge in evictions in states that do not go out of their way to keep evictions suspended.

(and in fact this is probably a snowballing problem, the longer this crisis goes unchecked and the worse the economic pain gets, the more people that will be in default and the bigger the difficulty of getting "back to normal". Furthermore at some point that shit starts rolling back uphill economically, banks turned your mortgage into financial products and you not paying is cutting off the income of someone else, and in fact there is an eventual risk of a 2008-style crisis occurring on top of all the current problems if we get into a situation where people are defaulting en-masse.)
Yes. Some of my first Rust projects were that sort of embedded thing.
Also, I don't think that is fully normal car driving.

Does a normal car have a situation where you need to reboot the MCU (media control unit, basically the computer that powers the screen) in order to open the glovebox?

Does a normal car have 2 ways to open the door, one of which damages the trim?

Does a normal car have no obvious way to "lock" the doors when you leave?

I am a _VERY_ happy Tesla owner as I said. There is still a lot to them that I think might be a bit much to throw on someone for a 1 day rental.
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Yup, but also because they could have my evolved adult signature on file, or at least asked me after certain time interval to update it for their records.
I don’t know what this is supposed to mean, but this failure extends across both parties in the United States. The refusal by politicians to take on Capital owners is pushing people into homelessness, loss of healthcare, or danger in low wage jobs, all of which further exacerbate the pandemic.

The mainstream of the Democratic Party has advanced little that would address any of this, mostly quibbling over means testing income supports and lurching right. And we can just look at that state of the pandemic in the US to know what the other side thinks we should be doing.
Consequentialists often point out that whether things like laziness are moral failings or are physiological problems with no moral bearing, it still makes sense to treat them as a moral failing, because it’s usually more likely to result in incentives and social pressures that lead to the moral failing/physiological problem being fixed, mitigated, or worked around.

There was an SSC article that had some good discussion on this at some point, but thanks to NYT I can no longer link it.
Swift started out as a pretty nice language, but in my opinion there are some major problems:

The combination of ubiquitous closures and reference counting is dangerous. Avoiding circular references is not nearly as easy as you might think and reference counting is slow (low memory usage is an upside though).

And lately, the language has become rather convoluted. They have added features that make Swift code hard to read. Function builders in particular are a terrible idea. I know many people like internal DSLs. I don't.

I think it's a big mistake to overload the syntax of a language to such a degree that reading a piece of code in isolation tells you very little about what it does, because somewhere far away there may be a mode switch that completely changes the semantics of that piece of code.

Consistency is more important than "looking clean" at all cost.
The theory's going around, but it doesn't ultimately make much sense. Algorithmic trading is still set up and managed by humans on a day-to-day basis, so it can't by itself explain persistent market highs.
For me, you can target the sidebar with the rule:
div[data-testid="sidebarColumn"] .r-1u4rsef

and promoted tweets (in light mode):
.css-1dbjc4n.r-my5ep6.r-qklmqi.r-1adg3ll div[data-testid="placementTracking"]:not(.r-u8s1d)

Obviously very fragile, but has been working fo the last month or so
To be clear, you can drive without the infotainment screen in most cases. You won't be able to see your gear nor your speed, but it should go forward.