skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think voice is more problematic. There are a bunch of channel that I would love content wise, but that I find straining to watch for more than a few minutes because of the audio/acoustic quality or their voices and dialects/accents. The latter, not to be mean and it is not the peoples fault, but not everyone has a voice that is pleasant to everyone else to listen to for extended periods of time.
The policies they advocate (lockdown specifically, but also universal masking) are completely crazy. The policies that the CDC head is recommending for schools are completely crazy.

The fact that Fauci has had such a long and successful and relevant career makes his failure here all the more painful. I think he’s a smart guy. But he was put in a highly stressful position, barely sleeping for months on end...I can’t fault someone in that type of situation for being unable to snap out of collective delusion. But yes, he’s still deluded.

I understand why that statement of mine causes strong reactions. Indeed I considered omitting it because I know how many people reflexively downvote the moment they see that.

But for better or worse I decided not to pull punches.
I had to read it a few times to understand what it is. It is something like "Chicken Scheme+Batteries"? You wrote the wrappers for the libraries and the autoinstaler?
Same, and uBlock origin stops it from going further. Here's an archive link

http://archive.is/k2gG7

But it's mostly just blogspam. Here's the real project

https://www.their.tube/
I don't know if it counts as enterprise software but I use Jetbrains' products everyday. Goland, IntelliJ and PyCharm are great tools.
I have made a good habit of sending a person's manager "xyz did a great job, in such such such way, and this had the impact of abc". I try not to do it often, mostly if i think someone has gone above and beyond. Also mention it to my manager if it's appropriate as people should be recognized - they also make good allys for future work.
What I meant was that there was a better sense of what left or right actually means on an international scale.

Nowdays centre-right presidents like Barack Obama or Biden get called socialist, somebody on the international centre left like Sanders is apparently a communist and Chomsky is an out of his mind, left of Mao crazy person. Pink haired college kids are apparently a serious threat and there's a "culture war" or something.

It seems fairly abnormal, especially considering Medicare for All is apparently still crazy, even in the middle of a deadly pandemic the U.S. is currently doing terrible at.
They deny the claims because they support the systems US policing has historically defended. When you confront people with writings from marginalized communities going back to the 1800s about police, they still manage to "be unaware". That's intentional.
Too often people skim over the fact that the corporation is a legal entity, and its nature is defined by the laws that sanction it.

A corporate charter can be revoked, and the laws of the corporation can be modified. We don't have to be fatalistic about this.
>Everyone involved was confident the gun-type bomb would work.

Yes. That's why the design of the Little Boy bomb carried by the Enola Gay was only "unit tested." That's not what the Trinity test tested. The uranium gun-type bomb dropped on Hiroshima was basically a backup plan in case the plutonium-implosion design--which was the primary focus of Los Alamos during the later part of the Manhattan Project--couldn't be made to work.

And it was the plutonium-implosion design that was tested at Trinity. (And was the design dropped on Nagasaki.)
It's more of a paradigm than a feature but, multiple dispatch à la Julia. One of the creators of Julia makes a strong case that it is the key to libraries that "compose" without being aware of one another:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
This is excellent- I’m impressed with the attention to detail and perseverance. I would have given up well before getting that amount of info together
Tangentially - problems with "Safety First" I personally experienced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50lS_SxiSU
Great point. Bloomberg's Matt Levine has been referenced elsewhere in this discussion, but he had this exact point [1] in today's newsletter regarding market reactions to COVID vaccine news:

"Signs of progress toward a coronavirus vaccine by Moderna propelled most corners of the stock market higher. … Most of the gains followed the release of a new study suggesting Moderna had reached a breakthrough with its coronavirus vaccine, setting the stage for a larger trial at the end of this month. Cruise-ship operators, airliners and other stocks sensitive to the coronavirus crisis led the stock market higher. Shares of Moderna rose $5.18, or 6.9%, to $80.22.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was up 21.2%. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. was up 20.7%. Carnival Corp. was up 16.2%. American Airlines Group Inc. was also up 16.2%. United Airlines Holdings was up 14.6%. The biggest gainers were the vaccine-sensitive industries, not Moderna itself."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-16/a-vacc...
I recently was in the Zulip community design stream and the topic of their UI came up.

I absolutely love Zulip but I’m afraid the design keeps folks from joining.

There was a recommendation for it to update their design to be more like Discord new light theme [1] or Twist [2].

Twist is the more fair comparable since they are both Thread based (like email subject line) it’s just that Twist isn’t open source.

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/4050/1*iwfLW4rnn6U-mlUQpmBAfg.pn...

[2] https://get.twist.help/hc/article_attachments/115005750965/i...
If, in 2014, President Obama had tweeted something like "I've had it with Kim! Sending the missiles now!" no one would've believed it, as it would've been quite out-of-character and also he didn't go around announcing policies, executive orders and other business using Twitter.

With Trump though, it gets more complicated. He has antagonized and name-called the leader of NK on Twitter. He has announced policies on Twitter that even his cabinet weren't aware of beforehand. If he posted the above tweet (sub out "Kim" for "Little Rocket man") and you were Kim Jong-un, what would you do?

Sure, he's never announced a military attack on Twitter before (I think... although I'm not 100% sure) but given the other things he's done and his general nature, could you be 100% sure it's fake? And if it's not fake, then the rational thing would be to counterattack with whatever capability you have without waiting for confirmation from someone else.

And then, if you're one of the US Joint Chiefs: You see the tweet, you know that it's false, but you consider it from Kim's perspective (see the last paragraph) and have to game out the chance that Kim will see this as a credible attack and launch his rockets, in which case you'd want to launch ours immediately.

It's totally possible that they could get Kim on some sort of "Red Phone Line" and convince him that it's fake before he launches, and that might even be the most likely outcome. But if the hacker timed this right (to some time where the president was asleep or harder than usual to contact) I feel like there is a nontrivial chance it could result in at least one nuclear warhead getting launched.
If you are trying to setup a false dichotomy, you are gonna have to try a little harder.

CHOP wasn't a "summer of love" like the far left claimed and it wasn't a lawless wasteland of thugs like the far right claimed
The unknown dude sometime around 2000-1500 BCE who discovered you could get iron from ore?
The general availability of Azure shared disks
Most spinboxes also let you use the scrollwheel on them.
Bingo. It's worthwhile to ask to what degree U.S. corporations should be doing business in Chinese markets, but it's also worthwhile keeping in mind that no U.S. administration is a purely disinterested party when they're raising these criticisms -- and this administration in particular, and this U.S. attorney general in particular, has a pretty strong track record of deliberately stoking partisan flames and finding "enemies" both within and without. China is the chosen foreign enemy, but tech companies are increasingly the chosen domestic enemy.
Sure, that is true, if you make a bunch of extra assumptions (resides in an applicable country; has a lot of fiat capital already; has a history of trading; has all the necessary financial knowledge and capabilities), and if you don't factor in the probabilities of getting caught.

On paper, the stock strategy could make more money. In practice, I think it's extremely unlikely it would be the optimal strategy here, or even a decent strategy. The maximum potential reward would be higher, but the expected value would be lower. (Perhaps it'd be negative, even, depending on the probability assigned to imprisonment and asset seizure.)

I think the attackers chose pretty much the best possible strategy if their sole goal was maximizing profit and minimizing risk of getting caught. Someone else suggested maybe setting up a fake call for charity donations, which might have worked even better, but overall I think they picked the smartest plan.
The dilemma is this... "Ignorance is bliss" - You can't be worried/stressed about problems you don't know...

What if you're consistently doing good work but have zero visibility? Then years down the road, you notice a trend of people around you getting promotions/raises/bounses more often than you? The same people that slack off & lack integrity; to name a few. As a human being with emotions... can you honestly say you won't feel resentful in your moment of realization?

I am asking as someone who's been in that situation more times than I care to admit... I do good work for myself and for the sake of doing good work; I take pride in the work I do... but as most of it was never communicated, no one knew about it and just took it's results for granted; I was bypassed for raises, promotions, etc... Was it worth it? I can't give you a answer... it's a very conflicting place to be.
I'm actually cautiously excited about new competition in high end semiconductor fabrication. Huawei and China won't just sit around twiddling their thumbs, they've got to manufacture chips somehow/somewhere.
I don't think I have provided enough contextual details in order for this type of conclusion to be reached.

I'd be happy to offer a hypothetical if you are interested in debating the merits of my approach.
Your point about "biased filters" is a red herring as people have been complaining about police WELL before the popularity of body cams.
This article doesn't necessarily show that job interviews are ineffective.

It showed that candidates performed worse when interviewers were in the room. But, if they all perform worse in a similar amount, it's still an equal measuring stick across participants.
Is anybody going to go to war with Russia, China, or the US though? All three of these countries are too big and difficult to invade. You would quite literally have to decimate any one of them to keep hold of it. And economically it would be extremely unprofitable to the US and China. Russia could theoretically gain quite a bit if it managed to annex China but there is the whole issue of how would you even go about that? Nuclear war because it turns into an asshole measuring contest seems more likely but that is a straight doomsday scenario.

No I think future wars between these three will all be proxy and economic. It’s easier to do the asshole measuring in the Middle East than on your own turf. And economy is ultimately what matters.

I think the main issue is that Russia has a lot of tendrils in the US at this point starting with the one they have up Trump’s cloaca. They can do a lot of damage with cyber attacks and propaganda but ultimately it’s all about weakening the economy, not about annexation.
While that can help, it's not necessary. What is necessary is increasing the amount and/or consistency of time streaming (sticking to a solid schedule really helps) and always be talking and interacting with chat. It may take many months to build up an audience, but you can do it.
Microsoft Maquette on Steam
GlobalFoundries is a US company, no extra leverage needed to block them from doing business with Huawei.
Golang's level of boringness. It's just boring enough to still be useful. Often it's easy to understand random code and write "reasonable" code.
How about when things should get a little hot? SOPA would have passed [1] without frantic outrage.

Where do you want to be when a major hurricane hits? New York or New Orleans? How about Puerto Rico? Having a voice matters.

[1] https://youtu.be/RJ194S7KjRg
I mean, he's clearly not arguing _against_ backdoors in that quote. He's basically saying, "China gets backdoors, we want them too."
Was there any ad there at all? [hint: uBlock origin]
I felt like that for a long time. I can't say that today I am an over-exuberant bundle of joy, but somewhere along the road of fixing my quality of sleep (caffeine, nasal obstruction), eating more fruits & vegetables, and getting regular exercise, the world has become a far more cheery place.

I know it's not an illusion because I very rapidly become dour & flat when I let my diet or exercise slip.
This really wasn't a plausible failure mode. They had many (9?) detonators which had to be very precisely simultaneous, and had done a lot of tests of those alone (this was cheap & easy). As long as just one of them worked, you would burn all the explosives (just not in the right order) and destroy the device.
What about the unsung blacksmith of Japan who basically created a variant of Damascus Steel to make the swords for Samurai starting around 1100 AD?
ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter Returns First Data, Snaps Closest Pictures of the Sun
Metrics don't mean it's fair it just means you're judging someone on a handful of numeric values rather than them as an individual. If you judged me on the metric of turning up on time I'd be doing appalling [0], yet I'm still one of the first people to be brought in on every critical project in the company.

Obviously metrics vs just manager instinct/observation will benefit and harm different people in different ways.

A combination would be better. But life isn't really fair or objective, end of the day I'd rather work with someone I like and can socialise with and know working with them is stress free (which means my work is better) and can be trusted to just do their thing even if their performance is lower than someone who's a pain to work with but maybe puts in more hours.

Making software is a combination of engineering + artistry, it's not flipping X burgers an hour, objective performance isn't important it's the contribution of the whole individual.

[0] : I did have a manager judge me on this before, all it meant was I'd stay up all night, go into work, sit there like a zombie doing close to nothing, go home then sleep. Doesn't matter if I was barely doing anything, by their bum on seat metric I was doing great.
> I don't think it was the kind of "seed" you're thinking of.

That's actually a hilarious interpretation. I hadn't thought of that. :)

But it's a pretty formal report so if they meant feces, they would have said so.
Interview with Upcoming Band “DreamStates”
Maybe everyone else is using an adblocker?

I used Firefox uBlock Origin and didn't get any ads.
It is mostly a global phenomenon, and the argument remains.
m0zg: they are attacking police with hammers!

portland police: protests are mostly peaceful

who to believe? hmmm.......
Attorney General Barr Accuses Hollywood, Big Tech of Collaborating with China
Is it somewhat obvious..could not Putin just oh say stop hacking and ask for it say oh gosh via the UN WHO?
According to his bio, he's a Harvard graduate.

I don't see how someone with that kind of education could be so easily mislead.
Usually if everyone around you would say you're one of the happiest people and you think you're also one of the saddest you are depressed.

"Happiness has nothing on the overcompensations for misery" - Huxley

If you're sad for a good/known reason you probably won't feel the need to overcompensate.

Edit: I do not mean to say people who don't meet this criteria aren't depressed in any way shape or form.
> This isn’t exactly an argument “for tyranny” (as my title colorfully puts it — I have to attract clicks, you know)
Technologies for solving the climate crisis are not ready
Snap, got 3 Kyocera. Had them for years, never had them sharpened (though I'm told I can post them to do this) but hands down the best knives I've ever owned.
I went through the Netflix process and even though it was lengthy it was pretty good IMO. No crazy questions and a good balance between technical and behavioral questions. I'm aware it varies a lot between teams but it looks like they are trying to have a basic structure at least.
> Right, but given that panicing was already allowable behavior, why was the new behavior chosen to be one likely to introduce subtle bugs?

Because casting to floats is not UB in the Rust spec, it's UB in LLVM. That's the whole reason this was an issue in the first place.

Now, Rust could have chosen to define the behavior to panic, but so far it's been a hard and fast rule in Rust that as casts do not panic. You would have to have a much better reason to change that then "well, it was UB before" since (1) nobody wanted it to be UB before, and (2) the actual implementation never panicked (and people absolutely rely on the fact that casts don't panic in unsafe code).
well you can either be state-sponsored or not. if GP is bringing up state-sponsoring as a supposed source of irrationality then yeah I'm assuming that they presume privately held corporations would do better.

that being said, I do admit my post was sarcastic, but it also did mention what the problem here is (besides a much broader discussion about captialism) which is that they can rationally expect to get away with this. State-sponsored ones because their interests are the national interest (to an extent) and privately held ones because they're usually able to effectively capture their regulators.
I sympathize with your concern. I actually chose Python/Django over Ruby/Rails because I found it almost impossible to understand how Rails really works. The biggest offenders in my book are Rails doing auto-import and (at least when I was learning it) lots of reopening of classes. Even if a person wanted to read the docs to understand where a piece of functionality came from, it was very easy to get lost.

Swift does risk getting carried away and becoming just a safer and faster version of Ruby, but I still think it's too early to write it off just because they introduced some syntactic sugar.

I've said before that writing an import statement never killed anyone. If Swift were to make something like auto-imports mainstream, I would definitely take it as an indication they were going in the wrong direction. But so far that doesn't seem to be the case.
Weight loss – need to You take pleasure in Keto Snacks?
"Meta + Click to Expand Recursively" -- what is Meta?
When I said I pulled it out of my ass, I mean I examined the totality of seroprevalence surveys at the time and chose it as a sane average to work off of. So yes out of my ass, but in the sense that my argument doesn’t change if the IFR is .1% versus .7%. That’s what I meant. Unfortunately people like to myopically fixate on IFR as if the way we respond to .6% is fundamentally different from .3%. It’s not.

You’re off by an order of magnitude because your estimate is more than twice what Ferguson’s paper estimated. Ferguson modelled worst case scenario in US as .9% IFR with 82% of pop infected for 2.2 million dead. Taking that IFR and adjusting for a HIT closer to 20-25% due to the new findings is how I got the statement that you are off by an order of magnitude. You are. Again your estimate is larger than the craziest doomer epidemiologists (Ferguson).

If you respond, please make sure to address the last paragraph. And go read Ferguson if you haven’t. The paper is “wrong” but it’s a great upper bound for worst case scenario with no t cell cross reactivity and absurdly high IFR (thus why it’s a worst case).

Ventilators were not a problem and the hysterical NYT video has not proven that whatsoever.
The question for me is twofold.

First, will isolating China from the US and it's client states actually do anything to make the CCP act in a way that will respect human rights more? I think it is pretty clear that won't be the case.

Second of all, is the entity that stands to benefit actually going to be better for human rights? In this case it pretty much is a zero-sum game. This is a bit more debatable, but I don't think that if the US won this Cold War against China the situation for human rights in the world will become any better.

Because of that, I can't get behind it, at all.
The opposite is true if we look at data.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/business/china-capital-flight...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-11/china-hid...
It is possible in Scala: https://scastie.scala-lang.org/k7bHR6EWS7qXvaC8gIj3VA

(Unless you mean something different).
Textbook whataboutism
Privacy for the Practical
Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell
GCP Global HTTP(S) Load Balancing and CDN now support serverless compute
> They'd tested bringing two pieces of enriched uranium close together in criticality experiments. That experiment killed several people at Los Alamos.

I think the fatal criticality accidents at Los Alamos involved a single chunk of plutonium and neutron reflectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
People own private cars in the US because the real cost of owning a car is hidden from the car users. E.g., subsidized roads, gas, automobile industry bailouts, and finally global warming and climate impact.

European cities have far fewer cars than similarly sized American cities. Gas and car ownership taxes are are also more expensive in Europe compared to America. The reason for this is that the actual cost of car ownership in the US is being passed on to future generations.
Again, UB means the compiler is allowed to do anything at all with code that triggers UB. It’s not just that the value you get is undefined, the behavior of the whole program becomes suspect. Including anything that happens before the UB is actually triggered, not just after that.
Which makes me sad. I would easily pay a lot of money for this feature alone:

My kid does something adorable. I click a button and the last x seconds are saved from my perspective.

Snap got close, even Google Clips tried. None of them nailed it.

I understand all the privacy implications, and all the dystopian hand-wringing, but to be honest, that one thing would be pretty awesome, and I can only imagine what it would be like to look back 30 years from now.
> They'd tested bringing two pieces of enriched uranium close together in criticality experiments. That experiment killed several people at Los Alamos.

I thought the Los Alamos demon core was plutonium?
Twitch is a lot more "discoverable" in that you can easily search for folks who are coding _right now_. I get lots of new viewers this way.

For YT, viewers would have to already know who they're looking for and so they're not likely to "stumble" across your stream.
A deep dive into an array of technologies needed beyond the usual PV/wind/batteries.
My guess would be MDMA

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502590/