skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"barring a biological reason for the FP"

I think that's an unwarranted assumption. Sure, another source of false positives is contamination or user error even, but other than that most FP are indeed due to a (usually unknown) biological reason. I'm reminded of a friend that was just positive she was not pregnant. She tested herself three times with three different pee stick brands. She was wrong. They all use the same chemistry, and for some reason something in her body interferes with those tests.
not in SF. thats "low income" in SF.
Imagine not understanding that there may be some disagreement about whether something 'considered objectionable or offensive' is truly objectionable or offensive, having problems with shoot-first-ask-questions-later approach to canceling people, or believing there may be some gray area in anything in the world.

Look, we can do this back and forth all day unless we all agree there is nuance to anything - including cancel culture. There are great applications of free association (the benign aspect of cancel culture) and there are poor mob justice applications of cancel culture. Let's not pretend the issue is black and white.

Or in other words on one end of the spectrum you have moral progress and on the other end you have witchhunts/mccarthyism/moral panic.
Do you want "insane and unhealthy" people who voluntarily look at horrifying stuff deciding whether that stuff should be allowed on the platform, though?

It'd be like having a jury pool made up of serial killers.
(Solution architect at InfluxData here) Out of curiosity...what was the need for this DELETE? Deleting (not dropping) being somewhat of a "second class citizen" was a design choice to make room for more pressing time series needs. In my experience, `DELETE`ing is rarely necessary.
The mechanism underlying boycotts and shunning is the exercise of free relations. The thing which takes boycotts and shunning from individual water droplets to a flood is public conversation, whether over the web or elsewhere.
I thought that was meant to be used on curses (yes, I'm bad at the game).
>That said, I don't blame Twilio for not catching this

I do.

Twilio is a multi-billion dollar company and there is no excuse for them not having proper security processes to catch stuff like this early. Even if we take the "S3 is hard" arguments at face value, this wasn't a 0-day or some complicated unpredictable exploit. This was an extremely basic misconfiguration on a mission-critical part of their architecture that would have been caught by even the simplest out-of-the-box penetration test or audit. For a company like Twilio to not be doing basic, fundamental stuff like that is a big deal and they certainly should be blamed for it.
Armory (YC W17) Policy Driven Deployments
True.

Since I got introduced to this simple but effective visualization (in my 30s!), I tend to use it everywhere.

Out of the “chart generation” apps listed in the catalog, only Vizzlo seems to support it: https://vizzlo.com/create/waterfall-chart (and Tableau, I suppose, but IDK if I'd count this as a simple chart generator). I did not check the listed charting libraries.
Right but the difference is the sheer amount of money involved and the politicization that comes with that. If Facebook was worth 100m nobody would care. If facebook only has 10m users nobody would care. It's the scale that completely breaks the legal and political frameworks the our society leans on.
Agreed. I would definitely love to see some sort of a basic data analysis blog post on this topic from FB, similar to how match.com used to publish data analysis posts on their blog back in the day.
And then there will be a unified voice to fix those issues, versus the reality today where all those things already happen, just only to the poorest and least-represented.
> Entropy in the universe is finite (as far as we know).

It is? The universe, as far as we know, is spatially infinite.
Lawyers demand the US Army and Navy to stop violating First Amendment on Twitch
then why did they apply? signaling?
There’s an achievement (per character), as well as it being the « true end » of the game (and it increases the challenge as you need to beat a buffed elite, sacrifice a chest and sacrifice a hearth).
John Martinis emphasized in his talks that they didn't observe any correlations between local errors in the Sycamore and the total error can be computed through the "high school probability theory" from the local errors. This pretty much silences deniers who used this totally made-up argument against quantum computing.
Then why do I regularly see an anti-west china post pushed to the top (without even much to say). Typically it gets pushed out later but odd how often that happens.

Why does anything critical of china get met with downvotes rather than responses? - I've pointed this out before.

Why, if I try to argue with pro-china people does a pattern of rebuffing or denial occur followed by, when pushed into a corner, posting some nebululosty with little meaningful content followed by them going quiet?

If this is not government sponsored shilling, there are a bunch of people who are quite willing to behave against HN rules but don't get banned in a hurry - should I be flagging these more or something?

I have no problem with people being pro-china, it's a question of honesty.
"Witch hunt" and "bullying" are words that closely describe the mob rule mentality. The simple truth is that most people have no problem supporting bullies. It's the rare exception that people stand up against bullies, as needs to be done to avoid toxic exclusionary tactics and "rule by the bully". We now witness the lack of bully immunity in the population, and its dire consequences, caused by the accellerations from "social" media.
Why Leap Seconds Should Be Abolished
Please elaborate how during a pandemic is where you need the most the right to freely walk around the streets while experiencing no restriction to where you are and with how many people you meet.
U.S. bank deposits increase by $2T amid the coronavirus
NASA’s budget is $22 billion, while the Defense Department is $718 billion.

It would be nice if we could divert a little more DOD money into dual use that benefited space exploration, AI research, robotics, basic research, etc.

Sure, we could simply increase those civilian budgets but for some reason we don’t see the value.
I am not talking about shunning in the sense of social disconnection, and neither is the article. First, let's note that, for companies in particular, there is no way to cancel them other than to not purchase goods and services from them, since the typical company cannot be bought out and dissolved the hard way.

So, who are the public figures that the article wants to talk about? When we actually dig in, we find a few journalists who were fired for various causes. Did the public cause them to be fired? No, their employers caused them to be fired. Does the public owe them employment protection? No, their union owes them employment protection; we the public owe them tax-funded unemployment benefits.

The fact is that jobs are so important in this country because we have next to no social safety nets and we have institutionalized a lack of empathy and a desire to see the weak struggle and perish. As a result, when somebody's job is threatened, their very life is threatened. Should we endorse this sort of histrionic mania, or should we fix our society so that people are not starving if they do not report to some corporate overlord?

And once we've taken this massive step back, then by what measure should we punish corporations who unfairly punish their employees? Well, by not purchasing their goods and services! So we are indeed back at the concept of boycotts.

Please do not confuse any of this with actual shunning, as practiced today mostly by religious cults. If a public figure finds themselves suddenly without as much of an audience as they expected, then that is not at all comparable to a private person finding themselves bereft of their closest and most intimate relationships.
>Do you want "insane and unhealthy" people who voluntarily look at horrifying stuff deciding whether that stuff should be allowed on the platform, though?

These kinds of bottom of the barrel places of employment tend to have their policies and procedures tuned to make sure employees do things the way the company wants them done. That's just the nature of doing an unskilled, non-laborious job for a BigCo. There will be automatic spot checks, audits, reviews, etc. It is no different than the cube farm on the next floor where they review images of documents that AI systems have flagged as possibly fraudulent. Such systems are likely in place already for their current moderators.
Apple digs in over its App Store fees
Engineering, Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Education, Architecture - those are just a few things that are extremely impractical or even impossible to learn on your own.

Let me know how your surgery with your self-taught surgical teams works out for you and how your subsequent lawsuit with your self-taught lawyer goes.
I think it's fair to say the sheer quantity has changed since Facebook first came around (FB predates smartphones for one!)

I also think part of the objection here is around off-shoring. It's similar to other complaints about off-shored jobs: we're farming out unpleasant work to people that get paid less and have much less support (e.g. mental health).
It’s also, AFAIK, never turned a profit. So unless they sold their stake to someone willing to gamble further, they wouldn’t have anything to show for the increased investment.
Better article link that uBlock Origin with "malvertizing" lists enabled will not block: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/22/att-tells-customers...

TL;DR: Phones starting in February 2022 without 4G LTE and HD Voice will no longer work. AT&T poorly communicated this, and even customers of devices such as the Samsung S10e (still listed on Samsung's website with AT&T support[1]) are being contacted with this email even though it's on their "supported" device list [2].

There has also been an updated article outlining the confusion: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/22/no-your-phone-is-no...

[1]: https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s10...

[2]: https://www.att.com/ecms/dam/att/consumer/help/pdf/Devices-W...
I can't really help you, but I just wanted to say that I've also felt the same way for a few months now. I'm not really in the same situation, but just seeing people make these outrageous amounts of money has been pretty depressing.
What really gets me, apart from people like Bezos (like you've mentioned), is that there are literally children making multiples of a doctor's salary by peddling products to even younger children on social media. I guess it's always been similar, considering that child stars have existed for a long time, but there's just something so disheartening thinking about those people making these sums, while others work jobs that are central to our communities and earn a fraction of that.

At this point, I'm at the stage where I'm just trying to start as many projects as possible in my free time and just see what sticks, because frankly, I now believe that people's success is entirely driven by being in the right market at the right time, so you might as well maximize your chances.
I work on Semgrep; there are a bunch of examples at https://semgrep.live if you're curious about what the syntax looks like.

For context, Semgrep started as a Facebook open-source project inspired from a Inria project named Coccinelle, which has has made a couple thousand or so automatic patches to the Linux kernel over the years using a semantic patch language (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/sp.php)
Show HN: RefRem, JVM Painless Compilation to Native Code
Or more simply, what if you just take a real life photo of the image and scan it back in and use the same classification techniques?
MOOC that have been around for years are more prepared for online classes and cheaper than any of those universities that will make you pay for maintenance of facilities that you cannot even use.

And don't you tell me that they cannot save on electricity and cancelled activities.

The price of tuition is not following any offer-and-demand, they are just using the fact that you are in the middle of your studies and you can't stop now, hope that will make people realise the kind of mafia those university are.
It's also a privilege to even have a significant amount of unsecured credit available to you in the first place.
But you can use your extra money to make more time (within limits). You can use the money to hire people to do stuff, rather than having to do it yourself.

You can hire a housecleaner (like, for an hour or two every week to two weeks - I'm not talking about full time). You can hire someone to mow your lawn. You can have your oil changed rather than doing it yourself. You can hire someone to fix stuff around your house rather than doing it yourself. When you get richer, you can hire a full-time personal assistant, a maid, a butler, and a chef. All of these are ways of using money to buy time.

But the larger point is correct. The time you spent trying to make money you never get back.
> Single queue exists because team games are still fun in pick-up groups.

Single queue is fine, I just don't think the "ranked" aspect of it is healthy for the game.

> I don't want to join a no-stakes casual game where people are putting the controller down to answer the front door or just disconnecting.

Maybe not disconnecting, but trolling and just generally being a pain actually ends up being what happens all the time even at high solo queue tiers (last year I had two accounts at Global Elite). ESEA and FaceIT have much more robust pugging systems put in place so that's why people take it more seriously.

But my point is that even though I'm a very competent Global Elite player, my Counter Strike heydays are behind me and if I were to seriously play against even a semi-pro ESEA-Main (or probably even Intermediate) team, I'd get absolutely destroyed. So solo MMR is a pointless metric to have, and just adds toxicity to your game.
Hmm so why set up shop in a retail outlet then? Why not just ship directly from the warehouse?

If i'm understanding, the article is talking about using the retail outlet as a warehouse, where you have the items shipped from a warehouse to your retail outlet, and then shipped again to buyers.
If you are on Jira Cloud ping me, we have something very interesting launching soon ;)
> PSTN-based 2FA in 2020 is not a vote of confidence in the security team's competence.

A lot of companies go with email and/or PSTN based 2FA for customer convenience and to get them to use 2FA for their accounts.

I try to avoid using 2FA for accounts that only offer PSTN or email based 2FA because it's less secure than my randomly generated long password. It would be nice if more services offered 2FA based on client side TLS certificates.
> For example, Spain "declared state of alarm" which suspends temporarily some constitutional rights.

A procedure that is presumably permitted by said constitution, right?
A React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system
>I think Slack is on the right track.

If the Developed world can't afford Slack what chance has the Developing world really got?

Slack wants €200 for a 15 member team or somthing. Per month. While Google will sell us all the same stuff and more (GDrive, Corporate Email, GCalendar, Hangouts Chat etc) for a lower price (GSuite), all of which we need anyway.
Stop war, dont pay taxes.
>They have to hope to be acquired - but by whom?

I think Amazon may well feel a need to go up against its cloud infrastructure competitors Microsoft and Google with its own set of office/collaboration offerings. And they have a pretty deep cooperation with Slack already.

(Disclosure: I am a Slack shareholder)
Up to date info on traveling to Canada from the US:

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/201...
A really important point with card choice: even ignoring your current deck (and you shouldn't ignore your current deck), the best cards are Act dependent. At the start you want to pick flat high-damage cards that are immediately useful. In act 2 you need cards that scale with the number of enemies, because mobs are common. In the final act it's all about card synergy and things that enable you to manage your deck.

With that said, as the Defect, Defragment and Capacitor are nearly always a no-brainer. Capacitor not so much in Act1, because nothing lasts long enough for it to pay off. And if you've got anything that adds orb slots, Consume becomes really powerful (even without, you can do 10 damage a turn from two orb slots instead of 9 from three, which isn't nothing).

Loop builds are very strong as well, but trickier to get right because you need to pay close attention to your front orb. Finally focus+frost can easily give you so much block most enemies can't cut through. (Watch out for Reptomancer, though, she doesn't respect anyone without DPS.)
Why not? They don't benefit from it being public. They do benefit from not being fired and presumably there would be audits.
Couldn't that be more or less trivially defeated by taking wallclock time as an input to the RNG?
I wonder if this would be defeated by running an image I wanted to match through it first. Would current state of the art facial recognition match the two cloaked images, or did they already consider that as an attack surface?
Hey folks, we've published a post with more details on the incident here: https://www.twilio.com/blog/incident-report-taskrouter-js-sd...

(I work for Twilio)
"Most app stores charge the same 30% cut on digital goods.
Retailers, travel booking services and other marketplaces can charge more than 30% for their services.

Distributing software through an app store is less expensive than distributing through brick-and-mortar retailers.

Other app stores and digital marketplaces often require users to use their in-app payment mechanism and forbid sellers from redirecting buyers to finish the transaction in another venue."

-- Apple's main findings.

The test should be whether Apple is charging a rate that is higher than it would charge under perfect competition. Not whether it's higher than traditional brick and mortar stores that obviously have higher distribution costs.

Indeed, the fact that both Apple and Google charge 30% could suggest collusion.
“Unstructured text, like in the form of a design doc, may be the better tool for solving problems early in a project lifecycle, as it may be more concise and easier to comprehend, and communicates the problems and solutions at a higher level than code.“

I could not agree more. I came across the concept of design docs consistently used for all projects at Uber. They were called RFCs here and they were introduced very early on. I wrote in more detail about my experience using these and how I am pretty sure they helped scale the engineering culture [1]. The most surprising thing I’ve observed is how sending these design docs out to all of engineering worked really well, until the org was over a thousand engineers.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/scaling-engineering-teams...
Thanks! Gonna give it my all :)
Most of them will be white - basic statistics bear that out. Since my point was that it's incredibly detrimental to diversity, it's obviously relevant to it. If you want to make an argument for something, go nuts, but don't come tell me what defines my own argument.

Also, stuff like this is problematic for diversity - you're pretending that race is somehow irrelevant in discussions of socioeconomic status, when in fact it is very much so. "It doesn't matter that they're white, it just matters that they're rich" very much misses some highly relevant big picture info.
Any place anyone can add any user content has this problem.
Anything with an input box and a file upload would qualify as your not existing solution.
Most of the teenagers will not like to sit in front of a screen the whole day at home. Also, online classes will not give space for any outdoor sports.
Given auto translate works reasonably well these days, how much commonality does Negative Content over different regions and languages have?

Anyone know? Is it like 10%? 80%?

There must be, by now, a whole lot of data on whats getting flagged region/language wise.

Maybe we need a Cloudflare for Content.
Yes I think what the person you replied to identified as work isn't really much work at all in the sense that you would find in a software dev job or something like that. You aren't asking your students to write another database interface or something. You are giving them projects to let them know what you do, what that part of the field is about, and to expose them to ideas that they might carry forward. The view presented is so cynical is hard to take serious tbh.
Maybe I don't play enough deckbuilders, but it seems like there was a decent amount of new concepts in here that didn't directly come from other games. Abilities like Innate, Retain, Ethereal, cards getting upgraded for all future encounters every time they're played, costs of the card being reduced based on something specific happening that encounter, the stances of the Watcher character in general, and all the cards surrounding that idea, The orb idea for the Defect in general and all cards revolving around that idea, cards giving you bonuses if it kills a character, sometimes permanently, etc.

Even something as basic as all the cards costing energy to spend and you have only a certain amount of energy every turn (that can be increased by other methods), forcing you to prioritize what to play, as opposed to just playing everything you draw and only the order matters, like in most deckbuilders, changes the feel quite a bit.

They were able to take advantage of the video game concept (allowing cards to morph within an encounter and over the course of multiple encounters) and put it to good effect. Technically you could do that with a board game with stickers or something, but it's a lot more effective here, and only permanent for a run as opposed to forever.

That being said, they did take a ton of ideas from existing games. It just feels a lot more inventive than most deckbuilding games I've played, where most of them feel like some combination of Ascension and Dominion, with little to differentiate it.
(InfluxData solution architect here)
Boolean is supported. You query it in the WHERE clause.
Try `SELECT MAX(temperature) FROM ... WHERE temperature > 10`. That said, I'm not sure why you'd run a query like that in InfluxQL as it's the same as `SELECT max(temperature)`. :).
> It is just that there are small pockets of people who are psychologically capable of tolerating this or even enjoy it.

I wouldn't assume "watches this stuff" and "is psychologically capable of tolerating this stuff" are one and the same. Those people might be actively harming themselves by watching the content. That's one thing when they're volunteering to do so (though that's an interesting conversation in and of itself) but it's quite another when Facebook is paying them to do it.
WGU is a competency based school. So I can finish my MBA from anywhere between 6 months - 3 years. On brick-mortar schools, you are limited to 3-4 classes per semester.
Extending and analyzing storyboards can help secure mobile apps
We extended the storyboards used in Android app development with security properties to help check storyboards for the presence of a known set of vulnerabilities. Our evaluation suggests the proposed methodology is highly effective while being almost non-intrusive (in terms of the current workflow) and improving developer productivity.

The details of the methodology and the supporting prototype tooling are available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10052.
No, western countries are NOT dumping garbage. They are buying the service "waste disposal", they are NOT responsible for the supplier of that service just dumping the garage.
Curious what other things you're using in your stack?