skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends what percentage of a college education you ascribe to "vocational skills" and what amount is "signalling".

The Morrill Land-Grant Act was, in part, a response for the need for new skills of an industrialized economy.

However, if you believe schools are mostly about credentials and signalling, online learning institutes often have a large accreditation hurdle. E.g., it's generally preferred to have an MIT degree rather than a list of MIT MOOCs taken because there is a certain amount of elite signalling that comes with the degree even if the skills learned are the exact same
It's over 10% of renewables in the US. So not that unusual.
If you're only uploading some stuff to wordpress do you need shared array buffers?
1. HTML is read by parsers 99.9% of the time. Rare is the human who cares to “View Source” on a site.
2. If you have a decent editor, those quotes are inserted automatically, so no busywork required.
On this note, I got the 500nit e-privacy display and it's "fine". I don't love it, it's not quite as good as it sounds, but it's "fine". Viewing angle with the "privacy" part off is still pretty terrible.
Google Play Services Undermine Privacy of Ireland's Covid Tracing App
If you were a European citizen you might be concerned about Europe's ability to compete in the Technology sector.
For training -- using the trained algorithm is cheap. It's a one-time cost (well, one-time in the final version)
There may not be much you can do other than setting up back-up hosting just in case you ever lose your current hosting. It can be just a plain git mirror that is mentioned in your readme, so that if your users notice the repository at the primary host going stale they'll know where to check for future updates.
In JavaScript only functions declared with function first will be hoisted, so I create my own main function and call it at the end of the file.
i believe it's open source intelligence!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence
> Luftwaffe had observed that RAF heavy bombers lacked belly gun turrets and had essentially zero downwards visibility, and had developed the upwards-facing Schräge Musik

My understanding was that the point behind attacking from below wasn't so much the bombers lacking a belly turret as the bomber being silhouetted against the night sky, whereas detecting a plane by looking downwards towards the dark earth was almost impossible.

And yeah, the history of early electronic warfare is fascinating. All the things they came up with, and the counter-measures developed amazingly quickly etc.
> Meaning, management lifts their BS restrictions.

Like needing to make money? Many of these cars never see production not because of "BS restrictions" but because they can't be feasibly produced for an amount that they think they could sell the car at. This is the equivalent of a hacky prototype. It has a value, and that value is endorsed by management as well.
He indirectly recognized the importance of declaring the shape of data 6 years later by introducing spec, which to date still has big issues and screams "just use a proper statically typed language".
To pull in a side topic on this very idea -- it's crazy that Congress chooses to defund and target the IRS, their own tool for revenue generation. Can you imagine how much money each IRS employee can bring in? I know there's stealth doctrinal reasons for engaging in the shenanigans, but at a practical level, cmon, we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
Meeting feedback questions to help cut unnecessary meetings
I mean avoiding prison for tax evasion sounds pretty useful to me.
> they didn't ask their current users what could make it better

They often do, this is part of the innovators dilemma in that early adopters aren't often mainstream customers, so the feel unheard, when in fact the company is listening to its more mainstream users (once they arrive) - which often causes the early adopters to lament and chase the next thing.

> They aren't chasing anything other than that metric

It isn't that these companies aren't listening users, or aren't creating value. They would fail if that was the case. The metric is profit and a big presumption is that with free-trade and free-markets any transaction is mutually beneficial. If they don't provide value to the customers, the customers don't pay. If they keep providing value for more people, enough value that people will pay, then value really is being created.

I think the concerns more have to do with with:

* Hidden costs - such as giving up your data or privacy aren't usually clear (and if they are, in the sense you are giving your data, the implications and risks aren't clear)
* The value might only be "on-net" better. For example, network effects have "value" in the context of the data, even if better platform might exists that don't the enough critical mass participation.
* A related problem to the above, the product might be on-net better but still not optimal for your country, demographic, social group etc ... (non-bay-area-based-white-affulate-males)
* Markets aren't always free (enough) so disparities and distortions cause real issues. All sorts of externalities abound.
* Indirect user/purchaser models like advertising will optimize for things that while they may maximize overall profit (if done well) are NOT optimal from a purely user-centric view.
* Change, of any kind for any reason, good or bad, is often lamented by users
i don't know that I would use "founded a tech startup" as a good proxy for skill creation. perhaps the type of people who acquire tech skills in government are aren't necessarily primed to found a startup
You're right. I've lived in Norway and was repeatedly told by Norwegians the country used to be poor, something I believed (there isn't much in Norway that reminds of a wealthy past). Apparently it's just a myth [1][2].

[1] https://www.dnva.no/detskjer/2019/11/en-feiloppfatning-norge...

[2] https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/LM1L1/Hvorfor-...
The federal government pay cap in 2019 was $166,500....

These folks are going to go to this university that is better than Stanford and MIT (let's assume this mammoth task happens) and then eschew working for big tech paychecks in favor of working for the government?
Was about mentioning this as an FI alumni.. Awesome idea, kudos to the team.
Not to mention the fact that the government is one of the only funding sources for blue-sky research nowadays. Pretty much the only surviving research institutions that rival Bell Labs are the national laboratories. Getting to work with insanely bright people at the frontiers of your field (without the funding problems of academia) should be considered a benefit on its own. Also, many of the national labs pay quite well. They don’t use the USG pay scale which is a misconception I see very often in these discussions.
Site isolation disables all of it. With "Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp," you can't even embed a cross-site image unless the other image allows it with a "Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin"

Enabling that on desktop today would break every website that embeds cross-origin images, e.g. everybody using a separate CDN for images would be broken.
The allegation toward Pepsi was that the can design was intentionally done so that—when six-packs were stacked in the grocery store—some portion of them would line up to spell "SEX".

There was (still is?) a mini-moral panic around subliminal advertising, and Pepsi trying to do that wasn't well received.

You can judge for yourself here: https://i.imgur.com/H1OV1iC.jpg

I'm not sure Alpha-Bits or the soup have had labels with naughty words on them.
Haha, good joke and indeed very related!
There are already initiatives to pay taxes directly in Bitcoin. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-ohios-state-treasur...

This isn't some fringe idea it is being developed by governments around the US. I remember reading about some city in America that will take Bitcoin directly for tax but I can't find the article.
That's slightly misleading, as that pit stop didn't include refueling. Adding fuel will add about ~10 seconds to the pit stop. But you're still comparing ~10 seconds with ~100 seconds, which is an order of magnitude difference, when many actual races have been lost over 2 second delays in pit stops.
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Maybe we are underestimating the power of their relations with the present government, in terms of an ally that can be used to threaten or harm competitors both Indian and foreign.

Just like TikTok can be banned, other services can eventually be banned too, under the garb of nationalism or whatever and India can potentially go the full China way with Reliance as the Indian Baidu or Alibaba, or at least as a major rent seeker in the ecosystem.

With enough protectionism a local company need not try to be a quality alternative to FB or Google.

For example of some Indian Government protectionist whimsy that affected Amazon and Walmart owned Flipkart take a look at [1].
Which 'coincidentally' came the same week that Reliance had announced plans to launch an ecommerce website in India [2].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/27/amazon-walmart-india-e-com...

[2] https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/asia-s-richest-man-o...
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I Keep a last will and testament, and all legacy credentials on an Arcanus 55 keypad encrypted USB device. My Family and lawyer have the PIN.
> I've yet to hear of a single municipality building out last-mile fiber and leasing it back to private ISPs.

Of course you haven't. The ones that tried it were forced to stop by regulations and lawsuits. And then ISPs have the gall to claim that it's not feasible because nobody is doing it.
Thought provoking "How I built this" story. Great stuff!
Is it alright not to have a profile picture on LinledIn? I've searched around and only found advice telling me to put one.
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To complicate things, C++ has a main() function but also runs constructors and destructors of global objects before and after main().
Is there context for this? Are apps breaking when the major version of the OS changes?
I think it's a honest question. Maybe they want to find out if setting up needs a bit of us work or simplifying.
On the contrary, the bigger you get, the more you need Datadog to scale. Once you grow big enough, you can make volume deals with them, you don't pay list price. I'd much rather pay them than have a single engineer have to spend any time managing infrastructure that isn't core to our product, especially since Datadog will always do it better.
> Big Sur will identify itself as both version 10.16 and 11.0 according to context. This should put the minds of many at rest

Not mine. It's an extra piece of cognitive burden and another opportunity for misconfiguration.
It is not just Peter Thiel. Some PACs aligned with the Democratic party are doing the same thing. Making Kobach the nominee is the best path to flipping the KS Senate seat over to the Dems. Kobach is political poison, but it does not surprise me that a fascist like Thiel supports him.
Everyone says this because they never have to put their money where there mouth is and daily drive a behemoth like the old MBPs. My mom uses my 2010 MBP. The thing is enormous, ridiculously heavy. Huge, hard to fit in a backpack. Battery life is mediocre. It gets pretty hot too despite its size.

I would never go back to then, nor would most consumers. I want my laptop to last a long time and be portable. People moan about upgrades but I doubt that is even half a percent of Apple's consumer base now.
> the economy seems to be in ever increasing need of a highly skilled workforce

This is a claim I've seen repeated often but have never seen any real evidence to back up. It seems more like "we need skilled workers but don't want to pay them skilled wages." Regardless the problem (in the US) is not an absence of universities like it was in the 19th century - financial barriers to bachelors degrees are significant but that is not a symptom of low supply and high demand.

So no, I don't think the demand exists (in the US) today, at all.
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Aluminum is much less susceptible to most acids than steel. Usually it calls for hydrofluoric acid, which is very nasty stuff.
Because Google is totally above that?

They're companies. They aren't in it for the hugs and kisses. It's about the money. But Google having a monopoly is pretty bad too, especially for the creators.
Could you elaborate a bit more on this? I have thought about employing NNs in this way for quite a while but the thing I never wrapped my head around was ensuring how it generalizes to different problems.
Gold has a recognition as an store of value based on its network effects while Bitcoin network effect is pretty low in comparison.

Not sure I understand why you believe Bitcoin's network effects are lower than golds. The more people willing to accept a unit of Bitcoin, the more useful Bitcoin becomes.

Also, gold's store of value power is also attributed from its stock to flow ratio (the difficulty of inflating gold supply). Bitcoin has an even better stock to flow ratio, which is why its often compared to gold.
It's expensive for good reason, it's the best out there.
Ever hear of Trump University? Granted he isn't a "mega billionaire"...and turns out it wasn't a University at all, in fact it was shut down and resulted in lawsuits Trump settled for $25M.
After a few years in the industry of systems engineering and administration I think that "no complaints so far" is one of the best compliments a software can receive.
Those have diesel engines. You don't know what you're talking about. The electric drive is to make power transmission easier, and yes, to allow for regenerative breaking.
Elo, not ELO, after Árpád Élő.
To be fair, most DO in fact sell back to private sector (Booz Allen, Mckinsey, Accenture), just not back to tech companies.

I've found tech maturity is more a function of age and context than public/private.
This didnt seem to change anything for me. I am currently using Go 1.14.4 (Windows), and after trying go1.15beta1, the resultant executables are actually larger.

Another thing Ive always found strange is people always recommend (-ldflags -w), when (-ldflags -s) gives smaller result, and (-ldflags '-s -w') is identical to (-ldflags -s).
Influx is so good for hobby-level projects. So good!!

For serious applications, it doesn't cut it. Trying to do more than a few TB a day is a waste of time outside of enterprise, which ain't cheap.

I plopped VictoriaMetrics in place of Influx for my cases and haven't even had a single hiccup.
>a shortage of that kind of school

"That kind of school" is (call it) a Top 10 school in a given field. And there is always going to be a shortage of slots at Top 10 schools whether you have 1,000 schools or 10,000. What potentially makes sense is investments in relevant subject areas in schools that aren't in the Top 10 but are in the Top 100 so they're functionally less distinguishable--except in prestige perhaps--though arguably that's already the case. In the US, cost aside, a qualified applicant can already get into a "good" school.
> the customer is likely to blame Apple again instead of whoever did the repair.

Says who?

Bad repair shops are a problem, but Apple is exacerbating that problem and they know it. They want people to go the Apple store where their "geniuses" can tell them they have to spend thousands of dollars to replace a main board when the actual problem is a bent pin or an unplugged battery. They want independent repair to have a bad name so they can keep getting away with that nonsense.

How are independent repair shops supposed to use on-brand parts when Apple wont even sell them at a reasonable price without some ridiculous contract?

Apple's independent repair program is complete BS. Expensive parts, a lackluster part selection, and frivolous certifications are one thing, but that's not enough for Apple. Their independent repair program essentially prevents shops from doing anything more than simple screen and battery replacements. If they offer services beyond that, Apple revokes the shop's "privilege" to purchase overpriced OEM components.

They say they want to prevent customers from being scammed by bad repair shops, but Apple's scam is just as bad. They want you to buy new devices, regardless of whether you want them, and they will trick you into buying them if they think they can get away with it.
Looking at that chart I was puzzled at some of the roles.

Why would there be a person who is only doing pricing? - ie Pricing Manager.

Yet if you read the job description: https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/product/pricing-manage...

you can start to understand how crucial pricing could be to a large organization that they could dedicate a person(and a whole team underneath!) solely to pricing goods and services.

EDIT: At the same time you wonder if pretty much all jobs follow Parkinson's role: job filling up to fill up the time.

You have a whole team of talented front end guys at Youtube (or Gmail or Dropbox or ..) and front-end will change and features will be added or dropped because well something needs to be done.

So wouldn't this same principle apply to other jobs? Pricing Manager would keep fiddling with prices if there is nothing else to do. Obviously there would be justifications to higher ups.
Of course gallium is very expensive (a few thousand $ per kilogram).
A lot of the very big companies are quite reluctant to start layoffs if they think the situation can be survived for a few months. They don't want to be seen as evil firing-their-contractors, people-as-expendable, etc. They are an easy target as "big corp".

But if they can see this is going to go on more than the end of 2020, they will start having to confront the need to layoff people seriously. Interestingly, the more certainty they have about how bad it is, the sooner the layoffs.
Nobody is suggestion people go to work when they are sick. That's not new to the West, odd to suggest it is.

Fake masks:

https://stpauls.vxcommunity.com/Issue/Us-Experiment-On-Infan...
When people refer to "offsets" they're talking about buying renewable energy credits (RECs). Funding new renewable energy projects, and thus putting renewable energy onto the grid, is not that.
It's fine for me and was issued May 26. The URL when I visited was https://commaok.xyz
Go look up "degloving" to see why gloves are bad idea around spinning tools.
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I did GDPR/CCPA consulting for a few retailers. If you have a good handle on the data you're storing (good data governance), compliance tends to be pretty easy. Even if you're being fast&loose with some of your customer data, the fix is usually to quit storing that data. We saw very few customers asking for their data to be deleted (they WANT to be your customer) so delete requests were a very part-time endeavor.

If you don't have a good idea of the data you're storing (sadly, very common), or if you're abusing your customers, then it can take years of consultant-hours to unwind the idiocy. But that's not really the GDPR's fault. You would have needed to do this anyway.

You'd be amazed at the kind of sensitive cruft that can pile up in SAP if you're not paying attention. It's good to give your systems a good scrubbing once in a while.
The comment is wrong. Those trucks have diesel engines. It's even on the page they posted. The electric drive is for power transmission/traction control.
I mean... given the contributions of the porn industry to the advancements of the web, an appropriate typo?
Agreed - University of Maryland is a huge tech feeder to public sector orgs, believe it or not.
> TimescaleDB beats InfluxDB on performance even without these optimization

Would you mind sharing the schema used for this comparison? Maybe I missed it in your documentation of use-cases.
When implementing dynamic tags in my own model, my tests showed that your approach is very necessary.
George Soros built Central European University[0], focused on promotion of (liberalist) open societies.

Hungarian PM recently kicked them out of Hungary, so it moved to Vienna.

[0] - https://www.ceu.edu/
Yeah, it has always been in the thoughts of mankind to have a benovolent, righteous king to even the point where the natural world and the animal kingdom would be in harmony. If the events of Isaiah 11 ever come to fruition, I imagine we'll cure cancer, have quantum computers, and unlock the mysteries of the universe.
and most important of all: it created a new group of rent-seekers from scratch. well done!
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The downward spiral for all industries that are primarily US based because of the overreaction to COVID has not even begun to be felt.

But you know, keep posting about how this side won't wear masks and people are jerks all day instead of facing the fact that haircuts aren't the goal - a stable economy is essential, not secondary, to a country's survival.
Lazy developers assuming majorVersion is always 10, so they do an "if minorVersion < 14 then error 'requires at least macOS 10.14'"
You're describing how this proposed cross-origin isolation scheme works. I understand that, I don't understand why it is necessary to make it work that way.

Chrome has been doing site isolation with multiple processes for a for a while, it "just works" and it doesn't break sites.
I suspect the larger problem is code that checks the minor version is > n and either refuses to run or disables capabilities that weren't available in the OS before 10.n.
What is or isn't evident in a video is very often subjective.

If this is the case, it's a mistake to try to put forward a fact as objective based on something that is "very often subjective". To do so is illogical or acting in bad faith.
I think you do not understand why website owners use captcha. Website owners use captcha services, because doing so saves money for them.

Captcha will stop saving money, if the captcha becomes so ineffective that the short-term and the long-term downside (annoying users who are subjected to captcha) exceeds the cost saving ("cost" here is potentially many different things - it could be quality of service for normal users, it could be opportunity cost, it could be the cost of serving the traffic like network bandwidth or cpu or database capacity).
Hardly ever the case in GUI-land? That doesn't sound right at all. You can do the same kind of piecemeal work with GUIs that you do in the command line. Unless every piece of GUI software you use has a proprietary file format (which isn't unique to GUI software) it's all composable. Photos, videos, text files, etc. are all interoperable.

One contrived but possibly very common workflow for video creators: snip out a piece of a video with one tool, record new video from webcam with another, edit an image with photoshop, create sound effects in sfx util, create/record music with another, import all of the above into video editor and export a composited/rendered out video, do more lossless video compression/reduction with another utility.
It's going to be interesting to see how FB & Google's investments in Jio will end up shaping the bill.

If not a way to nudge regulators to be lenient, this investment is perhaps a hedge.