skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A discovery by the ASKAP (I work across the road from their data centre, the Pawsey SC Centre), code on GH, data in CKAN. Nice.
Beyond the nuances of where seat-belt law is enforced, I’m also speaking of tempering the social cost of policing the policy.

We know that both policies obtain a public health benefit. Both policies are also not “blanket policies” but rather should be carefully tailored based on expected benefits changing depending on circumstances. For seat-belts it’s mainly the type of vehicle, but then remember there’s also variables like child seats which vary depending on age, height, and weight and it can get complicated. For masks it’s even more dynamic. E.g. it can’t be expressed simply as “everyone wear masks”.

Both also have, or need to have, limits on how strictly they are enforced, even if that means imperfect compliance.

The reason we (culturally) accept this trade-off is because the enforcement is accomplished through a form of sanctioned violence by the State, and that sanctioned State violence carries a cost / public health risk of its own!

After all this is said and done, recall it’s not a binary switch. Mask wearing is a continuum for each addition interrupted transmission. By the time we’re done with all this, how much have we moved the needle?

Lastly, keep in mind focusing on implementing one policy comes at the cost of having the time and political capital to implement some other policy. Politicians which claim they can “walk and chew gum” at the same time are generally over-estimating their own capabilities.
Microsoft and TikTok need each other
Sounds nice in theory, but the whole idea behind the right to face your accuser is that people depend on their senses to judge if someone's lying or not by how he/she reacts to the confrontation.
nginx had cold (for American standards) and conservative community to begin with, commercial version and F5 ownership likely "closed" it even more

it's a pity that community never evolved with nginx growth and success
I'm playing podcasts and music using the phone's speakers at high volume and cellular data with poor reception. Drains my iPhone XS in about 8 hours. Using my AirPods instead of my phone doubles my battery life to a more reasonable 16 hours.

And yes, 8+ hours continuously streaming audio. My brain can't stand any long periods of silence.
"In 1985 Bill Devall and George Sessions summed up their understanding of the concept of deep ecology with the following eight points

1) The well-being of human and nonhuman life on earth is of intrinsic value irrespective of its value to humans.

2) The diversity of life-forms is part of this value.

3) Humans have no right to reduce this diversity except to satisfy vital human needs

4) The flourishing of human and nonhuman life is compatible with a substantial decrease in human population.

5) Humans have interfered with nature to a critical level already, and interference is worsening.

6) Policies must be changed, affecting current economic, technological and ideological structures.

7) This ideological change should focus on an appreciation of the quality of life rather than adhering to an increasingly high standard of living.

8) All those who agree with the above tenets have an obligation to implement them."
Horniness seems completely orthogonal to me to perceiving someone as "as more intelligent, more socially skilled, more appealing personalities, more moral , more altruistic, more likely to succeed, more hirable as managers, and more competent."

In fact I'd say the more horny inducing the less appealing personalities, less moral, less altruistic, less competent, etc I'd perceive someone. Not saying that's good of me but if we're saying attractiveness causes a boost well, as a man, for me, I'm generally attracted to the nice girl next door type, not the sexy temptress type. The sexy temptress type makes me horny but it doesn't remotely make me feel like I should trust her, give her more opportunities, etc... I don't think I'm alone in that. To give a more blunt example, I'm less likely perceive someone as having those positive traits who is a stripper or porn star even though they make me horny. It's the person that makes me feel like I want to spent quality time with that I'm more likely to perceive all those qualities, not the person I want a one night stand with.
Legality is, in general, a matter of fact. The legality or constitutionality of a matter is determined in the courts.

Morality is a matter of opinion, and, I believe, pretty much independent of legality.

That means a law can be both immoral and legal, depending on your perspective.

Policing technology is a constantly evolving marketplace and technologies that strike some as immoral frequently are tested in court where their legality is determined.

Many folks weighing in see the act of developing Stingray technology as an immoral act, and it seems that thereby, those who engage in such development are immoral people.

In my opinion, labeling others as immoral for engaging in something you don't approve of is a double edged sword and the more you wield it, the more jeopardy you put yourself in. Anyone who works for a mainstream technology company can have that same finger pointed at them for some facet of their employer's actions.

People who believe that this technology should not be deployed would find it just, if not moral, to pursue a political change rather than shaming those who see a valid purpose for what they are developing.
Can someone explain to me what the user benefit of 5G is? Is there anything that people typically do on their phones/with tethering right now that LTE is insufficient bandwidth for? Or is this just a plan by the carriers to encourage more really expensive usage, like convincing people to stream on their phones/tether all the time?
Pausing does awful things to employment for people who can't survive on some minimal part-time hours that are possibly unpredictable as well, making it hard to work additional jobs to keep income stable.
> and it could be subjugated to US laws and regulations that require user information be protected

Do laws exist that prevent US companies from providing data to foreign law enforcement in the other countries where they operate? Because from my limited experience with Chinese passport holders, if the Ministry of State Security asks you to do something, you do it. Unless they're planning to remove admin access from every TikTok employee with a Chinese passport it doesn't really matter where the data is hosted.
Uploading dependencies to your repo? Don't A GitHub action can help
Where is the spreadsheet? Googledocs?
It is new and a big deal.
If they create a law based on a real necessity, I don’t think you can call it a liberty violation. For example a law states you cannot carry grenades.
I'm not going to sell you on it, but I'm not the guy you responded to. Pixel 3, no head phone jack, never bothered me. I used bluetooth headphones when I still had a headphone jack.
Flattening the curve was about preventing the hospital system from being overwhelmed. It was about solving the crisis from the point of view of civic administrators and politicians. So, keeping people safe was a secondary goal: the primary purpose was to keep the system from failing outright.

IMHO, consequent to the misinterpretation of this, people assumed that if the curve was flattening, the problem was being solved, since they thought that the curve was about their safety, rather than about stretching the deaths out so that queues didn't form.
I thought we were supposed to be encouraging gut flora and fauna, and that deworming and antibiotics was causing all sorts of allergies and disorders.

I mean, faecal transplants are a thing now.

As a species, we spend trillions of dollars a year on armaments and the machinery of war, and can't even definitively answer simple questions about our own bodies. What a disappointment we are.
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What do you all think is going to happen when climate change hits? This little crisis is all just a rehearsal for the real thing, you know.
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Evidence Suggests Young Children Spread Covid-19 More Efficiently Than Adults
I think this comment is a bit too downvoted for how well-referenced it is. Can people who disagree comment instead of downvoting? I'd be interested to know if some/all of the claims are untrue, but driveby downvoting doesn't help discussion.
I agree completely! The point is the policy is not blanket, but modulated based on the particulars of the situation. I expect that we would need equally nuanced (if not much more-so) policy for mask wearing.
Where is this evidence? Is this evidence for n95 masks, or the cotton nonsense most people wear?
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Julia has utterly standard lexical scoping—and always has. This issue has nothing to do with lexical vs dynamic scoping, it has to do with whether an assignment in a loop clobbers a global (convenient but dangerous) or creates a loop-local variable (safe but sometimes inconvenient). Have you read the linked manual section on scope? It is very clear and explains the design considerations quite thoroughly.
To be perfectly serious: because Donald Trump is mad at Tik Tok because he thinks kids on that platform pranked his rally last month by "buying up all the tickets" and leaving empty seats.
My camera app (the one that came with the phone) appears to be this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motorola.c... and my device is a Moto X4 Android One edition on Android 9. Don't see it anywhere in this app. Maybe some manufacturer's default camera apps don't support it, even on Android 9?

The Play store claims that my device is incompatible with the official Google camera app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
The Big Melt
Person 1 is the secure source, as long as they subtract it at the end and don't share it with anyone.
Wow. That has to be the least well thought out, context blind post I've seen in a while. Especially given the fact the aftermath of the opioid epidemic are still being worked through.

I mean, hell, I'm not big on the whole marijuana industry, but the products have been found to work and be effective for people without the deleterious effects on loved one's mental state. As someone who had an SO on a pain management regimen with them, who has had first hand experience with the effects on personality they can have, opiods are absolutely not the answer, likely for anyone but those already so far gone medicine has no other options but pallatative care.

If anything, the damn things mar your loved one's personality and perception enough that they don't care or can't articulate the pain they are in.

So I don't know about anyone else, but take your opiods and keep 'em. We'll use cannabanoids that take off 80% of the pain and inflammation out so the last 20% isn't an issue, with no need to worry about withdrawl, or adverse side effects.
I do this as well - if doing a task seems too overwhelming I’ll say to myself “well I’ll just do this small subtask instead”.

It starts small.

“I’ll just stick on my shoes”
“I’ll just walk to the gate”
“I’ll just run to that post”
...

Before you know it you’ve completed the thing you didn’t feel like doing.
and that's how you found out you were switched at birth
Fingerprint reader? Yes! Great.
Audio Jack? Also yes!? Amazing!

Turns out faceID doesn't work great with people wearing face masks in these COVID times.

And people like me still like to use headphone jacks to connect to things like car audio systems etc.

If the 5 and 4A 5G come out with those features, I'll be first in line for one!
I’m surprised neither Google nor Apple have taken voice reading of webpages out of the accessibility ghetto and made them full fledged interfaces yet. Why can’t I walk the dog and say “hey dingus, read Hacker News” and get a decent experience without having to look at my phone or put it in a voice UI only mode.
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There's this for presidential authority:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1702

I do not know on what basis they could therefore demand any payments, though.
and mask use on private property wouldn't be mandatory either
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> So what if there's a small chance we might be too strict about masks? It's not a large injustice, and it's not a slippery slope.

It very strongly depends on exactly how the mask requirement legislation works. If it's "all persons in a public in the state of California must wear a face covering until December 31, 2020. Failure to do so will result in a fine of no more than $150", that's probably fine. People will still complain, somewhat justifiably, that this legislation is safety theater rather than an actually useful law, but in the grand scheme of things it just wouldn't be that big of a deal. However, if it's "any person who knowingly performs an action which endangers the health or well-being of others is subject to a fine of up to $10,000 or 5 years in prison", we now have yet another law that most people are arguably in violation of at least some of the time, which allows bad actors in government to impose enormous pressure to comply with unreasonable or illegal demands under threat of large fines or jail time.

I personally worry quite a bit that something more like the second will be passed, and will be very selectively enforced.
Will you add a lot of blocks for the coming period?
So just FYI if you do want a hi fi experience from your smartphone, I recommend this: https://www.nextdrive-spectra.io/

My phone does have a headphone jack but I still use one of these. The difference is not close to subtle.
Can one trademark algorithm names? Not sure if possible but would be the obvious solution
Growing up the software dev son of a trial defense attorney, he was always pushing all these tips, tricks, and dogmas about how this-and-that needs polished and what kind of saddle soap to use and collar stays and these brands of shoes and shirts and how much starch and tie colors and what different cuff styles signal. I could never drive it into his head/make-him-believe that in my field "yeah, presentation counts, but like 3% of how much it counts in yours".
There's also this:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1702
When first starting out I wore a suit to a job interview (not a tech company, but a Fortune 100 where you could literally wear a bikini to work (man or woman) and nobody would say anything). After I was hired they pulled me aside and told me to never do that again.
(Sorry! Just saw this!)

Polymorphism makes it way easier to build hardware that can handle any possible data type. Things like queues and arbiters beg for type parameters (you should be able to enqueue any data). Without polymorphism you can make something parameterized by data width (and then flatten/reconstruct the data), but it's janky and you lose any concept of type safety (as you're "casting" to a collection of bits and then back).

There was some interesting work out of the University of Washington [^1] to build a "standard template library" using SystemVerilog. Polymorphism was identified as one of the shortcomings that made this difficult (Section 5: "A Wishlist for SystemVerilog"). [^2]

[^1]: https://github.com/bespoke-silicon-group/basejump_stl
[^2]: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mbtaylor/papers/BaseJump_STL_DAC_Sli...
It might lose some life from keeping the battery at a high level, but it will gain life from using the battery less.

If you can keep it from charging too high, it's all upside.
If curious see also this similar thread from 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821125
True, but the geographies to support such pumped storage capacities are rare. When available, fully support their use to buffer base load with the demand curve (and its easier on nuclear generators than having them perform load following, which causes accelerated wear on the valves and related components; let nukes run flat out).
Giant 60-Foot-Tall 'Gundam' Robot Takes Its First Steps in Japan
The AMDGPU.jl people get a lot their funding from DARPA, as the US government apparently purchased a supercomputer with AMD GPUs.
Scientists inspired by 'Star Wars' create artificial skin able to feel
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The art of making tiny holes
> Government issued ID's are not mandatory

Perhaps not in the US, but it's mandated in pretty much across all western society.

And the US's refusal to adopt a standard ID system also leads to pseudo-ID schemes and proxies such as social security numbers and driver's license.

> nor is seatbelt use on any private property.

That's a great example.because no one is requiring anyone to wear facemasks while they are in their own home. The key take should be that the goal of these measures is to mitigate the risk that a specific threat poses to the public. You are required to wear a seatbelt while driving in public roads because the risk of being involved in a traffic accident is relatively high. You are required to wear a face mask in public because the risk of transmitting the virus is relatively high. Once you cease to be in public then the risk you pose to others is negligible.
Oh, I'm sure they have been, and I remember distinctly once. Lady on my new team(we were all new) had bleached blonde hair, heavy blue eye shadow, tanned, lipstick, in honest way overboard. My first impression was 'oh boy'. She ended up being a super smart lady from Russia and I thoroughly enjoyed working alongside her. So biases exist, but you(I) have to admit when wrong and adjust accordingly.
Looks like Iosevka Sparkle.

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
The video game industry isn’t alone in doing this. Basically every “glamor” industry exploits young people with a dream. Entertainment, sports, airlines. They all have young people working for less than minimum wage in hopes of a shot at the big time.
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> “ The anonymous document, reviewed by Bloomberg News, contains dozens of purported Blizzard salaries and pay bumps. Most of the raises are below 10%, significantly less than Blizzard employees said they expected following the study.”

When oh when are midrange tech companies going to get their shit together with raises and bonuses.

10% should be mostly seen as a (shock) _normal_ raise when the company is doing well, above and beyond annual equity and a bonus at least in the range of 10-15%.

Stop giving people reasons to job hop every few years. If you want loyalty and you want your investment in employees to pay off over time, give them good stuff! Give it to them before they reach any point of questioning if they want to go to the next company down the street for that extra 15% raise you were too stingy to give them on merit.

As a manager, I can safely say the worst compensation mistakes I made were cases of not giving enough compensation sooner rather than later, and giving good people a reason to leave over money.

I learned my lesson fast, and can say later in my career I take compensation planning much more seriously and absolutely do not ever settle for company pay band crap and scheduled 3% / 5% raise crap. If someone is doing good work for you, pay them!
This is what makes GPU programming hard. Finding ways to shoehorn a sizeable fraction of a problem into a pattern that matches GPU capabilities is quite a bit of work. Very small code improvements can have a huge effect on throughput, and very small mistakes can just as fast tank your performance. Great care is required and a lot of knowledge of how the data access patterns translate into hits on the memory.

I actually like that kind of cycle squeezing, much more than I like web development or other 'high level' plumbing.
It was, as I said, around 15 years ago (and I haven't seen either one since then), so the details on why I thought that are rather fuzzy. It was strong enough that it's still the first thing I think of when seeing a statement akin to the one in the article.

A handful of points from comparing the Wikipedia plots and how I may have linked them together:

* Guided by the Doctor / Morpheus (or Trinity?) remotely (phone/computer prompts)

* Pursued by seemingly-supernatural Strangers / Agents (with subnote of how the Matrix alters the world in the Agents favor, and how the Strangers do the same directly themselves)

* Persistent feeling of the world being "wrong" somehow

* Getting their powers (vague memory: I think Murdoch used his powers more like how the humans did in The Matrix, than how the Strangers used them in Dark City)
I can't comment on the original post because it's dead, but I'm trying to figure out if OP is genuinely so ignorant of reality that they actually believe the things they wrote, or if they are a troll.

It's so ridiculous I'm almost forced to believe the latter.
My bank (Wells Fargo) actually voluntarily suspended payments for 3 months. In times like WWII, the private sector pitched in to help with the coordination of the government on the various levels.
On those platforms, ads are called out as ads. This would be more like viral marketing on those platforms, except that it doesn't have to pass your friends' sniff tests in this case, so it's much easier to push whatever you want into peoples' faces.
The cynic in me sees this as a win for the CCP. Maybe this was to set an example for Chinese companies: refuse to play ball with the party and the Evil West that you idolize so much will break your toys.

The current administration has demonstrated how enormously corrupt they are, and we have seen a little bit of circumstantial evidence of "cooperation" between the CCP and the first family. But who knows just how deep that rabbit hole goes?
Why would any software not use an established scripting language like Python or JavaScript? Isn't it just makework and reinventing the wheel (badly)?
Did you mean to say young and inexperienced people take advantage of the video game industry?

It's self-evident they couldn't get a better job anywhere else.
Well if they care about money at all they'll have at least one good backup by then.
If it's built with the assumption it needs to throw it all away because every frame SOMETHING should change, why take the time to figure out dirty flags or the like.