skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the complete study but it appears that they only measured the impacts on the license plate? If so, this doesn't seem like good methodology because the license plate is only a very small part of the vehicle and position can vary wildly between brands and models. The license plate can be the most forward facing part but also be in a little cutout of the front fender.
"Nobody likes working with lying cheaters, regardless of their stated goals."

Of course. I certainly don't like working with cheaters. But are you sure that that's what the study is actually measuring? Does it really prove that someone is more likely to be a cheater and a liar in a corporate environment if they exhibit a dubious and simplistic measure of victimization? I think it's dangerous to update my priors and increase my suspicion of people whom I deem to demonstrate above average victimization for their demographic. Guess who that would hurt the most? How arbitrary would my judgment be? Even if we can definitively say that the correlations in the study hold, the error terms, effect magnitude, and the practical difficulty in reproducing the study's controls render its findings impracticable in most contexts.

Thankfully, I haven't met many capital B Bad people/cheaters/pathological liars in my life, at least I don't think so. The worst people I met were very confident (the c in con artist) and didn't seem to have a victim complex.
Warning if you want to switch from developer beta to public beta: it wants to download the full 12.3 GB file.

I saw this after installing developer beta 4 (3.67 GB), which installed relatively easily. Beta 3 required me to create a flash drive as well as clear off 52 GB of space. Which is not so easy if you buy small built-in SSD from Apple.

Also, booting off a flash drive requires you to run System Security Utility so you can boot off an external drive instead of the T2-controlled internal SSD.

I've been extremely happy with the look and feel of Big Sur and the only program that I'm having compatibility issues with is Google Backup and Sync. Other programs - Firefox, Carbon Copy Cloner, Dropbox, HomeBrew - are being updated fast enough that there was an issue with Beta 1 for a couple of days or not any issues at all.
> DNA acquisition is rife with privacy concerns

Such as?
Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony Covid Loans, Unemployment Claims
They still support some older browsers, but serve a different bundle for them.
> it’s interesting how 75% said they have friends who post political content, but only 35% said they post it themselves

Care to elaborate? I don't see why those numbers would be more than very loosely connected through the social graph?
I didn't have a great experience with their recruiter or interviewers either. Maybe things have changed in the past year as they've grown bigger, but they were pretty unprofessional at the time.
It might be worth noting that, by the words of Douglas Crockford, JSON wasn't even at first specified, it was "discovered."[0] As in, a small group of people at a startup were wanting an object interchange format they could use in the browser in the early 2000s, found that JavaScript object literals worked good enough, and went with that. It only became a standard after the fact.

If the data you have requires more thought as to how to store it than "JavaScript's object notation is good enough," then perhaps a specialized binary format would work better.

Then again, nearly all APIs only accept and receive JSON. JSON is the one object notation that gets all the attention, so most maintainers will focus their time making optimizations for reading or writing JSON. And if you don't like XML or YAML for some reason, then JSON is tempting to use as a config file format, although it critically lacks comments or heredocs.

[0] http://www.json.org/fatfree.html
With Zoom, I think, the money is riding on the brand. My parents, who aren't tech savvy at all, think they are on Zoom even when they are actually using Google Meets. Of course, the Zoom app is installed on their phones and they take "meetings" on it too.
... They're claiming it came from an NDA'd source of IP that's shared with customers.

Given that it _appears_ like there are backdoors in this Firmware code, we can conclude that if there are such backdoors then they were shared with numerous customers.

That really doesn't improve the optics of the breach.
The property management company isn't really a company per se; it's more like a conduit for money, an instrument.

If that instrument defaults, it's not of so much concern that a property management company will die; but rather, that the companies who were on either side of it, relying on it as a conduit for money to flow through, will end up illiquid, unable to exchange through that instrument.

On one side, that's large investors, e.g. mutual funds. So the markets will go down.

On the other side, that's the businesses themselves. Having no access to financially-healthy property management companies to rent from, is a lot like having no access to loans: it limits your choices as a business.

Maybe the valuations of these properties will crash without property-management companies around to compete over them, and businesses will be able to afford to buy them directly. But more likely, as we saw in 2007, the commercial real-estate market will just become illiquid, with everyone who is currently holding empty commercial property (i.e. mostly banks, after a presumed default or bailout of PMCs) refusing to sell it "until things recover", so that they don't have to write down a loss. And that means there won't necessarily be any commercial properties on the market for these businesses to buy into in place of their previous rentals.
Is this for real? I'm lost at the first paragraph. The authors list out a lot of valid reasons why one would not want to be a victim.

Then, in the same paragraph:

"Yet in the current historical period, many observers have argued that in the United States and in other Western societies being a victim does not always carry these negative connotations or produce unwanted outcomes. ... (Bawer, 2012; Campbell & Manning, 2018; Sykes, 1992) "

I haven't read the references, but this sounds silly. They're not "connotations" - they're physical ailments caused by trauma. No one with PTSD would want to have it.

BTW, I have PTSD from early childhood violence. And, I would probably score higher than average on the (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psy-chopathy) questionnaire. But, I blame that on damage to my Amygdala.
They are in large part hyperbolic and meant to reflect enthusiasm for the content. It's silly to imagine a sizable portion of his base upvoting a submission, but not consuming the content, notwithstanding the fact that upvotes don't matter. Likely many users upvote submissions here without comment, in the first place.

Gwern has fans precisely because of the content. If the quality began to nosedive, I'm not sure they'd stick around. More to the point, Gwern isn't writing articles in exchange for upvotes on HN.
The implication is that this, along with the rest of the current collapsing state of the USA is going to just exacerbate poverty and local decline across large parts of the country.
Some things are hard to replicate outside big cities. There's probably a restaurant from every country in the world in London. I tried Guyanese food last week, a cuisine I'm unlikely to encounter outside a big city. There are great museums and art galleries. There are flights to every place I'd ever want to go.

So personally no plans to move to a less densely populated area.
Film cameras. Dominated by ARRI, a 100 year-old company whose worth is ~250m. There were disruptions (red, sony, etc.), but they regained dominance rather quickly (one semi-metric is oscar nominees which cameras are used, as well as top 500 grossing films over a year). Similar stuff in the same industry with services and lenses with Panavision (rental only) and dollies (Chapman Leonard, also rental only).
I assume it has to do with the US house price laws that mandate one takes care of the lawn, or risk incurring in fines or losing the house (quoting an US friend not sure about the details)
> Apple decided that they would not sign any newer drivers.

People think this based on a vague statement from nVidia's PR. It doesn't make any sense to me. nVidia has continued to release (minor) updates for the High Sierra drivers, and Apple has been perfectly happy to sign those. Also, this is a technically-advanced audience that would probably have no trouble installing unsigned drivers.

I really think that nVidia realized they would have had to do a major driver rewrite for Mojave (because much more rendering goes through Metal) and decided it wasn't worth the effort. The Mac drivers were clearly a very low priority for nVidia; it took the better part of a year before the company added compatibility with their new Pascal graphics cards, and even then the drivers had all sorts of bugs with applications like Little Snitch[1]. It's even possible that nVidia had some knowledge of the upcoming ARM transition, and decided to cut their losses ahead of time.

1: https://www.obdev.at/support/littlesnitch/483957225401957
I had the same experience, I bought an entire Moto G7 for the price of a Pixel 3a screen replacement.
> I understand some people treat their home as savings but that's bad in every way for society and for the homeowner. I have a home and the only return I expect on it is to be able to continue living there. I'm certainly not going to depend on it for my retirement, as that would be really unwise.

How else can we think about an expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars? It's ludicrous to spend that much on something assuming it'll just depreciate and fall apart on you, worthless. I understand that you're not paying rent in a home, so it's serving a purpose, but they aren't exactly equivalent in terms of upkeep and taxes.

At this point, given the instability in the market I have no idea what is the wise move to put money into for retirement. Investments have tanked and I don't know at what point they'll recover, interest rates are abysmal, and apparently our homes should be worth nothing. There's really no practical, accessible way to invest.
Hmm you are right. This brings to questiom why in real life we don't tend to go all in on the best bet.
This seems a bit of an odd link. It's a publication copied to and linked from a third party website with no context.

As an alternative, here's an actual discussion.

https://reason.com/2020/07/07/narcissists-psychopaths-and-ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_mercury&offse...
I did read the book and i didn't find anything too toxic.

Especially is you compare it to other industry giants (hello stack ranking and sports team mentality.)
How does UBI take away people's ability to work and provide for themselves?
The sweet spot being "too complicated for simple tasks" and "not sophisticated enough for complex tasks"?
Trusted Firmware: open-source secure world software
so why does it use multi-layer perceptron? is it the same as ANN? why not calling it ANN? Does it have activation?

There is another thing I don't understand. Traditional volume data is a map of position to density (or color). There doesn't seem to be the need for a direction as an input.

Why does the network need a direction? Why can't we get a density and a color given a position?
isn't this the plot to the movie '2008'
Might finally get certain big PC vendors to consider using AMD which will increase competition and make sure we get better hardware in the future..?
>I found what I thought were first cousins marrying, so I backed away slowly.

This was and, to an extent, still is quite normal, so I'm not sure why people have such an issue with it. Genetic issues build up if you keep doing it for generations, but unless the first cousins were raised together there is none of the power imbalances at play. Those who were raised together have an effect kick in so that they see each other as siblings and don't marry.

Even though in your case it didn't happen, it isn't something worth worrying even had it occurred.
We use Rippling at work, and I'm not quite sure what justifies a billion dollar plus valuation. (not to say it doesn't, I'm just super curious)

Anyone care to weigh in? I suspect there's a lot of things that behind the scenes as an employee, but to 5x it's valuation in a year... must be special.
The homes are made of Light Stone, a thermoset composite material that hardens when exposed to UV light. - Mighty Buildings.

The material used is more interesting than making prefab houses this way. Lots of companies make prefab houses, many of which are better and cheaper than these. Being able to 3D print big, weatherproof parts is useful in itself.

"Light Stone" appears to be a name used by Mad Maker Filament for NatureWorks 3D870.[1] It's high-temperature PLA (polylactic acid), a better version of the plastic used with 3D filament printers. I'm puzzled at the use of UV lighting. That's not something normally done with PLA, but it's not unknown. Also, PLA is a thermoplastic (melts and re-hardens to the same form) as opposed to a thermosetting plastic (changes molecular structure when heated.) Did they find something that can be heated to make it soft, put in place, and then hit with UV to crosslink the strands, like the plastics used for dental fillings?

[1] https://www.natureworksllc.com/Products/3D-series-for-3D-pri...
No. The backup plan is to screw the people. Slash interest rates, eliminate fractional reserve requirements, and buy corporate bonds and securities.
There certainly hasn't been a shortage of yellow jackets for me here though (Texas).
Shuteye and sleep hygiene: the truth about why you keep waking up at 3am
The point is to reduce confounders as much as possible.
This - everyone freaking out over this is right, but ummmm, years too late.
Have a look at the chart a the bottom article. Looks it was going down about 5% per quarter during last year.
Looking closely at the PCB I suspect he's really worried that he's going to fuck it up
Commonly password protected zips are used to bypass security systems that block all zips with exes in them.

I doubt the encryption was believed to be a security barrier.
It's ironic (but understandable) that Supabase uses auth0 for their auth. How does Supabase auth compare to just using auth0?
Usually this. Or in my workplace, an image.

Antivirus are some crazy shit that may trigger on any random action and will teach people to follow the most unsafe procedures without questioning, so they can get anything done.
This isn't, at all, how most HOAs come to be in the US. Not even close.

Most HOA's are formed when a developer plats a subdivision. They attach the Covenants and other deed restrictions at the property at that time. They do it so they can maintain control over properties they have already sold until they have sold every property in the development. They want to maintain that control so they can cultivate the image for the neighborhood that maximizes their ability to profit from it.

This notion that HOA's get created for altruistic reasons is almost universally false, and should go away. Yes, some HOA's survive in a way that isn't toxic, but even that is really in the eyes of the beholder.
is a hackingtosh the cheapest way of developing apps for iOS? should I anticipate any problems in case I go that way?

I'm working on some games and apps but only publishing it for Android, cause I don't own a mac.
> They're required to have some form of environmental enrichment, which means a little wooden rod in every cage that they can play with and chew.

The description you've provided--especially that line--is eerily reminiscent of the "Enrichment Center" from Portal.[0] As that game (humorously) demonstrates, it's unreasonable to expect that the physiology of an animal wouldn't change under those conditions. How much research would've resulted in different outcomes had the animals involved been kept under different conditions?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game)
Placebos prove powerful even when people know they're taking one
Study in Nature Comm. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17654-y
My guess would be they’d move their mall based stores to better locations. They have a lot of non-mall stores to use as examples, including every one of their flagship stores.
pixB – self hostable reverse image search and text analysis node telegram bot
Where is "up north"?

> vile and judgemental people who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of groupthink and monoculture

Just start quoting Jordan Peterson and save us the implications and dancing around your point.
> reconstruct some old photos I have.

Note that it generates a light field, which is note exactly like a polygonal mesh ... YMMV
I've watched many Pixel 4a and OnePlus Nord reviews and they get compared against the SE a lot, yet I haven't heard anyone calling it trash. You should probably stick to more reputable YouTubers.

Also the form factor and screen to size ratio are very important criteria for a lot of people, if not the most.
For 2^n of such pairs x, y, it happens that x = y. But checking the description of Simon's Problem on Wikipedia, it appears that case is excluded, so that x = y ⊕ c doesn't have to hold if x = y.
It's the jobs. People didn't migrate from rural to urban in the last several hundred years because they wanted the shops, they went where the highest concentration of jobs were. Moving to a rural area won't help people find jobs.
A lot of HOA's send letters about things they don't have authority over, and people comply anyway. If you push back or ask for clarification, they just drop it so they aren't exposed as lacking authority.
Thankfully uMatrix blocks this, so that I don't have to remember.
we provide a layer on top of postgres which includes: auto-generated CRUD apis that update as you change your schema, a realtime api so you can listen to all the changes happening in your database over websockets, and now an auth system to register users and control which data they have access to without having to write any middleware

what it boils down to is writing apis and connector code to your database can be a laborious process - we're automating that part away
There are no such laws. What some neighborhoods do have are homeowners associations which, in practice, function as micro governments, and can mandate such things. About 25% of all homes in the US have an HOA, and those will all vary in what maintenance they require. Some are expensive and strict, some are optional and just there to take care of a sign and lighting at the front entrances.
Isn't that how start ups work?
We are in the process of closing our Rippling account. A few things that happened:

- They signed us up on an introductory deal, claiming they’d reach out before the deal expired. This never happened and we got billed for tons of services we had not ever used.

- We used their 1password copycat to share passwords between team members. We discovered that a former employee we had terminated through rippling had access to tons of sensitive accounts several days after their departure date. They claimed there was a bug and it took them a week to solve it.

Basically, highly negligent behavior.
Ah, didn't realize that, thanks! Yeah that would be a nice feature.
Business Trends Implement Innovative Technologies
Judge, Shielding Cop via Qualified Immunity, Asks Whether It Belongs in Dustbin
> The startup, which launched from stealth today and graduated from Y Combinator’s tech accelerator in 2018, developed a synthetic, lightweight stone material similar to Corian, a material sometimes used in countertops. As the material is printed and exposed to light, it creates a reaction that immediately hardens it. “It literally freezes in air,” says Solonitsyn. It can support its own weight, making it possible to print horizontally in the air.

This seems like the most interesting part; they're using a new material rather than just coming up with a new kind of 3D printer. The obvious follow-up questions are whether it's cheap enough, or strong enough, or environmentally sustainable to manufacture on a huge scale, and whether the material has a long usable lifetime and doesn't have flammability issues or off-gas any unpleasant chemicals.
And you can get stickers!

No other sticker has quite the cachet of a Godbolt sticker.
It is, yes. But considering how the situation with the plague has progressed, and how physical location means slightly less than it used to, I'll check with the team tomorrow.
the absolute is also a problem. rats have a hibernative state this is a physiological response to temperature.
The regulation of gene product expression has many factors, temperature being a common one at the biochemical level, and the whle organism physiological level. Hibernation or torpor is an exploitation of thermal dependency of regulation,providing on demand alternative physiological state.
Could it be that because of COVID you have time to pay more attention? I wonder that sometimes about things I've "noticed" during the past 6 months. Maybe it accounts for some of it at least.
> The question is the opposite: you have to prove to managers the benefit overcomes the risk of using a new language. Rust is still not nearly stable nor popular enough for many fields.

I'm not sure what you're saying. Rust 1.0 code compiles just fine in the most recent rust compiler. It's been stable since that 1.0 point and promises to continue being stable. C++ doesn't have a a stable ABI either.
Also Germany: Shuts down nuclear plants and lights up more coal plants.
Usually, the locale employee organization ("Betriebsrat") will negotiate a contract with the employer ("Betriebsvereinbarung") where the usage of company equipment for private use is regulated. Haven't read one in years, but would assume, that this case is handled there, and gives the employer the right to check logs etc in case of criminal/legal inquiries.
In a situation like this, capitalism hits its limits. Don’t get me wrong, Im a thorough going capitalist. To me it’s simply a consequence of respecting individual freedoms and individual property rights. The rest of capitalism flows from those two principles.

In this situation though, when there is a threat to society as a whole either military or natural, there’s a legitimate role for society to pull together and coordinate our actions. That’s what government is for. All societies can benefit from consensus and leadership, especially in situations like this.

If their business model really fails, then fine, that’s because there’s enough value in alternative providers that these ones are no longer needed. However in temporary crises it’s possible that the process of dissolving businesses can leave a gap in the provision of valuable or even vital services that the market cannot fill fast enough. Markets are incredibly powerful, but they aren’t omniscient or omnipotent.

This is why although I’m a believing capitalist, I think there is a role for regulation and even bailouts in extraordinary circumstances. I’ll even extend that to individuals, a crisis can hit any of us just as it can hit a business. I don’t see that necessarily as socialism, just good management when done judiciously and proportionately. Ultimately it’s about fairness and good outcomes. I’ve no time for ideologies.
Germany is proving that you can do that. Businesses are not required to file for bankruptcy anymore (because of covid), they can just pretend everything is fine and their banks do not need do depreciate their debt. Bubble alert is buzzing louder every day. If that exemption law will not be prolonged after end of September interesting things will probably follow