skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you stop them entering cities? It's not like an insect flies towards a city from a rural area then thinks "oh, no, shouldn't go there, I'll get zapped". If anything, we attract a lot of insect life with an abundance of light and free food. And then put out traps to kill them.

> Since you seem to know about that, which bugs should one avoid killing?

I'm not trying to hold myself up as an expert but on the other hand a lot of this stuff seems pretty obvious... Anything non-invasive? Anything not causing a serious public health risk? OK, mosquitoes are an obvious target here and I hate them with a passion but that doesn't mean we should kill everything just to get to them. Try reframing the question - which birds should you avoid killing? Which big cats are OK to shoot? Honest question - what is it about insects that feels like it's OK to wipe them out? Is it because they're so numerous? That simple extends the amount of time it's taking us to destroy them all, but we seem to be making good progress there.
I want to know how many billable hours from how many public relations professionals, image consultants and Uber's own marketing department went into the draft of this before the final copy was published.
What is the gain in making uber in a taxi company again with all the same corporate math? Uber is turning about to be american arbitrage, giving us the same service but with an app.
Where are HMMs / CRFs?
Reddit is also swarming with sentiment analysis by boths who downvotes anything negative, or even removes it. It's becoming a serious problem everywhere now.
That'd be great, then their employers could ride rough-shod over their oath the same way hospitals and insurers do with doctors.
I can confirm that, the situation may improve in the next generation.
Yes, and they both would nuke each other to oblivion if that happens. Thankfully, the US provably won't try to attack China in a genocidial attempt to conquer half of asia for itself.
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The first one clearly isn't intended for already competent programmers.

The focus of the second one doesn't seem to be on teaching the JavaScript language. [0]

The third one looks like the best bet, but it's still not explicitly aimed at an audience of already competent programmers. [1]

[0] https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read#leanpub-auto-a...

[1] https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/2nd-ed/get-s...
It's very easy for management to not disclose unethical intentions. All they have to do is nothing.
Sounds like a good idea in theory, in practice though, nowadays very few people have a house with a basement like that anymore, unfortunately. I don't get it myself to be honest, it's more efficient use of the ground surface area a house occupies.

I'd go with a chest freezer in the basement and a small fridge in the kitchen for frequently used / quick access stuff (milk, tonight's dinner ingredients).
In the UK if I want to send someone money to anyone in the UK I open the mobile app and input their sort and account number, type in the amount of money and hit send. Done.

Similarly in the NL if I want to send someone money to anyone in the EuroZone I open my bank app type in their IBAN type in the amount of money and hit send. Done.

Back in 2017 when I lived in the US this just wasn't possible. If I wanted to send money to someone I had to use Paypal, TransferWise (or similar), Venmo, etc. Some banks had direct access to ACH but far from all, then if they do support it it takes two days to arrive. Some banks allowed easy instant payments between accounts within the same bank. Much of my family purposefully keep an account with a small west coast credit union to facilitate moving money amongst ourselves.

Maybe things have gotten massively better in the US in the last 3+ years, but it was light years behind the UK and NL. In terms of speed, ease of use, and adoption.
I do not think this is accurate. Where did you get this version of events?
I think the developers of stuff like this come in two primary flavours: people who know enough to realize that it's not totally trivial, who rapidly fall down a security rabbit hole once they get going... and people who just churn out the minimum that meets the superficial description of the product ASAP.

Because of the aformentioned rabbit hole, the fomer group doesn't tend to ship many products compared to the latter. The latter group's design gets compromised by a magnet or a magic packet because the description didn't say anything about those. :)

I think if you think hard about it for a while and do some research you'll find that it's actually more complicated than you might think. ... two way communications between the 'key' and the lock, non-volatile counters in each to prevent replay, secure crypto that is too slow and power hungry when run on the 8-bit microcontroller that fits in the space/power/cost budget... etc.

Of course, you can work around these challenges-- but that's the rabbit hole. :)

There are various kinds of pretty secure electronic locks. Because of the extremely poor track record of cryptography in embedded devices I'd be inclined to find designs that rely less on crypto more trustworthy. I'm fond of the kaba mas x-10. :)
I don’t know where you’re getting this 4% number. Together Roku & Amazon Fire account for about 70% of the US streaming market, 5 million subscribers to HBO do so through Amazon Prime Video channels (that’s about 15% of total HBO subscribers).

The customer base being affected is huge, and your comparison with Linux is totally off the mark.
I disagree, just because they are different in taste doesn't mean they are not historically related.

Portuguese 'Marmelada' is absolutely a historic ancestor of the british version. Atlas obscura has a good article on this. [0]

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-marmelada
This is commonly done by huge telecoms/ISPs (Comcast, Charter, Centurylink sized) against competition in specific geographic areas. And at the federal/FCC level.

It is among the many issues that are the contributing causes of why residential broadband sucks in many parts of the USA, and why consumers are dissatisfied.
Nvidia Engineer Turns to AI, GPU to Invent New Brew
In a sane World every business created value and THEN extracts a percentage of that value. Maybe I'm old fashioned but there was a time things more of less functioned like that, which is not to say it was all perfect and everybody followed the rules, but these pretend big dick "capitalists" really bug me.
Not the same but related, I got started down the road of (RF) DSP a while back and just got to the wtf parts, particularly around handling errors, where it really did kind of feel like magic.

I couldn’t hack the deep end of the math pool though and tapped out, but the awe remains. ‘The Signal Path’ and ‘w1aex’ are two YouTube channels i still subscribe to for my fix. Watching a waveform on a scope writhe around like a silent theremin when you just move a cable or even wave your hand past it really drives the point home.
The article is well referenced and documents multiple cases of Trump wilfully harming the response to the virus, therefore causing many preventable deaths. Do you have any sources for your claims?
I'd say it's the other way around. If you work for free software, then money is secondary, will happen only if your software has so much value that you can set your own conditions.

Else, you accept to work for money and then, well, you know that road...
Well as someone from The Commonwealth, he was Brit-ish.
The best one is "current" -- which is a macro that looks like a variable but becomes a function call and thus if you ever want to use the variable name "current" you will get build errors. :D
But it says Please do not distribute my speech in any other format.

Even with FOSS JavaScript, I don't think YouTube offers the option to disable other codecs. From further down the rider:

> If you have previously done streaming using some streaming service and
you can't immediately name the format it uses, chances are it is
unacceptable and I won't let you use it for my speech.

edit I'd skipped over the point about non-Free JavaScript
This.

Now in this day and age nobody wants to pay for reading an unknown blog on Medium (unless it’s a very niche tech community)

They just go to Twitter instead.
You can use it for doing server side rendering of React or other JS framework components. I have a VERY rough repository[0] where I tested this out a while back. The way I did it was to export functions on the global object in JS[1] which could then easily be called from Java code[2]. I'm sure there's a better way to accomplish the same thing.

What I found interesting with this approach is that it allows you to do server side rendering without needing a separate server and without needing any third party dependencies aside from GraalVM itself.

0. https://github.com/JackBister/javalin-preact-archetype

1. https://github.com/JackBister/javalin-preact-archetype/blob/...

2. https://github.com/JackBister/javalin-preact-archetype/blob/...
Well, you can write Fortran in any language.

It's far from the same thing though, less convenient and less flexible.

Multiple dispatch doesn't require a centralized declaration of the possible types and allows putting implementations in different files.
>there is the Linux Kernel

The Linux kernel is most certainly not a community of volunteers. It's overwhelmingly developers doing this as their day jobs. From the 2017 Linux Kernel Development Report: : "It is worth noting that, even if one assumes that all of the “unknown” contributors are working on their own time, well over 85 percent of all kernel development is demonstrably done by developers who are being paid for their work."
Isn't much of the 'gig economy' trouble because the US has no single payer health insurance?
When Microsoft pushes out the new Edge you will not be able to uninstall it
Hm, I see the story is flagged now - anyone know why? It certainly is a bit click-baity - but I don't think the article itself warrants flagging? Some vote-ring/spam thing going on - or just enough readers feeling it deserves flagging?
How about renewed enforcement of anti-trust laws? Tech CEOs love to make a big stand about issues but they are the root cause.
> but I ask myself what's wrong with calling a criminal a criminal?

Certain leftists–typically the loud ones–throw away the notion of international borders and private land ownership. With this in mind, the idea to them that any one person is anywhere illegally is offensive.
That's true. There are a lot of hard parts along the way. Getting started with the right idea is one step closer to be profitable :)
You're probably right, but I believe mountain bike owners search for things like "how to change tires effortlessly", or "how to take care of mountain bike injuries". Maybe "how to paint your mountain bike", "how to remove adhesives from a mountain bike".

Things like that. You can write 100 of those and people will find it.
Stanford Stats – Multivariate Gaussian Distribution
I used this lib so many times and in very thankful to the effort all contributors out into it.
I just wish there was a graphic designer that could help them get a more appealing website.
>A willingness to cause that kind of unprecedented basically indiscriminate devastation, well it forced me to look at the events that actually did happen through a very different lens.

I think you need to spend some quality time going over pictures and statistics from cities like Volgograd and Berlin. The destruction was by no means unprecedented and the death toll among the locals was on the same order as what you'd expect from fighting over the city. The low cost to the attackers was what was unprecedented.
How do you guarantee that the boss will cooperate with the software engineers and tell them about all the unethical business practices that are currently happening?
I think most software should be at least semi-free. You can read the source code and distribute changes but you can't redistribute the software (code and binaries) without approval from the author (i.e. paying them).

Basically I want people to be free and able to fix and improve what they paid for.
> why are classic dome caps so expensive these days? The soft domes are cheap and everywhere

The older sandpaper TrackPoint caps can scratch your display surface. Though some of the softer ones will also mark the display surface, but not as badly.

I have a small stockpile of caps of different kinds, including some originals (and in nonstandard colors), usually end up using the soft shallow concave or shallow convex ones.

Even if you mix up the colors, you can't escape the distinctive branding. Maybe several years ago, during an I-don't-wear-logos phase, I was using a ThinkPad T60 with black TrackPoint cap, and with black labelmaker tape carefully cut to obscure the branding. One day, I was sitting on the grass in front of the public library. Some group of kindergarteners is cutting across the grass, and one of them glances at my ThinkPad with the blacked-out branding, and immediately says, to no one in particular, "thassa IBM!" I would've gotten away with being branding-free, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
Viruses spread. It’s not just the children we’re worried about.

Ask Israel how opening schools worked for them.
The text uses the words "culture", "human history", and "the world/our world". But reading the list of sources included, it seems to mean "the English culture" of US + UK. That's a bit of a shame IMHO.
"Critics of progressivism", you mean bigoted homophobes/xenophobes/racists/white-supremacists?

The other critics are themselves also progressives, and they do voice their concerns, eg Steven Pinker.
How important is workplace diversity?
The issue is that protest is allowed and encouraged in the west. Its actually necessary for the system. Instability is central to the west. It grows and changes with change.

Those in China see this and are horrified. To them, freedom and instability equal bloodshed and violence. Any rights should be given up to ensure the safety of one's family. If you have no freedom as a child you will be happier as your mother and father will look over you. teenage rebellion is also not encouraged culturally for example.

It's interesting to understand the CCP mind set. It explains the almost non sensical criticism of "freedoms" often heard. As most westerner don't understand China, similarly most mainland Chinese don't understand the west.
> With so many in the music industry called out in #METOO; excepting one glaring genre

It’s interesting to watch people get their little digs in on here, I’ll say that.
> they know how much more expensive it'll be for individuals to negotiate the same rates regardless of how much more they might make directly

I think he was referring to public health care systems. Dependence on employers for access to healthcare is the opposite of collective bargaining power. Every year, half a million Americans [1] file for bankruptcy due to medical issues. It's a lot easier to quit or switch your job when your family's financial future is not on the line.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...
> God is not the only possible foundation of ethics, and not the most sound at that.

Absent God (or some sort of other mind-body dualism that's largely suspect otherwise), I don't see how ethics can approach anything that resembles "universals." The ontology of morality in a naturalistic or materialist worldview seems committed to something like emotivism, unless one feels like attempting to bridge the is/ought divide. How can we ascertain what the "universal" is when so many rational beings can hold diametrically opposed moral values? Is it democratically decided?

If one is examining morality as the values of different groups of people, and another is debating what we ought to consider universally moral, there isn't going to be much consensus, and probably a fair bit of confusion.
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There is a significant difference, and an entire activism movement in ensuring this is recognized. Thanks for calling out (and I hope realizing) the difference.
Well, that's like...his perspective.

It's a spectrum, not either or.

Julia and Common Lisp are somewhere in the middle.
> I am happy to be convinced if independent historians believe Liang Sicheng had a part to play in the decision, but right now this claim feels like highly-upvoted CCP propaganda.

Even for HN this is ridiculously paranoid.
Yeah, the "woke" vs "based" culture war has destroyed the minds of a generation. These are two sides of the same coin. The underlying anti-intellectualism and biological identitarianism/racism is the same. The only difference is where you go with it.

Sorry but "we are creating the infrastructure for a future panopticon that will transform the Earth into a global labor camp for the 0.0001%, but we have gender equal HR policies" is not woke for any definition of the term I'd care about. A gender-equal prison is still a prison, and does anyone think that gender equality is going to persist once real totalitarians take power and inherit all that wonderful mass surveillance infrastructure? Fake woke Silicon Valley is building the infrastructure for something that will probably look like a cross between The Handmaid's Tale and alt-America in Man in the High Castle. It's another case of capitalists selling the rope that will be used to hang them.

Meanwhile those who see through that have run into a completely different hall of mirrors chasing stupid green frog memes and embracing literal ideologies of enslavement. "We see through your fake woke! So we're going to advocate literal fascism to be edgy!" Playing the record backwards is still playing the record folks.

Why has this been obvious to me for years and yet I feel like nobody else sees it?
This is an obvious backdoor attempt, as the code doesn't make sense otherwise. Yet, the attempt was far too unsubtle and underspecific for agencies such as the NSA. The payoff was low compared to the possibilities - local privilege escalations were a dime-a-dozen.

Worse, agencies such as the NSA have two missions: offence and defence. Adding in backdoors helps the offensive mission, but hurts the defensive mission, so it only makes sense if the backdoor isn't so easy to find. An obvious backdoor hurts the US far more than it helps the US. This one was too obvious.

Some ideas:

1) A script kiddie found some way to break-in and edit CVS. The entire idea being to have something to brag about. This was caught too early to be brag-worthy (breaking ancient CVS isn't something to brag about).

2) It was a warning shot from some Western agency meaning "tighten up your security".
IMO there's a huge difference between a list of names and numbers generated by a research team estimating someone's net worth, and a phone book.

One is a list of informed estimates, the other is a list of (essentially) facts.

Informed guesses are IMO essentially much longer pieces of creative content, just condensed into a number.
I heard part of the problem is that solar collectors don’t work when they get dusty and that there’s a lot of dust in the desert.

(That’s alongside other obvious issues such as the political instability others have alluded to).
It's strange that they've omitted video-games which are the intersection of software and culture these days.
I have a dedicated garage with basement that is detached from home. I still have to see what temp there is in winter.
Director of Mobile Product at Twitch Explains Why Startup Reps Are So Important
What are the chances major projects we use today aren't backdoored similarly? It's so easy to do and so hard to detect.
For some reason I can't explain, an unplugged Google Home turned out to be one of my 1yo son's favourite toys. This luckily prevented me from using it for months. :)
>That's why the industries where workers have a modicum of power (law, medicine, finance, tech) are dominated by "flexible" work schedules.

Read that as "grueling". I take that's what you meant.
Seems to be lacking a lot of what made the old thinkpads great in comparison to modern laptops like repairability, great keyboard, ruggedness, matte screens, great linux support, etc.

The matebook x pro seems more like just another modern ultrabook.
But what I read about 5G is that its range is comparable to wifi.

Why do they do that?
Another solution is to make Google pay for the estimated damages caused to the website (I think it's reasonable to extrapolate growth for a few more years) as well as a massive punitive damage as well because of the callousness and deliberate manner in which they contacted the site owners AND TOLD HIM THEY WOULD TAKE WHAT THEY WANT. I hope Google is forced to pay CNW no less than one billion dollars for this obvious abuse of their position and theft of their content.
It doesn't help - but it's not all. There's been some struggle in Norway too regarding foodora food delivery, partly around compensation for riders using their own bikes:

https://www.svenssonstiftelsen.com/post/victory-for-foodora-...
It’s not a myth. The article says that 2/3 of drivers highly value the flexibility arrangement. I’ve driven Uber for that exact reason myself. I’ve also spoken to many drivers and almost every single one has said something about “being your own boss” as being the key benefit. Sure, there maybe plenty of people who would love to be Uber employees but they aren’t the majority of those driving for Uber today. What Uber drivers really want is more money, and the continued flexibility to earn and spend it when and how they want to.
40ms wifi is surprisingly bad. I'm getting 2ms +- 1ms to my router (macbook pro -> ubiquiti AP -> switch -> router) over 5GHz wifi.

My WFH setup is on wifi and I've never had any throughput/latency/reliability issues that made me want to run a cable.
haha, I was genuinely asking if it made sense, I don't usually do C. Maybe it helped illustrate that the code is too clever for me, at least.

e: I submit my revised code:

do {
*dst = *src;
src++;
dst++;
} while(*(dst - 1));
TikTok owners show true colors with communist flag
Nitpick and fun fact:

"we avoid opening the fridge and freezer to keep the cold inside."

Technically, you cannot keep the cold inside because cold is a word for the absence of warmth (energy), so you're actually trying to keep the warmth outside.

Words indicating the absence of something (cold, darkness, ...) are called privatives.

h/t Terry Pratchett
What exactly do you think he said? If I remember correctly, he expressed a valid doubt about a matter of fact.
> They have made their bucketloads of money

I agree with your broader point, but Uber lost some 8.5 billion USD last year. They're not (yet, at least) making bucketloads of money, despite paying their workers badly.
I work for an operating company rather than a design contractor, and I'm involved in topsides. I can't quite imagine what benefit aerial/satellite detection would have. Before we start up a process system, the last stage of commissioning is to pressurise with a nitrogen-helium mix and get a contractor to go round with a very sensitive helium detector to catch any tiny leaks.

To put it in perspective, we have another low-tech approach where you put tape around a potential leak point, spray a soapy mixture, then count the bubbles. The pass/fail criterion is measured in bubbles per minute. Yet inside the pipe you measure the flowrate in tens or hundreds of tonnes of gas per hour.

Possibly unburnt hydrocarbon in the flare could contribute to this "leakage" but flares are designed for complete combustion so I can't imagine it would make any difference in terms of GHG emissions compared to the already-considerable CO2.

We already have plenty of fixed gas detectors and personal gas monitors around site that are sensitive to about 0.04% methane (I think) so I can't really picture a satellite doing anything better.
Even 1-2 degrees difference can waste a lot of watts over such a big surface, and would be difficult to perceive.
Is there a single political figure in Washington arguing for war with the Chinese?