skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> almost nothing has the same high uplink requirements

Streaming video, whether that's a Skype conversation or showing your gameplay to Twitch, can be a pretty bulky upbound stream.

I wonder how fingerprintable those are, and if they have diverse enough endpoints to be able to disguise other traffic as them.
"they'll get into legal trouble"

They may get into legal trouble. My mom had her checkbook stolen that was in her luggage and the person used the checking account to pay for an electricity bill. She reported it to the police, but they had more important things to spend time on. When you can use someones else's checking account number to pay for a utility at a fixed location, you probably aren't worried about legal trouble when you are doing it.
If you let the drifters get out of control they will just keep destroying you before you can build your numbers up. If that happens, invest 1:1 in speed and self-replication. Their problem is that they can’t replicate, so at least the number of drifters won’t increase. You’ll be able to dodge them in combat until your numbers surpass theirs, then go back to the regular strategy of a balanced but replication-heavy profile.

With 30+ points you should be fine though.
Fixed it for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20200908171030/https://www.gwern...
Isn't a large fraction of the US an UK populations deficient in vitamin D? Doesn't deficiency mean that there's a benefit to supplementation? I thought that at least the correction of deficiency should have showed up in some study.
This shouldn't be your job as a person writing software. This should be primarily on the manager and the PM org.

The first thing I would look at is - what is your request intake process? Are engineers being directly asked to do things? When scope is added, how is it added? There needs to be a handle on that, and depending on who has the "power" in the situation (sometimes product, sometimes engineering), those with the decision making power need to make a tradeoff between the newly requested work and the currently requested work.

Steps to achieve this:

1. Document every request coming in, in an issue tracker of some sort. If work is not tracked, it can't be prioritized. That includes requests from outside, and infrastructure/tech debt work going on within the team.

2. Start rewiring the requests through a TPM, or the person responsible for keeping up to date on the current priorities of the business. This both helps the engineers not get distracted, and provides the TPM an ability to ask about tradeoffs or balance priorities before it gets to the engineers.

3. Have the TPM start maintaining a priority backlog, with all the things that need to be done. Then, when a new high priority task comes in, the TPM can easily explain how this request effects other work. Often times the workload of a team is a black box to any requestor. Making it clear how many things have to be done can turn a "high priority" task into

4. Finally, start making the requesters horse-trade amongst themselves. When someone else's projects start being pushed around by another person's they tend to be able to hash it out between them what is the higher priority.
His most infamous: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug...
>" There's a town in Alaska where you need to have your appendix removed in order to live there because the nearest hospital is 625 miles away."

Your link talks about Antarctica, not Alaska.
First impression: rename it now while the cost is low. The name is unwieldy.
Hide Covid-related submissions until the update has been accepted.
I just don't know that an entire US state is the correct resolution to have multi-seat districts at. I feel like I would prefer in larger states to have a multi-seat district of one or more counties, but not really an entire state.

It's not like states are some auspiciously chosen grouping of counties with clear benefits.
Culturally though, The Pittsburgh area (as resident of 10+ years) is caught between the East / Midwest, but the rural areas North and West feel solidly in the Midwest culture to me. Very different from all parts East.
We have a homestead in NE WA we are developing, a few weeks ago, for the first time ever, I called 911 because of a potentially dangerous laceration. We have a full first aid kit with plenty of "stop the bleed" stuff but I didn't want to take any chances. So because the bleeding was controlled we waited for the EMTs.

It took 25 minutes for the EMTs to arrive. But that is because the nearest EMT team was not on another call. Otherwise, it could have take 45-60 minutes to get a team from the next nearest town/county.

Later that day on the way home to Seattle we stopped at an urgent care to get stitches for $175.

Though, I am seriously thinking about getting an AED to keep out there.
It's a lot harder to kidnap citizens when they are armed and surrounded by other armed citizens, especially if all of those citizens have substantial firearms training.

I endorse bringing guns to peaceful protests in a state where unmarked officials are kidnapping people in broad daylight. That is exactly the sort of reason that the right to bear arms is planted deep within our constitutional rights.
The linked article is about a town in Antarctica, not Alaska.
I think the answer is that technology absolutely can address social issues, it's just less direct than people might think.

One simple example: new technology can drastically lower the barrier to do things which inevitably democratizes them. Then teams don't have to rely on specialists to accomplish that task and the overhead of internal politics/poor communication/etc goes down. I bet spreadsheets saved a number of otherwise dysfunctional companies when they were introduced by letting small teams do their own analysis and operate independently. Sure, in some sense you're just letting individual teams work around the broader dysfunction of an organization, but sometimes that's exactly what you need to get out of a company-wide stalemate.

For all that people don't like fancy cloud tools and microservices, they play the same role at tech organizations. Having a lot of trouble with teams not integrating their code well and not playing well with your deployment/ops/etc team? Give each team the tools to deploy and manage their own services and they'll figure something out.

Not an expert on this phenomenon, but I think mobile payments and banking in developing countries is playing a similar role. I'm sure there are other examples along the same lines being developed and tested as we speak—not necessarily by startups though.
AI voices are now ultra-realistic. Can you tell if they are not real?
I don't blame lobbyists for anything. I blame the politicians for doing what the lobbyists asked for.
Taking your passion to the next level
> People always say this as an argument against bare metal servers, but aren't you still have that staffing cost even if you're using a cloud provider?

I think their point is that it may not be cheaper if you account for staffing cost. Also, especially as a lone developer or a small team, it may be worth it to pay for someone else to manage the metal instead of doing it yourself.
Ironically, for most people the IRS has a copy of most your forms (W2, 1099s, etc.) already and can do your taxes for you if you want.
Android 11 is here – and not just for Google Pixel phones
I think there's only a few white papers on the protests, here's one not otherwise mentioned in the thread:

https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/advance-article/doi/10.1...
Almost every bit of protesting footage I've seen has the majority of people wearing masks, which is a huge deal. In the footage of the motorcycle rally in sturgis, I have seen almost no one wearing masks. On top of this, people protesting were almost exclusively outdoors whereas there are tons of stores, bars, etc in sturgis that people went in.

Your comment is just ridiculous political pandering, trying to focus the topic other events that aren't similar in the slightest.
I'm a friend (and former colleague) of the repo author.

That's exactly some of the cases we had to deal with some legacy invoicing systems (of which Kevin was not responsible, but I was ;))
I have yet to see anyone show any evidence that the "mystery seeds" are "brushing"; and it seems like it would necessarily exist, wouldn't it? If there's someone using the fact of the parcels having been delivered as documentation of something, why has no one found an example yet?
Sounds creepy af. It's stuff like this that makes me keep javascript disabled whenever possible.
I read that as "we are launching a new product and you will be able to see it in 3D at home as soon as it is announced" not "the product is AR". If the product were AR, they would not tell you to "experience" the _new_ AR with old AR (the .usdz file). It'd be like saying "use your SD TV to see how great this HD TV is".
I guess you're only counting Google-branded Chromebooks, because there are plenty of obsolete models listed. https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en
The funny thing is that I grew up in London, then lived in Cambridge, Heidelberg, Seattle and Philadelphia - 55+ years of thoroughly urban living. 18 months ago I moved to a place where your opening sentence applies broadly.

Yet somehow, I still learned how to do most of the things you list in your second paragraph before I got here.

And I have neighbors here who are completely clueless about most of those things. They survive, in some cases, by cultivating long term relationships with the right people.

I think you have to be careful with the correlation/causatio n issue when making points like this.
How do you see AR playing out in terms of the distraction factor? I find that having such easy access to a phone makes me so much more distracted, which in turn affects my ability to focus, to read, to be present. I’m really curious to see where AR goes but I’m also really getting into the whole screen/life balance thing.
> There are not very many JDK implementations that don't have OpenJDK sources at their core.

Well yeah, especially not open source, as you can't get a TCK for non-OpenJDK open source implementations of the standard library. Oracle forbids it.
Sounds like a really cool product. Kind of surprised I haven't heard of it

I agree with you completely that too much of the AR industry is focused on the surface detail of AR being "graphics in your field of view". That can be a component of augmenting ones reality, but it's by far not the only way.

I mostly work on VR projects these days (I'm building a social meeting space for taking foreign language lessons in simulated iso-immersion scenarios), but previously I had done a lot of work in AR, specifically in industrial training scenarios. We had a really, really mediocre product until I went out on a limb and put a ton of effort into a voice interface in parallel to the normal graphical interface. It felt like the app "opened up".

It fit so naturally to be interacting with the application through audio, keeping your visual system and physical hands free for the repair job you were doing. It makes sense when I describe it that way, but there was a lot of push-back at the time against going out on any limbs like that (super-bad corporate culture).

I went out on another limb and dug up my old database app skills and integrated it with an ERP system another group in the company had been developing on top of SAP. Again, it felt like another gigantic leap for the application. It was no longer just this graphics demo of looking at an air compressor and seeing animations of blow-up deconstructions of it and became this whole system for querying information about the particular equipment you were looking at. I even mocked up ordering parts for the unit.

To me, the two takeaways were that just putting graphics in the FOV is putting the cart before the horse. If that's all you're doing with your AR app, no integration with real world data, no enhancement of physical capabilities, you're really just making a VR app. And a crappy one, at that, because you're running it in a form factor not meant for VR, either a really narrow-FOV AR headset like the HoloLens (where we originally started with the app, and what I thought was the most useful version), or an equally-narrow FOV iPad that you have to use both hands to hold (which we got pressured into doing by corporate, because... we had some kind of partnership with Apple and not Microsoft).

My app became a showcase piece within the company, on display at our corporate training center (it's a big place). I got laid off for "not being productive".
No it won't. Clicking on random ads doesn't increase privacy. It just changes what the advertiser thinks of your interests.

To load an ad, you have to allow trackers. If you allow a tracker, you might as well allow the ad instead of hiding it. AdNauseam just hides it.
Yeah, a small server endpoint which returns a blocklist of words not allowed in titles should do the trick.

When the pandemic is over, you can update the server to return an empty blocklist.
The problem is there's no way to draw the lines that's fair for everyone (although there are ways to draw the lines that are unfair for some).

At the same time that concentrating a constituency (such as black voters) into a district will make it more likely they get a representative that cares about their needs, it can also be used to reduce the total number of representatives that constituency would get in other instances.

For example, four districts with ~40% black constituents may be redrawn into one district of 85% black constituents and three districts of 25% black constituents, resulting in a representative that should be more responsive to the black constituents in that district. Conversely, four 60% black districts can be redrawn into two 80% and two 40% districts, resulting in likely fewer representatives that would cater to those constituents and their wants. The exact same strategy can be helpful or hurtful based on the specific makeup of the districts in question.

The problem with the proposed system is that you lose local representation, and you lose a level of definition in the views. If I live in the inner city, do I support the green party, or do I support the group that cares about inner city issues? I'm guaranteed me vote counts towards the group I put it towards, but I may be much less likely to find a group/candidates that actually encompass most my views and wants well (even if that candidate might not have been elected).

These systems aren't better or worse than each other, they're just different, and depending on who they are representing, they will do better or worse. It's entirely possible that if we could accurately measure how well people felt their views were represented and their will carried out a change could result in those going up, and a decade from now a change back to the current system could do the same (likely after a continuous drop in those numbers over years), because the groups and people represented are continuously changing and any assumption that a single system will work best in perpetuity is itself flawed.
Those wilderness medicine classes are awesome. Highly recommend keeping going for Wilderness First Responder. It's really, really fun.
I've yet to encounter client-side filtering. Usually there are many pages of items. Server returns selected page according to filter criteria. Client just does not have all the items, so he'll be able to filter only already visible items which is not useful.
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Ansible doesn't necessarily need ssh or a central control node, just a place to store roles as artifacts, such as Artifactory or a storage bucket.

Pass all of your variables and dependencies (role artifact urls, python requirements.txt, etc) to machines through user data and have the machine download the dependencies and run ansible-playbook to configure itself. Optionally, add a systemd timer to run it on a schedule and you have an "agent".

I've done it this way a large percentage of the time using ansible. The other way is by baking images and using ansible as the provisioner (using ssh but only during the image build).
Remember when there was supposed to be a wave of cases after the spring breakers gathered in large crowds?

Or after memorial day?

Or after the fourth of july?

Or after schools reopened (Georgia has been open for a month, Europe for MONTHS)?

There is one, and only one, obvious trend: These predictions are completely wrong and the virus is no where near the threat we make it out to be.
The future of warfare is ideological. Since the presence of nukes prevents a large scale hot war due to MAD, the only alternative is to hope that your opponent defeats themselves.

This can only happen through the spread of ‘bad’ ideas that lead to action.
1. Purism have the warrant canary.

2. You can check the source code and schematics. Can you do this for any other company in any other country?

3. At least there are courts in the US, not so in China. Practically all electronics is produced in China.

> My main gripe was the US location. And then they were acquired by Zoom.

So the actual problem turned out to be NOT the location, right? Purism is a Social Purpose Corporation, so it's hard (impossible?) to buy them.
Why does the actual product need to be delivered to the fake reviewers? Surely “Kleinman candles” knows which addresses are fake and can simply not send the candles out to them.

Edit: I'm going to guess because these shady drop-ship companies use FBA and similar?
> We are looking at billions of deaths from climate change if we stopped producing CO2 tomorrow and tens of thousands of years until the climate returns to pre-industrial levels.

This seems to me to be the more absurd position. The challenge of “returning the climate to pre-industrial levels” is easily solvable without any magical technology with merely tens of trillions of dollars. Given a few decades additional progress in rocketry, perhaps only a low single digit trillion dollars per decade (indexed to current real value).

Assuming a materials science advancement which permits a functional space-elevator, or the ability to do some manufacturing on the moon, it gets significantly cheaper even than that.
Yep, they’ll eventually send you a bill if you owe.

For some strange reason they won’t send you a refund if you’re eligible.
> It must be important if it was worth evolving white skin over

Where is the evidence that we evolved white skin to produce more vitamin D? Light skin in Europe may have evolved as a widespread thing as recently as 8,000 years ago [1], which doesn't support the idea that it was essential for survival in northern less sunny areas. Are there any studies giving strong evidence as to the causation for evolving white skin?

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-how-european...
The main issue is that it's a huge step backwards from PCs to treat laptops like phones that require model-specific updates. There are tons of Chromebook models that Google has abandoned, just not ones they themselves manufactured. The list is here: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en

And yes, it's Google's choice to kill these, not OEMs: Chromebooks are built according to certain platform specifications Google hands down, upon which they then support for a given amount of time. So claiming Google has only dropped updates for two Chromebooks ever, ignoring all of the third party manufactured ones, is dishonest.

Meanwhile, Windows, Linux, and macOS machines generally can run the latest version long past when the manufacturer supports it heavily. (Less true with Apple, but Apple's lifecycle is insanely long anyways.) You can actually take machines built to run Windows XP and install the latest release of Windows 10 on many of them. (It sometimes even runs decently too, if you use an SSD!)

Ironically, you can run the latest version of Chrome, via Windows 10, on PCs built for XP, but plenty of Chromebooks sold since then can't.

Additionally, Google has, like phones, positioned Chromebooks as disposable computing devices. $200-300 price point devices that you'll end up replacing in two or three years. Which is a massive e-waste problem, particularly given Google's push to get schools to force every student to buy/use them. For a supposedly green company, the entire Chromebook initiative should be seen as an embarrassing gap in good stewardship.

Note that this entire subthread is pretty off-topic to the original article though.
Incompetence.
That is so stupid. I bet they didn’t reject Reddit mobile app uploads.
I'm not a heavy spreadsheet user and I tend to use cross-platform applications but, quite frankly, Numbers works pretty well.
Yeah, articles about things that didn't actually happen are less common.
> Are their business strategies that favour slower more careful engineering practises?

This is a false dichotomy, and there is plenty of research (and experience) that shows shipping higher quality software actually takes less time and money.
Do you happen to know whether the CADA pressure came from another branch or agency of the French government or whether it was some sort of transparency advocacy group?
It's true that you can't argue with data, but what if you're not allowed to collect the data. How can you criticize what you can't measure?

As an example, NYC contact tracers were forbidden[1] to ask if people attended a protest.

[1]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nyc-s-contact-tracers-have...
I am one of the creators of the technology behind it. Please shoot any questions you may have.
Good grief. I don't understand how this is shocking to anyone, tbh. Not everything "both sides" has to be equivalent.

On the one side, you have a group of people who are super-skeptical that covid is even real, or even much worse than the flu. They tend to avoid wearing masks, and think those who do wear masks are weak, sheep, and/or deluded.

On the "other side", you have a group of people who are, kind of by definition, empathetic humans, who are protesting the way our Black brothers and sisters are being treated. They tend to wear masks, stay outside, and be respectful to one-another.

There have been studies on this. See: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408

But, I guess as is consistent with conservatavism in this day and age, it's easier to believe this is "fake news" and some vast conspiracy to make Trump and co. look bad.
Ha, at least you are helping an Apple peon get their rejection metrics in place for a promotion.
4k feet of elevation gain is a bunch, and 13 miles is no joke. I mountain bike regularly, and most of my rides average around 1300ft of gain. 4k feet would be a long tiring ride.
if the question is whether pop music has ever been anything other than muzak written by AI to tick a number of emotional boxes, I think the answer is pretty obviously yes. That's a ridiculous conclusion. We don't have to dig very deep in the well of incredible pop music...all of Motown, psychedelic rock, etc. was the pop music of the time.
I was blown away by GPT-3 until I got to try it myself and realized that most of the praise is based on cherry-picked examples.

You can try it out at https://philosopherai.com to see for yourself.
Then after the update is accepted, you can show Covid-related submissions, and then you can hire Epic's lawyers when Apple removes your app.
Pushed for everything to be code checked into source control. The application code, scripts, tools, migrations, documentation, alerts, tests are all code artifacts that get versioned, reviewed, scanned, deployed, executed automatically. Working on infrastructure still.
Then you just end up with the first team continuing to produce garbage, and leaving it up to the 'fixers' to clean it up.
That must be comforting news for the families of the 180k+ dead people.
I’m healthy, fit and relatively active (3-4 hours exercise / week, 30-1h walk everyday), and I just tested relatively low in Vitamin D (before winter even started). What should I do?