skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because something is "perfectly legal" does not mean that it's not cheating.

I typically wouldn't have an issue with someone working 2 jobs, but I do take slight issue if this situation is true. These aren't just 2 companies, these are two companies who are competitors with each other in many fields. These are two companies who pay very large salaries to hold on to talent in order for their competitors to not hire them, and this situation is only possible due to the current situation around "work from home".

As someone who works remote even outside of a pandemic, I would be worried that stories and potential situations like this will be a point in the "we require all employees to be back in the office" column. This employee taking advantage of work-from-home in order to violate a non-compete (which I am sure exists in their contract) puts a bad look on every one else.
If it was bijective, any possible string of bytes could be decoded, even a random string.

Here's an example of a bijective compression system—one of the first AFAIK:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/mt0000/bicom/
I have no skin in this game, but I find that "all will be better without Github" is a reasonable short approximation of your "Ditch the 'Hub, its userbase, and what is considered "best practice" there, and then many of these problems get dialed back a lot.".

You have explained your criticism of GitHub, and I agree that it should have done things differently from the beginning. Still, your proposed solution for users is literally to "Ditch the 'Hub", promising that "many of these problems get dialed back a lot". It's really not a far stretch to "all will be better without Github".
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Petroleum generally refers to the unrefined substance; you could use 'petroleum products' to cover all the bases.
Isn't production data being replicated to backups at a minimum daily? How is ransomware still a thing at big corps in 2020.
USB 4 is USB-C connector only and Power Delivery is a mandatory part of the spec instead of being optional. This won't stop Nintendo or somebody else from fucking it up, but it does mean everything marketed as being USB 4 is required to support standard chargers.
Yep, but that's not the part of the loyalty program I'm referring to.

I'm referring to earning structure around redeemable miles.

You're referring to rewarding frequent travelers, that's the status program. The status program has also been devalued tremendously as load factors go up, since there's no need to incentivize people to fly at all.

> "Even without being the very top tier of frequent flier, I am upgraded on around half of my domestic flights on our preferred carrier."

That depends highly on which routes, which time of day you fly, and which carrier. As a top-tier Executive Platinum on American, pre-pandemic I wouldn't ever count on getting upgraded on SFO-DFW. That's a hub-to-focus-city route with gobs of money on either side. I had like a 33% success rate. On the other hand, DFW-YUL, you can bet your life on it. An AA Silver wouldn't clear an upgrade on either, though.
The only people that I know that actually receive real value for their "points" are:
1. Business travelers who fly internationally or coast-to-coast regularly
2. Business owners who regularly put very large business purchases on their cards, especially AMEX cards that don't have a real limit. When you put $50k/mo on your Delta AMEX, you'll probably never have to pay for a personal flight.
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It has spread to major airlines, in fact they're the ones pushing for it: LHG, IAG, AFKL are all fighting hard. Their dream is that with stuff like NDC it will become magically possible to have a marketplace without middlemen, we all know that's impossible. But they'll use it as a lever to lower commissions until we hit a new equilibrium
I have the Ethernet usb dongle hanging off my monitor, so it is one cable to my MacBook Pro.
I find this talk of first/second wave misleading. This is not the flu for mortality, and it is not an influenza virus. It spreads differently.

Some people at my institution in fact have argued that you should not use flu-derived models, but instead model the spread and the outbreaks in similar ways to SARS and MERS, which rather than big "waves", had a series of spaced outbreaks. At an internal seminar they showed that at least their models for the Bergamo area seemed to be consistent with the actual data.
Another example related to children - in 1993 guidance changed from having children sleep on their front to having them sleep on their backs. The result was a reduction in SIDS deaths from 0.13% to 0.035%. However the rate of kids having a flat spot on the back of their heads increased to 47% of 2 month olds. That flat spot pushes the rest of their skull forward and can result in a prominent forehead and misshapen features (iow, makes your kid ugly). Is the trade off between a 0.1% reduction in death rate worth a 50% chance of being ugly?
The Workers Runtime is primarily written in C++, but has some components (like the HTML rewriter implementation) written in Rust.

If we were starting the project from scratch today I would perhaps choose Rust. At the time we started (3.5 years ago), Rust wasn't as mature, and using V8 (which is C++) from Rust would have been particularly challenging.
My father had a couple duplexes, and I learned to hack stuff together pretty well there. But I did take a class at Woodcraft that was pretty nicely done about 10 years ago. It was a simple course over a few nights. I learned a couple woodworking tricks that upped my game, but there were a couple beginners. Hopefully Woodcraft will start having classes again once things start opening up again. If so signup and they will teach you how to use the basic tools and more importantly you will walk away with a bit of confidence and knowledge on how to fix mistakes.
Which of Apple’s chargers? Each of them has different power capabilities.
> I feel safer knowing that there are people out there, hunting down these unsecured caches of data.

There's very little difference between maliciously encrypting someone's data once you have managed to establish code execution vs exfiltrating all of the data and then using any PII to open lines of credit.

For you as a consumer, the former doesn't harm you. The later has the ability to harm you quite a bit in ways that take months/years to sort out. Do you really feel safer because the criminals that cracked these systems flipped a coin that landed on the "extort our victim" side rather than the "free leads to customers of our victims" side?
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Wow, gotta applaud the courage of the UC global witness. Thank you. Feels kind of sloppy from the IC, but at that point they probably felt untouchable, knowing the smearing was enough.

I thought the stickers on the windows to dampen the white noise vibrations was pretty neat. Still curious of the process, does it just amplify the real speakers?

Side note: These articles have been doing poorly the past two days, sad since these have had pretty damning evidence, good on you HN mods..
But in Thunder Bay:

"Thunder Bay police accessed the personal health information in the database more than 14,800x — a rate of access 10x higher than the provincial average — even though the area reported a total of just 100 COVID-19 cases while the database was active. "
In 2018 they had about 1.1 billion € profit after tax.

35 million € of that isn't quite a small number and that is basically a warning shot to stop. The maximum fine would be 720 million €, which would eat into the years profit quite a lot (and in turn, the shareholder's dividends).
Hi, I'm one of the paper authors here. Happy to answer questions.

Here's how I think about our methodology. Car seat laws generate an unusually sharp prediction for births that can be distinguished from a lot of competing effects (not perfectly, of course, but compared with a lot of other demographic effects)

We're not testing whether the state and years with more stringent car seat laws have lower birth rates. That could be due to tons of stuff going on in those states.

We're not even testing whether the states and years with more stringent car seat laws have lower birth rates just for third child births. That could be relatively fewer things, but still a lot.

Rather, we're testing whether states and years with more stringent car seat laws have lower third child birth rates specifically for families whose first two children are below the mandate for their state and year. And this mandate is itself changing over time for both states and years, so we're talking about different ages of children in question depending on which state and year it is.

This clearly doesn't rule out everything. But the set of candidate explanations for what else could be going on for those specific families in those years is a lot smaller than the broad demographic effects we started with.
At this point, I feel like you should just run a software consulting shop. Time to start outsourcing tasks and hire subcontractors for support so you could pick up even more work.
I still don't understand what they did exactly that is so wrong? Government was given health data, government entity accessed data for policing (we assume), and what? That police had access to someone's health record? How is that ground-shaking level stuff?

Did the police stalk someone because of this? Did the data get abused for personal/fraudulent reasons? Did someone get fired because a cop found out his child's preschool teacher is actually a trans person and they object to that? Did they use this to solve crimes? Find covid-spreading patterns and individuals?
That's not going to stop the cheap cables on Amazon from mislabeling their products. This happens all the time today. Off brand HDMI cables pretty much always state specs they don't really support.
They pay massive salaries because they make massive profits.

A software engineer at a big company really isn't that much better than a software engineer at a random smaller company. The businesses just make so much money that if they don't pay well someone else will and crush their business.
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I have taught GW-BASIC, and also Python, C, Fortran and a couple of other languages through the years. But I don't trust my experience because it spans three decades, in which my experience changed, my student's backgrounds changed, etc.

Looking backwards, it is my experience that line-numbers and goto/gosub clicked more quickly and more deeply than function calls.

But, as you say, and as I alluded to in my first post, motivation to write code tomorrow morning is likely a better thing to optimize for.

I would refuse to teach JS, though; it has way too many warts one can't avoid, creating damage that would take a while to undo.
The earth is not overpopulated. There is enough food, water, housing, electricity, etc for all.

In fact there is a map that shows how the entire world's population could fit into Texas or just a few states based on population densities of actual cities essentially leaving the majority of the world uninhabited.

Here is a reference for that claim.
https://commonplacefacts.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/could-the-...

The issue isn't overpopulation. It's putting profits over people. There are plenty of resources, but we don't want to share, corporations want to capitalize, and enough of us don't have the balls to stand up to our governments to demand better.

We as a society have decided that even though there is a enough for everyone, we should still apply capitalism to things necessary for survival leaving those who are poor barely able to survive.

No overpopulation argument works if you take poverty out of the equation.

You could argue that we pollute too much and that if population increased the earth would be devastated. This is true, but it's not about the number of people, it's about the damage per person. It stems from our failure to demand from our governments that all products created are biodegradable or recyclable.

Not enough housing? I disagree.
Here is a quote from a fact checking website.
"Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S"
https://checkyourfact.com/2019/12/24/fact-check-633000-homel...
USB 3 connectors and ports were pretty much always blue.
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Its not USB-C so much as those MBP ports are a bit buggy. Depending on the model, you might have better success if you try the port that's on the other side of the laptop.
If a business model requires the exploitation of its workers to remain profitable, is that a business worth having? If forcing businesses to pay their laborers a wage sufficient to have a bare minimum standard of living before paying shareholders for their speculative investment, is that a bad thing?
This happens all the time though. Also no one is writing code 40 hours a week.

Who on earth has the ability to do that?
How is it a friction? You don’t need to do anything extra to accrue the points. Then, when you search for a flight or hotel, you select the option to see if you can get it for free with points. If not, you proceed to the cheapest option that works for you.

They already have all of your identifying information, so you’re not even giving up any privacy.

If anything, by not playing the game, you’re subsidizing those who do (since the time cost of playing the game is so low - clicking a button on a website). Same situation with paying with cash back credit cards in the US, at least for online purchases.
That's a good point. Benchmarking different systems is always tricky to get right, but we'll get something out soon.

The focus of these benchmarks was to explain to our existing community how we improved things and share with the broader software engineering community has worked for us in the hope it could help others working on graph projects.
> As someone with inside knowledge, can you review my reasoning that it fits, and it probably was?

No idea. I left that particular lab a few months after I graduated which was 8 years ago.
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It's okay, the wall in front of me scored 6.4, was a 14 year old male with a BMI of 36.1, and had a happy reaction to a dog.
You may enjoy this blogpost I made that goes into how the BMI prediction algorithm was developed. It's the only one in the project that I trained myself.

https://www.sherpapieces.eu/overview/predicting-your-bmi-fro...

Like you said, muscles matter quite a bit. It's attractive to use photos af athletes to train the algorithm, because there are a lot of websites that show their photos along with their weight and height (which you need to calculate a BMI). But since muscles weigh so much more than fat, athletes have high BMI with slim bodies, which warps the algorithm.

I didn't use athletes for this reason (it's trained on a diet of 50% Chinese celebrities and 50% American arrest records). But I found projects that do use these photos.
I absolutely loath it. I have a new 16" Macbook Pro, I had a 2014 Macbook Pro.

I now have to buy a crap ton of adapters to get the same functionality as I had in 2014, and sometimes they don't work. I don't know why, they are meant to, but they don't.

Also, Magsafe was a game changer.

If I had a choice between USB-C and ports-o-plenty as I had on my 2014 MBP I would choose the latter.
2001 Ford Escort ZX2. Manual transmission, manual locks, no firmware or spyware, no chance the entertainment system can be hacked to remotely disable the brakes. It has a tape deck FFS.
These days I tell confrontational anti-mask people, in this order

"My mask is for just in case I need to go into a shop"

"I like the fashion accessory, this mask was personalized"

"yeah you got me, I don't actually care about these rights being curbed, go away"
If you have a Home Depot nearby, they rent trucks for like $19 for the first 75 minutes. Go for a wood run, rent the truck for an hour, buy enough to make it worth it, and return it.

From what I've seen though, wood isn't cheap to have delivered. They can cut it for you in the store, but obviously a prius still isn't best to ship it in.

Maybe find a friend with a truck or light trailer that you can borrow every couple of months?
You can opt out by not flying on that airline.
Miter saw (even without sliding) was transformative for me as well. A cheap table saw complements it nicely (I then splurged and got a CNC router, too, which opens up a wide range of techniques). AFter that I ended up playing with chisels, which I always thought were very primitive, but you can do a surprising amount of nice work with just a chisel and a hand saw.

I'm a computer programmer but I expect that more and more of my hobby time is going to be making things by hand. It's really a job, after struggling with some stupid code, to just go design something on paper, make a few cuts, and see it work in reality.
They wouldn't. They'd get their cut and not do anything more.

IRS basically never starts investigations from what was in tax returns as long as they get their money so they don't scare off people from filing tax returns and paying taxes.
Have you looked at this? https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/cubas-urban-farm...

During the economic sanctions, Cuba was forced to stop using synethetic fertilizers, pesticides, and even tractors. They could not import enough to be able use those at scale. The people there had to adapt and work out how to live.
Knowing this makes parenting a hell of a lot more fun.
> A number of years ago police in Ontario illegally arrested & detained protesters at the G20 summit. After years of litigation some people got a small amount of money, and no one was held responsible.

Also, Nobody was arrested.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/06/27/adam-nobody-and-...
It didn't compliment my face!
Historically if I'm not mistaken, dot is multiplication between scalars, and only later became "dot product". But this is distinction without difference. You used "cross" or "dot" to denote scalar multiplication. You did NOT use "a dot product restricted to scalars".
> For those not familiar with the 3270 terminals they're actually kind of interesting and very different from more familiar character-cell terminals.

As I'm using 3270font for while, I found it the best typeface to inspire engineers for switch to FreeCAD[0,1,2], as actual most popular proprietary 2D/3D CAD software becomes almost useless[3] since 2020.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24513340#24514936

[1] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1311679930254733312

[2] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1306942884034285568

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503950
Seems like the HN hug is lowering their FCP score by bogging down the server.
I haven't heard of any change; my own setup is on the right. I will say that the corner of my computer where power is plugged in is uncomfortably hot.
I'm not sure which country you are thinking from here.

But if you're thinking that open borders means people would all flood into the USA for personal wealth, you have it wrong.

If many countries offered UBI, while keeping everything else the same, many people would flood out of the USA in search of better healthcare and education, for example.

It is issue dependent.