skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/09/coinbas...

> Cryptocurrency start-up Coinbase recently sought to restrict political speech by employees, a move many interpreted as a shift to the right because it came in reaction to internal discussions of Black Lives Matter.

That makes it sound like the Coinbase thing is less about the company holding a public political position, and more of a "leave your politics at home" thing.

Sounds like the corporate version of the recurring debate about whether open source projects should reject contributions from those with objectionable political views.
I'll raise you the houndstooth, which ironically, being 40% ortho linear doesn't have jagged edges in spite of the name. Sadly it doesn't look like they're currently available, but it was pretty good value too.

+100 on the zilents. Best things ever.
> Currently analytics is a fraud, analytics is useless, it is what you do about that data which is important

This is like saying food is a scam and useless and that it's only important when you eat it.

I do agree that just tracking analytics, without doing anything with the data, is useless, just like storing food in the basement and letting it rot.

Disclaimer: I have never used segment before, nor I had the need for a similar tool.

Segment is targeted towards enterprises, their price is too high for the average business, plus most of those businesses probably don't even use any analytics tools (or maybe just Google Analytics and look at visitors number only), so the integration offering doesn't really make sense for them.

> As website owners spend their time changing analytics tool, why not make a tool to make changes tool easier?

As far as I know, changing analytics tools for the average business involves just changing a JS snippet on their site, nothing complicated.

As a personal note, my bigger goal is to make self-hosting and integration of web applications (in general) a lot easier for the average user, so anyone can spin up a self-maintained server running their favorite application with one click. So it's more about allowing anyone to use whatever tool they want, wherever they want, instead of just focusing on allowing them to select between a very limited selection of tools.
"Referer" stands for "referrer".
This isn't a theoretical concern: there are numerous documented cases, even multiple instances with footage on <popular video sharing website>, so a notion of "this can't happen" argued from first principles isn't just moot, it is potentially harmful.

The proper safety advice is that if you've been moving around, ground yourself by contact with some other earthbound metal before approaching the nozzle.
Tangential: I find using an actual (Mac) laptop, with the trackpad in front of the keyboard, to be very ergonomic. This is on a desk with a screen attached, so I’m not staring down at the laptop screen.

Rather than the hand sweeping all the way over to the right to reach the mouse, it just twists a little towards the trackpad. The palms never really leave their rests.

I don’t use it like this a lot, but when I do I enjoy it.
What part of "I have experienced both sides of this issue" don't you understand? My best friend is a man and I lived as a man for 20 years. I think I'm at least somewhat qualified to compare the experience of buying clothes as a man vs buying clothes as a woman.
part of getting things done, in science or business or sport or art, is being able to convince people to do the things that need doing.

there is usually a social / political aspect that has to be managed.
I'd totally want my Mac work environment running on a dual socket POWER9 workstation.
My 2¢.

I used a traditional keyboard, and could not stop peeking at it. I of course remember where each key is, but aligning my hands to it was periodically required, so that I could keep hitting the right keys.

Then I used a traditional-layout split keyboard. It was easier on my arms, but not much on my hands, and I still needed to peek at the keyboard(s) to readjust my fingers. The fact that traditional keyboards shift rows of keys half-width side to side every row, like bricks in a wall, was an obvious obstacle.

Now I got an Ergodox EZ. Its keys are in straight columns, and this helps me a lot. Many keys went to the thumb cluster, lowering the load on pinkies. Then modifier keys went to the home row, and stuff like Ctrl+shift, next to the home row, which helps immensely when using Emacs or VSCode.

My problem with Ergodox is that its pinky columns are uncomfortably positioned for my hand, I still have to move the hand a lot to hit P or Q. Also, a number of keys are hard to reach without moving the hand a lot, which sort of makes little sense when you have layers.

Mechanical switches are also a tough issue. Stuff like MX blue or Gateton green give good tactile feedback, but are loud and take effort to press. MX browns are not quiet enough to count as quiet, and give too little feedback in exchange. Gateron clears are my current choice: not ideal, but at least quiet and soft.

So my next idea is a Kyria with Kailh choc blue (25g) switches. In particular, it should make typing a P easy, and there are no extra keys to force your hand off the home row position.

BTW I wish "normal" keyboards, especially in laptops, took some ideas from the QMK firmware, or adopted it as is. Particularly home row modifiers and the idea of layers are very useful. Layers are currently implemented in a crude way with Fn keys on many laptop keyboards, so customers already are acquainted with the idea.
That's true, but psychoacoustic compression models like MP3 work precisely because they're throwing out what most people can't hear. That said, people are different, and some people can hear the difference. My ears are probably only average, but my eyes are (or were) significantly "faster" than average: Until I was well into my 30s (fortunately, this has faded with age!), fluorescent lights were pretty much just like a disco strobe to me - as a teen I could literally see them flashing, even though the phosphors moderated it a bit. (The 2000's flirtation with those wretched CF twisty bulbs brought this roaring back, as almost all of them flashed enough to be really annoying to me.) Just like there are some (very rare) women who are tetrachromes, it's reasonable to expect that there are some with "golden ears".

The cool thing about Bob Carver was that he didn't just rely on his (obviously very good) ears, but also on his knowledge, intuition/insight, and equipment. Just amazing. Thanks to OP for this.
https://scihub.wikicn.top/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2...
One of the lessons of the Greek philosophers is that philosophy itsef isn't a written book, complete, perfect, and finished, but an ongoing conversation, with people of each present time rediscovering and readapting principles, lessons, and concepts to their own contexts. Both eternal and always new.
Do I understand correctly that their observations are compatible with the possibility that some ethnic groups have more of this phenotype and these ethnic groups are becoming a larger percentage of the world population in general? This would make the story about the artery a red herring.

For example if Northern Europeans started reproducing at a higher rate, could we say that humanity is evolving more and more lactose tolerance? I would say that would be very misleading.

My question is, does their methodology tell apart the following effects:

- The new artery is spreading across the board in various places, e.g. there is a general environmental selection pressure for random mutations in this direction, OR

- Populations that have it or don't have it are reproducing at different rates, possibly for totally unrelated reasons like socioeconomic ones.
Interesting. Any source on this?
Why? What on Earth do you imagine that having to do with this?
This reminded me the MIPT campus network in the end of 1990s, built and managed by students, which at some point was taken over by the internet provider affiliated with the university administration after a spy scandal. There were old campus dormitories with dirty toilets at the end of the floor and dense network, having up to 3-4 PCs in the room, dozens of wires attached to the ceilings by the aluminium strips made of the beer cans. I've paid $50, half of my income at that time, for an Ethernet port (we owned the local network equipment) and got a static IP address - still remember it.
Of course if you have committed an actual crime you should be prosecuted. For example, those Volkswagen people who effectively used fraud to fake emissions data committed an actual crime. On the other hand, selling a LEGAL product which millions or billions of people find useful even if it may have some downstream consequences is not a crime at all. And the examples you used of poisoning were sugar and trans fats. That’s hysterical nonsense.
now that they're a publicly traded company, there's no way Zuckerberg could ever downsize Facebook into an honest company without the shareholders throwing a fit or suing the company.
Don't assume that those who are against all copyright hold this position in isolation from other politics. Some of us think that much of the economy needs to change in significant ways, and copyright would be just one aspect of that.

And there are changes that aren't even all that radical, that are enough to make a counterpoint here. For example, with a sufficiently generous UBI, a lot more people would be able to pursue arts for the sake of arts. One could reasonably argue that removing the profit motive would not only not break such an arrangement, but improve the quality of the output.
Bubbletea: A fun, functional and stateful Go framework to build terminal apps
c++ or .net or rust or go whatever. almost anything can get the performance you want except python.

too bad such great ecosystems evolved around a language that can’t fully utilize the amazing hardware we have today.
That one is OK. What's NOT OK is that conditionals disable set -e in functions that appear in the conditionals, so:

function foo { false; true; }
foo || echo foo failed

prints nothing.
This happens to me sometimes, too, though I drive a 1985 VW van. It seems to be related to the nozzle fit and holding it very firmly, but I find that today's pumps are pretty heavy, require a very firm squeeze, and are hard to hold just right. Maybe it's just an Oregon thing, where we are not allowed to pump our own gas. I've had licenses in four other states and gassed up myself plenty of times. Whenever I'm in Washington or other states with my van, I tend to let the auto-hold engage.
Christian Drosten, Germany’s Dr. Fauci, Worries About Second Wave of Covid
We were doing an experiment with this in Ontario (province in Canada). But the Conservatives got voted in and in their usual practice of dismantling everything that came before them, they cancelled the experiment before we could find out if it was effective. And handling the Covid-19 lockdown would have been far easier if we were allowed to see it through.

Not many people were happy about that. It would have been nice to be ahead of the game on this principle.
Coinbase’s response to BLM reveals Silicon Valley’s reactionary streak
I completely agree that their methodology is not robust.

But Amazon also refused to state what fraction of items go to landfill, despite making subjective claims that it's "on occasion" and the "vast majority" are liquidated or resold. If that was true, Amazon would have the data to back it up and would only benefit them to say so.

If we want to know the actual number of items that go to landfill, we don't need to send GPS trackers everywhere, we can just mandate Amazon (and all other companies) to report on that. It's not like they don't have the data.
I read the Wikipedia article [1] instead. I figured it ought to contain the relevant historical notes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Ice
Since you have first-hand experience, what kind of immoral practices do you consider them generally to engage in, in modern times?
It depends on the algorithm you're using, but here are some places to start:

1. How many times is the data being copied, or moved between devices?

2. Are you recomputing data from previous frames that you could just be saving? For example, some tracking algorithms apply the same CNN tower to the last 3-5 images, and you could just save the results from the last frame instead of recomputing. (Of course, you also want to follow hint #1 and keep these results on the GPU).

3. Change the algorithm or network you're using.

Really you should read the original article carefully. The article is showing you the steps for profiling what part of the runtime is slow. Typically, once you profile a little you'll be surprised to find that time is being wasted somewhere unexpected.
Waymo will allow more people to ride in its fully driverless vehicles in Phoenix
There are lots of cases where people use e.g. ROS on robots and Python to do inferences, which basically converts a ROS binary image message data into a Python list of bytes (ugh), then convert that into numpy (ugh), and then feed that into TensorFlow to do inferences. This pipeline is extremely sub-optimal, but it's what most people probably do.

All because nobody has really provided off the shelf usable deployment libraries. That Bazel stuff if you want to use the C++ API? Big nope. Way too cumbersome. You're trying to move from Python to C++ and they want you to install ... Java? WTF?

Also, some of the best neural net research out there has you run "./run_inference.sh" or some other abomination of a Jupyter notebook instead of an installable, deployable library. To their credit, good neural net engineers aren't expected to be good software engineers, but I'm just pointing out that there's a big gap between good neural nets and deployable neural nets.
Is that job protection or something?
Yes, people are leaving San Francisco. Is the city on the decline?
Sorry but these efforts are completely pale in comparison to what was done to the cities of the German industrial heartland in the last year of the war. I have seen pictures of Mainz (my grandparent's home) where there's not a single building left fully standing in the entire downtown core.

That's not to say the Germans wouldn't have tried, if they could have. But they were tied up in the east doing very awful things there. The Russians unfortunately bore the brunt of total Nazi savagery.
I mean, sure, but then not everyone ends up at Google.
Canadian tax dollars at work... They got sued a few years back for some ridiculous food allegations in a similar vein too.
Ouch, that's horrible. Thanks!
> it's reasonable to expect that there are some with "golden ears".

I'm not convinced, but I will graciously concede that it could be so. This would not, however, justify the claim in the GP that "MP3s sound horrid".

Also, I would say that from reading the article, I don't think Carver relied on his ears much at all.
I believe it's a US credit card thing. Not sure if anything actually checks the zip code nowadays. A long time ago, I almost got stranded in the US with my (European) credit card, and I suspect it had to do with not being able to provide a fitting zip code (different formats).
Not a 'he'.
Could they have implemented J2ME as spec'd, and add proprietary APIs on top of that? I remember that Sun balked when Microsoft did it, but that was back in 1990s. Was it still a limitation when Google started working on Android?
I only started riding about 6 years ago, whereas I've been driving for 22 years (although the bike is now my main form of transport), so the first time I had to fill up a bike, like an idiot I just stuck the nozzle straight into the fuel tank and pulled the lever all the way like I would for my car... with very predictable results.
I worked as a maintenance technician at a gas station for 6 years before I switched into software engineering.

Some interesting things about gas dispensers/pumps:

- What most people call a gas pump is a dispenser. The actual pump is submersed inside the underground gas tank.

- mid grade gas is just premium and regular gas that is gets mixed at the dispenser before the fuel is dispensed.

- Holding the hose up high and pulling the trigger does not allow more fuel to drain from the hose after reaching your prepaid amount

- people drive off with the nozzle still in their car surprisingly often. There is a magnetic breakaway so the hose will disconnect and not pull the dispenser over.

I can probably think of some more of people are interested
I appreciate that use of KaTeX allows for faster Math rendering. Since developing intuition about problems can be increased by seeing multiple examples, can you leverage this speed to generate a specific example from a template and some sample values for a variable each time you interact with a student ?
It seems part of the trick is generating good collections of interacting values that are easy to present such as all rational numbers or all integers.
Aren’t these related to a Hamiltonian circuit of a elliptical values ?
The design flaw in election maps – TEDx
Is this on the front page because a ton of programmers have diabetes? Is this more common among programmers?
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, but perhaps people don't believe the claim that the US government has formally taken a side on the legitimacy of the elections:

https://www.axios.com/us-lukashenko-president-belarus-353ed2...

It seems to me that this offers a clever way out for Apple: If Lukashenko isn't the legitimate president of Belarus, then the "police" following his orders to attack protesters are not police at all, but terrorists; and Telegram is helping to bring them to the attention of the legitimate authorities of the president in exile.
Great article. No mention there, or in these comments, about using split boards vertically- I adopted this two years ago and won't go back. It's trivial to strap a split board to a box of approximately shoulder width. The result suits me best - forearms and hands stay vertical in the handshake position. I don't understand why more people don't try it.
That is a very reasonable public policy idea. Let's add to that list of failures: the article has no discussion of reasonable policy ideas (despite quoting researchers whose life's work is in producing them).

NB: don't assume that there's no downside to any given retailer unilaterally disclosing their return rates, because returns are a measurable factor in marginal cost & revenue assessment and partially describe both the elasticity of demand and overall customer sentiment. Every retailer of scale would be interested in obtaining the return statistics (especially segmented) of their competitors; and, as the tone of the article illustrates, there are any number of hacks poised to scribble out mendacious venom on the basis of such data, so no corporate PR lackey worth their communications degree will willingly start that conversation.
That’s not a firm, it’s just a person participating in the economy. There is a whole field of economics that asks: “having regard to the fact that if production is regulated by price movements, production could be carried on without any organisation at all … why is there any organisation?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
>However, that's not how Redhat sells Openshift.

Really? There are also managed offerings on various clouds but, to the best of my knowledge (I work at Red Hat but not specifically on OpenShift), the fact that you can run it yourself on different clouds is a selling point if that's what you want to do.
haha indeed! thx for the tip
It's a reference to the Enter Chronicles, but the parent wrote that themselves.

Edit; Ender Chronicles...spallig is hard. :)
Merely knowing about when subshells occur doesn't explain this. You need to know that && and || suppress -e.
Why Read?
The PC Engine was one of the best consoles, it really should have had more of a following. I still have one (nodded for PAL) stored away that I really need to get out and start using again
No, this is the very heart of Searle's thought experiment. His point was that you could imagine a rule-based system for language translation and conversation that clearly was not conscious. The argument wasn't about whether or not it was possible to build such a system, but about whether or not such a system must necessarily be conscious.

Searle's claim was that it was clear from his thought experiment that such a system could exist without any understanding, and definitely without consciousness. Others have disagreed with his reasoning and his conclusion.
IIRC some European countries forbid those latches, to ensure the pump is always actively watched.
I much prefer the Iris. Ortholinear feels so much better than the standard layout, especially in a split keyboard. I'm just waiting for somebody to put one on a laptop.
So I guess it's safe now to try migrating a project from Webpack 3.x to 4.x?
In his hometown he was known for bringing some speakers outside and playing impromptu block parties for anyone around.
It should also be noted that the original copyright terms were devised for a society in which there was, for the most part, no practical way to move information faster than people. A copyright holder today can start extracting profits from that copyright much faster, and on a much larger scale, than anybody could have in the 18th century. So the terms should be shorter, if anything.
It seems like we're on a terrible path with this absence of evolutionary pressure. What's happening to all the babies who survive today that would have died in childbirth had they been born at any time in human history before 100 years ago? Since infant mortality was so high, it must have been an close battle for evolution to keep it under control. Now the brakes are off and whatever mutations were regularly killing babies (and mothers) are now free to propagate to subsequent generations.

Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. We've already evolved to become dependent on technology (cooking, clothing, shelter) and it probably does us good by freeing up our body's resources to do other things better. So perhaps becoming dependent on healthcare for childbirth will eventually happen too and nobody will be worried when women can only give birth by C-section or whatever.

A related issue is immunization. People are so worked up about the politics that they don't want to think about this, but could it be that immunizing ourselves is taking away the evolutionary pressure to maintain a good natural immune system? Multiple generations of measles vaccinated people might end up like the native Americans who were vulnerable from their ancestors having never experienced measles.

This seems like a whole alternative kind of morality - protection of the genes of future generations. But it goes against the popular short term moralities that people have so it seems too objectionable.
Is that beer can open or closed as you pull away in the moving vehicle... :smirk:
> BTW I wish "normal" keyboards, especially in laptops, took some ideas from the QMK firmware, or adopted it as is.

I completely agree! I believe that System76 laptops allow complete customization of the firmware, including the keyboard.

https://github.com/system76/firmware-open
Thanks. I'll definitely take a look to see if you've done anything differently to me.
I'd add TRAP DEBUG (running line by line) to the toolset
7 looming questions about the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine
Book 4 just came out on Audible, it's great!