skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about scale, as the person you are responding to clearly said.

Technically, it might be a win. It's not enough of a win, however, to bring many new converts. It simply doesn't scale to enough large savings to make much of a difference in the construction budgets OP actually was writing about.
I think corporate power over our legal system is a separate problem. If we can't reign in corporations, then all hope is lost even if we magically pass full-blown GDPR (corporations will find and create loopholes, etc).
The price is irrelevant if there is literally zero supply. Market mechanisms only work on longer time scales.
Anyone have a direct link to the linux x64 binary?
> exclude all of the harms that people have complained about.

Where are the harms? No, really. It's bad faith to claim people grumbling about inconveniences are somehow being "harmed".
I agree that it doesn't obviously read as satire, though I am not very familiar with the author. The users determined that this is satire seem more familiar with his previous work.
Exactly what I wanted to say. In addition, it's like adding a trailer coupling to it - sure, you can do it and it has the power, but that's really not what this car is intended to do.
:) welcome to the great divide between spoken British-English & spoken American-English
Guy Kawasaki offers 60 minute 1:1 group session to RingCentral Hackathon winners
>It's a huge mistake to think the choices are "lockdown" or nothing.

Completely agree. Lockdowns and "shelter-in-place" orders were a reasonable response in March when we had no idea what we were dealing with and had to preserve the integrity of the hospital system. But they were never going to be sustainable for more than a few weeks.

The next step, closing "non-essential" business and limiting gatherings, is a logical progression, and is something that can be tweaked and tightened/loosened as the data indicate.

Then we have masks, social distancing, and frequent hygiene. This should continue indefinitely, at least until a vaccine has been widely distributed. I'm shocked by the opposition to this.
The people that are the leaders there today chose to work for exactly that company. That says a lot about their ethics.
> Nadella won't be there forever.

And? Someone else will take his place, who isn't Gates or Balmer and will have their own way of doing things. There isn't some magical Microsoft central force that pulls things a certain direction, it's people making decisions.
Zero credit for doing the right thing after years of profiting off doing the wrong thing.

questions for Facebook employees:
1. how much revenue did Facebook make off holocaust denying content/users, and what're your plans to donate at least that much, or otherwise fix the damage you've done?

2. how do you feel about your day job's role from whenever you started at Facebook till October 12, 2020 in promoting and proliferating holocaust denial and other morally bankrupt positions? do you feel you have any responsibility for the bad things your work is used for?
I disagree; there's some range the police should be equipped to handle. When the danger escalates out of that range, they should step back and have a better equipped group step in like the national guard
Another pythonic shell: https://marceltheshell.org. Unlike Xonsh, marcel provides a strict separation between shell syntax and Python syntax. Specifically, some shell commands take Python functions as arguments. E.g., in the current directory, find all the .c and .h files, and count lines:

ls -fr \
| select (f: f.suffix in ('.c', '.h')) \
| map (f: f.read().count('\n')) \
| red +

- List only files (-f) recursively (-r).

- Select those whose suffix is .c or .h.

- Map qualifying files to the count of \n in the file.

- Reduce those counts to a total using +.

The parentheses delimit Python functions (marcel permits omission of "lambda").
Before COVID-19, I would have said that we pay for CDC, FDA, Surgeon General, epidemiologists, and virologists to be right about that stuff and they're generally trustworthy.

But then they all tried to convince Americans not to wear masks.
Yes I know that, the point I was making was that the lockdown itself brought on a host of anxiety disorders.
Building the Last Hedge Fund – Introducing Numerai Signals
Did you ever actual hire any of those people? Did you ever verify that they actually had the experience they claimed? Did you follow up with their references? Were they able to walk you through projects they worked, or discuss solutions implemented?

Every job gets applicants that aren't qualified. Only software engineering out of every single non-performance based (musicians, actors etc...) industry out there has white board interviews.
Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job
As a Linux gamer I find such claims insulting (though I'd expect MS to make them naturally). They simply sound as whitewashing of anti-competitive behavior.
The patent on FAT is well known and no secret. I believe the main thing that changed was the patents expired.
SCTP-over-UDP is still totally viable.
Durability: Linux File APIs
one more thing to add to your list is that police tend to be pretty well paid for their level of education. in my area, starting salary for a police officer is not much lower than a typical salary for a junior dev. a rank-and-file cop with a few years of experience who pulls a lot of OT can make a surprising amount of money.
I am on the road to developing a nervous tick around people in my house trying to talk to me while I'm sharing my screen in a meeting. The mute button goes away from the screen, and the touch bar, and I just freeze up trying to recall where to find it.

Is there a handy solution for this or am I just screwed?
> That says a lot about their ethics

This is rhetoric. Microsoft wasn't committing genocide, it just abused capitalism.
You can just use ‘gc.get_referrers’ without any libraries.
Companies aren't people no matter what the law says so you can't compare the two. Companies are run by people and those people change over time which is much more than any single person changes over time. So effectively the Microsoft of today and the Microsoft of 20 years ago are different entities as the people running it are different.
I'm afraid that won't be allowed for data URLs anyway, they can't access localStorage, or their cookies, or even redirect their own URL location.
Is building a priority queue a common task that senior engineers would be required to do if they got the job?
Depends, not all languages provide variables and since they're more or less equal it's a matter of preference in other cases.
The year of the nix desktop may be fast approaching. The use of ChromeOS and MacOS has seen steady growth, on Mobile IOS and Android both have nix origins. As a developer of primarily cloud based systems, I find using a windows desktop to be unusual - none of my familiar tools, expectations, and development practices fit with Windows. Based on the macbooks that I'm surrounded by at work, I'd have to imagine others feel similarly.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
>I wouldn't expect them to pay for mine!

That was a sort of odd touch for me. Mind you, I obviously don't know the details--maybe an old friend that he knew didn't have much money. But, yeah, I'd consider an offered guest room a nice offer but I'd never expect someone to offer to pay for a hotel if they didn't have the room.
The way i read your comment, I think I have identified a bit of confusion at least in the words with which you have expressed your comment:

You are distinguishing between Microsoft the corporation and persons who might rehabilitate, although how I read your sentence, I infer that you consider Microsoft a person, only a different kind of person to human beings.

I don't know if I'm right about how I read you, but I think I can comment usefully on a different distinction which I think is the most important one necessary to make in these kinds of comparisons:

A company is a legal person.

But it is unhelpful to think about a corporate person in terms with which you might regard a human being.

I find it very much clearer to think about the body corporate as taking on the character and nature bestowed upon it by its directing executive management / board.

Certainly it is by this means that any company has ever acquired a psychopathy.

AS several comments also say in different ways, the caveat is that once you replace the human animus that directs the behaviour of the company, you can completely change the behaviour of a corporate being.

What I think is being conflated here frequently is the organisational behavioural properties of any large organisations that have vestigial and inhibiting effect on corporate body character redefining changes.

These things are always something that I have to carefully unpick whenever you want to avoid confusing myself and that's after 35 years of analysing corporate beings looking for long term bets. It's not easy or at least it never got easier for me. I wish I could weigh in on the issue which I think everyone cares about most : the sincerity of Microsoft and even the question of whether Microsoft is capable of sincerity. So far I can only agree with a tangential comment made last week, how the old evil Microsoft at least sure documented everything far better. If they documented like the Technet I remember, for the whole WSL game, now that might convince me they mean well towards the open world. But somehow I think Microsoft embraced and only extended the documentation shame...
you put them in a government-aided bubble.
It's a statistical association, not a rule. I can't say specifically why those two countries have had the results that they have, but the age dependence holds both at the individual and country levels overall. That also doesn't mean that you can't find a 100 year old survivor and a 20 year old that dies from it.
I like that metric. I've definitely done projects in the past, just haven't had an inspiration in a while.
Echoing kgermino's statement, I also live in a (small but dense) city on the East Coast, in a very walkable neighborhood where the train station is a ten minute walk away from my house. There are kids bicycling and playing outside, lots of families with dogs, all enabled because the roads are smaller and we're still a walking distance from food, hardware store, etc.

Do not confuse the singe-zoned, panopticon-esque tracts of land with nothing around but houses with small yards and not a single shred of grocery stores, points of interest or wildlife-allocated land for dozens of square miles (necessitating car travel) [1] with "living in cities." Additionally, crime goes down not just with a fewer number of people, but also with people taking ownership over their community – as you'll see in loved neighborhoods of bigger cities like New York – rather than barricading themselves inside their house and watching with suspicion any person that walks past their shuttered blinds, because in places so hostile to travel on foot, no one in their right mind walks.

In an era of continuously increasing human footprint on the planet, we should not be talking about the (environmentally and fiscally) expensive expansion of humans to the corners of the planet that remain "rural" and a respite for our Earth's natural resources. We should consider how to use properly the space we have already colonized, and we should begin with elimination of single-zoned tracts of land.

1 - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/7/7/abolish-single-...
Well, paywalled. But not reading an article has never stopped me from commenting before! Haha!

I’m going to file this story:

third-party/corporate contract tracing apps sitting on mountains of valuable contact information ask themselves, what should we do with all this free milk?

...together with common _business_ practice from some US companies such as Walgreens and Target who require you to show ID for any purchase of alcohol or tobacco products no matter how old you are (prev age was less than 35). Of course they want to scan your ID for this, which gives them all this State processed and verified PII with extra data not related to age verification—-for free.

Recall in 2013 Target had a data breach of 40m user cc and debit card info.

There is some responsibility for protecting payment data (quick search says it cost Target $300m).

Data on your DL, AFAIK, is unregulated, so what is the consequences of mishandling your contact info?
Conceptually I know what a priority queue is and how it works but I haven't built one, though I've used many. How satisfied would you be if an interviewee implementated it in pseudo code?
IMO, really rethink your position on Ubiquiti. For residential use, you really don't need anything from their HD line. I have no affiliation with them other than being a very happy customer. They literally have a device for almost any networking use-case you can think of. You _do not_ need to use their cloud management capabilities, have an account with Unifi, etc to be able to use it (even though that's what they really want you to do -- I wanted 100% local management for my own setup, so this was a hard requirement for me).

For your purposes, I would highly recommend checking out the Unifi Dream Machine (https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/... -- not the Pro unless you already have a network rack). It's as close to an AirPort as you can reasonably get these days. You can also get additional Unifi APs if you need more coverage (including any of their outdoor stuff) or use Unifi LTE as a backup conneciton (https://unifi-lte.ui.com/)

I've installed just the Dream Machine in several family members' homes and it's a huge improvement over the nonsense that the ISPs provide them with. Personally, I run a Unifi Security Gateway, Cloud key (Gen 1), and the AC AP PRO and I've been very happy with it. I like that I can selectively upgrade equipment when needed (for example, I upgraded my AP for better range and speed a couple years ago, but I'm still using the same USG that I got back in 2014 or something).

If you're having trouble figuring out what you need and you want to go the Ubiquiti route, feel free to email me (see profile) and I can get you pointed in the right direction.
1. Remote unlock - you need to hack that... good luck...

2. ODB port requires physical access which means either alarm or 1... under pressure since owner may see you and call cops.

Now you can do something else on cheap asshole car manufacturers like Jeep and bluetooth/wifi hack media center then get on ODB via that because cheap idiots said its a good idea to have common bus.
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The delays and uncertainty associated with renting make that a total non-starter for parents with busy schedules. The only practical option for most of us is to buy a bigger vehicle. Or buy two: a big one and a small one.
> Everyone loves to read and write about how developer interviewing is flawed, but no one wants to go out on a limb and make suggestions about how to improve it.

I've spend this year writing about hiring[0], both to talk about the problems and provide suggestions on how to improve the process. My suggestions are sometimes high-level, and sometimes very detailed. Some examples:

- Be specific about the requirements [1]

- Tailor the requirements to the role you're hiring for [2]

- The types of non-technical issues that can cause a candidate to perform poorly, and how interviewers should correct for them [3]

- Let people work independently [4]

But above all, my primary thesis is that it comes down to looking for strengths, not trying to discover weaknesses [5]. Having been on the hiring side, this is the specific suggestion that I believe will have the most impact, especially to those who want to land a job that would have been out of reach otherwise.

[0] https://hiringfor.tech

[1] https://hiringfor.tech/2020/03/02/are-you-asking-candidates-...

[2] https://hiringfor.tech/2020/06/22/hiring-for-the-role.html

[3] https://hiringfor.tech/2020/05/25/letting-the-little-things-...

[4] https://hiringfor.tech/2020/08/03/reducing-interview-stress-...

[5] https://hiringfor.tech/2020/02/10/false-positives-and-false-...
The original title of the article is "S.F. to begin moving homeless out of hotels soon. Some might get housing, others ‘safe’ tent sites" not the currently sensationalized one.
A Simple and Flexible Pytorch Video Pipeline
g is what you get when you only look for a single, linear scale.
That seems strictly better to me. If I know that one phone manufacturer sells my data and another doesn't, that makes my choice pretty easily. Presently I want to buy a TV, but I really can't tell which if any manufacturers aren't selling my data.
because orcas are actually part of Delphinidae family, which is dolphin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale
Sure. I saw talks by NXP and Renesas at the ARM Dev Summit last week that demonstrated the use of the Glow ML compiler [0] and CMSIS-NN Library [1] to squeeze a Wake Word NN [2] from 20KB to 14KB (with much greater reduction possible on larger ML models). Both Tensorflow Lite and Pytorch is supported in this toolchain.

[0] https://github.com/pytorch/glow

[1] https://arm-software.github.io/CMSIS_5/NN/html/index.html

[2] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...
Thus far? Nursing homes have operated as 'places people go to die'. COVID has just made those deaths a little faster.

In all seriousness, taking any amount of effort to protect nursing homes would be better than what we have right now. Like, "stop sending COVID patients to nursing homes" levels of effort. (Thanks, NY and MI - plus others I'm sure)
Here it is on white: https://www.haiku-os.org/images/haiku_logo_white.svg
Yeah, but you need physical access and unlocked car... you can cut the breaks too if you have that...
It's fantastic. (Please stop reading here if you are British.) /s
it's not the killer part i am talking about, it's the whale part. see my other message.
Wait, so does that mean that every customer would have 18.45 QUINTILLION addresses to use?

God, I knew the IPv6 space was insanely large, but Jesus h, man.
> We should stop talking about "lockdowns", and possibly never should have thought that way. The question is over restrictions, WHAT restrictions should we have, what alterations to usual way of doing things.

Agreed, but there needs to be a discussion about what an acceptable amount of cases is as well. Because the strategy seems to be eradication, which is ridiculous. As soon as any restrictions are eased there is much hand wringing the second case counts go above some very low but arbitrary level.
>Is there any particular reason to think such a thing couldn't happen in America

I don't think this is the right question to ask. There are a lot of things that one can reasonably think could happen in America. Do we need to prepare every police department in the country for all those situations regardless of the odds of the worst happening? Do the costs, both literal monetary costs and the harder to measure societal costs, of militarizing our police departments outweigh the potential that an increase in police firepower will allow them to save lives in this extremely remote possibility actually happens? Maybe we are just better off leaving some of these extreme outliers as something to be dealt with by the military if it ever happens here.
Africa's Cyber Insecurity Risk
Migrate Postgres DBs across cloud providers with pgloader
> it's a refutation of the new and dishonest argument that censorship actually protects freedom of speech

Once you convince people that the other side is evil and your side must win at all costs, they'll rationalize any behavior. This includes censoring and de-platforming voices that don't agree with them.

After you've convinced yourself that "I believe that we should hire whoever is the most qualified, regardless of their ethnicity" or "I believe that all lives matter equally, none more than any other" are HATE SPEECH, it's very easy to convince yourself to ban people with those opinions from being able to speak their opinion. This is why throwing around "Nazi!", "White Supremacist!" for people not actually exhibiting those behaviors is so dangerous. Once you de-humanize someone, it's easier to convince yourself to take away their human rights (like free speech).
> You can not criminalize many things that boil down to minor instances of bad judgement and convert many nonviolent crimes into civil crimes, limit the circumstances under which police can arrest, limit the punishments the courts can inflict, require more prompt trials and releases, etc, etc.

What is interesting to me is that the article itself does not consider this alternative at all. But the simplest way to drastically reduce the number of people who are in jail pretrial because they can't afford bail would be to make the things they were charged with no longer crimes. For example, simple drug possession.

> Criminals who have not yet crossed paths with the system to really get punished to the point of changing or thrown in jail will harm and kill people.

Harming and killing people, and threats to do those things, would still be crimes in a system where the things you describe were decriminalized, and if those kinds of crimes were the only crimes the justice system had to deal with, the system could afford to hold people charged with such crimes in jail pretrial without bail if it was deemed too risky to release them, because it wouldn't take months or years to try them.
The article doesn't mention that this is a project sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, which is a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Foundation. Bhattacharya himself, while a legitimate doctor and medical researcher, was also formerly affiliated with the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank.

Also:

> More than 100 medical and health experts at Stanford signed a letter condemning their colleague’s “falsehoods and misrepresentations,” saying they “undermine public-health authorities and the credible science that guides effective public health policy.” (source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/herd-immu...)
I think the issue is that it is a collective action problem. No one person's actions on the margin are really making much difference to society-wide spread and assuming you don't want to completely isolate yourself indefinitely, then your personal risk of contracting COVID is very sensitive to the level of infection in the society around you. In theory, we could achieve a higher average standard of living all around if we could coordinate everyone reducing their risky behavior by 30% (a number I just made up).

This is the point that I think often gets missed in the discussion around "lockdowns". I would bet that we could actually reduce the spread of COVID quite substantially without a massive change in the living standards of most people. The problem is that there is a segment of people who refuse to do anything at all to reduce the risk of transmission so we end up having to take more extreme actions to compensate.
Yes, I read the article. Your quotes do not answer my question.
Permits and regulations should be solved too. Prefab houses can be identical or use a finite set of components that could be pre-approved easily.
Why wouldn't they accept png format submissions? I create stuff (mostly super-simple tiled backgrounds) in Kolourpaint and I always save as png.