skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody said that retired pro linemen tend to be slim, because they got really tired of having to carry 300+ pounds, and that retired pro wide receivers are the ones that run to fat, now that they don't have to stay fit for speed and agility.
The Taiwanese CDC shared evidence in December that strongly suggested human-to-human transmission[1]. The WHO chose not to share this communication and went further by publishing the above tweet which suggested the exact opposite.

Their co-lead on COVID-19 even went so far as to hang up on a journalist[2] who asked about Taiwan.

If this is your idea of "correct behaviour" for a scientific org, I cringe to imagine your vision of a poorly run one.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/PAD-lbwDHeN_bLa-vi....

[2] https://youtu.be/fASh2_RzMuE
The state of printers in general makes me so sad. The best printer I ever had was an HP in the late 90s. THE LATE 90S!

Since then printers still jam all the time, have ridiculously expensive ink, don't work worth a damn (or at all) with my devices (lots of Linux and Android), and all sorts of other issues, and lately they seem to have some sort of DRM that when I took our printer offline for a few months, it never came back. The internals seem completely seized up. Some Googling has shown that many suspect it bricked itself because it couldn't reach the backend service it reports to. Speculation of course, but still absolutely enraging.

I haven't printed more than a handful of pages in 10 years but my wife prints all the time. Part of me wishes she would either stop printing (not likely as she loves paper) or print enough to justify spending more money to escape the consumer printer space. In the mean time I wish I'd kept that HP from the 90s. Donating that and thinking things would only get better with time was a huge mistake. D-:
I've written Python for over a decade. There are two problems with Python.

First, the excellent readability leads directly into hard-to-read code structures. This might seem paradoxical but Dijkstra insisted that the same thing happened in FORTRAN, and I'm willing to defer to his instinct that there's something about the "shut up and calculate" approach that physicists have which causes a predilection for both FORTRAN and Python.

Second, Python 2 to Python 3 was horrible, and created political problems which hadn't existed before. Now, at the end of the transition, we can see how badly it was managed; Python 2 could have been retrofitted with nearly every breaking change and it would have been lower-friction. Instead, there's now millions of lines of rotting Python 2 code which will never be updated again. Curiously, this happened in the FORTRAN world too; I wasn't around for it, but FORTRAN 77 was so popular compared to future revisions and standardizations that it fractured the FORTRAN community.
I would consider it huge progress today if someone were to implement cleanly and without all sorts of glitches the basic featureset of Windows 95...

So far all the majors are far behind in user-facing polish.
They're pretty fundamental. speech to text networks like DeepSpeech convert audio to an MFCC power spectrogram. Others use an Stft magnitude spectrogram.

It's a 2-d (amplitude by Freq and time) representation of something that's usually 1-d (amplitude over time).

I think some networks have tried using the discrete wavelet transform too,but that's outside my knowledge area.
Thanks so much! That helped a lot.
Sure, arresting people for quoting Churchill seems like a potential definition of "working". [1] There's no way that arresting people for a twitter post [2] could be abused. Nobody needs free speech for reposting rap lyrics. [3]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[1] https://thenewamerican.com/hate-speech-u-k-political-leader-...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-offensive-face...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921
I'm running on the same business color laserjet from Dell (relabeled Brother MFC I think) from ~2013. It's never failed me. I feel like every consumer printer I've ever owned was a giant p.o.s. . I regret not going business level on printers much much earlier.
I mean it can also be used as a universal, semi-permenant activity tracking id with almost no work, which may not be desirable depending on your feelings wrt privacy.

Maybe an ability to generate virtual IDs based on a permanent id (like with virtual credit cards) might help though this is sometimes tricky to use correctly in a privacy-preserving way.
The YouTube suggestion algorithm is also amazing. As a hobbyist I find so much cool stuff completely unrelated to politics. I hope they can fix the bad without ruining the good, is what I'm saying.
> Do you remember printing in 2000?

Yes I do. No there were no "literally every printer was suffering".

1995-2000 was a perfectly fine era of B&W desktop laser printing (others can chime in about how it was before 1995). Go get some computer history education, or ask an adult in the room.
>If you have family, work from home is great.

Hah, I feel the opposite. Having my family at home is what makes WFH unbearable. I'm constantly exposed to the stress of getting a child through the hybrid learning school schedule.

I get absolutely no quiet time or alone time during the day, whereas my office has many quiet places for me to clear my mind for a few minutes.
Is there a reason to read more into it than "they're really old and brittle and noses are thin and stick out"?
> The only thing that will save us as a society is completely unadulterated free speech.

I really want this to be true, but I have doubts. Do you know any resources that expand and elaborate on this point?
I use this extension for Firefox, which does the job pretty well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-youtub...
The issue is then speed, you can't engrave at anywhere near the same speed as you can print.
There are better and worse examples of FFF printing. The current heavyweight printers from Creality, while being some of the cheapest you can buy, have been dialed in to the point they can make amazing output.

The problem here is that you're zooming in on a 1x2 CM part...It's like taking a 12 Mpixel photo, then looking at a 320x200 size part of it...it'll still look pixelated.
Fair enough, according to my Apple ID history I did in fact install it a couple years ago. But the point still stands - the app wasn't used, not connected to any account, yet one day it still pushed extremist content to my home screen.
Interestingly, the commissioned study opens with a productivity argument being much more than any of those perks:

> Loss of focus due to distractions translates to an estimated annual salary cost of US$34,448 per person in lost productivity, or US$391bn for US companies in
the sectors analysed, equivalent to 28% of baseline salary payments
Unless they've moved their target, ReactOS was aiming for binary compatibility with Windows XP.
Creating new lines of business in established companies
For what it's worth, there is a lot of movement in the Federal government to open source code that is written for the government. The GSA, which is the kind of meta agency that helps other federal agencies do stuff talks a lot about this. They also have a site called https://code.gov/ that lists open source projects created for the Federal government. A lot of their own repositories are completely open source and they do development in the open.

I work on a contract for the CDC and we open sourced an older version of the software we display data on maps in: https://github.com/CDCgov/CDC-Maps

I'm working on switching our development to open so we use the same codebase that is available to everybody and adding other visualizations. It's slow going but there is movement there. I do agree it would be beneficial to fund open source projects, likely by including some requirement in contracts.

I think them funding projects directly with cash could cause a lot of problems though. The increase regulations that would need to be added would probably not be worth it for open source projects. People who get funding would likely need to submit a lot of documentation, there'd also probably be weird rules about non U.S. citizens etc... and laws would need to be passed.
I think it's important to make the distinction that while you can be friends with your colleagues it's very important to also have friends outside of work. Having friends from work is great, but if you only have friends from work then you have nothing outside of work which isn't healthy (for example, if things start going poorly at work then it can feel like you are trapped).
Yep, that's similar to how I feel about MBTi.

One thing you need to separate out the 16 MBTI archtypes with the test(s) used to determine which type you are. Not everyone fits into one of the 16 types perfectly and not every test reliably figures out which of the 16 types you are, not to mention that dividing the entire human population into 16 types is an overly simplistic way of categorizing personalities.

That doesn't mean MBTI is useless. You can take a test and hope that it reasonably finds what type you are or you can simply read the archtypes for all 16 types and figure out which type you are closest to.

I think the community element is the most underrated aspect of MBTI, esp if you're a rare type that's been misunderstood most of your life. I can certainly related as an INTP and have struggled most of my life when taking the advice of my parents, teachers, professors, mentors, even self-help gurus only to get limited results despite following their advice almost exactly. When I learned that I was an INTP and followed the advice from other INTPs, I finally felt understood and was able to follow a different set of advice that got me much further in life than following the conventional advice from the former parties.

Is it scientific? It's debatable. Is it useful? It depends but personally, it has been tremendously helpful.
I have done this for years. I have seen that some people don't like it for the following reasons.

1. They prefer a predictable schedule.
2. They don't like being at home ( family or workspace issues)
3. They are good at or enjoy office politics.
4. They are incompetent managers and they don't know how to manage engineers other than looking over shoulders and taking attendence.
The Simpleton Manifesto: The answer is not or rarely simple
Is the story demonstrably false? I don't know if that is the case. It's certainly a smear story. In the past they've fact-checked Tweets from the President and his party but, I've not yet seen them straight up delete them and lock their accounts until now.
There's about 80 million square feet of office space in SF. 95% occupancy is actually extremely high.
I meant variant for the same instruction. Is expect a divide to be slower than an add but I wasn't sure if a single instruction would have a range.
That'd be a good problem to have :)
>No single person can set the amount of risks he wants to take, it has to be decided globally.

This is preposterous. Each individual must evaluate their own risk tolerance.

If you're waiting on the world to decide something for you, you're playing life as a waiting game.

Please don't shame people for having a different risk tolerance than you.
So how do we have a 7000 word essay which sidesteps that claim without providing a better explanation.

One of the claims in this essay is that noses were removed by early Christians to discourage polytheism - if so, then why do ancient Greek gods still have their noses?

Whatever academic reason you can come up with, noses were ultimately targeted because someone with political power or some group of people specifically did not like these noses.

And why did they not like these noses?
Intelligence and Investigation Talent Moves (15 October)
Or at least, you feel like there isn't
A few days ago their CEO was quoted in an article saying WFH doesn’t work and he can’t wait to get everyone back to the office.
Sorry I meant iPod, but I guess that word is uncommon enough that autocorrect changed it to iPad. And it's too late for me to edit.

It's surprisingly hard to find photos of the old connector; here's one: https://regmedia.co.uk/2011/09/27/ipod_1.jpg

(I do still own an original iPad too, and use it)
"If I say shitty racist things that others correctly perceive as shitty and racist people won't want to associate with me" isn't even remotely comparable to the state putting you in jail and it requires an incredibly easily bruised sense of self to suggest it.
The best friends I've made in my career were from remote only teams. I guess you could say full remote is problematic in the sense that so is in-office for building relationships/teams. It's a trade off and I suspect the winning strategy is the one that is invested into the most, rather than one being inherently better than the other.
> But if you're single, staying cooped up alone at home can be a disaster.

During COVID I would say this is more of a problem but in my 8 years of remote work I don't really miss the office at all. In normal times you can get out if you want to head to a coffee shop or something. We do video calls which seems to help some of the team members feel better about the situation. Having a commute was absolutely the most stressful thing for me.

I do most of my socializing outside of working hours. Being alone and remote doesn't seem to effect me but I'm also super introverted. I understand this may effect extroverts differently.
The design itself could also probably be made more FDM-friendly.
No, it's really much closer to a light version of NodeJS.
For the broken nose part - apparently the belief at the time was that the nose of the statue could give life to the spirit of the dead person it represented (by inhaling incense?)

So, by breaking the nose off, tomb robbers 'kill' the statue's ability to bring back the spirit and thus avoid their ire.

I always thought it was the phallic symbolism
You need an 1980s Daisy Wheel Printer. Problem solved.
No, I think this is just sound legal advice. You, as a line level employee and not in the legal department, should NOT discuss any matters that have legal scrutiny. There is no "party line" outside of the legal line here.
> They missed being able to connect face to face with colleagues and had trouble setting boundaries for when work started or ended.

Exactly my experience. But I vastly prefer audio only meetings and don't understand why so many people use video. Not only can you look at something sensible instead of a face (no offense), but you can also do other stuff when it gets boring.

Sales prefers video of course and it depends on the topic. Certain topic and meetings with external people is often better with video support, but I don't need to see my colleagues faces and I wouldn't expect anyone to put on pants when there is no need.
Censorship is when the government, not private enterprises, stifle speech. When it a private entity, it’s called free market.

This is a difficult concept for whiners to accept.
It really changes the whole "I live with someone" situation. A 1BR with a partner may be reasonable when you each go to work for 8+ hours a day. A 1BR when you're both working from home, taking meetings and calls, etc, is a completely different story. It means a 2BR is really a requirement for most people who are in a relationship IMO, and that's a massive cost difference, many thousands a year.
I do sometimes wonder if the lack of preemptive multitasking and memory protection in classic Mac OS may have ironically led to better quality software. Users are forced to be less tolerant of bugs if a piece of buggy software can lock up your whole computer.
Very well explained!

I though the text was encrypted but then I realized it was just french. Damn.
AppSec Lessons from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
If only they would accept a detached PGP signature based on the contents of the document ...
Pure evil.
This is an interesting project, a 3D printed 2D CAD drawing machine. Basically a 3D printed plotter!

GRBL Plotter Elegoo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYqx5wg4oLU
How is this different from the outrage factories of the tabloid news?

Is YouTube’s approach to extremist content different from a tabloid in any way other than efficiency/reach?

Are we really complaining about a basic aspect of human psychology rather than a business innovation from these companies?

If we smash YouTube, what about the tabloid press? How do we actually regulate this stuff in a consistent way? (And how do we do it inside the confines of the first amendment?)
IMHO no one reviews resumes like that. You're almost always going through a huge stack of resumes, spending very little time on each one.
I'm actually pretty excited about the opportunities here. Online courses have so many advantages (replay, fast-forward, etc). Even the online discussion groups running as text are more egalitarian letting everyone contribute unlike the seminar rooms where the bold and quick thinking dominate.

Let's celebrate the opportunities ahead and quit looking back at those overpriced schools. We can get the socializing other ways.
No January 2019. As a reply to the WHO revising their opinion on human-to-human transmission commment above. I read the situation reports a lot as well, I guess I'll start doing so again.
Accessibility would probably be the biggest difficulty that might be legally required through poorly interacting laws.

(Not to say that things shouldn't be accessible, but we've already seen good-will gestures ruined because of this case. Some university posts lectures online to be nice, forced to take them down because they aren't accessible.)
Everything about your response screams "naivete".

The NYTimes role in society is packaging official narratives for mass consumption. Their MO is mindlessly repeating whatever the IC tells them. This is not a new concept [1].

[1] https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/orwells-proposed-introduc...
We've been doing a couple of things now that everyone is wfh. We have these mixer meetings on Friday where you meet with people you never work with normally, in small groups, and talk about what you're working on. We also have online trivia contests and other games sometimes it just shoot the breeze (as sanctioned, boss scheduled meetings).

As someone so has worked from home a lot over the last 20+ years and had been working from home for a few years prior in a business where everyone else was in the office (until this Spring), I appreciate the extra time hanging out.

I was fine before but part of that is that I transitioned from full time in the office to wfh when my spouse was relocated.
Was the ‘Surprised Pikachu’ Meme a Stealth Marketing Campaign?
I think it's not correct. I also think it wasn't correct to deliberately spread a false story about President Trump disrespecting marines, but social media sites didn't take the same precautions with that story.
tl;dr: Statue of $person embodies soul of $person in afterlife. "Embodies" literally, as in gives them a body. Hate/fear $person? Suffocate AND insult them by removing nose from statue.
Is that any different than any other "government funds X" proposal? If this is a consistent problem, then government is just plain broken. Which is of course a problem, but an orthogonal one to software funding specifically.
For the Love of Peat
So they downvote instead... lol
I really hate this hand-wringing over supposed censorship.

The Internet has had to deal with trolls and cheaters from day one. If someone sends a packet that indicates they got a headshot in a multiplayer FPS, they could be cheating so we invented anti-cheat. If someone spams an email account claiming to be a Nigerian price, it doesn’t mean that’s true so we invented spam detection. If someone makes a blog post claiming product X changed their life, it could be an ad so we have ad detectors.

Year after year, people find new ways to manipulate online communities. The people who run them have an obligation to prevent them from becoming toxic.

Now we have powerful actors manipulating political discourse and suddenly the rules are different? It’s complicated but that’s what happens when you serve billion(s) of users.
Not only will they save money on office space but many of these companies are requiring employees to take pay cuts if they move to a lower cost area. Like all the sudden your value to the company changes because you moved?
I'm pretty sure current China would disagree with you given the amount of people they've raised from essentially peasantry to a modern middle class in the past generation.
Piuma: Programmable Integrated Unified Memory Architecture
> The principle is designing privacy into the default way people use things.

And Android puts it right there in device setup, allowing them tonset up their privacy preferences correctly the way people use things.

> Do you think my mom knows how to opt out of something like that on Android or if that's even possible?

If she uses Android, she would. It asks her right there in setup. Do you think your mom knows that Apple tracks every location she has ever been, and she can't make them stop? Even you don't know it, and you're arguably tech literate.

The correct way to handle privacy is giving users the choice between usability and privacy. Android does this correctly. Google's Android devices default to usable, which gives you services that are actually useful unlike the iOS apps that are missing functionality, and allows the user to install apps that are actually private and set them as default if they prefer. Other Android distributions default to the other side. iOS is worse both for people who value functionality and for people who value privacy because it gives you defaults that are neither private nor usable that you cannot change.
I disagree. At any of my previous jobs when work started going poorly, my friendships were, if anything, a boon to me because I had a support system that immediately understood my work situation and challenges. They were immediately in a position to help because of their close proximity both to me and the challenges at work I was facing. After leaving one job, the relationships with my "work friends" were invaluable to me in helping me find another job since they were in the same field and had connections I could leverage.

Outside of work, my "work friends" and I go out to eat, go play sports together, hang out at each other's houses, etc. We talk about work sometimes because it's obviously a common interest, but our friendship doesn't revolve around it, and if someone severs their relationship with the employer that we have in common, it does not mean our friendship also severs.
The article mentions three ideas for how:

> All three of these levers for FOSS—direct funding, procurement regulation, and tax incentives—should be included in the next infrastructure bill.
How are alternatives working out? Because we're watching people worry so much about an Orwellian future that they're running headlong into a Stephensonian future.
The algorithm makes sense in certain cases, such as music or tv shows, but it's not a one size fits all solution.

Another issue is the use of autoplay (which is enabled by default in chrome on my phone), where they keep shoveling more content at you even if you didn't intend to watch more.
I'm not sure that the obviousness of this kind could be trusted. The idea of "phallic" was popularized by Freud. It is understandable that we are now have phallic symbols and see them in any prolonged object, either it is because of our nature, or it is because Freud made us to see them.

But I'd rather not to apply this very idea to people of ancient Egypt. Or at least I wouldn't trust it's obviousness. Obvious is not a synonym of a true.
Unless the design has changed, there is a pad that absorbs overflow ink from cleaning the print heads. After some time, that pad will be full, and then the printer will refuse to ever print again.

I've now had 2 Pixma G series break that way, with a third well set on that course.