skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it, though? I've always brought my own tools - my Aeron, my preferred high-refresh monitors, a Linux dev machine where possible, my monitor arms, my IDE.

I have a good setup. I know it works.

It's not as feasible to get my own standing desk in each time so I let that go. But they always give me everything and I just set them aside and use my (superior) tooling.

I don't think that's paying the company. That's just me buying tools that are optimal for me. I don't really need each employer to do that for me. These things are mostly buy it for life (except for the desktop and IDE license).
The problem is that YouTube is so large, and while it is not governmental it is one of the few video sharing platforms that people remotely care about. Coming in behind is places like vimeo. Then super far behind are various smaller video sites (such as ones that use PeerTube).

While presenting misinformation is a political act, it is a more 'neutral' political act. In that, since many people are able to put forward content, that doesn't stop ideas from either side. Yes, that doesn't mean that truth will automatically come from that mix, but it allows for the potential of truth to be found. When you have a massive company controlling so much of content, it has a large amount of ability to influence the people using the platform.
As well, I think banning misinformation is a legitimate slippery slope. It increases people's willingness to have other's censored for their incorrect beliefs, which once you have gotten far enough will be the new normal.
> methods like ChaCha20 can generate random data at 4GB+ per core per second on a modern CPU

For MC path tracing (graphics) this is at least an order of magnitude too slow.
This article gives reasons why the statues were broken but doesn't give a convincing reason why the noses are particularly targeted (sure, you breathe through the nose - but you also breathe through the mouth).

It's now commonly suggested that the statue's noses most obviously indicated African heritage: that they were representing Black Africans - and white Christians wanted to erase that heritage.

I find it surprising that this apparently-scholarly article wouldn't touch upon that.
This is an awesome read. I was wondering about the how to deal with that problem I suspected would come up and like how it 'addresses' it.
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I traveled to Cuba and changed my badly shaped opinion of Castro. If you have the chance give it a shot. I think Castro was really sympathetic to the Cuban's plight and did more for the country than many others for their own countries. Cubans are calm, educated and friendly, but poor by our own standards. But guess what? They're not unhappy at all, depression there is almost nonexistent and contrasting that to how widespread it is in the western world it clearly shows an unsettling trend. And FYI Castro lived a modest live, he didn't seek to own a lot of material goods like a lot of other leaders.
The longer this goes, the more normalized it becomes. There’s also the fact that some percentage of workers have made it very clear that they do not want to return to an office, and companies fear mass attrition to permanent WFH companies if they don’t setup a release valve.

A VP recently told me that he expected 15-20% attrition if he demanded a return to the office once this is over.

On the coffee shop front, the most likely outcome is that remote workers will move to smaller cities away from NYC and coastal CA. Coffee shops and restaurants will still get patrons, but there will be more of them in Denver and Austin than SF and LA.
Depends what else shares that orbit, or crosses its path at close orbital distances, doesn't it? If it does break up into pieces then you have a slowly dispersing shotgun blast of heavy metals polluting a wide range of orbits. If it doesn't, you have one tiny hard-to-track but very massive cannonball lurking out there waiting to strike.

The heavier the fragments and the less eccentric the orbit of untracked space junk, the more dangerous it is, because the longer it'll be hanging around before it gets close enough to Earth to de-orbit itself.
Maybe compile supercollider to wasm and use that, so that you don't fully reinvent the wheel for synthesis languages (not that it hasn't already been reinvented over and over and over).
almost 1000 comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780798
Another reason: compile times are super fast compared to Rust and C++ even with lots of metaprogramming.
To some extent, gradual change of material properties can be achieved with software (by gradually changing infill density, for example).

Otherwise, mixing filaments to combine them in real-time is already a reality in desktop 3D printing[1].

[1]https://www.mosaicmfg.com/products/palette-2
> As an example, consider page fault handling for a situation where part of access is valid and other part is not,

The OS has to handle this case anyway for misaligned loads and stores.
At a glance, the black ones appear to be made of granite - this is very tough! You might wonder how they were ever able to make such perfect representations with very hard material 3000+ years ago. And to then polish them so well that the polish still looks good after all this time, as on the picture at the top of that article.

However (and whenever) they were made, once made, these are hard and most definitely do NOT break accidentally. Well, not so many of them as that, anyway. If it is granite, I think you could drop a statue like that and it would break your wood or marble floor, rather than break off accidentally.
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Their actual message is exactly what you should want and expect from a science based organisation:

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳.

There is nothing false or misleading, and they updated the public as new information came to light.

I can't emphasis enough how correct this behaviour is for a scientific organisation.

And for the sceptics who will claim China was covering something up: why didn't they shut down Wuhan until 23 Jan?
I didn't decrease how much I went to coffee shops and restaurants when I started working from home several years ago. That happened with COVID ...
and it's my first submission on hacker news too :D

That aside, IDK I read it in the group I was in and felt it would be liked here.
This ignores the software aspect. My Macbook feels incredibly fast, but Windows tends to feel sluggish after a year or two.

The hardware might last longer, but only if you have a need for it.
> They also restrict your account so you can't do anything, but they leave the ads running and keep billing you. This bankrupts people who can't pause their unprofitable campaigns. My business partner was being billed ten grand daily via a banned/restricted account for weeks on end.

Why would you not just call your bank up, and get it charged back/refunded at that point? Thus Facebook would probably "ban" you (like most merchants when you do a chargeback), but since you're already restricted, who cares. At least you aren't losing money from them.
Just as permanent this decision may seem, they could also reverse it permanently when covid is a thing of the past and people and productivity yearn for the office.
Fun fact: Ceph is being rebuilt with the core engine of Scylla, Seastar, at its heart:

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/dev/seastore/
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> Printers are cheap and widely available

Then how about a printer that can print on a large wall? E.g. with spray paint.
I actually appreciate the suggestions, it's how I have found most of the content I enjoy, and it's an important way to let new YouTube channels get established.

But yeah, I dread when someone sends me a politically charged video and suddenly my feed is full of crazy people.
>co-workers aren't friends, bosses aren't friends, clients aren't friends, work relationships aren't friends.

It really saddens me whenever I see this (apparently common) sentiment on HN. Through every job I've had, I've met some of my very best life-long friends. My wedding party is over half people that I met at work. A couple of my former bosses are people I see every couple of months (pre-covid) and are invited to my wedding. Even one of my past clients is someone that I keep in touch with regularly (for nothing related to work).

Not everyone at work is going to become your best friend, but if you're automatically assuming that anyone you meet through your job is completely "off limits" for friendship, you're really hurting yourself. I can't imagine working at a place like that.
To add a little more context, my service needs to have access to all the users files and maintain folder structure. Then apply some transformations on those files, for example convert HEIC files to jpeg and that sort of thing.

Technically I don’t have to support all file types but from my understanding most sync logic works on binary diff anyways so it isn’t much of a shorty cut.
I thought you can at least derive location and date of birth with quite a bit of accuracy from them. Also if a data set containing the SSN is leaked anyone can cross reference it with any other leaked data set. Ideally you would need a unique and completely random SSN per service.
Sincere question for the folks who posit that any regulation of broadcast of information is pragmatically bad: do you think there's no problem with the scale of the disinformation campaigns in popular social media? Or that it's a problem, but same as it ever was? Or that it's an unsolvable problem? Or that there's some other solution?
The senate stayed red because there were basically zero unsafe red seats open and lots of unsafe blue seats open. If, by coincidence, zero republicans were up for reelection in the senate it would be impossible for the dems to gain seats even in the biggest wave possible. Any analysis which ignores this issue is just foolish.
Robert T. Morris can speak from experience about distribute systems. He's been around for a long time, done a lot of cool things.
Does anyone try to shift audio mixing to the GPU and use the audio output of HDMI? I don't know if modern GPUs can take buffers and move them to the audio buffer without going out and back in through PCIe but it seems plausible.
I read so many of those words and learned so little.
Yep.

When I called the CIA researchers "quacks" I did so for a reason: when tox testing, it is customary to start with a minimal dose then increase it progressively until it exhibits a measurable effect, not start with a huge overdose!

297mg is one thousand times the typical dose sold for black market acid in the mid-1960s, per wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Dos...

(As an elephant weighs on the order of 20-50 times as much as a human, administering a thousand times a typical human dose was ... inadvisable to say the least.)
The end effect is the same, shutting down the conversation.
Let me preface this by saying I used to be a free speech absolutist, and maybe I will be again some day. I still don't think the government should be banning speech. But I think companies moderating their spaces is necessary.

Good moderation is large part of why this forum is so good in the first place. The history of the internet has shown us that unmoderated spaces turn into dumpster fires.

German history seems to be the classic example of an unchecked conspiracy theory doing massive damage. That is why holocaust denial was made illegal in much of Europe.

I am ignorant of most of the other histories. Would love to hear your take.

(Also as an aside, I upvoted you since I think you make good points and provoke an interesting discussion, even if we don't agree on everything).
Do you mean in January 2020?

They were talking about it a lot then: they had daily situation reports on the WHO website. I know because I was reading them!
In practice I don't see too many companies going full on litigious towards small players or end users- especially not Microsoft as many of their moves as of late hinge on interoperability. But it'd be certainly a worry as it'd be very much weaponized when it comes to big companies against each other, which of course will affect the end user one way or another.
VR developer offers $5000 bounty for Quest 2 jailbreak
I absolutely did not have the same reaction you had to their post. The very first sentence could be read as a broad brush statement, but the rest of the post makes it clear it was based on their personal experience. If that wasn't understood, then either the full post wasn't read or reading comprehension isn't as strong with some readers (ESL could factor).
paying it out as salary is less tax efficient. simply marking it as "equipment stipend" would probably not be enough to prevent it from being counted as income under tax law. if you already have accountants to track business expenses, it's probably more efficient to do whatever the minimum amount of expense tracking is needed to make it a non-taxed expense. plus if you give everyone a budget, there's always the chance that some of them won't spend all of it each year.
Vue 3: ref object is an offence to idiomatic JavaScript, syntactically
Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?
Rhumba is a substitute for CRAN that's 25x faster
No the ideal end game is that we specialize into whatever role we want with full autonomy without having to worry about things we don't want to worry about. I dont want to have to know how to build a house or do construction work. Once upon a time, I would have had to know how to make a shelter. Now, because that's become a service, I can focus my energy on things I enjoy. But if I wanted to, I could focus my energy on construction. But I dont want to - instead I specialize in ields im good at and build a competitive advantage to generate wealth. We are a species are wealthier than ever (well, maybe we were wealthier a few months ago) and have accomplished more and more because of specialization. We were stuck in the role of "generalist survivor" for a couple million years, never really advancing, until specialization happened.
Ethernet setup - do you hire techs and electricians to run cabling?

The biggest issue with me for WFH has been the quality of my internet connection and it was entirely on me to get Comcast to come fix my lines and run my own ethernet to my basement "office".
Why couldn't you just not undo it, and have it read/write twice? This wouldn't be a problem if you're accessing normal ram, like the prologue and epilogue of a function. Add a comment to the manual saying to not use this instruction when reading/writing hardware registers where accessing it changes state.
I would think San Francisco would be the only city really in trouble right now.
Yes, those people. As I said, they get tripped from time-to-time, but they modify their process when it happens.

In that case, they had multiple intelligence agency sources feeding them the same bad data, so their cross-checks failed. They've down-sampled the reliability of those sources in subsequent years.
I'm 2 decades into my career and have been working from home for a fortune 100 company for 2 years before covid (well, we would meet once a week in the office but just for meetings), so when the pandemic hit, it didn't change our work habits.

A cheap Ikea desk is perfect for my needs. It's a wood counter-top board and 2 adjustable sawhorses. Cost me about $200. However where I spent the money is on a good 5k monitor. With these 2 (and a saddle chair), I have everything I need for a workspace that is far more functional than an expensive modular furniture desk (ie. cubicle) with a low-res monitor.
The Ancient Art of Archery Teaches Us How to Live
Nim has productivity, expressiveness and readability that matches Python. Not the dynamic typing.
> Imagine you hit a bus error on the last memory access of LDM. You already updated 15 registers, so now you need to undo all of that.

Irrelevant. "Undo all of that" is just a matter of using an older version of the register alias table. The retirement process has do to that for any and all faults anyway.
Maybe if you move the printer head over the paper (like in 3D) rather than drag paper though the device you could make something simple (b/w) with impressive life span. I have no idea if such printers exist.
The surprise the article mentions is not directed at the injustice around us, but at the "strange methods employed by the new-left against those injustices. (I"m attempting to summarize the article, not necessarily providing my own opinion here).

The middle of the article is best, when it puts name to the movement and attempts to describe it so it can be understood by a moderate / non-ultra-progressive thinker. In this case, it casts those moderates as people who would otherwise support the traditional "liberalism"'s quests for equality under the law and opportunity, regardless of race, creed, sex, etc etc, and incrementally improving a system created hundreds of years ago by dead white guys. It attempts to describe impartially the ultra-progressive viewpoint that any competition that has a winner should be torn down, since it obviously has systemic biases due to it being created by dead white guys (their words, mostly).
YouTube Cracks Down on QAnon Conspiracy Theory, Citing Offline Violence
For readers unfamiliar with the project: it's been in alpha for 24 years, although it now targets Server 2003/XP instead of Win95 which it originally did in 1996.
I do still call them the Laserjet 41.3, though.
Managing harmful conspiracy theories on YouTube
Ah, that's true, taxes are an angle I didn't think of!
For me, I think this picture[0] illustrates how I feel about this pretty well. The idea that the data, for lack of a better term, that we generate just via interaction with our devices isn't somehow useful is now a concept that I fundamentally feel is a little astonishing in 2020. The very foundational idea of the internet, that ideas can be shared via links and documents (and so much more now) never left me. I think there is huge room in building user interfaces that take this to its core. For instance, why shouldn't my filesystem be used in such a way that I can build links between applications, files, and sharability? Why can't this be extended to say, link inside one application to another so discrete application functionality is available regardd of what app I have open at the very moment? The idea that I have to "switch" apps is fundamentally old.

I'm not sure that I have all the answers, but one area where I know this would make a ton of sense is the simple note taking apps that I feel tech and non tech users alike use. The digital sticky note is something that has been strived for since the early days of graphical computing in particular, but alas no one entity has ever really delivered on it in a way that I would call 'semantic' but it perfectly illustrates a situation where I think this concept is super obvious, because you want different things to be linked for different reasons. And that fundamentally describes what I'm talking about, is I want to be able to have things be linked based on their relationships with other things, be it applications, data, etc that I build over time. The fundamental interaction model here is that I should be able to make these switches and those switches to have meaning when I make them, rather than the current status quo, which is I have to deliberate strike an interaction between programs or actions within programs, rather than things be linked semi-heteogenerously based on exposing semantics based around my whole "system", if you will.

[0] https://res.cloudinary.com/indysigner/image/fetch/f_auto,q_a...
This really is the way to do it in my opinion. Collaboration is one of the hardest parts to do remote (though I think VR could make this better)
Hey, I have a fairly old Airport Express; the box says 2004. The physical "factory reset" button doesn't seem to work anymore, but it's in a ready-to-be-configured default state (I got it there by connecting it to a network via Ethernet). It would need the old version of Airport Utility, but I'm assuming your dad knows that already, if he's looking for the old ones.

If he's interested, please let me know.
It seems like using WireGuard on the "end target" to automatically connect to (WireGuard on) the proxy would be an easy workaround.

I did basically the same thing years ago for remote console devices deployed inside various customer networks where I had little or no control over the network. At that time, I used OpenVPN to automatically connect back to our "VPN servers" -- providing access to the device even if it was behind two or three layers of NAT (which, unfortunately, wasn't uncommon!).
Vary your sentence length. Don't follow strict length rules for each sentence, as good writing employs a mix of short, medium, and long sentences. Incorporating variety avoids monotonous writing, creates emphasis where needed, and helps the reader understand the relationship between different points.

Write in different environments/context (e.g., write drunk, edit sober).

Refer to the "The Elements of Style" when in doubt concerning style.
'Person in jetpack' spotted flying again near LA airport
> things are going to need to be sacrificed.

What a comically cliche and stereotypical error that people keep making. 20 years ago it was the Bush and Cheney saying the same thing. Now its the liberals saying that the "poor, ignorant masses" need to be saved from themselves. For the record, I'm also a liberal, but old school liberal, not the contemporary liberal that eschews giving the same rights to those that I disagree with.

Who gets to decide what gets sacrificed? You? What happens when The Other Side gets control? The laws that protect their free speech are the exact same laws that will protect our rights when the opposition gets control.

Never, ever, ever mess with the ideals of Free Speech. No one is smart enough or uncorrupt enough to navigate that properly. The only thing that will save us as a society is completely unadulterated free speech. What we do as a society is to educate as best as we can and let the chips fall where they may. Which is hard, because we have the worst levels of education in developed countries, so we are reaping what we sowed for the last few decades. But basically it's herd immunity for information.
I hear what you're saying, and I have similar concerns. On the flipside, there is research out there that indicates in certain treatment scenarios, computers do a better job of detecting patterns, resulting in more accurate diagnoses and potentially better treatment overall. Perhaps this is an opportunity to catch it earlier and treat them sooner?
Agreed. I’ve printed dishwasher replacement parts using ABS that hold up perfectly in high temps soaking in water. PLA is also great for certain applications and can look and feel very nice when done right.
"it's now commonly suggested" a lot of things are commonly suggested today that have no basis in reality or no representation in real history.

This is no different than Ancient Aliens where all of history is changed to be full of Aliens. Creating what you want to see out of scant evidence to support the claim. "Connecting the dots" to say what you want.

Taking history and deciding that "race" is the reason something happens... doesn't change history to make that assertion true.

Noses broke because "race"? False

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/29/fac...