skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately a lot of police training in the US is about lowering inhibitions about being the first to use violence, google "warrior training" for more details.

But I think that is a very real problem in regards to the sort of late night kinetic entries that result in the deaths of so many civilians and cops. I think that SWAT teams can have their place in large metros like LA where the sort of events that called for them happen every once in a while. But in third or fourth tier cities the local government can't afford the sort of intensive training required for a job like that but also those teams are always being sent on drug raids or things like that because there just aren't any incidents that would justify the existence of the teams otherwise. But sending a SWAT team into a situation that isn't already violent is just a terrible idea and US army forces, for instance, make an effort to avoid late night raids in a way that I wish our law enforcement community would follow.
Haha, I always wondered if I'd find a thread on HN that actually recognized that workers are human and to be human is to defecate. Truly the one thing we have in common with kings. The true art is to speak about it obliquely.... probably won't accomplish that here.

In All Quiet on the Western Front, there's a passage about this, where the men discover a tremendous camaraderie about their shared shitting time - since there's no way to have privacy or any nicer facilities than what they can scrape together, it's basically just a purely functional experience. They sit in a field and provide each other dignity, instead of privacy; something we could well learn from.

Interestingly, the Romans also had this - https://www.history.com/.image/t_share/MTcxODU0MDM4OTM2MDY5N... - and it seems they did fine by it. It may be only really in relatively recent Western culture that we added a layer of shame over a natural act, and in turn required immense privacy for it. Wasn't the Tuilieries garden in Paris a place where fancy ladies might pop a squat?

I once worked at a startup with 300 people on a floor with one bathroom with 3 stalls. 90% men. You'd always be waiting, you'd always be voiding yourself next two two other people. Maybe people you'd be going back to sit next to in a few minutes. You begin to know things about people you don't want to know.

I myself of course do prefer the privacy, like most anyone, and further prefer a single occupancy bathroom because the hygiene opportunities are much better when you have direct and private access to a sink. I think the 300 people to 3 stalls situation was probably close to violating some kind of building code and at the very least it's just not a good example of treating your workers as though you value them.

On the far polar opposite, I worked at a startup that had 5 single-occupancy bathrooms for 50 people. Two of them had showers. It was so much nicer in every way.... just that feeling that you were as comfortable at work as you are at home. Not just cattle, but treated with modern dignity; there's a cost to the employer to do this, but it might actually have ROI in the sense that your employees are more comfortable and healthier.
thats not true, plenty of games needed win 10 support.
like blizzard games (diablo (2), warcraft (3), etc.) and many others even age of empires 1/2 needed to support windows 10 via patches and did not work out of the box.
logs are poor insulation. The definition of R1 is a 1 inch board. normal 4 inch walls are r13, the log is 4.
In what sense is Microsoft "taking the law into their own hands"? They filed a lawsuit and convinced the judge to agree with their legal theory. That's how the legal system works.

There is no vigilantism here.
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> You do NOT own the software that comes with your GPU!

When you purchase a consumer GPU that comes with software, you acquire the GPU, the copy of the software it came with, and a license to use the software subject to particular terms and conditions. That is what you own, no more, no less.
The part about a candidate with multiple offers rejecting ones that felt “too easy” is not entirely unfounded. One of the things I’m personally interested in is professional growth so similar thoughts have definitely crossed my mind as a candidate
The problem with the plan proposed here is the same as with the plan we have now (in most Western countries) - it requires disciplined compliance from the population. The East Asian examples show that with some discipline the conventional plan can also work. The isolation of vulnerable individuals is not an easy task - there are lots of them, and the isolation would require a lot of cooperation from a huge part of the whole population. If we cannot follow the conventional plan - then we cannot follow this plan, at least if we are serious about the part of isolating the vulnerable part of the population.

I don't understand why the Western civilization fails so profoundly at this task - even when we have good examples showing that it can be done. But it is a subject for another discussion (also why the antigen tests have been used so far in such a limited fashion? https://medium.com/@zby/it-is-9-months-now-why-we-have-no-ma...) - for now we need a plan that would be adjusted to the individualism of the Western world. I believe that it needs to be more bottom up, we should give people more power to self organize and devise new arrangements. For that we need one crucial technology - rapid at home tests (like those proposed at: https://www.rapidtests.org/, though I am a bigger pessimist at using them in grand top down schemes).

In the spring there were ideas about building 'safe bubbles' - by limiting contacts to a few, who would also limit their contacts. This can work much better than it seems - because most of the contacts that can bring us the virus, the long and close contacts, come from our stable social network. These are the people with whom we can negotiate rules and procedures. There were examples of this being done - but the only successful cases were of whole teams who totally isolated themselves. Now with rapid tests this can work for less strict isolation measures - as any intrusions of the virus inside the bubble could be quickly detected.
Why do you presume that group is aging and not regularly rotating people? A dozen people sounds like a standard team size to me, which seems mostly indicative of the scope (not importance) of the work.

Also I believe Microsoft employs somewhere around 50.000 engineers, a good amount of whom work on and maintain low-level systems. I find it unlikely they'd have a shortage of sourcing talent for one of their core projects.
> Oh yea I absolutely need these training wheels.

Well, I don't, so please don't say "we" need them.

> The nature of this issue doesn't lend itself to being stopped just through common sense

Maybe I should have said "common sense and discipline". Apparently you are aware that you shouldn't do certain things, but you don't have the discipline to not do them.

This is going to sound harsh, but discipline is part of being an adult just as much as common sense is. If it is really true (I'm not sure it is, but let's assume it is here for the sake of argument) that most people in the US are more like you than like me, unable to exercise the required discipline in a situation like this, then that is a very, very bad thing for the US, because you can't have a free society if its citizens lack the discipline to do what they know is the right thing to do. And that puts all of us at the mercy of whatever the idiots in positions of power want to do to us in the name of "protecting our safety". I don't want to live in that kind of country. Do you? Think carefully.
Those are kit homes, not prefab homes.
And it's hard to look towards the rear quarters.
Thanks, I’ll have a look. Didn’t realize ML models that small can work.
I would love a general solution to this problem.

I have a little array of SBCs powered off of a USB charging station, except for the switch, and one SBC that demands a 12V barrel connector.

USB-C to barrel connectors as packaged goods would have been useful. As far as I'm aware USB is the only standard charging connector that allows for negotiating voltage and amperage. We should use it more (or perhaps have another standard that can also handle USB charging).
I do not see any where that's the case.

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I don't know about melty, but I like www.subtlepatterns.com tiles
Thrilled. Probably a strong hire. I don't expect anyone to know what one is off the top of their head, but if I explain the goal to you I expect you to figure out roughly how to accomplish it without using XPath.
"This page was written by someone we got cheap and didn't check their work. Have a nice day!"
The quote wasn't that Linux was a cancer, it was that some of the open-source licensing was a cancer, in the sense that it forces you to open source all of you own code if you were using a single library.

And that's not completely wrong.
Only if you intentionally ignore the very first sentence, which is obviously supportive.
while not being a full conversion tool it actually also can function as a bridge between python and rust, from the docs

"While solving packaging and distribution problems is the primary goal of PyOxidizer, a side-effect of solving that problem with Rust is that PyOxidizer can serve as a bridge between these two languages. PyOxidizer can be used to easily add a Python interpreter to any Rust project. But the opposite is also true: PyOxidizer can also be used to add Rust to Python. Using PyOxidizer, you could bootstrap a new Rust project which contains an embedded version of Python and your application. Initially, your project is a few lines of Rust that instantiates a Python interpreter and runs Python code. Over time, functionality could be (re)written in Rust and your previously Python-only project could leverage Rust and its diverse ecosystem. Since PyOxidizer abstracts the Python interpreter away, this could all be invisible to end-users: you could rewrite an application from Python to Rust and people may not even know because they never see a libpython, .py files, etc."
BTW, I double checked and I'm reasonably certain that the test failure happened because we started running the test on machines with a lower QueryPerformanceCounter frequency (2.148 MHz) and the simulated counter values then created larger times that necessarily had less precision.

I updated the post to include that. Note that the error bounds are only increased for those test values that are unrealistically large. The error bounds are as small as possible for the more "normal" test values.
My personal thought is the US has already been in a continual ebb and flow state on remote working. Remember Marissa Mayer and Yahoo? She didn't want employees working remote any more.

So yes, remote compensation will always be tied to location, as there will probably always be a mix of local and remote workers.
> in the absence of good governance.

This is begging the question, though.
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As someone who has worked with engineers all day every day for the past 15 years, one thing that I don't see "measured" is how well that engineer can work cross functionality. I consistently see great results when cross functional collaboration is high and poor to catastrophic results when engineers are empowered to do everything themselves or where the org structure maintains engineering as an island unto itself.
If I'm following correctly, I think they are talking about the belief of the scientist/observer that a behavior enhances fitness.
So, not following the "horses, not zebras" model. Too straightforward I guess?
What about Turris Omnia or Mox?
Any article citing Sweden as a failure today indicates they haven’t done their homework. After a brief surge, that country is doing far better than much of Europe and didn’t sacrifice nearly so much of its economy and its peoples’ mental health to do so. That may not be repeatable due to cultural differences, though.
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I don't believe that you can. The core belief system of modern neonazis is the protection of the white race by excluding non-whites. It takes violence to remove non-whites from their nations. And then, because of the one-drop rule, the ratio of white people will always drop across time. This necessitates violent responses. All neonazis agree on the goal and there is just one means to possibly achieve that goal: ethnic violence.
Literally came out of our work queue. Couldn't find a satisfactory off-the-shelf component for it, needed one built. Afterwards we liked it as a technical interview question.
My experience was completely opposite. Airport out, Google Wifi in and it just works. Otoh, I implemented a three node mesh.
There's a lot of FUD out there about this, but N95 masks are literally called N95 because they're 95% effective at filtering particle down to their size limit of 0.3 microns. Covid-19 particles range from 0.06 microns to 0.14. The largest Covid-19 particles can fit 2 wide straight through a N95 mask and the cloth masks that most people you see wearing aren't anywhere close to the spacing size of a N95 mask.

Saying neck gaiters are less effective at stopping Covid-19 is like saying you're safer from getting a bucket of sand thrown on you behind your screen door than I am standing behind my chain link fence. In the end, the sand is much, much smaller than either opening, so it goes right through both.

The only real benefit of masks at all is catching water droplets when you sneeze, and such droplets are caught roughly equally well with the common cloth masks people wear and neck gaiters, from what I've read.

TLDR - Your neck gaiter is probably sufficient, especially if you wear it double layer / folded over.
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That's pretty metal.
Infinitely many?
That's really cool. Will keep it in mind for future projects.
I built my current house recently, and our builder used a prefab factory in the region for some of the construction. I would _never_ do it again. The process has all the pitfalls of the waterfall software development model, but at the end you have to live in the failed project!

It took months for the factory to do their pre-build engineering, and that's after they started the process using plans from my architect. The companies building these modules tend to sell mostly from their own catalog of floorplans and modules, so they don't have a strong incentive to hire skilled architects for the relatively small amount of custom work that comes in (I fell into this category). I'm led to believe that they hire draftsmen instead of architects.

They built one of the modules a foot too long, so it hangs over the edge of the foundation. They also messed up the roof line, so some guttering and geometry had to be changed for the garage that was stick-built onsite. They did all of the drywall wraps around the windows incorrectly. Every single door was hung incorrectly, some with chunks taken out from bad routing. The vinyl plank flooring has bubbles because they didn't float it correctly. They omitted electrical features that were on their own drawings. They ordered a few wrong windows, so they charged me anyway and just laid them on the floor when they shipped the module.

It'll all be fine at the end of the day, but the parts that were built onsite are all so much better. No cheaper, mind you, but faster and with much less drama. Maybe there are some parts of the industry that do a lot better, but I kind of wish I'd listened to my dad when he said "the pioneers take the arrows".
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I thought the initial goal was to flatten the curve. Which basically means to get an r value of 1.

But I guess to reach that, you still need a pretty severe lockdown.
First: I apologize for not reading your original post closely enough. I agree that "curl | sh" is no worse than "git clone && make"; I think both are terrible. I will say that I can't recall ever seeing anyone recommend "git clone && make".

It sounds like we agree that blindly downloading code and building/executing it is a bad idea. That's all I was trying to assert.

There's a spectrum of safe/acceptable between "download a random binary" and "build yourself, from trusted source". I think "curl | sh" and "git clone && make" are just one step above "download a random binary" on that spectrum. We can and should do better than that.
We are talking about the market share of Windows, not whether the Truest Way to use Linux is via the terminal.

In the context of the discussion, Windows does in fact have a significant end-user market share threat posed by alternatives like Linux, specifically in the cases of Android and Chrome OS. They are eating Windows lunch.
It's erroring out when I try to change it. Feature or bug?
I'm not sure if that's well-supported by IPv6 though. Documents I've read do agree that it's possible to have smaller subnets in IPv6 (e.g. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/network/ipv6/subn... and https://serverfault.com/questions/426183/how-does-ipv6-subne... ) but that the pain and hassle required to do-so isn't worth it.
I'm still waiting for my equifax settlement.
I’m dumbstruck by a more fundamental question — Is it even meaningful for a company to be valued at ~$30B if it cannot guarantee survival & stability? In what sense of reality is this a “unicorn”?

EDIT: Yes, I understand the math of (ensemble-averaged) expected values. My point is that such a calculation (for a high variance distribution) is useless/pointless/stupid/<adjective of choice> (basically a bad model) for anyone for whom their AirBnB investment is more than a small/marginal part of their portfolio. In particular, it’s a dangerously misleading number to anyone who has a large fraction of their personal wealth invested in AirBnB (including employees & founders, or potential retail investors who might invest directly in the company at IPO, rather than through index funds)

Refer the St. Petersburg paradox.
I began to hate it less when I remembered a little empathy game that has served me well. The question is not, "when I leave the bathroom, is everyone looking at me and judging me for having used it?" Rather, the question is, "when I see someone else leave the bathroom, do I think about it for more than a fraction of a second, and if I knew they had defecated, would I want to shame or embarrass them for it at all?"

The answer to the latter, if you are not a horrible person, is of course not. You don't really care, it's not your problem, you're not keeping track of it, it's just an event you forget moments later. Probably, then, that's what your coworkers think of you, when you go; so stop caring, because they definitely don't.

(If anyone ever were to metaphorically give me shit for using the bathroom, I'd turn it around on them in a heartbeat, too. It's so easy - just ask, what kind of creep cares about their coworker's bodily functions to this extent? Gross, weird!)
I find it unlikely that, if you don't have a rear seat, you cannot legally carry a child.
By the sounds of it playstation 'owners' were paid compensation, but could not get the Linux feature back, in other words they were not made whole. They don't control what is happening to their properly, and without Sony's agreement they cannot repair damage done by sony to it.

That does not sound like ownership to me - again, think back to car ownership. Firstly tampering with your car would have been criminal damage.

Secondly, BMW does not get a say in how you use your car. They can't stop you going over the speed limit. You could get your car fixed without having to involve BMW or going to court to force their hand.

In my view this Sony case looks like compensation for breach of a lease-like contract.
I find it a bit ironic, that, instead of renting out the empty apartments, they jumped to hotels and paid 50%+ more than market rate.

It makes sense, as it's open, active and there's no real demand otherwise from business travelers or tourists.

But, wow, $8,000 a month in social services just for being in San Francisco.

That's what a low end tech person makes in SF, after taxes (approx.) 8,000*12=96,000

While it's a annual 1.5% city income tax for residents (payroll tax.)
As you learn, keep your focus on this project/idea you'd like to build. Use tutorials and examples only to help you get to this goal; take detour as required. I think this approach will be easier to stay motivated with, than doing tutorials start-finish.

ESP32 is a popular MCU that connects to WIFI, and has cheap dev boards: I recommend you find a tutorial for this MCU to start with. A downside, is that its official docs are lacking compared to other MCUs, like the STM32.

Once you have something working using a dev board, learn PCB design software; a nice free one is KiCad. JLCPCB is a cheap, fast service that will create your PCB, and solder the smaller components on to it. You will have to hand solder the bigger ones.

Programming languages suitable for this are C, C++, and Rust. Are you proficient in at least one of them?
If you'd ever be willing to write about the process of breaking those down and minimizing meetings, I'd be your first reader.

As a Product Manager at a larger SaaS Platform company, if I did not carefully say "no" to most invites that come my way, I'd be on calls for 10 hours/day. Even with that, I'm still on more meetings than I should be (currently not sustainable), and I'm actively seeking strategizes to improve this.
I've never had a problem with HN's relative time. Exact ordering and times of events don't matter to me for comments on HN - their order is not relatively important aside from parent-child relationships. Times do matter when I'm debugging a release that made it to prod with a bug or if I'm comparing events that happen in time.
Alt+A in Zoom will mute it, I think it works if you aren’t in focus (although I can’t remember).
Would it be possible to use Starlink for comms if a sat is flying in a lower position?
Of course. I should have thought of that. Ironically, now that corporations are people too, they'd also benefit from my solution.

Grandpa story time: mid aughts, the company (Quest Diagnostics) that acquired us was trying to figure out how to monetize all the awesome new patient data our product was aggregating. Labs, scripts, allergies, etc. Negotiations with MS, Google, pharmas. Our Zuck and Thiel equivalents were electrified by the prospects. Us nerds were horrified. I now forget which specific ruling killed the idea. But it now occurs to me that I should have leaned in. At the time I was still trying to find, invent, steal a technical solution and had not yet figured out that's impossible.
What do you see as the main advantages of SCTP over QUIC?
> Limiting the upload to only JPEG and PNG is silly IMO.

Or... Use proper HTML to limit what file types you site accepts so users can't upload files you don't support. If a site says it only supports JPG/ PNG on the input element, Safari automatically converts it to JPG.
If in the 90s you told a linux advocate that "we will achieve the year of the linux desktop by having everybody buy macs" they'd laugh. That doesn't count. OSX has unix at its heart but the open sourceness of the OS is the key thing that advocates want. OSX isn't open source.
Ah, that's another good point. Turning your head happens a lot more in street driving than racing.
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