skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Environmental Blood money.

Imagine if your grandfather or great grandfather killed people in the Concentration camps and then harvested all the gold and silver from their victims and then left that money to you? You live in wealth from others destroyed lives. This is a same thing but with the ramifications relieved later. People who knowingly dumped toxic sludge into the environment, cashed in a portion of my life so they and their children and grandchildren could live wealthy lives. And yes, it was all legal in both cases too.
Maybe the article means that PHP interprets the OPCodes as opposed to java that uses a JIT compiler that produces machine code for part of the bytecodes.
Anyway JIT is coming with PHP8 :

https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8
here is one: https://github.com/questdb/questdb. Disclaimer, I work on this project. Main reason we use Java is speed of development (which increased with amount of base libraries written) and ease of testing.
The only two questions I ever ask Siri are "how cold is it outside?" and "wake me up {at HHam, in X minutes}"
Much to the chagrin of many of my fellow career programmers, I’ve always tried to operate slightly against the grain to keep things interesting. I do so not gratuitously, but because I know I’m in this profession for the marathon, and so I need to compromise instantaneous velocity to maintain {energy, sanity, motivation, ...}. I get made fun of and occasionally lambasted for it, but I also frequently outpace my organizationally distant colleagues before they say ‘screw it’ and hope their next job will be more fulfilling.

I’ve been an adamant user of Common Lisp in the workplace, and I strive to carve out an environment for my fellow peers which allows them to reasonably work toward making creatively simple solutions to complex problems. Despite the continual pressure to (re)write in {C++, C#, Java} and now {Rust, Julia, Python}, my choice continues to pay dividends to myself, my colleagues, and most the organizations I’ve worked for. You can get away with it if you both deliver and manage healthy short-term and long-term expectations.

As an engineering manager, I would hold little computer science challenges every Monday morning. 45 mins to think about the problem and code a solution, and 15 minutes of “lecturing” by either myself or somebody who solved the problem. It took a lot of work each Sunday night to concoct a good problem.

Engineers invariably fell into two camps. The first were folks who didn’t want to participate because “this isn’t my job nor what I’m paid to do”, and the second were folks who reveled in the challenges, as if they were a paradise-like escape from the more mundane aspects of day-to-day coding. It would stir up conversation for the week and occasionally inspire participants to imbue the skills they learned into day-to-day coding. One of my proudest achievements was a coding challenge on combinators, which opened a big window of fresh air to individuals who didn’t understand closures or high-order functions. Lo and behold, they adopted the practice of using them to simplify some production Python.

It wasn’t compulsory so if people wanted to log into JIRA and toil away first thing Monday morning, they could. But if you felt stimulation from learning new things that may or may not actually tangibly help you, the exercises contributed a positive environment, a positive collegial interaction, and a positive following work week.
What if we're looking at this the wrong way?

What if the real problem is simply with the idea that we should have 1930s-style central planners that manage the roads?

Why do we simply assume that we will continue to have surface streets with automobiles as the dominant transportation paradigm?

There's The Boring Company, passenger-carrying drones such as EHang, Tesla's FSD tech, the shift to remote work. (40% of jobs can now be done remotely. Even forklift drivers are working remotely these days...)

The article deals with none of these important changes, and instead attempts to focus on restraining tech companies from delivering the future too quickly. How helpful is this old style of thinking in our rapidly-changing world?
The "real" camera would need a lot of sensors in it, because I think the software works by combining the image data with the motion data of the camera to stabilize it.
They are correct. Each country wants data showing that the vaccine works for their local population. These ideas are firmly based in Science.
I'd like to see C4 be put up against ZGC.
It's a failure by regulators, but when you lobby for the lax regulations, you don't get to also stick them with the blame.

> Also, what if the company has been acquired since then, is it still on the hook?

It might not be clean, but I do believe it is unambiguous. Yes, the purchaser is still on the hook, and they should check their purchase agreement for the company to see if they can seek restitution from the original owners (assuming the risk of future litigation wasn't disclosed or waived). In this case the company knew they were externalizing a toxic chemical and did it anyways, thus they are liable to the extent the law allows. The original owner is potentially liable for breach of the purchase agreement if that risk wasn't disclosed to the new owner.
Definitely, science shouldn't depend on the country, but the USA isn't the world either, and the person I was replying to equated the USA with the world. At least they should have used the year when ICD-10 came out.
Exactly, which is why these assistants are not very useful beyond simple tasks you could just do yourself. If they're only good at things that are easy for you to do, then what's the point of them besides not needing your hands to do simple tasks?
Doesn’t wayland run x11 server as well?
This is like those social media status updates after someone is heart broken.

"You give your heart to someone and they break it"

we are all now supposed to figure out there has been a falling out of some sort, with some CEO somewhere.

who is he? what did he do?
A (relatively small) subset of HFT is purely latency driven. But the largest sub-category is probably market making. I.e. leaving open a buy order for $0.10 and a sell order for $0.11, and hoping that both get filled and you net the difference.

You're taking real risk, in the sense that your buy order could get filled, your sell order doesn't, and the market moves down, so now you lose money. Latency is pretty important to market making for two reasons. One is because you want to quickly adjust your quotes before the market moves through you. If you're too slow, opportunists will pick you off in the wrong direction. Two is because exchanges mostly follow price-time priority. E.g. if me and you both enter buy orders for $0.10, the front of the "queue" to get matched, will be whoever's order arrives first at the gateway. Not only is that important for getting more opportunities, but generally orders in the front of the queue are less likely to be trade against "toxic flow", where the market moves through you.

There's definitely a baseline minimum of latency that you need to play the game at all. But there's tons of ways to compete besides just being the fastest. You can build your own signals to internally predict which way the market moves before it does. You can have superior models to tell you when the risk of "toxic flow" is lower. You can use clever tricks to get to the front of the queue when others aren't paying attention.
For what it's worth, our testing has steadily increased since then. Perhaps we ought to expect more than "steadily", but the recent rationing is more to do with dramatic uptick in demand for tests (schools reopening, immediately followed by Thanksgiving) than with a change in capacity.

There's no way (AFAICT) to link to it directly, but try charting "Total tests completed in the last day" and "Under Investigation": https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/status-of-covid-19-cases-in-...
It will be dismissed as a toy by your typical dpreview crowd because “software magic” is the antithesis of specs.
Pizza is a weird example because pizza joint menus are more-or-less standard and unsurprising. For any non-pizza restaurant I'll want to start by scanning a menu, which is way more efficient than listening to a menu be read to me.
Yeah great idea! Our friend Chris at https://mogulnetworking.com/ has done exactly this.

I had a call with him about this and he clearly explained to me how hard it was to implement and all the compromises you have to make. In our case, as we want to offer the most effortless experience, end-to-end encryption is going to be hard, but we definitely want to get there at some point.

We're already encrypting some data though :)
I'm sorry but no one should have any right to tell private organizations who they can and can't do business with.

What you're advocating for is extremely dangerous and shortsighted.
growth mindset. I wish everyone had it, then critique would be more welcome.
Some clown from my country made a huge deal about it and even made some kind of grievance documentary about the Apu character from the Simpsons until they eventually phased him out. I was quite annoyed.

All this stuff about offending people with jokes just boils down to how much drama and trouble you can create by bullying the creators and whether or not the ideologues in the media will amplify your message.

In the west, particularly in the USA, there's a weird assumption that "protected classes" extend to jokes too. Jerry Seinfeld highlighted this absurdity with the "anti-dentite" episode. Since profession is not a "protected class" joking about it is ok. This makes no sense because it's entirely possible a dentist or programmer would not feel good about being stereotyped, and so it has nothing to do with being sensitive or anything like that, it's just an illusion that these specific groupings are not allowed but all other groupings are allowed.

I think the world would be a much better place if we all learned to laugh at each other, and ourselves. This selective cancellation and different rules for Borat and Apu are just exposing the absurdity of this type of thinking.
I wish these reviews would post the full res images. I clicked "View Image" on a few of these to see just the photo but they're all cropped and compressed.

Almost any flagship phone can produce similar pics to the ones in this article. The devil is really in the details now.
With raw image, you do not mean setting the DSLR to shoot raw? Because you can get those files obviously.
Let’s not beat around the bush. This is about the Nov 3rd election. Here’s a couple posts on firing that were not written with the election in mind:

https://a16z.com/2017/05/24/on-firing-why-when-how/

https://a16z.com/2011/08/24/preparing-to-fire-an-executive/
I had this problem a lot with Cortana popping up during meetings and seizing control of my microphone. In the end I spent probably 15 minutes trying to figure out how to turn off voice activation because Microsoft doesn't make it easy.
Somewhat off topic, but is anyone aware of a bittorrent proxy?

I regularly end up downloading torrents on a remote box, and then have to copy them to my local network. In an ideal world, I could run a torrent client at home and have it proxy though my vps so it doesn't leak my home IP.

The other way I can see it working is being able to add a torrent to both my vps and server at home, and have the torrent client at home only ever talk to the single remote box so I still end up with the torrent at home without leaking my home IP and without having to download the finished files as a second step.
> dealing with those who will refuse to vaccinate

What's there to deal with? Let people make that personal choice and leave them alone.
> It's great for the common desktop case.

Also phones and tablets. Also embedded devices who have a GPU + LCD, I have personally shipped Linux firmware where I used NanoVG on top of DRM/KMS to render touch screen GUI. Also for kiosks, cars, smart watches and many other applications.

It’s great everywhere you have a high-resolution screen. And it’s mission-critical for ARM devices who don’t have CPU power to render that screen on CPU, at least not at 60Hz.

> headless servers

Why would you want a GUI there? Even Microsoft has console-only “core” editions of their Windows Server, since 2008. They made it because competition from Linux, who had that from the very beginning and was thus way more suitable for cloud use cases. It still is due to other reasons, but that’s another story.

> It's that that solution is being pushed as the only one that should be maintained—and thus, exist—going forward.

I get why some people would want the X to be maintained, but the thing is, it’s very expensive, and not fun.

Developing game console emulators is expensive, but fun and people do that in their free time with great results. Moving forward GPU-targeted Linux GUI is expensive, not too fun, but there’re commercial applications with healthy profit margins (automotive, embedded, etc) so people from these areas are working on that tech. Patching x.org for repurposed old hardware, on the other hand…
Yeah, I would have expected Google to even take it to the next level: Ask what model of car the user has (better yet! Identify it from a combination of the car's Bluetooth MAC address and a machine learning model trained on the audio spectrum of the engine noise). Look at where all cars of different types are able to travel, where they make U-turns and turn around, and at what GPS locations they make calls to roadside assistance numbers. Incorporate weather data as well, e.g. what season, and whether it has rained lately. Between all of that data you should be able to advise whether a given vehicle should be able to traverse a given road on a given day of the year.
The reason I got into tech/coding as a teen was the diy punk rock ethos. I remember spending weeks trying to figuring out if I could break drm in the latest video game ('tricking' starforce in splinter cell 3 was such a cool thing). Then I moved on to academia where I felt the ethos extended. Academia was life consuming and by the end I just had to leave.

Now that I'm job hunting post-phd, I'm trying to rekindle that excitement in something...and I don't feel it. Grinding leetcode or memorizing some companies 'leadership principles' has been the antithesis of creativity. Everything feels like marketing. I wish I had kept up with old friends instead of spending my weekends in the office.

Funny enough, I've been brewing beer/kombucha and cheesemaking as a distraction.

I guess I'm getting older?
And the "USS Pandemonium" at Treasure Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.
A ship they built on land that they could apply radioactive contamination then teach sailors how to clean it up. Then dump it all out into the bay. Contaminated soil is still being discovered as recently as 2013 on Treasure Island where they have built housing.
More here:
https://www.businessinsider.com/radioactive-contamination-on...
Tcl hasn't been string focused since 8.0 was released 20 years ago. Tcl objects are convertible to and from strings. That conversion can be deferred so a string representation hangs around but it still only uses strings as needed. Nobody says Lisp is string based because everything can be printed as an s-expr.
I think there was a thread here on the disadvantages of all the software processing in phone cameras today. I had a similar experience trying to capture the orange skies when the wildfires were raging here in California. My iPhone corrected every single image to remove the orange and replace it with a dark gray sky. It looked more overcast than apocalyptic. But I'm not fully against the idea of shipping some of those algorithms in a DSLR, especially the Pixel's low light photography.
And then your phone transfers the recorded sounds to someone else's computer to do the work. You still don't talk to your computer phone. You talk through it.
Outline link for anyone who has trouble accessing this article like I did:

https://outline.com/nEmsbN
Agreed. More broadly, I'd say that no one has made a good UI yet. The mac/lisa/star had a UI that people could learn. iOS...

In some ways a voice UI has bigger problems to deal with than PC GUIs or iOS. Those UIs were replacing pre-existing UIs (eg blackberry, dos, unix, norton) and they could target whatever tasks a smartphone/PC needed to do. For voice UIs, it's a cold start. It's not even obvious what an audio only computer should do. Our mental model for a "virtual assistant" is a person-2-person exchange, and computers still aren't great at communicating like people.

FWIW, I think slipping into existing niches is the way to go. That's where a useful voice ui will be discovered. Car stuff, accessibility software, living room controls.. At least these have clear goals. Voice operating spotify, netflix or just an iphone is something people actually need and will use if its useful.
Capital One has always been a tech / big data powered company.
This is wonderful, thank you for sharing it. Were there any obvious differences between the two camps in terms of performance, career satisfaction, tenure at the company, etc?
How do you mean? You can already shoot tethered on most (all?) high-end cameras.
People talk to each other all the time in airplanes too, and even libraries, but it turns out that people are both more understanding of people talking to other humans currently present (rather than say on a cell phone) and people are better at talking to other humans currently present respectfully than they are at talking to devices (or at least people via devices, but I think we can extrapolate).

I agree if it was already the social norm it wouldn't be a problem (same with Google glass), but it turns out that the technology being ready isn't always enough to make the social norms change.
Daddy State? Daddy state! please, give me free housing! I don't care if you take it from others...
Minor nitpick, it is Web scraping with NodeJS.
VMware still works great for older operating systems. I've had nothing but trouble with Hyper-V and VirtualBox lately.

It's sad because VirtualBox used to work okay but the legacy AMD NIC and SoundBlaster drivers have been bitrotting in the last few years and Hyper-V's predecessor Virtual PC used to be great with older OSes too.

If you prefer free software KVM/virt-manager works just fine as well there's just a bit more fiddling with options to make things happy.
Focusing on things they can reasonably change is a legitimate approach. It would be defacto illegal for them to engage in racially discriminative stock sales. Asking their ownership to please give away their stocks to random minorities sounds like a fast way to get booted by the board for crashing the stock value by creating a needless controversy .

Only fanatics seriously consider large scale forced redistribution for good reason - the damage to property rights causes the market to come tumbling down as it undermines trustworthiness. Would you work for someone who just decides one day "You know what? You worked for us for a decade - we're going to need all of your remaining salary back."?
Maybe you can start off with baby steps and convince Damien to make a guest post in the newsletter.
I use Siri on my phone all the time, but for one thing and one thing only: reminders.

"Hey Siri, remind me in 2 hours to do X"

"Hey Siri, remind me when I get home to do Y"

"Hey Siri, remind me next time I go to Costco to buy Z"

It's pretty quick to set up reminders by voice, especially location-based reminders. Almost anything else I'd rather do via a UI.
Hmm. That fits with advice from Extreme Programming: "Pay attention to pain". When it's hard (or even tedious) to write something, pay attention to that. It's trying to tell you something.
COVID-19 is a slice of apple pie compared to Smallpox
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Siri doesn't get the weather right.

"What's the weather in Yosemite" and "Yosemite weather" can get you two drastically different results. As of right now (10/26/2020 10:35 AM) the two results I get are 43F and 32F.
False, Congress is not the single godlike power that reins over everything else. It is one of three branches of separate but equal power. Congress has no teeth unless executive enforcement is used.
Oh ok that makes sense! Yeah in that case, our app might not be the best fit if you're thinking of taking notes that can contain highly sensitive data.

Thanks for sharing! That will definitely impact us if we want to sell to enterprise. But to be honest, we don't plan on going into that direction.

We're bootstrapped, so no big pressure on getting really big. We're super happy to just become a profitable business that our users enjoy, à la Basecamp.
Copyright is certainly easier to interpret than fair use, but both rely on courts.

If I claim you violated my copyright and you disagree, it will be determined in court. If I claim you violated my copyright and you claim it's fair use, and I disagree, it will be determined in court.

What's the difference?
I am not a media person, a board member of a major company, nor an executive. I am a socialist, so I find it simple to express the sentiment of class war that is so anathema to the elite classes that partake in it constantly against the lower classes.
I ignore anyone who puts "left" in scare quotes. It's an ad hominem distraction from the substance of the argument.

As for the claim that Borat is "nearly the most racist movie in history," that shows the author's ignorance of film history and the thousands of very racist films that have been made worldwide. One could argue that Borat is racist, and there would be plenty of points to debate, but there are many many more racist movies in American film history (Birth of a Nation, Song of the South, the entire blaxploitation genre) - not to mention plenty of racist non-American films.
What made Tcl click for me was thinking that it is basically shell/Bash, except that it's a coherent and sensible design. Just like an unix shell, everything is a string and you don't need to use "double" "quotes" "everywhere" "like" "this". However, in almost every part of the language, the way that Tcl does it is saner than the way the unix shell does it.

The infinitude of footguns of Unix shell make us discount it as a serious programming language but Tcl shows that it doesn't have to be that bad :)
Agreed, I find this to be a great use case for voice assistants. Or on the occasion I feel like napping after lunch "Hey Siri, wake me up in an hour".
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That will only happen if a super gerrymandered state flips. E.g., Texas might go proportionate if their EC votes swing blue. Why? Because it's not impossible that Dems might win Texas's EC votes in the next 30 years but it is literally impossible for them to control the state government in that time-frame. However, in all the cases I can think of with that flavor, it's hard to imagine the electoral college remaining competitive even with gerrymandered states going proportionate.

So IMO, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is much more likely than the majority of states go proportional with their EC votes (and even that is highly unlikely).
The US isn't the world.
I'm a HFT quant trader and HFT is not purely latency driven. You don't want to be slow, but most firms are increasingly perusing longer and longer term strategies that aren't as latency sensitive. Pure risk free latency arb isn't really a profit center anymore. The speed wars are pretty much over.

The industry has consolidated and any player that didn't adapt to the new, more cerebral game is dead.
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Not to mention the economic crater, and suicides!
I imagine: If a given side-effect occurs at the same rate in both groups, it's unlikely to be caused by the vaccine and is more likely to be psychosomatic.