skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's why 'The Green New Deal' is so terrible because instead of focusing on pragmatic solutions we can all get behind..."

What's your agreement threshold for collective action?

"there's a reason why the North, after winning the civil war, has largely chose not to collectively punish the South..."

And how'd that work out?

I'm befuddled by the false choice of "do nothing" and "make them pay".

What about Truth and Reconciliation? Conduct an honest accounting of what happened, what we've learned, and how we're going to fix it.

Think of it as a post mortem. Hopefully not literally.
The 'Founding Fathers' in the US were landowners, merchants, and publishers. This is a common pattern.
Sounds like the driver's at fault to me. In this case the bus stopped abruptly for no apparent reason, but what if there had been a reason? Perhaps someone walked into traffic or there was debris on the road. Drivers need to leave enough space ahead to come to a safe stop when the vehicle in front of them stops abruptly.
Damn, seems like a good way to have a ton of buggy code in production.
> And it's very effective

Yes, the CRT/Woke crowd learned well from the success of Frank Lunz and similar conservatives in the 80s and 90s.

Their ideology may well break apart the country, but their linguistic propaganda is very effective, indeed.
It's not a nitpick in this context, since Wine on Android will only run ARM64 binaries (unless you have one of those few x86 Android devices)
That's right, the more to the fast end you are, the more your strategy is obvious. I worked at an HFT where it was literally buy-here-sell-there for one of the strategies, and of course you can't do that without being ridiculously fast.

DSquare is reasonably famous in London, somehow everyone knows them. They are on the smarter end of things, because the founders were plugged into the early development of the electronic FX market at the beginning of this century.

There's a sort of engineering-vs-business culture thing to this as well, but I think it blurs over time.
We're seeing a shift in demand across different sectors of the real estate market, not a destruction in demand. The market for office space is cratering, as is the market for 1BR apts/condos in dense urban cores. But most of the people who would've occupied those buildings are still working, they're just working from home. The market for SFHs (particularly large suburban ones with home offices) is exploding. I'm seeing some in Mountain View and the SF peninsula go for ~$350-500K (up to 15-18%) over asking.
The PMs of Facebook are not responsible for the decision by CNN producers to use Twitter commentary as a source of information and legitimacy.

I'm not generally one to speak out against capitalism, but having come from a country that has 'strong, communitarian and cultural ideals' - I believe that hyper-individualism and capitalism have created an ugly, 'perfect storm of self flagellation' here with MSM, Social Media, Politics, Entertainment.

'Communitarian ideals' mean that there are unspoken rules of legitimacy, fraternity, civility, professionalism etc. that exist in many fields like the media, even in politics where all the 'grey areas' of civility count for so much, a lot of US Senate functions like this historically.

These soft ideals however leave the door way open for radicals and money-seekers to 'disrupt' and take over, justifying their cause through either 'moral legitimacy of social justice' or 'responsibility towards shareholders' - or, like in the case of Nike for example - both.

Any institution that can be instrumentalist and submitted will be.

Though I don't blame FB PM's specifically - it's right there in the ethos: 'disrupt' and 'move fast / break things / do it ask for permission later'. Without any regard at all for social and cultural ideals, they just get completely uprooted in the search for whatever it is the objective is, in the case of FB, money.
Don't need to be out of the field of view. You just sync the camera with your picture frame and you see the cheat sheet while the webcam sees a Picasso.

Just needs a common trigger signal and some tweaking and you are good to go.
On one hand it seems pretty clear that ignoring Congress is pretty bad. On the other, buying something from a private party seems like it'd clearly be a requisition process and not require a warrant as unfortunate as that is.
Nah, sarin has only has a shelf life of a few months. I would not worry too much. A lot of worse stuff has been dumped in the sea than sarin.
there must be some science fiction series in which humans are called chaos monkeys!
Maybe I missed it in the article but it appears to me this is just a spokesperson saying things, not actual data or results.
The trainings I'm familiar with have the opposite intent: to help people who don't believe they are racists (or believe racism doesn't exist) understand the unconscious mental processes that feed into racism and the nature of structural discrimination, even when unintended.
Common domestic tomatoes are annuals. They will stop growing at the end of the year and die after fruiting.
> a far lesser ... problem with racism and racial justice overall than the US

On what basis are you making that claim?

Asking as a Canadian-US dual citizen with 20+ years of lived non-white experience in both countries. I don't think these things are so easy to measure and my experience has largely been that every other country likes to pretend they have fewer race relations problems than the US and the claims largely rest on anecdata and media driven sentiment.
I have six sitting around unused and one working as a pihole but I used to use the other ones:

- Had a couple providing sensor data on agricultural hobbies

- Had one set up with Octopi and then another in my command center just feeding diagnostics and stuff from the octopi

- Have deployed one-offs to identify nocturnal garden invaders (ie, motion sensor + night cam)

I want to make a synth with one but I haven't gotten around to it
I agree that Zoom and tech like that are not filling the non verbal comm gap but turning off video will only make it worse, and video-game avatars are totally dystopian.
Are you familiar with Zapier (https://zapier.com/) or IFTT (https://ifttt.com/)? These are the two solutions that came to mind for me after reading your question, though there may be a few other options out there in this space.
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> Why risk it?

It's worth pointing out that during a pandemic, while participating in a trial does carry a risk, so does not participating. A participant has some substantially greater probability* than the general population of avoiding an infection which apparently carries a risk of death or long term debilitating effects.

* You'll have to incorporate the probability of being in the control group, of course, but the overall probability is still significant.
Yes. The goalposts with the lockdowns moved so much that now the only way of getting out of them is 100% vaccination + 100% effectiveness of the vaccine.
As this is not possible - mask wearing in the shops and public transport will remain for the foreseeable future.
Not even almost. I've never gone to sleep in a netted bed without waking up with mosquitos on the inside of it, and I don't know anyone who has.
It sounds like someone took Alcoholics Anonymous, kept the bit where you admit you're an alcoholic, and then dropped the rest of it. Not that having the rest of it would be any better, but the whole thing sounds utterly regressive.
Hey, thanks for replying. I'm aware of local fonts, but you first have to get them onto your system, which is additional friction. With CC I can just browse their catalog and enable or disable what I want.

Have you thought about integrations with popular (among typographers) services like Fontstand, or smaller ones like Fontown? This could be a gamer changer. I really want Figma to become a real alternative to Adobe, not only for UI stuff!
Firstly, the SPLC is a serial defamer and holds truth as a lower priority than essentially anything else. As a matter of principle, I won't defer to them on anything at this point.

> "Western chauvinist" literally means "white supremacist"

Only if you make several massive leaps in how words "are used". Has it occurred to you that the word "chauvinist" was chosen specifically to get a rise out of people who are overly sensitive to language?

If it's really about racial superiority, how do they countenance being led by a black man and composed of a great number of non-white people?

Then, if it's really about "white culture" (and I'm not really convinced it's thought of this way inside PB), then how is that white supremacy? Anyone can adopt a culture, and there are lots of "white" peoples in the world with objectively excellent and productive cultures worth being proud of; liking England or Norway doesn't make you a white supremacist. Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, spells out explicitly that there are nations outside the West who have adopted the elements of culture that the Proud Boys are "chauvinist" about.
God forbid large firms employing people from diverse backgrounds require employees to take training on how to work with people from diverse backgrounds.
But the decision to terminate happens when the lease expires at any point after the pandemic happened, not exactly as the pandemic started. If you signed a 1-year lease in 2019Q3 and then realized that you're going to permanent WFH in 2020Q2, you let the lease expire in 2020Q3 and count yourself lucky. So the impact of this should be spread across the year following lockdowns/wfh, not all concentrated in 2021Q2.
So Ed cannot say filth flarn filth flarn filth in front of kids
Also knows as Pareto Principal and Matthew Effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
> a mental illness I didn't believe I had

I don't know your personal journey, but I think it would be fairly easy to find people with very deep, very real mental health problems who fully believe they do not have a problem.

> The pills didn't do anything for me

Again, I don't know your personal journey, but as a counter anecdote when I started taking medication I couldn't tell if they were having any effect at all, but apparently it had such an effect that some of the people around me could tell me the day I started taking it, along with measurable improvements.

Not to invalidate your experiences, just adding to the anecdotal pool
Windows 10?

Like I'm running 95 era software and it mostly works fine on Win10, I have one application that cant deal with 64 bit, needs 32 bit windows, as it has serial drivers that dont work in 64 bit.
This is just a natural consequence of programming becoming more accessible, I think. And let's not pretend that C and C++ package management is "good but misunderstood"—it needs a lot of work.
Troubleshooting CI/CD feels like troubleshooting a printer: What the hell is it doing now and why is it doing that?!
Sorry, this is not a "clear slippery slope fallacy".

A slippery slope fallacy is a claim about a series of events, with each even being more unlikely than the one before it. GP makes no claim of a series of events at all.

GP is merely pointing out that often, societal norms have been immoral, despite the "wisdom of the time" saying that challenging the norm is immoral. And society doesn't realize they were wrong until the normal has been challenged. By not allowing a society to challenge the norms, the norms may never change.

It is your example that is fallacious. You bring up Canada and Germany, even though we have no idea how good or bad of an impact those laws will have. And more importantly, how dangerous it is to even give a government power to restrict this sort of speech. We don't know the conclusion.
I have no respect for this outlet Business Insider. Please don't bring this garbage to HN and flag it in the future. Its our duty to protect our community & safeguard our time and attention from clickbait outlets.
I struggle with this and I am only two years into my career. I look back on my CS education and miss it so much.

About three months ago, I started a ritual where I would spend 60 minutes before work every morning reading books about the internals of popular software or programming languages, histories of technology, etc. It rekindles my love for computing that brought me to CS in the first place.

Instead of constantly fearing another day of drudgery, I now wake up every morning excited to learn more about something that I know piques my interest. The attitude change has been pretty profound.

Currently reading: The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan and Plauger (1978)
No. Microsoft will market Windows as the OS most compatible with Windows.
Is there something like leetcode.com but for math?
> he goal of the advocates is to bill a lot of money and the goal of the company is to virtue signal.

You miss the biggest goal: for departments of diversity, inclusion, etc to gain more power and hires.
Very well done! I like your animations. What software/hardware do you use to make it?
Indeed, people willing to give up anything. I don't see any return to'normal' anytime soon
Or ddosing a site offline.

Remember that only a handful of companies today have the infrastructure to handle large attacks.
Anyone have any insight into the domains used by Venntel? Are they aggregating data from other ad networks?
I think the story continues to where, in the beginning, they thought a change would be good, but after seeing the benefits that s-expressions gave, changed their minds.
> 2-Microsoft is working toward Windows being freely available (zero cost). This dampens the motivation for an open source alternative.

Somehow I always thought, ReactOS had a use case in the Enterprise market, for companies that need an older version of Windows for existing and can't/don't want to upgrade to a newer one; maybe like HaikuOS? But I might be totally wrong on either.
> At which point this is not censorship when companies equivalent to public infra

But they aren't public infrastructure. Twitter isn't. Cloudflare isn't. CC companies aren't.

They are private companies, and as as these people were fine with private companies denying services to left-leaning individuals in the past, they don't have much of a leg to stand on now that they are on the receiving end of it.
Oh yeah, that's for sure. The idea that there's a pretty decent chance that I've been vaccinated already which means I don't have to wait for a vaccine is great.

My life can begin to go back to normal potentially months before it otherwise would.
Higher Kinded Types in Python
this is a great idea. I've done something similarly for years, but without such a clean and simple format. I'll probably give this a try as well
When you have a random variable with log-normal distribution, such as income or wealth, unless the fundamental mechanism is changed to be additive (normal) instead of multiplicative (log-normal), you'll end up with the bulk of people at the low end of that curve. The existence of a large middle class was an anomaly.
I think they didn't release any benchmark results for reformer, so yes, it can take whole book as input, but quality is unknown.
> There is research that shows that companies with diverse leadership and staff financially outperform the average

Ah, that looks like a nice bit of marketing from McKinsey. Huge companies that work on global markets with clearly recognizable brands are naturally more diverse (sourcing people from all over the world) and also care about their public image enough to increase their diversity in management positions.

Of course this doesn't mean at all that by increasing diversity your performance will improve, the causal arrow goes in the opposite direction.
That's an awesome idea, can't wait to hear how that goes!
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Killing in self-defense in Islam, is it permissible?
Understanding Date and DateComponents
Even more food for thought - what if the cache is slower than the network? https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/
Here in Canada we were able to get our flu shot at our family doctor's last week, but it was kind of a "first come first served" and "you have to ask about it" scenario. My employer usually does a flu shot clinic at work every year, but as we're all home we were not able to do that. In some ways there's been more barriers to getting it than in previous years, despite it being more urgent to do so.

If this was rolled out properly people would be actively contacted by phone, etc. with assistance on how to get it. That's the kind of aggressive roll-out I'm hoping we see if/when a COVID19 vaccine becomes available.
Hi, everyone!

I highly recommend you to give Lobe a try. Every little detail has been taken care of to remove the complexity out of the task of training a machine learning model. And its user interface is beautiful.

I had the chance to talk to Adam Menges, one of the founders of Lobe and enjoyed learning not only about the beginnings of Lobe and the Microsoft acquisition, but about Adam's unconventional education and career, why he strives to have death present in his day-to-day, and his life hacks and daily routines, including custom-made clothing, note-taking and file-management workflows, meditation, and much more.

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I'm always super impressed with windows backwards compatibility, it'd be like unmodified system 7 applications still running on a modern mac.
> I think you're probably right (and the author is probably just equally confused as I was previously)

Hah! I was just going to add the following to my comment:

You're both making the same category of error. The author assumes everybody knows he's talking about radioactive dispersion. You're assuming everybody thinks he's talking about explosion potential.

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I have nothing to add about any other potential misinformation - here or elsewhere. I just think this particular instance chalks up to sloppiness
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> understand the unconscious mental processes that feed into racism and the nature of structural discrimination, even when unintended.

I wonder how scientific this understanding is
How does one self host their own online speech then? Whatever your answer is, that thing should not be controlled by a private company.
When network is faster than cache (2020)
How to Make Fire GPT-3 Demos
It is an important distinction.

I think you’d be surprised how close swift playgrounds has become.

All it really needs is a project navigation UI, and it will be good enough for building pure Swift/SwiftUI apps.
I discovered something amazing when working with some people who were writing HFT software.

Why do you need 1TB of RAM in these machines? Because when you're Java based, you want to avoid stop-the-world GC pauses. These trading systems only have to be up from 9:30AM-4:30PM EST, so they simply disable GC altogether! At the end of a trading day, restart the app or reboot the system.
I believe it's also 1 or 2 shortcuts, thanks to the IDE's understanding of the language syntax, unless I misunderstood your scenario?

> Besides, a Lisp editor can blur the parentheses so users don't mentally have to.

Besides, another languages can throw away the parentheses entirely so neither users nor editors don't mentally or visually have to.
I haven't tried the Lemur but I have a Darter I bought this year. Surprisingly powerful and feather weight (which was the major reason I bought a laptop this year). It runs Pop OS which, surprised me again, is very convenient and a nice usability improvement on top of Ubuntu. Highly recommend.
"All of the rights that corporations have stem from a public-interest grant by the state."

Go on...

"Corporations aren't actual people, they're statutory people. Little branches of the government."

Oh.

I'd be ecstatic if we resumed chartering of corporations. If corporations are "people", we should be able to "unpeople" (terminate) them.

I've long hoped that progressives and libertarians could find common ground over the need to reign in corporations.

I've always found it weird that "freedom from oppression" minded people prefer Big Corp over Big Govt. As you point out, corporations are just more government, but without all that troublesome accountability, transparency, and democratic oversight.
Q: Are you going to deliver a Linux kernel over Play Store (for Android)? A: Yes
You're making good points, but one thing I want to emphasize is that latency is not the sole dimension of competition in HFT space.

Certain things may just be "table-stakes", but for many strategies table-stakes is the only requirement. Simply being "fast enough" may be fine if you have a smarter model, exploit niche opportunities overlooked by others, or are willing to shoulder certain risks that other HFTs are trying to offload.

To take this to the extreme, look at Renaissance's Medallion fund. It's certainly the case that much of what they're doing is "HFT-ish" in the sense that they're executing high turnover, high Sharpe strategies with short holding periods. Yet they've managed to continue to be successful from the 90s well until the age of HFT, without competing very hard on latency at all.

Markets are an ecosystem, and like biological ecosystems there isn't just one trait that predicts dominance.
It's simple, we just have to fully embrace that all White people are Racist due to the history of oppression of PoCs in the West by Whites.

Then you will understand that it is Whites who are Racist. Then you must swear your fealty to being Anti-Racist. Not just Non-Racist, that's not enough, you must fight to eliminate Racists from positions of power and eventually from society. Anti-Racism. Fight to eliminate Racist Whites from power. Fight to eliminate Whites from power. Fight to eliminate Whites.
I've built Python 3.2 just to show the problem introduced by language designer

$ python3.2
Python 3.2.6 (default, Oct 26 2020, 15:29:09)
[GCC 10.2.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> u"foo"
File "<stdin>", line 1
u"foo"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This is hostile behavior. It took four years to solve (python 3.3), still supported:

$ python3
Python 3.8.6 (default, Sep 30 2020, 04:00:38)
[GCC 10.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> u"foo"
'foo'

Python got better in supporting old versions over the years. Take a look at Django, it got Python 3 support in February 26, 2013 [1].

> Django 1.5 introduces support for Python 3 - specifically, Python 3.2 and above.

Notice version gap — no support for 3.0, 3.1. It was quite common.

> python 3 migration where most of the community agree that the move is justifiable

If people believed breaking change was justified they would move to 3.0, it did not happen.

I've seen both Python and Ruby community, Ruby made two breaking changes (1.9 and 2.0) while Python got its PEP 414. There was a huge split among developers.

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Essentially you are describing how switch happened while I'm describing which lessons should have been learned. It is sad if Python community learned nothing.

> the community opinion seem to be split which certainly harm wayland migration progress.

Developers done great job, you can't run 2.7 code in 3.*, you can run X11 applications in XWayland. Is there a split in developers community? All I see is FUD among users.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/releases/1.5/#python-3...