skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should cars be entitled to the road whenever they damn well please?

Because that is the rule, and the rule was created to create predictability and thereby increase safety. You are arguing to reduce safety because you have an ideological opposition to cars.
Bay Area cities, restaurants bracing for potential election-night unrest
It's nice to see the resume listed out here. I did try to look you up on LinkedIn to maybe find out more (before writing my previous comment) - but found nothing.

For reference, I don't think you've jumped around a lot. I've had 5 different software engineering jobs in the 5 years I've been in the bay area. I moved to learn more, increase my pay, and hopefully find a rewarding environment. Still looking. Most everyone wants money, recognition, and control...

Do you think what the article wrote about is more important to your success (managing a standup act, mcdonalds, joining puppet) than the years that were not really mentioned? I wonder if maybe the person you were managed by, if the people who mentored you (if any), and what not were influential to your success and desire to push yourself out into conferences and making talks. I guess - I just wonder if your formative years of becoming a more senior software engineer meant nothing. Was it all just your own internal desires and no one would've influenced anything regardless and you were bound for whatever an L8 gets compensated?
My hearing is mostly fine, but I've looked for decent options to use for dictation, and Live Transcribe is the closest I've found to one with enough precision and speed to be tolerable to use as a replacement for typing...
Funny you say this, my reaction upon reading it was “why wouldn’t they?” and reflecting on how I would absolutely trust an audit from a reputable company.

I know very little about accounting and company financials, but I work in security, and quickly remembered how much time I spend trying to convey to people that 3rd party compliance audits are not even worth the paper they’re written on, yet people still have confidence in them.

Kind of a Gell-Mann amnesia effect I suppose.
> the Hunter Biden laptop / Bobulinski testimony.

The WSJ, while their own op-ed page was trying to make the story real, thoroughly broke down and discredited all aspects of this story. There is no tie to Joe Biden at all.

Why are you claiming otherwise with a straight face?
Is TDC still around?
Yeah. I have the same hesitations about it. I think the biggest risk is that it's only a small improvement, and people may feel like, "Tried alternative voting systems, they were more complicated and didn't really improve anything."

However, I ended up voting Yes on 2 because it will increase awareness that alternative voting systems exist. The more people who are aware that FPTP sucks moose juice, the more likely we can pass other, more impactful, reforms like STAR. So basically I'm wagering that there's more people like this, than people who will give up on voting reform due to RCV (really, IRV)'s shortcomings.
Many comments yesterday and today said "don't be a jerk" is the only code you need. Many said any written code will inevitably be abused.

Who is pushing what particular enforcement mechanisms? The Contributor Covenant is probably the most popular and most hated code of conduct. It just says community leaders will investigate and take appropriate action. It's very open ended.
Right, the DNC's emails weren't fake either. They were stolen by a state and leaked via a third party for political reasons.

That's the game.
I do the exact same thing as well. Since I am a federal employee, I tried https://www.sprintrelay.com/federal at first when we had dial-in conferences but it was hard at first - I requested that people start their sentences with their name and to whom they were talking like so: "This is Alice here, Bob, did you..".

We moved to Zoomgov and it was hard at times to get captioning scheduled so I moved back to using my phone (which is what I used pre-covid at our in-person meetings) with Live Transcribe. We have the host with OneNote open and everyone has submitted notes so we know the topics that are going to be covered and can use it as sort of meeting minutes for anyone else that missed the meeting or to review what topics were covered.
This is an excellent point, it is the same problem as trying to compare autopilot crashes to human crashes. The context is critical.
We still haven't stamped out the older corona viruses (ie common cold). Those corona's have cycled through the population for so many centuries, everyone still alive has some resistance.

The same will happen with this new corona. A vaccine could make your first exposure to the virus much safer. Social distancing is meant to flatten hospital capacity curves and buy time for vulnerable people to get a vaccine before their first exposure.

Does any government have a goal of permanently ending corona virus? I'm not aware of any. It is with us for the next 5000+ years.
I'm sorry your chose to pursue this as a personal attack and with such intensity but, nevertheless, and for the sake of those reading this with less animosity, allow me to reply.

It strikes me as fascinating how societies would evolve and behave when different species could have and exchange different narratives. This a something not new, that has been exploited more than once in science fiction, precisely because the diversity between humans is not enough (many would argue that there are not human races) or simply not enough to be a scenario for picturing vastly different realities, or a playground for a different role playing.

I won't reply to unfortunate comments about plants but allow me to tell you that not only vegans agree on many of the the things that have been said regarding the domination of a species above others.
And yes, even among vegans there are debates about wellbeing/misfortunes of animals cause by other animals.
As many other topics concerning ethics, it's open and, although science has helped much to set a path, much there is still to discuss.
By discuss, however, I mean tolerant and well-intentioned exchange of thought, not cheap attempts of mocking perspectives you don't share.
Why do we keep giving amazon so much money?
Yeah, well, forgive me if I tend to lend human drivers the benefit of the doubt when conflicts arise with auto-driving vehicles, for a while. If the model doesn't reflect how other drivers drive, is that the drivers' fault or the model's fault?
Yeah I just exit full-screen mode. Then I can see the screen + anyone with video on and chat.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of obsidian. I had tried out dnote because it's commandline first.

I suppose you could argue you can just use standard tools with obsidian, so maybe I'll try that too.
Slightly inspired by it maybe, but verry different (real-time vs turn based is biggest difference).
This is the organization pushing this "research": https://www.ceres-science.com/index.html

I'll leave the hopefully scientifically literate crowd here to see how reputable they are. I skimmed the paper, it seems to be making a "there's no free lunch"/"renewables aren't magic free energy" so let's just keep using fossil fuels argument. None of the authors are economists, physicists, or climate scientists, yet they make assertions that are very much the domain of those experts. I expect better from the HN crowd.
I take the last point as a feature. I don't want the music to stop when I put the headset on my shoulders.
He seems like an awesome guy. Well-deserved success!

I do wonder whether the title of the article accidentally (and ironically) reveals a subtle racial bias. McDonald's is a typical shorthand for a lowly job, staffed by the nation's underclass. But tons of successful people in tech flipped burgers in high school (I did!) and it's never worth highlighting in press articles. Their public story usually starts at college or their first job or their first big break. But this article specifically highlights a traditionally menial position as his starting point.

Unconscious bias?
It's not one or the other, it's both. There are different types of routes. Some are:

- built for humans to walk on[1]. Cars are not allowed on here at all.

- built for cars to drive on[2]. See the big double yellow lines in the middle? That's how you know this part of the road was designed with cars in mind. However, because we don't have the money to build footbridges over every road, we put a zebra crossing in the middle of it so that pedestrians can cross between the routes that only they are allowed on.

Cars get the right of way on roads because that's what we built them (or in the case of old roads that existed before cars, repurposed/maintain them) for. Just like we built the sidewalks/pavements/footpaths/footbridges/etc for pedestrians (and sometimes cyclists).

Maybe part of the problem here is that you seem to be using "road" to mean "things people go on", when the rest of us are using the word road to mean "the things people drive on", and generally use other words to describe the things we've built specifically for walking on.

[1] https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/8/8c/Pavement....

[2] https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22110146/N...
I actually gasped when I spotted a game I made in the 90s in there (text adventure). Then I gasped again when I noticed how big that archive is...
> Inexperience grows from the bottom, I've gotten "better" by simply being too stubborn to get worse.

That is quite possibly one of the best quotes I have heard on how to approach discipline in engineering.
Mail chimp.. Censurating like Google.. Avoid this company
Service to Service Authorization in Go Using X.509 Certificates
Let's check back in two weeks to see if the predictions of full hospitals and proportional deaths actually happens.
There is a statistical property at play here.

Consider a system for selecting for characteristic X from a population. This system considers traits A, B, and C, which each have some (positive, negative, or 0) correlation to X in the global population.

With a perfect selection process, there should be 0 correlation between any of the traits and the desired property. If trait A was positivly correlated with X within your population, then you could improve the selection process by favoring trait A more. Simmilarly, if there were a negative correlation, you could improve your selection by disfavoring A more. This is completly independent from the correlation that exists in the global population.

There is no evidence that suggests that the diversity policies pursued by FAANG companies is being pursued because they found that within their population white and asian employees were less competent.
the first thing he said in that imgur link was that he thinks its okay to "hide your power level" . he is clearly okay with and willing to hide his real beliefs
I don’t want everyone who drives for Uber to be forced to be classified as an employee. The rules are too rigid for employment in this country. No matter how many words are written about this, I simply prefer increased flexibility of employer / employee relationships, for Uber or any company. It’s a philosophical difference of opinion.
There are no threads in this scenario. You can easily lose ownership / crash on bad references when using golang maps in a single thread.
Isn't concluding that they are lying without solid evidence basically the same crime that you're accusing them of committing against Jeremy Howard?
Uncle Leo from "Napoleon Dynamite".
LA Times makes a good case that this is simply the wrong solution to that problem https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-23/proposition...
If anyone wants to look through Chris Lattner original Swift Concurrency Manifesto. He goes into the bigger picture. https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9...
Always wondered were Kelsey got his comedian skills. Now I understand it was working with his buddy Ronnie Jordan, driving him around, coaching him, learning with & from Jordan. Reminds me of the Beatles and their time in Hamburg were they got their Performance skills. Even in his extensive answer her in HN describing his IT career made me laugh a couple of times.

Thank you Kelsey, keep up the good work.
There's a big difference between r/politics and people downvoting and r/conservative which insta bans you and has turned into the new Donald.
sqlite is a wonderful, amazing, file manipulation API. If single-threaded file manipulation is what you need, its great. But is not an application backend in the way PG can be.
Heartening to see that unusual perspectives and opinions are rewarded with downvotes.
All the public does not reside on Twitter. Now I will grant you that 90% of my techie coworkers are heavy Twitter users, almost no one else I know in real life is on Twitter. I'm seeing stats online like "22% of US adults" and "38% of adults 18-29"
Why does this exist? I don't mean what do you use it for, the many uses are obvious, but why has a company (Microsoft) made it and released it for free.

Reading the license I assume it may change at some future version to require money to use it, and that a new version will install and then say please pay us to continue using? Or probably just this product is no longer available? Note these are not things I am thinking will happen but rather my theoretical assumptions to try to answer the question of why has Microsoft, a for profit company, made this closed source, free tool that I think might be pretty useful for a lot of people.
Exxon Pays Off Shareholders, Lays Off Workers
Fascinating stuff! I’m going to dig into it more soon. Thanks for sharing! I’ll be sure to follow up.
I'm not sure why you think the results would have been the same. I would guess that STAR voting would have Montroll beating Kiss in the runoff.
This is about X.org deprecation, which has come up a bit this week:

* "The X.Org Server Is Abandonware" / https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-... /
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884988

* "on abandoning the X server" /
https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server... /
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24920183
That doesn't affect ballot size. You have the same number of candidates with boxes next to their name you put a number in, unless someone is making the implementation more complicated.
Hinodeya broth was about as light as you can get. And I have had equally fatty broth in Japan.
For those who grew up playing quake as a kid... A bit of history, speedrun and nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43d8fICz6gM
I think even then, we do not know enough to make any such claim. When did the Waymo cars drive, during the day, in rush hour, at night??? Did they simulate the typical use of an average car or just drove around in the next suburb.

And yeah, only Phoenix, so I assume few rainy days, barely any mist, snow, freezing and so on. The info of driven miles is nice to have but does not translate to normal human driven miles
i stopped reading medium because of large amounts of click bait.
My question was around the size of the ballot, not the weight of a person's vote.
I read it for the first time today like everyone else and love the way it turned out.

A lot of the technical stuff has been covered in other places. Tom pulled on a different thread, one that even taught me some things about myself. Tom did the homework, interviewed a lot of people, and presented the person behind the keyboard.

My current role does little to describe where I am today. The path for others will be different, and what I think is most important, beyond the technical achievements is the person I've become. The higher you go up in the engineering world the less you lean on the skills that got you there.

In my opinion the best engineer can change the world with zero lines of code.
It's more clickbaity for sure.
And balancing for each person the mental costs of solving the problem through Zoom or Slack, and/or their preferences for either of those avenues.
But how did the cars end up with the prime space? Look at how much they've got here. The pedestrians are pushed to the side and squeezed. Why do we accept that?

And why do we talk about pedestrians 'crossing the street'? How about instead we call crosswalks an extension of the sidewalk and talk about cars 'crossing the sidewalk'?

How did we let cars get the upper hand on people?

And why is anyone driving through a freaking city in the first place? Unless you're disabled, or delivering physical goods, what on earth are you doing? Get out!
Bazel requires gigabytes of memory; for a 10y old machine that's still going to eat up most of what you've got.
Being charitable to centimeter, it sounds more like they're saying that their inclusion is more expensive than everyone else. And, well... it is.

That being said, the argument only works on purely utilitarian grounds. If you have any sense of deontological ethics, it kind of goes right out the window (even if you agree with the conclusion, the argument itself doesn't make much sense from a deontological viewpoint).
https://twitter.com/dmimno/status/949302857651671040?lang=en

>Optimist: AI has achieved human-level performance!

>Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface appearance of intelligence.

>Pessimist: AI has achieved human-level performance.
I don't think it shows everyone at once though? Which is pretty important in an ASL class. I only have the chrome extension which doesn't support popping videos out to separate monitors.
Skin cancer:

Checkung nevus. Early on means, if you notice them changing size and color - have them checked and maybe removed. No spreading skin cancer as a result

Breast cancer: feeling knots, etc. are warning signs.

Lung cancer: pain

Brain cancer:

certain types of headaches can be ignored with pills, or checked

etc. etc.

I am not aware of any cancer, which has no warning signs. But yes, most if not all signs are not a guaranteed test result. And in fact, it probably does not helping many people freaking out, when they notice warning signs, caused by harmles other causes. But doing so in a rational manner definitely increases your chances of early spotting.
If Loom ever comes out :p, at this point I am starting to wonder if this is a case of "the right thing" against "worse is better" and maybe we just will never see the light of Loom.
Of course you don't need a CoC to enforce anything! You can moderate aggressively without one.

What it does is sets expectations. It sets expectations for everyone involved in any interactions. In general, this should give you confidence that there will be some moderation or recourse if you experience rude behavior. That may allow some people who have been burned by ruder communities to be willing to give yours a try.
There's a 6-way roundabout I know of that frequently has one of the 3 intersecting roads dominate the traffic, so people just go full speed from that road. In that case, the other roads can be completely starved, so a 6-way stop would have been better for those roads in those times.

As for t-boning, you can definitely have someone enter a roundabout early/late and hit another car on the side, or dart in front of a car that's in the roundabout (especially possible if the roundabout is not perfectly circular) and themselves get hit on the side.

And people manage to go "out of turn" in roundabouts all the time, by not yielding, or by tailgating.
Uphold and Cred severed ties awfully quick.

For something geared towards transparency...really strange how ominous this all is.

Really has me thinking hard about Crypt, Nexo, etc and all of the other ones out there. I diversify for stuff like this so not a huge loss if I get nothing but damn.
I know, I wasn't trying to ignore or denigrate this purpose. It seemed apt to show a similar tool which still has a drastically different (and complementing) purpose, which is human readability.
Ernst & Young also, of course, audited Wirecard.
I love how many different approaches there are for setting things up!

One quick note about Otter: I’m using LoopBack to create virtual audio devices that let me feed the audio as an input source as well as play it through an output channel. That might work with the hearing aids.

(I use somewhat outdated Phonak Naida V SP’s – looking forward to the next gen that have better Bluetooth support.)
Its gonna be interesting to see how the SDK is going to be developed to make the best use of the crank.

Simulating that is also going to be an interesting design question.
From the article:

> Rather than accepting the bad bargain Proposition 22 presents, voters should demand a better, broader answer from Sacramento.

IMO, while that's in principle a decent idea, that's not really a great alternative practically speaking. We're supposed to just hope something different happens in the legislature, and in the mean time, we'll see diminished service and many drivers will be out of work / lose the flexibility of setting their own hours?
I find the paternalism of AB5 to be a little bit problematic. It really assumes that the drivers are too stupid to do their own accounting and figure out if they are making money or not.
Pretty sure most drivers wouldn't be driving for $9.21 if a job at the local ice cream parlor could get them almost double on the spot. Yet you still see folks driving 30 hrs per week for years.

Not only that, but with the higher prices guaranteed by AB5 and the higher cost of having employees, there's absolutely no guarantee that current drivers will meet the bar for full time employment as drivers (and the company will need less of them).
No one is giving Amazon money.
Sounds like a bad use of a roundabout. I'm not familiar with roundabout theory (?), but it seems they work best on evenly weighted intersections.
What Is an Anti-Slapp, Anyway? A Lawsplainer Series
Nuts have been around forever, so they apparently aren't solving the problem of bad meals (inconvenient, time-consuming, expensive, unhealthy, and unejoyable) completely.

Soylent offers a new product that might help reduce the problem of bad meals.

Soylent works for me. If nuts work for you, then great.
Prop 22 is not a problem created by Uber, it's a response to the problem created by the legislature through AB5. They passed a bill that would effectively hamstring rideshare companies and other independent contractors while providing carve-outs for 50+ other businesses, and these companies are now using the process to pass a proposition that will undo this. Of course they are trying to do it in a way that maximally benefits them, but it needs to be borne in mind that they did not make the first blow. The assembly did.

Both Assembly Bills and Ballot Propositions are a part of California's legislative framework. In fact Ballot Propositions are the purest expression of the will of the people, and hence supersede legislative action. Given how extensive lobbying is in the US, it's not like assembly bills are pure and unsullied while Prop 22 is tainted by Uber's blood money.

The problem in America is that instead of the government providing safety nets, affordable healthcare etc. to all its citizens, it forces these things onto an employer-employee relationship, with no regard for financial fundamentals.

CA is a giant state with no realistic public transport options for the vast majority of its population. Services like Uber and Lyft aren't merely 'luxuries' for its people, they provide a necessary service for many of them, without which their lives would not merely be inconvenienced but often be drastically affected.

It's just not possible for Uber to be profitable while being affordable to a similar number of people and treating all its drivers as employees. The second and third order effects of these are all negative for the people of California.

Employment law should be about removing highly coercive situations, but other than that, adults should be allowed to provide a service in return of a payment without getting embroiled in byzantine regulatory requirements.