skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peterson might be controversial, but some of his ideas are interesting / seem valuable - if he stays close to psychology domains.

1. Success compounds, meaning those that win tend to continue to win

2. Your brain is aware of where you are within the winner-loser continuum and makes plans based on where it thinks you sit

3. Feedback loops can both hurt you and help you

4. Stand up straight with your shoulders back
i guess the non-inflammatory title would be “representative of chrome project votes no in one of many working group proposals “?
Format Wars
Biden has been extremely pro-cop every time a person of color is murdered by police
I would say there has to be some mandatory parenting classes you have to take before getting married/having kids, just like driving and driving school.

The vast majority of people know fuckall about parenting, and in turn raise disfunctional kids that know nothing about proper parenting, and the cycle continues.

Intervention is needed, in the form of teaching better parenting.
HTML and JavaScript. Works for PDF with PDF.js

XML is no longer relevant to the modern web
> Sounds like you’ve gone to the argument of “this can affect fit and healthy people in other ways that we may not even know.”

Not so much an argument of, than an observation regarding, the unpredictable mid to long term impacts of this infection in the demographic that includes most of the 'it's harmless' crowd. Ie, the 20-40yo, relatively healthy individuals.

Most of whom, I hasten to add, are cautious rather than cavalier -- but within which group there are sufficient case studies of severe debilitation lasting very many months, and occasional signs of much longer term damage.

Basically my position is 'we don't know' with a consequence of 'let's assume it's worse than we hope'.

> It is clear that the death toll is overwhelmingly skewed toward the elderly.

Almost definitely. And if you're not in the 'elderly' demographic, or care about people who are, this is probably less worrying for you.

> ... similar levels to spring 2020.

Spring 2020 started two months ago.

I mean, TFA is about Coronavirus in Australia, and Australia is where I am right now, and Spring is what's happening here now.

> I don’t think you can deny this, so pro-lockdown people are now mainly using this “it can affect young people” argument to avoid cognitive dissonance - I have yet to see proof.

Apologies -- but I do not understand the point you are trying to make here.

> I only have seen an article that says there is lung damage after infection which diminishes over the course of weeks. This is what you would expect with any kind of damage but the article had a ridiculous title like “coronavirus may lead to long lasting damage.” Lastly, I see a lot of ambulances these days - it serves as a reminder to check myself. But we’re all probably pretty analytical here and you can’t justify a strict lockdown from a utilitarian standpoint.

You mention 'here' without describing where that actually is. And you mention an article that said something you didn't like, but don't provide a reference to that article. Apparently there are ambulances near you. You then conclude that a lockdown is not justifiable, despite TFA being about how lockdowns have effectively halted the spread of SARS-CoV2 within Australia.
Excellent solution. Unfortunately, the bald head was so smooth, the hat kept falling off
Mitmproxy 5.3
Please just let XML die. Just because it existed doesn't mean it has to exist forever. Will there be pain points in getting rid of it for good? Yeah. But we'll be better off in the long run.
He just asked hundreds of workers in the tech industry directly. He should get some pretty good ideas
Diligently prosecuting fraud and corruption would seem to be the obvious place to start here.
How I made a 4000 word article about math the no. 1 trending on Medium
The analogy is not particularly apt.

For one thing, PDF can encode information that rtf cannot.

There's also lots of approaches to document layout (the underlying descriptions of what should appear, not just different styles).

Pedantically, the analogy works somewhat better for postscript than rtf, but not really, except maybe the bmp->png part.
Vulkan Compute: sample transposition code and webinar recording
they didn't even make an effort to make meetings end to end encrypted until press coverage put them under fire

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/
Most humans can't discuss those topics rationally. It's not arrogant to say this, it's just basic truth. Throughout history, work hasn't been a social club, because everybody has a different preferred social environment and if you add in a social club then the thing people are getting paid for (work) is much harder to focus on. Your comment itself shows how passionate you are about political or social issues, which is fine for you if that is how you wish to proceed in life, but work is not the place for the emotionalism that is paired with passion for 99% of people. Left wing, right wing, authoritarian, libertarian, liberal, communist, fascist, etc doesn't matter, work is best done separated by those can put aside those motivations while working and focus on whatever it is they're being paid to work on.
No one addresses why the company that dominates web search should have an outsize influence on standards in an area where it has an obvious conflict of interest in adopting technologies that _may_ empower potential competitors, aka ie the rest of the world.
Or a system with some memory that knows how balls tend to move.

This system, to me, looks like it works on individual video frames (the camera seems to move away whenever the ball is even half-covered by a player’s body, or hard to see looking against the sun). A smarter system would know the ball doesn’t move 20 meters in a single frame, and tends to move faster than other objects on the field. That may not trivial to implement, but, I expect, would lead to a much more robust system.
This is the biggest issue I have, too.

Motion[1] has a lot less resolution and it's video is not good. But, at least, I can access the video stream through http. That makes an huge difference when implementing a solution. For non-tech users you can just stick the camera's streaming webpage to a phone home screen and give instant access to the video stream.

[1] https://motion-project.github.io/
Here's a different angle for you.

Most of these dev agencies total revenue size is naturally capped at the networks of the founders and referrals from previous clients. I've seen anywhere from $1m - $10m.

Source - people turn to my company to help them grow. General web dev clients find it hard to differentiate enough to cost effectively scale up customer acquisition.

DM me if you want to see the formulas I've worked out that represent the above idea. Not real math, I'm a sales guy haha, just representations of these ideas formatted like a Google sheet formula.
Link to the "Show HN" post (now "[flagged] [dead]") with the two fake comments in case anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24939625
Wait until you get a PDF which is just a bunch of poorly scanned JPGs and no OCR.
I left technology behind almost completely a year or two ago. What I've realised is that most technology doesn't improve our lives, it complicates it and makes it measurably worse. I still check HN, which is probably the last remaining symptom of my link to the tech world.

The world needs less software and less technology, not more. The further down this rabbit hole we go the worse everything gets. Physical health, mental health, social health and the broader links that bind society together all suffer.

It's all noise and its supposed benefits are, for the most part, an illusion.

There's definitely a role for tech to play in our lives, but a limited, balanced role. We're living in a world saturated with it, overdosing daily.

Give it all up, move on, and in time you will recover. Even if it takes years.

Good luck.

(It's unlikely that I will return to read any replies to this comment.)
As of the last couple years, Chrome is the web. The writing has been on the wall since at least Widevine. The browser wars are over, and I don't see any scrappy startup crossing the moat of complexity GOOG has built around "modern" browsers. Especially when combined with their stranglehold of the standards committees. We need to find a new attack vector.
Sure, any arbitrary day off can be bridged to a weekend using vacation days. But normally I overwhelmingly use my vacation time for week or multi-week trips plus maybe some days around business travel.
A lifetime of living with your own dysfunctional parents is not going to be solved by a single class. Parenting issues seem largely generational
Meh.

There's this and a hundred other ways to get past a firewall, and NAT is an ugly hack to extend the life of IPv4 not a security feature.

Firewalls are a false god. If something can't be connected to the open network and remain reasonably secure, it is not secure.

Firewalls are a necessary evil because there's a lot of insecure junk, sure, but relying on them encourages more insecure junk to be made and encourages lazy security practices in general.
Maybe it doesn't rise to the level of 'cancelled' but a few decades ago you were taking a progressive, modern, left-wing stance if you said:

* These cases of minority students with 1600 on the SAT not being offered places in top colleges are bad. College admissions and grading should be name- race- and gender-blind.

* These cases of people trying to ban gay media and speakers for 'obscenity' or 'outraging public decency' are bad. People should be able to publish what they like, and colleges certainly shouldn't ban invited speakers, even if some students find their views challenging.

* These people writing about computers and always referring to the user as 'he' is pretty out of date. Generous use of 'they' in preference to gendered pronouns is the inclusive choice.

The same stances, when viewed from a few decades later, sound right-wing: To modern ears, those stances oppose affirmative action, oppose no-platforming, and say it's OK to ignore people's preferred pronouns. To some, those views would sound positively Jordan Peterson-esque.
Hi, nice question, @gus_massa. I haven't implemented the cleaning part. Thank you for the idea to clean the demo data periodically, I will implement it soon

edited 20201101: Done, now, it cleans the data periodically. Thanks for your suggestion @gus_massa
We live in the post-Gutenberg world and I don't have time to research every topic in every specialization. I do not have time to read the IPCC's entire climate change report, so will maybe look at the Abstract or Conclusion. See also experts on COVID-19, vaccinations, and GMO foods.

A lot of the discussion on DST seems to be "well I like later sunsets". Great. I like not having to wear a mask everywhere but do so anyway because that's what the expert consensus is.

The various Chronobiologist and Sleep Experts are putting forward (consensus?) statements that Standard Time is best, so I'll follow that. If you want to dig into the various Societies' position papers on DST/ST have at it. HN has all sorts of disagreements on all sorts of topic, and this may be another one of them.

I put forward these links as perhaps a starting point, and will not claim that they are an end point. If you want to argue against PhDs and say it's Snake Oil, I'm not going to contend it as I haven't put in the work (perhaps like you have).

I have been curious about DST (and time) for a while, especially since the IT drama of the DST time change during the Bush years, but the specific subject of DST popped up again last year due to the op-ed by the Canadian Society for Chronobiology:

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-turn-back-th...

If you think it's Snake Oil feel free to talk with the authors who work at various Canadian universities:

* https://www.mcgill.ca/microimm/nicolas-cermakian

* https://biology.gradstudies.yorku.ca/faculty/p-thomas/

* https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/T...
Thank you @BGthaOG
Some games are also starting to include ads even after paying full price. So they’re getting more expensive, while getting worse in certain ways. Awesome.
Well yeah, aside from game studios and companies growing, there's also inflation. So yeah, this happens every other year or so.
Hello, I am the creator of VkFFT library(https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT). I was recently invited to be a speaker at the EUROfusion Webinar #5 about Vulkan Compute. I would like to share the recording of it with the community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD_QO5Ilz2U. I have discussed the following topics there:

-Compute and memory-bound problems. Importance of proper memory management and why it is important to have coalesced global memory accesses and avoid shared memory bank conflicts.

-VkFFT, Vulkan Spirit and memory layout optimizations implemented there

-There was a coding session in the end where I showed a simple out-of-place transposition routine in Vulkan. It was launched on Nvidia GTX 1660Ti, Intel UHD 610 and AMD Radeon Vega RX 10 to illustrate the differences in bandwidth and memory coalescing of the different architectures. Full code with comments can be found here: https://github.com/DTolm/VulkanComputeSamples-Transposition

Hope this can be interesting to people willing to try Vulkan for computations!

P.S. I have added double and half precision support (with precision verification) to VkFFT and a choice to perform FFTs using lookup tables. VkFFT now also has a command line interface and it is possible to build cuFFT benchmark and launch it right after VkFFT one.
This is really cool! I would love to have something like these running on my car.
For the most part, advocating for racism, sexism, white supremacy, and Nazism is not illegal. Should we be civil with people who are in favor of them?
Agree that the level of abstraction is different...

Maybe one day JavaScript will become as manageable as TypeScript and Java ;-) Until then I prefer Java for professional products which need to be good maintainable... and for those JavaScript "speakers" TypeScript is a good way to make the apps maintainable...
I feel like XPath queries have been gaining more widespread usage over the last decade by developers at the css/javascript level, so perhaps it makes sense to improve the power of it.
The option type also prevents you from accessing the value if it's absent. Something a C union cannot do. Is there any example of options in an imperative language that would predate ML (which AFAIK introduced Some/None as the variants of option)?
Deaths in Sweden have flatlined since the end of July. The lag is not nearly that big.
You've basically summarized the field.
Given that technology has been and is currently being used to control people, I’d say we failed.
Somewhat of an aside, has anyone seen a way to visualize this type of graph without javascript? I'm looking to visualize hundreds of graph relationships and am hoping to not use JS. Admittedly though this example looks fairly performant, all the other ones i've seen are super laggy.

Ultimately i think i just want to find a decent way to use CSS to replicate this style - but i've not seen any CSS gurus manage to produce that.

Though, WebGL might be the best way regardless.
I would love to see the research backing this, because that would be a quite simple lifestyle change for most people.

However, it does also have an air of "this one trick will solve obesity!", which should be viewed with skepticism.
Please don't sympathize with transphobes
For me, the major problem that the fieldstone method solves is that inspiration is lumpy. The inspiration faucet often doesn't just turn on when you need it to.

By collecting fieldstones (little ideas) and polishing/rewriting over time whenever one feels strongly about a particular subject, one is able to draw on an existing collection of partially-written drafts on diverse topics that can be deployed quickly. Or combine several similar ideas and deploy a more polished/comprehensive treatment of a subject than would be possible with an on-the-spot piece.

It also accounts for the fact that our interests shift. I don't know about others but I often get into phases where I become intensely interested in a subject, research it to heck until the interest peters out. I was once really interested in the topic of alleviating loneliness because I was profoundly affected by it. I'd written many fieldstones on the topic, and contemplated it a lot. If I were given a task to write about loneliness right now, I'd probably struggle because I'm no longer as intimate with (nor as interested in) the subject as I once was, but with fieldstones I can draw on all the (partial) analyses I'd done when I was in that phase.

The fieldstone method is more than just about taking notes -- it's about brewing them over time based on one's feelings.
But perhaps you feel energetic during the weekend because there is less pressure. Or less distraction.

If we standardize on seven day work-weeks then some of those benefits may be gone.
You can, but that solution uses a Raspberry Pi camera, not an USB one. They have completely different hardware interfaces.
Especially since it's observably true that for knowledge workers, almost nobody actually spends even close to a full percentage of their work hours doing the work in their job description. The productivity loss from requiring say 30 hours a week a week instead of 40 would be significantly less than a 25% decrease. In fact I wouldn't bet against a gain in total productivity.
I don't understand. You say you're done with and "hating on the industry," but the things you list -- "mock-woke" companies, "frat-boy" companies, changing the world or disrupting companies, rent-seeking behemoths, ad tech companies -- are only a tiny, tiny fraction of the tech industry.
CDC's survival percentage based on the IFR per age group

0-19----99.997%

20-49---99.98%

50-69---99.5%

70+-----94.6%
Saving 2-3 people a day objectively isn't worth any kind of lockdown.
Every sprint team I’ve been on is loaded with unexpected stories, and this was doubly true when I was working on a sprint team building for a client.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Use MathML, put up noticea that your content only works in Safari and Firefox. These are all attacks against Google. FIGHT!
New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
browsers are quite fast nowadays.

they appear to be bloated mainly because of two reasons:

1) companies pulling in all sort of un-optimized content and making requests to a huge amount of external services, effectively slowing down the render of pages

2) a lot of developers developing stuff that should really be native code in html+js+css, which doesn't always perform that well and tends to slow down the whole browser. it really suffices one badly-coded app (not using well asynchronicity and/or wasting memory) to make the whole browser appear slow.
Thank you Pine64 for this!

Reparable electronic devices are one of the few levers that can have a huge impact to create a sustainable future.

Obviously it will require to rethink our economies, like reducing the taxes on labor to enable small repair shops to bloom everywhere.

Linux + a reparable device is the only way to stop e-waste!
When I was at Big Tech Company I would just tell my boss if I was having one of those days and make it up on the weekend rather than using PTO. It was never a problem. It's amazing how much a good professional relationship with management helps.
... until the next time they let Britons in.
disclosure: I work as a diesel engine tech in a midwestern city.

Ive seen and dealt with a lot of tow companies, and a plurality are pretty shady but the worst are the police-centric ones. Lock-in deals with police departments for example are astroturfed as "the official tow company of $city police" without so much as an audit. Bidding almost never takes place for this service model, its just a cop whos wifes brother owns a tow company. These are generally the worst, as they rarely respond to anything but a parking enforcement dispatcher. The tow lot is derelect dirt property, and the only thing in the office is a credit card machine and a television. They exist to collect a fee and send a cut to the city, and rarely employ anyone who understands how to hook up a car safely, just quickly.

If you hire a tow driver: look for the words "recovery" or an endorsement from your insurance company. Avoid AAA towing as shady companies habitually stencil that logo on everything. If there is a heavy recovery truck with a crane in their lot, you're in professional hands.

If you're being towed: do not argue shout at or threaten the driver/operator, they're just paying their bills and if its an "official city" tow company it can get you a quick night in jail. instead document everything you can, take pictures and tak your time if you think you're being wrongly towed (it happens.) keep track of your vehicle after this. call and check up on it, as some of the shadiesst tow companies will actually send you a letter warning you of an intent to auction your property after a set date if you dont pay. Somethines this is just a scare tactic, other times its real (im told in Los Angeles they can do this.) Fighting a parking violation tow should be straight forward at your local courthouse unless the citys come to depend on tow revenue.

If you're booted: call the city and confirm it! ask them to confirm the device by its serial number or markings and that information about your vehicles violation EXISTS With them. If you call the number on the boot to pay your fine, ask the person on the other end when the car was booted, who booted it, and at what time (all of which should be documented by the tow company.)
Which home page you prefer? (Looking for digital marketing partner for launch)
False.

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/edward-snowden-nsa-le...

Whether you've misremembered it or you are accurately reporting Barton Gellman's claim it appears to be totally and utterly false. That's not super-surprising, it would be everywhere and in every story about Snowden's leak and exile if it were true.

"The Post just barely beat The Guardian in publishing the PRISM story on Thursday by about 20 minutes — "

"Gellman told The Huffington Post last week that he “started to hear some footsteps, so I had to move” on the PRISM story. There’s no question it was a race to publish, and although Gellman said he “would have been happier to have had a day or two” longer on the story, the Post had to move to get that scoop online before The Guardian."

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/snowden-an...

Snowden, who was one of Greenwald’s longtime readers, tells me in an e-mail. “Glenn tells the truth no matter the cost, and that matters.”
Are you sure? The image in the linked article shows a Pi zero with the Pi camera case (not USB).
Same here! Wednesday used to be the day I had college while working four days a week but when I quit college it just became my day off. I find that it works quite well for me while most of my colleagues seem to prefer having a three day weekend with either Friday or Monday being their day off.

I suppose there's pros and cons to either approach (which I haven't really researched at all yet) but to me right now breaking up a continuous stream of work days makes total sense (while still fitting for the 9-5 custom, which I, like many people, don't prefer but I haven't had any better opportunities yet).
What about boolean optional arguments?