skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the BIPM redefines how long an hour is, I guess we'll just have to ditch our Casios and start using Swatch internet time.
Why can't we _also_ do this with police body cameras, and have independent auditors create authenticated copies of the footage?
I am in my 40s and writing a browser application that is highly distributed so I wrote a test automation component that executes in the browsers of multiple computers from a single command and control one a single computer outside the browser. It provides full keyboard and mouse control, except mouse movement events, to any point in the DOM just like a user and can therefore remotely test messaging an accessibility.
Yup that is why we use it. And it’s great since anything can be a data source
Yeah. And the rich don’t mind, because status signaling is a a thing.
The U.S. criticizes China for implementing a police state.

But humans are humans, and the urge to control other humans trumps all culture.
writer is probably a "Steve Jobs"-type, saying "no" means you and/or your team is incompetent and can't "think outside the box" or some other cliche for innovation.
Intermittent fasting, a possible tool for defense against SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://www.hackster.io/hfor62/training-wild-birds-to-trade-...
This exactly the sort of epi-scientific anecdotes that I really appreciate about Nautilus Magazine. In many ways understanding the process of knowledge formation and transmission is more important than the information exchanged. As a general pattern, a lot of great scientists are open to lateral/magical thinking. As the article mentions at its conclusion that Pauli never totally accepted Jung's ideology, but the fact that he was willing to entertain and engage with a mystical world view is perhaps important in understanding creativity.
Also FWIW, some of his dreams are pretty wild and can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_and_Alchemy
In Chinas Far West Companies Cash in on Surveillance Program That Target Muslims
It feels to me that Mozilla are getting more and more into areas that are not related to their core.
Heterosexual couples can indeed get married without any plans to have a child, I agree.

And at the same time, it is true that a gay couple can have children through adoption, or biologically.

It is for both of these reasons that I disagree with the argument.

That being said, at the time when the argument was relevant, the overwhelming majority of married heterosexual couples did have children, and gay adoption as well as IVF were not really a thing.

But nowadays, of course, anyone making this argument would be making it from bias. In the framing of the thread, which was the 1940s, it is more reasonable.
Small Ways to Make Large Sidebar Menus Scannable
Okay, but before you talked about the “severity” of the issue. Now it seems like something more along the lines of issues that have some sort of “moral clarity.” Apart from moving the goalposts, politics is a process for getting different stakeholders to agree through debate and compromise. If there is no room for debate and compromise, you’re not talking about a political issue, but a moral crusade. And moral crusades are great, but they’re different from “politics.”

Also, what is the scope of what people can “reasonably disagree” about? You mention same-sex marriage, but that’s illegal in most countries, including Switzerland. Are people in Switzerland, and India, and every single Muslim country in the world, for the most part not “reasonable?” And even in countries where it is legal, laws on related issues like surrogacy or religious exemptions vary. I’m talking about very socially liberal countries like France and Germany, where surrogacy is banned.
I've done this with laptop power bricks.

I'm laying on my couch right now, with my laptop plugged into a brick perched permanently at the end thereof. There are two more at the table (sometimes work and personal laptop are up at the same time), and one on my nightstand, and one in the kitchen for when I'm using a recipe from online or just youtubing while cooking.

All my old Thinkpad bricks with the gray round plug have little converter cables on 'em, so they work with the modern yellow rectangular socket now. I got a new brick with the work lappy, a new one with the personal, and I think there's one knockoff cheapie in the mix somewhere.
And also transfer out everything non-downloadable, like DNS domain registrations.
And, yet, it's fixed. Potato potato.
Thanks, I added it to the list of other actor implementations.
> My desktop gets confused about audio inputs when plugging things (e.g. mic) in and out

If it's any consolation my Mac Pro on Catalina insists on switching to my monitors as audio outputs upon any restart or display wake.
It's more of a personal feeling - black on white text seems jarring. I prefer to attenuate both a bit.
I disagree with the characterization of sexism against women as "systemic". That seems like exactly the wrong word to use. Systemic sexism would imply there is an organized system to disadvantage women. I think the organized system - going from the public education system (largely administrated by women) which favors girls (better grades, less punishment, better graduation rate for girls), to college (where girls are a majority of students and graduates) to employment (where there are organized systems to benefit women in terms of hiring and promotion) exhibits a preference based on gender for women rather than against women.

The kind of sexism that women encounter is not an organized system of oppression (e.g. being directed to hire fewer women) but rather it is the latent sexism of individuals not acting in an organized fashion. Individuals not taking a woman seriously, or being harassing, or not wanting to hire women etc. "Systemic" does not seem like an apt word for this kind of sexism.

Regarding your question over how I know I don't benefit from gender bias - clearly I can't know. Just like my female colleagues can't know if they benefit from gender bias. Maybe if I were a woman I would've got better grades in school, gone to a better college, retained my interest in programming, and been preferentially hired in an even better role. It's impossible to know.
try out https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk i've had success with it thus far. i'm mostly using mainstream providers at this point though.
It's difficult to say whether other countries are just dealing with the financial side of this better or if the US is basically subsidizing the low prices elsewhere by paying the exorbitant prices here.
> Our huge network of merchant data found.. at some tiny brick-and-mortar in Baltimore and it comes out $50 cheaper

Here is the crux: the 'supply chain' for gathering the data from all the tiny stores in small towns, who may not even have a retail system or may not be even connected, would be intractable.
Actually yes, salvation army is considered pretty bad due to a number of homophobic and anti-homeless tendencies.
forgot to add the "conjoined triangles of success" graph
> Probably the largest incident in memory is when someone tried to use the customer-only restroom at Starbucks without making a purchase, refused to leave, and then was arrested. This was a national scandal that resulted in Starbucks closing its 8,000 stores for racial bias training.

It's worth noting that the company's official policy was and is to allow people to stay as long as they like without making a purchase, and that witnesses to the event described white people in the store doing exactly that at the same time the black man was arrested.
See, that's where it gets interesting. We can then move on to the next stage of the experiment where we give the crows hands, allowing them to fix the machine themselves.
You read Will Larson’s book, didn’t you? Over here talking about logarithmic functions of headcounts and what not :P

For those that haven’t, or if my respondent hasn’t: https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Ma...

It’s no holy grail of engineering management, but what it _is_ is a well sourced book of “starting points”. Nuggets of thought. None of them really complete, a good deal wide, not very deep, but ultimately very relevant.

His systems approach to hiring and staffing engineering teams as a pseudo-mathematical problem I found intoxicatingly interesting because it spoke to a challenge my org faces intimately, and much of what you said reminded me of some of the themes in the linked book.
Examples of 'Anti-Homeless' Hostile Architecture
Santabodies
A great science focused short story on Christmas this year.
> it allows police departments to avoid the cost of buying surveillance equipment and to put that burden onto consumers

As-if we're not paying for it anyway through our taxes?

> ensure active resident participation in the process

Seems like this requires participation of the residents? The existing Amazon/Ring partnership sure does, and, I don't see how (with Amazon/Ring not being directly involved) this could work without the resident agreeing to share the footage?

> This is not a drill. Red alert:

Ugh, this kind of hyperbole doesn't help anything.
This is only an easy source of profit if you know nothing about US anti-money laundering laws.
Note that the USB device is not a full-function software-controllable device; it provides a built-in 'serial port' and JTAG debugger only.
Face it - Python just ain't fit for one-liners. Give Perl and Ruby some credit as they were designed for conciseness and the command-line. Python may dominate data science, AI and ML but it's deficiencies bleed through when you try to compose something elegant and concise.
The Finnish post office provides email for people (with some extras, like letters from participating senders can show up digital-only). For a while that also served as a centralized authentication service; I think that has mostly migrated to being done by banks.

Of course, the UX sucks and nobody sane would use it for anything useful, but it is a backup email address you'd be unlikely to be kicked off of.
Building software that doesn't suck
is it just me or this website's scrollbar is missing lol
I’m not sure what the rule is for describing logos.
Most games don’t store their assets in a single one-shot-load pack file anymore. They use chunked asset files where individual assets or packs will be compressed and then concatenated with a master index, meaning you don’t have to load the whole file when the engine needs only a subset. This means the checksums necessarily cannot cover the entire data file, because then you would need to read the entire file to verify a single asset anyway, throwing away the benefits of random access. You can also turn the checksums off for “speed,” and some do.
Headers in Wikipedia are rgb(0, 0, 0) but paragraphs are rgb(32, 33, 34). So they attenuate the black on the small font text.
The advantage is the one-line versions can be easily written within the Terminal.
If you shop at Trader Joe’s, and Trader Joe’s sells food to ICE employees that participate in the family separation program, you just took a supportive political stance.

Did you pay any federal taxes this year to support ICE instead if refusing to pay them? You just took a supportive political stance.
You're conflating the rationale for their actions with the execution.

It was logical for those companies to take political action in those instances in order to maintain their business models. How they did so may have been unsavoury, but that's orthogonal to the justification.
> Is IBM playing politics?

It sounds to me like IBM apologized for committing a wrongful termination, so no. Even the staunchest of conservatives would not consider it a "scandal" to have a trans employee in 2020. IBM is just trying to maintain a positive reputation in today's social climate, just like they were doing 50 years ago.

> Was Conway playing politics when she decided to transition?

Conway is a person, not a business, so I'm not sure what this has to do with the conversation about businesses engaging in politics.
It's easier to follow a program's execution when you can be sure the whitespace will never lie to you.

You can never have a "goto fail" kind of bug.
Only small ones
I'm aware, and tech companies support things like Prop 22 in California with their superPAC money.

While prostrating themselves about how much they care about intersectional social justice to keep their employees happy. Pure performance.
Well, some of it's illegal according to treaties the US has ratified.
Has anyone tried MacPorts? It builds everything from source anyway, so there's a reasonable chance more things will work.
I personally think the Raspberry Pi layout is awful. Power, audio/video and 2 USB ports should be on one side and the SD and 2 USB ports on the other side is way it should be.
cool. glad to see the progress.
> We need to draw lines on basis of basic decency, i.e not supporting slavery, child trafficking and such.

You do know that the very child separation policy you decry was implemented specifically to prevent child trafficking and keeping children away from people that can’t be verified to be related?
One can only imagine how this thread would be going if it were China joining with industry to carry out something similar.
Hukou is what I was referring to. It's not just welfare, but distribution of state money (like USAs census) and in some places required to purchase property in that area. Most ignore the requirement (like they do many rules), so I understand why you say they "don't need to register", but technically it is required.
This is where it gets fuzzy when you say something in China is "required" - technically it might be so but in practice it's not enforced, unless the government has a particular reason to enforce it, and even then it's usually temporary. It ends up being a weird situation where technically there's more restrictions in China but in practice there's a lot less red tape to deal with than living in the US.
What that means in practice is if Beijing doesn't like you, they will find a laundry list of requirements you violated. Bringing it back to AirBnB IPO that concerns me.
Are you sure? It was my understanding that Google only matches donations to 501(c)(3) organizations.
I wonder how hard it'd be to geolocate these cameras by comparing their stream to Google StreetView imagery, then program a drone with a spray paint can to go visit?

(For bonus points, the drone could paint blood on the top and sides of doorframes of every house without a live-streaming ring camera, so the destroyer will not enter those houses...)
> Yep, you read that right, $14,000

There's a lot wrong with US healthcare, but IMO a sticker price of $14,000 is actually a signal of a different problem, which is... that the prices are fake.

Nobody is actually expecting individuals to pay $14,000/mo. In the circumstance that an uninsured individual is on the drug, they'll be put on a payment plan which works out to an income-based-repayment: they know they won't get half a million from the patient, they'll get what (they think) the patient can afford.

For insured patients (realistically, almost everyone who could have afforded such a high sticker, because of employer-based healthcare) the sticker price is meaningless, because there's a negotiated rate between the insurance company and the provider. Likely negotiated inefficiently with each individual insurer, but the end money transfer a small fraction of $14,000.

I'm not trying to argue that there's not a ton of waste here. It's dumb and the lack of price visibility means nobody at any level makes informed choices. But the $14,000 price shouldn't be viewed as a real price in any meaningful sense.
Uniqueness to the point that it can beat optimization is a very high bar to clear.

Think of the wonderful galaxy of unique internet databases that were supplanted by Google's relentlessly optimized text field, how many unique communities got overrun by Facebook and Reddit, optimization really chases uniqueness out. You need a little slack to leave oxygen for new ideas.
The New York Times Front Page in Color Blue, Sunday November 22, 2020, and Art
I agree. After I moved to a new place (in South Bay), I found that many of my neighbors had some kind of video doorbell installed, usually Nest but sometimes also Ring. Initially I was quite horrified by the fact that when I'm taking a stroll around the neighborhood I would be captured by all these cameras. And if I'm having a conversation while walking it's quite easy for the neighbors to overhear. This all changed when I decided to install Nest Hello myself. You get this inexplicable satisfaction from having a camera that watches passers-by and knowing they aren't messing with your property (even though statistically you probably know they won't). It really taps into that part of human nature.
KFC Launches Autonomous 5G Food Trucks in China
So is it a currency or a market?

Because if it's a currency, it way too useless and volatile compared to EUR/USD/AUD/CAD/GBP etc.

If it's a market (a la share market, commodities etc), then the volatility is fine, but what advantage does being a crypto-currency bring here? Because I'd rather invest in a normal company on the stock market instead of a crypto-currency, because at least with the former I am far, far less concerned about yet another exchange disappearing off the face of the earth or doing something illegal...
Shouldn't you blame producers for practicing price discrimination by nationality before anyone else though?
Thank you for saying this and reaffirming my belief. I haven't seen this said anywhere else and I'm constantly made to feel bad for this at my company.
The Rhino: a bizarre experimental all-terrain vehicle
Ooh that may be it. For everyone else, checkout this side deck (start at side 22): http://www.odbms.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ObjectStoreI...
Time to make 3 envelopes: http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Prepare_three_envelopes
> If the subscriber serves a counter notification
complying with statutory requirements, including a statement under penalty of perjury
that the material was removed or disabled through mistake or misidentification...

http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Not sure what you're disagreeing with me on here, since you go on to restate my point at greater length. There are penalties for falsely filing a counternotice; there are no penalties to me if I send Alphabet a DMCA claim about Google.com (or if WhiteHatJr files notice to YouTube).

Edit: Ah, I see. It's correct that there is no need to provide evidence at the counter-notice stage, but it introduces a sentence of up to five years in prison just for lying in the counter-notice, which does not exist for the filer. Also, even if the everything is filed and processed in a matter of hours from notice to counter-notice, there is a 14-day period during which your material remains offline regardless.

I stand by my point. The DMCA is a garbage law.
> It is believed that a combination of genetic and environmental factors, such as pesticides and pollution, may cause Parkinson’s; Fox later learned that at least four cast members of Leo & Me, a Canadian TV show he starred in as a teenager, also developed early-onset Parkinson’s. “But believe it or not, that’s not enough people to be defined as a cluster, so there hasn’t been much research into that. But it is interesting. I can think of a thousand possible scenarios: I used to go fishing in a river near paper mills and eat the salmon I caught; I’ve been to a lot of farms; I smoked a lot of pot in high school when the government was poisoning the crops. But you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure it out.”

Completely unfounded speculation, but I always wondered what the effect of the absolutely grueling schedule of simultaneously filming Family Ties and Back to the Future was. (Sleeping in cars, working til 7am, just a couple hours of sleep a night).

> Gale said that Fox's youth meant he could cope with less sleep than usual.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future#Filming_wit...)

They'd already filmed half the movie and brought Fox in as the replacement. With so much on the line, did he take more than just coffee to keep going? Drug-induced 'Parkinsonism' is a thing. Having it progress like typical Parkinson's is rare, but it happens. (https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/information-and-support/types-...).
Does anyone know a good categorical color palette with equal perceptual intensity? I mean, all colors should be maximally distinct in any ordering they come. I can get up to 10 colors by hand but then they all start looking too similar. I am using it to display spans in a text labeling interface.
I don't have anything to say that directly relates to the evidences you have provided. But I'd take anything coming out of social science with a grain of salt, given that the amount politicization and acitvism going on. People have real incentives to hide evidences, design flawed experiments or conjure up misleading narratives. One of the most prominent doctrines provided social science is now being proven sham and has done great damage to the society https://www.thecut.com/2017/05/self-esteem-grit-do-they-real...
Beg your pardon? G-Shocks come in a wide variety of designs and price ranges. At a glance, mine could easily pass for an F-91W - a cheap, digital watch about as far from pretence as it is possible to get. Durable, radio sync'ed, solar cell driven, and watertight down to some ridiculous level of pressure. Just about the most functional piece of hardware I have ever owned. The unflashiest of black boxes, just there when I need it, shows me the time to the second every time, no discussion about it. And it doubles as a signaler, a very neat expression of who I am or at least would like to be. I wouldn't swap it for a Rolex even if somebody gifted one on me.
This is what I wear: https://slimages.macys.com/is/image/MCY/products/6/optimized...
Nobody's claiming perfect political neutrality. The claim is that it's bad for companies to get political in unnecessary ways. Inasmuch as Hobby Lobby decided to push their politics and religion on their employees via their healthcare package, then we shouldn't be surprised at the result.
Then you have to follow that to it’s logical conclusion. When you pay for a Caltrain boarding pass in the Bay Area you implicitly support Exxon/BP and everything they support because they provided train diesel to the company that you fully support.

This is why the did business with == “fully support” equivalence is so dumb.
Lguest (lightweight x86 virtual machine monitor) Adventure
Especially since those don't actually remove the files, since there's almost always still a chance to get the account back.
vistage.com - like an advisory board when don't have an advisory board
Also known as TEC.COM.AU
The Executive Connection.
Was invalubale on my journey
The Amazon effect, which I am guilty of supporting. I walked into a Guitar Center earlier this year and tried out some of their cheaper nylon acoustic models, but wanted to splurge on a big higher quality model, none of which they had in-store. They said they'd have to custom-order it. At that point it was easier just to order from Amazon and deliver to my address... which I did (ended up being shipped from a store in Chicago which listed on Amazon).
Elon Musk Says First Mars Inhabitants Will Live in Glass Domes
Ah this isn't supported right now. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to add but it's just never been brought up by users till now.

What is your use case for this?
> nothing is apolitical

If nothing was apolitical then we wouldn't have a word for it.
This isnt why and I'm not sure why you typed it up with such confidence
Remember that next time you use any form of transportation powered by fossil fuel.

Remember that any time you support the marijuana market (legal or illegal) as a purchaser and indirectly add demand to the curve that feeds the cartels in Mexico.
People seem to use the noun (a human) fairly interchangeably with "a person".
The Salvation Army has a long history of feeding and clothing people in need, including homosexual people.