skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coronavirus vaccine won't free you from self-isolation, says UK Government
That's funny. Somehow I've never in my life heard this objection regarding American research.
Advent of Open Source
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Apparantly the good old marching cubes can be used for that:
https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf shows a video about halfway on the page.
“ Fearing the obstacles , worst people don't start . Mediocre people rest(or stop) when they face obstacles. Best people don't stop even if they are getting defeated by obstacles. ”

“ People may scold or praise,
Wealth may come or go,
Death may be now or Years after,
Great Person will not deviate from right path(or goal) . ”

These both were quoted by Bhartṛhari in his book Nitiśatakam (written in c. 5th century CE).

“ Don't rant that you don't have , not considering everything you have. There is always a path to happiness. ”

This one is quoted by writer D.V. Gundappa written in his book "Mankutimmana Kagga" (which is also a book of wisdom published in 1943) .
Author's point is it's neither an indicator for senior developers (too much CS stuff) nor for new graduates (finding edge cases requires real world experience).
JD used to include fapiao in the delivery too. Now It's using E-Fapiao.

> If you're shopping at the local corner store or restaurant, they're not declaring sales unless you specifically ask for a fapiao (and even then, half of them will lie and say their machine is broken).

Yeah. I agree. Though it's bit extreme to say `half of them`.
I've built a similar system from scratch - also using this Dropbox daily notes file technique - except my script generates folders and sub folders for each year (YYYY) and each month within each year (YYY-MM) whenever I instantiate a file on a certain day. Makes long term management much easier than having thousands of files in one folder. Same grep principles apply (and I use hashtags within my notes to track keywords).
So I recently started a job where I'm on Windows, and I've found myself surprisingly enamored of PowerShell. So many of the things that the shell got wrong are done right. The authors wanted to use <, >, etc. as their real meanings, but apparently the early users rebelled at the idea that > was no longer redirect to file. But things that would be nightmares in unix shells, such as going in and adding a new element as the last child of only one of four elements in an XML document (based on its attribute value) are a few lines of code. I still have decades of muscle memory in bash, but I find myself reaching for PS more and more.

The problem is that you really need an interface for loading software components into your system at runtime, which .NET provides, but aside from .NET or COM I am unaware of any other equivalent system. Java's OSGi is the closest, and ugh...
If that’s happening, I think you just broke the news early.
Ok I'm watching Goldeneye tonight.
Glad it worked out for you. I'm sure it wasn't easy (as it has been for me). I'd appreciate some advice from your experience on how it went for you.
Do you want to work at FAANG? I could try to make a referral.
I’m doing the same right now. It’s pretty good.
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If that's true we're not too far off from where the idea comes from: religious wars over which side you should start peeling a hard boiled egg.
Because China achieves a comparative security advantage?
The 30hz thing might be because of an older hdmi version, like 1.4. I have had the same issues and it was a hardware limitation
Both are closed source, proprietary products for different purposes. Apple does not sell Macs to do supercomputing and Cray did not sell Crays to do desktop publishing. So nothing wrong here.

But Linux foundation tells everyone that open source is the way to go. From phone over desktop to supercomputing. So using a Mac is certainly not in line with the message they are paid for to spread.
I remember a time when 3mb of black market data was enough to get you out of the sprawl. Now you can barely get a Uber downtown for that.
Not only is web scraping in danger, the trend towards HTTPS makes it harder to log traffic, and manage the flow of data to/from browsers on your own computer.
I've tried out Google's beta with assasin's creed, and the results weren't promising. I had gigabit fiber and while it worked pretty well for the most part, I still got quite a few gamebreaking lag spikes and fps slowdowns. It stuttered like a youtube video: freezing, then resuming in 144p quality which made the in game text completely unreadable on my screen. And that's on a beefy internet connection, imagine the situation for the median American or someone reliant on a mobile data plan. People can scarcely tolerate playing a game with high ping as it is.
Obviously it's hard to pass a judgement without knowing the paper contents. Reading the emails carefully, it seems Jeff acknowledges that the initial review culminated in an "approval" despite some other "reviewers" still in pending state. That is a curious detail. Presumably someone with authority must have flipped the Approval bit within that 1 day. Why that individual did not object? The two-week excuse sounds like a made-up excuse post-facto based on the written policy but clearly that alone does not seem to be the reason this blew up.

This is pure speculation, but it looks like there may have been some additional backchannel from the conference reviewers to their buddies at Google that caused a follow-on sensitivity or objection later from other functions at Google, namely PR & Policy (based on her tweets), which may have been why Timnit was super curious about the identity of the feedback authors.
Flexport is hiring experienced enterprise software engineers
Porn addiction is ruining lives, but scientists aren't convinced it's real
The other option is to use the best available x86 mobile CPUs, and these at the moment seem to be from AMD.

From what I've seen even current AMD CPUs are competitive with M1. Ryzen 4900HS has a fair lead in multicore performance and close single threaded. Of course, all this at a higher power and fans running as a jet engine.

But AMD is one process node behind, and one architectural node behind their desktops (Zen 2 on 7nm).

So, OEMs can use the perf gains from both the advancements to lower the TDP a bit,(ex 10%), put a larger battery. And this can result in a competitive product, even with the rumored M1X, since Ryzens already have the multicore lead.

That being said, from I read, the next mobile Ryzens will be 5000 series, released in a month, at 7nm. So only a ~20% IPC uplift is expected. Also probably TSMC's 7nm improved a bit. Nothing to scoff at, but not as exciting as a new process node.

Anyway, we'll see soon enough.
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No. Note: The "No." here applies to your implied message, not your literal wording.

Conspiracy theorists are the ones who deny science.

Conspiracy theorists are the ones who refuse vaccines without reason.

Conspiracy theorists are the ones who believe in large scale fraud with no evidence.

Conspiracy theorists are the ones who think "This virus is a hoax".

I guess any of the above could also qualify for straight up stupidity, not just conspiracy theories.

Normal, sane, people follow science and act with compassion for their fellow man.

Wear a mask. It's not hard, I do it 8 hours a day.

I apologize for the rant.
A Miniature Radio Telescope in Every Backyard
Still yet to find a tool measure TTL accurately from NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG out of the box.
The African Slave Who Became a Japanese Samurai
I've noticed this a few times in my career and have had to start slowing myself down at times. If I deliver in a day instead of the expected two for example, I don't get that second day off, I get twice as much work and get paid the same for it. The harder I work, the less I make. If they want me to bust my ass and sacrifice sleep I need to be given hazard pay.
What would make you think it isn’t?

Where do these ideas even come from?
Cannabis Is Officially Recognised as a Medicine Following Historic UN Vote
Third: identifying words that appear in the dictionary, but are not used properly. And that's not looking at compounds and agglutinative languages. But there's no need to look that far: capitalization isn't even 100% solved. The article does software development and linguistics a bad service by suggesting spell checking is just loading a dictionary into memory.
It's a useful project, and fills a need that I haven't found many other projects to fill. I do wish there wasn't a discrepancy in output between client and server. For example, when testing udp throughout, the client reports how many packets it sends, but the server usually doesn't receive 100% of those. I'd like the server to then report back to the client the true results.

Maybe this has changed since I last used this, but it also seemed primarily geared towards human consumption, making it more difficult to use in your software workflows.
These comment threads always turn into motte (every programmer should know basic algorithms) and bailey (stop whining about spending 100 hours studying if you want to have a decent job).
I am not sure if you tried i3 window manager. It provides similar features but with more freedom.
Glimmers of hope:

* Webasm is becoming mainstream, everything will be rewritten or tweaked.

* Browsers and emails are archaic technologies.

* Blockchain based tech is changing the game in many industries.

* Miniaturization and portable / bionic devices will mean bare metal optimization will be a must.

* There is a growing movement of people getting tired and scared of centralized tech from both side of the aisle. Decentralization is coming and having neighbors connecting each other via underground Ethernet cables or Ubiquity bridge is becoming more and more common than you think. It might only be "a few university students", but that's also how the Web started.

* More and more applications will require real time processing. Examples: driving cars, drones, video games (lol@stadia), AR, VR and the fusion of scientific fields and tech from biology to military.

* There is an inherent collective and potentially civilization ending risk in having only a few corporations having the means of producing tech, especially with a more and more uncertain world. Initiative like Open Risk initiative is a sign of that. It will not be surprising seeing open fabs project popping up like it did for the 3D printing, especially with patents from the 2000s expiring. Remember, a 2005 machine is more than enough for email and Facebook.

* There are whole industries with unmanageable technical debt which failed to exploit the processing power of modern electronics.

* There are whole industries who need to get rid of their Java / Oracle stack.

* The performance gap only keeps on enlarging. A 2005 PC would struggle to run the Office suite, which is just a text editor with macros and UI.

* New solutions always provide new unintended problems to solve, that's just a fact.
Prominent venture capitalist David Blumberg joins Bay Area exodus
The writing for especially the last season baffled me. They had 6 episodes to tie off a vast array of plot lines and they spent so much of that on nonsense. I think one whole episode was just mindless, irrelevant chatter between characters with no plot advancement at all. It really felt like the writers were phoning it in so they could focus on ruining star wars.
PS5 and XBox X are hardly out and it will take about 5 years for them to even bother to start thinking about something else.

Plus on the XBox side, one of the plus is being able to have the titles on Windows store as well, without much effort to the devs.

That is wishful thinking.

The Switch is already using ARM from NVidia.
Again as a frequent FreeBSD user, "FreeBSD/macOS" is not really a thing. There is historical shared code but they are different beasts. Sometimes there is substantial porting involved to get things from one to the other and they are not really the same entity. Additionally, the BSD pieces of macOS are frequently out of date and a hodgepodge of components.

Personally, I have very frequently had the experience that Unixy stuff that "just works" on *BSD or Linux does not work on Mac straight away, or breaks with a new OS release, etc. It takes effort for the homebrew folks or the macports folks or whatever to keep stuff working.
Mamba and conda do not call pip.

You can install a pip package inside a conda environment. But when running `mamba install` or `conda install`, pip is not involved at all.
I could take or leave 4k, but at least 2k (~2560x1440)?
Having their 2020 high-end 15.6" maxing out at 1080p is just ridiculous and I'd probably have bought at least one of their laptops if they had a sub-2kg model with just one step up in resolution.
Yes, ObjectiveSQL compiles Java into SQL
The marketing is weird on this product.

- named "pangolin" and illustrated with a bull
- the bull is disturbingly ugly
- the introduction makes no sense to me? Is team red the Democrat party?
Apple charges approximately 10x the market rate for credit card processing for IAPs.
You're wrong, it does not.

You can install a pip package in a conda env. But this is actually not recommended.

When using `mamba install` or `conda install`, pip is not involved at all.
Really? I don’t recall that being the motive of any of my mates who signed up (I was still happy with Yahoo Mail at that time so was a late arrival but had plenty of friends who switched early on, many in the beta stage). From what I recall most switched because it was new, prettier and backed by a, then, trendy brand.

Those guys certainly didn’t think about retention periods because they were checking their mail regularly anyways.
Try writing one that operates in real time. It's still a challenge to this day -- and a good example of how slow computers are despite all those OPS.
6 years ago Snapchat turned down $3B offer, today Snapchat worth $70B
I installed the i3 version of Manjaro and it came with everything out of the box.
Nice find! Time to put together a pipeline... (1) take a few photos of a thing you want to model, (2) use a segmentation algorithm to mask out the background, (3) run a NeRF algorithm, (4) use marching cubes to generate a mesh.
Google announces they will be rolling out a broad core algorithm update
> There is absolutely 0% chance I'll be letting that anywhere near my family.

I hope any children you may have are 18.

> And I was a biomedical scientist formerly.

Well we can see why it was formerly.

> Over my dead body (one way or another).

Could we maybe avoid putting others at risk?
> This seems more of a case of selective enforcement, where she had been allowed to go around the process in the past (or felt that she has enough leverage to be able to do so now) and then not being allowed to do so this time.

Jeff's email explicitly says the paper was "approved" then submitted, albeit perhaps in one day. The two-week thing might be a policy but would be immaterial if it ended up approved anyway within whatever timeframe. It sounds like a red-herring to emphasize the time-in-advance; in any case the blame, if any, is to be on whoever flipped the approval bit and did not wait for other reviewers (possibly her manager?)
A great wave: the Storegga tsunami and the end of Doggerland?
One of the huge questions is : who takes responsibility for the issues with the black box learning systems ?

In France, since you have to be able to explain in plain words the algorithm that was used to help to make an administrative decision, it indirectly makes these black box learning systems illegal.

(And yet they probably already have been used by the police?)

Now, the naive response is that the engineer that implemented a system should take responsibility for any harm done by the system - and I guess that if these engineers could lose their license to use a computer and face jail time, they might also start to put pressure upstream on researchers to provide better systems ?
Ask HN: Anyone Use Rent-a-Company
I have some projects starting up and a potential 6-12 month consulting job, and it is problematic for me to start a company in Denmark right now, partially because of the government closing down limited liability companies, so I was thinking to use https://rentacompany.com/ but I sort of worry about what problems such an approach would be opening up to. Since they say they're used by freelancers and startups, is there anyone here that has used them and what are your opinions?
I’m not against the vaccine. I’m merely against your claims which weren’t true, specifically, your false claims about the known level of the immunity they provide, believing which could put people in danger.

Meanwhile, exclusive evening news in the UK:

https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-vaccine-wont-free-self-1656...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/03/exclusive-vaccin...

3 December 2020 • 7:00pm

“Exclusive: Coronavirus vaccine won't free you from self-isolation, says Government —- The jabs provide Covid-19 immunity but scientists are yet to prove this prevents recipients from carrying and spreading the virus”

“People who receive the coronavirus vaccine will not be exempted from self-isolation if they are contacted by NHS Test and Trace, it has emerged.

Although the vaccine will give recipients immunity from the virus, scientists do not yet know whether it will stop them being carriers.

Government sources said it was likely to be months before there was any prospect of the vaccine negating the need for self-isolation.

It means that even if someone has been vaccinated, they will still have to remain at home for 14 days if they come into contact with someone who has the virus.”

..

“Any other vaccine that might be approved by regulators, such as the one being developed by Oxford University, will also be subject to the same lengthy process of discovering whether it prevents people being “silent” carriers of the virus.”
To just throw out the evolutionary workings of not only humans, but many of our animal ancestors is extremely naive.

You are suggesting you know better than a system that millions of years of evolution have created. You are also assuming that you know all the risks of NOT organising in tribes, that somehow if all humans were some untribal lonely individual entities, the world would work better. Many many billions of people and animals seem to disagree.
The entertainment industry maintains the US hegemony just as much as the military.
> Who’s still hot from GoT?

Kit Harrington, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Iain Glen, ... whose not?
> FAANG companies are not dumb, they hire at scale and know how to find talented engineers using a rigorous/repeatable interview process.

Eh... maybe some do. My experience is that they hire people they already know. In fact that's how I got hired at a FAANG company. I had applied there many times and been rejected. Then I saw that a team where I was a great fit had hired someone I knew and had an opening. So rather than submit my resume through their job board, I sent it to him and he passed it on to the hiring manager. Most of the rest of the team got hired because they were all a team at another company that got cut. One of them got an interview and said, "Hey, I have about 20 coworkers who just lost their jobs and already know all the stuff you need for that new product you want to write. Why not hire them all?" And they did.

Sure, there are a few who went through the regular recruiting path. But many did not. I'd say on my team, most did not. (And they're all good engineers, too.)
Nice little tool, cross platform and easy to use. We might be all cursing MS for their windows update, but sometimes they give us some really nice tools (see also the PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys )
> Recursion in SQL is one of the questions I always ask Data Engineers during interviews

Everyone always asks that in every language at every interview and it is rarely used in practice - ahhh interviews.
Nvidia isn't stuck on Intel, they're selling AMD CPUs as part of their DGX A-100.

That said, it's clear that they're hoping for more vertical integration in the same way that AMD already has.
Pros of t-min:
- overall greater speed using a computer, you become what people call a "power user".
- some sysadmin knowledge. Adopting a terminal based workflow requires to tinker with your system (systemd, sh scripts, building certain repo for a tool you want etc.).

Pros of GUI-max:
- You don't have to spend hours learning and configuring things.
- Certain tools are just better when they are built out in a GUI for you. I think here in particular of C/C++ debuggers, it's hard to get a nice experience in the terminal.

As for objectively "scoring" it's hard to assign real values.
You could eventually measure speed. I have worked in production support solving a lot of benign problems on a day to day basis. This is when I adopted my terminal based workflow. It was way faster than my other teammates using desktop apps.
Google AI Will Allow Visually Impaired People to Go for a Run
Facts about Uranium (2017)
That's a very good idea. I might use that for my script. Thanks!
Yeah, this echoes my experiences interviewing. Spent 6 months looking a few years back

It’s just incredibly demotivating to hear all the self-professed hot shots shit all over your past 10 years of delivering unambiguous value because you don’t know that [] === ‘’ is true in Javascript.

I finally found a position that’s financially great, but it’s more in spite of their dev process than thanks to it.
So this is the story of Shogun and the Last Samurai only updated for modern audiences (who can handle a non-white lead), I'm expecting 2 years to release of the major motion picture starring Idris Elba.
Can you buy System76 laptops in Europe and what do you do if you need service?
Forwarding still costs Google bandwidth and storage.

It’s also not a great long term solution for yourself as you’re introducing more moving parts into your content delivery that can fail. Really it should be seen as a short term strategy for deprecating old addresses rather than a solution that runs indefinitely. And that’s just good practice irrespective of Google’s retention policy.
80ties sexy fantasy tropes possibly?
I’ve been reading the comments for an hour now and I have to say this discussion is amazing.
This is what I did for the first half of my career. It worked well for me because I worked in the same domain for my whole career. Shifting into consulting was easy because I had an address book of people who knew and trusted me.

I'm not sure if it would still work though as I've been working for myself for 22 years. It seems hiring has turned upside down since I last interviewed.
Life has a way of beating the ability to care about those things out of you.
Bid to scale K2 for first time in winter
> What is wrong with Alex Hanna's Twitter feed?

> is very woke

You answered your own question.
We know better than evolution all the time. Else: No medicine, no operations, no science (random list of things, more can be added). Doesn't sound like a very good world to me.
The situation in America is that no name startups are doing the same type of interviews.
I need to create several projects or companies to reverse these trends. Your insight is appreciated.
I feel a tribal connection with all the people that do good.
Also interesting is that 男 (man) is a combination of 田 (rice field) and 力 (power or strength)
American Monetary Policy and the Defense of Europe, 1960–1963