skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all the restrooms in here in Japan are squeaky clean. Some of the busy Tokyo train station ones are stinky and sticky from urine that splashed on the floor. I have seen some restrooms where the cleaning crew just comes in with a hose and a brush because there is so much urine on the floor. However, 7-11s and the like tend to have really clean restrooms because you're likely to buy something if you can use the restroom and not leave it in haste.
Stackoverflow uses two 768g RAM servers as databases servers (one as backup). Why would we have distributed databases anyway?
partially. we should not overstate the impact of Go. if you read his design principles doc, he also prioritized parallelization and minimizing JS AST passes. those are surely at least as important as language choice.
(5) feature creep
Who uses those for desktop applications? Even if I need a VM for something coding-related, it’s almost too much of a pain to set up because AFAIK there still aren’t many quick provisioning tools for e.g. VMWare. And I can guarantee that 99.9% of users have never even heard of Docker.
I've seen SDRs that are roughly this size but they're the TV tuner ones that don't necessarily work well across a range of frequencies (not sure about specifics, but I imagine Bluetooth is pushing it). Some of the Flipper's advertised capabilities (infrared, NFC, RFID, 1-wire) are also beyond the scope of SDRs.
Might want to actually Google the author.
I don't see anything in this article that warrants its title. Sure this company didn't properly protect cameras which allowed unauthorized access to live feeds in all kinds of places, and that's definitely bad. And yes some of their cameras seem to be equipped with face/object detection and a few basic classifications, but detection is not recognition, and any IP camera feed with a decent enough resolution can be used to perform facial recognition further upstream. There's nothing anywhere in that article that implies any individual was ever identified. Staggering Scale of Facial Recognition? Hardly.
>So, because some people have anxiety, we should abandon all types of interviewing that look for signal wrt someone's social & communication skills?

No we should recognize that some parts of the interview give us false signals. We should improve the process to get better signals.

> Should I take the assertion of every person with social anxiety that in a job interview they can't perform, but in every other situation a job presents them with they'll be just fine?

No. Give me the problem, leave the room. Come back in 45 minutes and let me tell you about how I solved it. Don't make me solve it with you staring over me.

> Please fuck off with speaking down to me.

My first instinct was to say something rude in return. Instead
I will ask why you think I am speaking down to you? I didn't downvote you. I did say I don't think you are good at understanding other people's perspectives.

>PS...

I am glad for you. That is awesome. I have worked on my anxiety for a long time. I used to get panic attacks when I had to say "here" during attendance roll call. I am much better than that now. But I still have anxiety and will likely always have it.

>I'm waiting for someone to explain to me how whiteboarding is somehow so much more unfairly stressful than all the other parts.

I can't tell you why it is more stressful, only that it is. So give me the problem, let me solve it in peace, and then let's discuss. You will get a stronger signal that way.

PS: I had very good SAT scores. That is about as an objective technical skill test as you can get. I also tutored teens in Math and Comp Sci. I have worked in teams with fellow engineers, designers, managers, and non technical business people. I know how to communicate with a wide variety of different people. But make me do a whiteboard interview and I will get a panic attack about a third of the time. You will then conclude I am an idiot who can't communicate.
The Mobile Native Foundation – By Keith Smiley – Mar, 2021 – Lyft Engineering
This seems like an insane concept to me. You’re paying for an “original”, in a medium where copying is free.

But hey jump on the gravy train while you can. Maybe you can sell the NFT for the color orange for $1M.
This reads a little bit like simulated annealing or basin hopping algorithms at the random initial guess part.
You're clearly arguing from outrage and memes

Have you actually read any of Dr. Seuss' works?

Literally every non-white human character is depicted in a subservient role. Asians are depicted with buckteeth and slanted closed eyes. In several works, Asians are literally depicted as half-human, half monster. In every instance, Black people are depicted as sambo dolls with monkey faces. The Cat in the Hat is based on a blackface minstrel show.

No, they pay better, have better (ie, existant) perks and benefits, etc. There's pretty much no metric on which there is a legal minimum, that Amazon only just hits. It's actually wildly competitive.

Amazon pays the minimum wage of the location the warehouse is located in, except in Alabama where they just raised the wages to fight off the unionization efforts. Many Amazon warehouse employees don't qualify for benefits because most of them are deliberately scheduled below the 30-hour minimum to qualify for benefits, which is illegal in some states (like CA) but not in states like Alabama. Amazon has been disciplined by CA's labor department many times for violating the state labor code with respect to its mistreatment of its warehouse workers.

Do you 'tip' Amazon when you order an item?

Why would I tip Amazon? Amazon is a multi-billion dollar company that earns billions of dollars in profit every quarter. I do tip the delivery driver that delivers food from a restaurant when I order delivery.

If you were really serious you wouldn't peddle this fake Amazon warehouses are bad narrative, you'd work for everyone else who isn't at a job that good. Instead of destroying something good, work to bring it to others.

Amazon warehouses are bad. By choice. They could be good jobs if Amazon didn't deliberately mistreat its warehouse employees. They have the profits from Amazon.com (i.e., the store) to pay for relatively simple things, like an additional restroom so employees don't have to piss themselves on the line, or for A/C or heater units so employees don't freeze in the winter or pass out from the heat in the summer. But Amazon chooses not to do that.

If Amazon would be destroyed by spending .000001% of their profits on not mistreating their employees, then they deserve to be destroyed. Because their competitors are more than capable of surviving despite not treating their employees like shit.
Fail Before Starting
Nomad Goods built a $20M accessory business and great vendor relationships
A couple years back (2019) Wyze had a breach [0], which accidentally exposed another breach that they hadn't been aware of. This came just six months after a previous breach.

But it suggested that Wyze can remotely disable all encryption and so on whenever they feel like it.

And that for a "subset of users" they collected: "Height, Weight, Gender, Bone Density, Bone Mass, Daily Protein Intake, and other health information", which was included in the breached data.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/business/wyze-security-ca...
The added friction to get access to the standard often costs more than the time to reference the one item you actually care about.

It's also ridiculous that de facto laws are behind a paywall (because laws often implicitly or explicitly reference standards).
From memory, they also had really big servers and did a lot of work tuning the OS. Pretty sure it was BSD initially. The suggested approach by the author is for people who don't have (1) the money to buy big servers or (2) the expertise to tune the OS appropriately. Not saying I agree with the approach, but I can see where it would be helpful.
VR, GPUs, graphics are a niche area and most jobs require both experience and some qualifications. Perhaps you could get some general developer experience while you wait for your PR and then make the decision whether you still need the M.Sc.

If you like learning then doing any formal courses is useful. But experience is, generally, far more highly regarded than qualifications. You could re-contact the places where you interviewed and ask for feedback as to what areas they found you lacking. Then focus on improvements in those areas.
> wrote them down on a post-it

You write it on local media and kept it on-premises?

Cloud is the new thing, I hear.
It’s one of the clojure stack staples xD — would highly suggest checking out the language if you haven’t yet, it’s a lot of fun.
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I think their buyers would have been the short coverers looking for an exit.

A single share could be bored and shorted multiple times. Not overnight, but with enough time, you can end up with more shares short than shares that exist.
Generally these surveys compare that to paying more to not have it (even though so far except for AT&T fiber I have yet to actually see a service charge more when you opt out).
On my key fob the alarm button is small, red, and inset into the side, and it requires a lot more force to push. I've never pushed it accidentally. On the face are Lock/Open trunk/Unlock, but it's not obvious that you have to hold the trunk button for two seconds for it to work (this is probably because you have to manually re-latch the trunk if you unlock it).
Cloud Run has been fantastic.

I had a worker service running on Heroku. Very CPU intensive. The traffic pattern was extremely low throughout the day, but had completely unexpected surges.

On Heroku, my choices were: Paying $3k (basically paying for peak surge throughout the month) or having a lot of slow/failed responses during the surge.

Moved to Cloud Run very easily. Just a normal dockerized 12 factor app.

Now I pay ~$50/m and it automatically scales up when I need more workers.

If you want a managed app platform, it couldn't be more simple and cheap.

The scaling model of Cloud Run has been great. Now that they support websockets, I will be moving all my apps slowly to it.

My only gripe: I wish they had something for worker processes. I know that the rest of Google Cloud has solutions for it but being able to just spawn worker processes as part of the same deployment would be fantastic.
It seems to me it requires some technical setup. I have no illusions that such things correspond with substantive conversations.
It worked out ok for linux and git.
No, it is not. Dish Acquired Boost mobile and is building out its own nationwide network.
Apple will switch to randomized serial numbers in early 2021
>That is, the humans themselves aren’t broken, just a different neuro-variant.

I have also come to this conclusion though personal experience.

A well-intentioned person for whom I hold the utmost respect said I exhibited hallmark symptoms of ADHD. I realized the shoe really did fit, so I decided to get tested.

In the end, I was "diagnosed" with ADHD, allowing me access to a variety of drugs to "treat" it. They don't help. I have a stash of Adderall XR I don't use because it makes me feel...wrong. I've realized I need to change my approach to how I work. Systematic breaks to clear the mind helps tremendously. Coffee has a calming, stabilizing effect. Meditation of various types (Koru is an excellent system) has also helped understand my mind better to know when I'm getting off track.

I am fully convinced people "with" ADHD are supposed to be living as bold risk-takers because their bodies are literally wired for it. More men than women are wired like this, but both can "have" ADHD. Pencil-pushing desk jobs are not for these people, unless they're doing off-the-wall research and analysis.
Why bother with $15/hr security guard when you can get replaceable temp workers to feed, pamper and wipe $150k white-knight social-justice "engineers".
Just Google “microwave thermometer.” It’s a $10 gadget you leave in the food while you microwave. No AI required.
A whopping $0.14-$1.41 per hour.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/
An Introduction to JavaScript SDK for CloudEvents
Scaling limits put in place by cloud providers are there in part to make sure their customers don’t accidentally incur runaway costs due to a configuration mistake. It’s not uncommon that a cloud provider would cover the costs if a customer make such an error (first time, ask nicely, etc). They are covering their own bases from having to do that on a massive scale.
It's a bit overkill. There is plenty of immigrant kids that go directly to high school and from there to 8200 and whatever. Half of compsci class in my high school was fresh off the plane and i don't think anyone ended in border police :)
Sci-Hub exists specifically to exfiltrate paywalled research papers; IA Scholar is for open-access papers that have disappeared off the Internet. They do different things.
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> Have you tried fresh food eg salads?

I love fresh veggies. I just can't afford to replace carbs with them. Veggies are expensive.
Nuclear has its fair share of NIMBY-ism (especially regarding storage of waste), also benefits from "magic" energy storage technologies (so you can run them at higher efficiency) and is also reliant on breakthroughs (technological and regulatory) here and there to support many people's arguments why it's such great technology. If both solutions didn't have up and down-sides there wouldn't be such long discussions on HN about it.
"Do you want ads that are more relevant to you?" vs "Do you want unknown third party companies to track your online activity to provide you with ads they believe you'll engage with more often?"

I swear there are entire industries that exist to obscure the elephant in the room.
Your 'key quote' misses the next section, which makes my case.

> No it's not forbidden by the CWC if it is used within the context of a military application that does not require or does not intend to use the toxic properties of white phosphorus. White phosphorus is normally used to produce smoke, to camouflage movement.

> If that is the purpose for which the white phosphorus is used, then that is considered under the convention legitimate use.

> If on the other hand the toxic properties of white phosphorus are specifically intended to be used as a weapon, that, of course, is prohibited, because the way the convention is structured or applied, any chemicals used against humans or animals that cause harm or death through the toxic properties of the chemical are considered chemical weapons.

~ Peter Kaiser, spokesman for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Dropping white phosphorus during the daytime (when the illumination features of WP aren't needed) on a school in a dense urban environment is pretty clearly the case where it's considered to be a chemical weapon.

The annex lists chemicals understood to be chemical weapons under the convention, but it doesn't purport to be a complete list, only a set of some examples.
Putting the surveillance video on-site is... kinda dumb. If someone breaches your facility and wants to take the evidence of them doing so, they just have to steal the video storage.

Cloud security footage makes sure that you have at least the footage up until they disable your network.
Visible. $25/month and they use the term "Unlimited" literally. No throttling after a certain amount used. 5G included, but it's always throttled at 200Mbps. Verizon network. I normally get 30-40Mbps on 4G.

Only downsides are US/Mexico/Canada only and it's pay as you go but you can't pay more than a week before the bill is due. Autopay is an option.

I have one line for my phone and one I use for home internet.

They do throttle tethering to 5Mbps, but that's easy enough to work around by making the TTL of the device you need full speed match the TTL of the phone by the time it gets there. (68 IIRC) For example, the connection I'm using now is desktop->router->linux box->phone, so I set my desktop TTL to 71.

I have no idea how bad they are with data collection, though.
Mapped: Historical public transit systems vs. their modern equivalents
I don't think vinegar is frequently used in Japan. Sushi (or Sumeshi, vinegared rice) is tend to eaten on something special time. I tend to use vinegars on (Japanese styled) Chinese dishes rather than Japanese.
Sure, `20201209T160953Z` or 2021-123.
This seems pretty good.

In computer science we are pretty lucky because open access is the norm.

I checked a few well known exceptions, and this seems to find them ok.

"Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge" (Deepmind in Nature): https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=key:work_yqdj7vjbefg7hh...

"Typing candidate answers using type coercion" (IBM Watson special edition, IEEE IBM Systems Journals): https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=key:work_dym4lqay5fcdxo...
Or maybe companies run by sleazy people have less than stellar infosec/netsec practices, or are prone to sweeping gaping security holes under the rug rather than fixing them, which will inevitably result in something like this.
That could be any Git repository.

Have you seen the mayhem that some of mine cause when you clone them and then type ./configure && make, like you have been socially engineered into doing?
To be fair, it was a specific person with a set of other employees who were all punished for the incident. It wasn’t the company which includes the people were harassed.
1) you can cap the max instances in GCR. You can put a limit of like 2 instances and ramp it up gradually.

2) it's 60k for a full month running at 100% capacity. Chances are you will notice this.

This blog post is showing the upper limits of GCR, not the typical use case.
Anger after Indonesia offers Elon Musk Papuan island for SpaceX launchpad
It was mentioned in another thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26384305
The other option is pre-approved modules. IIRC if you're using drop in daughter boards you can generally skip additional FCC approval because the thing actually transmitting is pre-approved.
Interfering with a system over RF is going to get the FCC and authorities after you very quickly. The law is very broad and hand-wavey here, a lot of innocent fun could be interpreted as something worthy of a felony.
User-defined type guards in TypeScript
Regimes that invade your devices may be closer to home than you think. Whilst a manager at AWS I was traveling frequently. Security asked me not to carry work computers or smartphones across US, UK, or PRC borders, the habit stuck.
Aleister Crowley
How they should survive? e.g. by 20 governments realizing that the friction this bullshit adds is costing their country more than 1 million, and each contributing 1M of tax money.

Or begging for donations. Maybe Wikimedia Foundation would be willing to chip in?

You aren't going to pay $100 per standard to access it. Would you pay $1/year for unlimited access to all ISO standards?

So maybe the government should charge you $0.02 more in taxes for this, plus another $0.98 for 49 other things that you don't care about, and make this a public good.
I'm not sure it is excellent -- it seems "just simple enough" to get people to adopt it. It might even work for a small community. For now.

How will it scale as more sites interconnect? I don't mean technically -- I mean socially.

In particular, how does it handle moderation? ... It seems to me that moderation is left up to the site host. That's not unreasonable given the complexity and diversity of what different people might want.

But, in my view, this is only a starting point. And frankly, an uninteresting one that seems to have punted on the hardest problems of networked discussion.
I still think it's better then sitting and staring at the walls, yet that option is open to them .
Because not all men want to be identified as whatever is recognized as manhood in those rituals. The question is more what would be the need in society and why it would have to be gendered at all? I'm all for more symbolism and rituals that enhance one's inclusion in society though.
> Fortunately it doesn't manifest that often, but it rears its head often enough to be a problem.

IIRC, one place where it does rear its head in when a file is renamed in a git commit to a value that downcases to the same value as the prior name. For example `Foo.txt`->`foo.txt`.

I have `core.ignorecase = true` in my `.gitconfig` for this very reason.
There appears to be a newer and more extensive paper that encompasses and expands on Lentz' work, while also claiming Lentz's paper was mathematically incomplete or un-reproducible in some way:

Bobrick A, Martire G. Introducing physical warp drives. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 2021 Jan 25. https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06824

from the abstract:

...We present the first general model for subluminal positive-energy, spherically symmetric warp drives; construct superluminal warp- drive solutions which satisfy quantum inequalities; provide optimizations for the Alcubierre metric that decrease the negative energy requirements by two orders of magnitude; and introduce a warp drive spacetime in which space capacity and the rate of time can be chosen in a controlled manner. Conceptually, we demonstrate that any warp drive, including the Alcubierre drive, is a shell of regular or exotic material moving inertially with a certain velocity. Therefore, any warp drive requires propulsion. We show that a class of subluminal, spherically symmetric warp drive spacetimes, at least in principle, can be constructed based on the physical principles known to humanity today.

from pg. 3:

...(Natario 2002) constructed a warp drive solution without space contraction or expansion, contrary to the earlier assumption that it facilitated the movement of warp drives. (Natario 2006) constructed a new subluminal warp drive solution in the weak-field regime, which required negative energies. (Loup et al. 2001) had previously introduced a modified version of the Alcubierre drive intended to alter the rate of time for the observers inside the bubble. However, their modification reduces to the original Alcubierre metric, as we also show in Appendix A. Finally, (Lentz 2020) has recently proposed a warp drive metric claiming to have purely positive energy everywhere in both subluminal and superluminal regimes, although without providing means to reproduce the study.

The works above, to our knowledge, summarize all the modifications of the Alcubierre drive available in the literature. Superluminal travel had also been studied by (Krasnikov 1998) and (Everett & Roman 1997). In these studies, the authors introduced Krasnikov tubes...

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edit- adding quote from pg 4 for context:

In Section 4, we introduce a simple method to construct warp drive metrics by choosing the state of spacetime inside them. Additionally, we show that the Alcubierre metric is only a particular member of a much more general class of warp drive solutions admitting negative energy densities. Subsequently, we construct several spacetimes with a range of new properties. We introduce a macroscopic negative- energy drive which satisfies quantum inequalities, as well as several metrics with negative-energies which allow one to control the rate of time and spatial contraction inside the drive. In Section 5, we review the interpretation of warp drives in light of this study.
There were a few google reviews for a service I recently used that I wondered about...

Response from the owner
This is spam and I reported it to google

There were a handful of those review responses. Made me wonder if spam features could be abused to mask bad reviews. I think at least in Yelp you can still see the data right?
I'm trying to figure out a good architecture for a chat back end so I found this interesting. Anyone have some good pointers to other such articles?
China's GDP Growth Pace Was Inflated for Nine Years, Study Finds (2019)
By what metric? It made a lot of money and thats the only thing that matters.
Uncomfortable facts are racist/sexist/-ist/-ic/etc.