skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this will further impact the environment.

An increase in the demand for SSDs will result in an increase in the production of hard drives. The construction of these hard drives requires energy, and this energy comes from the burning of fossil fuels.

Just another nail in Bitcoin's coffin.
It's their right, though. You can't take away someone's rights because you feel morally superior.
Yeah, that'w why I can run it under DOSBox without too many issues since forever, because it's a 32 bit native OS.
Very few people kill themselves with knives, but a ton do with hand guns.

And people in countries without such a gun culture do not have worse self defense outcomes than those with one, so that argument doesn’t seem to hold scientific water. No idea how you get to institutionalization in your argument, either.
Exactly - just enjoy it.
A simple reasonable mitigation could be keep child away. When you go to a hotel, typically all the exercise equipment is locked in a separate room. Exercise equipment are not toys. They are potentially very dangerous tools.

I never said that these kids deserved the consequences. It's a damn shame that they got hurt. The blame should go to the parents.
> What reason did HR give for you not being able to fire him?

I don't want to ignore the question, but it's a sensitive topic and I'm not sure bringing it up would add to the conversation.

> Also, I'm not sure if you tried this, but I've heard in cases where you can't fire someone, you recommend them for internal transfer and give the other manager good reviews of them.

Yes, I actually had a peer recommended this as well. In the end, I decided against it as I felt it was unethical. I didn't want to get rid of a problem by becoming one myself.
There's russian saying for this: greedy man pays twice.
Appreciate your comment - thanks! Yes, I wanted to make sure people saw how lightweight the app was.
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In a home invasion I would have thought the last thing you would want is a gun. If you're in the US, then the invader likely has a gun, so if you also have a gun then you're giving them a pretty good incentive to shoot you. If you don't then you might get robbed, but home insurance will cover that.
He use computer vision to get information. Computer vision is a subcategory of ai
The KGB was dissolved in 1991 and later succeeded by the SVR (foreign intelligence) and FSB (federal security).

The GRU is the military intelligence agency.
Note that the source JSON data is corrupted. Basically somebody has some UTF-8 encoded data but they've told a machine it is Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) and then it has produced the Unicode escaped output as-if that was true, so for example where there should be a single Unicode codepoint for a dash, there is instead three nonsensical Unicode codepoints for Latin-1 characters you didn't mean.

You could probably fix that inside the driver, but likely the owner of the JSON file should just fix it to not be gibberish.
While I think having a gun does open up a set of possibilities for impulse-driven suicides that are both fast and relatively certain as compared to other methods, there's always rope.

It's telling that so many anti-suicide efforts are about making it harder/riskier to perform the act instead of making people's lives easier. The first is one more obstacle put in their difficult paths and certainly lets people feel like they have "done something" but you still have a miserable, suicidal vet at the end of the day.
As someone still currently using an x200s.

Is that the same chipset you have? Because I read it wouldn’t run 802.11ac. But I also read only 4GB of ram was supported and found some fringe thread that had a specific chip that worked fine too.

I’m on the fence about upgrading and have been for years now. The x200s has served me well and I really spend most of my time either in a browser, on a terminal or using audacious...

Ive got paralysis by analysis at this point because the x200s has served me SO well
Just so you know, there's a gendered pronoun at the end of point (d).

Since it looks like you were trying to avoid this, I figured I would let you know so you can excise it if you wish
But what about when you need the gun quickly because of the burglar/home invader?

(This was sarcasm. I don’t take anyone seriously who with a straight face says it’s a good idea to have a gun at home for “protection”. No, there won’t be a home invader. And no you aren’t going to be better of with a gun if there is. But there isn’t.)
Accepting that I was seen as a leader. I've never wanted a leadership position, I just wanted to build cool shit. I'm good at it.

At some point in my career (I've been doing software for 22+ years professionally) people started taking me really seriously. I could no longer make certain jokes and I had to be careful about my opinions because they were taken (in many cases) as "the right thing to do".

So I got in all sorts of trouble, because I didn't want the leadership at the time. At some point I finally embraced it and actively started figuring out what kind of leader I should be.

After that point, it has gotten a lot easier. I even started enjoying it.

Leaders lead even when they don't intend to. So if you're one (willing or not), you should take the responsibility do your best to make the team thrive.

I think it as: Company > Team > Self in terms of goals, if I cannot accept that, I'll move on to a different gig.
Germany isn’t doing bad.

Here’s your same PPP/GDP graph with a bunch of first world nations, the USA Uk etc + Mexico and Russia, last 5 years or so.

Please point out the Japan line which should by your argument be an even semi obvious outlier.

https://ibb.co/Btm0ymb

All I’ve claimed is at best you can say they are slightly below average for a first world nation, and still very high in absolute terms. To refute, you’d have to show that they are significantly lagging, not just a little as that’s not been my claim ever. It’s just not there. The hype is real.
Maybe it should be treated like a swimming pool and require a locked room to keep children away.
If they really don't want you to buy an AMD Ryzen PC for whatever reason, why would they go to all these shenanigans instead of simply increasing the price on Ryzen-based computers? That would be a win-win, they get the AMD sale reduction (no matter why they wanted that) and a larger margin.
Compare and contrast SolarWinds and Determina, I guess.
Peloton's response was horrific. The CEO wrote a letter to a victim's parent making an excuse that very few people are killed by their treadmill, and blaming the victims for not being careful enough around their device that sucks in anything that touches it.
I'm in it right now. I thought I've been doing a good job and suddenly I'm being attacked from all angles. I'm having someone help me, but it honestly even feels like they're attacking me. The hardest part is that it feels like i'm being forced to let go of my compassion and empathy for others in order to succeed.
Certainly. It would be comforting, as an engineer myself, to think that management must not have considered the problem. However, the truth is that management, design and engineering are all quite capable of trying to avoid problems, potentially to great lengths, and failing anyway.
As a child of South African parents I find this quite offensive.

Elon Musk, with his brother received a $28,000 investment from their father in their first business. That's a lot, but not more than many kids receive toward their college education. When they started they could only afford one computer, so the site was up during the day and down at night so he could write the software.

Not nothing, but hardly ridiculous inherited wealth either.
How many violent home invasions are reported per year?
Why would someone dare use a product exactly as demonstrated in the advertising material?
I really can't see any of the gun owners I know embracing this sort of goofy concept, and I have to wonder if any of the inventors actually own guns themselves.

If I ever find myself dealing with depression, I'll leave my bolts in the care of a friend until I get my health sorted out. No need for technical gimmicks.
Just a friendly reminder that as far as I understand it, publicly traded companies are required by law to maximize their profits (which is what's happening here).

Then there are always politicians shouting about companies following that, instead of trying to do something to fix the problem. Problem which won't be fixed by companies and must be fixed by governments.

edit: or rather maximize shareholders value, which basically means profits on the long run, which still means paying as little tax as you can legally
I'm finding an ASTM spec - https://www.astm.org/Standards/F2115.htm

And an ISO spec -
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:20957:-6:ed-1:v1:en

But no indication if anybody's bothered to regulate that with force of law.

I know we regulate safety in some areas pre-emptively, like transportation law through SAE standards, but also that the US relies a lot more on after-the-fact liability precedents and "self-regulation" than somewhere like the EU, which has preemptive standards like CE marking.

You'll note the headline language: "Regulators urge recall". I don't know that this would even be a thing in a lot of places - the company has an option?
These all introduce failure points for the product. Bit of dust floats under the treadmill and now it’s not working and you have an angry customer.
That's got all the argumentative power of a damp noodle. If you happen to be using the CPI to adjust your portfolio, you might be saying you've experienced real growth when your investments are literally being outperformed by the steadily growing value of an inert rock.

The inflation rate is basically a proxy measure of wage growth [0]. The money printing hasn't going in to wages. It isn't appropriate to use the CPI to adjust wealth, because then you'd be mistaking asset price inflation for productive growth and putting money into things that don't earn real returns (ie, are grossly mismanaged).

[0] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2015/november/rela...
AKA “pass the trash.” Even if execs & HR don’t preemptively catch such an attempt, don’t do it. You’ll wreck your own relationship with the receiving manager, and it will likely look bad for you as well. Do it only if you genuinely think the employee will do better on the other team, you have an honest and detailed conversation with the receiving manager, then that manager has an honest conversation with the employee about the specific issues & problems.
I'm unfamiliar with the word "path-finding" in this context. From the usage, is it similar to groundbreaking?
People with a black or white binary thought process. “We either do it or we don’t”. There’s no room for options and implications. I have to constantly remind to move towards options and implications (with assumptions). Thus, shifting the conversation to a probabilistic decision making that includes on opportunity costs. In this scenario, there’s more than one hypotheses and there’s no dominating “winner take all” option.
People choose the easiest tool available to them. A common method in Europe is a belt to the doorhandle which is more painful and slower than a bullet. Removing tools does not prevent the outcome, just increases the suffering.
Almost like this is something she's experienced before, and this is a preemptive attempt to stop it from happening.

Edit: for example, hn/item?id=26847629. "oh you probably have no idea how to do this, right? let me walk you through it"
In the "Big five personality traits" model, you have:

1. Openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)

2. Conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless)

3. Extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved)

4. Agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. critical/rational)

5. Neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident)

Excessive neuroticism (aka emotional instability) can be very hard to deal with, at a personal level and at a professional level. But note that excessive confidence can be just as harmful to an organization as being emotionally unstable, and sometimes just as hard to deal with.

Then, psychological safety in an organization is also important. Honesty and disagreement should be seen as acceptable as long as they happen in a context of respect and in a constructive manner.

You have to ocassionally give developers some time and autonomy to do stuff they consider important. They want to do what they perceive is right, and while not every time you can let them do it, sometimes you have to listen to them, trust them and let them do it. It will not be a waste of time, believe me.

If you don't, you are at risk of them getting burned out. You do not want burned out developers, it's a waste of time for everyone.
The project is obviously super awesome. I am incapable of such a feat.
What worries me is that if the AI CV algorithioms can't catch all the guitar chords, how are they ever going to see all the people crossing the street?
97% is pretty bad when it comes to identifying people in the crosswalk
Understanding that bad leaders focus on under performing team members and that great leaders focus exclusively on team productivity.
This. No company anywhere is going to pay a cent more in taxes than they're legally required to; the proper places to attack this kind of abuse is changing the laws.
> why you are the right person to write about the book

Is that a request to see your credentials in paper form? I believe I could write books that would make Rudin's analysis books or CLRS' algo book more accessible[0] to a lay person without losing rigor. But I lack a PhD certificate in either math or compsci. Can I simply write a sample chapter and send it to their (say, Manning) technical team for evaluation?

[0] For example, just the act of stepping through/expanding the given algos/functions in the style of Scheme/Discrete math textbooks would already make CLRS more approachable, not to mention breaking down the existing math into maximally explicit bits.
Given how old this technology appears to be. Is it possible today to build such chip at home?
If the user slips up they will pull the safety cutoff which is attached to their clothing which stops the treadmill.
Should have an IMU too, if the whole thing has a big movement, cut off (tuned not to cut off from fattest runner running).
That's false. You're only legally required to act in the interest of shareholders. That can mean a lot of things.
If it was easy, it wouldn't be any fun.
No law I am aware of requires public companies to maximize profits for shareholders. I think it only applies when a company is for sale
People who are good at being assholes can use HR to their advantage.

You can selectively “seed” your personal problems with EAP to establish documentation of stuff and use that to make termination difficult or delay. Some people will go so far as to make claims of alcoholism and parlay that. Gumming up the works is effective, as one HR screwup and the employee is good to go. Sometimes you can get promoted for being an asshole.
We used to use AnyConnect at work and I found OpenConnect to be a much nicer option:
https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/. The anyconnect app was buggy and a resource hog, but open connect ran smooth. Not sure if it would be any better for your use case, but may be worth a try.
Maybe it's just market segmentation with better GPUs aimed at gamers and better CPUs aimed at "creators"? I think a lot of games won't fully use 16 cores but many creator-type applications use as many as available while not needing cutting edge graphics.
Well, if I was a woman, I wouldn't take your advice.
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> publicly traded companies are required by law to maximize their profits

Is that really true, though?

"[...] there is no legal requirement for for-profit companies to maximize returns to shareholders. When a company is for sale, its directors are required to do all they can to maximize its value. At any other time, corporate law simply dictates that directors are supposed to help the company prosper and do nothing to benefit themselves at the company’s expense. But no law requires corporations to maximize returns to shareholders."[0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-the-...
Even small startups started "copying" FANG interview style. For me, this was none-sense. We were discussing this point few days ago, some colleagues (who work in ML space) are going through interviews (for ML engineer, data scientists roles), most of them don't get questions about ML (which is the focus of the job) and they go through the typical LeetCode problems for AI/ML startups, which was discouraging for most ppl.

I understand when a big company uses LeetCode problems to scale out the process (e.g. new hires in Bangalore and new hire in SF go through the same process). In these companies, usually candidate don't interview for a specific team, they just get an interview to join FANG, then they get matched to a team at the end of the process. However, for startups, they should know what they need, and what kind of skills/person that they are looking for. I wish this trend change (hiring professional interviewees, instead of hiring professional developers).
There's a dirty secret that's fallen out of favor in the Node community, but that helps dramatically with this problem: it is usually a good idea to vendor dependencies for front-end projects (basically any project you're making that isn't being published to NPM).

The trick with this is you have to avoid dependencies that compile C code or native binaries as part of their installation process, since those binaries might not be portable. I try when possible to avoid anything that's using node-gyp.

But if you are vendoring dependencies and they're compatible with the system you're compiling on, then you will never need to worry about libraries breaking or changing underneath your nose.

You will still need to worry about security vulnerabilities, but that's just the case with all software. At the very least, 10 years from now your project will still compile.
If I have a way to reduce tax, I'll do so as well.

Nobody is against closing the loop hole. We all know what the loop hole is.

Politicians should just do it.

Instead, they (Dems mostly) parade around publicly shaming companies who reduces tax in a legal way.
Blaming parents of the kid who your machine just killed, while mentioning that you know this happens from time to time, is worse than "no comment".
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The problem was the NYAG who asked for proof and Bitfinex couldn't provide proof. So they paid a modest fine and got banned from operating in the state of NY.
Acknowledging the problem means a very very costly recall when it’s easier and not entirely unrealistic to just instruct the customers to keep their kids away from the product while it’s in use.
Don’t believe it’s legally required.

Reference: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...
Of course it's not true, it's just an easy excuse to abdicate any responsibility.
Here's a chart from the EPA. says ag 10%, transport 29%.

Ag is very scary to me. another article from today on first ever drought declaration for the CO river.

How much unsustainable water use in the west is used for 'wrong' crops (or just should be none at all)? And how much from huge population growth in hot deserts just getting hotter? Meat?

And is it even possible in the near (20 years) future to for instance change air and sea transport (those giant tankers). Maybe could move to autonomous smaller ships that use sail / electric combo but batteries are heavier than oil per unit of power right? cool startup idea.

I'm so pessimistic lately feeling totally powerless and that even if we collectively get it together, we might not be able to pull it off in time.

I think it might come down to whether or not this all causes a new world wide catastrophic event to force change. Ideally realizing climate change is that event before it goes off the walls. But maybe some confrontation like wealth inequality or 'west' verse CCP (even cold to spur competition).

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-west-prepares...
So, sidestepping the shit show that any 2A debate here is:

from a prior art perspective, the BDSM community has pretty much already discussed & detailed any form of ice lock on the planet. Not sure how any of this is novel, aside from keeping you from playing with yourself vs. your gun.
We have a relatively big stamp collection that used to belong to my great-grandfather, but we're not quite sure what to do with it. Should we give them away? Sell them online? Keep them around in case a family member becomes interested?
Do you believe all ethical behavior should be codified in law, or just taxes?
Peloton is a status symbol for rich people who don't need our sympathy, but their children are innocent.
Very nice!

For debugging missed notes, do you replay the video to the bot? You could capture clips by detecting when the score multiplier drops.
Completely agree!

Something I realized lately is if you don’t ha e soft skills, it literally makes you worse at coding.

I always knew you needed them to be a good employee, but it wasn’t until I worked with a “senior” without an ounce of social grace that I realized lacking soft skills makes you worse at writing good code.

The “senior” didn’t solve the application’s problems because they didn’t care to ask. They thought they knew everything. They didn’t spread their knowledge onto the rest of the team. Instead, they spent their time working on a half-baked idea no one asked for. They would get stuck on a problem and never ask for help, a junior mistake.

My hot take is you need some minimum of social skills (doesn’t have to be a lot!) to be “technically competent.”
Of course we know that these same people advocate to raise taxes on _other_ people, who then must actually pay the taxes or go to prison.

You hate to see it, but we all know this is the way it works from the private jet view.
OK. John takes over Google and pays more taxes when the current scheme is legal.
How is that rationalized? Why not pay even more?
Interestingly enough, RAM seems to have a lifetime warranty, as discussed on other places on the web [1]. Of course, lifetime warranty does not mean the lifetime of the buyer [2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-does-computer-RAM-have-a-lifetime-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warranty#Lifetime_warranty
Every major power wants backdoors in these systems. Asking the producers to put in a back door is just one mechanism. They are also putting plants/spies in these companies as employees, bribing people, etc. And they have practically an infinite budget. It's not a matter of if but when. It's a reasonable expectation that any sufficiently large system that has been around for long periods of time has been compromised by spooks. If they aren't compromised, then every spy agency on the planet is shockingly incompetent.