skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well luckily, some particular traits have been made illegal to discriminate against, because in the past, terrible consequences have been had from such discrimination.

> blacks/gays/women/ect

But this doesnt mean that _every_ trait falls afoul - and if you want your trait to gain the special status of being illegal to discriminate against, this work (aka, activism) should be undertaken with private resources, not the resources of the company for which you are employed. Trying to recruit people into your cause during work hours should also be discouraged - but giving invites to dinners/lunches and having private discussions outside workhours should be allowed.
Maybe, but we shouldn't defend people's behavior based on their goals. Musk has a massive habit of either stretching the truth, deceiving, outright lying -- whatever you want to call it -- that Jobs didn't. It's a very important distinction.

If a kid growing up in technology asked me which one should they try to emulate more, I would say Steve Jobs without a doubt. There are far less moral failings you have to defend within his biography.

And two, we should definitely be incredibly skeptical of someone willing to achieve certain goals at all costs. Like ... is going to Mars even a good goal? It's certainly far from obvious that it is. Someone willing to lie, cheat and steal in order to achieve that is not someone I want in my society.
Nothing about the policy seemed to suggest to me that gay people would have to conceal their sexuality at work or avoid mentioning it. I think you can read it as protecting conversations around gay people. Consider the following hypothetical:

You: "... my husband..."

Me: "You know, I don't think gay people should be married. Marriage is blah blah blah"

------------------------

By my reading of the OP "my" comment there would be prohibited. Now, I'm bringing politics (or religion - which I also feel is and should be banned at work) into things to talk about why I condemn you or oppose your marriage.

In other words, rather than explain exactly what political positions and discussions are permitted we should just not have political discussions at work. If you mention your husband, I shouldn't tell you my thoughts about marriage or homosexuality. Conversely, if I mention I attend a Mormon Temple, you shouldn't tell me your thoughts regarding Mormonism. Details (within reason) about oneself are fine, but political discussion based on those details are not.

Of course, it's possible I've misread the document, and if they do intend to silence homosexuals from letting slip any details about their life, or whatever, then I oppose their changes. I think all people should be equally free at work to talk about themselves and their lives where it is appropriate. This document is just setting the guideline that political discussions are not appropriate.
Wouldn't most people build what they're building now?

I mean what Plaid does is extremely sketchy, but it's a turn-key solution that provides an API to interact with bank accounts

Most people don't catch on to the fact (or even care tbh) they're sending Plaid their account data, so it's not like you could differentiate an app based on "native" API access

(I'm not against official APIs to be clear, but addressing the reality of the situation here)
I first saw that technique used by Moderinizr, which was a very useful tool back in IE8 days!

https://modernizr.com/
For example analytical queries tend to have a big portion of joins and aggregations, they will be more CPU-intensive rather than disk-bound, esp. when complicated data types are involved such as decimal. Further more, traditional databases have buffer pool which is expected to buffer most disk accesses.
The person who invented automatic valves on steam engines was the lad hired to run up a ladder, turn a valve, run down the ladder, turn a value, run up the ladder, etc., all day.

He rigged up a system of rods and levers to do the work for him, so he could sleep.
The FDA is being criminally negligent with their warning. They admit in their press-release after 1 year of the pandemic, they still have not evaluated the data showing ivermectin treats covid: "The FDA has not reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or to prevent COVID-19". That's their job. If they haven't evaluated the data, they should not attack a treatment that saves lives when there are 6 independent meta-analyses showing it works (Bryant, Hill, Kory, Lawrie, Nardelli meta-analysis links are available this page: https://ivmmeta.com/)
that hasn't been a thing since xhtml. html5 did away with /> for tags that don't have a closing tag. like img, meta, br, etc.
How does Tesla lose market share while achieving record (+ 109%) sales? The market certainly hasn’t been growing faster than Tesla has.
'link' and 'meta' are void elements in HTML5 and are forbidden to have end tags.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110113/syntax.ht...
I wouldn't put much blame on him specifically, but yeah, he was enormously irresponsible with a lot of his communication during the pandemic.
go run main.go works just fine and is blazing fast compared to many compiled langs.

There's also scripted go, which may solve some of what you need.

Print debugging works for 99% of introspection needs. Most times go does just as advertised, though learn of common pitfalls to avoid.

Haskell has REPL and dynamic introspection, but everything takes 4-20 longer times. Maybe it's faster/better with massive practice.

Honestly, most codebases just sucks, including my own, unless you redo alot and put deliberate efforts over time. Which is irrelevant to sales (point in link). Alot of value in battle-tested code turns invisible too, locking knowledge away in obscurity. Go at least is pretty readable and mostly explicit.
Maybe it's just me, maybe it's just a snapchat "feature", but one of the first things that struck me was the idea that this young woman sent the rant out to something like 250 people, of which a nonneglible portion was from her school (and had additional ties to the cheer group).

Comparing this to my own experiences - I know I said plenty of things in high school which would have landed me in hot waters had they reached the wrong ears. But they didn't, and while there was certainly some luck involved, there was also discretion at play. I kept my personal opinions personal and limited to other individuals or groups that I could trust.

So I guess my question is - does discretion play a role? Is there a difference if I whisper to a friend that I'd love to kick somebody's ass or if I post the same idea to a public social media space where it can be seen by a larger audience? What if I yell it out real loud during a break? What then?

It will be fascinating to see how this case plays out, as I can see valid arguments on both sides of the table. Free speech is key, but if we want schools to have any chance of succeeding there must be a way to protect students who are being unfairly targeted.
Tesla are shit cars, just like most of their owners are shit people.
Ready to get crucified for this but... what is the problem with dumping nuclear waste in the ocean? If you just throw, for example, radioactive hunks of metal in the ocean, they are inert, stay in relatively dead zones of the world, they do not leech too much and the parts that _would_ leech would just be really insignificant when diluted in the vast vast amount of water of the oceans.
It's missing an obnoxious cookie dialog, mailing list modal window and multiple ads.
time to upgrade?
Not to bring you down, but to let anyone else know, this isn't novel and has been standard practice for a decade or so.
It's confusing to show inputs that will then likely disappear in less than a second.
Thank you for your message.
I recognize myself in the "regarded this as one of their highest duties", but sometimes it's a lot, especially when you get your own thing going (covid and such).

So thank you. I feel appreciated for the effort I put in this, even though we don't know each other :)
The porch one was oddly specific.
> measure twice, cut once.

Measure never, cut wherever!
Building tall requires adequate public transportation and social infrastructure
True it's kind of a great fit for that. Your clean money account offers a stupid NFT for $50m, your dirty money account buys it all via anonymised crypto. Though maybe a bit obvious.
Can’t say for sure, but it’s possible it wasn’t Uber Eats but instead the Wendy’s - the store can make price adjustments:

https://help.uber.com/ubereats/article/i-have-a-price-adjust...

https://help.uber.com/merchants-and-restaurants/article/how-...

That said, I imagine if you complained, Uber Eats could make a similar-looking price adjustment, so I can’t say either way definitively.
Kids simply don't realize that certain things are impossible, so they do them.

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time trying to trisect an angle, sure that proofs it was impossible were erroneous and mathematicians were fools.

Of course I failed, but an adult would never have tried.
> Basically an EV only makes sense if you own a house and can get your own charger.

New houses in the UK have required chargers as part of planning permission for 5 years. Most people have, or can have, a 3KW socket installed in their driveway, very cheaply (like 2-3 tanks of fuel)

73% of cars in the UK are parked on private property overnight. Most cars do under 8,000 miles a year, or 160 miles a week, 77% of cars passing an MOT in 2019 did under 10,000 miles/year, or 200 miles a week.

At 5 miles per KWh, that's 15mph of charging, or 200 miles in one overnight charge.
What about swimming? Or weight lifting? There are other ways to get that exercise than walking that don't qualify for that 10k steps reward.
This isn't just the pandemic, the fact that Model Y sales just displaced Model 3 sales in the US should be concerning. Also, given the narrative that Tesla is a supply-limited company, the pandemic really shouldn't change their sales at all.
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You may still use them, they are not invalid syntax.
No box-sizing: border-box?
I agree with most of what you write, and I use test fixtures that spin up real services with docker for running integration tests. However, I'd argue that mocking will always have a usefulness, as it goes hand in hand with unit tests. Integration tests confirms the behaviour for the code branching you are able to reach that way, and more closely reflects reality and normal operations. Mocking allows you to more easily test the edge cases that the software unit might encounter that are hard to create conditions for otherwise.

In fact, from also being tempted by what you write (ie. why mock, when you can automatically spin up a docker service). I've done this too, and my conclusion is that it is more trouble than it's worth, although that can differ for other systems, I suppose. The only realistic approach is that a test fixture spins services up once, and not per test/unit, so it just introduced a concern for correct clean and concurrency limitations that wouldn't exist. It also has unexpected issues with wildly varying startup times whenever or not the container image is cached.

All in all, it works well enough now, but when I do it all over somewhere, I'm tempted to keep a clean distinction of deploying temporary services for running integration tests, and regular unit tests, without the in between.

TL;DR: mocking isn't just for "i need service A in my test", but also "I need A to behave like X", and don't get that with external services.
Not only is the capital so concentrated, but any threats to these funds are direct threats to the retirement plans, pension funds, and investments of the politicians that serve us as well as their donors/supporters. Firms like balckrock can effectively strong arm Congress into doing whatever black rock damn well pleases because of the economic power they've been allowed to concentrate. Blackrock has $8.68 trillion AUM(2020), the 2019 US GDP was $21.4 trillion. What kind of damage could blackrock, entirely legally, do if they wanted? I'm not saying that BR is extorting anyone, but I'd be thoroughly surprised if BR doesn't have emotionless discussions with powerful people about all the terrible things that will happen if Congress does X or doesn't do Y, which can have the same effect as saying to act in a way or [bad thing] without coming across as Tony Soprano.

https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/rent-wall-street-is-my-l...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/singl...
> By far, the most widely studied trade-off involves transmission and virulence (Anderson and May, 1982; Frank, 1996; Alizon et al. 2009). Transmission and virulence are linked by within-host replication: increasing parasite abundance increases the likelihood of transmission, but also increases the likelihood of host death; mathematically, this assumption can be formalized by making transmission rate β an increasing function of parasite-induced mortality rate ν. Nearly all of the literature we summarize below assumes this trade-off.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/parasitology/article...

Anderson, R. M. and May, R. M. (1982). Coevolution of hosts and parasites. Parasitology 85(Pt 2), 411–426.

Frank, S. A. (1996). Models of parasite virulence. Quarterly Review of Biology 71, 37–78.

Alizon, S., Hurford, A., Mideo, N. and Van Baalen, M. (2009). Virulence evolution and the trade-off hypothesis: history, current state of affairs and the future. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, 245–259.
I measure thrice, then cut the wrong side off. I've done that countless times.
By most people. You know, non-activists. We just want to come to work, do our jobs, hang out with other people passionate about what they do. Just enjoy this time and not engage in political activism. Is this too much to ask?
> ”the killer feature will be a unified charging platform and not one for each car maker.”

In Europe there is already a single unified charging standard: CCS.

The entire industry, including Tesla superchargers, use this same charging standard.
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What's your point? Obviously just because Samsung's implementation used to be shitty doesn't mean apple's would be, hopefully that's not what you are suggesting?
> The solution is to have chargers at home, even slow ones. Then you have zero range anxiety.

This doesn't follow at all. Range anxiety is not being able (or worrying about cutting too close) to make it while out on the road. If you stay so close to home that you can go back and charge that's not the scenario.

Like when I took (pre-pandemic) our Fiat 500e to work and whether I can run an errand after work depends on the lottery of whether I can get a charger spot at the office.

Or having to come up with elaborate schemes to get the car to the dealer because it's too far on one charge.

The car is awesome for short errands near home but anything farther out becomes a project to manage.
What Monzo is planning next
God your are as dumd as they come, hopefully procreation wasn't an option for you. Now do us all a favor and go humanely off yourself.
Your statement reminds me of this quote from the sketch from Dave & Clarke about "The Front Fell Off.": "We towed it beyond the environment. There's nothing out there; but sea and birds and fish, and 20 thousand tons of crude oil, and the front off the ship that fell off."
If you are in a temperate climate, like The Bay Area, looking into hydronic heating.

I installed it, and would never go back to forced air. For some reason, it's not popular on the west coast.

It's so simple, a DIY'er could do the instal.

My energy bill is down, and allergies are better.

(I've noticed every store I have been in has forced HVAC, and I have a weird feeling forced air spread viruses. Plus--most retail stores have old systems. They might have slapped in some high mir filters, but I doubt they help with anything on old leaky systems.

(To those interested in hydronic heating, buy Modern Hydronics, by Stegenthal? I'm too lazy to look up his last name, but his book is used as text books.
I hear you.

If you otherwise like your job and the people you work with, then I think it's good to just accept that some days you won't get work done and that's ok.

If you feel that way all the time, maybe it's time to find work that you care about more.
Digging the Video Games Industry
But you are making a separate contention now: that employees are spent considerable company time on discussions of politics. If they were, up till now it was with the endorsement of their managers.

The Basecamp policy is now
that you can't discuss politics (or anything controversial) on any company platform, including e.g. in the break room, on the discord chat or whatever on your commute, out of office hours, etc. And they are officially removing any feedback mechanisms from company structures, figuratively salting the earth to prevent anyone discussing anything.

Obviously everyone could move to a platform in the cloud for discussions, but the writing is on the wall.

While this may well be a gross violation of labour laws, US employee rights are so weak it doesn't matter: say anything and you're canned.
No, there are two fundamental misunderstandings in your comment.

You posit an opposition between "[arrays of] point samples with a convolution" and "[arrays of] exceedingly crisp squares". This is incorrect. If the kernel you convolve your array of point samples with is an exceedingly crisp square, the result is an array of exceedingly crisp squares. Convolution with a square is just a special case. Smith explains this, perhaps not very clearly, in Fig. 3, p. 5.

Conceptualizing this as a convolution allows you not only to handle the special case you're saying is "a reasonable first-order approximation," but also to analyze what effects that display or sensor convolution is having on your image, and possibly to correct them. Moreover, it can handle some other kinds of image degradation as well that go beyond that first-order approximation, such as bokeh, diffraction, defocus, and nonuniformity within pixels, as long as it's the same for every pixel.

That's how you find out what those "further adjustments to avoid antialiasing artifacts, desired sharpness, and so forth" are.

And it's how you can go about analyzing what happens to the image when you, for example, resample to a different sampling grid, as Smith explains on p. 4. If you analyze different linear resampling algorithms using the theory of convolutions, you can predict precisely how good the results will be; if you do not use this theory, you will be puzzled and will not understand your results at all. Believe me, I know; I wandered in that desert for years. But you don't have to. Learn from my mistakes.

Second, audio samples are frequently handled exactly the same way as pixels in this sense, using a "zero-order hold". If you oversample by taking 64 consecutive samples from your ADC and summing them, or set the PWM duty cycle on your Arduino to a new value every 125 μs and leave it there until the next sample, or shift a new sample into the shift register connected to your R-2R DAC and leave it there until the next sample, you're doing exactly the same thing as trying to draw a little square for each pixel—just in one temporal dimension instead of two spatial dimensions. A zero-order hold is a perfectly reasonable thing to do with audio samples for both input and output, although it's not the only option, and it can produce audible artifacts. The math for analyzing this—and correcting it, if that's what you want—is exactly the same as the analogous math for displays or camera sensors made out of little squares.

Far from being "far more misleading", the analogy between pixels and audio samples is deeply insightful and unlocks a wealth of mathematical tools that can be applied in both domains, as well as, for example, to linear control theory and GPS position estimation. The results this analogy leads you to are profound truths, not falsehoods as you seem to think. And some of them are very beautiful.

None of this has changed in 25 years (except the detail that now we have LCDs with little rectangles on them to complement the little squares of dye-sublimation printers that Smith mentions) and little of it has changed in 50 years.
From what i see, it doesn't, it only takes care of deployments, you need something cross-cluster in front for load balancing and another behind for data storage.
I also love the simplicity and structure of the C4 model. I'm currently working on a tool at http://icepanel.io which implements the concepts that are talked about.
Clarifying the Blockchain Proposition
I don't mind harsh or critical comments, but you're going to have to at least add some substance if you want any effect.
Modem 3 a premium sedan, well idiots will be idiots I guess, carry on the torch.
HTML Sanitizer API (Draft)
Said the person hiding behind a throwaway account.
I hate how the website won't let me go back in my browser history as it just reloads the page.
> funny that indian government asked twitter to remove anything critical of its handling over COVID, with 350k daily cases, but they are democratic so they get a pass. no this isn't whataboutism, this is pointing out the double standard.

a. as the other comment pointed out - they aren't getting a pass on this.
b. Multiple news agencies reporting on failures of the government's response to the second wave of COVID (and as usual the government is reacting by clamping down on the louder voices - as they did with the farmer protests)
c. the religious nationalism that embodies the current right-wing government of India has been a subject of op-eds for the past couple of years (not criticised loudly enough IMO)
Ok, fair enough. However, this type of comment is subject to the following problem: for any assignemnt of privilege, there is always someone poorer or more wretched than the person making this assignment, all the way down to a child born with no mind due to Zika virus who is cast aside by her family and dies alone in a ditch. Furthermore, the arc of privilege is logarithmic. So although I agree with you in some sense, I find I can't in good faith criticise someone for being privileged. Is it not inherently hypocritical, as the 'privilege gap' I perceive (either between me and the person, or between some societal band and the person) is minimal compared to the gap between me and everyone else less privileged than I?
But this post isn't about playing golf..? None of this is. What?
No, all the trials show benefit. One RCT trial published in Jama, even despite severe flaws such as giving ivermectin in the placebo group, still showed benefit. The conflict of interests with that study are large though, so a significant number of independent doctors have written a letter describing the flaws in the study and why it should be retracted: https://jamaletter.com/

The situation with Brazil is that Ivermectin has become politicized, so that it is not widely used in the country. When you compare cities that use it versus cities that don't the results are striking: https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/epide...
Oh, believe me, that's what I do. This MacBook was a one-off when I needed to do some Apple work. My personal machines and other work machines are all ThinkPads, and I always download and review Lenovo's Hardware Maintenance Manual for each machine before I buy it.
Minor nit, but afaik Basecamp does not include any sort of stock or equity as part of its compensation package.
Well, it's perfect readable in lynx & IE6.

I think for the most part, it's a pretty reasonable selection of tags. And there's almost no excuse to keep crazy old stuff around these days.
Thanks, I did miss that ... probably because I don't do front-end development anymore.
HIPAA Database Compliance the Easy Way by Alex William
HN is certainly an appropriate place to remember those. Although, here it’s s.gif.

https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gif