skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, +1 for Process Hacker, it's basically an open source alternative to Sysinternals Process Explorer[0]. The service alerts noted in this article in particular led me to getting spooked and discovering that Windows Defender likes creating fun malware-like driver service names like MpKslasdfas3.sys. I'm at the point where it's always open to increase system awareness, and for quick filehandle views when I forget what application is stopping me from ejecting a USB.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
The paper referenced in the article can be found here (pdf): https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvtfw14tfyfljie/Global%20Detection...
>minimal media coverage

"colombia protests" -> google, "Past 24 hours":

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56983865

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/04/c...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/colombia-deadly-protests...

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/un-eu-call-calm-colom...

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/5/4/in-pictures-deadl...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/04/colombia-pro...

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/05/photos-deadly-prot...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/world/americas/colombia-p...
Thanks! Very interesting to learn.
> Is it imperfect and are there trade-offs involved? Of course, but there are with anything.

No disagreement here. But the argument was made that Rails "scales pretty well" and I believe this is wrong — and I don't even mean in terms of performance (that probably too), but also in terms of architectural complexity. All these problems are solvable of course, but Rails makes it IMHO harder than some other technologies.
I'm also interested in learning about how this can be used for tracking.

From the paper [1]:

> The method is based on pattern recognition of anomalies in the radio transmissions between stations in the global WSPR network in the received signal-to noise ratio (SNR) and/or the drift of the received signal when compared to the transmission frequency. These anomalies in transmission links may be due to a number of causes, including an aircraft crossing the transmission path.

That's pretty vague, but it's a start.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvtfw14tfyfljie/Global%20Detection...
I'm very skeptical of this "decreasing returns to scale" thing the traditional economists do being true in either era.
> The irony, of course, is that Hansson and Fried built a reputation around righteousness and wokeness, and then it came for them, because they were two white guys with power.

That's extremely predictable at this point.
They know, they just don't care that much.

I've heard second hand that part of the reason is due to the internal politics between different divisions within AWS.
That website (airlineratings.com) claimed to have "the only" airline safety ratings so I took a look, and unfortunately they seem to be completely bogus. I couldn't find one airline that didn't score the maximum on everything, including Ukrainian International Airlines which in my opinion has a very subpar safety standard. Does anyone know of other airline safety ratings?
What's Marxist about it, then?
Show HN: Water my plant using a Raspberry Pi
My favorite is when companies (looking at you, UPS) provide a phone menu with a very narrow list of choices, and if none of them matches what you want, you're just out of luck. There's no "other" option.

(In reality, you lie to get through to a human, but come on.)

Also, the difference between talking to somebody reading a script in Bangalore and someone on the inside who actually knows what they are doing (if you can manage to convince someone to connect you to the latter) is crazy. The drones handling customer support info often have essentially zero information on top of what's given to the customer.

One time UPS lost my package (bona fide lost in a warehouse, maybe stolen or something) and the phone CS drones assured me that it was on the way, just running late, was on the truck now, etc. etc.

I managed to berate them into connecting me with a US-based operator who, after asking how the hell I actually got her number, gave me the real tracking info, which is completely hidden from consumers and made it very clear that my package was gone.
I keep a penny on my desk at work. Every time a coworker comes across somebody's account that is off by a penny, I offer it. They think I'm being funny, but the point I'm trying to make is that it wastes more than pennies worth of our time to spend it worrying about a few cents.

I've seen people mail in checks worth less than the stamp it took to send them. It's a wild world out there.
Anyone who asks you for a credit card or other means to bill you for a "free" service intends to steal money from you without your consent
I see, I understand. I had to go through a lot of change in my personality to get from a point where I think about what the other person thinks of me to the point where I'm more concerned about whether the relationship is working. But it took about 15 years for me.
Oxygen intervention for India is more effective than top GiveWell interventions
Wow, that is some amazing detective work.
I have no idea what historians would say about my tungsten cube, clump of silicon carbide, triangular prism, stainless steel fidget spinner, and hexastix made of pencils.
Re: Lytro, I gave them that precise advice back in ~2008, and I believe they had already talked about it. Nearly 10 years later, their cinema camera boasted 'lens emulation' but I'm not personally convinced it emulated bokeh digitally, despite the whizz-bang stage demos.

Sadly, you need to have significantly higher light field resolution to do an 'acceptable' job of approximating lens aberrations, and in the end it probably wouldn't look better than a 2D filter approximating it. Nonetheless I like the idea.
On top of the other reasons for complexity and delay, this just creates another potential mistake where people delete their entire accounts or stop production services.

It's far easier to negotiate dollar amounts than lost data or service uptime.
The extreme skew (1 male for every 17 females reproducing) is what's incorrect, not the average man having less reproductive success than the average woman.
I think this is actually the failure mode for companies like AWS: they may earnestly be so large/complex that no well-intentioned crusader can push through an improvement like this.

My gut is that this is actually the cause of most of the “evil” things that “large” companies do, where eventually they get so big and/or complicated that organizing an organic positive change isn’t plausible.
Please don’t use that. I am in the process of returning my M1 and asking for a 32GB previous Pro model from my IT team.

Knowing Google it’d take more than months to fix their shit.
In this case it was a council-owned dirt road between two unfenced properties. By moving his property onto the road and erecting a pergola on the road, the path of the road moved onto our property, which he then claimed was the true location of the road. Then he pulled up fruit trees that were planted at the front of our property (for privacy) because now it seemed like they were planted on the strip, which is supposed to be empty. In truth, those fruit trees made it obvious that he had moved the road and that's why he wanted to pull them up.

The 'neutral strip' that they auctioned off, was actually the very tippy end of the road (which they can do, unless it hinders someones driveway access), and we lost access to our second driveway, which is entirely illegal except there's a whole bunch of legal nonsense you have to submit to keep a driveway valid after it becomes blocked for a certain period of time, otherwise the driveway is automatically considered cancelled (in this case, his pergola blocked it for long enough that you need a new driveway permit if you can believe it). A new driveway permit can not be approved if the driveway can not be accessed, and so the fun begins. To make the driveway valid, and hence the sale of the land under the pergola illegal, they made it seem like we needed to forfeit the strip to general access...

I'm not even being sarcastic when I say that surveying property borders, roads and driveways seems like a perfect application for an immutable and easily auditable blockchain based on lat/lon.
>While more research is needed to determine if multitasking is physically damaging the brain (versus existing brain damage that predisposes people to multitask), it's clear that multitasking has negative effects.

The anterior cingulate cortex is involved in attention management and impulsivity.[0] This has been known for quite some time. It has even been observed that children with ADHD have thinning in (some parts of) the anterior cingulate cortex.[1] It seems like quite a stretch to exclaim that multitasking itself causes that. It's obviously not impossible, but seems implausible - at least implausible enough to not make it a separate paragraph in a short article.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC53241/

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23713508/
If notarization isn't common in the country where you are, you should probably escalate through AWS support in that country. They probably have an alternate procedure. If you're talking to US-based support, they are used to thinking this is a trivial request. Getting something notarized is something that can be handled in 5 minutes at places as common as convenience stores. Most people have coworkers that are notaries and can do it without even getting up from their desk.

If that's not the case in your country, ask them for a different procedure. It's not something they intend to be onerous.
3D Time-of-Flight Camera Systems Design
The different components that go into designing a 3D time-of-flight depth camera.
Government agencies with “special” employee classes like schools are really stupid about funding choices. My neighbor makes >$100k as a coach — great guy, very talented, but ridiculous when you consider that they have like 10 IT people for a district with 15 schools, and the director makes $60k and gets a stipend for teaching some elective course. They meander along with a patchwork of consulting engagements through grants.
Gives me some Breaking Bad vibes (the traffic controller) down to the discussion about accountability for why he was working.
This is the problem with usage based pricing. It is very lucrative pricing strategy because it works for lower end of market as well as enterprise users. One way to resolve this is to offer fixed tier based pricing for customers who may be more sensitive to prices and usage based pricing for enterprise clients.

For example.

Starter ($5/mo) - Use up to 100,000 API calls each month.

Growth ($30/mo) - Use up to 1,000,000 API calls each month.

Enterprise ($149/mo) - Use up to 10,000,000 API calls each month. After that, $10 for every 1 million calls.
Where Work Is Headed
This is probably a moderately controversial statement, but I’ll occasionally browse the open jobs of various companies and one thing I’ve noticed is the “more technical“ (purposely vague) positions are outsourced ,typically to India or China. I’ve seen a few where there were almost no dev or engineering roles in the US, just marketing, various business roles and low paid service stuff.
Tried it with a stylus and with a touch screen: neither were supported.
You're describing the critical perspective, which is just a framing that motivates discussion. There are versions of it for essentially every sociological phenomenon. The hypersensitivity to it among certain demographics is what's remarkable, much moreso than the thing itself.
They could also be applying an arbitrary offset to support some range of negative value. This whole tangent seems a bit pedantic though. :-) They probably should have used uint64!
A right wing video, sure.
Stress is higher across the board as the middle class is wrung out of the economy and the gilded age begins again.

Even if it isn't fight-or-flight stress inducement, sheer business and exhaustion are also undeniably up.

All one has to do is look at the laundry list of economic differences (housing, health care, education, salary, etc) between the current generations and the boomers.
That’s likely overblown. I suspect 70+% of kids in the 90’s had seen porn and I doubt it’s much past 95% today.

If anything we just don’t see what people do in their private lives that much. Incel isn’t some new thing, it’s simply more talked about today.
>An equally valid hypothesis is that harmlessly blowing off low-level steam prevents the atrocities higher up in the “pyramid”. Things only really get bad when people are encouraged to form and defend identities around characteristics like race, religion, national origin, etc.

I'm sorry - I need help in understanding how this "equally valid". To me this seems like a justification ex post facto to defend "jokes", but it seems to fly in the face history. I find it hard to reconcile that post-slavery attitudes about race in America came about because people were no longer allowed to make jokes. Alternatively this kind of explanation hand waves away the cultural history that makes those jokes funny in the first place.

To note, I believe that DHH handled this situation horribly which has caused the situation to escalate to epic proportions. The adult thing to do when you come across a rather juvenile list of "funny" names to accept that you were wrong and move on. To try and defend this kind of juvenile behavior leads to nonsensical arguments about why it's someone's right to make lavatorial jokes during standup.
This is something that surprised me when I was reading the Phoenix Project: sometimes making quick decisions and quick actions is more important than making sure "everyone has something to do". In fact it's very common.

It's important that your bottlenecks are never waiting for a task to complete. It's important that firefighters of your organizations are ready for anything that could block important processes or bottlenecks. It's important that certain tasks are ready to accept a new job so WIP doesn't accumulate and lead times are kept low.
> And how does any of that lead to talking about "White Supremacy".

Perhaps one step at a time, over the course of repeated conversations that keep dredging up more and more deep-seated resentments that have probably been festering for years and years, because of a longstanding social convention that we're not supposed to openly talk about these sorts of things at the workplace.

Or perhaps, if it's the kind of company where a list like that could continue to exist for so long, there was enough pressure built up that it was more like a levee breaking.
We maintain a completely open source handbook at PostHog: https://posthog.com/handbook. You can poke around it on GitHub too (linked at the bottom of the page), or even put out a PR. :)
>You're just playing word games to refuse to back down on your ridiculous statement, which, again, was:

No games, just pointing out your bad use of fallacies, and you shifting the goalposts.

>Do you think Americans and the world really don't remember the past 5 years?

Do you think Americans and the world really don't remember the past year? Rioting, burning stores and small businesses down, over 20 death, over a billion dollars in damage, all tied to the BLM riots.

>calling Mexicans rapists?

Never happened [1].

Now you're delusionally inventing things that never happened and using fallacies to make this invented world real in your mind.

Find me where in the Republican Party platform they are for racism.

>Name some mainstream Trump-supporting Republican who has said "I believe in racial equality", or otherwise promote racial equality.

You've literally created a non-provable assertion. Mainstream Republicans follow the Republican Party platform. Can you find me where in the platform it calls for racism? As a matter of fact, it calls for anti-discrimination based on race.

If you can't find where in the Republican Party platform it calls for racism, don't bother replying, and we can all conclude what we all already know:

The Democratic party is the party of anti-white and anti-Asian racism.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/08/tim-kaine/...
How many real world apps are a 'single button' though? If its a fixed overhead then I'm cool with it for anything more than a contact form.
It was good until it launched. Ouya. The changes just before launch killed the project IMO.
I do not think process is inherently bad.

What's bad are people that have "append-only" minds, rarely thinking about how to simplify things (be it code, documentation, tickets) and instead just thinking of adding more and more and more...

Live organisms do not work that way. Organisms have anabolic (constructive) and catabolic (destructive) processes. The anabolic processes construct and repair while the destructive processes get rid of the stuff that's no longer needed.

Unbounded repositories of code, documentation and tickets suck. I think every team needs full time people doing "catabolic" work on those. Break down tech debt into proper code, break down articles that are hard to read and get rid of obsolete articles, make tickets better and remove the ones that are redundant.

The "append-only" mentality is what making people their own enemies.
How we use web components
I hear you. It can be counterproductive to use a totally unfamiliar jargon, especially if it trips the audience up and limits mutual engagement in favor of linguistic squabbling.

That said, I respectfully disagree that it’s “just as unhelpful.” Pedantry over definitions distracts from the underlying issues, while new and inventive and nonstandard usage of language can spur critical analysis and jolt us out of our familiar understanding.

Telling someone “defund isn’t used that way” shuts down the conversation. Demanding we “defund the police” makes me want to start / pursue / expand the conversation: what the heck do you mean by that?

Edit to add: my response sounds overly academic. Another way to put it could be: language is confusing, and it can be problematic if we make it more confusing. But, sometimes I need to get a bit more confused before I can see things in a new / different light, and language can be an effective tool to achieve that “good confusion”
> "The argument is simply that the behavior everyone claims to decry (e.g. racial violence) starts somewhere, far below violence. "Funny names" turn into off-color jokes. Off-color jokes turn into jokes with a darker edge. Then it turns into..."

If this is such a common path, why have I never heard of it happening?

How common is this chain of events? What are some documented cases?
Mutual information relies on probability distributions, so I don’t think it makes sense to compare two random embeddings using it. Also, cosine similarities aren’t used in training BERT, I think it’s just cross entropy loss, which makes sense when doing classification.
That's exactly how it went down in one of my companies HR "listening circles" in February.

The blind employee is married to a woman who immigrated to the US from Japan. He was being lectured by a young semi-useless data scientist who grew up in a wealthy suburb just outside of Dearborn. I'm totally making all of this up in your eyes because you don't like what you're hearing.

Cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable.
Fortunately all of the security problems you mentioned also make it extremely easy for the students to compromise the machines and install a clean OS.

The high school I went to (about 5 years ago) had a laptop program, and every year when laptops were given out to the new students one of the senior students would go around and teach everyone how to wipe them. Administration obviously weren't particularly keen on this, but what are they going to do, suspend the entire school? Confiscate over a thousand laptops every week to re-install their spyware? You just need to get buy-in from enough of the students to make any retaliation implausible.

I think this process was a lot easier at the school I attended as it was a very tech-focused institution to begin with, but kids are only getting more and more technologically-minded as time goes on, so getting that buy-in should be doable.
You don't get to assert what other people mean when they say things (shrug)
This has nothing to do with latency and everything to do with price.

I have a gaming PC but it's stationary. I'd much rather use stadia on my Android TV device or whatever to grab a controller and go. I got the trial and it does work.

But having to pay full price for games I already own? Forget it. If the subscription had higher quality content I would use that, but it's just mostly old titles.

It's stupid because Google could have thrown money at this thing to subsidize subscription titles, or worked out some way for me to play stuff I already bought for another platform without paying MSRP again, and in either case I would have used it.

Stadia has no selling point. Pay MSRP and get the rights to stream a game from Google (only for as long as the service lasts?) No thanks!
Hacker News is a strange combination of capitalist and libre. The man delivers value. Why should you be entitled to the fruits of his labor for free?

FOSS is a gift. No one is obligated to give a gift.
Seems like literally any cloud hosting at all is considered third party by them, which would limit schools to running LAN based apps only with all local or LAN storage. They have an overly broad definition of 'third party', because the usual concerns are data being leaked and used for advertising, not hosting servers, databases, disks, or other app services, which usually have some privacy terms.

Some people might think a non-cloud based solution for a school would be better, but would almost certainly be worse. Schools are terrible at IT, security, updates, provisioning, etc and very quickly, it would be hacked, if not by external people, than by one of their own students.
I want to help clarify but I’m having trouble parsing your question. Can you please rephrase?
The BLM organization and the movement are two different things. You’d be lucky to randomly be able to find a single black person who knows any of the founders of the org or any of their principles except to reduce police brutality.
The Ugandan violence started by efforts to make one group feel like the other group was foreign and illegitimate. that then progresses to dehumanizing talk. When the violence started people were already considering the other side to be less than human. I’m not saying that that is where Basecamp was headed but this kind of disrespectful treatment of people does warp people attitudes. It’s also painful when you find it directed at yourself.
1700 Cascadia Earthquake
I'm curious, was it academia? I mean, is there an origin story? I don't even know what terms search.
The “special interest” is not actually unrelated. A company can become better and more successful while also becoming more diverse. The very fact that you see becoming more diverse as coming at the expense of being more successful shows your inherent bias.
Good point. Evolution will use anything including happiness to propagate genes.
Might you spare some support for all the other families and children you may never meet but who will impact the future of your own children?
Replying to myself here, I'm curious to try it if we used order insertion preserving maps.

What if then we had:

{function: {arg1: value, argN: value}}

So we'd get a hello world as such:

{defn: {
name: hello,
args: {first: String, last:
String},
ret: IO,
impl: {print: {
msg: {concat: {
strings: ["Hello ", first, " ", last]}}}}},

hello: {first: "John", second: "Doe"}
}
> husband

Yup. Pro tip: If you're at a SV-influenced company and you find yourself talking about your personal life, don't say "husband," "wife," "boyfriend," or "girlfriend;" say "partner." That signals that you're an Ally rather than an Enemy.

You'll notice other weird speech patterns too. Pay attention to them; they're meaningful.
Exactly, the questions are always:

Which is it?

What is worth what?