skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hate to say this, but who cares? it’s a 60 person company with an ok product, not some herald of the industry. are we going back to the days of valleywag? this is social media distortion and amplification. a valuable discussion should be had around that instead.
TED gives a platform to pseudoscience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7WSf2fusU4
But it seem to be capable of infecting previously recovered people much more vigorously.

People who got original covid strain may now be getting reinfected again.
Specifically, look out for funds that specialize in low volatility. Their gains are lower but so is the risk.
Oh, I don't disagree with that. I still think political discussion bans are dangerous and the wrong way to go, and it could definitely be used as a tool for oppression.

But having political discussions is also not a panacea, and I've seen it also being weaponised in the name of the same oppression. For instance a very publicly racist CTO I worked under was kept because the CEO claimed "we want diversity, even diversity of opinion". Of course it was bullshit and both of them were ousted by the board.

I guess I'm just trying to be pragmatic and say we should solve the pronouns issue in a more pragmatic and humane manner (HR) rather than let people weaponise it with alt-right politics (or by claiming that trans people are being political).

Honestly I just wish those people had other hobbies other than picking on others.
Uh do you really want me to spoon feed you the obvious examples of people with strongly held opinions devastating large swathes of the world? Clearly their ideas were very well considered except they're not particularly "worthy of having"
If this is the only way to stop deplatforming, fine with me. People should have access to the commons unless they are advocating censorship or posting illegal content. Otherwise,

"sunlight is the best disinfectant."--Oliver Wendell Holmes
>the main difference between 'bearable' and 'fuck this' was most often bosses

I would usually get along OK with the higher ups - but the people I had to work with were a major cause of daily problems. Having to work with a disyfunctional alcoholics drinking on the job and cover for them, work with people with cognitive impairment (operating on industrial machinery that can dismember you while a guy with ~80IQ is fumbling arround and already had incidents of almost injuring people), etc.

The shit jobs I had were shit because of coworkers. I didn't do a lot of them, this is only anecdotal, etc. etc. but I just wanted to add a counterpoint.

I had the complete opposite experience in SW, there the stress usually does come from higher up and coworkers are usually either great or not a problem.
Thanks, I’ll take a look.

I use Jupyter because it’s something that the students are finding used more and more when they go on industrial placement. Matlab is extremely popular in engineering but Python is growing.

My notebooks are deliberately simple so it’s not I ntimidating for students who are frequently terrified by code. The point is to show them that some basic readable code can help them solve problems and avoid going too deep into the weeds.
> Was the point small business owners at establishments like Dales are facing troubles because they're fat-cat capitalist Trumpian Covid deniers whose problems aren't valid as such?

You still have to understand the workers are also the one who's getting fucked here. The owner of the grill in the article is deliberately worsening working conditions because of his beliefs on Covid, and it's perfectly reasonable that the workers will leave you to get a new job where your boss doesn't spread Covid on you by not wearing masks. I understand businesses are hard right now, but business owners should care a bit about hygiene, it's not something that would cost you a lot.

> This city is amid a dire housing shortage, expedited by lack of new construction and a migration of buyers from more lucrative economies. The median home price increased by 57% in the last 10 years, 8.6% in the last year alone to $315k. In the meantime the median family income remains only $46k.

But I think you've correctly diagnosed the real issue here - skyrocketing housing costs. Everyone suffers from this, both the workers and the small businesses. And it's a shame that the Dems and Reps are making this an "us vs. them" issue. (There's a similar dynamic in my country too, where liberals try to raise the minimum wage a bit, and then the conservatives fiercely oppose it and latch onto small business owners for support. Of course both the establishment liberals and conservatives are totally incompetent at solving skyrocketing housing costs and general economic inequality, yada yada.)

I think the real issue here is not about workers or small businesses, but just plain-old economic inequality - in the sense that the minority rich at the top can invest on housing at their heart's content (numbers seem to always go UP!) but the majority can't afford those prices. So even though the majority at the bottom knows that the price is bullshit, the bubble will not burst unless the rich realizes that those prices are bullshit (And do they really have to realize? They can still afford those investments though! They can stay being delusional and still enjoy all the luxuries they have!) Market price is now not an objective measure of value, but instead becomes a power that real estate investors can collectively impose onto the poor. Ah, communism for the rich, capitalism for the poor...
This looks to be exactly what I was looking for thank you!
You could turn off the office assistant. You are however stuck with the brain damage that is windows 10.
>a few commenters here for sure knows the causes conclusively

The hubris has been around here for as long as you have.
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Here’s my interpretation.

Workers that lived off the “trickle down” effect of the economy lost their jobs. The govt injected money and created policy to help keep those workers with food and shelter rather than let everything crash a year ago.

If you were a high skilled worker you never lost your job and you no longer had the same outlets to spend your money. You probably saved money and now have a surplus of cash. So a year later everything is frothy and real asset prices are on the rise. The Fed still doesn’t think we’re back to ‘normal’ yet so low interest rates and cash injection will continue.
Could somebody link me to a resource that explains the economics behind these collectibles ? (NFTs, trading cards etc. not art or rare items of historical significance)

Whatever I read either concludes scam or a store of value, but doesn't seem to explain the large amounts of money sloshing around in these.
"Microservices" is a tool to solve problems. The goal isn't microservices, the goal is to solve those problems. Example of problems it might solve: Unclear ownership, slow innovation, unstable software or orthogonal scaling of features.
"Hyper colors" to "hack my brain"? And it was like 14 paragraphs in until they actually started talking about anything technical. Always regret clicking Wired articles nowadays, they're literally just making up terms now for click bait purposes.
Evolution of Diversity and Dominance of Companies in Online Activity
Mostly pricing. I like it as a product, it's just expensive. I've played around with Seatable (self-hosted clone) and it serves my purpose just fine.
Cool little project. If lowest cost is the goal, I am wondering if you could do it too by not having neither sqlite and litestream, and store each log as a separate object on S3.
Yeah. I feel like there's meaningful stuff in reality here, but this piece (and the title) isn't capturing it properly.

All I got is that Pixar does color mastering on a ridiculously high dynamic range projector with super high purity primaries.

I don't understand how this is hacking, and I don't understand how this is cheating.

What I would like to know is how close modern top of the line OLED HDR setups approach the dynamic range of Pixar's setup. I would like to know how necessary the ultra-pure primaries are. I would like to know how necessary the 6 lasers are.
There wasn’t a pandemic in those years.
The term hyper-color does not even appear in the article. Pixar used color to "hack your brain" the same way Shakespeare uses language to hack your brain - i.e. they use it artistically to invoke emotion. That in itself is interesting enough, but Wired try to make it sound more weird than it is. Some screen-caps with comments from the artists would be much more interesting than a color theory 101 which is embedded in the article.
Since Wikipedia completely misses out on the music genre called Gesamtkunstwerk, here is my playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0IYWzZP02r3aJXEZMv6OoT?si=...
Can you run docker directly and skip the vms?
Using illusory afterimages to give a perception of non-natural color is a cool idea, but I'm not sure that it'll be a part of the future as far as Pixar is concerned. Pixar must care immensely about precisely controlling the viewing experience. Afterimages look different depending on where you look, and can be blurry. Unless we can start to intervene in our visual cortex, how could we ever achieve precise control over afterimages?
Wasm has more control over time and memory access than JS does. From a capabilities model, it is more secure, but from a threat model due to side channels, Wasm is a more effective tool than JS.

This thread discusses SAB (shared array buffer) and Wasm side channels https://github.com/tc39/security/issues/3
I can't understand why Apple did this, it seems like such a natural interaction for the trackpad.
Modern "UX" is just a failed premise. It favors hand holding for the novice, which someone won't remain forever, over efficiency and control for the experienced user.

"Old style" interfaces are universally better than tabletized crap, and had as much and higher quality research into the choices behind them. It's not limited to OSS. Apple is a glaring example of that right now. The Mac Human Interface Guidelines and the thought that went into the Mac OS were phenomenal. Contemporary style changes driven by users' familiarity with tabletized (or dare I say "Fischer-Price") UIs are regressions. Visible things become hidden to look "cleaner," keyboard control is ignored, oversized buttons are favored.
Internet has decided that Pfizer is significantly cooler than Moderna–but why?
Fyi, $15/hr in 2011 dollars would have been significantly higher than the minimum wage has ever been. The highest ever US minimum wage adjusted for inflation was $1.60 in 1968 which is $10.34 in 2011, $12.18 in 2021.

https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2015/07/23/misconceptions-rai...
Sylvia Plath was publishing complex poetry at 8 and was already showing the intense and dark themes she's become an icon for at 14.

If you haven't dealt with what Plath or this woman has, or are some credentialed authority on early childhood development of exceptional children (or poetry), I can't understand why your speculation on this is worth listening to.
Yes, this is for the Kythe (née Grok) team at Google. We build a giant cross reference graph of the codebase. So - most teams don't have to build the whole codebase, but the Kythe team does.

Here is a somewhat outdated talk given by our tech lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYI3ji8aSM0. That doesn't really get into any of the CI/CD stuff though, I don't know what if any of that stuff is publicly shareable.
You trust China to not attack Bitcoin because you consider it against their self interest.

China just launched its own digital currency.[1]

“In order to protect our currency sovereignty and legal currency status, we have to plan ahead,” said Mu Changchun, who is shepherding the project at the People’s Bank of China.

China isn’t the only major power that needs to monitor transactions and maintain control of its money supply. There are plenty of capable parties that could launch a 51% attack and they’re unlikely to take responsibility for it afterwards, so reputation is hardly a factor. The fact that another hash algorithm could be used later doesn’t matter. A government doesn’t stop defending its interests just because threats change.

Certainly, there may never be a 51% attack, but it will not be surprising if it happens.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-creates-its-own-digital-c...
> Let's say it takes 5 minutes to properly adjudicate a dispute.

That's highly unrealistic, but review alone would take at least twice as long, since the average video length is about 12 minutes.

How would you find out in just 5 minutes whether a monetization claim is justified? Not every case is as clear as the piano teacher's case. Keep in mind that this isn't a DMCA takedown request either - it's about a party that claims the content in order to redirect the revenue.

So you seriously claim that on average you can find out in just 5 minutes whether one of the 6 license types [0] applies and the claimant actually has a case? If it was that easy, I doubt that court cases like [1] would take years. And that's assuming all the information is already at hand so no further communication with either party is required...

[0] https://www.bmi.com/licensing/entry/types_of_copyrights

[1] https://completemusicupdate.com/article/song-theft-dispute-o...
nailed it. Seems to me they played it perfectly. Problems are out, company hits the reset button, and it's really hard for anyone to say these people were treated badly with a voluntarily accepted giant payout. Let's not forget that to regular people, these folks just left with one to two years salary with no obligations. That's winning the damn lottery to people who don't work in our overpaid industry.
Nobody is doing that. What people are saying, in this thread even, is that making fun of names is innocent fun.

The pyramid is intended to show that its foundational to hate.

Thats then being immediately taken out of context to equate stereotypes with genocide as a straw man argument. In this thread.

Nobody here or at Basecamp made such an argument. Its entirely made up to shut down discussion.
Accessibility is often understood to be for people with disabilities. For example, Wikipedia's first line on the topic[1] is:

> Accessibility in the sense considered here refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.

And the W3C's intro to accessibility[2] says:

> When websites and web tools are properly designed and coded, people with disabilities can use them.

I don't have any disabilities which affect my use of technology. But I do like a fast key repeat rate, I like hot dim my screen at night further than the normal brightness setting allows, and I like to enable mono audio when watching a video where one of the audio channels is broken. I don't think most people would characterize these use cases as "accessibility", but they're all hidden under the accessibility settings in various systems.

You may consider this accessibility though, I don't know. There are definitions out there which don't put emphasis on disability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility

[2] https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/
That’s a fair point, but easily addressed. The base OS and Browser are arguably the two platforms on which software runs, and for which security updates are important. There could be 2 numbers.

I realize there are other runtimes, but for a general indication for cross comparison this would do.
This is 100% satire
If you're claiming AlJazeera is biased and then linking the Hindustan Times, then I question your perception of bias.

For an American audience, this would be like saying MSNBC is biased, here's an article by Newsmax or OANN.
Coolest thing I've seen in a while
any data to back your statement? I'm genuinely curious as to how one label a political party as right or left wing? BJP is a nationalist party no doubt about that though.
I mean the ranking system seems somewhat incomprehensible, I've seen posts with 2 points on show as there are right now. Which to me means those rankings don't contribute much to moving onto show vs new.

The FAQ says things move onto show after meeting a small point threshold but that doesn't really seem to be the case to me.

Filtering low value content is good, but I guess I'm not a fan of whatever the blackbox that decides it is. I guess it could have to do with whatever like friend detection or voting ring detection things they have which makes sense to me though.
This is a parody of the recent basecamp memo that’s on the front page right now.

https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
Why learn JS? I guess it’s because I think it’ll be a useful skill that will allow me to do more in the future, not just find a better way to embed 3D models in a notebook.

It might be useful to build tools for research projects, interactive elements for assessment etc.

The bulk of my coding is work Matlab and an increasing amount of Python. JS would allow me to to more web based stuff.
Even simpler, require those filing a claim to put down a monetary deposit. If the accused disputes, they too file a deposit.

The winner gets the money back and the platform gets to keep the losers deposit as a fee for having a trained, certified human make the decision.

Make the fees scale up with the number of claims by an accuser.

No one would file a frivolous claim. No one would dispute an obviously correct claim. The cost of having humans decide is covered, so platforms like Google have no excuse.
What's sad is we have enough evidence to show people they need a vaccine to prevent re-infection, yet it doesnt seem to move the needle for many where vaccines are plentiful
Don't need to be panic and also don't create panic. We at tamilnadu India has solution via traditional siddha.
Acalypha indica ( 7 leaves ) and pepper , to be boiled cup of water until one third.
Once in three days.

It's very clear that we destroyed our ozone and polluted , so it's nature turn to set it back. One such act is this Corona worldwide......

so let's get back to minimal life style and reduce consumption, stop polluting etc.
Did it get worth reading after the halfway mark, when I gave up wading through all the waffle?
He is referring to modern codecs, not MP3. MP3 isn't widely used anymore.

Modern codecs don't encode noise - they remove it during decoding and then add back artificial "comfort noise" when decoding, e.g. for film grain or background noise in voice calls.
I think you may have missed some comments farther down the issue chain:

>If MuseScore was not acquired and continued down the current path, it would have been already shut down by now. This is what many people do not understand. MuseScore was going to be shut down if it was not acquired and a plan put in place with rights holders.

>Any site or system of distribution that includes copyrighted works and is done so under agreement with rights holders and according to their conditions will be shut down. This is simply reality.

The "excuse" for those behaviors is that they got to stay in business. I don't agree with all the actions of the rights holders but that's the way it is. If you feel it's better for there to be no Musescore at all, I would advise you to just not use the website. There's lots of other free sites that will host Creative Commons-licensed media. If you're looking for someone to negotiate hard against the rights holders, you would have better luck trying with a bigger company like Apple or Spotify.
Good question. I honestly don't know. We would have to re-evaluate the value of IP as whole first, I guess.
Experian's security bypassed as hackers unfreeze accounts
The wave isn't primarily due to loosening of restrictions or slack in behaviour. It's due to, for a lack of a better term, environmental factors.

Look at the countries in the vicinity of India; they all show similar rise at around the same time.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/pakistan/#...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/bangladesh...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sri-lanka/...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/maldives/#...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iran/#grap...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/kazakhstan...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/azerbaijan...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uzbekistan...
...

COVID is seasonal: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.28.21252625v...

Mumbai had the peak of its 'first wave' on October 7th. See mobility trends for vehicular and pedestrian traffic at https://covid19.apple.com/mobility. You'll see both monotonically increasing as the peak approaches and then recedes. If this were a simple morality tale of the level of social contact, this wouldn't be the case.

See this paper for a more thorough look at the epidemiological mysteries of an infectious respiratory disease: https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-42...
Yes it seems to be pretty flawless in my experience, at least. KDE (3/4) used to feel very bloated for me, I find Plasma just stays out of my way.
> I suspect IRL they're much different.

Of course people would never say such a thing to you irl. But they do say such things about you.
I've bought a few Pearson ebooks from InformIT (all the books were programming related), and they all come in PDF format with watermarks.

Honestly, I'm happy as long as publishing companies don't force me to use their crappy proprietary ebook readers.
History of Norwich Electric Tramways
I think that bigger groups generalize more easily to the population at large, yes.

I didn’t meant that my employer is exemplary or representative, just that it’s a literal order of magnitude larger and you’ve likely never heard of it; and as a result, I’m surprised that this drama is so high-profile. It seems disproportionate to its scope.

On the one hand, this could be because basecamp is an effective stand-in for broader trends. On the other, it could be that basecamp has done an incredible job marketing itself as an effective role model for other companies, and people are enjoying a bit of schadenfraude at its expense.

I think the second explanation fits better. This looks like a feeding frenzy to me.
Precisely. If a pro-life person brought their “whole self” to work and started promoting pro-life views and calling it “a matter of morality”, these same folks would put an end to that really quick.

It has zero to do morality or “being responsible” or “making the world a better place”. It’s about pushing one particular political viewpoint with the end goal of grabbing power to benefit their group.
Is this just anecdotal or ?

Basically no theory about high prevalence of previous infection has survived the test of time, so I think to say something like 'infecting previously recovered people much more vigorously' takes some solid evidence.
No, they aren’t. If there is no merit to a copyright claim, there is no vicarious liability for Github to be insulated from by the DMCA safe harbor.

It’s cheaper and less risky not to evaluate the merits of DMCA notices and just to blindly execute them, but it is erroneous to say that thet are legally required to act in that manner.
I found this article confusing too. Being on a tech news site I expected it to eventually get to something concrete, perhaps producing chimeric colors [1] for an impactful moment -- something to justify the "hack your brain" line.

Instead the article just seems to say that color design for animation is a bit different.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color
Neat project. I was recently looking at Fly for similar functionality. Wonder how different the day to day experience is? Anyone familiar with the two?
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