skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling code like that super hacky seems a bit weird to me. That's basically all I'd like to say, but to expand a bit (and possibly I'm missing your point somehow), in my opinion, "best practices" in software aren't "best practices" just because, but for reasons that may or may not apply in a specific situation. If they don't apply, then best practice dictates that they are no longer best practices.

That said, I'm not sure what I'd consider to be hacky code in a constrained environment. Looking at https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/3cd0x4/wh..., for example, many things people feel are hacky don't apply to Arduino programming mainly because there is hardly anything external to interface with.
VSCode automatically installs proprietary extension out the box since v1.56
Very interesting discussion. The question of the species as a fuzzy concept goes back to Darwin himself: “From these remarks it will be seen that I look at the term species, as one arbitrarily given for the sake of convenience to a set of individuals closely resembling each other, and that it does not essentially differ from the term variety, which is given to less distinct and more fluctuating forms”. Darwin’s statement can be understood today because if you reason in terms of a conceptual discontinuity between species you allow creationists of any kind to imply the intervention of a divinity (something that still happens today); and also: how would you cope with species in statu nascendi?

Notwithstanding that, a sharp criterion that consent us to put a sound demarcation is the issue of “genome incompatibility”: once a genetic barrier has been established between the individuals of any two populations, as the (possible) hybrids are not viable or are sterile, we know that it cannot be reversed by natural means, and the genetic pools of those populations will diverge more and more with time. Therefore, they should be considered as separate species.

What about Neanderthals and sapiens? It seems that hybridization occurred when the sapiens who invaded Europe some 50,000 years ago encountered the Neanderthals, who had remained separated from the common ancestor for at least 500,000 years (I do not consider this as an established fact, as it is possible, however improbable, that the segments of Neanderthal’s genome we observe in today Europeans are remnants of common ancestry, which have been preserved in Europeans and lost from today Africans by selection or drift). This would be a strong argument in favor of them being a single species. I personally prefer this view also because it helps to support a less “supremacist” view of our biological roots, showing that not only is our species subdivided in phenotypically recognizable populations, but that it was once subdivided in morphologically distinct subspecies.
this story is also told in this great radiolab episode: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/galap...
Google Street View would've been illegal anyway. It's legal to take pictures of public spaces, but only if taken from the height of the average human.

Street View had cameras that were quite a bit taller and could see over fences and hedges.
Expert panel says mistakes led to coronavirus pandemic
Half of this website has no social life. Anyone dead yet? Show of hands?
Sure. Here is a link to GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52269471-mindf-ck

The story tells story of Cambridge Analytica. Author describes how it all started, how they gathered data and influenced people. Also he describes how it affected politics. It is very well written and feels like really good political-fiction. Unfortunately his descriptions match how last two political campaigns run in my country. Same approaches were used to get people votes. I rarely used my social media accounts but after reading this piece I decided it is the right time to leave all of them.
> Java is verbose, so it must be avoided, PHP is inelegant etc

I think that these opinions are mostly correct, but you and anyone else would learn a lot if you chose to actually try Java and PHP and experience this verbosity and inelegancy first-hand, as opposed to just hearing about it.
I've worked in the UK, but my information is also out of date (a decade ago).

UK is cheaper for quite a few things, so a direct currency conversion doesn't work. If I had to guess, probably in the 90-100k GBP ballpark.
Only inside
Practice, lots of practice. Also, natural selection has a way of deprioritizing people who are emotionally unstable.
Thanks! I really enjoyed that read. This guy is amazingly talented!

It's been a long time since I've done this kind of thing. It's almost nostalgic, to read this.
Illegal? Why? I'm only heavily using all the WiFi channels with my perfectly legitimate web browsing.
> still don't understand why is that such a problem

Some reasons it's a problem:

- it's slows and disrupts the development process

- packages get abandoned very easily; not many packages are highly popular/active

- security audits are essentially impossible

> Of course, it means that you have to learn more

JavaScript takes this to an extreme. It literally takes daily effort to keep up.

> In any other ecosystem, pushing a pull request to any framework or library feels like something that you would do only after spending a couple of days of learning all the ropes of this codebase

So you prefer an ecosystem created by amateurs? After years of working with PHP and JavaScript, I don't.
That's simply because the penalty of violating the law is no more than a breeze in comparison to their revenue.
Even if for some reason you don't believe that beef has a much worse environmental impact, or don't believe that this matters, I think it's hard to argue against that cows are much more intelligent and much more capable of suffering than insects.
And I hope he disclosed it responsibly.
My multi-decade quest for rural broadband
And no one is dictating what sarcasm you employ in private conversations.

Whereas companies have always restricted what sort of language you use within company property.

For example, until very recently, just using emojis could have been a firing offense.
I'm sure they report their revenue like that, so, yeah, probably?
Hormones go down and we get more experienced with all the crap life throws at everybody. Older folks tend to know themselves much better and also what they want in life, what actually matters and what is shallow bullsh*t.

Enough reasons to be chill just about everything
What happens when people get two different Covid-19 vaccines?
CuriosityStream Reported $9.9M Revenue in Q1 2021
Taking away a few percent of a company's profit, while still leaving a quite substantial profit margin is not "killing the company." There needs to be some teeth behind these fines to make companies respect them. You may not have heard of repeat fines for the same offense, but all that shows is that they fix things after they're pointed out. Wouldn't it be better if they thought about how they're handling peoples' data before they got caught doing it wrong?

Somebody needs to be made an example of, and a company like Facebook that not only can absorb the hit but is not well known for respecting peoples' privacy is a great target, IMO.
They opt for convenience instead of security... Infrastructure like this should not be able to be controlled remotely... but of course this is common sense.
Philosophy of Programming, Simulating the Commodore64 with Tomas Petricek
Biden plans an order to strengthen U.S. cyberdefense
Pretenders as in I see them (BOC) as exploiting a genre rather than being anything approaching a band, in the broader sense - not to totally disparage that angle. Yes, I'm rather surprised people see a simpatico here. For example, the BOC's copious use of real and pseudo old sounding recordings and sounds is, I think, never appeared in an Aphex track.
Consider the use of fines in changing private people's behavior. Get a $5 fine for parking in a fire lane? You're probably not going to think twice about it. Get a $500 fine? Or they take a % of your income? You will think hard before parking where you're not supposed to.
Lots of accidents happening lately
No, that would require a precision that's probably still decades away. It could be used to grossly place people and large objects, and notice their movement. Sensing voice would require to monitor vibrations in either the person speaking or anything that vibrates with the emitted sound.

Funnily, there are much easier ways to do that, although they require direct line of vision [1]. Another option would be to measure the vibrations on walls (think glass on the wall, but hitech).

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/06/eavesdropping...
I've often referred to certain libraries or programs as "bug farms."

I never knew that there really is such a thing.

TIL.
Understanding the word is getting diluted recently, generally terrorism is meant to indicate violent acts intended to coerce behaviour for political / ideological purposes.

It seems most ransom ware is used for fairly explicit and immediate commercial gain.

We already have a word for "bad thing", "crime". If we start using terrorism for every bad thing it becomes meaningless.

Mind you, irregardless is becoming a word and literally now has two opposing meanings, so it's likely based on current USA usage terrorism will become a catch all phrase as well if it hasn't already. I am curious however what use it then becomes calling something terrorism. Today there's implicit notion it is a higher threat demanding higher response but even that I think is diluted.
Awesome! On trend with the aesthetic.

How did you accomplish the responsiveness with such a flexible layout?
FYI nothing happens after clicking on Chaos Monkey → Proceed. I thought it was because uBO blocks sentry requests, but even when whitelisted, requests are made, but nothing happens.
I don't think he disclosed this. Theirs no mention of it in the post.
How to set up iOS environments: develop, staging, and production
Like every negotiation it comes down to leverage (even though you wont USE the leverage, you cant negotiate unless you have it), and pain points.

So:

1. Start with doing recon. Ask your manager how has remote been? What does his boss think? How has the company done overall? What's been frustrating? Knowing the pain points means you can later find concessions that are cheap to you but vital to them.

2. Get a fulky remote job offer from someone else. Doesn't have to be a job you love but needs to be a real option. Now you have leverage.

3. Now you are ready to begin the process - "if I wanted to stay fully remote, what would we do to make that work?"

4. When you meet resistance, try to make a small concession along one of the pain points you identified earlier ("I'm happy to commit to the same office hours as everyone else Tues-Thurs", "I've identified a reasonable meeting wall setup for my house", "I will come in 1 week a month to make sure we all stay bonded as a team"). Make sure it's something you dont mind conceding and it addresses their hottest pain point.

5. Always remain upbeat, and amicable during negotiations. This is a team effort to accomplish the goal of keeping you happy and productive at this company.

6. Dont mention the other job offer unless you really need to, or if they are dragging their feet. "I really want to remain here and work remotely, but this other fully remote job offer expires soon."
Hobbes lays out a mixture of natural/God aspects and society negotiated aspects. But I think they all boil down to an ongoing slow shift of what society accepts as a whole.

I think society has opinions and ideas that evolve into ethics and morals that are represented in laws.

It’s not a secret. In this case, rights are curtailed to require vaccines. This is deemed acceptable. If you don’t like it, convince your country mates to change their mind. Or move to a country that feels differently. Or move to the wilderness.
Tests have shown then depending on the situation lunar regolith can go up 80MPa. And the more water is contained, the harder it gets. You get low yield from that, around 10%. So you need to mine a pretty large amount and process it.

So you need to create excavator that operate inside a creator that can operate at extrem temperatures.

On Mars you can literally do what we already do at the South Pole, drill a hole and make it warm.

Its multiple orders of magnitude easier.
Why does this matter to Switzerland though?

They are only going to let people in they want, and they don't want people who could spread the virus, or bring it in.

Besides they are allowing people in with natural immunity too - as defined by a positive antibody test.
This software is awesome. And it can also be used for so many other things than PCBs. For example, I have used it with vertical printers in past.

With that said, I wish there were more cheap hardware to go with it. Come on Shenzen, do your thing!

Also, note that if you use glass fiber PCBs, the particles created by PCB milling are very dangerous and can give you cancer. You might want to switch to compressed paper PCBs instead (I think they are called F2 or something similar)
Elephant Herd
Dreaming of Africa and your Kruger Park Safari? Lying in the heart of the Lowveld is a wildlife sanctuary like no other, its atmosphere so unique that it allows those who enter its vastness to immerse themselves in the unpredictability and endless wilderness that is the true quality of Africa. The largest game reserve in South Africa, the Kruger National Park is larger than Israel. Nearly 2 million hectares of land that stretches for 352 kilometres (20 000 square kilometres) from north to south along the Mozambique border, is given over to an almost indescribable wildlife experience. Certainly it ranks with the best in Africa and is the flagship of the country’s national parks – rated as the ultimate safari experience.
This does feel quite myspace-y, but the burning question would be... is this all just like myspace. e.g. if I leave or spend hours creating something, it is nearly impossible to move it or back it up to something else?
Dude, files are hard.
When I lived in Uganda, I ate fried grasshopper.

It wasn't bad. Sort of like crisps.

In grasshopper season, all the kids would be out under streetlights, with bags, grabbing all the little jumpers they could.
Google Street View is actually legal in Germany. The European Court of Human Rights has finally ruled that taking pictures of houses does not violate any personal rights. Faces and car license plates are blurred, so these don't pose any issues either.
This is a humble start but I'm planning to add more models for object detection (efficientdet for instance), and I'm working as well to add and endpoint for segmentation
> Incorrectly perceived as simply an Autechre side-project, Gescom in fact exists as a platform for a number of aligned artists to work in various different combinations, whilst remaining otherwise-anonymous. Personnel in Gescom has varied from release to release and even track to track. Quote from the Autechre FAQ: "Actually the whole Gescom crew consists of almost 20 people. Sean Booth calls it an 'umbrella-project'."

https://www.discogs.com/artist/49-Gescom
Haven't tried Arch or other cli installers yet.

Edit: Also, I just want things to work these days. I'm not interested in learning some installer tool's commands that I'm never going to use again.
Very cool, interested to see whats behind the editor!
>When older people say, “This is the best time of your life, enjoy it while you can,” that’s a form of abuse.

I guess that these days anything can be called "abuse".
China has been testing their recently-deployed DF-21 and DF-26 "aircraft-carrier killer" missiles. They're basically non-nuclear ICBMs that come straight down, from above, a battleship, dead center, at Mach 2+. It's basically a 4,000 mile hole punch for warships. The only reason nobody's really talking about them yet is because they're ambiguously running afoul of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which we're no longer part of. Also, they haven't actually been used in combat. But presumably they have enough to sink our navy twice over, and are shipped in a standard 40' shipping container.

Getting in a naval battle with China may likely someday become "getting in a land war with Russia".

> https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3098972/chi...
First impression is very good. However, it requires signup to actually try / use. I have several websites, but currently have no need for such so I just left again. Probably to never return because I never remember sites that I only visit a few seconds. Would be better to let my try and get me hooked, to get ideas for remodeling one of my existing websites.
Will New Privacy Changes Protect Census Data or Make Things Worse?
It's Deno 1.10, not Deno 1.1.
You should really read up on the history of copyright, because it's the genuinely the exact opposite of what you're saying. Copyright initially enforced restrictions on printing press operators and was used as part of the censorship mechanism. There's an argument that copyright actually slowed progress and countries with weak copyright advanced faster. It logically follows because allowing unlimited copies of works to be made regardless of ownership allows for dissemination of information quicker.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-...

Progress of knowledge is covered differently and it's why the US has carved exceptions for facts (they're exempt from copyright) and we use a patent system for inventions. Think of current problems with companies like Elsiver that use copyright as a cudgel to keep academic papers from the masses.
Thank you so much for the link! :-) I am going to share it with everyone I can!
What Is an OSI Model?
Lack of social ties, interaction, spouse all are statistically significant factors of shorter avg lifespans.
I'm not saying employer cannot decide.

I'm just saying that statement "everything is a negotiation" is not true. Because if you refuse to participate in any bargaining then there's no negotiation. Just a statement (from one side) and decision (from the other).

I see you are mostly opposed to the word dictate because you understand it as employee dictating what company will do. And he's obviously not capable of that.

The word dictate used by OP was about dictating the terms of decision they have to make, not dictating what the decision should be.
If you own stock you are an investor who is invested in a business, in exactly the same way that someone who owns a restaurant or some business is invested in that business. There is no difference between owning a stock and owning a business.
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> mostly used because you are forced to, or because that’s the only language you know

This probably describes 99% of all programming done today, no matter the language.

Not everyone is a polyglot programmer able to choose their tech stack at their company.
Mid-career (architect/principal engineer).

I am 41.

Next step would be management, but I've done that before, and will be staying IC as long as I can make this kind of money for it.

But I have a year left before I am mortgage free anyway, so that will change the risk calculus a lot, probably go contracting for more $$.

Probably laughable comp for the Bay Area at this stage of my career, but I am not in the Bay Area...
OK, this much GUI is enough for me to give it a try.
If this work is interesting, we're hiring on this team as well!

More specifically to this post, we are hiring an ML engineer to join this team- https://warnermediacareers.com/global/en/job/181319BR/Sr-Mac...

I'm the hiring manager and happy to answer any questions about the role. I just joined CNN after years at The Echo Nest/Spotify and we have some very exciting recsys work brewing.

We also have loads more jobs open in data intelligence, esp for product analysts- General CNN data intelligence job postings are here- https://warnermediacareers.com/global/en/search-results?keyw...
Don't think we can compare it to opencv actually. In the context of this projet, opencv can be used as a ML backend the same way I use tensorflow.
It makes it clear there's way too much contrast in the road textures in the actual game.
Why give them anything at all? That's even cheaper. These people aren't coming to the state to escape homelessness they're coming to the state for the free perks. Leave convincing people to change to the charities and quit wasting public money on bottomless pits.
> Starting a few of years ago, I don't even consider the possibility of creating a Javascript project without using Typescript as the main ...

The truth value of this statement is suspect but..

In any case, why should typescript be the default when it compiles to JS? Why shouldn't js be the default in a js framework?
At age 20 or so, I read a quote in a book (on day trading, IIRC) that went something like: "Master your emotions, or they will master you."

After thinking about it, I realized that despite identifying as a logical-thinking individual, I was nevertheless at the mercy of the more primitive parts of my brain. Sometimes totally, but pretty much all executive functions were influenced by it to a large degree. That might be fine, but my limbic system tended to make poor decisions; ones that my more conscious brain would have to pay the price for later. It's also no match for the brains of people not in emotional mode, and would be taken advantage of by things like appeals to emotion in advertising, politics, and rhetoric. I decided my internal caveman was not my friend, and took steps to sideline his vote in decision-making.
The primary reason why CGI is used is to save money. The secondary is to ease production of movies, which at the end saves money and time (which is money).

Styling as done in some of them is an optional bonus if creators strive for some additional artistic message, but otherwise its all about money, money, money.

You even contradict yourself - they tried to look Avengers as realistically as possible within the realm of comic book fairy tale, that's why they changed character of Thanos significantly well after introducing him (arguably a good choice). From cartoonish styling to realism. Nobody would take the epic battles so seriously if they all looked like Ready Player One.
Wow! I see their ads everywhere on the Youtube videos I watch (CityBeautiful, TierZoo, some others I'm forgetting), but I never imagined that very many people actually signed up for it.
My friend was the victim of a scam, and cuts mean she can do nothing about it
You can get pretty far by defining custom variants of packages and using "package-input-rewriting"[0]. There is also work underway to support "parameterized" packages akin to USE flags.

[0]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#index-package...

It is fairly easy to run a "forked" Guix channel if you want customization on a lower level (say, using '-march=native' everywhere), but I suppose that's a far cry from just editing /etc/make.conf.
IT is well past that point. Now it's a job like any other, not something done by people who would otherwise be shut-in NEETs.
Yeah, I'm surprised that the article seems to just ignore the role of hormones. There's certainly a decline in testosterone as men age [1]:

> Total testosterone levels fall at an average of 1.6% per year whilst free and bioavailable levels fall by 2%–3% per year ... [t]wenty percent of men aged over 60 have total testosterone levels below the normal range and the figure rises to 50% in those aged over 80.

I know there's been a lot of pushback on the idea that testosterone is just a masculine hormone, but the link between testosterone and aggression [2] seems pretty well-accepted. So it seems reasonable that declining testosterone might make you more even-keeled.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2544367/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Aggression_and_cr...
> it requires signup to actually try / use

Just hit the bottom right "edit" button