skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s why this whole journal peer review thing is bullshit. There’s a better solution: read pre prints and let people rank/discuss them as organic peer review.
>vehicle launch

Product launch is when something is released and you can buy it, not when someone published plans and best wishes.
Please link these studies, or describe your "core simple methods", because it is likely that they rely on programs not exhibiting undefined behavior. I mean, even the most simple optimizations like eliminating unused variables or inlining functions (what if you reach into the stack to detect these?) fall apart. These were taught within the first couple weeks of my compiler optimizations class, and I certainly hope that they were part of yours, because I can't imagine what you could have possibly gone over without starting off with this.
From the article, Microsoft spoke back against legislation in Washington which would have banned integrated batteries
"Simpsons yellow" actually represents white people on the actual Simpsons TV show. The other characters who represent the non-white population all have different skin colors that line up with the people of those cultures or races. So even though nobody's actual skin color is Simpons yellow, culturally we already were representing white skin as that color.
> The canonical point of a workplace is to come together to fulfill the aims of the entrepreneurs.

Have you ever worked for a large company, that's flush with cash, that likes to offer borderline ridiculous perks to employees (e.g. Google, Facebook, etc.)?

Usually there are relatively few people at these companies who do the work that actually moves the proverbial needle. There are a lot of people at these companies who only ever get to work on some vanity project motivated by internal politics. Work that literally doesn't matter, that the owners don't actually care about, and that's eventually going to get thrown away after being used as some sort of bargaining chip.

But smart people often want to feel like they're doing "important" work, so we dress it up with goals and deadlines and KPIs to make it seem important.

A lot of these workplaces can more accurately be described as "day care for adults."
I wonder if tiny bits of solidified glue (plus paper, wood fibers, etc) in the environment are much better than tiny bits of plastic?
Sort of, but you don't need to parse it. Anyone using PHP in serious prod uses something like memcached/opcache to skip parsing, which speeds up TTFB typically by about 200x.
Because this experiment has obviously failed and this attempt to create a less toxic work environment through activism has resulted in a thinly veiled attempt to create a more toxic work environment for those who do not want to conform to neo-marxist orthodoxy.
Buddy, have you heard about lobbyist??? You really need to get out of your own bubble.

Manipulating the "political sphere outside your walls" is what companies do from time immemorial. And the idea that propaganda online is more influential that literally writing the laws and legally bribing the politicians that the people that propaganda is supposed to influence voted is simply laughable.
I dislike the ear plugs that I bought. I really like my noise cancelling heaphone and use it most of the day but unfortunately they are not ergonomic for sleep. 1- headphone plastic rubbing against cloth is noisy; 2- I sleep on my side and that puts unbearable pressure on the head.
You know, I don't recommend a Form 3 except in unusual circumstances. It's labor intensive, messy, and expensive. The resin itself is expensive, but then you also have to buy expensive new resin trays frequently because they wear out fast. I used it a lot when I was finalizing the 3D models to get them ready to send off to get injection molds started. The precision of a resin printer was critical. If I were you, I'd use a service like i.materialise.com instead. The prices are low for resin prints and they're pretty fast to ship, too.

That's a great idea with the anonymous donation. If anyone is looking for a great place to donate, one really cool program is the Turing Trust. It's run by Alan Turing's great nephew, James Turing. He's awesome and he does amazing work. Here's their website: https://turingtrust.co.uk/
Keeping your mouth shut is no longer an option “silence is violence” and “not taking a position is a position” have taken over. The issue at Basecamp was that activists were harassing other employees to get them to make public statements on issues.
I'd pair them with two more words like this:

where - ware

were - whir
I'm not sure if it should void that point.

For an example of "an explicit social agenda" I'm thinking about the various cases of explicitly Christian companies with a business that's not directly religious (i.e. not a church or the like) but with an explicit agenda of strictly keeping to the social values of their particular choosing. Should all employees share their values? IMHO not. Should they be able to require that employees share their values? IMHO not. Should employees with contradictory values (in that particular example, let's say abortion policy) be able to feel psychologically safe working there? IMHO yes. So from that perspective, if we consider some company with an explicit "woke" social agenda, the same things should apply - in my view, an anti-abortionist campaigner should be able to work for a feminist boss in a feminist company just as a pro-abortion-rights campaigner should be able to work for a Mormon boss in a company fully owned by a religious fundamentalist family, and the same for any other politically charged topics. Obviously, that doesn't work well now, especially in all the "fire at-will" USA states, but that's how I feel it should be.
pico2wav with the en-gb voice seems not too bad for TTS. I had reasonable luck in limited domain speech recognition with pocketsphinx, but it does need some custom vocabulary.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfcme7maygw

Granted, maybe this is "not good enough", but I feel like I got pretty far with pico2wave, pocketsphinx plus 1980's Zork level "comprehension" technology.

And the open source status of pico2wave is a bit questionable, I'll grant you that.

A bit more detail about the implementation here: https://scaryreasoner.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/speech-recogn...
I believe that's a thinly veiled criticism directed at Apple. Even Apple tries to optimize for cost and what I would label aesthetic. You'd have to convince me that thinness is worse for the environment than having a repairable product that has the extra packaging and delivery wastage of something that is 2x the bulk and weight so that we can make it last a few more years potentially. Again, this isn't a binary problem. Even if we had an "eco-friendly" computer, it doesn't teleport to its destination. Your argument is equivalent to banning all cars because human death is unacceptable. Cars give more than they take, that's why we tolerate the death statistics.
At a certain point, if the housing is unaffordable, and there's no retail, why would you want to live there?
Also no side mirrors. It's kind of a joke how poorly defined it is with people seriously expecting it this year.
He is saying that by changing it from neutral to personalized skin tones we have made things more personal and lost something special. Polarized.
Not just the early 2000s - up until maybe 2010 or so (probably a bit later) PHP was the clear leader for anyone who wanted to get something done. There was Rails and ASP.net and Java (I don’t remember anything else that was super popular) but PHP was a million times faster to develop in. Anything you wanted was explained in depth in the first Google result. You want auth? A chat server? File management? You could get anything you dreamed of. The most amazing part was how it was so simple and actually worked. Nowadays you look something up, the first few examples are often videos, unnecessarily detailed blog posts, who knows. Then things don’t even work, because one of your dependencies is out of date, or something needs to be restarted, or your linting failed, or who knows what. PHP barely ages - from 1999 or 2010 or 2020, it looks similar and works fine. By comparison I can instantly tell what 4-year timespan any Javascript was written in, because ten trends and frameworks have come and gone and left their mark.

A simpler language for a simpler time.
What exactly is the value? How did you come to it? The pay rate of people who would be working on the software regardless of the MNU boondoggle, is not wasted anymore than any other day is wasted. This is part of development. Dead ends, circling back, accounting, maintenance, et al.

> I think the cash theft is analogous to the dev time the researchers wasted.

That's a fantasy that developers would like to believe because they put an inappropriate valuation on the the time spent on software. The inability to face this, has been disturbing from the start.
When you are looking for a job, are up for promotion/tenure, or applying for grants, a long publication record in prestigious journals is helpful.
The blog I cited found single-motherhood to be the most predictive.

> At any given income level, black communities tend towards substantially higher average rates of single-motherhood (which, incidentally, contributes significantly differences in poverty rates as this data is reported).

These "large differences in family structure" could be explained by r/K selection theory [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
FTC is pressuring Amazon to punish fake-review schemers
> It's notable that even on stores that don't charge 30%, like Epic Games Store, the price of the products offered are almost never at a lower price.

So? That's because the price of the products in that industry isn't based on the costs. What does a digital copy of a game cost? Practically nothing!

People seem to be focusing too much on whether or not 30% is too high or unfair. I don't think that's important; Apple should be able to charge whatever the hell they want, but they should not be immune from the competitive forces that would normally keep those types of things in check in a free market.

You might argue that, because the lower fee won't reduce game prices, the players will see the same price and won't buy from another store instead of the app store (since they cost the same). So Apple wouldn't feel "competitive forces" either way.

However, the thing to keep in mind is that those customers aren't buying from Apple, they're buying from the developer. So developers will be incentivized to move customers to a more profitable store, and they have many ways to do that that benefit consumers. A discount is the most obvious, but even without that a developer could offer exclusive content, early access, a better shopping experience, community features, and pretty much anything that will *provide value to consumers* in exchange for switching stores.

Alternate app stores will increase game industry profits, create jobs, provide value to consumers, lead to innovation (the damn app store has been the same boring thing for decades; there's a lot of room to innovate). There are literally no downsides whatsoever, except that Apple shareholders and fanboys will be unhappy.
Are they hate crimes, or just crimes? As in, are the perpetrators engaging in these assaults because they have a specific hatred of Asians or are they just acting in a barbaric way in general and an Asian person happened to be in the way?

I mean that as a genuine question - the videos I've seen have all been ambiguous on this fact.
I have never side loaded an app on my Android phone in the 6+ years I've had one.

All I've ever heard is that it is risky to do so.

I could *maybe* see doing it if the vendor were directly offering me their software - and I had some amount of trust of that vendor - like if Microsoft offered an app to directly install one my phone.

But I've never heard of or encountered that. So I'm guessing it isn't a thing.
If you can't open the link, use incognito mode! Or click the non paywall link: https://axu2.medium.com/solved-by-1440p-hidpi-macbook-pro-16...

This issue has been plaguing me for ages and I only just now figured out the solution!
Source is at https://www.paradigmiq.com/2021/05/19/nearly-7-in-10-america....

First off, note the wording (which is actually "we should be able to discuss racial justice issues at work"). This question is a bit open to interpretation, but I'd interpret as "employees should not be prohibited from discussing racial justice issues". Which I certainly agree with... I would not want my employer censoring private conversations.

The 66% thinking businesses should take action on racial injustice issues is reasonable... most people would want their business taking action against racial discrimination or harassment internally at the bare minimum.

What's more controversial are specific DEI programs at the workspace (diversity training, race-targetted recruiting bonuses, company donations for certain causes, etc.) -- the survey high-level doesn't go into that.

Finally, this is an online poll where "no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated", so I suppose there is heavy room for error.
We're not actually trying to equate working on email products at Basecamp to working at Auschwitz are we? It's an interesting anecdote but it hardly serves a useful function here.
Perks of living on top of a giant hill.

No one wants to hike bernal to rob someone.
> day care for adults

I've never heard it put like this. Amazing. I shy away from these places towards small to mid size companies with more critical work..
I can understand affordable housing to help lower incomes - but couldn’t SF build housing for the actual unemployed homeless far away from the city, even unto another state?
I find fruit trees to be especially beautiful plants. Part of me thinks its because they've been bred by humans for beauty for centuries. Large color full fruit, interesting bark, beautiful spring flowers, ... The other part, thinks its my 50 million year old monkey brain aesthetic. Some primitive distant memory of swinging from branch to branch to get at the tasty fruit in the distant tree. And positive association with that tree.
Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages
We want to reduce the level of virus circulating to prevent further mutations which might be more deadly (see India/Brazil) or evade the vaccines we have now.

If you want to go back to “normal” anytime soon, do your part and get vaccinated.
Yes. My point. But using reference to who I replied to, who was not asking about the group from your example.

Folk use hard to decipher corp-speak as a mask for their bigoted bullshit.
Why not just look at the current ratios of managers and test your hypothesis that lunch with this VP helps? My personal experience is that lunch is cheaper for the company to give than raises; it enables them to look like they're doing something while dollars to donuts the actual gender ratios get more & more lopsided as the paychecks rise. Perhaps your company is unusual and this isn't the case, and this lunch actually accomplishes something. I'd be quite interested if that were so.
A prosecutor says no, so a college student calls her own grand jury
"You people", and the cycle continues..
“Straight white man” has become a buzzword now. Is there any evidence that any of these companies trying to ban politics were oppressing gay people?

As a gay person in tech I have never felt oppressed or heard anyone else report such a thing.

If Basecamp was engaging in this kind of discrimination then the story would be very different.
>> the recent trend to start interpreting selection of text + pasting of a link as "turn this text into a link using the URL in the clipboard". It just makes complete sense.

Ugh, no no no no no. Modes like this are the opposite of making sense. Highlight something, and press paste - of course it is a replacement of the highlighted text, because that's what pasting does.

Now, we want highlighting something and pasting to contextually mean "insert markup specific to some markup language, after parsing what's on the clipboard and deciding that it looks like another part of that markup language." And it'll work one way on Jupyter notebooks and another on Slack and I can guarantee you that all of them will confuse my screenreader and I'll spend 5 minutes trying to fix whatever stupid web stuff just happened.

No modes.
Time and place : the place for political debate.

Your Place : the place where you have such freedoms as you wish.

Work Place : the place we work together with other dedicated professionals in order to fulfil given tasks so that we can enjoy :

A Place : the rightful place in society earned by individuals who abide by the rules and contribute positively to their social environment without causing damage, harm, upset or unfair expenses for others.

No Place : the place for woke campaigning folk in a healthy society.
A large portion of that spending is spent on prevention - getting rental assistance and other things to people who are in danger of losing their housing. There are over 400,000 "severely cost burdened" households that are "extremely low income" which is to say making less than 30% of median income which in LA means less than $20k/year, and spending more than half their income on rent.

You're looking at the most obvious symptom - people with no home - and saying "well if we just treated that symptom with all this money there would be no problem." But the root cause is an order of magnitude larger than that.
Watch this space https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1395917348066906114
If only you could adjust it to show standard units so that 96% of the world didn't have to Google 15 times to get the ingredient amounts........
“Outside of office”

Part of this is that office has come home (literally when it comes to the current pandemic work situation). With tools like Slack and Teams “work” has come home more than ever. Of course, there are healthy ways to limit this but you can’t say work hasn’t fundamentally invaded our home space. Also factor in how much people work, where you spent 40+ hours a week (again, leaning towards more due to pandemic work situation) there isn’t much time for activism outside the office.

Pushing for their company to support social justice causes is the white, white-collar workers way of supporting these causes without inducing the level of discomfort of actually protesting.

And if you get fired for it, all the better. Sans NDA (which companies are making increasingly common) you have an excellent case for the social zeitgeist to support you on.
I am not upset that there is black, i am bothered that something that was implicitly neutral is not neutral anymore. that it can now be used as yet another point in which to divide than unify.
It does, though you can limit it to certain tag name like "SSH Fingerprint".

And if course you need the AWS CLI installed (which AWS built AMIs have).

All in all seems fine for a Jenkins worker
Try and look deeper. Sometimes an extreme example at the 99.9999th percentile can bound the problem.
In this case, it demonstrates how well people can separate work from home.
And this https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/05/19/the-tether-ponzi-sche...
> I have no idea how the developers at Unity or Unreal stay sane.

Isn't game dev famous for burning people out?
Because a lot of the proposed legislation goes way farther than the right to repair (which you already have a la first sale doctrine) and access to parts/instructions
> "according to a new Harris poll commissioned by Paradigm, a diversity consultancy, more than two-thirds of adults in America want to be able to discuss racial-justice issues at work"

Of course it does, they are a diversity consultancy (whatever the heck that is)
Relevant: https://imgix.gizmodo.com.au/content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09...

Too bad Sony's executives are spineless and out of touch.
"The office is exactly where we should be advocating for things"

Not if those things are mostly orthogonal to the mission and capabilities of the company.

We exist in a division of labor economy for a reason. Company A does X and company B does Y because those two companies have skills and missions that are unique to the people and institutional memory inside those companies. A is highly optimized for X, and B for Y.

The people in A might even disdain Y (e.g. a charity volunteer's opinion about hedge funds) and the people in B might disdain X (e.g an oil and gas worker's opinion about environmental activism).

That's all fine because those two companies are narrowly focused on their verticals of interest.

This woke at work stuff demolishes that. People on company A and B didn't sign up for things orthogonal to X and Y, and many of them do not want to be socially pressured to go along with some activist agenda hoisted onto the company by a noisy minority of employees.
Thats my take too. I guess we'll know in 30 years if it will come out that this is some type of psyops diversion for new technology we are flying, some of the above, and maybe combined with legitimate foreign spying that didn't get reported or taken seriously which is embarrassing.
Yes! I don't think people who started in the modern age can even relate to how amazing this was, to have a documentation site with a built-in user comment system collecting errata, tips, pointers and snippets (even as erroneous as they sometimes were)...

This was before the embarrassment of riches that we have now...

- before proliferation of open source examples on GitHub,

- before StackOverflow,

- before jsfiddles,

- before snippets on gist or pastebin

- before very common web forums (many of which were eventually written in PHP in fact)...

- before fantastic search results of google...

Best you could hope for when you got stuck? Someone's personal web page, or usenet and mailing lists...
The next looming issue for Twitch is the Slots/Video Poker streamers. Similar to swim suits, I don't think gambling as a whole should be totally against ToS. There are some great poker streamers, and there've been some quite successful charity drives around casino games.

But there's also one big streamer, famous with the CoD audience, that lately has been playing video poker on one of those bitcoin casino sites. He has swings of up to $100k in a single night. His audience slants young and there's typically about 40k people watching him. That... makes me a bit uncomfortable. I'm far from someone that wants a nanny state, but I'm squeamish about the idea of say a 20 year old kid watching this behavior as a role model, trying to emulate it, and losing a non trivial amount of money at a point in their life where that would have a huge lasting impact. This streamer can only do this because he's insanely rich so even $100k is just play money.
Absolutely! There's no silver bullet here - to work well in a diverse group, you have to understand and accept that not everyone will be on exactly the same page. My own workplace says things I find to be too political from time to time, and I don't see that as an important problem. And I've definitely seen people who overcorrect in the other direction, turning over every rock to try and find hidden politics.

What doesn't work is the original commenter's idea that

> Everything is political. Even saying you don’t have a position is tacit endorsement of the status quo.

Because the logical conclusion of this argument, and I strongly suspect the intended conclusion, is that you should continue all political arguments at maximum intensity until you win. If my manager comes by and asks me to get back to work, I can't do it - that would be a tacit endorsement of the status quo!
Ha. I am currently consulting on a project that is moving from ColdFusion to PHP.
e.g., transcription of live streaming events?
perhaps its better that no one can see the skin tone of any of commenters because then comments have to be judge on the merits of their arguments rather than melanin concentration in the skin of the people saying them.