skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got you covered. I watched the video, and here's what you can now do with Google Workspace:

* Be notified when packages are coming via "e mail"

* Send your own "e mail" to other people

* Organize events by date in a "calendar"

* Write an episode of Stranger Things in a "document", or if you don't happen to own the Stranger Things franchise, write about your viewing experience

* Write down a list of band names

* Sum the number of times a given child poops in a day in a "spreadsheet"

* Take part in a "meet", which is a sort of phone call but with video

I hope that clears it up.
I've written a lot of structs that have "maybe borrowed" contents. I usually reach for std::borrow::Cow for this. It's not exactly the same: we need to branch at runtime instead of having multiple generated codepaths.

struct Message<'a> {
message: Cow<'a, str>,
}
Does anyone know if it does liveness checks for the "selfie verification"? The docs are a bit vague on that.

And do I understand "Stripe uses a combination of machine learning models, automated heuristic analysis and manual reviewers to verify the authenticity of hundreds of different document types." correctly in that I do not only upload video/images of my passport, face to stripe for automatic analysis but in some cases a human would even review it? Or is this a specific option I could choose?
This is absolutely untrue. In The Netherlands the government has a 30% tax rebate for devs who come from elsewhere and it’s leveraged intensely, more than half of the devs I work with at bigger companies here are usually not Dutch.
I don't think there's much value in looking at "top" graduates. The people that got jobs at FAANG companies from a code school were probably miles and miles ahead of your "average" code school graduate, in which case, of course they're going to get better jobs.

I think it'd be a much better use of time to look at the middle. What's the unemployment rate of code school grads that were at the middle of their class, vs. the unemployment rate of similar CS graduates?
"Is it really worth it, just so you can fill your Insta with pictures of you windsurfing in Ibiza?"

Do you really think all these folks want to do is fill their Instagram with pictures of windsurfing in Ibiza?

That misses the entire point of travel. It isn't to show off on instagram (although that can be a fun component, it isn't the driver for 99% of people); it isn't to tell other people you did it.

It is to have this amazing experience with a foreign culture and place. And that is very hard to value.

Yes, planning for retirement is important. But you may also be dead before you get there. It takes balance.
To your credit, this is a relatively coherent statement of this line of argument (“USD is valuable due to artificial demand from tax collection”). Unfortunately it doesn’t really hold up to careful scrutiny. If the only demand for the dollar were to fulfill tax obligations, there would be a massive surfeit of dollars. Price is not linear in demand. Most of the dollar’s value is due to monetization, not a just-so story about wha it’s useful for. This is true for any and every kind of money.

There is actually a coherent way in which the dollar is backed by guns, but it’s the enforcement of the petrodollar system - nothing to do with taxes.
It's challenging to not identify with one "side" when the other side loudly and proudly support policies that directly harm (or would harm) many people you care about. It's natural to band together when under attack, and in fact it's really difficult not to.
I haven’t seen a realistic Hollywood portrayal of an average American family in the last 20 years because the secular corporate culture is so willfully ignorant. This is argued as being a feature of interesting content though since ‘nothing average is interesting’.

It has skewed perception, but whether that matters is up for debate.
Well, this is an ultra-cynical take on the article. It's also a little myopic in the sense that it assumes increased work flexibility must somehow have a high associated cost, such as loss of insurance, or lack of job stability. That just isn't the case.

Although I don't believe that we're about to enter some form of work/life balance utopia, just from my own circle of friends, big changes are inbound.

Firstly, many of us, including me, have for years been told that working from home more than a day a week was an impossibility, and that we should be grateful for that 1 day at all. Although frequently WFH days came with caveats, such as no Mon/Fri WFH, and there was the ever present threat of it being taken away.

Then, along comes the pandemic, and 'lo and behold, I've been working home for over a year without any issue. So have the bulk of the people I know, especially those in the technology sector. All of a sudden the dozens of arguments I have had with clients and employers over the years have all landed firmly on what I have been saying all along; we don't need to be in work every day, hell, we don't even need to be in work every week.

The cat is out of the bag now, and there isn't going to be putting it back in. A lot of the last year has been positive for many, including me. I've seen more of my own daughter in the past year than I've seen in the previous 7 years combined, and I've come to appreciate how important that has been to both of us. I'm not about to let that go without a fight.
For the same reason people 60 years ago talked as if they'd solved all the potential hazardous problems of jet travel. There will always be a little more you can squeeze out of a technology, but at some point it is good enough to be considered safe.
> I've read one of the easiest ways to break moral in an office is to simply take away the snacks

For me this is indication of cost cutting going into effect. This means it's time to stop riding a dead horse and to start looking for a live one.
Others have said it's limited to people who have a bot joined to more than 75 servers, or use certain sensitive scopes. So it's not quite that restrictive (only payments).

But I can say that I'm in... about 10 servers as a user and have a couple of bots I hacked together for various things operating in 3 of them and have never been asked for anything but my email. And across all the people I know using Discord, I was totally unaware that they even did that sort of identity verification because it seems like no one I know's ever run into it.
That particular device wasn't. But other very similar devices have been purchased by the US military.

> The Navy's counterterrorism technology task force tested Sniffex and concluded "The Sniffex handheld explosives detector does not work." Despite this, the US military bought eight for $50,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffex
It's more expensive to make a bad hire than to not hire someone and move a bit slower.
Why the ‘Great Resignation’ Is Greatly Exaggerated
Maybe it's a Mac thing? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm on PC and don't experience any of these issues. My Chrome is using <400 MB of memory with two instances of Gmail, G Drive, Google Calendar, Google Ads and a couple more tabs, and is consuming maybe 0-1% of my CPU. I routinely have 4 separate Gmail inboxes open each in their own tab.

Compose windows is instantaneous. Opening /viewing email is also nearly instantaneous. Same for search, and navigating between labels/folders.
Actually not all companies create value. Monopolies create profits through pricing distortions but not necessarily value. My point is that creating value is not a key component of a company going public.

In this current moment I would wager that if you are suggesting that you will create value in the market going forward you will get a great return on your investor dollars but you may not actually execute that value creation. (relevant news: lordstown motors)
3 out of 7.9 billion is not bad!
On Facebook it’s even worse. I’d you follow every political party plus some popular figures on every side during an election, you get nothing but extremism from every side. Literal right wing nazis as well as “burn it all down” leftists, at least a few years ago before I deleted my account.
Spam and other malicious behaviour. It's time consuming for mods to block spammers.

Instagram also don't charge users and yet they verify identity.
I highly recommend the Economist.

Their articles mostly follow a dialectical format -- thesis, antithesis, synthesis, with about a third of the article spent on each one. I don't know of any other publication whose house style is so rigorous in this.

It's also highly editorialized, but very open and transparent about the positions it takes -- any bias they have is in the open, but is in the final synthesis after they've treated both sides.

It also doesn't fall neatly into any liberal/conservative divide. It tends to be socially progressive yet only interested in solutions that can be practically implemented, pro-free market but deeply concerned about externalities and the environment, pro-democracy but with hard-headed realpolitik.

Plus probably half of what each weekly issue covers is news you won't find in any other American publication, at least -- it's a global publication and one of the best ways to simply learn about the entire world's political and economic news.
South America is an interesting one for a lot of US companies because the timezones line up much better with US-local folks than in any other continents.

There are still other substantial collaboration challenges, but if more places move to be truly remote-first, those places will necessarily have solutions for that anyway.
It's Limerick criminal gangs and the typical "think of the children" approach of using pedophiles to limit everyone's freedom that are used in rhetoric here way more than terrorists
As a self-employed person, my marginal rate starts at over 50% (ignoring the rather insignificant yearly allowance).
Google News is a dumpster fire. They include Sputnik and other govt propaganda sites from oppressive regimes.
Ask HN: Channels for growing a data science consultancy
Three years ago my partners and I founded a data science consultancy (see www.vertexintelligence.com), which has grown organically through our networks in the local tech scene in Indianapolis. We're hoping to expand beyond the midwest and want to avoid spamming/cold calling. I've found that paid search is not very effective, and content marketing only goes so far. Does anyone have any tips that have worked well for growing similar highly technical consulting businesses?
I love that guy.
If I am running the company, I would MUCH rather operate short-handed than "fix" my recruiting problems by lowering the bar.

You don't have to agree with the bar the companies are using, but that is the bar they have converged on, and one that plenty of people are capable of passing.

Would much rather compete for those people.
Work-life balance isn't bad at FAANG (not generally speaking at least).
Sparsity Enables 100x Performance Acceleration in Deep Learning Networks
Smart. Banks haven't been allowed to monetize their KYC data, but this new non-bank class of payments companies have this opportunity. Interac has been trying to do this for many years.

Some years ago I worked on a system let banks do identity assertions with proofs via SAML attributes instead of sharing customer PII. It is now a federation of banks in wide use for govt services in Canada. The use cases were really limited because the federation partners were too conservative to extend the identity services to relying party consumer applications real people actually wanted to use, and institutional sales cycles meant product feedback was glacial, so it has existed for over a decade in this relative backwater of gov-tech. I think identity companies have mostly failed to get traction because of a terminal lack of consumer sexiness, whereas Stripe has the jelly.

Other companies in the identity space have been working on protocols and platforms, but none of them had a user base to extend an identity federation services into, which means they have never been able to make a real or viable product, just interesting techs. An internet payment provider with young consumer traction getting into identity is a Very Big Deal.

It's going to position Stripe to knock out a lot of retail banks who can't offer similar services. Imo, this could make them bigger than Apple.
There is still some room for improvement:

* country code search - allow to search by a full country name or by other types of code. Was searching for Ireland and "irl", "ire" does not yield any results, only a direct match to "ie" does.

* "Provide personal information" - could default to the country where the text message went or at least could have a search instead of a <select>

Not sure if it is possible but some of the orgs will ask to limit the phone numbers to just one region, e.g. only UK. I know I need to RTFM
Aside from HBO’s ‘Big Love’ I can’t think of any non-comedy fictions shows featuring Mormons.
Can't you say this about all laws?

'What's the point of a law against breaking and entering? A criminal will break and enter anyway!'
I'm sure OP was implying "for retail investors" in his wish. Carta is just another way for rich people to access things that are only available to rich people.
Guh!! The image / video at the top seems to show Google Haircuts, Google Gym, and Google Cafeteria. I thought this announcement was that Google HR saw so many employees going remote that they were opening up the employee-only workspace facilities to everybody. Now I read this is just some dumb software. What a let-down.
I think Workspace is Google's attempt at a Teams/Slack/Wave product. I have to use Teams at work and can't fucking stand opening Word/Excel docs in Teams. That interface forces you to focus on one thing at a time and provides no easy way to navigate between work streams while maintaining state. Why would I want that?

Basically, Workspaces is failing so they're trying to open it to a wider audience in the hopes that it won't fail. It'll probably be abandoned by October and shutdown in a year or two.
In the Europe I know, "sabbatical" means unpaid time off (commonly 6 months) while staying with the company. You don't get paid and don't accrue holidays/other benefits, but continue right where you left off when you're back.

I think option for this is required by law in some countries, though I've never taken it so I'm not exactly sure.

My former company allowed this after two years of continuous employment to let employees try their wings with building their own product. I thought this was pretty cool, and definitely a recruitment carrot. On the downside (for the company) lots of those colleagues ended up leaving after their sabbatical was up, but I figure that those people would have left soonish anyway. It's not like they would've had a problem getting a new job.
lol!

When are we as a community going to move past treating frameworks/languages/tools as a silver bullet? Frameworks don't make teams better; good management, technical leadership, and great infrastructure does.
But what exactly is this "cancel" attempt? Is he legally prohibited from expressing his views somewhere? It seems more like his former fans deciding they don't want to support him and "voting with their feet".

This guy can still produce whatever games he wants, say whatever he wants in a public forum, make his own websites declaring whatever he wants to declare, probably get on TV and talk about it, get licensure to establish a talk radio station and talk about it all day, ... He isn't legally muzzled, and he's hardly reached a point where he has no audience in society. This is the balance of free speech. You are allowed to hold and express an opinion and everyone else is too.
RE prices, not really. Most landlords seem just happy to have someone not tearing up their house and making payments on time. I've not had one increase rates.

If they did increase rates, well, I guess move? Or buy a house if rent everywhere is crazy.

I do tend to move a lot, but that's what I like about renting. Freedom. Can just pick up and leave and onto the next adventure. I owned a house years back, and it felt like a big anchor holding me down.

Kids are an important factor. I think age matters a lot. Mine is in elementary school and is just happy to meet new people.

You do get 'stability' with buying a house, but that's not always good or even a sure thing. Maybe your city will implement a bussing program and cart your kid across the county. Maybe you get an awful neighbor(s) who make tons of noise, park cars in their yard, etc.

Stability is definitely a double edged sword IMO.
Google's World Wide Web running on Apple's Internet.
No one is capable of formulating intelligent responses in real time on any kind of absolute scale. Yes relative to you they might be doing better but they are still likely spouting nonsense compared to less time constrained thought.

If this problem is coming up in real time meetings it's because the meetings are the wrong way to do things; not that you need to think faster to support an archaic way of making decisions.
Perhaps your political viewpoints are fairly mild compared to mainstream conservative discourse? It's difficult to have civil discourse with someone who says your identify (or the identify of those you love) should be outlawed or otherwise severely restricted by the state. That's been a core tenet of conservative politics and policy for several years now and I do not have the intellectual tools nor the emotional strength to find common ground with people who view the world that way.
It's been like this forever and why gerrymandering is even a thing.
She can now pay for it? The fun part is the claim that Google Workspace was designed around security and privacy, followed by a screenshot of Gmail, which until 2017 actively scanned mails for ad personalization. I can't wait for McDonalds to announce that it was founded on the principle of a healthy vegan diet.
Very curious to hear your results. In the past we used Onfido but eventually switched to Jumio. This was mostly due to Jumio performing better with Passport and VISA documents. We may in future move to Persona as we use them for SSN verifications and their customer support / account management team is fantastic.
SMS aren’t encrypted. I don’t want my mobile carrier knowing whatever sensitive data is being sent as a push notification.
I guess based on averages, this can be true. For Raleigh, NC they list the rent ~$1100 and mortgage ~$1500.

I have a 15yr fixed mortgage at 2.75% which I started with 20% down to avoid PMI. All-in (HOA, utilities, principle, interest, insurance, maintenance) I am paying ~$1200. And that's to live by myself, in a two-story, 1400sq.ft. townhome. We have a lovely community pool too.

There is no way I could pay that little renting a place with equivalent offerings. If I picked up a roommate or two? Sure, but that's not something I'm willing to compromise on. Keep in mind I have a more aggressive 15yr mortgage. The difference would be even wider in monthly cost for a 30yr.
Of course, seeing a movie on the Himalayas is no substitute for visiting the Himalayas, and that's no substitute to living in the Himalayas.

But I'd rather have there be movies on the Himalayas than not, even when we are aware it's not a perfect substitute for the real thing.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Just curious, tried LibraIRC but I didn't see any programming channel. Did I enter the wrong server? On Freenode I can see e.g. #c or #c++ which are channels with large amount of users.
Inter-rater reliability is very useful. You don't simply seek novelty, right? Not having the vocabulary to discuss the agreement and disagreement of the BBC or the Guardian would be a mistake if you want to talk about news fluency, as they have made a name for themselves in the west.
What's to stop someone from "forgetting" their password?
I would also look into 5/3/1! It's a very easy to follow program, and doesn't take much time at all. Slow and steady gains.

Granted, if you're a beginner, there are much quicker programs (since noob gains are a very real thing), but 5/3/1 is a very simple program to follow, can be repeated for an extremely long time, and isn't very intense stress on the body. I increased my lifts pretty drastically over 2 years, but it felt incredibly slow/gradual - until I looked back over my increases from 2 years prior.
> I've never had a gap year, it was all school, then immigration, work, university, more work. Any holiday time you fly back home. I kept hearing its not unusual for people in the west to take gap years, so thats what Im doing.

As a Westerner, I have never taken a gap year but I never met anyone who took one and wish they didn't. If you can make it work, take it, especially after the Pandemic because it's going to be an awesome time to travel.
It's fine to feel this way while acknowledging that the "other team" has gotten at least one or two issues right.

For example, lots of left-leaning Asian Americans agree that race-based affirmative action is unconstitutional, which puts them at odds with many of the people they'll likely vote for.
China: “Performance issue” reported at nuclear plant
Being subject to constraints on your living standards can force you to be more disciplined. I’d bet that there are some in your circle that earn less yet are more financially stable than you would expect. They just don’t talk about it as much, partly out of politeness and partly because they think it’s pretty boring.
Tangentially related, do you have any thoughts on ethereum or other alternative crypto projects? Or are you bitcoin or bust?
It assume it depends on the destination. I suspect most European healthcare systems cover you in most of Europe (maybe Schengen or EU?) while American systems only cover you in America. But yes, I suspect traveling to Africa or Asia puts the American and the European on equal footing.
The standard here is being barely adequate, not perfect. Anyone who is part of an immigrant community knows how hard it is to be adequate. That's why you pass on this optimism to the next generation while you blindly chase cultural fads, hoping your kids will fit in.

You smile and nod your way through.

Anyways, the call here is for community integration, not for individual action.
Having worked at a media outlet, it's not particularly credible that they "ignored" it. Maybe some of them did.

But if the Washington Post and Buzzfeed (who are also, uh, media sources themselves) FOIA'ed 3200 pages of Fauci emails, there's a zero percent chance - zero - that someone from a bunch of orgs didn't at least take a look.

The reason it looks like they "ignored" it is because they didn't see a story to report. Which is how the process should work.

So if there were a Fauci email saying, "Yeah, we probably created covid, whoops" there's a zero percent chance you wouldn't see at least someone linking to the email in question. Do you see those links? There you go.
In general, I agree with you, but in the case of Atlanta and Fulton county that narrative is in conflict with repeated poor management. Lots of cities have incorporated over the past 20 years and ended up with better services and lower taxes. Part of that is due to siphoning off funds that would help worse off, but most is just due to more efficient management.

I used to not support the idea of reforming Milton county, but it makes more sense as Fulton funds are focused on Atlanta and away from the tax base. Especially with stupid stuff like no Atlanta police chief for a year, etc. And no Marta in north Fulton. And minimal court services, etc.

I live also live in one of the (upper?) northern burbs of Atlanta. I had to handle some property tax stuff and it was kafkaesque in how out of touch and poorly managed it is. Driving an hour to downtown atlanta to meet with an assessor who has never been to my town. Then meeting with a board of “peers” that also don’t even know the town where I live, listen to my arguments, ask no questions and then rubber stamp the county.

I’m not sure how to fix this and it’s so appealing to just give up and work on local stuff.