skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know enough about the procedures, but would citizens calling 911 to report gun shots help coroborate and help weed out false positives?
They can redeem, but not necessarily in dollars. The terms of service specifically give Tether the option of redeeming in basically whatever they want.

Also, I say "they can", but we have zero proof of this ever happening.
> So it's a searchable database for bookmarks then.

It appears to be that, but it appears also to pull out the content of the web page and index that too, so you can (presumably) find stuff that isn't in the "pure" bookmark, which I think of as a link with maybe a title.
Yeah, though the solution for it basically seems to be "throw out all the previous code that was highly coupled with LLVM and actually write our own fast JIT compiler and interpreter from the ground up". It's possible, but probably takes an incredible amount of work and would maybe involve cloning a copy of Mike Pall (the creator of LuaJIT) to help on the project.
And meanwhile there is nothing known to be wrong with just injecting the CO2 into a saline aquifer, which you can find in most places.
Also on github: https://github.com/Raizo62/LiveRaizo
They own the DNS for all (?) of the free domains (tk, ml, ga, cq, others) thus can track lookup counts
Consider supporting Bret. He is already broadcasting through alternative channels. The stance against youtube is deliberate and principled.
> there is no libnumpy or libpandas

I think this is changing with the rise of Apache Arrow. See eg here, slide 38 and on:

https://www.slideshare.net/wesm/pycon-colombia-2020-python-f...
Would he not need this letter if he was actually competing. Seems more like a sore loser writing an open bribery.
At least it's all in one place. Watching MLS has a huge pain because games are seemingly randomly split between Fox and ESPN and it's a crapshoot which streaming service we need to use each week to watch our team play

I would happily pay someone on the order of $100 to stream a season of MLS at broadcast quality, more if it means less ads.

While stadiums were empty they digitally overlaid ads on the empty seats really poorly so that it didn't quite track camera motion and the ball would just disappear behind the ads whenever it was up in the air. Thanks to exclusivity deals and region locking, I can't just choose a different service when the only product available is garbage.
The scala fork that the article talks about has since been discontinued: https://github.com/typelevel/scala#what-is-was-this-reposito...
Reminds me of Michael Jordan abandoning basketball because he became too good at it, and realizing he wasn't that good at other sports.
Multipath effects, which for sound are huge in an environment with large flat surfaces, could create phantom origin spots at the fringes of the covered area.
You can be friends with old people too :p
I can't upvote this article enough times -- it's concise yet rich with astute observations.

Just one example: "Thirty Years Ago...Insulating developers from interruptions was management’s Prime Directive."

From my own experience, when I started at IBM in the mid 1980s, we had private offices just for this very reason. Me and my colleagues also recognized, though, that we were on the tail-end of those good ol' days. By the early 1990s "bullpens" were becoming the rage, and the rest is history.

Another, "QA was other people": it was other people, and not the can't-make-it, under-performers, either. Testing was a discipline in and of itself, with very experienced testers. They were often older programmers in their last 5-10 years which knew what kinds of corners and edges to think of. That, too, was a just a fond memory by the early '90s.
The article doesn't really touch on it but someone here will know: do we have any kind of projections on how long it would take us to shift to EVs (e.g. proportion of vehicles on the road which are electric over time) and how that compares to the rates at which charging and electrical infra can be improved/expanded? Does that second point hinge on the current infrastructure bill?
In context of the article it was implied.
The title should be updated to reflect that it was written in 2009.
I don't understand this. The Olympics are one of the so-called "crown jewels" which are supposedly guaranteed free to watch. The Broadcasting Act 1996 voids any contract which gives a non-free broadcaster exclusive rights.

But I'm not a lawyer. Maybe it doesn't apply to Discovery because they are streaming not broadcasting? Maybe the BBC plays along because they couldn't get any feed otherwise?

Separately, the Olympics gets special legal protection for their IP [1]. The IoC is giving us the middle finger so we should give it right back and repeal this law. Even better, legalize piracy of any sports broadcast which is supposed to be freely available but isn't.

[1]: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/32
The majority of people I know who have cars would not be ok with EVs because they just don't have the range. The people I do know who are fine with EVs almost don't even need vehicles at all to be honest -- they could be using public transportation or biking or walking instead (I don't mean to suggest they shouldn't be using an EV, only that their alternatives often aren't combustion vehicles). I do think there are a lot of people who could be happily using EVs, but I don't think it's a majority.

As for charging stations, I think many people who are still using combustion engines want to see a charging station at every gas station, or of equivalent geographic density. Distribution could be there but it's far from that now.
Charging still takes a long time and has relatively low mileage. Hydrogen doesn't have that problem and in the end accounting for lithium mining destroying the environment I still don't think it's that clear cut. EV just has more adoption because it's easier at this point and perks don't want to fall behind against Tesla.

I also don't see how Toyota "deserves" to lose. When you take into consideration their longevity and fairly good track record on gas mileage...they are better than a lot of manufacturers that are now pushing hard for electric. People tend to forget that manufacturing a car and replacing a car wears on the environment just as much as driving it.
> How did HR get so much power?

Non-technical leadership expects them to be in charge of hiring.

If HR has the final say in hiring for technical position, your company has serious issues and I wouldn't hold onto it's stock.
Google Cloud plans to kill its ‘Killed By Google’ reputation
The repair shop trying to fix throwaway culture
Hmm, I don't know.
I came here to say that maybe it makes things simpler though when everyone speaks the same language, and all proofs are written in the same format.

However then I remembered the new codebase I inherited and OMG it's such a mess because somehow just converting a UI enum to a DB enum is a 25-line function that's repeated over and over everywhere. (Needs to be version-safe for different clients that may have old enum values, needs to create error message in appropriate language, etc, and the callers are in different layers and all have different ways of getting the corresponding info).

So yeah maybe the high-level "I get it, you get it, we all get it, let's just state this an move on" is better.
>it's generally uneconomical to transport the fuel over large distances, that will be the end of it.

"Uneconomical" is an understatement, it's almost impossible. Bełchatów burns ~1 ton of coal per second. This means that if it were supplied by train, it would need 1 coal wagon per minute, 24/7.
How Remote Work Changes the Structure of Business
Tim O'Reilly wrote a seminal paper about the "Web 2.0" in 2005 [1]. I remember reading it and it truly was an influential masterpiece "one of it's kind". Since then cohorts of much less important groups keep counting up and releasing things echoing Tim's "2.0", e.g. "Industry 4.0"

From a time line perspective we seem to have reached "5.0". This time with the prefix "Society".

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.ht...
It would be a human tragedy on a scale we've never seen before. This is why an authoritarian government of 1.4 billion people terrifies me. If history is any guide, the state will fall. But if it doesn't happen peacefully, god help us.
UC Davis study finds people are becoming desensitized to Covid-19
The overwhelming majority of households use their cars such that one essentially is used only for commuting and running errands on the weekend. The second car, can quite easily be electric given the state of today's technology, and that's the sweet spot for it right now. Once prices come down I would be surprised to see people not have at least one electric car in their garage.

Gas hybrids are vastly superior though for long distance traveling. The infrastructure just isnt there yet, and charging for an hour sucks.
It says less than nothing. The FDA is not usually fast at all, but Full FDA approval for Pfizer and Modena Vaccines is expected soon (i.e. in next 6 months or so)

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/when-will-the-fda-giv...
What are they doing to those who are currently stuck with these horrible 20 year contracts? The one their door to door salesmen sold to unsuspecting seniors without properly explaining the lease terms?

I know what they are doing. They are asking for 35K to get them out of the contract.
I like this but i don't like that it is not open source.
There are complaints that standardize testing isn't equal. Basically that some portions of the testing reflect white culture, which puts minorities at a disadvantage. I read the article a while back, but one of the examples they gave was the choice of words to test on the SAT. One of the questions was asking for a synonym for "armoire". The article posited that that term was far more likely to be recognized by white students because their family was more likely to actually own one, and further to refer it to as an armoire instead of simply a wardrobe or cabinets. I think there was another question that involved boats that was similar.

I think the article also noted that in many cases, the questions really discriminated more against poverty than race. Race gets dragged in because people of color are drastically overrepresented in poverty, so anything impacted by poverty will also show an effect along racial boundaries (at least when aggregated).

The underlying question is whether the score boost you get from being born into a high enough social class to have wide exposure to things like that actually makes you more qualified or not. It certainly boosts your test scores, but does knowing what an armoire is actually make you more qualified, or does it just keep poor people out?
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich [pdf]
This list is useless.

If you compared two families using this same system:

* Family A - 1 worker, 40 hours per week, 1 non-worker

* Family B - 2 workers, 20 hours per week each

You'd get an average of 40 vs 20, which makes it appear as though Family A works "more" than Family B.
Given you talk about winter, I rather think this smell is from burning coal (...and other questionable materials) in residential buildings for heating.
So if I declare you to be an idiot nobody ever has to listen to anything you have to say in the future?

Aside from the obvious problems of how to determine “established oneself as an idiot”, what implications does this have for the concept of redemption?
Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’
Tether's business at this point is basically manufacturing red flags.

It is incredible the mental gymnastics people in the cryptocurrency business go through to defend this group of crooks.
TDD is double-entry bookkeeping. Done well, you've spec'd the behavior twice, once as constraints, and once as logic. It's of limited utility in the moment, but it's invaluable going forward, as you make changes. (The in-the-moment use is about surfacing API design forces, and I'm not sure TDD is the best way to achieve good design)
If Toyota were serious about this, then every vehicle they make should be a hybrid, instead of a mere 20-something percent.
Yeah the 8% was circulating in the media as the efficacy and thus this was debunking it as not the efficacy.

I said at the start not statistically significant. That is becuase they designed a shitty trial, if you are going to have an insignificant number of 65+'s in the trial, then dont make the target endpoint 'the number of cases' then when reporting a low efficacy are shocked when people took it on face value and ignored the p-value. If you want to test for side effects / will it kill people then make that the endpoint for that section of the trial.

That is horrifically bad science and communication. But if you publish a headline number of 70% efficacy in under 65's and 6.3% efficacy in over 65's what are you meant to think? That is might be quasi-ineffective in over 65s?
Okay, how about starting with a new department modeled after incredibly successful programs like these?

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/08/974941422/6-month-experiment-...

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019704823/police-mental-heal...
If it meant an increased likelihood of catching the cops in a lie, I'd host such a device on my roof.

I'd just want an easy way to audit the outbound data so I could become confident that it was only recording cases of: "Holy crap that was an EXPLOSION" and not recording cases of: "Did you hear what that guy said in his back yard?"

It's not like anybody creating explosions has a reasonable right to privacy. Everybody heard it, it might as well be public record. This would just add timestamps.
Can't you just get a peacock subscription for $5-10/mo?
I mean, I'm not in the "Defund police" camp, personally, quite... but OP doesn't read like troll OR hyperbole, and I'm not sure why the reaction - this is an increasingly mainstream perspective.

Police resisting reforms, limited consequences to police misbehaviour, and limited progress in attempts to reform, are I think baseline facts by now. The notion that they need to be rebuilt from ground up with different culture/prerogatives/internal processes/priorities again is nowhere near "troll like".

>>Providing a well-reasoned solution instead of just stating what the problem is

That's a high bar and an unreasonable threshold to speaking out. A lot of times, recognizing / defining a problem is an important first step. It should not be suppressed solely for lack of immediate solution provided.
After several...frustrating...hours of trying to talk them through things over the phone to get RDP working

Having had similar problems (not just windows, RDP/VNC/you name it) to me this now sounds like 'wrong tool for the job'; just use e.g. Anydesk : no install, just an exe, have the remote side run it and tell you the ID and you're good (at least it didn't fail me once yet). From then on configure RDP/VNC yourself, and the router's port forwarding, etc.
If we were able to eliminate that 5% of plants, that would bring the world back to 1999-2000 levels without any other change.
its not normal for them to flatly say no and explain things to people they deem unworthy of the status that would merit an explanation.
Cincy PD disables alerts for ShotSpotter on the 4th of July and disables it during baseball/football games downtown because the pyro from the games causes false alarms.
Yeah, I agreed with the article except on testing / QA. I was skeptical of these at first too, but in retrospect, it was not okay to externalize the cost of testing onto other people.

In those companies I've worked where we released in some waterfall-ish manner and/or QA was important, we have both.
Naismith must have been a hard mountaineer; I can't keep up with his timings, certainly not in Scottish hill country.
I love following taekwondo and I've just given up trying to use NBC's website and just get a VPN to the BBC version. I'll have to see if that works this year or not.
They meant the LED device, ie “bulb.” DC’s transportation department referred to it as a ballast; that might be inaccurate.
It would depend strongly on whether the phone is analyzing the data from the mic and reporting to a server "possible gunshot heard, GPS coords X,Y, volume-level 60%, gunshot-like-score 75%" or whether the phone is sending raw recordings from the mic to a server and trusting that the server is only checking them for gunshot sound (not, say, saving your private conversations).

And of course it's difficult for the average user of an app to tell the difference, or even for a tech savvy user to tell without investing some time and effort.
2020: How to build a hydrogen-boron fusion reactor
I just directly signed up for Tesla Solar and it's a pretty good deal for me. 10 year financing at 0.99 APR.

I get salespeople at the door almost every day from other solar companies trying to push all sorts of shady contracts but I have never once seen a Tesla salesperson.
I've been thinking recently it might be interesting/useful to write a simple SOCKS proxy which could be used by my browser.

The SOCKS proxy would not just fetch the content of the page(s) requested, but would also dump them to ~/Archive/$year/$month/$day/$domain/$id.html.

Of course I'd only want to archive text/plain and text/html, but it seems like it should be a simple thing to write and might be useful. Searching would be a simple matter of grep..
> Do we want to live in a world where someone running something different than everyone else on their computer is treated with suspicion?

It depends on what you mean by "suspicion". Should users be wary and not blindly run uncommon binaries they got off the internet, on a unsandboxed system? I don't see why not. I'll even say that most developers are not exercising enough caution when downloading random packages off npm.
“We find that major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality as measured by the top 1% share of pre-tax national income. The effect remains stable in the medium term. In contrast, such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth and unemployment.”
It's generally true for the first 30 min. Unless you show signs of interest at the videos you find uninteresting, it'll do a decent job of stabilizing over time.
They aren't collisions so much as overloads. e.g. GPUArrays implements the same base AbstractArray methods. I'm not a big fan of using either (in any language) because it obscures where imports come from, and AFAICT overloads are created even with a plain import.
I thought the first-generation iPad pro was checkra1n-compatible? Isn't checkm8 a bootloader exploit?
That asks for LOTS of permissions.

It's closed source too? The website itself has two trackers installed. What could go wrong?
> has a per capita emissions about the same as the UK, even taking into account exports vs imports

Wrong!

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
Maybe these people shouldn't be decision-makers then. We need both greater transparency in decision-making processes, and greater education amongst the population about statistics, causal inference, and the scientific method. In order for the citizenry to hold decision-makers to account and obtain a higher standard we need:

1. Citizens to have the time and motivation to seek out and examine primary evidence.

2. Citizens to have the skills to understand and critique that evidence.

3. Robust mechanisms to allow citizens to replace people in power.
I'm a huge privacy advocate but it makes some sense. If the police and government is corrupt and using this tech, creating a non-corrupt open-source community driven alternative to combat the corruption is probably a net win despite the privacy issues. The real win is to destroy the Police surveillance state and tech but we as a people (the US) seem incapable of real policing change. :(
Tables are rectangles, and so are rows and cells.
The thing is, it does not matter only to those who use it. Basically all trading of Bitcoin is not actually in USD, it is in Tethers. The polite fiction is that this is the same thing, but there are a million red flags saying that this is not the case.

Once Tether implodes, it takes the entire bitcoin market with it.
Why would you feel bad? There is nothing stopping you from working harder. There are still lots of hardware without open source drivers that needs reverse engineering.
checkout the video series on https://startupschool.org

They should also be available on YouTube
Improve Your Engineering Pipeline with Value Streams
> to argue that your opinion is wrong

But this is not arguing that the opinion is wrong. It just shows that it's not a universal true for everyone and that Linux could work for other people reading this.
Several years ago in the NHL app, poor connectivity with the ad server caused the ads to be skipped. It's possible that this somewhat different app could work the same way...
CSS is designed for professionals is the biggest ret-con I've ever heard. How much effort have developers spent adding basic functionality like scoping, modularity, and variables, features that are table stakes for any "professional" system? CSS was very much designed for amatures at the expense of professionals.

Second, to call CSS simple is insane. How many ways are there to create a positioning root? How many ways to create a stacking context. How many different things can using '%' as a unit mean in different context? CSS is incredibly complex. CSS tries to shove these important concepts implicitly away from the developers notice, only to ultimately make life worse for both amatures and pros.
Myabe they can hire Enron to build them more gas power plants to not use.
I mean, that's bad and scary, but you did mention that you were using a beta version of julia. Finding this sort of thing is exactly why the beta versions exist.

If the beta was stable and ready for production, it wouldn't be called beta...
This Neal Stephenson quote is relevant too, I think:

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

When you're young, to some degree, anything is possible. But everything isn't. You gotta pick how you spend your time and once that choice is made, the time doesn't come back.
I'm really optimistic and hopeful for the future of electric vehicles, but that article was incredibly slanted. It seems to start with the premise that electric is better in every way and anyone arguing otherwise is only doing so to protect their profits.

What TFA fails to articulate is that Toyota is NOT pushing congress to slow the shift to electric by interfering in the market to prevent a natural disruption. They're asking them to interfere LESS so that there's more time for the market to adjust naturally rather than respond to artificial pressure that makes electric more competitive than it is without special favors. It's presented as lobbying, but it more like lobbying against lobbying.

Presentational digs like this don't inspire me to think the author is politically neutral:

> Toyota, which sided with the Trump administration in its battle with California

I am glad that they at least mentioned that there is some merit to hydrogen cells too. There are people who live in very remote places where electric is not possible, and in some cases extremely dangerous. If the people who live in the big city make it economically infeasible to have anything that's not electric, it's going to devastate some people's way of life.
Dat uptime tho