skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I claimed "I could see people who are super-cereal about types getting bunged up about it in SQLite" ... which seems to have been borne out.

If you don't know what your data looks like because you're just wading into filthy data, being loose about your types is not the worst thing in the world. That's all.

You know the progression. You get this file, claims were made about what was in the file and its structure, its data, but then you realize that these claims are ... aspirational at best. You open it up in a notepad or cat it or whatever. Yup, it's awful.

Can you maybe look at it in the spreadsheet? How bad are the line endings anyway?

And the next step from that is trying to pull it into SQLite, because it won't fail when I start trying to cram junk into it. I am in no way claiming that I want to use SQLite as my final database.
There are black family TV shows like Blackish, but the current trend is to mix a black and white character (or family) and then do plots based on the zany differences between the two. Bob Loves Abishola, The Neighborhood, etc. It's cheap and low-quality tv.
Even a controller for a ceiling fan is a challenge. Sometimes, if you are lucky/persistent you can replace the box itself with a deeper one to make wiring easier.
We certainly don't think this will be easy. That said, as you can probably imagine yourself, 13.5% of the U.S. population is a really big TAM on its own. That percentage of Netflix U.S. revenues would make us a very big company. That said, there is competition, and Netflix has black content too. So we will have to differentiate ourselves. As I mentioned in the post, product is one way to do that, and "super-serving" one audience can be a differentiator to when it comes to content, branding, and community. So yeah, we have our work cut out for us, but we're up for it!
That's a problem, not a solution.
I never wanted a smart home. I don't even want "smart" appliances. I want energy-efficient, reliable appliances and homes, with behavior I can predict, that don't spy on me, or rely on remote APIs, and have high usability factors. I don't mind remotes, and voice activation might be nice if I was disabled, but for the most part I'm happiest when my home and I don't get in each other's way.
Just what I wanted to hear, cheers!
Everyone feels for the plight of the Gypsies, right up until they move caravans onto the park behind your house.
Full Stack Developer (TypeScript, Django, React, and Docker)
Join a fast paced agile team of radiologists and 10x software engineers that are revolutionizing AI and radiology. Leverage your software development experience for the greater good.

Qualifications
4+ years of full stack web development experience required
Typescript, Django, React, and Docker experience required
Bonus: DICOM, medical device, or 2D graphics programming
Must be fluent in English. US Citizenship or permanent residency required.
Must be a resident of Alabama
Compensation and Benefits
Salary of $105k - $120k depending on your ability and experience
401(k) eligible in 6 months after employment
Health insurance stipend included
4 weeks paid vacation and 8 paid holidays. Work-life balance is important to us.
Flexibility to work remote within the state of Alabama
Flexible equipment budget. Work on cutting edge hardware.
Flexible working schedule. Work when you want to.
Low meeting overhead. Stay in the zone.
How you will work
You will work alongside a remote team of 10x software engineers, an engineer product owner, a visionary radiologist founder, and multiple supporting radiologists at UAB on a challenging medical device
You will be heavily involved in requirements gathering and product ideation. You won't just be asked "how" to implement something, you will help identify "what" to implement.
We practice an iterative design and development process where you will get to see your work benefit users and get direct feedback
You will be working with interactive web frontends, data driven backends, and AI.
You will receive 1 on 1 guidance from the team. We are lifelong learners and you will have an opportunity to learn and teach.
Work with a modern tech stack leveraging Docker, GitHub actions, a Git driven quality management system, continuous integration, and a culture of code quality.
You will be expected to travel occasionally (on average once a year) to trade shows to help showcase your masterpiece.
Use your favorite tools. VS Code, Vim, Pycharm, Mac, Linux, and Windows are all welcome.
We use Slack and Zoom for communication, GitHub Issues for project management, AWS for cloud infrastructure, and Tensorflow for ML. We welcome suggestions and process improvements.
Why work for us?
Unlike other medical device startups, we have made it past major funding and FDA regulatory clearance hurdles.
Unlike larger medical device companies, we leverage Git and automation to keep the regulatory burden to a minimum. The entire process is driven by engineers.
Work alongside a visionary radiologist who knows what patients need and what doctors want.
What you could learn
How to develop a FDA regulated medical software
How the field of radiology, software development, and artificial intelligence intersect
Learn about deep neural networks and its application in radiology
How to write code compliant to medical device quality standards such as 62304, 14971, and 13485
How to write and deploy HIPAA compliant software
That’s because Hollywood and American corporations are a systemically corrupt system.

Why not just create a hip / fresh / cool network? Identifying it with race is a violation of societal primitives.

I like “black content” even though many black creators are not 100% black. A lot of white people have direct African heritage.

And of course, EVERYONE’s grandparents are ultimately from Ethiopia. My ancestors left Northern Africa before a black person’s did, thus I’m different than them?!

And the world is deeply racist. Mexico is ran by all light skinned people with Spanish heritage. Russia, Japan and all of the Middle East is way more racist than the US. Very dark skinned people are discriminated all over the world including in the US by black communities.

Sam Harris had a great podcast on how race is a myth-

https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/182-unlearning-race
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_cinema
I'm typical French and my daughters' mother is African... I had to explain to my daughters the whole concept of race categories and I struggled because it seemed ridiculous and aberrant to them - it is alien to their multicultural daily life. They would laugh at having to chose between being black or white. I don't understand how Americans tolerate being categorized this way. My category: "Other" - always.
Is this sarcasm? That's probably a real thing. Different cultures have different funeral services
Just like different cultures have different art, hence this company.
My XPS 13's trackpad works quite well Fedora 34 Gnome. Firefox supports smooth scrolling and pinch-to-zoom like in Windows or Mac OS, and Gnome Shell has built-in trackpad gestures for switching workspaces and showing all open windows.
I'm sure non-black people are welcome to this too.
But the question is - is there any indication of intent to mislead. They just don't pay much attention to how things look when photographed for online shopping, it seems to me.
I agree, and find it ironic that he explicitly calls his podcast a "conversation", when indeed it's the least conversational podcast around (except when he clearly really likes the person or has a strong opinion on the topic)
I bought a T14s at the beginning of the year after 5 year of XPS 13 9350. I'm happy with the T14s but from a design perspective (eg bezel wise), it's a step back- especially considering the 5 years in between.
Man, this is always such a spicy comment to make. Americans always get mad but its true. As a Venezuelan I always find the racism stuff coming from the US completely baffling.

I think most of the world is just completely weirded out by how US culture tackles this issue.
Thanks for re-iterating this. Granted, due to where the emissions take place, air travel is slightly stronger/higher but I feel like the sole focus on air travel is an annoying feature of a lot of climate-change discussions. It's something we really don't have many technically or economically viable alternatives for yet.

Why don't climate-change measures and discussions focus on the other 95%+ of sources that are easier to address?
This is basically adversarial training, which is a typical (& very practical) benchmark heuristic defense for this problem. An ongoing question is to precisely characterize when and how AT works. The line of work has also proved to be very fruitful for the theoretical community & has produced very general results about problems which can be solved by neural networks, but not other techniques- e.g. kernel methods.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04413
The problem is that white Americans don't have the same American experience as black Americans, which is where the divide comes from and it creates another culture. It's been getting a lot better, but there are still two legal systems, two education systems, etc.

My perspective as a white man is that when black people create something for themselves like this, it's reclaiming the power. Like how they use the N word with each other, or how Gay people use that word, it's a reclaiming. Taking the hurtful racist division and turning it into something empowering is the point.

I have no idea if that works in the long term or not, but I always think about Morgan Freeman who said something like the only way we can solve racism is if we stop talking about it
I’m a brown guy and I have fond memories of watching the Cosby show with my parents as a kid. I was saddened and disappointed to learn of Cosby’s horrific behavior later on, and it sucks that the show is now going to be lost because of the main characters real life persona.

Really would love a modern day family show that is relatable and shows a successful family. Not too far fetched, but real like the set of Cosby show with the kitchen room and living room was relatable to me. Before moving to America my family with 5+ people lives in two rooms that were like 12x12. I’ve tried watching shows like Modern Family and they just don’t really carry the same weight IMO. Too rich or fake seeming.

Good luck
The other trick you see often is increasing the size of the concavity on the bottom of the package. Two items can look identical on the shelf but have dramatically different volumes.
Something tells me that if something labeled as "Netflix for white people" popped up, it might be an issue.
> Look at what Netflix is producing these days - its mostly lowest common denominator algorithm driven garbage.

This, the best content on Netflix in the last two or three years for my taste are largely foreign productions
I've bought numerous Thinkpads and I still can't find myself using them daily because of the awful trackpads. It's not even the tracking, it's the amount of force you need to put on the trackpad to get it to register a click. Also the lack of media keys on Thinkpads is outdated and annoying. If Lenovo fixes these two things I'd gladly use a Thinkpad as my daily laptop.
This boils down to two separate arguments against Apple: 1) what Apple has already implemented, and 2) what Apple might implement in the future. It's fine to be worried about the second one, but it's wrong to conflate the two.
I did, and he isn't in my case.
Competition is good. Good luck!
Yes I agree with the sentiment, but I think long comments are useful for explaining why a choice was made. Or an idiosyncrasy of the system like you said.
If you read this blog post and think "Nice! I will buy the same Thinkpad and use Linux", then be aware that the previous generation P14s has serious issues with power drain in standby[0]. These issues have been not been resolved since September 2020.

In large parts of Europe, the second generation P14s is not yet available. So buyer beware!

[0] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/T14-AMD...
E.g. - Do you feel like the existence of ESPN forces a bigger divide between people who like sports and those who don't?

If not, what's the difference? Each is a cultural group - one just has a history of being violently attacked and suppressed...
90% of American men feel like losers. Nothing special about that. Life is boring and hard.
Yes, a major disappointment. I suggest reading a few William Gibson cyberpunk books to get a rough idea of the future, both society and tech. In fiction, and as a non-technical author, I think he gets it right. Everyone who has the technical knowledge to do so needs to decide how much effort they are willing to go through for privacy.

Personally, for my iPhone photos, I have my phone setup to upload every picture I take to Apple iCloud, Google Photos, and Microsoft OneDrive, so I gave up on photo privacy many years ago.
There are people who have an ideological view and accept anything that fits that ideological model.

"Plandemic" types are anti-government, so they like the idea that the pandemic is to control them.
I will never understand why in the USA the amount of melanin in your skin is so important. I will never understand how they plan to fight (and potentially finish) racism by creating more division.
The amount of sleuthing that can be done from any computer with internet access these days never ceases to amaze.
Many years ago I built an iOS app called BetterDo that dealt with some of these issues. It broke long ago after some iOS update, and I let it slip away. But I really miss it.

1. No dates. Instead I had sublists by timeframe: Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Weekend, Next Week, Some Day. And it was easy to move an item between sublists. It was easy to move things up and down to indicate next up. Every morning I would scan the Today and Tomorrow items, and move them around to suit my plan for the day.

I don't want or expect my To Do list to stop me from procrastinating. Rather I want it to support healthier procrastination by never letting me totally forget the things I keep putting off.

2. One thing I realized is that weekend task is different than a weekday task. I'm not going to mow my lawn on a weekday. Conversely many tasks require a business to be open and cannot be done on the weekend. On weekday mornings I don't want to be staring at a list of my weekend chores.

3. When you completed an item, it was crossed out but visible until you deleted it. Delicious positive reinforcement.

One important insight is that a To Do list is not to keep track of all the things you need to do. It's to keep track of the annoying things only. You won't forget to do things you look forward to doing.
> despite there being various laws (at least in the UK) about this sort of thing being a protected characteristic that you simply cannot talk about during interviews - its weird.

Likewise here in BC.

I believe it is illegal to discuss race, gender, pregnancy, family planning, and so on and so forth during the interview.
Is this inclusive?

What's wrong with Nollywood? or Bollywood?

They seem to be doing well and are already on Netflix.
Webflow is trying to build such a community, but it's a website builder only, it's not for CRUD apps. Their blog posts usually have interviews with "Webflow-only" agencies. The work seems kinda amateurish though.
Even the value proposition is unclear. A simple mechanical light switch Just Works (TM). It's cheap, reliable, and nearly universally understood. Adding network connectivity, scheduling, voice recognition, etc. to these things sounds cool, but that novelty wears off very quickly, and you're stuck with features that probably won't matter to you day-to-day.

It reminds me of those 3D user interfaces in the movie Minority Report. Very cool-looking and futuristic. Who wouldn't want that? The answer is anyone whose arms would be tired after a couple minutes of flailing around like that. Stop making things overly complicated for the sake of marketing copy.
I'm sympathetic to remove Apple and Google from my life, but this list looks so sad. You know the experience, integration and headache of all this is going to be horrible.
Amazon actually produces the highest quality Black content consistently: Underground Railroad, One Night in Miami, Homecoming, Life, etc
People pretend there wasn't a show called "Yo! MTV Raps"
Reading this makes me appreciate all the burglars out there helping us figure out how easy it is to break in to our houses and take all of our stuff, especially the ones who don't just take the TV and electronics, but who put out that extra bit of effort to rummage through our collectibles to see if they can steal something that's really hard to replace.
For those not in the United States: this is (and I assume the spittle-flecking about "kneeling to BLM" made this a tip for some people, but let's make the implicit part explicit) a very common point of rhetoric amongst slavery apologists and Lost Causers of many stripes.

The idea of permission structures for white Americans being somehow erected because some ethnic groups and communities sold people from other ethnic groups and communities (because, and I apologize if this is obvious to some readers, the compaction of people of African descent into "African-American" is, for obvious reasons, something here and not there) is one of a set of apologetics in common use in the United States designed to erase the complicity of our forebears.

Good luck to BlackOakTV. I look forward to seeing what happens next for you all.
The Big Mac in the ad never looks like the real life one.
How's the glossiness on that machine? And how are they compared to the Macbooks?
Partly it falls under the supposition of "if they can, they will". It's also suggested when they tout that they are going to start blurring "naked" pictures, of any kind, sent to children under 14. Which means they need some kind of tech to detect "naked" pictures, locally, across encrypted channels, in order to block them.

In theory, this is different tech than CSAM, which is supposed to checking hashes against a global database, vs determining the "nakedness" score of an arbitrary picture.

But, scan them once, scan them all, on your phone. The details start to matter less and less.

Also, since they already scanning all of the photos up on iCloud already, why would they need to have it put locally on the phone?

Finally, I know that Apple scans photos on my device, because that's how I get those "memories" of Furry Friends with vignettes of my cats. I don't even use iCloud. (To be clear, I love this feature. Send me movies of my cats once a week.)
Separate but equal
With docker, I like that I can instantly switch between projects that all use postgres, each in their own container.
There's lack of proof to back up the 10k hours. I get that he has worked 15 years at prestigious companies but I have to take his word on it. Some aphorisms jelled with me but other's didn't, so we're again at a "he said; she said" impasse.
And as time has passed they've found more and more that they were wrong -- where on earth is this comment coming from. Seen so many sources contradicting this over the years.
Sorry, are you insinuating that Apple has the ability to retrieve, read, and provide the unencrypted data from users' iCloud accounts, but not the ability to search across that data?
And if done over long enough periods of time nobody significant might notice for years. Just smear the whole process over the span of a decade or multiple.
I appreciate you taking the time send me your feedback.

> No offense but there's no way someone's gonna pay to get their website archived when Wayback Machine is free and you can run performance tests on some free tools available

The problem (in my opinion) with the Wayback Machine is that you have no control over if or when your site is archived. Plus, the Wayback Machine does not archive DNS records or Lighthouse Scores. I'm hoping that makes my product more enticing, but we'll see.

> If I'm gonna archive my website, I'll just keep the source code on a different storage media and I don't have to pay a dime. Nice project though. Keep going

I'm getting the sense that most developers would never really use this service, since they're probably using Git and have backups.

I'm hoping that this service will be more valuable for agencies and small businesses who just want to have simple snapshots of their sites and can't reply on a a developer for help.

- Steve Polito
iCloud Photos aren’t E2E encrypted, but it’s unlikely they’re scanned for CSAM today because Apple generates effectively 0 references to NCMEC annually.
Amazing how since Facebook became so large they now get attacked on 2 sides of every issue.

1. First the consensus was that Facebook should allow easy data exports
2. Then CA happened and data sharing should be prohibited, now this from the FTC with more flip flopping.
3. Facebook should be E2EE vs the government saying they shouldn't
4. Facebook should moderate content vs not moderate content

These are all complex issues and most of them apply to the internet as a whole.
This project is a great showcase of what whitelabel streaming providers can do. Back when Youtube and Netflix started streaming, it was a huge deal technically (codecs, infrastructure, cdn). Now companies like uscreen offer this at a flat rate, and they themselves use 3rd-parties (Akamai/Cloudflare) for video storage and distribution.
Did I say they aren't wrong?

The problem is you are picking different instances where experts are wrong in different fields and saying "See, all experts everywhere are wrong about everything! So let's do nothing!".

The message and understanding on climate change and global warming is roughly 30 years old. Do you think there hasn't been ample opportunity for a different theory or evidence to produced to explain it? Do you think nobody is testing it? Do you think there's some grand conspiracy to prop it up?

Climate change isn't a nutritional or sociological situation where a lot of different impossible to control variables are coming into play. It's dead simple. We measure the amount of greenhouse gases, we measure global temperatures, we compare.

It's even trivially provable, even by an elementary student. Take 2 glass jars, fill one with CO2 and another with O2. Place in the sun. Observe as the jar filled with CO2 becomes hotter while to O2 jar matches outside temperatures.

> You cannot base your life on expert opinions.

My life, your life, our lives are based on expert opinions.
How on earth do you think electronics and computers work? By amateurs banging clay together? Computers and electronics were built on exactly the same scientific principles of "experts" that climate change was founded on. Experts are why we have GPS, cell phones, automobiles, doctors, cancer treatments, antibiotics, vaccinations, pain killers, fertilizers, etc... The list goes on. Our entire modern society is built on experts.

Expert research, (and this is what climate change is, research, not just opinion) is what brought about the modern world.

You might as well point to Doctor Oz and say "See, he's full of garbage so all modern medicine is bunk!".
There were similar issues more recently (2018/19) with custom XML entities or comments. The XML signature was unaffected, but if code used the equivalent of element.children[0] to get the contents, it was possible for attackers to truncate the attribute values seen by the service provider library.
This seems like a great idea to me. Crunchyroll proved that niche streaming services can be successful, and there's already plenty of examples of companies that have succeeded like this for black people. BET, for example. Good luck!
I am trying to order one. If I unselect Windows, I loose the 4K panel. If I go from 24G to 16G, I loose the 4K panel. If I go from 24G to 32G, I lose the 4K panel. And of course, delays are always 6+ weeks (which is Lenovo lingo to say "forever").