skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ontario has surplus capacity (of mostly clean energy) as well - there's really no need.
My company uses ZEDs now, and we are planning to use their new models which are weatherproof, and they currently seem to be the only inexpensive option for outdoor sensing that works out of box. And we don't like them: need your own GPU (at least they support Jetson & co.), not enough SW flexibility, USB-only connection limits the cable length.

Longer-term, we plan to use our own software with either a pair of conventional machine vision cameras, or, preferably, find some ready-made assembly of a pair of cameras + SoC with full user programmability since we like to be in control of our perception algorithms.
This article is ambiguous. Are we talking about the ramp for onboarding and productivity within a specific company/role, or are we talking about some measure of absolute skill and productivity? The former is a legit consideration, the latter is meaningless without knowing the ceiling (ie. a very senior person is not growing fast is not a problem if they already have exceptional abilities).

Also, in either case, it's very misleading to show a linear graph as presented here. These graphs will be much more curved in both cases. The entire trick of hiring is anticipating what those graphs will look like down the line.
> hashtable which isn't a power-of-two size

I think, I'd never want to do such a thing, but I will remember this multiplication trick in a legitimate situation where a non-power-of-two residue is being calculated, but the mathematical residue per se is not required.
Interesting idea, I have questions:

- How will you incentivize primes & subs to participate?

- How will you organize contracts and contractors to identify relevant partnerships?

- Will you provide any ratings, reputation or other mechanisms to document performers' track records? How does that change the participation incentives?

- What support will you provide to companies that haven't sold to the government before and thus need to start from scratch on certifications, etc?
Not the OP, but I think lot of us get distracted often. The tasks are rarely 8 hours exact, and I bet its not easy to notice that a task took say a 10% hit.

Also this post from Joel Spolsky [0]

> When I had a summer internship at Microsoft, a fellow intern told me he was actually only going into work from 12 to 5 every day. Five hours, minus lunch, and his team loved him because he still managed to get a lot more done than average. I’ve found the same thing to be true.

For me personally, the biggest issue from distractions are not these extra hours that may accumulate over time, but rather a loss of momentum.

When I feel productive I can churn tasks quickly one after the other, even the ones I "dread" -- documentations, docs, posts. OTOH when I start getting distracted its hard to be back to productive even on something I usually enjoy (coding, investigating some tricky problem).

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
No, this has nothing to do with the editor or bignums. I'm just using those to illustrate the underlying inconsistency.

The most natural order/sequence out there is that of natural numbers with zero (aka whole numbers), i.e. N0 = 0, 1, 2, 3, ...

So I'm basically arguing that means the most digit places are in the same order, i.e. the coefficients would be ordered as 256^N i.e. 256^0, 256^1, 256^2, 256^3, ...
Companies usually want new hires to "hit the ground running" with projects in $MAJOR_TECHNOLOGY and usually don't really care about employee growth. Corporate Agile processes are there, in part, to mitigate the effects of mediocre programmers and drag their bog-standard enterprise applications across the finish line in spite of the competence, or lack thereof, of developer staff. In that environment, yes, you want to filter out anyone who doesn't meet some baseline threshold of facility with your tech stack. But you don't really care how they grow as developers; someone with a steep "slope" may be a net negative as they're at risk of growing bored and leaving when the business needs them most.
Disagree. It isn't just jurisdiction. It is resource access. If the Chinese gov't were coming after little old me right now, I'd be properly worried, even though I'm safely within the boundaries of the US.
I don't think the question is whether games _can_ improve mental health, but whether the opportunity cost is activities that are dramatically better to this end (ie, exercise, going outside, or socializing).
All CDC and WHO stats are reporting CFR between 5% and 10% depending on country.

if you are above 60year old it’s most often above 10%

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210307/Study-analyzes-CO...
Speechly Shows a New Model for Voice UI on the Web
The turmoil of Apple abruptly booting the CEO who's overseen the most obscenely prosperous stretch in its history would cost the company vastly more than the current controversy about CSAM.

I'm not saying this as a fan of either Cook or their anti-CSAM measures; I'm neither, and if anyone is ever wrongfully arrested because Apple's system made a mistake, Cook may well wind up in disgrace depending on how much blame he can/can't shuffle off to subordinates. I don't think we're there yet, though.
The point is Google keeps users captive and content publishers hostage. All for a glorified CDN serving “light” static pages.
They are certainly baffling without subtitles since the speech is not audible.
Previous discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219068
It's time to reinvent the wheel, but more complex, more failure-prone. No thanks !
Joke aside good alternatives exist, but are far less ubiquitous. Binary format means problems to read, compatibility issues... Look at how hdf5 is a complex format with a lengthy spec.
Checksum and compress your csv files, it will solve most issues.
> For seniors (say 10 years and beyond), they're not going to be with you long enough for progress to make a huge difference, especially if they're decent to start out with - maybe that's not true 100% of the time, some people will stay around longer than expected and some people really do keep growing rapidly even into late career, but it's a reasonable guess. You're paying them primarily for the growth they've already done.

I strongly disagree. Why would I not be around as long as a younger person? Most young people last about 3-5 years in a job as far as I can tell. As I get older, I'm jumping around less. And I'd say that my skills are growing faster than I was when I was younger. I don't waste time on a lot of fluff that I would have when I was younger. I focus on areas of growth that are more likely to have an impact, not only on myself but on the rest of my team. I see the same patterns in other older engineers I work with.
> That's not what Apple's plans state. The comparisons are done on phone

Yes but as stated in the technical description, this match is against a blinded table, so the device doesn’t learn if it’s a match or not.
> For a company that marketed itself as one of the few digital service providers that consumers could trust, I just don't understand how they acted this way at all.

Because privacy stance is mostly PR to differentiate from Google. And while there're invalid reasons to get users data, there're also valid ones (at least from legal requirement point of view - let's not get into weeds about personal freedom here and if the laws and its implementations need to be changed).

Their PR was just writing the checks they cannot cash without going on a war with governments.
I just made a huffman encoder on the c64, for fun. I need understand how you go from the variable length codes of huffman, to suddenly fixed lenght codes, because you don't want the codes to be above a certain length. hmm...
Obama needs to shave and maybe see a doctor about that Vitiligo...
Love it! I spent three years selling into the government (DHS, TSA, and other agencies) at my last company, and just spent a year at Palantir as a senior PM after our acquisition. Government selling is unnecessarily difficult, so I'm looking forward to seeing you guys succeed!
> CSVs are built for humans, not machines

And that's why they're not going away.

Trying to add typing to them is probably missing the point that >95% of humans that use them don't need or want to understand that.
Change OpenBSD screen resolution in VirtualBox
He is not right, though. The system used will not reveal matches to the device, only to the server and only if the threshold is reached.
Biden Has Left Up to 40k American Hostages to Die
This fucking piece of shit needs to resign TODAY!
how about this; sars2 can be carried in the nasal vault by an immunized person due to the short duration of immunoglobin A
in the nasal mucosa. vaccination intramuscular in the deltoid or tricep induces primarily Ig M; and Ig G antibody response. these are of long duration and comprise the majority of immune response.

sar2[covid19] can be carried in the nasal vault by persons vaccinated or persons of naturally aquired immunity

vaccinated persons may have a breakthrough infection; or go on to spread to others.

<<If they are then what is the purpose of getting the vaccination>>

the vaccination gives you an edge on the virus from the start; meaning prompt immune response, not having to wait until an antigen is perceived in order to develop antibodies, reduced severity of illness, and squelching of viral reproductive cycling
Sadly it's not the taxpayer that decides where the money goes. Getting new military airplanes, putting them in their own pockets, and bribing the media with it seems to be preferable for politicians.
Didn't know about that, could you point at specific bad parts?
I don’t think it was that common to flood reservoirs without removing valuable timber first. No matter how long it takes there was a fixed volume of trees that got flooded one time - you are suggesting that those trees underwater produce more warming gases than the dirtiest coal plants, MW per MW? A coal plant continuously burning enough coal to get 1000 MWe produces the same amount of warming as a hydro reservoir flooded once that has a dam that produces 1000 MWe?

It seems like an outlandish claim to me.
> So it’s best for everyone if I step away now instead of descending into outright sabotage.

It's best for other members of the committee, and perhaps for the sanity of the author, but I think you could make the argument that effective sabotage of the AMP project could actually be best for the public at large.
I switched from an MBP to a Dell Precision 5520 with Ubuntu, then upgraded to a 5540 and am looking forward to the 5760. My colleagues are also using the 5540. These machines have been rgreat for us. We don't have much time to spend to tweak things, instead do a clean reinstall every few weeks and apply all upgrades as quickly as they come. Dell and Canonical have been supporting these machines quite well, in our experience.
It seems quite common in some European countries to use semi-colons as the delimiter instead of commas (because they use commas as the decimal separator?), adding a new level of fun to parsing. In Easy Data Transform we count the number of commas, semi-colons, tabs in the file to make an educated guess as the delimiter (which the user can override).
That's quite the SEO.
Probably a bad idea, but I’m not necessarily opposed to private companies doing it though as you have choice in the market.

I also wouldn’t mind a more comprehensive law that allows for lawsuits against people who are intentionally creating false information for profit. Although I imagine it would be hard to litigate.
They have up to 40,000 of our citizens hostage - left to die!!

Fuck Biden! Fuck Milley! Fuck Austin!
I think OPs argument is that the content is low quality, which is damning, but not in the same way as it would be if the top content was political or "disinformation." Benign garbage is still garbage, but we should not really expect anything else.
It's highly unlikely that the apple reviewer will have access to the actual image in the database, instead they will assess whether the blurry,b/w,etc modified thumbnail could possibly be illegal. Given the level of secrecy surrounding the contents of the DB, even the normal NCMEC reviewers may not have access to those for comparison. There are plenty of CG images, small legal models, or even images of erotic toys which could be used as the base image which would look very suspicious as a low quality thumbnail.
The problem is that you’d need the original NeuralHash, which isn’t stored on the device. The device only has a blinded version.
I just found an interesting reddit thread discussing must-have traits: https://teddit.net/r/rust/comments/p5vsjl/is_there_any_reaso...
SSH certificates are a good solution, though I think you could still use longer-lived SSH identities as part of the authentication process to the system that signs your certificate with MFA on top. I personally really just don't like passwords for authentication at all, and SSH is super convenient to use on top of being secure.

Having a solution like that in place goes a long way towards reducing the immediate power you have available at any one time, so I don't think we disagree much at all.
You refuse the two party system and work on a third party geared towards pre-emptive avoidance of the corruption mechanisms that got the two big ones. Do that at the local and state level first, attacking gerrymandering and other incumbent favoring electoral manipulation methods to weaken the two party strangle hold, such as heavy petitioning and lobbying to force state Secretaries of State to fix election laws.

Until we the people are actually represented in the legislative branch nothing fundamental will change. Being that the other branches are largely unaccountable to the citizenry, the legislative branch is the logical entity to focus on (and the fourth estate, heavily under attack by the executive et al)
I agree, that will become a problem.
So is it more important that anti-vaxer go to restaurant or that the 60+ population does not get forced to stay home to avoid hospitalization?
I've seen quite a few database courses have you implement them, as they are the backbone for many database systems.
I'm not sure why, because: a) it exists, and b) it exists on a maturity scale :)
> if you have a medical condition precluding vaccination you should not go to indoor activity that are not essential.

For how long? Until you die?
I know this is not at all the optimal solution, but could you set a stick-figure drawing as your "official" online photo? And then just tell google that this is the photo they should be using?

I don't know if it would work because I suspect Google has algorithms to detect faces and won't let you set something that doesn't look like a "real" face to your profile picture.

And setting a random stock image photo of someone seems like a bad idea. There's software out there that can generate a fake face that might pass the Google "real" face test, but for how long? When Google changes their algorithm, will that face get rejected and then you're back to square one.
No the biggest biological attack was Fauci funding the Wuhan Lab.

Fucking bio-terrorist.
You're describing a mediocre programmer. How do you choose between two algorithms: small-scale runtime, large-scale runtime, effort to write, effort to maintain, etc. Folks who can't cope with ambiguity will make a single-measure heuristic and pull the trigger immediately. It's great for their 'goal accomplished' statistic, which mediocre managers love, but that isn't what a good programmer would do.
I wish, but when my mental health is bad (I'm feeling down) every game I try is boring and feels like work.

When my mental health is good I can enjoy more productive stuff so I do that instead.
Latvia has it's own digital library of periodicals. It was digitized in few projects, and was made available to general reader (via periodika.lv) for free, except last 60 or so years, which were subject to copyright. However, when pandemic came, digital library became available for everyone without any copyright deductions.
Per TFA there was an early cut with Marlowe in voiceover explaining things. This was removed at some point, which does indeed support your theory.
The funny thing is you can type any character on a keyboard. It's the same weird disconnect about "text file formats are human-readable". Either way you need a tool that can render & read the format in question. It does't much matter what format you actually store the data in, because you don't read & write the bites directly.
I am a NIMBY opposing a 24 storey build in an area which has a 12-15 storey cap. The 24 is actually 32, they cut it down when 800 of us complained.

We're not opposed to dense housing: far from it, we want widespread 5-10 builds to improve housing stocks alongside schools and hospitals and parks and shops.

It's a beautiful building proposal, which is twice the local planning code expectations and an ambit claim, jumping the city skyline 800m in front of the current edge of tall towers.

Sometimes, opposition has a rational basis. There's no economic upside for the community at large from this building, I continue to oppose it.
What I am trying to emphasize here is that there's a difference between "a myriad of disjoined systems which can be used to identify somebody" and "a single system that includes data about everybody". The difference is a bit like being able to hire a PI to follow somebody and having everybody's whereabouts in a single centralized database 24/7. Not the same thing, wouldn't you agree?
It's a blip - wind generation is at a two week low. Live snapshots disguise the overall trend.

The evolution of CO2 intensity of electricity generation in Europe can be seen here: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/overview-...
Ah, seems reasonable!
> The images may not be CASM and the idea that a moderation queue results in felony charges is near ridiculous.

Agree, and I think this is backed up by real world experience. Has Facebook or anyone working on their behalf ever been charged for possession of CSAM? I guarantee they've seen some. Probably a lot, in fact. That's why we have recurring discussions about the workers and the compensation they get (or not) for the really horrid work they are tasked with.
> hydro plants could be producing more GHGs than even the dirtiest coal plants. Quebec and BC could actually be the dirtiest provinces and we just don't know.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidences.

> Long story short, when trees decompose in an anaerobic environment, it produces methane instead of CO2, and also takes 4 times longer to decompose.

Assuming that's true, the GHGs for all the existing dams have been emitted already... making them 0 emissions now and for the rest of their lifetime. And now, if the methane hypothesis is true, this means there are now ways to mitigate that for future dams.
> You are aware that a lot of CSAM are close ups of say pussies for example, and human anatomy can look very similar?

I doubt images that look quite generic will make it into those hash sets, though.
Let me preface this first by saying that I find this entire situation to be abhorrent, and that reply by Apple's Chief Privacy Officer to be useless at best and poor at worst. However, there is a significant case for why it might not be a lie (not that it makes that statement any better, but that's beside the point).

If you look at the original source material[0] (which is a really interesting piece to read in full in general) instead of the article about it in the OP , it tries to understand the situation in much more detail than the BBC report.

And their reasonable conclusion was that Apple just grabbed that random list from somewhere or reverse engineered it from some other product, because it contains some terms in chinese that are plain weird or have no explanation, such as 5 different random names with the last name "Zhang".

The part about Canadian vs. US banlist was fairly interesting too, in terms of how The Citizen Lab analyzed the whole thing. Overall, I would count that report as a must-read. It is way more interesting and comprehensive than the BBC article about it. Not even mentioning that it goes really deep into the methodology of how the conclusions were arrived at and how those banlists were reverse-engineered.

0. https://citizenlab.ca/2021/08/engrave-danger-an-analysis-of-...

P.S. I wish this thread was linking to the source material aka full analysis post by The Citizen Lab instead of the barebones and weak BBC article about it. It covers way more ground than just what's mentioned in the BBC article. And it is the primary source, after all.
Must be really annoying when your terrorist cousin comes over and uses your wifi on the holidays.
so the life of 60+ matter less than anti-vaxer?
"Frankly Americans have a lot fewer rights than they think they have"

Very true
They are very likely aware of backlash but since this is a easily defendable hill with a very slippery slope down the way, it is of their interest to push for it IMHO.
The notification has one title, the title here has another, the article title has another, and I'm immediately assaulted with pop-ups and page scroll shifts... it can be REALLY annoying checking HN sometimes, you know?!
How long ago did you work at RV? I was there after 2016 and they had some really solid tech and incredibly bright engineers. Sure, there were some ass-hats and politics (show me a company where there isn't), but I'd rank it pretty highly among the companies I've worked for.
I guess artificial stupidity is a thing now.
Definitely very inspired by. The whole Jackie Treehorn element in particular
> In real life, would you also respond to a trivial personal anecdote with moral chastising?

I may have, to be honest.

> Does the discussion have to take a form of geopolitical virtue signalling [...]

It may be virtue signaling for you, but if you were from Argentina you would know that war is still an open wound, that it happened during a de-facto government and that it was one of many atrocities that happened during that period.
By default, Elasticsearch is unsecured. If you manage your own ES cluster, you have to go through a few steps to secure it manually. Lots of people either don't know/don't care about this though, so they regularly expose their data to the whole internet.
I think he just called her a fraud, and honestly, I never seen him making a mistake in this regard. Here:

https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge...

pretty entertaining twitter thread
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/892567659342114816
In this specific case (Elm vs. JavaScript) We're talking about JavaScript here, so:

> - ubiquitous things, like data structures

There are a few basic data structures in JS, but almost everything else is in user-land.

> - hard to get right things, like time

Date is a notoriously bad API in JavaScript.

- implementations of specs, like Unicode

We just get a String type in JavaScript which is UTF-16, so...
> Additionally, the researcher noticed some elusive fields such as "tag," "nomination type," and "selectee indicator," that weren't immediately understood by him.

I'm not sure about the others, but "selectee indicator" might be whether the individual is on the Selectee list used for SSSS flagging[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening_S...
> If you are Apple, even though EARN IT failed... you know where Washington's heart lies.

If you are IG Farben, you know where Berlin's heart lies...
Afghans: Use the A26 Backpack to store your educational / professional materials
With the rise of end to end encrypted data and messaging, such as signal and WhatsApp, it makes sense for governments to shift the search to user’s devices and operating systems rather than cloud, before stuff gets encrypted.