skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some very good point! Thanks a lot. We already covered a lot of these points but some need to be addressed. I hope we will discuss the base salary with decision makers and not only HR who is not that much involved in the whole acquisition process.
Genuine question: Do you think Hinduism and Buddhism are religions?
Do you think they serve the purpose of war? How do they do it, if you think so?
For productive sites / services I use a VPS (Vultr) mostly because backups and rollbacks are completely painless which is awesome when you manage everything yourself. Instead of container I just use phusion passenger. Kiss.

I also have 2 dedicated one from a small reseller, one from Kimsufi. They run heavy services like monitoring and additional backups essentially everything where I don't care about 100% uptime.

All public downtimes I've had in the last 4 years or so we're 100% my fault.

Edit:// Its less than $100 for several million page views and some heavy monitoring.
It's Undertale but made in Japan. Attractive world building and back story combined with a healthy supply of derivative work from talented content makers and you got it.
That would result in deflation and deflation would require negative interest rates. Germany had a debt brake before the pandemic and their interest rates were the lowest and even negative on government bonds. The same is true of other countries like Switzerland.

If you want your government to stop the endless debt expansion you're going to need negative interest rates.
I'm developing on Odoo right now. I think I like it.
The applicable cliche here is "the perfect is the enemy of the good." I may be misreading your point, but the way this reads to me, it's kinda a reductio ad absurdum of the concept of law in general, no?

Of course anyone can choose to go rogue and disobey or subvert the rules. This doesn't mean that all regulations are equally pointless. Oversight policies can be judged by how effectively they can detect, deter, and sometimes even (albeit imperfectly) prevent abuses of power. There is likely no way to 100% guarantee perfect democratic accountability in any system in which a motivated conspiracy of people in power is possible, which is as far as I can tell all the systems in which anyone has power. The link explains the author's view of the systemic consequences of this change in policy fairly well, and it's definitely cause for concern, despite the fact that there's no magic bullet for this sort of thing
The least they could do is an in app thumbnail creator that's fairly decent.
No equity of our company but I will get some RSU's and since they are a public company they are limited how much they can hand out and the majority will be in cash and some of it combined with a earn-out.
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The circles you fill are very particular about social distancing.

Unique patterns to play every time !

The game is inspired by the concept of utilizing the space in efficient manner following social distancing rules.
Exactly, memories aren't immutable, and every visit are bound to have a side effect.
They certainly do for full-size sensors; I've heard APS-C lenses are harder to make, but don't see why not.In any case, even if they don't it helps bring down the noise when down-sampling.

That said, all of us do love new toys : D
AES 256 only requires millions of qubits to crack. What do we do once we think that's attainable behind close doors? It'd be better to be prepared.

https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/aes-256-joins-...
Back in school (probably the year 2000), I did an internship at our local (German) utilities company. They used SAP. Everyone told me how bad it is, how much it sucks, etc. I read comments like here, full of stories of how bad it is and how much worse it makes things.

And yet. They thrive and grow. I always leave with the impression that it really does do things well after all, just not in obvious ways.
oh, so a "founder" is not a founder. A "founder" is only one that is blessed by YC, and nobody else is a founder of a company unless it is through YC?

If someone goes through some other incubator or program, it doesn't count? Like, you could get an MBA from Harvard, PhD is astrophysics from MIT, win the Nobel Prize at 18 years old, start a company and make $800 billion dollars, and you still won't be a "credible tech founder®"? I'm just trying to understand this here. YC is the only font of "credible tech founderhood®"?
And almost all online booking services are using the same duopoly with the same legacy tech anyway.

As with all B2B backbone systems, consumers are hardly ever aware that the even exist. Power grids, pipelines, shipping, ERPs, airline booking all are systems people ignore until something goes wrong. And those systems are shielded from consumers by multiple layers of middleware and middlemen that hide the complexity of things.

Good for consumers, the downside is that the actual knowledge of hoe things works gets more and more concentrated on a very small group of experts that have to keep the lights on while proverbial Jane in Accounting or Bob in marketing don't like the UI and tech bro Chad prevers to move fast an brake things with management assuming agile is the solution to everything.
To be fair people of "higher privilege" probably don't care too much what the unfortunates think of them.

But what annoys me is that class is now equated with race.
There are millions of poor whites in America who are not nor ever will be privileged.
I think it all goes back to the fact that if we'd still have stars for rating videos on YouTube instead of algorithm-driven suggestions and no real way to decide whether people really liked the content or not, we wouldn't be here. That would not be necessary if I could still clearly see who's got good ratings and who doesn't
Thanks for this comment. I have personal experience with all of these frustrations and agree very strongly. I can see someone writing off this comment as just another rant but it really isn’t - you’re hitting the nail right on the head over and over.

The way Apple and Google have wedged themselves in as an interface and then gatekeeper to our customers is deeply pernicious. I respect what they have achieved but it’s deeply saddening to wonder if the freedom we had decades ago online was anomalous and not intrinsic to the medium.
Yes but everything "self-made". Been working like this for years now.

Also have arch + i3 + openrdp dev containers which work awesome. Even with multi-monitor support. The only thing missing is gpu acceleration. Then it would be perfect.
White House Is Mulling a Ban on Bitcoin Mining
The Wikipedia article rightly identifies this idea as an Islamophobic conspiracy theory and here you go actually assuming the subject is in fact true.

There is no evidence the faith or the majority of adherents intentionally encourages people to marry in order to proselytize. Of course there are extremists who might believe that however but this conspiracy theory doesn't seem to make that distinction.
It's not wrong, it's just demonstrating that slapping single quotes around a string is not sufficient to make it safe. You need to escape the string properly. Guess how many people do that.
>price is not an issue since you hate them anyway

If it's significantly cheaper then you can put up with something being worse. In this case only one of the two apply.
Has a dystopian ring to it, "we don't need to clear up the nuclear waste, just take your thyroid pills and everything will be fine"
Some of my friends grand parents still have a bottle sandoz LSD around from back then when Hoffmann shared the love aggressively.

IMO it's wonderful to know that this substance won't disappear anytime soon.

It's a darknet vendor btw and their name contains small mythical creatures. No personal experience with them, but I know their product and have a morbid interest for the market :)
I understand, and certainly support improvement in every size and family.

However, when you're trying to shoot movement with 1/60, f/2 @ ISO10K, nothing smaller than FF cuts it. It's almost pitch dark and flash is strictly prohibited.
Appreciate it! Thanks.
You don't need corporate security or auditors; even in a small web-shop, administering production servers is a power reserved for wizards. Sure, you can administer your own developer workstation; perhaps you get a Linux VM to yourself, that you can tinker with.

It would be nuts to let every developer tinker with the production server, or the source-code repo, or the fileserver. The private VM gives them a playground where they can learn to play at sysadmin, if they want; real sysadmin, I would contend, is taking the burden of responsibility when shit happens. Nobody cares much about wizards, until shit happens; the wizard then becomes an essential scapegoat. The newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery wasn't created for nothing.
> Nobody would ever think about Adobe or Nikon having copyright claims over your pictures

But it is illegal to share pictures of Eiffel Tower, for example.

People do it, but they shouldn't.

If I put a picture of Eiffel Tower at night in a book or any other kind of commercial product, I have to pay to use it. Doesn't matter that it's there for my eyes to see it.

The question is: are the images generated by an hyper accelerated learning machine using copyrighted material without the author's consent legal?

I think they shouldn't be and the data included in the training should be free or licensed.
GP means is faster. It can be thought an iOS problem considering running this combo isn't allowed on iOS.
Without algorithm driven decisions I would not haven 90 percent of my very high quality feed.

Stars are usually worthless. People leave 1 star or 5 stars, that’s akin to a down or up vote. And with the algorithm you never look at the ratings, really; you just trust the feed, because it’s good!

YouTube’s algorithm is extremely good when you know how to give it a helping hand, especially for educational content. I’m quite happy they’re pushing for more educational tools and ways for educational creators to make money.
Yeah, the paper made me wonder how the typical modern graphics library even draws stroked béziers. Surely, when the line weight is greater than 1, you have essentially two parallel béziers you are filling in order to rasterize a fat stroke.
I'm a developer who works on that (type of) system for a living.

If you receive an automated marketing email from a dealership, they are _legally obligated_ to provide an unsubscribe button. We use SendGrid for that purpose, but I'm not sure who other companies use.

If there isn't an unsubscribe button, or you continue receiving emails after unsubscribing, you should be able to file a complaint with the FTC.
Hi! Great product. Would love to know where the limitation in terms of frequency. How many can you send without being flagged as spam?
> To be fairly honest, the rule of law in most European countries has been greatly eroded over the past two years. Mostly with support from the people themselves, I might add.

Do you have any examples of how the "rule of law" has been eroded in Europe with a positive public reaction? I can't think of any times where the people have cheered that the law was being wilfully broken. It was the final straw for kicking the last UK PM out.

I might agree that governments care less about their public appearance due to many factors, but it doesn't seem to ever come with public goodwill.
Steam is a double-edged sword. I have access to 15 year old games on all of my computers today. This would be a challenge for a game distributed on a disk with DRM. However, my 1000+ USD library could vanish with one internet outage, if steam goes bankrupt, if steam makes legal missteps, if steam decides they don't like me, etc.

I de-googled to avoid being at the mercy of a for-profit company for more important identity-related matters, but it'd be a sad day if I ever lost access to the archive of games.
Not really though. How often do you paste code that's long enough to hide stuff like this from sources that you don't trust? Probably very rarely.

The real risk of this sort of thing is basically Bash injection - people who have bash scripts as part of their infrastructure that process public data. Sounds insane, yes. But there's a scary number of people who think Bash scripting is a sane thing to do.
You could one day replace the state machine with your own and have, for example, Redis.
Although I do share the concerns it's impossible to know what this would do in practice. For the most part I think our Government (ie the Dutch one) is run by people with integrity. I doubt they'd want to cause scandal by overloading regulators to do nasty stuff. Although I must say I don't agree with this change either.
I dont have a problem with parents wanting school libraries to only have appropriate books. I think the presentation by the media as "book banning" is pretty ridiculous.
There is an example that always comes to my mind regarding this “logic”, and which I think used to crop up from other commentators around this. It’s potentially even more powerful since it comes from the other side of the political fence: The beginning of The War On Terror (™), and “if you aren’t with us, you’re with the terrorists”. This is exact the same manipulative fallacy. However, pointing this out would need to assume those using it are good faith actors, whereas I’d suggest this argument is evidence of bad faith
That last line made me laugh, but it's funny because it's true. It's down to the "sit where you're sitting" effect.

Noam Chomsky famously told Andrew Marr during an interview that he was sure Marr was sincere and believed everything he was saying, but if he'd believed anything else, he wouldn't sit where he was sitting.

It follows from that true observation that the only time such appointed watchdogs (whether oversight board members or news personalities) are actually doing something, is when they quit, or at least threaten to quit.
And is that nonsense or is there evidence that backs it up?
Yeah it's fascinating. In my very unscientific mental model for cognition, there's a distinction between "active" and "passive" mental operations. "Active" is anything requiring intention - when you "push" with your mind - like for instance when you are writing code or doing your taxes or building a piece of furniture. It's analytical and requires effort.

"Passive" is when you let your brain solve a problem. For instance when you have that idea in the shower, or think of that movie title when you're folding laundry.

There are problems recalling that distant fact, or the act of creativity which can't be solved actively, and the process of trying to brute force it with effort actually runs counter to reaching a solution.
Run Jupyter on Kubernetes, but don't waste GPU time
I heard of one from Leonardo da Vinci. Couldn't find the link, though.
> Do you think that capitalism is an eternal fact of nature?

In our lifetime, when capitalism is the weaker fundamental force driving man’s priorities, I’ll come and give you all of my money.
> How, as an adult, have you not learned to determine what is wrong or right for yourself?

Good to remember that nobody is all knowing, regardless of age or experience.
> eventually you may have to choose between going back into an office at least part-time or finding something else.

Resume/LinkedIn, savings and mindset are important here. If you want the freedom to say "That's gonna be a 'no' for me, dawg." when your company decides they want everyone to RTO, you need to be mentally prepared for it as well has having a good profile/resume and enough money to tide you over. That takes planning.
I started as the System Administrator for a small service company in 1997, at that time it was 40 hours of work per week just keeping things running, and users happy. Over the years, things got more and more reliable, until eventually I just would show up, wait for things to break, then go home. At that point, they outsourced IT, a wise decision.

Everything is much more stable than it used to be. It might seem not to be the case, but I assure you, it is. Once something works, it tends to keep working.
I don't take notes at all, I just use Notepad++ as temporary clipboard for big copy/pastes or edit before paste. I'm really curious to see what the notes looks like for these heavy note taker with hundred of pages/notes. I'm also curios to know if it depends on the career, maybe a ML Engineer need more note taking than an electrician who wire cables all day.

I'm a software engineer. My thinking process gets better as I develop and implement things. I cannot write notes and then implement. There were times when I wished I took notes/planned before implementing, but nothing to make me regret. It is just more refactor and time consuming to rewrite things.

I feel like note taking is overrated and trendy like AI/ML (like DALL-E or Stable Diffusion). I wish someone can mentor me to takes notes and make understand the value of it. And I read a lot of blog post about it.
> (i) ideas that are non-obvious, even to the well-trained computer scientist

> In the first lesson, they discuss consistent hashing, and they seem to have achieved their goals.

I was really excited when I read your comment here before clicking the link, but having had a look at the rest of the curriculum, I'm slightly underwhelmed.

- Generalization ... Empirical risk minimization.

- lossy compression

- Similarity Search. (Dis)similarity metrics: Jaccard, Euclidean, Lp....

- Regularization. The polynomial embedding and random projection, L2 regularization, and L1 regularization as a computationally tractable surrogate for L0 regularization.

- Understanding Principal Component Analysis (PCA). ... The simple geometry of "diagonals in disguise." The power iteration algorithm.

- Low-rank matrix approximations. The singular value decomposition (SVD), applications to matrix compression, de-noising, and matrix completion (i.e. recovering missing entries).

- Graphs as matrices and the Laplacian of a graph. Interpretations of the largest and smallest eigenvectors/eigenvalues of the Laplacian. Spectral embeddings. Interpretations of the second eigenvalue

- Markov Chains, stationary distributions. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

- Fourier methods

- Compressive sensing

- Linear and convex programming. Matrix completion

- Differential privacy

I was thinking that the vast majority of those topics should be pretty much standard knowledge for a mathematically trained computer scientist (not being an expert in each of them, but knowing the basics of what they do, how they work and where they're applied). What level is this course at?
So PD software never was?
You might need a mediator to bridge the communication gap.
I have no real advice to give you except to say that I have the same problem. I'm respected where I worked and can deliver features fast and with quality, but I'm very slow and methodical when gathering requirements. I also have a hard time memorizing stuff. So I suck at leetcode. To top it all, I tend to panic during interviews.

But trying to make this post a bit more constructive, like other people said, I think it's a matter of practice. I believe that anyone can be good at anything (within reasonable limits), it's just a matter of how much time and effort you're willing to put into it. Personally I like working where I'm working now, despite the relatively low salary and the tons of support I have to do. And having worked at a MAMAA company in the past I don't think I'd want to go there again, for various reasons.

If I'd really want to go work there again, what I'd do is double down on leetcode questions, there are lots of websites for that.

I'd also try doing Advent Of Code and get all stars, preferably in real-time, during December. This isn't exactly leetcode but doing it helped me a lot with my self confidence for solving problems fast. I sort of felt like my brain was forced to stop dawdling and thinking of the problem from all aspects and instead just go ahead and solve it. It wasn't easy and it was very tiring but it helped a lot.

Also: I fully agree with what @YouWhy said, having worked in BigTech myself.
> wouldn't they just... do it, without telling this board

That comes with the risk of getting caught. Especially when there is a board of actually empowered, not toothless people, tasked with stopping you from doing that. This guy's resignation shows that there actually was some real oversight, that they probably couldn't get away with just ignoring it (as they have in some other states I could mention)
Absolutely! That is actually the only "issue" I have with my cameras, both are 12 MP. Don't het me wrong, they make great pictures, small file size has a bunch of advantages and I prefer to get composition right in camera anyway. But sometimes, usually for wildlife, you need to crop because even a 720mm equivalent lense only gets you that much of a bird in far distance inframe. And then low MPs only give you that much MPs and details to work with. But hey, I still get some nice shots, and most of the time I do landscapes and architecture anyway.
Do you have a problem with a religious parent deciding the definition of “appropriate” in the context of their religion, and foisting that belief on kids of other religions or no religion?
Merriam-Webster is taking the distinctly minority view on this, when it comes to dictionaries. When it comes to actual usage, something being "no longer widely seen as incorrect" is not quite the ringing validation for any common mistake of the masses that you seem to think it is.

A much better writeup with a listing of many dictionaries and grammar guides that take the correct approach is here:

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2017/06/flaunt-flout.html
The Netherlands is still quite far from being North Korea. And Animal Farm is about communism. You might be thinking of 1984, but that's quite the reach too.

Of course it is worrying that secret services get more power, but

> We are now on the downward trend of civil rights everywhere. This makes me very worried.

when civil rights get abused or the rule of law cannot be upheld, society and the goverment have to react. There is no easy fix for this. I wish they'd expand the powers of intelligence services more carefully, but such is not the political climate at the moment.

And please, don't put democracies between scare quotes. You're not quoting the article.
> A 2TB drive is very sufficient for any amateur photographer

No. Maybe for you, but not for me. I have a 4TB drive and it's almost full. I need to upgrade to 6 or 8 TB and it's a pain.
> I love the film grain like look.

Sounds interesting. Having dropped out of the pro-digital-camera loop many several years now, I am only guessing that perhaps the "X-Trans" has digital (compression?) artifacts have an analog "feel"?

EDIT: did some Googling, sounds like it's the Bayer pattern the CCD uses that is unique — interesting: https://petapixel.com/2017/03/03/x-trans-vs-bayer-sensors-fa...
Steam has relatively weak DRM. There is nothing that prevents pirates from building an archive.

The only real threat is fragmentation of game stores so that you cannot get all games on a single store.
I think the author tries to justify his own bullshit job.

It tried to pretend that you can't do in one week end something equivalent to what takes him months and cost millions.

But, for example, a big part of the delay with the agency is for it to understand what you want and do round trips to propose you slight modifications like a little bit more rounded corners and co.

If you do it on yourself it can goes a lot way faster.
already was a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32747067
Deforum img2img animation using the lyrics to The Highwayman
How good is Fuji for videos these days? Few years ago they were very much behind competition probably because of their X-Trans filter array.
I'm a parent, what if these books don't bother me and I want them to stay? Who decide what is appropriate?
First they came for the books they thought not appropriate...
Uh, 20 years ago.