skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why people always react with such contempt for businesses when they fire people? Employees leave their jobs all the time for selfish reasons, and nobody feels sorry for business owners who are often left with difficult problem maintaining the operations without that one person with a specific skill set. Why is it so different the other way around? Class solidarity, because there far more employees than business owners?
Bankruptcy does not change your ability to be employed.
Interview with Armon about the timeline from project release to mass adoption, the importance of focusing on user problems rather than a specific technical solution, incorporating the right user feedback, the hard decisions he had to make as a leader, and learnings from 9+ years at HashiCorp.
This is the first time I've seen a American news platform use the British version of "tabling." In US Congress, "tabling a bill" effectively means suspending action on it indefinitely. Only in British English is a bill "tabled for discussion."
There is of course room for individual preference, and one's hearing and the physical headphone fit play a role.

But essentially: yes, to a reasonable degree we absolutely can tell how good or bad a set of headphones will sound via measurements.

It's the equivalent of measuring a car's quality
by looking at 0-100km times

The "quality" of a car is the sum of hundreds if not thousands of factors.

Audio reproduction has basically a single input, and the output can be well described using a small number of metrics.

We know what sounds good to people. It would be a miracle if we didn't, given the fact that the business and science of audio reproduction have been around for 125+ years. It has been studied and is something of a solved problem.

Sean Olive and others have published some great research that's worth reading. The TL;DR is that headphone listeners prefer accurate sound reproduction that is fit to what is sometimes called the Harman Curve, which in turn correlates pretty well with the Fletcher-Munson equal loudness curve.

It's interesting that these debates pop up around audio but not video. We know what "looks good" in a television: objectively accurate color and motion reproduction. This can all be easily measured. Audio can easily be measured as well, and yet....
I don't think "taking responsibility" here means moral responsibility for laying people off, I think it refers to professional responsibility for putting the company in a financial position where mass layoffs are necessary in the first place.
This will reduce the chance of the laidoff employees of finding new jobs...
Just tested it and you are right - they seem to have fixed it with the Iberian update.
The U-Force is my earliest memory of returning a product to the store for being an utter piece of garbage. I felt guilty because I knew it was expensive and my parents were excited to give it to me. FWIW, great learning experience, I guess.

U-Force promised basically what Leap Motion can do today. The tech wasn't there at all, and the product should never have been released.
I mean, netbeans was on the ascent at least as recent as 10 years ago, but then intellij stole their thunder, and eclipse held onto a core userbase more so than netbeans did.
The railfan forums often have very knowledgeable people, and many trains are run on schedules (our local track has a train one direction in morning and the other in evening). If you find someone who railfans in your area they probably know most of what you want.

It shouldn't be hard to count cars if you wanted to, either by sound or laser or something similar. People have even done it by earth vibration.
For those here that work on ML or data science teams in industry, do you use something analogous to preregistration?

I think it's relatively common for practitioners to have an idea for some change to an existing model or system, be that a structural change, new feature, some preprocessing step, etc, develop it by iteratively making changes and running some pipeline, and stop when it looks like a measurable improvement has been achieved. Cut a PR, put in some graphs of the change in metrics of interest, merge, and start the process again. Any sequence of negative results encountered on the way are quietly presumed to be because something in the code or the setup wasn't right yet -- and often there were clear problems which get fixed along the way. But as a result, those negative outcomes often aren't kept or reexamined.
According to this page: https://portal.rentaflop.com/blog/hosting

It sounds like this is a cryptocurrency miner plus rendering farm, and participants will be paid in cryptocurrencies?
It isn't true that it is the lowest performers.
From your link:

> The law forbids discrimination when it comes to any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, promotions, layoff, training, fringe benefits, and any other term or condition of employment.

This makes it sound like affirmative action is illegal. But it is currently allowed and many companies brag about doing it.

What Twilio is doing is basically the same. It's like affirmative action for layoffs.

I agree that GP was wrong to say that discrimination is mandated, which it is not.
Not really. Argentina is explicitly all about using crypto to get access to US Dollars. And they're all going through intermediaries, some who don't even control their own wallets and are just using available crypto exchanges. So that's a lot of 3rd parties, just not the Argentinian government.

https://www.freethink.com/technology/crypto-argentina-black-...
To imply there is absolutely no overlap between the group of people espousing CRT and the group of people who believe the world would be a better place if every white person spontaneously died is to be willfully ignorant of an unfortunate reality.

We should be taking the opportunity to disavow the latter on behalf of the good intentions of the former.
Judgment of the General Court in Case T-604/18 [pdf]
Unfortunately there is no support for COLRv1 fonts on Safari (desktop or mobile).

The expectation that every user get's exactly the same experience regardless of what browser they're using has held the development of great user experiences on the web back for about two decades now. There's no reason why you shouldn't deliver a better experience for some users if their browser is more capable.

Design a working minimal app. It'll probably be close to a plain HTML and CSS site that's rendered on a server. Then add in things that make it nicer to use while checking that the browser supports that feature so you don't break anything if it doesn't. Build up to a really nice experience. Progressively enhance the usr experience. This is literally how websites were built 20 years ago, but then developers got lazy and only wrote apps for the lowest common denominator, which meant any new features in browsers rarely good used, and at the same time slightly unusual browsers like Lynx got abandoned entirely. It really annoys me.
Not nearly as hacker-y as this, but I'll plug Reflect here. Probably my favorite tool for this so far. Best continually-improving UX, but there's a subscription cost. I happily pay it.
These virtue signaling needs to stop.
AWS certifications from AWS are reasonably legit.

That said, most certifications are a negative indicator of competence. This is supported by direct experience and research studies.

At the prior 3 institutions I was CTO, we routinely screened out resumes with a laundry list of certifications before even speaking to candidates.

Note this is not about having certifications, it’s about mediocre candidates attempting to signal competence on the resume by listing a pile of cert-mill nonsense. The negative correlation is so high, when hiring at scale just toss the ones with certs (but give recruiters a list of exceptions, e.g., AWS, CNCF, etc.).

// Again, there are exceptions, and AWS first party certifications are among them.
Sadly it's wrong. My gripe with it is that it presents countersteering as necessary, while it's just a technique to more quickly initiate a turn.

Basically by steering right while leaning left, then snapping the handlebars to the left, you can change your centre of gravity relative to the bike's faster than you can just by leaning left. When leaning your body left you also naturally push the handle bars right which produces a countersteer as well even if you didn't mean to.

However, you can easily observe a bicycle steering without first initiating a countersteer. The easiest is if you just push it and let it coast by itself. It will naturally start leaning one way and continue turning that way until it falls on the ground without any countersteering. Another way is, if its geometry permits, to ride it without holding on to the handlebars - you can see you're steering left and right by shifting your weight on only the seat without any countersteering. Or you can consciously avoid doing a countersteer and make turns that way - noticeably less quickly than if you do countersteer, but quite possible.

Another proof would be the fact that monowheels work and can be steered. You cannot countersteer a monowheel, yet it steers just fine. Look also at Destin's backwards bicycle experiment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0 . I really don't think you can countersteer that thing anyway, yet it steers just fine.

I think if Veritasium had given people more time (days? weeks?) to adjust to the bike, they would learn to make turns without countersteering. I know it took me a while to learn to do it when I first heard about countersteering and thought to experiment.

Finally, I really hate the word "countersteering". It is very misleading and logically impossible. Obviously you can't have to turn left before turning right, because then you have to first turn right in order to turn left in order to turn right, but you have to first turn left in order to turn right in order to turn left in order to turn right... ad nauseam. A much better term would be "counterjerk" - you're jerking the bike to the right so that you can more quickly shift your centre of gravity left and make a sharper left turn.
Jakarta EE is Java EE. When Oracle bought Java they cut Java EE loose because Spring and Spring Boot were eating the world and Oracle didn't want to be in the business of maintaining the losing Java enterprise framework. But they couldn't call it Java EE anymore because Oracle holds the Java trademark.
According to its Wikipedia entry, McMurdo Station had a 20Mbit/s satellite link so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station#Communications
So is this statement linguistic prescriptivism, or descriptivism?
I did. But it didn't mean I'm endorsing it. I basically try to post things that are interesting and I think it's somehow good for people to read. But actually I didn't read this first I just thought it would be interesting. But it turns out it wasn't that interesting but the discussion is reasonably interesting.. so that's okay.
Perhaps when you do layoffs naively, you can accidentally adversely affect certain groups. For example, if your policy was last in - first out, you would likely be letting go a disproportional number of young workers.

I can't say wether anything like that was the case, nor would I counter the experience of responders here saying that they as minorities find actions like Twillio's harmful. Nor do I comment on whether the messaging was done well. Only that the situation can have nuance.
I did when I arrived back.
Head over to Reddit and go to the vagabond subreddit. There is a lot of train riding info there.
Can someone clarify the meaning of "spinning" in Linus's post?
I should mention, i thinked i messed up with the url, if you enter rust,lisp you will see the uptick ís higher for Lisp than rust. In real world terms rust might have more count of post, but rate-of-change is higher for LISP.
Hiring people so that your competition can't is a business tactic, not a smart one going into a recession, but worked for decades for FAANG
I think your religious metaphor is exactly on point and it makes perfect sense if you take it seriously. Why do Christian companies talk about God when they make business decisions? They're not implementing some complex sociopolitical strategy, they just think God is important so they like to spread His message whenever they get the opportunity. It's the same phenomenon.
sure, what was written was sensible but has no bearing on the proof. speculation isn't critical thinking, as adastra22 says, be careful to what you are responding to. my point is the lack of rigor and understanding because the proof isnt being discussed, hand waving about an unread and very important mathematical work is irresponsible. thats MY point
>To anyone who ever has to do lay-offs: this is a masterclass in what not to write.

Incorrect.
To anyone who ever has to do lay-offs: this is a masterclass in what to write.

Let's try and keep things honest, eh?
I think it's a political statement to try to "look better" and gain some "sympathy" from the activist choir.

If this is HOW they are making firing decisions, then this is stupid. To remain viable they need to "cut the fat" regardless of who makes up the "fat". In other words beancounters should not be looking a the "race" & "gender" columns to make business/personnel decisions.
Are you using S3 Select[1]?

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-glacier-select/
Unfortunately, it’s completely irrelevant to the question asked as printers are typically not driven by kernel mode device drivers.
WebKit’s position: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2021-March/031...
Aha, thank you!!
To the board and VC, "taking responsibility" means they should get a bonus for reducing headcount. Bulk up, gain marketshare, during glide phase reduce operating expenses and "spend" the gains earned during growth phase.

Money is in charge. There is no moral element to how humans currently run business.
It does, either via AuroraStore (complete Google Play Store replacement without google account) or Sandboxed Google Play [1]. My banking apps works, and everything else I can think of.

Hard to say what a "normal" level of tinkering is with Android, as I have switched directly from iOS to Graphene and have never used Stock Android. I am sure some things are a little bit more cumbersome, but for me the tradeoff is worth it.

Also the stock g-cam (with internet access disabled) and g-photos (with internet access disabled) make a pretty amazing photo and photo editing experience.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play
I can't find much, this requires S3 so you can't use it with local disk. Doesn't seem simpler than Loki in that regard, just less features.
Stablediff-infinity: Outpainting on an infinite canvas using Stable Diffusion
For tax purposes, consider it as a loan.
Eh, I’d probably watch “Ow, my balls!”.
When I say I take full responsibility for the production issue I don’t take a pay cut either. I learn from it and do better next time.
Holy cow how have I not heard of testflight installation method with which yattee is being distributed!
Reading up more on it, seems you need to be an ios developer to use it. Beh.

Thanks for mentioning yatee, as adguard is severely lacking in that ads are rarely blocked.
>What did the white child do to deserve this?

Ah, the fallacy that everything you receive from your ancestors is undeserved. Will we be doing race-based asset appropriation tomorrow, comrade?

I think I'm not interested in discussing this with someone holding such a position which I consider completely deluded.
+1. Race shouldn't be brought up in (or factored into) layoffs.
Bill Gates AI Will Change Everything, What We Owe Africa – Ari Melber [video]
How is killing not a specific crime? Like usually the “incontrovertible” is the hard part.
With ethereum applications someone can just publish the blue print, some random person anywhere in the world can publish the application for N ETH, and then everyone running the ethereum virtual machine executes the autonomous thing (interestingly the latter here haven't been sanctioned or blamed/punished at all). Sniffing out who actually paid the ethereum network to absorb the machine could be basically impossible, and once people start getting prosecuted you can bet almost anyone doing so will effectively do it in a way where it is impossible to find them.

Either ethereum virtual machine operators at large is criminal organization or it's an endless game of a cat trying to catch its tail.
> Just talk to anyone outside of the valley

You mean, in the whole world, right? The situation isn't great in Canada or Europe too.
The rats flee a burning building and move into the next rat's nest. Its nice to know what the current grift is. Although, it would be refreshing to see dumb money and hype thrown in a new direction.
However, it avoids a perception problem which may be far worse: the hypothetical perception that the people drawing up the layoffs were racist and that they disproportionately affected minorities. They wrote "Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused.." on making sure they did not.

If they ignored race entirely, and just laid off people at random, there's a chance that someone later would say "Twilio employees are 35% female, 33% Asian, 9% Latino, and 6% Black, but the laid-off employees were 11% Latino! Racism!" and turn a mob against them. Once the media/Twitter/mob believe that Twilio HR and Twilio executives are racist, those execs might try to defend themselves by saying: "We weighted based on performance reviews, added a bit of statistical noise, and then did a random selection. We believe those performance reviews to be objective and free of racial bias. We didn't even realize that Latinos were slightly over-represented in the layoffs until you mentioned it, but it looks to be merely statistical chance. We actually fired slightly more white people and more men than the statistics would suggest, we're not bigots."

...Do you think that would work?

It's far easier to defend against the accusation of being overly woke than it is to defend against the accusation of being racist, so while you'd rather be neither, it's better to overtly and publicly fail in the safer direction.
This doesn't instruct how to target `thumbv7em-none-eabihf`, for example
When I posted this I viewed it on an iPad mini, it renders I imagine similar to when viewing on mobile, really was not impressed and in my mind a regression. When viewing today on my desktop machine, I actually quite like the change.
> I believe this is driven with good intentions.

Just like the Spanish Inquisition was driven with the good intention of saving people's eternal soul even at the expense of their temporal body being destroyed.
None of that is new though. Housing, healthcare, education, childcare have been increasingly unaffordable for at least a generation now. The focus on specifically food prices and gas prices makes it seem like a recent phenomenon but outside of this 10% (are you not in that?) it has been brutal for a long time.
Most people that are white that I know (I'm half Indian - as in the country India - and half white) are actually now more racist (not like going out of way to join kkk) because of the anti-white and reverse-racism stuff that's been more and more out there. I sit on the sidelines like, what the fuck.
Exercise and sell is an instant prices. If you choose to exercise and hold obviously you now have the volatility of owning the stock, I'm not talking about that.

Yes preferred share classes exist, this is irrelevant to whether or not the options have option value! I'm not guaranteeing that Patreon stock will be worth a lot of money, only that it might be worth a lot of money.
We did the same. We've replaced nginx/lua with a cache server (for video) written in Golang - now serving up to 100 Gbit/s per node. It's more CPU and memory efficient and completely tailored to our needs. We are happy that we moved away from nginx.
Looks like you only read as far as the Glassdoor allegations. Agree those comments are low quality proof. But if you read on you will likely be convinced that Patreon at least needs to publish a credible and sincere apology, as well as promise to clean up their act moving forward.
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I mean, you can call it IP theft, I can call it wage theft. The article quotes one of the devs as saying they had "unpaid milestones", which reads an awful lot like the "major publisher" he didn't want to name for legal reasons had violated the one term that mattered: the part where they pay for the game.

The lesson to take away here, for management, is that you can't get away with everything forever. Whether you view the actions of 2015 as IP theft or just desserts, the fact remains that it wouldn't have happened if the team had A) gotten paid and B) gotten the terms they asked for. I'd be demanding a better deal, too, if my publisher mysteriously forgot to pay for a milestone.
Thanks for giving it a try!

We've tried to make this a little clearer in the "receipt view", but the major difference is in terms of cost of the hardware.

Furnaces, heat pumps, and A/C units all have a 15-20 year useful lifetime.

While the annual savings will be only a bit less, the hardware cost will be _significantly_ less because you only need a one unit for a heat pump vs two for an A/C + furnace combo.

Does that make more sense? We'll try and clarify in the UI
Not uncommon before the intro of edge services to block login on sites during off working hours or during nights. Or at least doing some rate-limiting. We see many attempts at brute force-attacks during the nights. Most sites are not global.