jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
According to my DO stats I average ~60 GB per month in outgoing transfer.

I guess it's because I have a lot of photo gallery images of travel trips and they get caught up in image search results. I'm not sure why it's so high to be honest.

It is going to go up quite a lot too because now that I have a podcast, each episode is around ~50MB for the mp3. I might end up putting the mp3s on a CDN in the end. Probably DO Spaces.
I like the idea of trying to find a replacement for happy hour. I think the better idea is taking that money and randomly distributing it among employees. If the Company wasn’t going to pay for it, just letting me go home is a better idea.
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (‪@brokep‬) 1/10/21, 03:05

"The pirate bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost 2 decades. Parlor and gab etc have all the money around but no skills or mindset. Embarrassing.

The most ironic thing is that TPBs enemies include not just the US government but also many European and the Russian one. Compared to gab/parlor which is supported by the current president of the US and probably liked by the Russian one too.

First time tpb got shut down was because a Mexican gang wanted some cash. Took a day to move. Second time was when the USG forced Sweden to send 50 cops and even arrest the lawyer. Took 3 days to get back online, 1.5 days was spent to get drunk and party."
The conclusions are pretty sound IMHO because they match so well other studies of this kind. E.g. when doing IQ tests on people who are poor part of the year and much better off the other half of the year, once can see a 14 point difference in score. That is quite profound.

Basically the stress of poverty pulls people down in every possible way. It is not just in terms of producing plates, but also in your ability to perform mental tasks.

There are also other studies that show that people who are paid below what they feel they are worth, will perform less well. Basically human productivity seems to work in thresholds. If you are above the threshold, then increases in salary does not improve your performance. Being paid a million or 2 million makes little difference.

But if you are getting way below what you seem descent and normal for the type of work you are doing or you feel unfairly compensated relative to other workers, then performance has been shown to typically lag.

Basically there is a price to pay when engaging in unfairness. It affects people. We can even find the same results within animals. An animal can be fine eating one kind of food, but when that animal learns that that a peer is getting significantly better food, it will often get very upset, angry and stressed.
First comment says:

> CO2 tended to cause poor sleep, headache, and hand tremor before it caused cognitive issues.
Julia's model is based around multimethods, which enables pretty crazy levels of interoperability (imagine being able to use scipy and tensorflow together, with tensorflow's autograd just magically working on most of scipy's functions). More about it here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
This is the direction we're going towards with our internal platform[0] that we built to make our life easier.

We do have real-time collaborative notebooks. However, we also have long-running notebook scheduling where notebooks get picked by a runners and executed against certain environments. One cool feature is that you can watch the notebook's output as it runs, even if you had closed the browser or logged in from another computer. Anothr cool feature is that we do automatic experiment tracking, so we detect parameters, models, metrics, and the notebook automatically, removing the cognitive load from the use to "remember" doing that. People rarely remember clerical things, but even when they do, we didn't want to pollute the notebooks with tracking code of say MLflow. This happens automatically.

These long-running notebooks are simply jobs. There are other types of jobs: building a Docker image for the model so that you can push it to a registry is also a job, so is deploying a model to get a "REST" endpoint and a live dashboard to monitor model performance.

One of our guidelines is: "Anything that is possible with point and click must be possible with an API call", so we make sure to make everything programmable. For example, scheduling a long-running notebook can be done sending in a request. We also are working to add in webhooks and use cloudevents spec so that people can take information from our system, such as a job having finished, and trigger things in other systems.. Another is workload portability.

Again, it's still early and we're prioritizing the issues that have frustrated us the most for the past years in our projects. There's a long way to go, especially that there are many such as yourself who may have worked on problems we've never seen, or a scale/data we haven't handled before.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
Ah, the UK, It has been interesting to watch your "circus" from the other side of the planet.

IMO, the UK handled Covid exceptionally poorly by repeatedly being afraid to act until it was too late.

Here in Australia (Specifically the Northern Territory) we locked down hard early on while we had around 20 cases, I think it was for 2 months, after which no further lock downs have been required. Quarantine for travelers has prevented Covid getting in to the community.
Basically due to how we have handled it life is pretty much the same as before Covid here, restaurants are open, the shopping mall is packed and the only thing we had to give up was 2 months and international holidays.
Respect the effort, but I think it's not going in quite the right direction. I don't think people need paternalistic restrictions on post frequency. People need to be liberated from engagement-optimizing algorithms and allowed to choose which activity is presented to them and in what order.
Most high schools and colleges dedicate a very small portion of the sports budget to women's sport as opposed to men's.
"The leading mosquito net manufacturers insist that their products are not dangerous. Still, many nets are labeled: 'Do not wash in a lake or a river.'"

I'm interested to know what language this label was written in. Bemba? Nyanja? Moreover, where did the manufacturers intend for Zambians to wash the nets?
> We're saying the same thing.

No, we're not. You're saying that there's little difference between 0.1% and 1% equity, since a big exit is a low probability event.

I'm saying there is a big difference between 0.1% and 1% equity, precisely because a big exit is a low probability event. One (0.1%) is almost always meaningless, the other (1%) can be meaningful in several different scenarios.

However, if you want to emphasize the motivation part of the arrangement, founders need to realize that offering an early engineer 0.1% or (God forbid!) 0.05% will have exactly the opposite effect that what they intend. The engineer will see people doing much less than s/he is to grow the company given 5% or 10%, and s/he will feel resentful and underperform. If you're a founder and you're giggling because you've hired this pretty good engineer for a low salary and only gave up 0.05% equity, then you're giggling at yourself, because your engineer hire will work resentfully for a few months and then run and grab the first reasonable job offer that presents itself, right at your most critical hour.

So founders need to either award their first engineer or two a reasonable amount of equity, or just forget the whole thing. But realize that if you chose that route, you'll obviously need to offer a market salary to recruit even remotely-qualified candidates.
Nah, I was surprised. ZBrush has an extensive toolset specifically for creating machinima. You won't want to do CAD with it, obviously, but ZBrush isn't a CAD tool.

It's a common misconception that ZBrush is for organics. You can create some badass space marine type mechs.

Eat3D has a fantastic series of videos that goes into detail on this precise topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xOKVGbZmEc&ab_channel=Eat3D

I respect Blender and like it a lot. I just don't think it can do anything close to what you see in that video. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.

Artists love Blender, and that's good enough of a reason to stick with it. I was just hoping to see more of this style of modeling, since it was the only style that made intuitive sense to me personally.

EDIT: (Sadly, it looks like Eat3D is now offline. It was such a fantastic series. Perhaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEVj39ur-U&ab_channel=Chofn... "Zbrush Hardsurface Techniques" is a sufficient replacement though. Scrub through that, to random places, and you'll see exactly the sort of flexibility I'm talking about with ZBrush's flow.)
Nice propaganda there, most post soviet countries still havent recovered. Hell i aint a communist but most of these countries did better under communism if only because the US wasnt there to leech off them
I take your point; I think maybe this line of discourse is to prevent the "savior" line of thinking, whereby all manner of ills will be addressed by technological advancement, and the day-to-day drudgery of improving our current situation is lessened. The aspirational nature of it is - of course - grand, but maybe a more inward, introspective, look at our current situation would be better in the long-term.
Was that corrected later? I could swear I saw "vulnerable" too and interpreted it as "old unmaintained software that could be easily took over by systemd".
> Houdini

decades even, but I wonder what edge Houdini will keep in the coming years.
No, your first premise is false - even a 'benevolent dictatorship' is not 'the best thing' for the people in most situations. In certain times of crises, maybe, but otherwise, no.
This doesn't actually demonstrate that it's difficult, just that it's expensive. If the government is willing to eat any sunk cost from oversupply, everything becomes predictable. In the case of COVID, it's hard to imagine any quantity of hand sanitizer and respirators doing more damage than the harm they prevent.
You mean this from a security perspective in their services?
This is specifically the video I watched yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOJqHPfG7pA
it’s better to have a few couriers to many people than many people mingling with many people at restaurants. It’s like logarithmic or linear versus quadratic or exponential spread.
Hungarian here.

Goodbye civilization? Most people can't read? It's done?

No my friend, isolation seems to be getting to your head. "When I look out the window, only 10-15% are wearing masks". That's far more than many other places.
>What I said is that, likely, there are kids in Africa who, if they were given the same opportunities as Senna, would have turned out to be better F1 drivers than him.

Yes, it is likely, just given the sheer numbers. But F1 driving is a sport requiring lots of skill and training and that opportunity just isn't available to many people due to the expenses involved. So I don't know why you're even bringing this up, unless you're trying to bash race car driving or the fact that not everyone in the world has equal opportunities, and I don't see how that's productive here.
I really liked it and when I was in Japan for vacation I started it again ... but as soon as I was home I didn't continue. I think especially on DS it's a fantastic game and only one of the few with a more "serious" vibe but at home, with better consoles/pc and modern games .. maybe the time is better invested in something which brings even more joy.
> edit: yeah, suspected a dose of uncomfortable truth wouldn't go down easily.

I suspect you're getting downvoted because your argument is based on the idea that Britons have nothing in common with one another. Which is a clearly false supposition. It comes off as either ignorant of the other nations or low-key racist.
Neither of the designs are good-looking (but that may be the point). The left design though is objectively inferior:

* The text in the right column is centered, rather than aligned, and is thus ragged on both sides, making it harder to read and sloppy-looking.

* The leading on "beginner class" yeesh.

* The body copy in the left column is set at the same size as the header text in the right column.

* The right column has indistinct headers with inadequate contrast.

* The right column mixes header signifiers, in some cases using all uppercase, in others bold.

* The body copy in the left column uses an oblique sans and the right column uses a similar sans, minimizing contract (notice how the "after" design uses a true italic)

* The "sections" in the right column are set off with pointless thin rules, which is a design annoyance so basic that Tufte yells about it early in (iirc) The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information.

* The right column has no hierarchy, so the contact information is set in exactly the same prominence as the rest of the information, so clumsily that the URL runs into the margin.

I guess I could go on.

This is pretty basic "Non-Designers Design" Robin Williams stuff. I don't see how you can criticize this blog post by suggesting that the "before" design is better. It's not. It's artificially bad: someone took a reasonable design and a list of everything you can do wrong in a page design and built a demo.

I agree with another comment on this thread though about the clip-art; it muddled the point the article was trying to make. They should have worked the same clip art into the "before" picture if they wanted to do that.
I laughed more about the idea that the social media marketing vectors that are Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter deprecated "bullshit work". And even the automagic research assistant that is Google inadvertently spawned the SEO industry
Yeah, I thought rems were the new thing?
I'd use "return from" for tail recursion, to be analogous to "yield from" for iterators. It doesn't add new keywords and "return from foo(...)" seems to me to explain what it does well.
Scons itself isn't bad, but it's power is also it's downfall: the build script is an unrestricted Python file. I almost always find that something 'clever' has been stashed in the SConscript. Plus, everybody writes wrapper functions for the env.* stuff - meaning just about every project has a second, hidden codebase that you need to learn first.
Also, the US did not adopt the Common Reporting Standard from the OECD in the wake of the Panama Papers leak. So it does not report banking activity happening inside to the US to other countries.

The Paradise Papers may spur additional legislative action, pending the results of the 2020 elections.
You would have to prove intent as is the case in the story above.
If the person calling had some legitimate fear of him actually shooting up the place they were justified in making a warning call even if it wasn't based on any solid proof (although the call should have been to the police and not to Tesla).
Interesting idea, will try this approach on my son.

I remember when I was a kid, I took an after school programming course and the teacher had a very cool approach to start us with:

All attendees were "computer nerd kids" with some programming knowledge, usually in BASIC (it was the late 80s), and the course was taught in Pascal. So instead of building from very basic principles, the first lesson was something like: "This is the editor, this is how you compile. Now, let's write an algorithm to find the largest integer in an array, and that way you'll pick up all the basic building blocks".

This was mind blowing to me, I was ready for an hour of "hello world" and demonstration of basic language constructs, like it was taught at school. But instead, in the first lesson he had covered compiler invocation, variables, static types (a totally new concept coming from LOGO or BASIC), functions, conditionals, loops, arrays and console output - and probably the very idea of algorithms. It was really great.
How about if I read and study all your books and then generate a new one perfectly in your style (maybe using one of the common plot template you use often). Would the new book be mine or yours? No AI involved, but the black box looks similar from the outside.

How do they handle this now with writers and painters who imitate other artists?
So, you're training a statistical model - teaching it to recognize certain patterns - on data that is somehow wholly without patterns? Even with a certain amount of noise in the individual data points, if you're given enough data to train a statistical model to identify traits in the ciphertext you also probably have enough data to break the encryption.

Also, something can be statistically random and still have patterns (see PRNGs, which are statically random (you can't identify the next value from previous values), but there's still a pattern if you know the algorithm and seed).

I'll admit, the promise of homomorphic encryption is pretty amazing, but this particular combination of data and ML seems like a fairly obvious way to leak data. I believe there's a reason that homomorphic encryption has not been broadly accepted as an allowed standard.

EDIT: So, I think I'm missing a practical example. I have a model which I want to train on data homomorphically encrypted with key X, and that model is a very simple "is this a cat". I'm given a whole set of data encrypted with key X that's tagged with "cat" and "not a cat".

Once the model is trained, I can run this on any data encrypted with key X and find out if the data contains a cat (with some degree of accuracy). I have no way of telling information outside the tags provided on the training data, but it still gives me, a person without the encryption key, the ability to identify any feature that's tagged in the training set on any un-tagged production set.

Having seen a large quantity of ML training sets, the tag sets are rarely so limited. There's also often "elephant", "ball", and "dog" tags, even if I'm only being asked to train on cats.
Not at all, but I'm also a distance runner so I'm probably not normal in that regard :P

My mind gets zapped by working every day at the computer, so for me doing something totally physical (and for bodyweight workouts being outside in the sun) is the perfect antidote. I now start feeling stir crazy if I miss a workout or two for some reason.
Even Congress can't override a ratified treaty with a law. Treaties are the law of the land.

Edit: The president can unilaterally withdraw from a treaty, and Congress can certainly repeal a treaty (or even edit it) using the typical lawmaking process. But passing a simple law isn't going to override a treaty on it's own. And it would almost certainly have international repercussions.

That said, in this case, the rights have already been granted to the property owners by the US in the form of a converted land patent, and changing that retroactively would almost certainly count as an expropriation / taking anyway.

So you might as well expropriate from the get go, without going to the trouble of dealing with Congress.
"What's your threat model?" In a perfect world, purchases in person are contactless, authenticated with a mobile device. Until then, don't sweat the small stuff: you're not liable for any fraudulent charges on credit cards (US centric advice), and I don't suggest using debit cards (keep an ATM card just for cash access at ATMs).
> Creators of the artificial author shouldn't get any copyrights on those works in either case.

Interesting that you think so. Would you care to elaborate on your reasoning, taking into account other comments in the thread that make the case for AI simply being yet another tool for an artist to use?
Interesting way of getting around censorship. Although I’m curious - if YouTube can demonetize a video because it hears sweet child of mine playing in the background, could it not also listen for certain words, and immediately censor it?
I remember a number of years ago I was setting up a shared access shell machine, and came across the idea of piping pine directly into the IMAP server via domain sockets, in an on-demand fashion. It was a revelatory experience for me in the Unix way, seeing how interchangeable TCP, domain sockets, and files are in general. Even this article's example is quite a bit more abstracted than the simplest case in ruby (which itself is quite a bit more abstracted than what you can do with building blocks like `nc` and `echo`).

Being able to see that 'socket / file duality' is one the best observational powers a network-facing developer can have. It's also one of the biggest worries I have about HTTP 2.0.
I see discussion in this thread about what makes sense or seems reasonable, but no empirical observations. Two examples that come to my mind would be acetaminophen and coral snake antivenin. The former is widely available as a generic, the latter is extremely scarce in the U.S. in part because its manufacturer fears competition. Maybe someone can add more examples or help explain the different outcomes for these two?
Yeah, how is the guy who made Infiniminer doing?
Closer to the IE7 side of things. And while IE7 was an improvement on IE6 it still lacks a large portion of the fun stuff that’s for the past couple of years made smartphone-focused web development a breath of fresh air.
I think it is far more likely his own side leaked the papers in order to fabricate an illusion of foul play. He allegedly believes in transparency just like he is allegedly a rapist. Lets put his alleged belief to the test and have ALL court papers out in the open. Otherwise he is a hypocrite.

After all, it is two (? at least?) women who are his accusers not the US Government, what is apparent to non-fanboys is that Assange is afraid of facing his accusers in court.
Do we really care about who is person of the year?
The pinnacle of gas gauge experience has to be the Toyota Prius. The article was interesting, but I was a bit bummed to see no reference to my favorite driving experience.

Here's an the Prius's in-dash energy monitor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqP_eS_f1qY
So when you used Clojure or Common Lisp was that because you got a greenfield project that only you were working on, or were they existing projects that were already using those languages? Again, not wanting to fixate too much on the language but it seems like as a consultant the toolset would normally be dictated by the project, i.e. if there's existing code, what it already uses, or if it's a new project who will be working on/maintaining it.

Could you comment a bit on how you got into working like this? It's always interesting to hear how people get into working in things that are out of the norm.
Link to the actual "interview":
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2010/dec10/12-21...

Another is phone manufacturer sales – phones being bought and stocked by mobile operators and retailers on their way to customers. We are pleased that phone manufacturers sold over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks, which helps build customer momentum and retail presence.
* Answering many, many support emails and tweets
* Raising our seed round
* Stopping our infrastructure from collapsing under our user growth
* Responding to press and bloggers
* Reading resumés and interviewing job candidates
* Fixing gnarly bugs in production
* Applying for visas, so that we could work in the US
* Attending YC dinners and office hours

How is all this not moving the product forward? I am genuinely curious, to an outsider like me, this is what is the growth of the company. All these things have to be done one time or another.
If you're "quantified" on Quantcast, it should be pretty spot on to Google Analytics since it's direct measurement. If you're not, then it's definitely going to be off like Compete.

I use Compete stats as relative measurements against other websites (assuming everyone's off by a similar ratio). I use Quantcast stats to look at the demo info.