skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Your what matters. And it matters to other people. It's inescapably political because you live in a polity and your decisions impact other people.

By the same standard, then, I can safely write off BlackLivesMatter as a group whose members are inherently racist, and in some cases engage in literal terrorism (definition: violence applied for political goals) with the sanction of the larger group?

Why or why not?

You are your impact on other people and every impact on everyone else is inescapably, inextricably, definitionally "political".

Except most of these definitions of yours, that are entirely yours as far as I can see, don't have anything to do with the actual definition of the word political. To wit:

relating to the government or the public affairs of a country.

Where's the connection to government and public affairs and Star Trek? You did make that connection, and I'm curious to see how you go about defending it, especially since you called out this division of political vs not as a rhetorical device used to avoid defending things.

On that same note, humans "draw lines to segment off topics" because that is literally the only way human reason about things. Your definition of politics implies that I can't watch a Goddamned fictional series about spaceships without a bunch of other ill-defined ideological baggage attached to it. I don't see the practical or metaphorical usefulness of this definition, and up to this point, you have not demonstrated it.
Hah, I hadn't even noticed that pun. I was thinking of the drug target. And maybe if Walter White would, in another universe, be cooking "heavy meth"
There's stuff where you can either spend weeks or months automating it - or live with the fact that your oncall engineer has to use a runbook a few times per year to fix the problem.

Also your Netflix example - how many people do you have there? Probably the smallest of teams is bigger than my company's whole engineering department. We're running a whole company and not a few services. (I'm absolutely not trying to discourage what you're doing - but I strongly feel it's a different ballgame.)
The smaller your team with too many widespread responsibilities (not: make THIS service be available 99.9%, but make ALL services available 90%, then 95%, ...) the more you only automate what happens frequently. And yes, we try to first a basic runbook when something happens - and only if the same thing happens repeatedly, we automate it.
I really feel that climate change is totally irrelevant. There is so much other pollution out there and it's all a symptom of massive over consumption, planned obsolescence, negligent/unplanned obsolescence and consumerism.

The quest for things, the newest things, the newest non-upgradable things, is leading us into disaster. We can't keep throwing away phones after two years or purchasing new laptops instead of fixing what we have. We don't have the raw materials to replace the millions of gas cars on the roads with electric/hybrids.

Things like rail, consuming less, paying more for longer lasting devices, smaller factories that produce fewer yet higher quality goods, etc. etc. will fix the underlying problems. Things like CO2 emissions, the massive plastic patches in the oceans, heavy metal in our water supplies, toxic waste--these are all symptoms and not the root problem itself.

It requires a massive change in thinking, advertising and economies. For example, Intel should be happy when it has a massive growth reduction because it means they created something that lasts a long time, is still valuable and is non-disposable. Companies need to be rewarded for things that simply last longer or can be upgraded, recycled or refurbished. The fundamental role of money and its representation of resources has to change. Our values about what is valuable needs to change.

Climate change is just a runny nose out there that people try to plug up with pseudoephedrine when the real problem is the virus that's killing your body.
Hard to identify that it was a deliberate act.
Scaling Unsplash
> Good luck getting an entire team onboard with a single IDE.

Many companies mandate that you use Visual Studio to develop with because their entire toolchain is setup to build the project via VS tools. Deviating from that means that no one can help you, and you're probably polluting the repo with your own ad-hoc tooling.
The "widgets" are implemented using Gridstack (https://troolee.github.io/gridstack.js/), the rest is all hand coded JS/CSS. The pattern editor, waveform editors and other intensive aspects are implemented on top of the HTML5 canvas.
I've recently launched https://pingtiger.com I now have some free trial users who are helping me with figuring out features they need the most. There are a lot of existing solutions for the same problem, but I'm trying to make the user experience simpler and more pleasant.
Also Anaconda tends to come with newer versions than those available in most Linux distributions.
While https://Mastodon.social registrations are closed to keep the site up during the flood, it's all open-source and federated, so you can equivalently join https://mastodon.club or https://mastodon.xyz instead, and still communicate perfectly well with mastodon.social users (or other GNU Social implementations).
Very apt obeservation! I was thinking on how to address that for some time. Any ideas? Would you like to collaborate on this?
For a service like this to work, one thing needs to be solved, automating the code deployment (i am talking views/functions/roles/grants/RLS). As far as i know (and i've asked other people) this is not a solved problem. This is what i am working on now. The rest is done
"apt-build" package is similar to what you've described. Package description talks about compiler optimizations but don't let this mislead you.
Enjoyed rereading this, thanks
Would it really be remotely cost-effective to take a skyscraper and refit the bottom three stories to be underwater? Sounds like a stretch. It would probably be cheaper to abandon low-lying areas and demolish the buildings there.
Susan Rice Denies Political Motivation Behind Unmasking Requests
I'm building MediaSend (https://mediasend.co/). It's a video CDN with built-in transcoding and video embedding (with plans to add any kind of media to the CDN).

Currently it's on private beta, and I would appreciate some help launching it as a side project! I'm good enough in backend and technical product development, but suck at launching things.
Related? Flat minima

http://www.bioinf.jku.at/publications/older/3304.pdf
Equal pay day: Wage gap statistics in tech
First we have to make the distinction between logs and metrics. Logs are unstructured or loosely structured text, whereas metrics are discrete items that can be put into a time series database.

If you emit metrics as necessary to a time series database, then you should be able to build alerting based on the time series metrics. Your monitoring systems should be good at building alerts based on a stream of metrics and visualizing the time series data.

Sometimes you might have to look at the visualizations to find something, but ideally you then set up an alert on the thing you looked at so you have the alert for the next time it happens. A great monitoring system lets you turn graphs into alerts right in the interface, so if you're looking at a useful graph you can make an alert out of it.

Sometimes logs can be useful, but only after your monitoring system has told you which system is not behaving, and then you can turn on logs for that system until you've solved the problem, but you shouldn't need access to old logs, because if the problem was only in the past, then it's not really a problem anymore, right? If you have an ongoing problem, then maybe have the logs on for that service while you're investing that problem, but then turn them off again.

But having a ton of logs always generating and being stored tend to be fairly useless in practice with a good time series database at hand.
We released our MVP last week, https://blog.set.gl/setsdk-pod-available-on-cocoapods-484b60...
Recetly launched https://centi.in , alternative analytics with "ask questions to your data" approach .
> You would almost need to create a Wikipedia for real world locations.

Exactly. Wonderful service with world wide use and translatable to all languages. You definitely would need "curators" for every place and at the beginning let people add their own transcripts in order to build a huge database.
I'm curious, did the author write the whole article including figures, or did someone else give life to the figures?

I can see this type of interactive journal becoming very popular in other fields, but not if the author has to create the diagrams him/herself.
Parallel discussion of another article about Mastodon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14034674
An ncurses CRM System
Because if your industry centralizes in expensive cities, you think roommates are worse than a long commute, and you are not in the top 0.1% by income available for rent, 60+ minutes is what you're going to get.
Practical RL – A course in reinforcement learning in the wild
What I'm wondering is, how does it work out certain situations? For example: The ultimate goal of an enemy AI is to shoot at the player. To do this, it must have a line of sight to the player. Figuring out where to stand seems to me equivalent to solving a perspective projection using the level geometry as constraints. Does it actually try to do this, or does it just not bother moving into line of sight and just moves towards the player's position?
> which increases salaries

In that now expensive part of the city that most people can't move to. And reduces them everywhere else.

> encourages employers to move to the better connected areas

Moving the transit there at the same time.

There's something to say about creating infrastructure at the surrounds of the cities. It seems to have worked very well in the last decades. There's also something to say about forcing (by government power) a change in purpose for the center of cities. But simply cutting the movement of people does not look like a net gain most of the time.
Eyewitness to a Title IX Witch Trial
It is important to note that they don't prohibit commercial development on the community edition.

They just do not promote the community edition for commercial development.

I, for instance, could choose to use PyCharm community since I rarely use any of the tooling that comes with the 'pro edition', but when I do need something---like Cython debugging---its damned useful.
THIS COMMENT CONTAINS SPOILERS as well, although relatively minor ones compared to the article.
For some reason I forget what I wanted this for, but I literally was thinking about trying to find where you could order these things just a couple weeks ago. This is super cool. Good luck!
No, but you could push back saying it's in their interest to give a break to a customer that might help you grow into more services later or for a longer time. The price they're giving you shouldn't give you heartburn, but they should know that it really gives you no reason to be loyal about the service down the road (or even right now). Maybe they should give you the first year at a discount...
What do you miss about RSS feeds? They're still there... It's very rare that I come across a blog that doesn't have one, even now...
It says "any system which includes the Peano axioms is either inconsistent or incomplete." So having a wider class doesn't help, if it contains the Peano axioms.
Organizing groups of people for something as menial as this isn't a hard task. Many subreddits had a pixel template they posted for the content they wanted that made it to those communities front page, and users generated it. Upkeep after that wasn't much of an issue unless they were being raided.
Sounds great. Are you using Roundcube with a custom skin (or similar), or is it written from the ground up? Would be cool if you had some screenshots of your UI in any case.

Which mail server software are you using? Are you doing anything to increase deliverability? Do users get their own IP address, for example?
The really bonkers thing is, its a Wifi access point rather than a client. So unless the user changes the SID to something innocuous, all the neighbors know when someone is using it, and with a bit of triangulation they can work out who (assuming they don't just tune in to the show, of course).
I dont recall ever seeing it either. I work on 2 or 3 monitors at once with a tablet pen in one hand (photoshop)and it would be nice to use my other with mouse to open tabs etc. In my particular case I noticed a number of ways it would help me.
The original point may still hold but an important omission in this article is the fact that this week is spring break for most counties around Atlanta, thus creating a much lighter load of traffic.'

Edit: I should add that current traffic feels as if it wasn't spring break. It will be interesting to see how next week shapes to be.
A modernized curses library with clean UTF-8 support would be really nice. There's no need to make it a drop-in system library replacement, either, so there's no need to maintain ABI compatibility, as ncurses does.
To my knowledge, most CPUs operate better on aligned data.

That would apply here, since memcpy most likely uses ints internally. (It should, in any case.) If the data starts out aligned, most reads will also be aligned.

You already take care of the alignment by using __attribute__((aligned(4))) on the declarations of your tiles, so it should all be good as-is.
> A friend also expressed that it might not be worth it to use Django if just for the ORM and migrations (backend is just api), is he right?

I only started using Django about 6 months ago, but I would have started much earlier if I'd known about the incredible built-in admin interface. The built-in user system is also very convenient. I think Django makes a great backend-only system, especially in combination with Django REST framework.
Jupyter notebooks have widgets too, created with combination of Python and JavaScript.
Please note I don't contend your scenario is impossible. It's just that there isn't convincing evidence it can be considered normal.
> ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS! (This comment does not)

And then literally the second sentence in your comment is a massive spoiler of the biggest twist in the whole show :)
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Which cloud provider should I choose? AWS, Azure, Oracle, Google, or Salesforce
I'm a small startup owner, designing and selling APP on iOS and Android. Which cloud provider should I choose? AWS, Azure, Oracle, Google, or Salesforce
> The article you linked showed that there were improvements among the signatories even though without the fall of the USSR it would have been 2.7% vs. 4.7%.

That's rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. And acting as if that's an important thing to spend political capital on is precisely "posturing and pandering."
> Only unimportant scraps of code can be free, but the real code must remain secret, restricted, proprietary.

That just seems like entitlement. "Home Depot released a really awesome free toolbox that has everything you need to build a house, but they didn't release the blueprints for Home Depot brand houses, boo hoo"
>These days the Internet, and hence the number of people who need to agree on the protocols, is huge.

These days however it's not the people who decide, it's organizations.

>Think about, for example, HTTP2; how many organisations and individuals were involved in its definition and publication?

Many may be involved, but very few can decide whether to use it or kill it. Namely, Google and Facebook would be enough. Descending down to individuals, it's about 3-5 from Google and one from Facebook.
Not in this case; the main effect of deuteration is to slow the rate at which the active drug is metabolized and excreted.

Now, that might not sound significant — but patient compliance with medication regimes is a significant sticking point in clinical practice; people are generally just terrible about taking their meds on schedule. If you can replace a twice-a-day tablet with a once-a-day treatment, that's a big win for the subset of patients who are forgetful/unreliable at taking their meds twice a day — and in a disease where the symptoms progress to dementia, that's important.

More on medication compliance here (some of it quite hair-raising):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adherence_(medicine)
Austin's housing market exploded over a series of years prior to its new tech hub status, tech workers only make up a fraction of the influx of monied Californians flooding the poor little town.
In my state (VT), there's a section of the law that says something to the effect that if a landlord willfully withholds returning any part of the security deposit after 14 days then the tenant is automatically awarded 3x of the deposit.

I learned all about this in the last apartment I rented before buying a house. I was trying to work with the property management companies lawyer over how much it would cost to replace broken door (another long story), and the lawyer was of the mind that I owed them more than I had on deposit and I should set up a payment plan ASAP.

The 14 day limit passed and I got a summons that I was being sued for $1500 over the deposit for a couple of small things plus a empty heating oil tank (heat wasn't included). They said it was full when I moved in, but I produced a receipt that I paid for the tank to be filled on the day I moved in along with a voice mail from the actual landlord that said I didn't need to fill the tank when I moved out.

The lawyer immediately wanted to "settle" with them keeping the whole deposit, but I was happy to go to court. We were in front of the judge for less than a minute and they ended up paying almost 1/2 of the first year of my mortgage.
I can also use a different DE, but that's really not the point. Defaults matter.
I suspect more people on this site wanted to grow up to be code breakers and spies than porn purveyors.
a black person with a Hitler moustache is not remotely nearly as bad. they really don't look like Hitler, and it's very unlikely they are secretly hoping for the supremacy of the Aryan race
I don't like that I cannot browse projects without signing up. I like looking into things before acquiring more spam mail.
Programming no longer qualifies as a “special occupation” for H1B Visas [pdf]
Here's the relevant Apple Support article

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948
As you probably might also agree, its a bit of both. Politicians don't go into politics thinking they're just going to accept donations and do whatever. They believe the stuff at some level and then get corrupted by the marketing/lobbying. The greater problem is that politicians are lay people, and even if they wanted to listen to economists they would first have to navigate the topology of the topic at large, and then understand the minutia of what each side represents. Now apply that for 10 different varied fields including foreign policy/medicine/science/defense/social issues/etc and you quickly realize that its just impossible for any one person to make accurate decisions across such a wide swath of issues. Maybe the answer is more decentralization, but then you cant do the moonshots where you need to pool in the resources/talents/labor across a large populace. Its all a shitshow to some extent. But then again, the world hasn't gone to shit just yet so at-least somethings working .. :)
Still no collapsable hierarchy of cells. This is the one feature I miss most from Mathematica notebooks.
The Complexity of Simplicity – Balancing on the Occam's Razor
The last one is a very important paragraph to see the big picture. Without that, my comment might just be an isolated case and fear mongering.

It is important to see although this door lock/car control/whatever problem is new, the underlying thought process is not new. Not having the rights to understand and modify, leading to having to trust what "the cloud" or proprietary software does (especially those that determine your personal security) is a topic that was brought up again and again by the people I mentioned. We will be lost in the details of this particular case of this door lock/crazy customer/picky company otherwise, so I think it is worthy to relay the principles.
A difference though is that the time limit between pixel placing introduced opportunity cost and provided a means of testing strength of preference.

People were forced to make trade-offs between creating the things they wanted to see and censoring the things they didn't want to see, and could not do both simultaneously. This is unlike political systems in which people can vote on a referendum on gay marriage and zoning laws on the same ballot (or US congressmen voting on multiple laws in one session).

Of course there are still elements of this in politics when it comes to enacting complex legislation (can't do healthcare and tax reform at the same time) but that that has more to do with the time and political capital trade-offs it takes to build coalitions which can then act unilaterally, while in reddit the cost is downstream, as coalitions must divide their power if they want to pursue simultaneous goals.

Also, the time limit measured takes into account strength of preference since the ability of an individual to affect the outcome of the canvas depends on how much time they're willing to devote to their effort. Consider the example of LGBT laws. Those who are LGBT tend to have much stronger preferences regarding such laws compared to the general population who may be for or against them (though some on the religious right probably feel very strongly as well). In politics, this can lead to persecution, as a majority of people that don't care strongly but vote no can hold back those who care strongly and vote yes. On the reddit platform, since people with greater conviction are likely to devote more time than those who do not care strongly, it makes it more likely for them to get their message out.
I know that this isn't an option everywhere, but I get my healthcare through an HMO and they will have quite the opposite philosophy. Instead of trying to sell the patient on more expensive drugs, they will actually refuse to prescribe or cover drugs that have a cheaper alternative.
Hi Malcolm,

You might want to check that your workable page correctly processes applications. I submitted my cover letter and resume for the Java developer position in Berlin roughly a month ago, but didn't receive any response except a standard email from workable. I thought you simply didn't hire in Berlin anymore, but it looks like not so. Maybe spam filters were too aggressive, so you didn't see my application at all. Just wanted to give some feedback from the applicant's POV.

Artem
This also depends heavily on information density. I can listen to some types of content at 2x without issue; other content I can't accelerate more than 10-20%.
If you want to see a relatively brief video of a somewhat drunk Scott Aaronson talking about many interesting possible consequences of the no-cloning theorem, including Godel's Incompleteness Theorems (iirc), enjoy this one from a quantum crypto conference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-fa669IR7I