skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm attemptimg to make something, so far with flask, that has left me with what i'd consider a cobbled-together mess of random extensions, some maintained, some not, some snippits of code gathered here or there over the years. it does work but for how long and can i really trust it to run a business on? my gut says "no".

i'm aware of the other other python frameworks but most of them fair even worse in the areas i'm concerned about. most are abandonware or small projects that will be difficult to get help with. django is the obvious answer but theres alot of things that really rub me wrong about it. the documentation sucks, i hate the templating engine, i hate the routing with regular expressions, and i hate subclassing things that is impossible to find the code for the master class.

ruby/rails seems like just what it is: a way to make building web applications as fun as can be and there is an army of people that have contributed to that and from everything i can see, they have succeeded and i want to learn how to use it.
Aphex Twin micro streaming service
How the Economic Machine Works
Or, "She loves me". No, she treats you the way your mom treated your dad right up until the divorce.
I have this exact same problem! Never connected it to the font. I was tearing my hear out
I'm familiar with the rules and think you've over-focused on the form, and ignored the legitimate content, of my comment.

I like this study! I didn't call it 'bullshit' and there's nothing nasty in my formulation.

But the high-order bit of things to be considered in the limits of this study's interpretation is how peculiar the main focus group - Harvard enrollees in 1938 - was.

This HU house-press piece only obliquely hints at the issue, by noting how the study has gradually expanded to include children and wives, and an "inner-city" "control group".

I realize wrapping the point in a formulaic meme risks making it look like pure snark/dismissal. But it can also be a way to sharply and memorably raise a very specific issue.
"Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed? Of course, none of us are greedy, it’s only the other fellow who’s greedy. The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way."

-Milton Friedman
What Is Transition Altitude and Transition Level
No, ability to issue a controlled lot of physical currency is the meaningful differentiator, which is why the relation to banks is irrelevant.

I can buy $1 worth of Bitcoin, declare it ErikCoin, acceptable only in my stores at a 1/1,000,000 denomination, and I instantly "minted" $1,000,000 in cryptocurrency, using only the Bitcoin blockchain.

Bitcoin doesn't let people be banks, it let's people be the mint.
> I've never actually met someone off the internet who calls themselves a data scientist.

You could probably say the same about a lot of job titles. I've never meet a sanitation worker but my trash gets picked up once a week nonetheless.
Maybe the genius is just that curious personality who never fit it and refuses to give in to society? That person would certainly have a sense of both their intelligence and creativity (and contrast it to most people's) and of how society treats them like complete blabbering fools on a hill.
A Peek Inside Silicon Valley's IoT Test Center
I've never seen one unfortunately. I suspect they exist but maybe aren't easily found on english websites.
How to Build and Launch a Chatbot Over the Weekend
We all start from zero. If a person can't be knowledgeable after a bit of rigor, then no one can be trusted in any subject and we can see how everything will become "fake news" and "alterntative facts"
Debugging Kubernetes
Away from the city? Why?

I grew up in a medium sized city and it was awesome! I wouldn't trade it for the world. Sure, I had to share a room but it really doesn't matter because I only used my bedroom for sleeping anyways. I had tons of access to other kids in the neighborhood [1] and kids are great keeping each other entertained. We also had access to tons of various public parks, playgrounds, and facilities in which to play. Most were a short walk or bike ride away. My days were filled with adventure. I would be bored spending my time alone in a backyard all day.

[1] The Jerry Seinfeld bit about making friends as a kid is on point - "Of course when you're a kid, you can be friends with anybody. Remember when you were a little kid what were the qualifications? If someone's in front of my house NOW, That's my friend, they're my friend. That's it. Are you a grown up? No. Great! Come on in. Jump up and down on my bed. And if you have anything in common at all, You like Cherry Soda? I like Cherry Soda! We'll be best friends!"
The Windows Insider Program has lost its way
Perhaps, but not necessarily. Sadly I've found most people have reasonable innate intelligence but were never taught logic. They were never given the subtle tools need to even figure out basic problems on a logical basis, instead relying on intuition and some basic pattern recognition. Dealing with vast logical abstractions, even if put in layman's terms, simply overwhelms them.

You first have to teach them analysis, how to break things down and recombine them. A good example here is teaching beginning computer science students how to divide a large, complicated task into a long list of small tasks. Or teaching derivations in basic physics. It's something that's not really formally taught outside of the sciences, and that's a shame.
Manufacturing, finance, areospace, automotive industry, and medical industry are a few other places hiring data scientists.
When you decrypt, you have the key in memory in either case. Assuming you don't put all the password into an untrustworthy output (terminal, clipboard, etc), what's the difference ?
>Why should farm work be immune to cost disease when nothing else is?

This is the heart of the matter. Humans have to eat. It's fundamentally different than any other market.
Moving obviously doesn't work in all cases. But urbanizing doesn't permanently remove the problem, it delays it. Ultimately any plot of land has a maximum carrying capacity. If some of these issues are not solved, what's to say that a decade after we urbanize, we won't be right back here with this same problem?

Personally, I have definitely noticed many people who have convinced themselves they have to stay despite their miserable conditions. Nevermind they have no family in the area, few friends, and despite their very well paying job they can barely afford food & rent. They could surely never be happy elsewhere!

It's like some kind of bubble, where we imagine the whole rest of the country is a backwater hellhole and won't even imagine we could leave.
Somehow, I don't think normal rules apply to people who have enough spare money so that can they toss $10,000 just to see what you will do.
Why the future of deep learning depends on finding good data
Unfortunately most people posting data science jobs don't really have good priors on the necessary qualifications for those positions. As someone who has gotten multiple data science positions in startups and larger enterprises, I highly recommend applying to data science jobs through platforms like AngelList, which allow you to speak to employers directly and circumvent many of the bureaucratic processes that tend to discourage people from applying to jobs they are actually well qualified for.
Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts
I think that's where John Cleese is from, so this American knows it.
But, if the crop has started to rot on the vine because the machine is only doing 1/4 the work, then doesn't the cost become meaningless? Plants are different than metal. A robot building a car can go slow and the metal will still be the same.
Technically anybody who uses Excel is a "data scientist". Just got to get the right buzzwords.
13% over 5 years isn't exactly what I'd call soaring. That barely beats out inflation over that same time frame.[1] Doing the quick math it looks like that beats inflation by <3% for hard labor in a job with no career potential. What are the wages as well? If they are in the $10-$20/hr range then those increases are fractions of a dollar per hour more for seasonal work. That is unlikely to convince anyone to go pick up that job if they weren't doing it already

[1]http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/united-states/histor...
Analyzing the Analyzers, free eBook. Assuming the student is sharp on technical skills, this look at the human side could be helpful to prepare.
https://www.amazon.com/Analyzing-Analyzers-Introspective-Sur...
Well you won't have any coworkers who are just there for the paycheck and actually have zero interest in solving the company's problem.
Finding the Energy to Work on Your Side Hustle
The scientific data on this is at best controversial, there are plenty of studies claiming the effect is real, and a bunch of counters that the data is fundamentally flawed in complex ways, and doesn't appropriately account for a lot of other variables that can affect child development. It is also likely that high income offsets many of the most correlated negative effects, i.e. educational attainment.

My first career was in education, I worked with and saw many kids with a breadwinning parent who was absent most of the week, and they generally developed on the same spectrum as parents of equally present two parent households.

Anecdotally, my mother worked extremely long hours from her first child (I'm the youngest of my siblings by a decade) until I was a teenager, I routinely only saw her to say goodbye in the morning and on weekends. My siblings and I all ended up pretty far ahead on any developmental scale you choose, even though we basically only saw her on weekends.
Can you go into greater detail? I'm curious on how you arrive at your conclusion.
Digital sigbatures and electronic signatures are, to be sure, different things (you can digitally sign something without, for instance, any capture of intent to be a legal signsture) but, digital signatures are also a means of achieving a valid electronic signature as defined in those laws.

Obviously, people selling centralized document storage and electronic signature services are incentivized to obfuscate this as much as possible.
Yeah... I was so loud with my MX Greens at work that my job ended giving me the Matis Quiet Pro so that I wouldn't disturb others.
I agree with your sentiment, however I would extend it beyond genius to success in general; and our tendency to conflate the two makes it substantially harder to study either, I think.
Also interesting, this is the first package I've seen in the wild that uses Bazel.
It's struck me as somewhat suspicious that hiring posts disallow comments so conspicuously.
...that's the thing actually: in programming syntax defines semantics because "syntax" is executed and in practice "it means what it does (what is executed)".

(Linguists would want to murder me for saying this, I know.)

That's why some programming languages can even be defined by implementation. (Though as a programmer I try my best to avoid these languages...)
I had a b-school class do a similar exercise, in the context of the debate between passively and actively managed funds. Everyone in the class was asked to stand up, pull out a coin and flip it. If you flipped tails you sat down. Then the remaining students flipped again, repeating until there was only one person left standing. At which point the professor "interviewed" the student, asking what her method was and how she became such a skilled heads-flipper. Lots of parallels in the real world where luck is a dominating factor (stock picking, choosing a "rocket ship" company to join or invest in, general business success), yet our tendency is to seek out a cause or reason.
I don't quite understand the issue. It's the government's job to keep up public infrastructure regardless of how heavily it's used—that's something the left _and_ right can agree on.
When other powerful men choose to publicly signal that this is just not how things should be done, it serves as a role model for others. It sets the example.

But you don't have to be a person with a lot of power to make this choice. When enough people make this choice, then the predators are far less free to do whatever the fuck they so choose because more people will call them on it earlier, before it turns to assault.

Catherine Shu (author of this piece) was in a public setting and there were other people there who knew her. One took a photo of the incident without realizing the incident was basically assault. The same person had earlier sent mixed signals to Pollock, on the one hand saying Catherine was unavailable because she was married, on the other saying she liked white men because she was married to a white man.

So Pollock's predatory behavior was enabled by other people who not only failed to be supportive of Catherine, but even to some extent cooperated with his plans to get laid, and propriety be damned. I think it is completely gross and disgusting that her friend said she likes white men, she is marred to one.

When ordinary people stop doing things like that, then predators have a lot less latitude for pursuing their ugly goals. When you reduce their latitude enough, you may find that in order to get laid at all, they need to behave something like decent human beings instead of overentitled rapey bastards.

People get away with this shit because everyone either averts their eyes and refuses to see what is happening right in front of them or actively supports some powerful man's ugly agenda because he has power and they desire to curry favor. That is a choice. You can decide that you aren't willing to curry favor at that price.
> somehow we're supposed to accept this as normal for DEs?

No, but it is the normal result of an open source development process. Being able to fork at any time is exactly why the fragmentation exists. Don't like it? Use a commercial product.
Fun fact: What is known as "arabic numerals" in the west is known as "indian numerals" in middle-eastern countries. That's because it came from India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu%E2%80%93A...
I can't magic you up any workers but here's a hint:

You'd be astonished at how quickly and accurately a large air compressor with a small amount of water added to the flow can dig a shallow trench or small hole.
but if you're in first grade then you do IV + II = IVII...??

To each their own, but I'm unsure of the relative ease of roman numerals
I'm pretty sure that if HN allowed you to do what you just tried, it would be a XSS vulnerability. :P
> Why don't you try joining a monopoly game in the middle of the game and see how much you still like capitalism?

And/or starting the game with sums of money that differ by orders of magnitude between players.
> I believe everyone should be part of the ownership class.

No classes for me no thank you. But hey, maybe different personality types need to have different ways of life. Perhaps you would thrive in a class based society, where as others would thrive in something else.
It was always possible to train Keras models in a distributed setting (I was doing it in late 2015). And there's built-in, one-line integration with the Estimator API coming in the next version of TensorFlow.
The same way you can't charge just half of the people for this mess, which is exactly what happens in the current trend of digital feminism. Look at my downvotes without replies, it has a lot of meaning. And it is sick. You just can't talk that women are equally guilty for what they are complaining.
nah, it's a bad habit.

It means constant readjustment and unnecessarily bloated diffs every time you change a function or variable name.

or the lovely

foo := a;
bar := b;

then a day later

foo := a;
bar := b;
foobar := cd;

which also points to the problem that it lends itself to premature constant readjustment because a day later you have to move every thing again because as it turns out you really needed foobarlist as well. and each time you end up with a diff reporting that foo and bar (and then foobar) have changed too.

It's making busy work for yourself and ruining the usefulness of code review tools.

ALSO alignment vs indentation is the whole reason we have to have the spaces vs tabs argument.
Then get 4 machines.
I think this is going around in circles: we already covered the backdoor term in malware vs product name in contexts, and the payload vs phishing thing. If you Google for backdoor payloads, you see that it is common usage.
That's a bummer. I have a Das Keyboard, and love it, but at some point my keyboard obsession will return, and I can't really justify getting a keyboard that isn't split/configurable. It would be great to be able to try out topres at the same time – the enthusiasm is strong!
Why would you have to introduce inefficiencies like taxing the payment from the government, or if you did do that, how is it any different from just increasing the income reported for the year that you get from work already? As for it being hyper regressive, one of the benefits of BI is that you have no means testing at all and can save on all of the bureaucratic overhead. You can still keep a progressive income tax on top of the BI payments.

I'd also like to see actual evidence that BI cant work out financially. You get X tax dollars out of your economy, you Pay out X/population to each person. How does that not work out?
Great news for Prolog, which is based on Horn clauses!

I expect logic programming languages like Prolog to have significant impact in the future for smart contracts and rule based programming.
A value added tax could raise revenue from robot farms and factories, there is no need to seize them.
> Waiting times would be a poisson distribution

This is only true if events are independent. Suppose we're modeling rider arrivals at a bus stop. The bus comes once an hour. Does the exponential distribution adequately model how long you need to wait for another person to show up? If a Poisson process is an appropriate model, the expected value of the number of people arriving in the 20 minutes after the bus departs is the same as the expected value of the number of people arriving in the 20 minutes before. Clearly not. Rider arrival rates depend on how long it is until the bus is supposed to depart. Indeed, most arrival processes are not ideal Poisson processes, but it may be a better approximation in some cases than in others.

We use Poisson processes for two reasons:

1. They're often a good enough approximation of reality to make useful predictions.

2. They're mathematically tractable.

Unfortunately, our reasons for using Poisson processes are often more (2) than (1).
Nobody worries about labor automation in the context of raising min wages. But when it comes to immigration...
I like this. Unfortunately today, you'd be unlikely to find students with coins!
A good opportunity to ask: What does everyone here think the Wow signal was? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

I know it's just speculation, but it's fun to speculate. What could it have been? Could any natural phenomena generate a signal like that?

It certainly wasn't a message aimed at us, or anything like that. But it did happen, so I can't help but wonder what it likely was.
Surprised no one has mentioned BitWarden.

https://bitwarden.com/

Open-source, multi-platform, etc.

I haven't switched from Lastpass yet, but I'm seriously considering.
spoopy01 nailed it. Most of the people hiring data scientists don't really know what data science is, or probably even why they need it. So they inflate the hell out of the requirements to a. CYA and b. hopefully get somebody so experienced they can come in and make up for the lack of organizational understanding of data science. IOW, they want somebody who can "teach us what we don't know".
But that's basically hardcoded tabular data, and should really be solved by an editor with proper tab-stops. Not by abusing the monospaceivity and spaces for alignment.

That’s the crux of the issue for me.

I can think of many ways I’d like to present code in my idealised programming language(s) that would use significantly more advanced layout and typography than today’s typical environments.

However, I wouldn’t actually want to use any of them unless my programming tools all supported them properly. That means the editor, but also the source control and diff tools, the code review and bug tracking systems, and so on.

In the absence of any standard conventions for how to represent that extra metadata in an underlying format as robust and flexible as plain text, it’s hard to see this ever happening, though I imagine it would be fun to try.
This is like not hiring a [big name coding competition] winner because he didn't know radix sort.
Same. A complex set of org-mode files at home and work on various topics. Paired with git for syncing across devices (down to just one computer at home though, so this is mostly just for version control) and org-babel, I can practice and study nearly any programming topic within it.

I've started with org-drill recently (been using Anki) to try it out. Not sure if I'll switch, but may use it for topics that are inside of my org files already to help keep my memory fresh on topics.

I've also started experimenting with Incremental Reading [0] inside org-mode. I've only done this with a couple things. Take an article or ebook or other document and get it into an org-mode structure. Mark each item with READ, UNREAD, and NEXT (to track your place in the document). As I read through it I have a capture template for creating drill notes from a marked region (very basic, just makes an item with a tag of :drill: and the contents of the region). Then when you do your drills during the day, these items will be brought up for practice. When you return to the article or text (in theory, haven't been trying this long) you can pick up where you left off because you've got the important parts of the old, read sections in your memory (and practiced).

I will be trying it with some work documents soon (many spec and requirement docs for a set of systems I don't know well, pull out important details and document names so I at least know where to look for things). An experiment in building up a better understanding of complex systems that I didn't have a hand in developing. In the past, I've relied heavily on SMEs and test engineers, more than I should have, and on this project in particular we have no SMEs for the bulk of the system.

[0] https://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm
>but I don't pretend to know or understand their full argument of why it should be regulated

One reason might be that they believe that having a culture which is hedonistic toward sex is harmful for society, and they believe that acceptance of homosexual behavior necessarily leads to having such a culture.

>presumably Stalinists?

That is definitely not a reasonable assumption to make.

>but if you're not religious and don't believe in utilitarianism, what exactly is the goal for your society?

It is perfectly possible to be utilitarian, non-religious, and opposed to the acceptance of homosexuality. All it takes is a belief that acceptance of homosexuality is on the whole and over time more harmful for people than intolerance of homosexuality.
I didn't know that, while i live in Lithuania for years. I know Russians tried to destroy old Belarusian ("Ruskaya Mova") language similarly though, and largely succeeded at that.

This reminds of the evils of Communism so much that it makes me feel like Communist ideology in fact didn't mean much for Russians. It is an evil by itself, before or after Communism too.
This is the same underdog story every geek romanticizes for that never quite seems to match the biography of most known geniuses. Known geniuses seem to figure out how to fit into society and make it work for them.