skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had not read this before and that's a valid point, thanks for sharing.

I think I would say two things to this. First, theoretically we could attack the problem from both sides. We could constrain supply in the way that med school prevents an oversupply of physicians while also increasing the total amount of resources available to those practicing science.

More practically, I tend to believe that basic and translational science is a huge boon to global prosperity and also an economic engine for the United States. Ergo, if we run into the same problem down the road again, just keep raising the budget and make more positions. We have a long way to go before we exhaust the benefits of additional research, and the money we spend on research is a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend on other less useful ventures.
I was a teen in the 60's, in a small town in Pennsylvania. I had no problem getting information about the anti-war movement - it was everywhere. I migrated to San Francisco in 1967 to be a hippie. That movement and the protests were all over the news. The nation was polarized on the issue. Both sides were represented in the media. It was hard not to be affected by the films of atrocities on the nightly news.
What I find most difficult is having to defend from the assumption that my defense of speech means that I agree with the speech.

This is untrue and a non sequitur.

I can't stand Nazis. I'm not white and they'd harm me, if given opportunity to do so. They are truly horrible people.

As horrible as they are, they still deserve basic human rights up until they violate the law. We don't preemptively punish people. We don't take rights away without due process. We operate with the assumption of innocence until proven guilty.

Well, we used to...

So, when I stand up for the rights of the deplorable, I'm assumed to be a deplorable. Never mind that I'm standing up for the rights of all, I'm now counted as one of the deplorable.

And defending against that takes some time. To be fair, I didn't have anything better to do, most of the time. Still, I've had this conversation so many times that I could probably script it and automate it.

Seriously, a sibling post noticed that I have this verbiage figured out. They aren't the first to notice. I've been having this same conversation since before the Internet was world wide. Someone has to stand up for free speech while not actually being deplorable. It's more tasteful to hear it from me than to hear it from a KKK Grand Wizard. The reception is much better, put it that way. ;-)
His judgment of the results as partisan wasn’t evidence of anything except perhaps his own bias. That was his hypothesis based on his one observation.

Hypotheses are allowed to be biased as long as they’re tested before becoming anything more.

The evidence (however preliminary) was the fact that nearly all of Pro Publica’s cited rulings were in favor of conservatives.
> don't bother unless you find ag slow

Or if you want more correct gitignore matching.

> (I remember the --python option, but have no idea how to filter with rg)

rg -tpy 'def __init__'

or, to exclude Python files

rg -Tpy 'def __init__'

You can see the list of types available with `rg --type-list`.
Here's a better article on the same topic:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/19/amazon-hea...
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thank you for your comment, yes code formatting, guidelines are good. I havent talked to team lead yet. I talked to the Sr engineer several times, and often times he comes up with different approach to the problem and ask me to implement his solution even if my version has passed all test cases) it makes me sad
Uber open sources its distributed Deep Learning framework for Tensorflow
Rust doesn’t really have much of a runtime; I’m not sure what niceties you’re thinkjg of :)

(I also logged that you talked about this in the issue; even knowing people want this is useful; it’s probably not in std because nobody’s ever really argued they need it!)
This story reads like a social engineering attempt itself.

As in, fully made up, never happened.

I realize the person is a pentest consultant. And before that they were a journalist. As the story says, "trust but verify"? Which in this case I guess it doesn't make enough difference to verify and the events "could" have happened which is enough for the story. It just feels made up to me though.
They aren't disclaiming responsibility though. That's the thing. They are building the best tools to manage it that they can. They might be disclaiming the ability to do it perfectly but they are most certainly trying.
thank you for your comment. It is not nitpicking :) I can say that it is mostly about different approaches to the problem.
For context, this is getting released just after the city council committee on technology had a public hearing about a bill that would require any software used by the government to prosecute folks for crimes to be open source:

https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/FrtKpHJ2T0mCic3j_FSzPQ/nyc-sof...

This bill would set the standard for the entire country, so the testimony is actually pretty interesting and worth watching, especially the opening speech by councilman Vacca.

https://councilnyc.viebit.com/player.php?hash=xHL4m7vQXCM9

I also testify at 56:00, albeit hadn't prepared remarks in advance so wasn't as polished as some of the other folks.
> There's a poster on reddit who typifies this to a T.

The Seattle subreddits (both of them, because drama) are particularly toxic as far as city forums go. Not exactly sure why, but there seem to be a lot of people who have nothing better to do than post angry rants all day. I had to unsubscribe.
Were the officers who were not filming also not wearing cameras?
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This for me was the most thought provoking comment on this entire thread. It tends to be the case that when accusations of prejudice are lightly thrown around, slowing down, thinking reasonably, and giving our fellow humans a cursory benefit of the doubt casts a totally different light on the issue. That said:

> I half wish we had a way to completely remove any identity related characteristic from the hiring process and end once and for all any allegations of discrimination. Full on voice scrambling, audio only discussion, and VR in lieu of on-site interviews.

I feel like I could figure out their age and race just from vernacular. Plus that would be ridiculous. I don't want to hire someone who I don't want around the office.
Well, if Ferguson is any example, communities will absolutely lie about the police. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown#Ev... This isn't to say police are completely innocent; just that the "entire communities..." defense isn't a very good one.
One contribution often mentioned in op-eds etc here is Australia's comparatively lax emission, and non-existent fuel consumption, standards. The idea is that the competitive landscape has been weakened by these factors, making it possible for local manufacturers to avoid the hard work of innovation, and importers to dump old designs unwelcome elsewhere. I don't know enough about the car industry to assess the merit of this, though it would fit the general Australian business (and specifically manufacturing) pattern. There is a kind of comfortable torpor at large here, as most notably described in Donald Horne's famous book.
And with him it's worse than useless.
No matter how dedicated the hippie, it takes a few years to really grow your hair out.
It's really upsetting to see men just need to say 'i see what I did was bad,I'm sorry, I'll try to fix it and be better'. But the victims, in this case are highly educated women, have to live with this painful experience the rest of their life.
> discretion is the better part of valor here, so I decided to get out of Detroit, hitchhike out west and keep moving around

Ah the days before everybody voluntarily carried a tracking beacon in their pockets. The FBI would have no problem tracking him down these days.
If you read the parts where they mention “buffeting” that’s the dangerous part, where uneven airflow introduces instability, causing the airframe to rattle.

Buffeting occurs when the soundwaves of the noise of the craft and its motion directly affect the air as it flows across the surface of the plane.

This happens as the plane enters the shockwave of the sound barrier, and ceases when they accelerate beyond the speed of sound.

At and beyond Mach 1 the buffeting is behind the plane, and flight is smoother, with no rattling or shaking from the incidental turbulence.

It also happens when decelerating, although it’s easier to decelerate safely through the buffeting quickly, since less time is spent in the shockwave, and a reduction in speed grants improved control.
Interesting. I have a few reactions to that:

* still bad that it took days given the exponential decay of social media impact

* as you point out, that's some low hanging fruit. For example, they explicitly permit parody accounts of any person

* I'm curious if they respond equally to far-left memes
Aren't those 2 separate problems anyway ?

Many people are drunk or even alcoholic without assaulting others.
> the off center keyboard is a deal-breaker. It’s just asking for RSI.

No. Laptop are a disaster for RSI and posture in general. The off center keyboard has a tiny effect. Use external keyboards and monitors!
When I recently used python, after a long absence, I was pleased to discover named tuples: https://pymotw.com/2/collections/namedtuple.html

They basically give you the light syntax you were looking for.

Related, I was also very pleased to discover mypy for static type checking. I am convinced that it sped up development of my project by an order of magnitude or so. Especially since I was using the also new async/await syntax (something I was also very pleased to discover for my particular project, and it had nothing to do with the web). The use of async/await leads to quite elaborate types, with easily made mistakes that are very painful if only caught at runtime, instead of trivially at compile time.

Together, named tuples and static type checking brought in some much missed aspects of C into python.
one improvement to the current piano music notation is making both staves start/end on the same notes. ie, EGBDF for both. right now a student learns the "right hand" / treble staff to be EGBDF... you'll mentally learn that the third line is a B note - maybe natural/sharp/flat, but it's a B. great. now you learn the bass clef and all the work you did for the treble clef is not applicable anymore: cause it's GBDFA! WTH? the third line is now a D and not a B like before. sure, youre supposed to learn both clefs together, but especially for beginners and sight reading, it wouldve been nice if both had the same sequence. especially when theyre only a 3rd apart! a possible way to achieve this is to add an A to the top of the treble clef: EGBDF[A], and add and E to the bottom of the bass clef [E]GBDFA. now both are are easier to learn and you dont have to constantly shift a third in your head. the 3rd line is always a B in both staves.

Another improvement, especially for piano music is to make the white/black key indication carried in the note shape/head. right now the note head carries duration information. it could also include whether it's a black key or white. this is useful especially for complex keys with many sharps/flats. this way whether you're in C major or Ab Minor, you dont have to constantly remember which notes are accidentals. sure, youre supposed to learn the scale and remember (including all the cancellations, double sharp/flats), but it's massively easier if this useful info is carried in the note shape. eg: square note head = black, triangle = white.

sorry for the rant!
I agree. The issue I see is it's pretty tough to hire very good DBA that knows the new cool technologies to be very honest. I've worked with some DBAs but they have no experience with Cassandra or whatever !MySQL !Postgres !Oracle !SQL, and they also have very difficult time integrating themselves with the developers. It turns out the developers have better understanding of Cassandra than the DBAs and DevOps/Ops. As Ops we just learn from them and from incidents.... Good DBAs also tend to do a lot of testing and development besides reading manual and utilizing past experiences.
For a sense of scale, roughly 5,000 live on my peninsula between the towns. The summer populations is probably about 10x that plus any weekend visitors.

It makes it really hard for restaurants to stay open during the off season, and even the Hannaford's market can't be sized right. It's a bit big for the population right now, but it feels like Black Friday on weekends during the summer.

The towns have been working to bring more off season events to even things out, but most aren't working (the one notable exception brought in 160,000ish customers in it's second 6 week run).
> Linux had absolutely shitty audio up until...like yesterday.

Is that just hyperbole, or has there been a recent (within the past 6 months) development that has made Linux audio better?
I think this is a reasonable position. I lament that support for body cams is such a divisive issue--one needn't believe police are evil to support body cams.
The article is about age discrimination and my comment pointed out that older developers may value their “off time” more, which biases take home tests against those older devs.
23andMe use a genotyping array so they probably don't type STRs only SNPs
As someone who does not live in the valley, I have to ask... What is wrong with you people?

Seriously!

Is this news? Man propositioned woman while drunk. REPEATEDLY! OMG does that mean more than once?!

Talking about apologizing to "his victims"... was there a crime committed?

If you don't call this out for being total nonsense then I call you for being a coward.

The rest of the world shakes it's collective head at you weak, weak people.
Something that takes more than a couple hours is no longer trivial.
Why shouldn't the public have access at least to the videos filmed in public?
Yea my casual survey/experience indicates optimizing beyond high 80s isn't going to affect search ranking much. I'm obsessive about optimizing page speed too, but maxing out their score requires some gimmicky (imo) techniques that don't really affect speed/ux.
Since he wants to be part of the solution I will give some ideas:

* Always have a chaperone (for meetings, business activities, work social events, etc) when women are present.

* Do not attend social functions unless your wife will be attending with you.

* Attend weekly cognitive behavioral therapy sessions.
Plain https://www.google.com gets 79/100 but when you perform a search, it gets 98/100 (https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=test) ...
I smell some unsubstantiated opinions. Raise government research budgets to "where they should be" sounds like a good recipe for wasteful spending.

I might be on board with "govt matches private contributions."
Cities have up to hundreds of autonomous precincts to comprise a single police department.

Every single city and municipality has its own separate police department.

States pass laws allowing for overlapping jurisdictions at their discretion.

No study about "police officers" is going to address that. Elevating these studies to that level is going to continually get conflicting results.

No person knows what a random internal police department's memo on what justified force is. Nobody will know if some local municipality had just reviewed and changed that standard, or if they are currently in a bout of actual corruption.
For Jekyll users, you can do just as well with CloudFlare and GitHub pages (all for 0$): https://wiredcraft.com/blog/make-jekyll-fast/
> There's also a lot of dangerous precedent that could be set if they were to block the POTUS.

What would that be? If anything I’d think that would be a good thing that no one would be above the rules.

It’s not like he doesn’t have other communication methods.
Perhaps because it's not acceptable to be toxic in person?
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For what you get out of the box with this setup (or Google Cloud Storage + Cloud Load Balancing/CDN) it actually can be "dirt cheap", depending on your business goals/traffic. Just like anything, it depends on what you value/what your time is worth. The pricing difference would need to be several (several) orders of magnitude larger than it is for me to worry about the few dollars a month I'm spending on each static site sitting in S3/Cloud Storage.

Also, if there is an issue with either of these it's far easier for me to justify downtime to a client by saying "Amazon us-east is down, here's Amazon's status page" then trying to explain who OVH is.
(photo of a person being shot) "this is what just happened on the street!"

Banned: you're propagating violence, I'm assuming that from the photo

(Photo of a racist poster) "look at what company X uses to get more money"

Banned: spreading racist images
Startup CEO Zain Jaffer Arrested for Child Abuse, Assault, and Attempted Murder
Where did they say they were censoring political speech?

It’s perfectly possible to speak about politics without personal attacks or threats.
That's "work to rule", and it's a common form of industrial action worldwide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
Three years ago, someone with this condition did an AMA on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1u75hh/i_am_the_guy_w...
> What is the problem? Don’t we have a ‘representation’ of the dollar bill ‘stored’ in a ‘memory register’ in our brains? Can’t we just ‘retrieve’ it and use it to make our drawing?

We can have a representation of a dollar bill, and you can see that the student retrieved that representation: he drew a picture.

Sure, the representation is not exact, and some details have been omitted, but this is true of all representations, even computerized ones. Uber does not store an exact representation of every car; they cannot tell me that there is a dent on the back side of the car picking me up. Yet, my phone relays that a "silver Honda with plates XXXX" is picking me up — a representation of the car, and one good enough to get the job done.

> no image of the dollar bill has in any sense been ‘stored’ in Jinny’s brain.

And how not? The student was, again, able to draw a dollar bill. It wasn't perfect, but neither is a JPEG photo.

> McBeath and his colleagues gave a simpler account: to catch the ball, the player simply needs to keep moving in a way that keeps the ball in a constant visual relationship with respect to home plate and the surrounding scenery (technically, in a ‘linear optical trajectory’).

Perhaps this is how stuff functions, approximately, but it doesn't mean that it is the only means by which the brain could accomplish the task. I can throw and catch objects without looking at them — without a "constant visual relationship with respect to […] the surrounding scenery" — so, how can I do this?
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Sales, support, marketing, accounting, business ops, software ops, management, HR. Pare those off and you might get something like Mastodon's contributor size after adjusting for scale of user base. Although I doubt many of Mastodon's contributors are full time, so a comparison is difficult.
Well, the Austrian Business Cycle Theory [0] has shown that the continuous, never ending increase in the money supply is actually responsible for greatly exacerbating the boom and bust cycle, so there are in fact many losers of this (people who invested money thinking it was safe when in reality it was a highly speculative market, eg real estate in 2007, internet stocks in 2001, etc).

Increasing the money supply ultimately leads to a decrease in purchasing power, which is stealing from savers.

If the market (individuals cooperating with one another voluntarily) valued a continuously inflated currency, then fiat currency will win and crypto will fail. I suspect the market values a fixed or slow-increase-in-the-money-supply version of money like gold as they demonstrated with their money preferences before governments used coercion to stop it, one of the biggest reasons crypto is so popular is because people can’t use gold as money, but governments can’t effectively stop people from using crypto.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theo...
Except that there are many examples of police that do their jobs very well. I'm not sure why it has to be a mystery what standard police should be held to.
I don't believe either is ok. But remember, we're talking about Twitter, not the government.
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I hear these stories and on one hand I am sad for the good cops and forces out there. On the other I think we do have to focus on the bad ones because we need to fix it. Stories like this are still valuable because they remind us that it is possible to hold your police force to an appropriate standard.
Well, it is sort of weak. But:

A) How many actually good examples do we have to draw upon? Most such things are pretty blatant attempts at saving face. This at least has some sincerity to it.

B) He isn't justifying, excusing or denying. He did quit drinking already, which is perhaps the most important thing he could do to prove he is taking it seriously that he needs to stop hurting other people. He is fairly realistic that being better in the future is the primary thing he can do. He also acknowledges that it doesn't undo his past actions or somehow make things okay for people he hurt.

Amends are really hard to do. They also don't always come in a form readily recognizable as directly related to the bad act.

Also, he kept it short and didn't make it about him and his big feels or sob story. It is reasonably gracious in that regard.
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Just firing? How is that not a crime punishable by jailtime?
I don’t know about far left stuff but I’ve certainly seen a TON of complaints from women being harassed or targeted or out right under siege by hordes of users piling on them and complained that Twitter doesn’t do anything about it or even remove the reported tweets.

My experience was joining Twitter and then within a month or two scene the attacks that started gamer gate. Things don’t seem to have improved since then even though they keep saying they’ll fix some of this stuff.

I’ll believe it when I see it because so far they’ve never managed to do anything reasonable, at least in a sane timeframe.
Twitter has to do everything itself - sales, marketing, customer support. This means that its vision is limited by what the executives can see, and they're going to look at traditional business factors for ideas. The political structure tends toward corporate fiefdoms over time.

Mastodon is leveraging forces from many different directions: first by building towards the existing GNUSocial protocol and its userbase, and then as different communities come in, getting donations of their time and skills to operate instances tailored to their needs. Businesses have angles on this too: for example Japanese art site pixiv made their own instance and client app. The federated model allows some divergence but also the "loose ties" of a common protocol. There is the prospect of embrace-extend-extinguish occurring, but this historically only happens some of the time, and it requires the full pressure of a giant tech firm and all their marketing strength to make it work.
That depends on the specific kind of analysis being done and one what size of dataset you want to run the analysis. Some analysis techniques filters data down to just a few MiB, others need as much as a few hundred GiB, for a single individual. Sometimes you do population analysis on that data which can end up multiplying individual sample size to the size of the population.
You got it, Dan. Thanks for the heads-up.