skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see your point, but, to pick a couple specific points—it is strictly better to have thorough documentation than not to, and it is also strictly better to have a language with a defined grammar to support linters and the like than not to. These aren’t trade-offs, or else, I don’t see anything that Ruby has that wouldn’t be possible without the drawbacks the author notes. Perhaps you know of some features or strengths that Ruby has that wouldn’t be possible without these drawbacks?
This has nothing to do with Markdown. You actually have to know html tags to use this.
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Someone needs to make a markdown-clone called "yadown?". Yet another down.
... which makes Markdown even _less_ like your software. Also less relevant to marketing efforts as people up-thread are saying. Some of the use-cases that you're covering with your software were never covered by Markdown, nor were they ever intended to be use-cases for Markdown. So you're not going to find people that are currently using Markdown that will need Sundown for those use-cases.
Once we hit a minimum threshold of safety, don't you think other factors will become more important? Since when do consumers make choices solely based on safety? We would only see one type of car on the road if that was the case, whoever was winning the crash and avoidance tests that year.
F1 isn't strictly OLTP though. Even the paper says it:

> F1 also provides a full-fledged SQL interface, which is used for low-latency OLTP queries, large OLAP queries, and everything in between.
A poorly written article for a real issue is frankly, a disservice. Luckily, skill based hiring is quite common, at least in most 'hands on' industries.
clicking thru on the signup link:
https://www.sunsed.com/sign-up

Page not found.
The requested URL /sign-up was not found on this server.
Came here to say that. Also Discourse just moved to a CommonMark compliant markdown parser this release, so between GitHub and Discourse the user base is already huge.
Back in 2008 when LinkedIn was still relatively smaller, there were already recruiters who ping people on it regularly. I would receive one a month or every couple weeks. I began a job search in mid 2008, and responded to the first recruiter that messaged me that week, and ended up getting hired at that company. I worked there for the next 6 years and it was my most important and influential job in my career, in terms of everything including career growth and financial prospects.

I went through another job search earlier this year. It didn't seem nearly as helpful even though LinkedIn is exponentially larger now. I've noticed anecdotally for myself for other sites and apps too, that was really useful/helpful to me when it was smaller, and when it got larger, it became less effective.
I suspect the article isn't very well organized. The researcher is quoted further down:

“Some archaeologists were skeptical, as they thought that the amount of nickel found in Bronze Age iron tools was too low to consider them of meteoritic origin,” he says. “But I’m a trained cosmochemist, so I knew the problem was just corrosion. And I was able to show—partly thanks to Morasko meteorite data—that nickel was leached away during corrosion.”

So there were probably multiple issues.
This is a great story about a great man, but the post title / url slug "The Last Naturalist" really misses the point. Living close to nature is something that we must bring to the fore for those of us who have lost it. We reach universal ecological literacy not by suggesting that it's dead but by teaching it, and living it.
Not really. This works in private markets but in part-government systems such as ambulances there's a few more influences on supply.
Yep, you’re right on both points (trucking being the first industry that will adopt self-driving technology on mass-scale and the potential displacement of millions of jobs) but I’m not sure if John Deere will be spared in the process, only if they’re smart and see the same writing on the wall.
Everybody who isn’t crazy is still looking towards LIDAR, at least in some fashion, to get to level 5. I’m not saying it’s required, just that anyone taking safety seriously hasn’t ruled out possibly needing it.
I'm not trying to pretend otherwise. Of the problems on this list, I think adversarial examples and bias are real problems.

> Some of them are illuminating parts of ML that are problems (copying society's bias, adversarial attacks), but most of the rest are simply things being overhyped/regular design errors (anything to do with Alexa/google home).

It's a personal opinion that adversarial examples will always exist (they exist for pretty much all kinds of machine learning models), and that they might exist for human vision too.
I would rather consider it as an alternative to HTML.
Saying that people just like working is ridiculous. It's either author's social bubble or it's straight propaganda. I cannot imagine people in factories or construction saying they like to go to work. The reasons behind the 40-hour week are way more brutal:

- Contemporary economy has surprising amount of internal inefficiency causing most of the value to be wasted.

- Value that is not squandered is distributed unevenly, so most people aren't that much better off.

- Status spending doesn't deliver more value with higher economic output. Status is always scarce. The same goes for several other "resources".

- Mate competition, gender roles, and divorces create separate earners and spenders. Earners have little control over spending and they are thus unable to cut back on work. They are often legally required to work under threat of imprisonment.

- Widespread debt means most people cannot stop working without risking default. Credit availability further encourages irrational spending.

- Most people don't get to choose their working hours. Businesses have the leverage and they choose to max out hours to the legal limit. Governments have little incentive to shorten the work week, because small change won't matter and big change would kill the economy.

- People can retire early or they can take breaks between jobs, but this doesn't work for two reasons: people dislike large swings in their lifestyle and people grow dependent on their income through irrational spending.

Author is right about one thing: the elderly are the winners here. That's where governments can focus their effort. Earlier retirement can be introduced incrementally and it has the smallest impact on economy, because on average older people are less productive anyway.
Seriously? Take a listen to the songs bumpin from those deep south brodozers. Its not even a quarter country, and likly more than half aa artists. Sure some of the rural areas dont scale, but its changing, and has been for longer than my lifetime. I got turned onto tpab by a white dude who read about it on some forum for pop misic of all things. Bias goes both ways. Best just to be human.
There is a huge difference between “algorithmically efficient” (aka big o) and “real life efficient” (aka actual cycle counts). In real life, constant factors are a huge deal. Real developers don’t just work with CS, they work with the actual underlying hardware. Big O has no concept of cache, no SMP, no hypertreading, no pipeline flushes, no branch prediction, or anything else that actually matters to creating performance libraries and applications in real life.
CUTE or NUTS?PARROT AND MOMMY DO CUTEST CARPOOL CHRISTMAS KARAOKE EVER
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> if it's a service dog they're required to transport it

But Uber is not a cab service; instead, they are trying to evade all the rules.
The whole topic is pointless because it does not detract or add to the realism of our existence; this is just another exercise in pure determinism.

You already are bootstrapped by your biology and life experience you do not make decisions in vacuum and there is a good chance that your biology has as much of an impact on your base political views as your nurture.
Source code shouldn't matter for performance testing though.

Simply fire through a bunch of known-result-samples through the various services and take a look at the test statistics. Determining accuracy is hardly the hard part.
If there's a 90% reduction in accidents, who will be providing the donor organs? What will happen to the average lifespan of people with certain chronic illnesses?
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I imagine most of the cases involving people opting for an Uber instead of an ambulance aren't in obvious risk of dying if they don't make it to the hospital in time. The first things that come to mind are broken bones, lacerations, and severed digits. Then again, there are plenty of things that can be fatal without being readily apparent, especially if the only person making that judgment call is the patient.
The OP's link is from Dec 27, 2007, while this link is from Aug 2007.

The actual presentation from 24C3 is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lywXCZogsg
A very nice read.

I found it ironic that the corner of the last paragraph was obscured by an "Up Next" pop-open, ready to push me on to the next thing before I'd even had a moment to digest it.
>The airline industry is unprofitable mainly because the pilots capture most of the money. Their union gives them nearly unlimited pricing power.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average salary of a Commercial Pilot is $73,490 per year.

This seems low given the sheer number of hours of training involved.
The traffic elimination claim is disingenuous. Surely they anticipate that as the avg traffic goes down, that just opens up for more volume of vehicles, thus reintroduces traffic problems
Violation of the confrontation clause.

chad@flyingdogsolutions.com if any attorney needs an expert witness to look into it. I can review the source under a protective order so the company's IP will be fully protected. Worst case I find something wrong and they fix it.
> Uh huh.

You're casually dismissing a reference to a pretty well known and important work in sociology: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Injuries-Class-Jonathan-Cobb/d...

I'm happy to buy a copy for you if you send me your address and promise to read it!
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We cant test all edge cases as well as we can read source. Handicapping justice for a dollar is whoring of the lowest order.
This seems to be aiming for completely different goals though.

People use markdown as a text and word formatting system that is readable in plain text and easily transforms into HTML.

The the main point you are driving to people in this thread are the custom tags which goes against the plain text readability and adds extra complexity in this scope. You are competing against HTML preprocessors that are primarily used for that reason - to be converted into fully fledged HTML. Markdown is not in this scope by any means.
Fixed it! Thank you for the heads up!
It has little to do with the ACA. This has been happening in retail and restaurants for DECADES.
Native applications don’t need that, though. Modern languages embrace async/await and don’t waste cycles or block the UI or even the backend unnecessarily waiting for network/local IO or user interaction.

In that regard, rust is actually behind. Async/await is still coming.
Yes, increasing availability of cars through self-driving will result in more trips, probably from underage or elderly people. But add in a service like Lyft, and the facts change. Taxi services reduce the total amount of miles driven.

When I first heard that it sounded crazy, but think of this scenario: you live near your friends, but go to work at different places. You all agree to meet up for a beer after work. If everyone takes the same taxi home from the pub, you've saved two car trips.
From [1], cost of living in Oslo is way higher than Dallas. They're more in line with NYC or SFA. The avg salary is only about $65k [2]. Quite disappointing.

I checked and dev salary in the rest of Germany. Not very different from Berlin.

Switzerland does pay handsomely. But, unlike neighbors, unions have quite minor role. And labor laws are way more lax than France or DE.

About prevalece of manufacturing in Germany, France has similar salaries despite being a more services oriented economy.

[1]https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/oslo-software-engineer-sa...
I think this is a great article that can be used as a way to shed some light on the container movement over the past couple of years to someone who is not intimately familiar with containerization.

Bookmarked and thank you to the author!
Defendant's unlawful failure to inform consumers that updating
their iPhone 6, 6S, SE or 7 (the "Legacy Devices") to iOS 10.2.1
(and/or later to iOS 11.2) would dramatically and artificially
reduce the performance of the Legacy Devices.

Apple also failed to inform consumers that phone performance
would be restored – by as much as 70 percent – if affected
individuals simply replaced the phone's lithium-ion battery.
Replacing the battery at an Apple store costs less than $100.
The cost of the new iPhone X is over $1,000.

I would think that for that kind of money there would be some disclosure.
What do we do when someone pukes in the driverless uber?
good on you for pointing out the security hole. i'm still a newb when it comes to it.
Lisps are arbitrarily powerful, yes, sure. Once I too was a Lisp head, I am familiar with the advocacy.

They also read awfully even with an editor designed for them. They aren't human-first languages. S-expressions are easy for a computer, they are hard for a human. So, yeah, that can be improved, too. "But you can do it with macros"--other people won't, and so you are thus devolved to the minimum set everyone can agree upon, and it's gonna be awful.

And so there is room to grow outside of one's parentheses, too.
> Probably not. But not everybody who has a hard drug addiction will do this either.

You won't steal from your family because sugar addiction withdrawl pales in comparison to heroin withdrawl, which you claimed to be less addictive than sugar.

I'm trying to illustrate that you were conflating the two, that opiate users can quit just like you quit sugar. You couldn't be more wrong.

Opiate addiction is a completely different beast than your sweet tooth and I hope you realize this by now. Someone who's been heroin for decades will not be able to just quit cold turkey. Someone who's been abusing alcohol for such long time will not be able to stop without experiencing life threatening seizures. True addiction will rob somebody the ability to make healthy decisions. This is why there are supervised injection sites to reduce harm because the addicts themselves will hurt themselves and others just to get a fix. They are willing to prostitute their wife and daughter so they can get a fix to avoid the withdrawls, so would you be willing to do the same if sugar was illegal? Heroin changes your brain structure after you experience the massive flood of dopamine many magnitude times greater than 'sugar rush'. The user chases that first high and pretty quickly, heroin/opiate becomes the sole purpose.

It's very insulting to to claim as you did that these drug addicts and people driven to suicidal depression just needed to 'think positive'. You are not a heroin addict but sugar addict. You don't live on the streets but in the warmth of a house and a family. Those people on the streets whom you claim society is 'siding with' cannot make the same decisions as you did because they don't have the same resources as you do.
A hypothetical – since flights are relatively expensive, people usually just go for the cheapest option, so airlines race to the bottom and lose profits. With autonomous vehicles the cost of a ride will be very inexpensive–a few dollars probably–so consumers may focus less on cost in favor of brand loyalty, cool cars, etc, leaving room for providers upsell certain services and profit (turning a $4 ride into a $5 isn't a bad profit margin)
> Well this is all stupid. Because we have double blind testing. It doesn't matter what the algorithm is, it just matters whether the test is accurate.

Seems to me that your kind of reasoning is why the Volkswagon cheating went undetected for so long.
Why do you want to retire? It is a question out of interest as I do not know many people (many of retirement age or above) that want to retire (anymore). Most who did retire in my circles (including me) found it not very inspiring and went back to (more than full time) work.
This is closer to an html templating language than anything else.
I think self driving cars will increase safety, and decrease accidents. I've read that accidents contribute for 25% of traffic congestion that exists today, so self driving cars could have a noticeable impact on decreasing drive times.
Seems like they're holding "e-bike" users to a ridiculous standard given how shit most people are at driving cars. There should be heavy fines for operating "e-bikes" on the sidewalk, but otherwise I don't see how they're substantially different from a motor scooter or something.

That said, if you're able-bodied, and it's not your job, just use a normal bicycle.
Ints. :)
This. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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This article did make some good points. But as a first generation college grad who went to a good school, it also rubbed me the wrong way at times.

"It wasn’t so much overt stigma, but the hidden injuries of social class that kept emerging – people kept having to explain themselves"

You're going to meet people from different backgrounds. You're going to have to explain yourself to them. You're going to have to listen to them. I don't know how many times I've had to explain that having your parents buy a $30,000 car isn't poor, just because peers got a $60,000 car. There are people whose parents can't buy new cars. But that's the environment they grew up in, of course they can't understand. I had a hard time imagining that an adult would think buying a 16 year old a sports car is a good idea, given their higher accident rates and poor decision making skills.

Are we really lowering the standard this much? You can't be expected to have to meet people from different backgrounds? Which brings me to:

"If you have low expectations of the kids they'll sink to the level of expectations"

Exactly. Maybe setting the expectations that they never feel uncomfortable, never have their ideas challenged is a bad idea?? In the articles defense, they did mention telling all kids to set their goals high.

"Bourdieu pointed to the fact that the education system was invented by the ruling classes", "Here in Switzerland they abolished grades in one place but there was an uprising mainly due to parents who all of a sudden couldn’t figure out how their kids were doing"

Maybe I am reading too much into these quotes, but really? The article mentions that education is linked to success, but also seems to try to paint the picture that the ruling class invented education to keep the lower classes down? And those evil parents, caring how their kids did in school? Can someone tell me if I am misinterpreting these quotes?
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The Chronos high-speed camera[1] is a lot more interesting as a product, though not fully open-source. The software is FOSS, the hardware isn't. It has the advantage of being for a niche application (high-speed photography) and substantially cheaper (about 0.1x the price) than similarly capable commercial cameras.

[1] http://www.krontech.ca/
No, the point is for an imbalanced set you literally don't care about the model performance where the false-positive-rate is substantial. IE, let's say you have 1% true-hits in your data and run the classifier at an FPR of 5%, that means you are generating ~5 false-positives which is insane to do!

That's why most of the ROC curve is useless for imbalanced sets. That's why I prefer precision/recall graphs as does the OP.
It's not the same discussion. The article is about a potential 51% attack against BCH, which as far as I know no one else is talking about.

It's kind of strange to say it's understandable and therefore ok. Trolling is understandable too, but it's still against the rules.
Most drivers are okay if it seems like you have your pet neat. I take my cats in carriers all the time, but would never take my parents super sheddy dog.
> More shoddy activism handwaving as 'science' for media attention and social policy change.

And you're suffering from selection bias by ignoring the actual scientific studies mentioned in the article and cherry picking some of the fluff. My other comment on here notes a couple of them.
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Having recently watched the 'the big short', this is understandable and terrifying at the same time.
Yes but that is an artificial limit and not an architectural limitation. i.e. a feature added to code that was once / would have been infinite otherwise.
We aren’t talking about people screaming at the top of their lungs and vomiting on the floor, but simply existing in homes.

This is demanding that the restaurant leave perfectly good floor area clear and let a line form around the block, because more tables would ruin its quiet ambiance.
If that were true, we’d expect the nonunion carriers to do fantastically. But Frank Lorenzo has broken N unions and driven N airlines under. We’d expect the regional carriers, which often pay under $40k to pilots, to do great—but they fail more often than the big carriers paying $100 to $150k.

But your last point is interesting. AlphaGo Zero suggests that for many situations, the return to more data levels off very quickly—after all, humans all learn to drive reasonably well with a certain amount of training. The early phases may have this self-reinforcing bit, and there may be an early dominant player, but we should expect that twenty years in anybody will be able to make a self-driving car that is as safe as modern air travel.
Thanks for the tip! I'm going to check this out.
This works fine until you have some other function that returns 0 on failure.
The very purpose of corporations - to take money from people and give it to their already rich shareholders - is at odds with the wellbeing of society as a whole. 'Free markets' is something that corporations want only when they know they will win the competition; otherwise they don't want it. The commonly-heard praise of free markets, level playing fields etc is pure cant and hypocrisy. Big companies get bailed out if they ever get in trouble; anyway, their managers can just go to the next management position. Ruthless competition with actual failure is reserved for the average person, the worker, the small business etc.
I like your comment, but I gotta scratch my grammar Nazi itch. It's lose, not loose, unless you can tighten anything by having Facebook or your phone.

But to add on to what you've said. Meditation is great can help you lose mundane, petty worries and live in the moment, as opposed to the could've beens.
Are you truly suggesting we allow young, healthy individuals to die in car accidents to harvest their organs?

You should be asking yourself what will happen to the average lifespan of those who won't die prematurely in a car accident.
I agree about debuggers although I have not needed to use anything beyond the "inspect" method on a given object for what I use Ruby for.

From what I can tell, Pry is supposed to be the debugger of choice when working with Ruby but I think that's in a Rails context. I haven't touched Rails in about 6 months but never used Pry for the 3 years that I have worked with Ruby on Rails.

I think the documentation issue exists in any (dynamic) language; however, from what I can tell, statically typed languages have better support for this. The majority of libraries that I use with Ruby (Sinatra, Parallel) tend to have great documentation; however, it can be a mixed bag.