skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost like the haves want to try avoiding being the have-nots.
Is a complete Dyson sphere even possible? Given the mineral resources available in a solar system.

Say you are an advanced alien civilization. And you reach the point where you haven't nuked yourself to death, so now you can expand into space. The first thing you do is to mine all the asteroids, that hadn't coalesced into a planet. So you spend all this energy to capture them, to smelt them, and then you build out your Dyson sphere.

You can achieve some coverage of the star, but is it even possible to cover the entire star with solar collecting panels, to capture all the energy output of the star?

At best, I think you might be able to get a ring around the star. But even this, is dubious.
Unless you are the contractor making $300k
> The obsolete gatekeeping by the AI/ML elites who say "you can't use AI/ML unless you have a PhD/5 years research experience" is one of the things I really hate about the industry.

It is absolutely true that you do not need a graduate degree to apply AI/ML to vanilla problems.

It is also absolutely true, in my experience, that you need a graduate-level education or years of hands-on experience to troubleshoot cases where AI/ML fails on a deceptively-simple problem, or to tweak an AI/ML algorithm (or develop a new one) so it can solve a novel problem.

That said, I think these MOOCs are good enough to get someone to a place where they can create nice /r/dataisbeautiful-style visualizations, or pair with a senior-level DS to deliver something.

(Edited to add folks who have worked on problems for years and add a final note.)
That's because he encourages you to blame your personal lack of social adjustment on women/feminism/PC-culture and not yourself. It's the same with most gateway-alt-righters like the "skeptics." There's a happy middle ground between recognizing the dumbest elements of PC/social-justice culture and swinging the other way on the pendulum because someone absolved you of agency
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> Have you actually tried what you are saying ? Because it's a nice idea just completely unrealistic.

I've been in places where it's done. In fact, I've been involved for a long time in a public sector environment with three key systems, one of which is a central claims adjudication system, and two of which are accounting and tracking systems that interface with it, performing similar functions to each other but for two separate programs that share the adjudication system. Those three systems, for historical reasons, have three separate models:

The adjudication is state-owned (that is, the code belongs to the state) and operated, developed almost entirely by a team of contractors with some involvement by state programming staff and a state development lead and also tight integration state-staff IT team that does requirements analysis and acceptance testing and manages most of the interface with state business users.

One of the accounting/tracking systems is, and has been from the beginning, developed and maintained almost entirely in-house by state staff (and almost solely with programming staff.) Because of subsequent organizational consolidation, the state team working on this system overlaps the one working on the prior system.

The other is a vendor-maintained MOTS system, with state IT oversight.

Each has it's strengths and weaknesses, but the MOTS system is consistently the one that is the roadblock to adapting to changing business requirements, and both before and after consolidation the all-internal one was the one with the quickest best-case requirementd to delivery speed, and by far the least expensive for the value delivered.
Have you looked at Microsoft teams product as a replacement for slack?
Right, didn't mean to imply they didn't. But the differences are that Tarsnap is pre-pay[1], while AWS/GCP automatically debit your card.

How many people have several months, or a year, of runway on their Tarsnap account balance? Meanwhile, there have been cases of people being dead for years[2] with their auto-pay agreements keeping everything humming along while they rot. Keep in mind that recurring payment agreements often aren't cancelled when a credit card number or expiration date changes.[3]

Finally, AWS will give you about five months of unpaid bills before they suspend your account and delete your data.[4] I would assume GCP has a similar policy.

[1]: https://www.tarsnap.com/legal-why.html#PAYMENTINADVANCE

[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/us/michigan-mummified-body-fo...

[3]: https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/card-updater-se...

[4]: https://www.quora.com/What-happens-after-AWS-suspend-an-acco...
I conjecture that an upper-level "platform" that's on top of a lower-level "platform", for some definition of "platform", will be less varied and fragmented than the lower-level one.
Both are incredibly complex (I am a developer on an air traffic control system.) There are thousands of requirements for voice communications alone.
Are you including gDocs and gSheets in that? They seem adequately polished to me (I know the serious Excel user won't be switching any time soon, but for lots of "just put it in a spreadsheet" uses gSheets is fine). And of course time will tell if they have managed to finally make a Slack-killer with Hangouts Chat[1].

1: https://gsuite.google.com/products/chat/
command is also useful for this sort of thing (with the -v and -V options). It can also be used to ignore shell functions and aliases (without options) so:

$ alias cd=ls
$ cd foo
<lists contents of foo>
$ command cd foo
<changes to directory foo>
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My base bashrc has this and cd-, just to handle typos
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New Zealand in the 90's was trying to have an integrated policing system designed by IBM which burnt a lot of money (in the order of 100 million) and was abandoned [0].

I was working with one of the companies that came along to replace one part of the system with a much smaller component that just handled that individual piece and vividly remember the meeting with the IBM team. They had no code to show me, but they handed my a massive folder - probably verging on 10cm thick of use case diagrams. So many little stick figures staring up at me I was awestruck - but not in a positive way!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INCIS
I told everyone I knew that their initial statement on the number of Americans impacted by their lack of security was going to increase. They're doing exactly what other companies like Yahoo and Linkedin do.
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I’m just saying there is a factor that could impact the statistics and that how much a person works should be taken into account for all the findings. Not just the gender-based one, so that we have accurate data from which to make decisions from.

I didn’t say anything about forcing anyone to work or subsidizing habits. I think these charts are trying to claim that discrimination is happening and if how much someone is working isn’t taken into account, they don’t support that claim very well.

To be clear I’m not stating that discrimination is or isn’t happening. I’d just like better data.
Well, I mean, a program can call chdir() and it works exactly as it's supposed to, but it only affects that program, not a different program.
There are quite a lot, actually, though canada has a greater proportion of traditional type long guns like bird hunting shotguns, bolt action rifles, etc. Less people who want to buy a consumer-legal version of a HK416.
Committee meeting take the time of multiple people. They are absolutely not free. People's time is by far the biggest expense in a development project like this.

In the long run they can save money (getting everybody on the same page to avoid conflicts in the future), but you're paying up front for that. In practice the value of the meetings decreases with frequency (in the reducto ad absurdum case 100% of your time is spent in committee meetings and nothing gets done).

Only engaging with the vendor after the requirements were drawn up is what I'm talking about. They contract with IBM and hand over a 2,000 page document describing their requirements, then discover that it's impossible to implement and end up spending many years and millions of dollars on trying to fix it.
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Asians get hand-waved out of statistics for the same reason native americans. There aren't that many asians in the US. As the asian population increases, I'm sure you'll see more analysis.

Keep in mind asians were barred from immigrating to the US for much of the 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

The asian population in the US was effectively 0% ( less than 1% ) for most of the 20th century.

It wasn't until the 1970s that immigrants from asia started arriving.

Also, asians ( particularly asian women ) marry outside their race, so that stagnates the US asian population and hence limits the statistical analysis that can or will be done.

Maybe racism was a reason decades ago, but it isn't why asians aren't included in these stats. It's because there aren't that many asians in the US.

Edit: You will find asians in data where there are significant asian population - california/hawaii and college population. But generally, in overall US population stats, asians are left out because of their low population numbers.
Its kinda sad to see this sort of service. Home visits are a key part of healthcare, but it doesnt scale and is potentially harmful. Especially when you realise that most people dont really need to see a doctor.

Flu is a great example (not judging you, I have no idea how bad it was!) where most people could self care.

Much better is phone doctors & good websites; the NHS have invested heavily in this. You can self-care for many minor things based on online guides, and are then directed to a phone GP for triaging if you need further help.

(example online guide; https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/flu/ what I like about it is that it gives you clear exoectations about self care and when you should feel better, plus clear (and varied) escalation paths for worsened symptoms)
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What would you rather have?
1) Perfect income equality (1:1 poorest:richest), but everyone is starving and most don't live out of childhood
2) Perfect income inequality (1:~infinity poorest:richest)), but the poorest in the world have a much higher standard of living and that standard is going up 3-5% a year.

The point I'm driving at here is that income equality, by itself, isn't automatically desirable if the cost is a worse standard of living for the poor.

It makes perfect sense that income inequality would increase due to globalization. The economic ramifications of "correct" business decisions are amplified by orders of magnitude when compared to mercantilist economies a few hundred years ago.
Let me give it a shot: ptrace(2) allows processes to control other processes for debugging (for example, GDB and LLDB use it). What it's doing is gaining privileges to debug your shell process, using this privilege to gain control over its memory, and then just copying over the directory string to the right spot so that the shell thinks it has a new working directory.
>Your battery didn’t have a defect.

Well, all I know is Apple replaced the battery, and I stopped having random shutdowns.

https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/

> It is the same as all batteries - they degrade. Apple can’t change that.

But I have not had a battery completely stop working in the winter, ever. My car battery continues to work just fine. My camera works just fine, so does my laptop, so does my smartwatch, so does my TV remote, so does my powerdrill, so does my radio, so does my torch, so does the wall clock. But who knows, maybe I've just been lucky all these years. And BTW I'm not talking about some crazy Siberia winter. I'm talking about 30-40F here!

>But it seems the intent was to allow people to continue using their devices without upgrading and without having to pay for a battery replacement.

Apple decided to hide information that let a user decide if it was worth it to upgrade the battery. The user had no idea that their battery had degraded.

>But people who [..] and who expect that Apple should pay to support replacing batteries for the lifetime of the device, with no out-of-pocket expense for the consumer is a ridiculous double standard that no other manufacturer has ever been held to in the history of consumer electronics.

Yeah, who are those people?
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> There's a lot of hubris in assuming their position as a market leader is unassailable.

This is only your very free interpretation of the comment you responded to.

I personally only encounter slack in companies I freelance for - if it does not perform, I file a ticket with whoever does office supplies and demand a bigger computer.
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I disagree, I happen to love capitalism though I'm just a student. Its brought about incredible changes, and raised the standard of living for billions across the world. I've lived in post-soviet countries, and I've lived in the west and I'd much rather live within a capitalist system. Socialism and its derivatives do little to replace inequality as they merely replace trackable, earn-able financial capital with an amorphous social capital. One gets jobs based on who they know, who their parents are or perhaps what tribe they come from. No one can reasonably aspire to the the child of the nomenclatura. One can reasonably push toward the middle class, or upper middle class. Further within a racially stratified country, it seems likely that ethnic class-difference would be reinforced rather than alleviated.
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I can't even read this because of their stupid geo redirect.

It redirects me to https://www.uber.com/de/newsroom/uber-health/ which gives a 404 error.

God, I hate geo redirects. I wish you could set some "don't do geo based redirects" option in your browser that sites would then respect.
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Hey! Are you me?

We have a similar situation for a company of ~100 across 4 offices (2 in NA, and 2 in EU)
Is the cache global?
No, my grandmother cannot trust me to verify every site she might want to visit. How am I supposed to know if random blog is legit? Or for that matter random bank?

The fact that I have to answer this tells me that you haven't though through the implications of web of trust very far.
Also some shells will refuse to run a builtin if there is no executable in the path that matches it.

POSIX actually mandates this behavior for any builtin not on a specific list, though most shells (even dash, which is typically obsessive about complying with POSIX) do not implement this behavior.
If you're not part of the solution, there's good money in prolonging the problem.
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Have you tried Weex or NativeScript? They are simpler than React Native, leveraging Vue.js.
I found out about File Stream by accident, they haven't really pushed it.
What are you implying? Is there some point you want to make about being a man and its relation to gender studies, or was that a sexist statement trying to call out sexism?

It strikes me as somewhat hypocritical. Let's try not to be facetious while simultaneously undermining our own argument with poorly veiled prejudice.
I don't think I will ever be as rich as Bill Gates but I would still rather live in a capitalist country as a middle class person than in a communist country as a rich person.
The naming doesn't even need to be improved, they just need to stop with the renaming. GSuite is an awful name, but i know what it means at this point as long as they don't sometimes call it "Google Cloud" instead.
Sure, but who buys into a messaging platform because the client makes more efficient use of resources? Don't get me wrong, it's on the list of priorities somewhere but the decision to go one platform over another will be made miles above.
> How many local UK construction companies know the building codes of Japan? None.

If those local UK construction companies want to do business in Japan they'll have to know the building codes of Japan.

But seriously, the GDPR standardize the body law for the whole Europe. That makes thing easier for devs.
Under that theory, by 1960s there shouldn't be almost any jobs left, since the population grew 25x since the foundation of the country.
Other than the basic SDR projects like tracking aircraft and decodimg garage door fobs, what cool projects are people using this hardware for?
Well, as a NoSQL search engine. But it implements sexy features with heavy performance penalties.
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You propose a world where CAs still exist and all the infrastructure to support them exists, and realistically everyone continues to rely on them. But in parallel, everyone will build this web of trust system so that you can prefer it when it's convenient. That seems real plausible.
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