skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read that in OPs comment I immediately had to think of "How to draw an owl" (the meme version, not one of the serious online lessons -- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcC1YEyVQAA9Lkw.jpg). "You simply break the task down into all its parts, then you just do it. Projects are easy."

Not to mention that that approach only works if you produce another version of something you already produced many times. There certainly are such development efforts, for example, I think anything data- and form based, like data entry + database + some reporting, what used to be paper cards a long time ago, and then punch cars, those type of apps can probably be made using that method.

So that's when they had to build the freight version of the Boeing 747. Then they thought "that was easy", and started the Dreamliner, something very different that they had not done before... (and it even still is an airplane, so not even that outrageously different as different pieces of software can be)

I think the "break it down" approach also faces the problem of the "coastline length measurement".

I'm also reminded of an anecdote from my early days with computers: I had to write an assembler routine (as part of an 8 bit assembler program) that seemed too hard, so I outsourced it to someone else. He didn't know what to do either, so I explained it to him. When I was done I realized I had just implemented that difficult function - I wrote it down in half an hour and that was that. Planning well, finding out what to do, is harder than the actual programming. Again and again, in all projects, I find that the >90% part is finding out what to do. There are stories from projects that lost all their code, years of work, and they thought they were done and finished (business kaputt) - but when they rewrote the software they fond it took them only weeks or instead of years. When you already know what you want and how the end result is supposed to look like (and feel and behave) then writing it in code is the easy part.
Actually I believe that I am not using any closed-source component (or else I would not have posted the parent). However I do not want to start using any by mistake.
And a lot of us have tried to give MS the benefit of the doubt several times over the years and have been bitten by it several times.
Fintech RFC from plaid(2017)
My point is that increase in the housing part of the cost of living is directly tied to the wealth created by the extremely relaxed mortgage lending environment of the last 15-20 years. If that debt were extinguished, house (and rent) prices would be lower for a relatively large population, and wealth would be destroyed for a relatively small (but powerful) number.
...yet. "Directly or indirectly profitable" eventually happens.
>because obviously you wouldn't find evidence of psychic phenomena

If they had found proof of said phenomena, wouldn't it make sense for them to convince the public they had not? To prevent others from looking into the subject while researching it farther and weaponizing it?

After all, one of the agency's prime purposes (as stated by a former director) is to control the narrative of society - to shape commonly held views:

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false" [1].

The American public is pretty well convinced that 'psychic phenomena' isn't real. While this belief is potentially organic, is it that far out of line to question it, considering the striking similarities between mystical belief systems of ancient societies who had no contact with each other (Egypt & Tibet, for example) and the CIA's stated campaign to shape public opinions?

Not directly opposing your statement, just playing devil's advocate around the word 'obviously'.

[1] Former CIA Directory William Casey [via Barbara Honegger]
found this interesting. even though it's old.

I thought it would be cool to just pull data from paid and dump it into a db. Then I would query it how ever I wanted.
If the area around USMA were a dense jungle with an extensive tunnel network, and UbL had been found there instead of in Pakistan, it certainly would have been a remarkable event. One suspects it might even have been mentioned by the late-night comedy impresarios...
It sounds like Github was in a financially vulnerable position and shopped around for the best suitor.

Microsoft is committing heavily on open source, for good or bad, and it would be tactically disadvantageous for Github to fall into the hands of a competitor.

If history tells us anything about acquisitions of this nature, it never ends well. But I could honestly see things being a lot worse if they'd been acquired by someone like Apple or Google.
So you reject the idea of Informed Consent? Hell why stop at right to try let simply take away all medical choices for everyone, If the doctor says something you will be compelled to do it, Second Opinion, no way, clearly the doctor is the professional and you as a individual are too stupid to make your own choices for your life
It probably won’t go away. They didn’t eliminate Cloud Search when they started offering managed Elastic Search, or SQS when they started offering managed Active MQ. However AWS will likely put resources into EKS vs ECS.
Isn't it it equivalent of every road having ads, which is basically the case in the US (billboards)?

A tollbooth is an access fee, which is the opposite model of ad revenue.
Here’s what was left unanswered.... How will the investors do? If the investors at a 2 billion valuation take a bath, they will think twice. If they make money, they won’t care. Same with IPO investors. Nobody forces them to invest, and there is a move to take these companies out of indexes.

The strange thing is the self dealing. The founder is already wealthy. Why create the risk of a stink to get a little more money? The damage to the IPO is much higher than whatever he pocketed. This is the true hubris.
Canadian Government’s Phoenix Pay System an “Incomprehensible Failure”
Sounds like quite an overreaction to the MS purchase of GitHub. Good for GitLab, though, they certainly deserve the extra traffic.
> cloud based operating system

Had a good laugh.
Seconding the Thinkpad. There's also various repurposed IBM (I want to say mostly T200 and T400) that have GNU/Linux and an open source bios (or boot loader, I apologise if I'm mixing terms) pre-installed.

Price is probably high for the hardware though I think it's goes back into further open-source libre development.

But if it is important to you, you'll actually 'own' your computer.
"Stargate" was also the name of a 1981 arcade game. [1] It was the sequel to "Defender." On that basis, I wouldn't be shocked if it were named for the game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(video_game)
Let's say you have a subscriber model, but than what kind of world will it be where only the wealthy have access to these communication technologies and access to social information.

This is a strawman. I give you Usenet and IRC as counter examples.
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I've been in and out of that boat for years. There's something about doing basic work that just drains creative people. I've found some solace in choosing projects that have a social good component associated with them -- CRUD that feels good. I think a big part of personal happiness is learning to shift your source of joy from actions to outcomes they lead to.

I'm also working on an open source programming assistant to help automate that kind of joyless work so developers can focus on the novel parts of their projects. Hoping it helps people like you get back to what you value. https://github.com/opticdev
>now obvious in hindsight.

the data that shows that it worked is still classified
> trust of knowing what you're downloading by doing so

Are you saying that some websites may not offer as much trust as an app-store approved app? Maybe when discovering new web-apps, I agree, but for standard websites that you know the url for, maybe not so much? I can't imagine someone not trusting "pandora.com", for example.
You're the only one talking about Tesla in this situation. I never mentioned Tesla's reluctance to release data. That's your fabrication.

I'm talking about data that's incapable of being analyzed in a meaningful way without contextual / proprietary knowledge of how that data was created, is used, and is stored. In reality, I'd wager that most companies have more of that type of data than not.
It's good to separate the fact that he's a good leader from the fact that facebook does harm in some ways.

Hitler was a great leader too.
judging by our utter inability to secure software and hardware stacks consistently, i wouldnt hold out much hope for this approach.
MariaDB and LibreOffice were forked for license reasons - the fork was not avoidable. They also took over original code development.
Kudos to Tesla for not only being OK with this guy having a sidegig but also not trying to be a jerk in demanding a cut. I know that seems like status quo for companies not to demand control over what employees create outside of work, but seems like that line can be blurred when there's enough money involved.

(edit: not just having a sidegig, but being able to launch and run his startup for ~1 year while employed at Tesla)

I also have a low bar after reading "Bad Blood", the book about Theranos. One of Theranos's chief engineers, on his own time, came up with a cool idea for bike lights and ran a successful KickStarter [0]. Elizabeth Holmes' response:

> Kent told Elizabeth about his successful Kickstarter campaign, thinking she wouldn’t mind. But he badly miscalculated: she and Sunny were furious. They viewed it as a major conflict of interest and asked him to transfer his bike-lights patent to Theranos. The paperwork Kent had signed when he joined the company entitled them to any intellectual property he produced while employed there, they contended. Kent disagreed. He’d worked on his little venture during his free time and felt he had done nothing wrong. He also failed to see how a new type of bicycle light posed a threat to a maker of blood-testing equipment. But Elizabeth and Sunny wouldn’t let it go. In meeting after meeting, they tried to get him to turn over the patent. They ratcheted up the pressure by bringing Theranos’s new senior counsel, David Doyle, to some of the meetings.

Eventually Kent, the engineer, was allowed to go on leave of absence to work on his bike-light. I don't think he ever came back, and he was the guy who was the chief architect of the piece of crap that Holmes would later describe as "the most important thing humanity has ever built".

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revolights/revolights-j...
I'm currently the maintainer of a Woocommerce site. My client paid for a massive rewrite of the thing and despite me damn-near getting on my knees begging him to use Shopify, he stuck with WooCommerce.

It is truly terrible. I cannot recommend enough to anyone to keep as far away from it as possible.
Personally I work in the health tech space - specifically a pharmacy. Our customers are people who are able to get cheaper medications and better health help and pharmacy technicians who are more productive due to our software. The job is technically just Django/CRUD with some integrations, but the impact can be fulfilling.

I don't think you can get that kind of satisfaction in B2B software as a developer (only a salesperson/exec).
Wrt changing to signal, just say 'it got an update' and switch it out to where the icon used to be. Provided the rest of your family switched it shouldn't be too difficult
The thing is, the very edge, i.e., the first about 5 micrometers, possibly up to about 20 micrometers, need to be strong enough.
There are measurements on [0] that show how one can get a steel edge about 50 nm wide, and the same source claims 100nm to be necessary for cutting a free-hanging mustache hair. That "a triangular bevel with a 16 degree included angle is typically too weak to survive shaving a normal-to-heavy beard" [1] leads me to think that this coating is unlikely to reach the required thinness of the edge.

You can buy utility knifes with such coatings, or at least I stumbled upon someone comparing different coatings on utility knifes, including diamond nano particles.

Judging by the low life of such a sharp blade which 'just' cuts hairs, I don't think a coating will reach the target.

And yes, the edge will be prone to shattering, but I never said I'd want to be careless with the knife, or never have to care for it. I just don't want to sharpen it more than once a week. If you look, the video I posted shows them hitting a rope, I assume nylon fibers, which certainly isn't that soft, and instead of shattering it results in an almost complete cut. For your carbide cutter you do have to remember that neither your cutter not the lip/bar was particularly likely to give in much. As long as it won't break if I cut a fish and hit a bone, it's not too brittle. I might need a softer cutting mat, but considering the (lack of) force I'd need, the softness shouldn't be much an an issue.

And the cubic zirconia knifes I have do experience significant wear, judging by how quickly they lost their reasonably-sharp state and are no longer superior to a regularly sharpened (cheap) steel knife.

One would probably need a hard-ish backing, e.g. maybe something like an edge-hardened steel blade, but with the thermal expansion coefficient matched to the diamond edge/insert.

[0]: https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/quantifying-...
[1]: https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/sharp-and-ke...
How is informed consent possible when the information required is a deep understanding of both medicine and statistics?
That's not the no-fly list. That's just paying for your weight.
I always assumed it was to make it easier to mop/clean.
Amazon Grand Challenge: moonshot lab working on cancer research and more
I remember coming across someone (I think it was JetBrains, but don't quote me on that) using https://github.com/leereilly/swot
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>What I often see is parents these days trying to be pals with their kids. That's not parenting, and frequently they are at a total loss of how to actually discipline their children when things go awry because they've positioned themselves so poorly as some kind of peer.

I agree, and I agree that's a huge issue, but it has absolutely ZERO to do with "mom and dad, if they're even in the same household, often both work full-time jobs." Trying to be buddies/peers with your kids is a generational thing, not a working parent thing.

The rate of stay at home mothers has been on the rise since the 90s anyway.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/04/08/after-decades-of-d...

>When your kids spend most of their time in environments outside of your control, then the little time you all share together is spent with a strong bias towards being fun and happy together like buddies because the window of opportunity to actively maintain that relationship is so abbreviated, you're not doing much parenting.

Oh, come on, that's total and complete nonsense. The people I know who try to be buddies with their kids the most are stay at home parents. Most of the stay at home parents I know become obsessed with pleasing their children. Then the working parent comes home to bratty children and it destroys the marriage. That's just my experience, but its true that parents whose household duties are performed by only one person are much more likely to divorce.

Of course, it should be no surprise that the sheer quantity of time you spend with your children doesn't matter, quality trumps quantity:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/making-time-for-kids-st...

https://qz.com/717960/the-toxic-myth-that-working-moms-fail-...

Lets not forget that children do better as adults when their moms work

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/kids-benefit-from-having-a-workin...

http://www.businessinsider.com/benefits-working-moms-2011-7

Not only that, but its extremely disingenuous to say that environments that are physically away from you "out of your control." Of course that isn't true, you have a huge amount of control over the places you bring your children. You can't control 100% of what happens when you are physically present with your children anyways. If you're going around trying to micromanage your kids lives you've already failed.
Business model wise think with 1bn users an annual $1 fee would have been fine for WhatsApp. He also turned down hundreds of millions of dollars when he realized how fundamentally he disagreed with how facebook works. Prior to WhatsApp the founders had very little money.
Well, the founders certainly are (as near as I can tell) letting MSFT and their VCs take heat for a decision the founders alone made.

Taking $350m in VC means you promise to build a stupidly profitable company or sell it to a high bidder. That's the deal, and it's completely understood by anyone in a position to raise nine figures of VC.
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In tar it definitely is because you can have symlinks using relative paths. So if your directory tree contains symlinks, you tar it with all bells and whistles (attributes, symlinks, ownership) and unpack it somewhere else it won't be a lossy transfer.
There’s also the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), and many other similar names. The US government has perfected creating such pop-culture references in names of laws and projects.
I completely agree that there are many scientific libraries in python which scale up. I was addressing the article which showed a more advanced way to use python with the purpose of making it applicable to large datasets. If you were to implement a method from scratch or scale up to a larger dataset then you'll end up with using numba, numpy and dask. This is completely from a lower level programming perspective to implement and integrate methods rather than pipelining methods from higher level scientific libraries.

Just for some context:
https://www.scipy.org/about.html
https://www.scipy.org/topical-software.html
Could not 3rd this harder, forget about the Macbook, you'll have greif on that as well. VM a Windows 10 copy, shouldnt take you more than 10 minutes with VirtualBox. Lmk if you have any questions on setup.
IANAL, but there is a legal concept of ‘Joint And Several Liability’ — it might be the case that Facebook and the doctor were in violation.

Or it might have been just the doctor until someone complained and from that point on just the fact that Facebook knew about it might make them suddenly and automatically liable for further bad behaviour.
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What could have motivated them to waste so much time on that? Ego?
I use a Hugo -- GitHub -- Netlify setup.

Fast, cheap, secure, and fully automated once the hard part (writing) is done.

Works great, and Hugo has incremental builds, so it's blazing fast even for 1000s of blog posts.

I did a somewhat lengthy video on how to get this setup up and running : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSwoCvd4QIc

Also this setup is not as "nerdy" / "geeky" as you might think. I migrated a team of 3 content writers and editors from Wordpress to Hugo and it was mostly painless. Just need to find a good Markdown Editor with preview. Hugo also have live reload, so the content writers can see their posts in a copy of the live site locally, and are able to fix a lot of typographical and visual errors before publish.

Still trying to find a way to do scheduled posts.

If you are looking for a publishing house type stuff with a lot of writers, this may not be the solution.
I am a psychologist so I was also out of my kenning.
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The problem with right-to-try is that it's framed as "Big Bad Pharma (and/or FDA's onerous regulations) is preventing these life-saving cures from getting to people, we need to get them sooner." Yet the experimental evidence is most drug candidates fail because they don't work. Even the big, expensive phase III trials have about a 50% failure rate. If you're pushing for access much earlier (concurrent with phase I), that means you're pushing for access before there's data on how lethal the drug is.

Derek's big concern with right-to-try is that it's basically a way to advocate for taking the science out of drug approval. Data outside of a well-controlled study is hard to use, but the public will lobby for it to be used. And the concern isn't idle: when the FDA's response to the bill was "we're going to look into how to do this safely," the reply form a key Senator was "no, no, no, you don't understand, we're trying to tell you to get out of the way." The end goal would be to eliminate the FDA as useless bureaucracy, but we already have an example of what unregulated drug industry looks like: it's called the health supplements industry, which is so sleazy that many companies don't even bother to include the active ingredients they claim to include.
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I totally agree to this. As a student, I'd love to apply individually like on GitHub for the student pack.