skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome response. I signed up years ago because they do unlimited free private repos, though I wondered how they could afford to give so much away for free. While I can't find the exact statement now, I was affected somewhat by their dedication to always offering unlimited free repositories, believing that such access was along the lines of a "digital right". Obviously there's strategy to all of this, but following them all this time it's nice to believe that perhaps the top of the organization still believe in that goal too.
I'm an epidemiologist, and on my campus today I interacted with a statistician, a cell biologist, a veterinarian, two computer scientists, and send a Python programming question to our HPC group.
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What if Elon Musk went to Harvard?
Recommendations for reporting on suicide [pdf]
You would be surprised how much of that driving feel can be tuned in software or with relatively inexpensive suspension components.

The interior comforts are variable but I am always surprised by what passes as luxury in some makes. The BMW and Lexus cars I have driven are definitely on the nicer side but still not that impressive.

I can recall ever saying "wow this is impressive", the best has been "everyone should be doing this" but mostly it's just disappointment.
Not to mention low dose antibiotics are sometimes very therapeutic. When the effective medicines become widespread big pharma has incentive to spend as much money marketing against them as it does to actually develop better stuff. Antibiotics never worked against biofilms anyway - and many of the cases of so-called evil bacteria are actually just full fledged biofilms.
The code I wrote was dumb... and yet Stroustroup repeatedly made a variant of the mistake in the "C++ Programming Language." Turns out that the use of operator<< in iostreams is problematic.
Hahahaha "Throw counter-PR on the hate we're getting for shitting on our Skype, CodePlex, and Windows brands.."

But hey... they're different this time. Promise.
Please research dat and similar systems more before you dismiss them as unscalable and ephemeral. That isn't the case.
Negative experiences create far stronger memories. That's just how the brain works. You can walk great distances and barely remember the places you passed through, but if you step on a nail at some point you'll never forget that event. That memory is simply much stronger than the others.

How many email messages does Linus send in a year? How many of those messages contain rants so epic they get posted here? I bet it's less 1% of all messages. Yet everyone remembers those messages and what they say. He might not be polite, but he gets his point across.
I'm not sure how worried I am about archive.org, specifically, in this regard. But the concern does reflect a trend in copyright, promulgated by those with significant vested interests (IP value they're seeking to maintain or grow) and so-called "maximalists".

There's a growing push to legitimize copyright claims for "instances" of a work, even after the base work has entered the public domain.

If this "sounds ridiculous" to you, just recall how most of us are increasingly worried that, in the U.S., Congress and the Executive are going to... "re-Mickey" the copyright term. As in, they already pushed it to life plus 70 years when certain Disney copyrights were about to expire. (And keep using "trade agreements" as one mechanism to try to "back door" increases to "plus 70" into other countries' IP terms.)

A separate concern I have, is that currently archive.org continues to "retroactively respect" robots.txt changes.

404 your once public content, and archive.org "disappears" it from their corresponding records/copies.

As long as that's true, you can't really view it as a permanent, unbiased archive.

As politicians, commercial interests, and their lawyers continue to have a field day constraining "online rights" (and IP rights, and etc.), currently the only "guarantee" the public has of continued access and a more complete historical record is, ironically, local copies.

They say, "History is written by the winners."

Well, unless they can't find the copy you have squirreled away.
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We virtue signal around project activity, especially on Github. We use activity as a proxy for whether we will be stuck with bugs without workarounds.

But a baked piece of software that doesn’t interact with fast changing parts of the ecosystem doesn’t need to change.

If I saw a dormant project in Rust or Node that handled asynchronous calls I would probably stay away. But a logging library, text processing tool, or unit testing framework might be pretty baked.

In that case the active projects are catching up, which means new bugs. Bugs that I might get stuck with anyway.
I'm a former fb employee, and to say that they "turn your work life into a micromanagement panopticon" is way off. Overall it's a great place to work as a software engineer, although it depends a lot on your team. Many employees have minor frustrations with various things like open plan offices, oversubscribed bathrooms, lack of parking, etc. I suppose there must be some employees who quit because of these sorts of issues, but I've never met any. For most people who work there it's a fantastic opportunity. From what I saw, people quit for the same reasons people quit any company: Burnout, bad relationship with direct manager, or desire to move on to something new.
The jewel of monte carlo methods is Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for sampling from high-dimensional probability distributions. The math is more involved, but the problem it solves is really hard and really important.
Yes but it doesn't apply to certain errors unfortunately
Absolutely all true.

> Afterwards, Good is as obvious as water.

I wish there were a magical way to give everyone a first job in a well-run org. I think the average corporate insanity quotient would noticeably drop if people knew what they were missing.

I found my first job at a well-run firm in my late 20s, and consider myself lucky. But I also spent a bunch of really crappy time putting up with things I didn't know I didn't have to put up with before that.
Another article about a scientific glassblower pretty far from retirement: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WvQF4SIAAFNX_7Uf
Nice presentation - very pretty. This is the takeaway:

We’ve reached the end of the Formula, covering everything from culture to process. You now understand the basics of leading a new team.

Management and leadership are acquired skills, and they take practice. This guide is a framework for you to build upon, make your own and be the best manager.

... and this is how I think of my staff:

Some people might be incredible salesmen, while others can bake cookies or build a computer with their eyes closed (that would be super impressive!)

Fuck off.
This analogy with your bulldog and the world's hats, it was the very first time in 20 years that made Linus' [negative] swearing problem click in my mind.
Would you shut down the Washington Post? Or is Jeff Bezos allowed to buy a newspaper?

Why is Anderson Cooper allowed to spread his opinions with the aid of a multi hundred million dollar distribution system but I can’t buy 2000 dollars of Facebook ads?

Limits on funding speech are limits on speech.
Is it or is it just the embrace stage of embrace, extend, extinguish?
How do you think capitalism works?
> So much swearing to make three points:

By my count there is one f*cking, one bullshit, one shit and one arse, hardly "so much swearing". I think anyone complaining about that is way to sensitive.
That's not a readme.
You can buy Hovenia Dulcis tea at any convenience store in Korea, or at most Korean markets in the States. The studies do seem to show that it works for hangovers.

http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?good...

https://examine.com/supplements/hovenia-dulcis/
Thank you. I wonder why the advise a minimum of 4GB of RAM and offer a build for Raspberry Pi.

Changing that URL from "/ee/" to "/ce/" gives the same RAM requirements.
These blog posts are fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing them.
gitea somewhat recently also added support for some 2fa stuff too. I haven't played with it yet but it seems like auth is being taken seriously there.
I stand corrected. Thus, under that same standard, the claim that Donald Trump committed treason is also bogus since we aren’t in open conflict with Russia.
Spectrum Crooks !

Did the same to me, offered me no contract - great prices, then sent me a postal letter raising prices up astronomically. I bailed.
No he is not. He is stating that less women are likely to choose to enter tech, not that the women are worse at tech jobs.
there is nothing new here.
How is it different from you yelling at everyone on GDPR threads? Maybe, like you, the parent is just passionate and opinionated.
The relativist position in modern philosophy of science has little or nothing to do with Cartesian dualism; it has more in common with the incompleteness theorem in certain respects.

The short version is that any theory of observations (i.e., scientific theory) necessarily defines the observational process and therefore the observations themselves, so that it is impossible to separate an explanation from its explanandum. What's relativist about this is that the very thing you are explaining by the theory is implicit in the theory, so that what you have are a series of paradigms or theories that replace one after the other.

This isn't to say that we don't predict things better, or even that there is no reality separate from the theory, only that it doesn't matter at some level.

All of this too is sort of distinct from what Kuhn is remembered for, which is the social nature of science, which is all too real.

Scientists are often in denial about these social factors, which is naive at best and dangerous at worst. Humans are not conduits of God; they are imperfect machines that are part of the system they are studying.

My sense is that Morris (who I respect immensely for his work) is kind of fighting a strawman argument whose depths he doesn't entirely understand, because of some personal conflict he hasn't come to terms with (ironically, given the nature of what he is arguing against).
I just don't see the point of those bullet point transitions in the article. It just doesn't bring any value and is distracting.
When strong commercial encryption becomes illegal, two things will happen: 1. Criminals and terrorists will construct their own strong encryption (anyone can buy books explaining how to do this from Amazon, and any competent programmer can do it) and 2. China, Russia and organized crime will penetrate the weakened commercial encryption.
> that could easily mean that certain groups are just less interested in certain types of work, no?

No; it says: "distribution of ... abilities"
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You would think somebody like yourself would be the first person these reporters would reach out and contact to ask for information. Have you ever been contacted? Instead, they focus on farm animals. Somehow regular family doctors read this -- fear the most, and hesitant to prescribe basic antibiotics for conditions that could turn serious, where these people later on could end up in your care because of these mistakes. The idea that a super bug could get out of control in the general population is not scientifically sound because it would kill all of its hosts and therefore, kill itself rendering no vector to transfer between hosts. This is why I think ebola outbreaks always die down.
Who would that be exactly? - Someone who doesn't want to go down a Wikipedia black hole trying to answer this question.
And then management only hears the low number of the range.
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> Why not turn this around and default to GPL as "nice and simple"?

Have you looked at the text of either of these licenses? (Or the MIT license? The linked page mentions the MIT license, but never any BSD license.) If you take a brief glance at both texts, the question immediately answers itself.
It would take hundreds, maybe thousands of people and millions of dollars, but I wish a government agency would run a large-scale Ganzfeld experiment:

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

It probably doesn't work, but if there is any deviation from chance then they could move on to variations:

* Can information travel instantly?

* Can information be sent forwards/backwards in time (like precogs in Minority Report)?

* Can such a noisy channel be used to transmit binary information (something like Project Sanguine or rfc1149 or https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6667599/)?

All it takes is one replication :-)
> After civil wars and decades of social unrest to prove that your appearance has nothing to do with your skills, talents, motivations, and competence

Many haven't people have not gotten that memo, and especially today racial, religious, national, and other discrimination are widespread and on the rise.
That is a old armchair argument made from those in an ivory tower.

If it was YOUR business, you would want to control your dream, your vision -- not a bunch of rich folks who could decide to kick you out from your dream if your main goal is not to _remain profitable to the shareholders_.
I think they were trying to make the point that there isn't any discrimination along the lines of race or sexual orientation at Google, but instead along the lines of political affiliation, so that's where Google should focus it's diversity efforts.
In both cases with overwhelming probability. But there is difference: you have to be extraordinary clumsy to get life-threatening burn from soldering iron, but you can get life threatening burn from HF HV very easily.
Wow... I really thought I would die before humanity would embrace a dystopian technocracy where all Self Agency is removed completely from the individual...
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>But in academic settings there are many students and postdocs who need to make their own hardware, and there needs to be someone to train them and to manage the workshop.

Walk into the MET machine shop (not the ME machine shop, those guys will be hacks, it's just the nature of the different priorities of the different programs) during any given weekday evening and ask the TA to recommenced someone.
Yes, breaking changes potential break things, the point being in this case Typescript is getting better at doing its job and the change is rather minor.

Also it clearly states: "use --keyofStringsOnly compiler option to disable the new behavior"
In my estimation, now would be a rather poor time to adopt SF.

1. It's poorly positioned against K8s. The "it can do containers" people are really not helping their case; SF's value proposition is clearly not in running arbitrary containers. Unless you're writing a new .NET app and will go all in on their SDK and replicated state model, it just doesn't make sense.

1a. It has no community. It has no presence outside of MS doc pages, the repo they threw over the wall, and the one external user that I'm aware of (who is already in this thread).

2. SF was operationally not-fun. I'm being nice. Though, neither is Kubernetes, most days.

3. SF is losing to Kubernetes, even internally, and even despite pressure from high-up-ish people.

4. The rumors about SFs fate would not seem to lend themselves toward adopting it for new projects.
That can be also interpreted as the university though.
Your review is a very interesting take. It reminds me of someone's observation (I forgot whose) that mathematics is often presented as a set of successful proofs and derivations, without an explanation of the motivation behind them or how they were discovered. So proof tactics may seem somewhat magical, even though they might in fact be a result of a mathematician's tinkering and blundering around, including alternative approaches that didn't work.

An interesting example that someone gave from elementary mathematics is the derivation of the quadratic formula.

ax²+bx+c=0 (a≠0)

4a(ax²+bx+c)=4a(0)=0

4a²x²+4abx+4ac=0

4a²x²+4abx+4ac+b²=b²

4a²x²+4abx+b²=b²-4ac

(2ax+b)(2ax+b)=b²-4ac

2ax+b=±√(b²-4ac)

2ax=-b±√(b²-4ac)

x=(-b±√(b²-4ac))/2a

Someone discussing this pointed out that this derivation is easy to follow, but extraordinarily mysterious in terms of how we knew to do various things at various steps, such as mysteriously multiplying both sides by 4a or mysteriously adding b² to each side at some point. How did we know to do that?

Of course there are different explanations of the underlying motivations and the history of how people discovered this proof, but it's easy to be given the proof without any of that context, and that kind of thing is in fact the rule rather than the exception in many parts of math study.

Again, I think this was someone else's observation but I don't remember where I came across it.
Although I don’t know if the Harvard connection matters, I thought this was an interesting idea:

Perhaps there is some intrinsic value of innovation and creativity that we can laud as being more valuable than creating the newest financial mousetrap and the compensation that comes with it.
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IBM's lawyers reportedly asked Poul-Henning Kamp "how much beer?" re: the Beer-ware unlicense[0].

[0]: http://edwards.dk/thesis.pdf (p. 120, 231)
It's like building a deck except even the screw hasn't been invented yet. And you think: I'll just create a device that attaches the wood like a big paperclip but then realize after you make it that it's not strong enough and won't scale so you create a nail. But then you realize you may need to reuse the wood so you finally create a screw.that can be removed.
Let's hope so...
That's nonsense. Should they block access to facebook from the web browsers on those phones as well?
Unfortunately, they don't seem to be technically oriented, their website was built in 1997... I'm not that risk averse and I'd like to help them to improve their security and development practices, I'm aiming to get in touch with them without compromising myself if they react badly.
There are some checks; the controlling shareholder still has to respect the other shareholders.

But yes, as the controlling shareholder, you can fire the board. That's what being the controlling shareholder means; the one and (basically, only) thing you get to do is appoint a board to run your company on your behalf. And you can keep firing the board until you find some lackeys who will agree to do whatever you want, including hiring you in any position you care to to name, including, why not, the CEO role. That's totally legit.

If what you want harms the minority shareholders, then they can sue, and depending on the details, they'll have a great change of winning. CBS and Viacom are currently working through this right now; the controlling shareholder wants to ram through a merger, and the CBS board thinks it's a bad idea. Under pretty settled law, she can fire the board in revenge, but if the merger is actually bad (and the fact that the current board found it so is strong evidence that it might be), then she can't just replace the board with people who will agree to it.

> the board is presumably the only check on the CEO's power

The board is there to look after shareholders. If they fail, then lawsuits from shareholders are the final check on CEO power. That doesn't change much just because the CEO is the controlling shareholder.
This is potentially a concern for software licensees, but not the author of the work.
Really interesting idea. Intrigued by what the UX is like as that's something my clients have often struggled with. I'm surprised there aren't more advertising optimisation platforms out there that use localised data like the weather, twitter trends etc.
You could always try e-mailing them. It might just be a use case they haven't thought about.
I have noticed that there is absolute zero coverage of biofilm based infections and very little research. A simple dose of doxycycline before the bacteria is able to create a biofilm would prevent years of suffering, doctors flat out refuse to do it until it is to late because of the irrational fear of super bacteria cooked up by the media. This is happening at a huge scale.
Maybe, but wouldn't you rather be explicit so you know the compiler will do what you want instead of crossing your fingers and hoping it does?
I guess my point was: that’s the baseline. It’s an order of magnitude faster the 20ms your saying is unlikely. That leaves a lot of headroom for hitting the db and things done. The api I’m working on isn’t currently being hit super hard, but for most of my endpoints 25ms is pretty average.
That's interesting. Traditionally European law eschewed private rights of action in favor of public regulators, while the U.S. heavily favored private enforcement. But now Europe is increasingly providing for private action. Whereas the U.S. is increasingly disfavoring private action (e.g. limitations on class actions), and attempts to extend public enforcement are failing (e.g. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau).

Here's an interesting law review article examining these developments: The Arc and Architecture of Private Enforcement Regimes in the United States and Europe: A View Across the Atlantic, https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/rathod_-_final...

Personally in terms of public policy I prefer private action, but maybe that's because I'm American. Private actions are usually predicated on actual, individualized harm, whereas regulators can strong-arm companies without any evidence of actual harm. Theoretically it makes for a better business environment, especially for startups, legal anxiety about nuisance lawsuits notwithstanding[1]. But private action doesn't scale; if you don't permit aggregation of claims (i.e. class actions) then private enforcement can't redress systemic behaviors.[2]

[1] The anxiety is invariably overblown. I think it's because most people's eyes will glaze over when hearing stories about regulator enforcement actions. But stories about slip & fall lawsuits are both legion and relatable; like with terrorism, people develop a false sense of the legal risks and costs.

[2] I mean, it could work without aggregation if you changed the rules of litigation to really streamline individual claims, such as by shifting the burden of proof onto the defendant for certain categories of behavior. Then it would sort of act like a dynamic tax that responded to business practices. Keep your customers happy and you pay a minimum, baseline tax--the cost-of-doing-business that is whatever amount you want to pay out for fraudulent claims, not unlike what businesses already do with accounts payable and shrinkage. Do something that might upset your customers and you'll have to face an onslaught of cases that either require a quick payout or costly litigation. I imagine such a regime would look much like that with class actions, with specialized law firms that identify and aggregate plaintiffs to benefit from economies of scale, and take a cut of the proceeds. But it would still make it much easier for people to prosecute small claims themselves.
That's ridiculous. A new platform for journalism can't share a name with a popular Node developer? Even actual trademarks only apply across a category of similar products.
> Why publicly name out real people who may not have any involvement

He's claiming to speak for them as 'we'. They're either involved, or he's confabulating.

Which is it?
Why Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub is a good thing for developers
Perhaps because Washington alone would represent the HQ of the national government. Think of "London", "Beijing".