skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're making some pretty good points overall about the benefits of state and city governments, but one thing I still have questions with is what we do as a country when one part of our country adopts some set of practices but other states refuse to do so. The clear example in this case is the abolishment of slavery, there were a ton of states that didn't want to do that. The answer isn't as easy as "just move if you don't like the conditions in your state" because the residents don't always have the means to move (especially the case in the slavery example). Nor can we afford to just ignore it "until they catch up" because there is no guarantee that they will catch up if the smaller governments are caught in a local maximum (in the mathematical sense, no pun intended) where the group that receives the most benefit at the expense of the oppressed has 0 reason to seek change.

Essentially, I think that the increasing power of the federal government comes (in some part) from a desire from the citizens of the country to have things be more uniform across the country. I personally think that based on some of the points you have made that more effective small government operations could help rebuild trust and the social fabric. The problem is that I'm not sure I'm willing to condemn the role of the federal government and stop trying to help those in states that would seek to oppress them.

As a side note, as far as I'm aware, the state's rights argument in recent history has largely been used as a dog whistle to signal racism [0] and other forms of systemic oppression for just this reason. "Let all the states decide for themselves" is coded language for "You know you're part of the majority in your state and we won't tolerate the Fed. Gov. mandating that we abolish slavery/legalize abortion/legalize gay marriage etc."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
In general, or in this specific case? Because I can think of a number of times us vs. them have been important for the advancement of justice, civil rights, protection of individuals etc.

Copyright is intended for the protection of literary or artistic works, but it's been extended to cover recordings and performances. Those arguably have some artistic or creative properties, but I find it hard to argue that telemetry data has any real creative properties.

The truth is, you don't need copyright on telemetry data for machines you control and own, because that data never leaves your control.

It only matters for machines you don't both control and own. Who benefits from differentiating between ownership and control?
Strange - I get their texts immediately.

Which numbers are you using? 07 ones or 020?
I dunno how large your data set is, but I just set up for work a 16-core Threadripper workstation with 32 GB RAM and 1 TB M.2 SSD for approx. $2500. If it can regularly save you hours or days of waiting, getting something equivalent should be a no-brainer.
If you live in a walkable city and you walk, there's no $800 shoe that would last you proportionately longer than $55 shoe. If you Uber everywhere or drive everywhere then it is quite possible that an $800 shoe would last 4-5 years.
Was wondering if you're also releasing your slightly modified version of the Open AI gym that lets you tweak the environment? I hacked something together for myself but am wondering if you have a cleaner solution.
> find another way to measure developer productivity

And solve the halting problem while you're at it
The article itself seems pretty accurate.
US contractors don't seem to get anything - they seem to think getting a 20% premium over FTE is good.

In the UK you would normally expect 3x for a short 6 month contract.
> This would be incredibly hostile to small businesses. Now you need to waste even more money on lawyers and tons of time navigating useless government bureaucracy. Big companies will be able to comply with any regulation thrown their way, but I don't think you can say the same about smaller shops. Your solution is penalizing good actors as well.

This would encourage shorter and simpler contracts, making things easier for both the parties and any involved judge.

> What if both parties are fine with a contract? Why should they be forced to get the government involved? And if both parties decide to re-negotiate a contract, do we need to go through the whole government approval process again?

Because, as the GP mentioned, it is not an agreement between equals.
Great Animation on the front page.
There's some precedent in the US that "factual" photographs that have no creative element are not copyrightable. In practice, I think various contracts and EULAs will override copyright questions anyway.
Many people saw that housing was probably overvalued and that there was a wave of unaffordable payment hikes in the pipeline on the loans secured against that housing coming. A falling housing market is hardly a once in 100 year phenomenon, and many other housing markets had operated with similar products (teaser rates etc) for many years, and continue to operate on that basis.

Many people also saw a recession coming, because recessions always come eventually - it's a normal part of the economic cycle.

Relatively few people saw that these two things would result in many of the largest financial institutions on the planet coming near to collapse.

Even fewer people got the timing right. And not many of those had the courage of their convictions to actually place bets on it.
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I would love to see this on an LGR Oddware episode...
Well the old company fired them, and the old company is now owned by the new company then.
Google's internal leveling codes. I made https://www.levels.fyi exactly for questions like this :)
I don't feel qualified to speculate on the implications for astronomy because that's not my field. However, Celeste is indeed a generative model and you can draw an image sample from the Celeste model and compare it to the original (there's a few examples in the Celeste issue tracker - https://github.com/jeff-regier/Celeste.jl/issues/625 is one I found on a quick look but there's more), so I think it qualifies in that sense. Of course you may want a more sophisticated model than Celeste for a complete model of the sky.
This goes for basically any living creature. Exercise is massively beneficial. Just doing daily pushups will alleviate the majority of back pains people have from sitting at the computer all day.
Ah, right, I was only thinking about locations which are already different between mother and father.
You're probably thinking of DTube or some other project. I haven't seen a single video about cryptocurrencies on Peertube.
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It's kind of an unsatisfying argument, but what I've heard (back in high school biology) is that the reason you see the relatively low efficiency is because that's all the plants need. In the course of evolution there was either not a great enough reward for more efficient photosynthesis, or no mechanism developed that was able to utilize something like 30% of incoming sunlight.

It's also important to remember that plants evolved to reproduce and spread as effectively as possible, not to be as photosynthetically efficient as possible. Engineered machines, however, can be designed with energy efficiency as the main goal.
It would make for a great book, the tale written by the last colonist on mars, in a slowly collapsing infrastructure - almost cut off from earth, out there nothing but howling winds and the gravestones of all the others.

"..sometimes at night, when i cant sleep, i rise and open the hatch too look out. There on the horizon it hangs, like a small blueish star- far away.

Earth.

Its in bad shape as it was when we left. Wars, global heating- and still, the most garbage strewn beach, the most abandoned dessert under blue sky, the peak of Mount Everest- i would give anything and everything to be there, not half an hour away from any voice of reason ..."
https://joinpeertube.org/en/

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances
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It's a group of mostly centre-right parties. So, conservatives, christian-democrats and the like.
Huh. I had no idea that existed! I was never clear on how people extracted ROM images from N64 cartridges, but that is pretty clever.
Can you expand the acronyms please? Except BS, I figured that one out
This current strategy of appeasement will only work for so long, airpower or not.

You are correct, in a way. As it turns out, Taiwan is very hard to conduct landings on. The seas there are very rough, and the weather would interfere in all but 2 weeks of the year. Also, there is very little coast suitable for an amphibious landing.

A landing on Taiwan could well make D-Day look like a cakewalk. However, China may grow its economy to the point, where it could still be feasible. In the meantime, the delaying action which you call "appeasement" is probably the best strategy for the US. Recognizing Taiwan would be a huge provocation of China, which is a potential tool best left for a future contingency.
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Maybe their full name is the "(Corporations are) People's Party".
You have to constantly look at articles, they become stale within literally a few hours.

Not stale because of the content, but of the activity in comments. A few hours go by and they stop.
Besides California, is there some map or list of states and how they handle non-competes?
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I think educational microcomputers should be reintroduced in modern schools, so kids would have easier time to imagine all path from programming language to hardware.

By the way, your username reminds me of great game on ZX Spectrum called Dizzy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_(series)

I sometimes have urge of nostalgia and play such games on ZX Spectrum emulator :)
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I don't buy this, things like that are not a matter of "perspective".

1. A language that has an optional GC and a borrow-checker is better than a language that only has a GC or borrow-checker.

2. A language that has scalar subtypes with range checking and new types is better than a language that has only new types and no range checking.

So subtyping is complicated to implement in the typechecker. And? If GNAT can do it, why can't the Rust team not do it?

3. A language that has full support for OOP including inheritance and traits (or mixins) is better than a language that has less of these features.

I'm not claiming that every language should offer everything but a general purpose language that wants to be a viable substitute for C++ should at least have its OO capabilities.
My summary of the most recent comments in this thread:

Dirlewanger: group X have property Y
arandr0x: members of group X without property Y might be offended by "group X have property Y"
courir: as a member of group X without property Y I'm not offended by "most members of group X have property Y"
arandr0x: <a reiteration of the previous comment>
ramblerman: <rhetorically> does saying a member of group X has property Y mean all members of group X have property Y?

I think you (ramblerman) have logically inverted the main claim, which is why it doesn't seem to make sense. Behaviour in line with arandr0x' comment seems perfectly reasonable to me - few people take well to poorly fitting generalisations.
Hello, I'm the principal investigator for the Open Anatomy Project.

The Open Anatomy Project is an effort to develop community-authored, high-quality digital anatomy atlases that are free and open for any purpose.

We believe that anatomical information is so important for human health that it should be free and easily accessible. Our lab, the Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has developed a variety of detailed data sets through grants funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH also sponsored development of 3D Slicer ( https://slicer.org ), our open-source cross-platform medical analysis and visualization platform.

Open Anatomy is a way for us to make that data useful for medical education and further scientific discovery. We are structuring the atlas data format to allow concepts from collaborative software development (such as diffing, forking, and pull requests) to be used as part of open data development. As a result, we believe we can build a community-based atlas portal based on the same principles as Wikipedia and GitHub. The atlases are modular, so pieces can be used for new applications such as 3D printing, VR simulators, or data mining.

At the same time, we're working with medical colleagues throughout the world to create new atlases and to use them where they are needed most. We have collaborators in the Canary Islands, Senegal, Mozambique, and Mauritania who are working with us to bring our atlases to their medical classrooms.

Our atlas viewer is very much a prototype and isn't mobile friendly yet, but it shows off the atlases. We also have a tool called TAViewer ( https://taviewer.openanatomy.org ) for browsing medical information from Wikipedia and Wikidata. We want to integrate it with the anatomy browser to allow atlases to be spatial indices for anatomical information.

We are looking for collaborators and sponsors of all types to make this dream of free and open anatomical information a reality.
When I ran a lot (avg. 20km/workday, more in the weekends), I’d wear down any shoe in a couple of weeks tried all sorts of running shoes in different price ranges but in the end I settled with buying cheap ~$50 shoes since I knew that I had to buy a new pair next month again.
> The potential economic value for space exploration comes from
... mining near earth asteroids for rare and expensive minerals

As the article describes, mining asteroids for rare and expensive minerals is more viable from Mars.

Earth is in an incredibly deep gravity well: it's remarkable that we made it out with just chemical rockets, an Earth just 1.5x larger in diameter would need a stack of something like 20 Saturn Vs to get one ton to LEO, instead of the 120 tons that a single rocket could do on Earth.

Mars is half the diameter of Earth. To lift fuel to an asteroid from Mars takes a rocket 1.7% the size of an equivalent rocket from Earth.

Asteroid miners will need fuel, water, food, metals, and other supplies that could be manufactured on Mars. It is many, many times cheaper to launch these from the surface of Mars than to do so from the surface of Earth.

You end up with a three-way triangle of trade between high-tech components like microchips and turbopumps from Earth, supplies from Mars, and precious metals aerobraking down into Earth's gravity well.

> Moon is possible destination because it could serve Earth.

I don't want to mirror previous stupid decisions on Earth of undervaluing potential colonies, but the Moon has very little it can offer Earth...the geology can't support the production of fuel, water, food, and metals like Mars is capable of.
The Daily Vine issue is not emphasized enough.

In the last years, we've seen "entertainment" pages getting sold by the original founders to companies interested in making a profit from it, by publishing links to their own products, or articles bloated with ads.

But now they're used to political purposes to influence people who didn't follow the pages for this reason. What's worse is they abuse the trust put in the original page to spread misinformation and fake news.
I wonder if the code for these tools is easily accessible - like on Github? I'm not joking... I would love to understand a bit better how these things are written. Didn't see any links to code in the alert...

I suppose "publicly available" != "open source"
> formal or semi-formal clothes,

Are you actually referring to formal

- formal (=full dress, ie morning dress/Cutaway (day) and white tie/tailcoat/Frack (eve)) and

- semi-formal (=half dress, ie stroller/Stresemann (day) and black tie/tux/Smoking (eve)) attire,

or informal formal (ie suits)?
I'd say that behavior is often called "virtue signaling" when it's mostly other people who have to pay the cost for someone's "virtuous" behavior.

Example:

Y Combinator notices how only 15% of their funded founders are women. Their fellow progressives call them out on this, and YC commits to fund more women. They will write posts about how they want more female founders. They will organize women only events. Perhaps, they will even actually favor female founders over more qualified male founders for funding.

Very virtuous of them to care about gender equality.

The problem is that the society doesn't consist of "men" and "women". It consists of individuals. When a man applies to YC, he isn't "men", he is a unique individual. An individual who has put enormous effort to build a product. An individual who has been long dreaming of founding a company, and finally built enough courage to take the leap. An individual who would be qualified by his merits.

But... he gets rejected because YC consists of virtuous people who care about gender equality, and unfortunately they have already funded enough men.

Now YC gets to post how they have funded more female founders, and their fellow progressives will praise them for caring about gender equality.

And what happened to the aspiring male entrepreneur after that? No one knows. No one cares.

...

In this example, it's YC who gets all the virtue points, while it's the aspiring male entrepreneur who has to carry most of the cost for their "virtuous" behavior. This doesn't mean that YC's behavior is wrong, but it does suggest that their behavior isn't as virtuous as it seems.

Thus, "virtue signaling".
That is true, and the main thing I miss about Amazon. And the very steep learning curve, I probably learned more at Amazon than during my diploma and masters studies combined. Still, they have been a very good foundation.
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I've heard it said that high fashion brands are meant to be bought by upper middle class people who want to emulate celebrities and the wealthy. Actual celebrities get given this stuff for free so your fashion conscious upper managers and lawyers see them wearing brand X and buy the same thing to emulate them.
But not all of the plant's absorbed energy goes into releasing oxygen.
In which the author restates his title thesis in every paragraph, without ever mentioning supporting evidence.
Weird, I have U2F keys in my non-Advanced Protection account.
My experience at Netflix was amazing. It has to be one of the best places for software engineers. I left because I wanted to work on a startup and never would have had the time while working at Netflix full-time.

I got lucky in that a very large project (~$500k) fell into my lap while still working full-time at Netflix, so once the contract was signed, I quit my job and started freelancing. My small freelancing business grew into a proper software development agency over a few years. Eventually, I was able to do a "real" startup - I started an analytics company (www.numetric.com), raised $16M in VC and grew that for 4 years. I did NOT like working with VCs. So we hired a replacement CEO and I left to do my next thing.

I still own Facet and after leaving Numetric I had some free time to experiment with ideas on how to grow Facet. That resulted in the creation of the Facet Developer Network.
is this subject to regulations on sports betting? also the contact us form at the bottom doesn't work. no way am i giving you my money.
Looks pretty interesting. I work in Hayward too. Let me know if you would like to get away from your computer to stretch your legs and meet for coffee sometime. I work right next to a starbucks!
We agree to disagree. I don't think you can convince me that all optional is better than all required and vice versa, which is okay. My point is required fields makes software age better over the long run because everything is explicit. If you don't agree, that's your prerogative. Everyone thought NOSQL without schemas was a godsend, until their code/service iterated a dozen times, developers leave, documentation gets out of date, and now all their older data can't be read because it doesn't match the code. Same thing holds true for RPC, in my opinion. Yours may differ.
Bingo.

As long as your histogram has the final long tail bucket (>99%) included, you'll be fine.

After all, the 100'th percentile latencies are what your users will experience as the worst case. That's what they will perceive and remember. That matters for usability. While there is no sane way to ever eliminate the most obscene outliers, you can target the worst-case behaviour and find ways to limit how badly it impacts your users.

Anecdote from work: our exchange team (who routinely consider 4ms for service response too slow) monitor p99 for general performance and p100 for the nastiest outliers. They want to know exactly how bad the performance is for the observed worst-case scenarios.
This is so entertaining! I love it! ️
It's a Veblen good and that's why the price is absurd.
Apropos of just chucking in another data point, of my Masters in Maths course, something under 20% of those who started came out the other end with a Masters in Maths. Those exams were brutal.
there's a company called phishme which does this as a service.
You could always do what I did, and drag Windows along kicking & screaming into the future. I setup Linux on a ZFS root, carved out a zvol formatted w/ NTFS, and installed Windows on top of that in a VM. I get the benefit of being able to `zfs send | receive` the ZVOL to my backup pool, I can do instant snapshots before these godawful upgrades, etc. -- Throw a second GPU in an IOMMU group and you even get near native gaming performance. (Gaming & Visual Studio's debugger are pretty much the only things I use Windows for now.)

It's not perfect, but it works, the major downsides are:

- Granularity is at the volume level, so you get a lot more block churn in your snapshots. I mitigate this by trying to separate the "OS" volume and "Data" volume to the extent Windows will let me.

- If you're doing any heavy lifting on top of the ZVOL that expects sync writes (e.g: MS SQL) its performance will degrade slightly. Anecdotally I find this to be negligible on my all-flash pool. Besides they sell SQL Server for Linux now ;-).

- NTFS is unaware of the snapshots, so your snapshots will be of a dirty state if the guest is running. AFAIK there's nothing like `xfs_freeze/unfreeze` that can be done in the guest to make these snapshots atomic. That being said NTFS' chkdsk is quite mature, and I've never observed this to be an issue in practice.