skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For myself I draw the line as follows: (1) do I need it all or most of the time (2) Am I the creator. I own a real estate because this is where I live. On the contrary I own the car but I use it rarely enough that - given the cost of ownership - renting vehicle as needed seems appealing to me. For music, software, and movies situation is more complicated - even on a physical medium - you do not own them, you have the license to use it. For the content I create - however uninteresting and worthless to other people - I prefer to keep it on my servers (backed up of course). I would never leave a single copy of anything that I would like to keep on Instagram or Facebook.

I welcome renting when it reduced waste. I do not need power tools, snow shoes, or a ski chalet all the time, I can happily rent them.
You get to have that system because the US has taken on the role of global police and funds our military at a level commensurate to that role.

If you funded your military appropriately, we wouldn't have to fund your defense.

Your comment about healthcare is so simplistic it's not even worth a reply, but I'll simply note that the vast majority are not on medicare or medicaid and are covered by private insurance. Your assertion that the system is broken is simplistic and uninformed (ETA, I'm not saying the system isn't broken, there are many issues with healthcare in the US, but "just be like Europe" isn't going to work for so many reasons it's not really feasible to list them here).
on skis, it's very possible to go down a blue confidently on day 1. on a snowboard, that's very unlikely.
Still, the question remains: Can we say a priori that the funds for R&D military spending wouldn't have been spent better by the private sector?
Just history repeating. Free fancy IDEs can't change everything.
"In an SPA/component world, where assets like scripts and styles are loaded asynchronously, you can’t guarantee style sheet loading order, which means you have to lean on some form of runtime composition to guarantee a shape, else you end up with !important rules even if you follow a given architecture"

I'm sorry, this guy is so far down the rabbit hole he can't even see the ridiculousness of his mental gymnastics.
It's a matter of taste, obviously. But the big difference between a machine shop in Indiana and a French fashion house is that the people running the fashion business need to have an eye for style, or their business would fail.

I have a lot of respect for machinists, but you wouldn't expect the stereotypical guy you are describing to know the difference between Arial and Helvetica. Whereas practically every typographer is a perfectionist to whom that difference means a lot.

I mean, this exactly parallels the difference between simple clothes that cost nothing, and a high-end fashion version of those clothes. The difference in cut and materials is subtle but you can be sure the designer takes it seriously (and is not imagining it). You can't say that it's a simple case of "the emperor's new clothes" and expect to be taken seriously in the design business. These sans serifs might be boring, but they don't lack typographic nuance.
> Somehow I found linear algebra easier than calculus, but I don't know why.

I suspect the answer is that your calculus course was a lot heavier on crank-grinding: having to readily apply integration and differentiation on a wide panoply of functions, some of them you're not really familiar with (such as arccos). If you're weak on trigonometry or some algebraic manipulations, that's going to shut out the ability to do a lot of the crank-grinding without really impacting your ability to understand the concepts.

By contrast, the crank-grinding in linear algebra is a lot less involved. The most complex algebra is going to be solving polynomial equations to find the eigenvalues of a matrix, but those are generally going to mostly be quadratic equations since asking anyone to solve more complex equations by hand is going to ask for trouble. Otherwise, it's largely plug-and-chug numbers into stock formula. Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization? Pick a vector, normalize it, project the other vectors and cancel them out, and repeat until you've done all of them.
I'm coming to the end of my first year (6 year part time) Comp Sci course and have seen that we have options for AI and Machine Learning modules in future years. Where should I go to find something like a list of what I should be brushing up on, or learning completely from scratch, in order to not fall flat on my face during those type of modules.

I understand there are very set starting points in math subjects because concepts build on one another but I don't know what I should be starting with and where to go afterwards.
Whooooooosh!!
Huge Brain Study Uncovers “Buried” Genetic Networks Linked to Mental Illness
How does a tech billionaire say sorry for his unauthorized wedding? An app
Indeed, but then the "joke" is lost!
But then you have to accept a situation where only the people who have money (or those on their payroll) can implement policy. You might improve the efficiency that way but it doesn't sound much better to me, especially in communities with a history of discrimination.
The world's most popular programming language is JavaScript, but why?
I wish I had more friends like you, then ;)
Is Java Dead?
I wonder what great historical works we would have today had aggressive assholes not taken the space of more compassionate contemporaries. Or do you truly think nothing of value would have been created by the considerable non-abusive population?
I do the exact same thing
What are the most watched programs on TV now?
If you have equal changes of pivoting in any given direction and use a random number generator to choose which direction to go in, it's called Brownian Motion.
Origins of Pain
There are two sorts of efficiency percentage and wisdom - one can heat their house at greater than 100% efficiency by burning money and priceless.

However you really shouldn't be using them that way since there are far better uses for the value.
SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product
But if I were to say the service was terrible, and therefore I didn't tip, that would be disapproved of. In the US, I am expected to tip whether or not the service was good, so how does that incentivize good service - unless I'm expected to tip even more when I'm pleased with the service.
I don't know how much Milton Friedman applies here. It's not like the government is being wantonly careless. They are investigating, after all. This is partly a consequence of the bidding process and the push to keep costs as low as possible-- there could also be a bit of crony-ism here.

These kinds of stories usually start out with some bidders putting together a killer power point deck and making a pitch, just like that LLC of TWO people that won that disastrous contract to rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid, or those guys that the movie "War Dogs" is about.

Sometimes they're upstanding folks who do a good job, sometimes they're fraudsters, sometimes they mean well but just can't deliver, sometimes they deliver but with comical cost overruns (name your favorite defense contractor).
Don't dismiss early Yahoo, they were a colossus. I wonder how much Google and Facebook have benefited by watching Yahoo's fall from grace.
Sure, the proprietary Excelsior JET ahead-of-time-compiling JVM is out there, but their selling-points are obfuscation and startup-time, not long-running performance.

OpenJDK is adding support for AOT compilation. Looks like it's still considered experimental though.
How to Build a GraphQL App with Fetch
I remember they totally gutted WinAmp, for example.
Try https://www.figma.com/ ?
Same 100%
I picked ant.design for a recent project - it's pretty darn sweet.

element (in vue) is also pretty terrific: https://element.eleme.io/
Didn't know about it until now. Will look into it, thanks!
Most companies have reduced their office space and rent networks
did you find LAFF too mathy? i got turned off by the mathyness of it and i quit in 2 weeks. does it get any better? All the math notations and lines got so dry that i vapourised trying to understand.
That's an incredibly naïve view of military spending since those countries are subsided by the American military.
Exactly. It's not so much "ownerless" than "owned by a few (each in their domain)".

Notwithstanding moral, ethics considerations, that's not a resilient model. At. All.
What about defer?
This is par for the course for Accenture. I joined Accenture to work on a very interesting development project for a fortune 10 a few years ago. A project that could have been done in 6-8 months by a competent team in a reasonable budget. But being Accenture, it turned into a mess of epic proportions with the client threatening to sue.

In the end we ended up delivering this piece of software that I wouldn't touch again with a 10-foot pole, which didn't even satisfy most of the original business requirements. The exec from the client that hired us changed the narrative to his stakeholders to make this appear as a big success, and the project even got a lot of coverage on the internal newsletter when in reality it was just a smash and grab of a dozen or so million dollars from a client that got swindled so bad that they wouldn't even admit it.

I ended up being mostly on the bench for the rest of my stay at Accenture while watching every single one of the individuals that worked on that project leave for better pastures. A year in after the project started no one that worked on it was in Accenture anymore, except me. I was conflicted if I wanted to leave because I would hit the gym for two hours every day at around 2-3pm, then go home. My mornings were full of reading blogs, working on personal projects and just gossiping by the water cooler. In the end I decided to leave since I missed doing real work and working with a competent team. That year was one hell of a ride for me.
> It's not like the government is being wantonly careless. They are investigating, after all.

So, if someone does something seemingly egregiously careless, but they investigate after being found out, that nullifies the carelessness, in your mind?

I think we may agree to disagree on that point.
To be fair, this stuff is probably not for the privacy conscious (and neither is FB). I doubt they mind you not signing up, you are not their target. Lots of other people are happy to give them all of their data, and that's ok.
> XD is already fairly good (sometimes better)

I think you working at Adobe make you a little delusional about XD. I can bet that you have never actually used XD for any serious work if you really think that it’s already good or even better than Sketch. It’s nowhere near as good as sketch and is very incomplete, heck they added dotted line support only a few months ago. Figma and maybe Framer(a little different) are the biggest competition for sketch now imo. XD is mainly used by those who were still stuck in photoshop and now are trying to move to something better.
does anybody here doubt that Verizon management didn't know that Yahoo was worthless before the deal? it's all about connections
Here's the problem- You know what else might heal chronic physiological illnesses?

Time.

There's no way for you to go back in time, NOT use the emotion-based therapies, and compare the outcomes.
I am not sure I understand. My claim is the situation where you spend your money on someone else is not that "I do not care" (which the empathy can help solve), but "I do not know", so I will make an optimal choice: decent gift at reasonable cost; paying more can give poor ROI since I do not know what exactly to spend more money on.
lol, what? You can get all the protein you need from lentils, beans, whole grains - none of which are processed. And before you go all, oh but they are not complete proteins, quinoa is a complete protein, and all you have to do is mix legumes and whole grains in a meal and you have complete protein.
Spending $40,000 USD per hire for a border patrol job, strikes me as inefficient, regardless of whether or not the private sector or Government is doing the hiring. But most likely, what sparked my comment about libertarianism, was simply the fact I'd visited the Libertarian party website earlier today at https://www.lp.org/ and happened to be thinking about their tagline "Libertarian Party | Minimum Government. Maximum Freedom." when I read this article.
I specifically said python, flask and Django, the guy I was replying to then asked for an example, where I used only Django, and now you’re using that against me?

Obviously we don’t use Django for everything. But like with web-applications, a python script or a flask application is always more productive for us than .NET.
Just because everyone is like me is not enough to for voluntary payment to work. The issue is when people can not pay and get what they want they will simply not pay.

If me and 10,000 people want a waste treatment plant we can individually chip in. But, in that case defecting would be so common that it's unlikely to be built. Or, we can vote to make payment mandatory and get what most people want, but nobody wants to pay for.

Now, if you disagree feel free to start a build a wall fund. It can work for specific kinds of things where donations feel good.
> Does that mean that the polygraph is extremely restrictive or that 66% of applicants are liars?

Polygraphs are about as good for what they pretend to do as phrenology is.

> I believe most federal and government agencies use them internally

They are used for positions with certain security clearance levels, despite having been repeatedly shown to be junk science, because they national security establishment is attached to security theater and/or full of people in decision-making positions that disrespect science when it disagrees with what they want to believe.

Or maybe because they are really good at detecting the degree to which people are susceptible to cracking under theatrical pressure, which isn't what they are advertised as being used for but is something that rationally matters to the national security establishment, and which they might actually be good at.

> So, set aside how accurate it is, a number of people can pass it to get (or keep) a federal job, so it might be that the "quality" of people attemptng to enroll to CBP is "lower

You can't set that aside: how accurate it is at assessing “quality”, however you define that, is the key thing you need to establish to justify that conclusion.
I checked Figma out before, afaik it doesn't let me locally save my files and work on them without Internet on Linux.

Is that still the case now?
Related: Simpson's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
thanks for saying this, I thought I was the only one.
Definitely. At a meta level, this is quite dangerous. This deep hatred and misunderstanding of the outcasts will have us shrink as a society. A society of wimps will just be overtaken by another in time. We can't be a civilization without Musks.
Worth comparing with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18679767 , where we actually had something resembling a discussion rather than just descending into government-is-bad tropes.

There are really three separate questions:

1) Whether the thing is worth doing at all

2) Having decided to do it, is there enough commitment and leadership to actually doing it properly?

3) Given the desire to do it properly, is that best served by doing it in-house through a line management system of control, or outsourcing it and running it through a contract management system of control?
This is amazing for all computer science degree courses. I wish I had this when I was learning this stuff. Sadly, I think the truth is that most profs or students won't know this platform exists.
> explained my above average cold tolerance ... I knew what to look for...

Sorry but this makes it sound like horoscope reading.

If you can't rely on it to make predictions and only use it to confirm preexisting ideas about yourself how is it better than pseudoscience?
One of the many benefits of a full-time job doing open source development: it has absolutely flooded out everything else about me on the Internet. My Dad used to have a service like this alerting him about anything I did. He turned it off because he got sick of all the notifications about my work. If you Google my name now, it takes until like page 10 before you find anything remotely personal.
My 2 cents for beginners, most of these are covered in the article:

1. Get a flying-v or CamRock - makes turning easier and will hold an edge better until you figure out how to carve.

2. Don't put your feet perpendicular to the board, you want some angle, 30° Front, 15° Back. It will make it easier to square your shoulders down the hill and get your weight on the front of your edge.

3. Start on a Blue slope. Seriously. I hate seeing beginners exhausting themselves on green slopes straining to get enough speed to get on edge and then catching the opposite edge because there is not enough slope.
It is, but not nearly as much; after adjustment, it looks pretty close.
When I first tried snowboarding after skateboarding for many years, the hardest part to get used to was being strapped into the board. I instinctively wanted to adjust the position of my feet and run out of falls.
A lot of comments are missing the fact that there are data sources other than Facebook that can turn a click into an identity, or near enough. Facebook can't claim ignorance of all of those.

See https://panopticlick.eff.org/ for one conceptual demo.

As an innocuous example, have you ever noticed that Maps seems to show the right neighborhood when you connect a non-GPS laptop to a friend's wifi?
Binary portability for BPF programs
Some comments have touched on a few of these points but I’ll try to bring them together. So first, yes the headline is a joke (BMJ Xmas has satirical content), but it also has a history beyond the immediate point of the paper—that sometimes RCTs can’t accrue properly to a control arm to fairly evaluate an intervention.

Quick points:

- There’s a history to this analogy and paper within
biomedicine and this journal (BMJ) from a 2003 article,
which I’ll get to.

- Parachutes are a dangerous metaphor in medicine,
where almost nothing has an absolute risk reduction
of >99% (note: not 100% because, yes, a handful
of people have survived falling from altitude without
a parachute), especially over the time-frame
of a matter of hours.

- This should not be a call to stop attempting RCTs
(which is the conclusion some commenters have made),
but an exhortation to find ways to create better ones
when conditions are challenging. Frequently, objections
to doing an RCT because “how could we withhold X
from the control arm!”, are not as obvious once
the data are in.

Some background: beyond Retraction Watch looking for outright fraud, there’s a movement toward opening trial data for analysis because abuses in RCT design/analysis/reporting have gotten more criticism and attention lately. This is happening at the same time as the FDA has been moving toward lower/faster evidentiary standards for approval (see Sarepta controversy and general guidance in 21st Century Cures Act to allow drugs to market with earlier phase evidence and based on “surrogates” like was the tumor 2in vs 3in bigger vs hard endpoints like “did this person die later than the control”), so it couldn’t come at a better time.

The broader point is that the 2003 “parachute” article in the same journal (BMJ), was frequently incorrectly understood / used.

While “parachutes” makes an easily understandable headline, it is almost totally unrelated to the field of medicine where we rarely have a shot at doing something as obviously lifesaving as making someone hit the ground at 10 mph vs 120 mph. The problem is that people have cited the 2003 paper mentioned in the thread to justify a number of interventions that ended up not being better than prior care. The interventions were started in good faith because was “obvious” to their creators that doing X would be helpful (spoiler: it usually wasn’t or wasn’t that beneficial).

A lot of this is cribbed from Vinay Prasad, who has a twitter thread about this: https://twitter.com/VPplenarysesh/status/1073298754298556416

He is a controversial figure, but I think he does a good job of hammering home some important skepticism about a great deal of medical literature and practice to a broad audience.

I’d appreciate hearing objections to the above, btw.
It's satire:
"The PARACHUTE trial satirically highlights some of the limitations of randomized controlled trials."
While you are right in practice, your reasons are wrong. It’s not because these companies can’t afford it, as mentioned it’s actually cheaper. The part you referenced, about forced upgrading, is often more costly than simply having a subscription that routinely keeps the software updated. The problem is three fold:

1. Small businesses don’t upgrade because they fear change in general. Buttons disappearing, functionalities changing and new things like cloud integrations scare/confuse a lot of them. They also don’t want the pain of paying people for time to relearn what used to work just fine.

2. Subscription costs are very much more visible on P&L’s than one time expense charges. When the eventual tight times come, recurring costs are the first thing on the chopping block.

3. As you know, cutting most subs means cutting functionality as well. For small places like photography studios, they don’t want their core software to be beholden to a required recurring expense. They want to own it, so if all else goes away, at least it still gets the job done.

It’s often simplified to be a cost thing, but it almost never really is. They can afford it, but they don’t like what they give up in the model.
right... a major problem is that we have a lot crazy and stupid laws ... copyright being pretty high up there.
Wow. I hadn't realized Google is so dominant in online ads. Even Facebook is a distant second. And Amazon is barely in the running.
what the hell -- this is like 7 months ago news/rolled out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067168
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079306
> PKI works. Period. I don't understand how knowledgeable engineers complain about PKI being "too complex".

Those are kind of two different things. Aircraft work. Brains work. CPUs work. Many things work and are still complex.
> There's no answers because the author gives thanks to a grad course in evidenced based teaching where he claims the only way to really know something and remember it is to figure it out for yourself. Math stackexchange can help too.

This is a cop out; of course to really know something and remember you have to figure it out for yourself. But answers allow you to check whether your work was right, and if not, allow you the opportunity to debug your work.

My best performance came in organic chemistry, where I looked for question banks (with answer keys) and solved problems extensively, perhaps bordering on obsessively. If I hadn't an indicator that my final result was wrong, I would have missed out on many learning opportunities, and objectively my performance would have been worse. In general, I have found this strategy to enable me to be an exceptional student.

If you don't benefit from an answer key, you're probably lazy and undisciplined. Alternatively, you have too much time on your hands, opting to rigorously confirm that each and every answer is correct.

In short, by not providing an answer key, you are denying the disciplined student the opportunity to efficiently learn.
Duplicati 2. It is still beta but quite stable.
I love these kinds of tutorials, and really any tutorial that makes me think of stuff that was previously "magic" and makes me feel stupid for not previously understanding it after I read it (I honestly mean that in a positive way).

This will be a fun weekend project for me...I have had an idea of a lambda-calculus-based VM that I've wanted to build for a few months ago, and I think this will be a good start for me to understand it.