skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
side-side note: all people frame and discuss things that are in terms of things familiar to them. At least to some degree. Metaphor is a fundamental part of the operating system of our cognition. We are forever mapping useful concepts from one domain to another. Indeed human languages are filled with rich and sometimes subtle metaphors. Heck, you at some point have likely used the building metaphor "you've hit the nail on the head" to communicate to someone that they have explained something in a way that you think is "on the money" to circularly explain one metaphor using another.

Not only is it useful to attempt to map powerful concepts from math and computer science onto the social and other sciences, but it useful to map powerful concepts from the social and other sciences onto computer science! In the search for meaningful and useful abstractions you might just hit upon something useful among the junk, but it is a necessary part of the search.

Making assumptions is useful and sometimes it leads you astray. There are good analogies, analogies that are ok but something feels off, there are bad analogies. As the domains get further apart and the cost to acquire accurate models in the domain increases the search cost to answer the question of whether the mapping applies or not also increases. I would argue the search cost is infinite. Or at least it's near infinite. In practical terms the search cost is too high for most people as it relates to most things. Our time and other resources we would use to compute the applicability of any mapping is finite and so there is an economics to it. Metaphor/analogy is a shortcut trading off a lower search cost for useful abstractions with a greater possibility the models are inaccurate and/or lower resolution models. Guess and check is often a reasonable strategy. Sometimes it's the only one.

All people are engaged in hubris to some degree as their confidence in their conclusions is almost never proportional to the completeness of their models.

I find it likely that there are a vast multitude of domains that contain useful concepts necessary to understanding the world as a whole and that anyone in any domain in possession of one of those concepts should feel like it is not "the key" but a "a key" to understanding the world as a whole really doesn't surprise me. It's likely that it actually is a key to understanding the world as a whole.

The search cost for any one person to be in possession of all the keys at once is greater than anyone can afford. So to find it amusing that one group of people try to economize their understanding of the world by leveraging the tools in their possession in lieu of gaining a prohibitively expensively deep understanding of all domains of knowledge is to fail to realize how impossibly expensive an accurate view of the world is to attain.

The hubris is in thinking it's possible to compute whether something is applicable or not working from a desperately incomplete set of models and expending very few resources in the computation.
I did not get the reference and reading through, this is something I know very little about. Thank you for providing a link.
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This is normal for a lot of the workforce.

The poor maintenance, etc, is just evidence of an awful company that doesn’t give a shit. There are many like it.

The driver is the only person effectively held responsible for those defects, so awful motor carriers tend to only attract awful or desperate drivers.
A couple of the classics that I have strong memories of, both have been adapted into playable games/experiences:

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087
Object Class: Euclid

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173
Object Class: Euclid
Am I the only one here which hates smoking neighbors? Cigarettes, wood, I'd rather live next to a drummer than next to a smoker any day. I can't possibly stand the stench of smoke, and just now I moved apartment only because of smoking neighbors. If it were up to me, releasing any kind of smoke from your house should be illegal.

I find it way more disgusting and rude than just believing in religion. At least most people don't actively hurt other people's health by believing in religion. (and when they do, that's a line I can't accept).
It’s pretty much a semaphore, except that the author seems to tie it in with a Request Volume Threshold that prevents a number of attempts per time as well as a total number here, which is interesting to me where I have an application that will go from phone app to server and hadn’t considered the difference.

That 10 connections is different from 10 instant connections.
This one seems to be this generation of newly minted senior devs' hot button issue.

Dogma in general is anethema to innovation, but that doesn't mean particular practices are wrong just because some people are dogmatic about them.
> The idea that Jesus had siblings does not make sense in and of itself.

How does it not? Nowhere does it say Jesus was Mary and Joseph's only child. It merely said he was born while she was a virgin, not that she ever had kids after. Even if you take the Roman Catholic approach, Joseph was older and easily could have had children from a previous marriage, which is what they contend.

> Josephus and Tacitus being forgeries this example not mentioning James as a biological brother

These are all minority views in scholarship, as I'm sure you're well aware; it's much easier to assume Paul meant Jesus's literal brother, since he used the term the Greeks often used for brothers. But, seeing as you refuse to accept any scholarship done by Christians, even if peer-reviewed and unbiased, it's not surprising; and, of course, it easily allows you to ignore sources that disagree with you simply because they were written by Christians, regardless of the quality of the scholarship. Your own dogmatic beliefs that Christians can't produce unbiased scholarship clearly inhibits you from seeing what you don't want to see. There's really no further point arguing with you since you'll only accept the evidence you agree with (Carrier, despite his minority views and often wrong claims) and ignore the ones you don't, often under the guise of it being "dogmatic", which is incredibly ironic.
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Not Cal as a whole, but SSF is second only to Boston in biotech holding roughly 80% of Cal bioscience tech cos.
There are plenty of timestamping services out there, both blockchain-based and otherwise. If a video creator timestamps their video as soon as they create, and before they upload it, it could prove definitively these kinds of fraudulent claims.

Also, these services are usually reasonably priced, and sometimes even free, so it would be reasonable to use even if you're making several videos a day.
I like that one a lot, thanks for the link. Agree that the new stuff is pretty solid, I've been enjoying a lot of the recent work there.
But since you can't see very much of the fire they're also not going to be very desirable for "recreational" use at the author puts it.
Technically it may be easy, but handling money would surely involve contact with banks, regulatory system, etc. and these things are never easy. And they are very intolerant to mistakes, even innocent ones - imagine getting your bank account frozen because you failed to comply with some obscure regulatory filing and then being unable to do anything until some bureaucratic entity (which are known for their agility and excellent customer service) figures out whether or not you are a front for Columbian narcocartel? A startup won't survive such thing.

I'm not saying it's not doable - but I suspect it's harder than it appears, if you don't want to rely on established payment processing infrastructure.
The main reason why some channels have banned Matrix in the past was instability in the bridge causing occasional netsplit style behaviour where all the Matrix users would bulk-part and bulk-join. Since stability was fixed earlier this year, it should no longer be a concern.

In terms of privacy concerns: yes, Matrix.org is currently provided by a UK legal entity, just as many IRC servers are too. But if you want privacy from a malicious server admin or government or whoever then you should be using end-to-end encryption, and you shouldn't be using IRC. I'm not sure the legal jurisdiction makes much difference (unless the UK outlaws E2E, which then becomes a whole new can of worms).

If you're worried about the fact that Matrix rooms contain scrollback, then it's (again) unfortunate that nobody has cared enough about this to file a bug on https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues to request configurable retention per bridge. Meanwhile, https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/447 i s the general spec issue if you'd like to upvote or comment on it. But in the end, Matrix is FOSS, and we kinda hope that folks will contribute stuff like this that we simply haven't got to yet.
When my mom was taken to the emergency room last year, it was common for the doctors to be followed by somebody who would enter things into the computer for them.

It seemed like a reasonable way to handle entering medical information without having to wait for it to be transcribed. It seems like doctors making rounds would not have that.
> Utah has some of the most outrageous nanny state laws

That may be so, but it's irrelevant to the fact that this particular law is both wise and greatly needed.
What would be proof of ownership exactly?
> isn’t the equivalent of these rockstar 10x engineers

Wait, is the “rockstar 10x engineer” a thing in real life? I get that people can be highly knowledgeable in a certain area or familiar with certain tools or highly effective at cutting to the core important details of a problem and making it clearer.
We are learning these (meaning LOOP, WHILE, GOTO) in university right now, the course is designed after a short German textbook of Schöning. The proofs on how powerful they are are quite interesting (e.g. you emulate the syntax of a GOTO program with WHILE statments and thus show WHILE >= GOTO).
Does anybody know if these specific theoretical programming languages are of any furter/or in wide use in theoretical CS?
You can tell from his writing that he has good things in his future. I applaud the tone and the honesty. Merry Christmas.
It sounds like you are already an "atheist" of the wood burning debate, in which case the metaphor isn't intended for you and it's understandable you didn't relate.

I think shortening it would lose the effect on the intended audience. Your proposed replacement doesn't really contain any compelling evidence, so someone who does enjoy fires can easily dismiss it without getting the point. I think it's a good summary having read the article but not really enough to get the point across for the intended audience.
Register a hash of the (video + your name) on blockchain, that's the proof that you had it first.

Just needs a nice UI, and, well, Google giving a damn about it.
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> Who needs libc

This program does, for multiple things, regardless of how the entry point works.
> You will generally not be encouraged and will definitely not be welcomed as one of them, ever.

I study French, German and Russian at Uni. I am completely with you. As much as I love the French language, I will not keep up my knowledge of it after graduation. I've rarely had a positive experience of real french use, compared to almost every time with Russians and Germans.
You are free to transfer bitcoins to anyone, maybe (provided you don't lose your wallet). But once you want to convert BTC to USD, you'd still have to play by the rules set by the banking system. Maybe you could slip under the radar if you deal with small amounts, but once it is serious, there would be checks you'd have to pass.
I think you’re referring to my wordclocks.

Thanks for the compliment. I’m really proud how well they came out.

Yes there are currently two ways to order one:

- my website: https://www.finewordclocks.com/purchase

- my Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/FineWordclocks

I have 2 units that should hopefully be ready to ship in about 2 weeks.

I’m currently using particle photons for the micro controller.

Let me know if you have any other questions.
You can simply use grep to ignore files using the entr + rclone script ;-)
But they suck at it because they lack the time due to other adult obligations (kids, spouses, work, etc).
The united kingdom now has systems that combat drones
The event was certainly interesting enough so it was worth to setup a new jekyll blog, right?
It is life, but it is also still lossy.

I don't understand your confusion: you're both right. Everyday decisions are logically chosen from our perspective but still lossy in absolute terms. That manifests when we are frequently wrong about our presumptions... every damn day, more or less.
The ripple looks bad and is terrible for accessibility. Not everything on a page should move. Look up animation and accessibility.
I don't get one of the three premises the author is making: Nobody likes a campfire for the smoke, right?

I mean, I get the whole 'now let me tell you why what you love is actually a bad thing'-experiment, but latching it onto wood-smoke, which I'm pretty sure nobody would miss, seems kind of disingenuous.
Germany and Western Europe generally also had a strong, nationally-funded social support system and a high quality, affordable education, which contributed to smaller socio-economic divisions and combated the rise of an impoverished class whose members would be stuck in a setting surrounded by danger and casual crime. Even those that are lucky enough to have decent education in US are often having to sacrifice their own upward mobility in order to support their homes and families at early ages.

The political and media landscape in the US is blatantly, openly toxic and corrupted so severely by just a few powerful people that it feels second maybe only to the Soviet Union and despotic dictatorships. Race (and religious difference) has always been, since the foundation of the country, the thing that the ruling classes of the US blame while pillaging the commonwealth. While you may idolize ethno-nationalism, it will solve no real social problems.

Racial minorities in the US have been systemically mistreated for centuries. To look at a Native American reservation today and blame its residents for their own misfortune is equivalent to ripping out 350 years worth of pages from a US History book. It's deluded. Racial minorities in the US don't choose a harder life of fewer opportunities and a tougher path to success -- they have it imposed on them by hundreds of years of force.
Indeed, the objection is against the method by which this system is supposed to be defined. As you say, we start with an implicit assumption that we don’t have an effective procedure to construct the set of statements that are true in the ambient metatheory. And so, this set exists in a classical sense, or “weakly exists”, and not in a constructive sense.
I'm really interested in hearing more about this, especially when it comes to software development in cities like Beijing and Shenzen. The stories make it seem like China's developer culture is really harsh, almost absurd in the intensity level and hours worked.

Another question is regarding the economic position of developers, here in the US it seems like a path way to a solid upper middle class existence, is it the same in China?
But there actually is a huge amount of theory behind that problem. You can exactly derive the method that finds the best line. You can get error bounds on each of your coefficients and confidence intervals for them. You can alter the strength of your assumptions (e.g. about distribution of errors, homoskedacity, and so on) and see how it affects your model. You can add L1 or L2 regularization, both of which also have solid theoretical grounding. And so on.

All of these things help make your model more robust and give you greater confidence in it, which will be important if we want to put ML in, say, healthcare or defense. But you don’t get as much of this theory with more complex ML models, and certainly not with neural nets. Good luck trying to get a confidence interval for the optimal value of a weight in your net, much less interpreting it.
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I think there's a difference between putting a cosmetic thing like this in an application rather than a library; if you put it in your application, you're not going to change the experience of anything other than your own product, but by putting it in a library, you're changing the experience of other people's applications. From reading other comments here though, it seems like this isn't a universal opinion though.
I thought the same thing about Japanese back in the 90’s, when Japan seemed to be going the same way. Being able to speak, read & write Japanese has not been professionally useful to me in any way. I’m glad I learned it and all, but it definitely was no kind of “investment”.
The only question I have about this is _who is doing the thinking part of their coding_? Someone has to be working just a furiously architecting and concepting for all these programmers hammering out code for 14-16 hour days.
But they could help alleviate smoke exposure in poor countries where people have to burn wood because they can't obtain or afford cleaner fuels.
Why wouldn't it be a thing in real life?
What do you think about Semantic-UI?
Nobody likes smoke! The whole premise of the article is screwed because of this weird assertion that people somehow like to breathe the smoke of burning wood for comfort.

Me personally, I don't know if the heavy smoking or the drum playing neighbor would be worse but it's both environmental pollution and thus should give you a stake in determining when it is and when it's not okay to expect their neighbors to deal with the consequences of their hobbies
Seems like policing speech is a bad precedent to set, and even if you don’t think it’s a slippery slope, how do we make sure the government’s definition of the phrase is/remains reasonable? Ideally the extreme left wing will be marginalized (i.e., no more dominating universities and newsrooms or tech companies) just like we marginalized right wing extremists.
IMHO the big cultural difference between the sub continent and the US is an emphasis on a particular notion of being “practical” over what I would call a particular notion of being “smart.”

I assume you are familiar with the particular notion of being smart. You are quick to think of solutions, the solutions are supposed to be novel, you have particular cultural knowledge, detailed opinions and a nerd sense of humor.

In contrast the practical person will put no emphasis on a novel way of doing things. As long as the solution works, you use it.

So in the US people may be excited by Haskell or whatever but in the sub continent they’re still using JAVA or PHP because it works.

This is a bit frustrating because of the emphasis on specs and features that are implemented exactly as written.

I also think the latter has to do with the distance and difficulty communicating. But the source of pride (practicality) is part of the cultural difference.

Needless to say none of this is true of everyone and all people are equally smart and capable (except Phil: I know about you Phil).
Another question is regarding open source tools, maybe it's a US bubble but I don't think I've heard of any Western companies adoping Chinese open source tools.
> This is normal for a lot of the workforce

And that's the problem. While we tech workers mostly have the luxury of shopping around employers, sometimes even based on the food in the cafeteria, much of the "lower" levels do not have the free market where both sides are on relatively equal footing.

There's always someone desperate enough to put up even with illegal stuff (e.g. unmaintained vehicles), so if a poor(ish) person has the choice between either doing that job or not being able to make rent...

This should not be "normal". Especially when laws are being violated. It is also a violation of any free market principle if (big) companies can outright ignore laws that everyone else honestly follows. Hard to compete when the other side operates unfairly.

> The driver is the only person effectively held responsible for those defects, so awful motor carriers tend to only attract awful or desperate drivers.

In Europe, for the big rigs also the transportation company owning the truck can and will be held liable. This holds true for both driving times related stuff (e.g. when the police can prove that the travel plan cannot be followed without the driver breaking the law) and vehicle safety (blown tires, overloading, rust, broken brakes, ...). Sadly, small trucks and delivery vans are exempted from lots of the rules :/
I think a valid concern is that ML methods are being applied in critical, real-life scenarios without some practitioners being aware of flaws (bias, adversarial attacks, privacy issues) and without any theoretic safetynet that helps them reason about how these systems will behave. James Mickens discussed this recently in a keynote: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...

Maybe the only way to make steady progress here is to blaze ahead and rely on empirical evidence, whilst the theory is inevitably fleshed out. That's often the counter argument - that we do not know how the brain works, but rely on it nonetheless.
Do you feel like you understand human limitations in these critical systems? Are humans suitable? Would AI be suitable if it performs statistically better than humans?
You are absolutely correct. If you are a 10x engineer reporting to a mediocre manager in these countries, it really complicates things and in the end you learn wrong lessons in life.
This is not a temporal change, it is a venue change. Systems like Facebook and systems like HN may both be called "social networking" but they facilitate totally different kinds of communities. Each has its place.
https://www.change.org/p/mike-morhaime-legacy-server-among-w...

There's also a story behind how the signatures were delivered. [1] However, I'm not sure that this video explains the 'psychology' behind it.

In a wow-related podcast a few months back [sorry no link], Mark said that he wanted to deliver all the signatures in physical form on paper since that's a tactic that Blizzard itself had employed when selling their game packages back in the day. In a nutshell, the weight of something makes it feel more valuable. And in the case of 260,000 signatures, it doesn't just sound big in your head, but actually has a substantial weight in physical form.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4g2rkZwLI
"Rockstars" are real but I think the idea has been warped. Every field has an elite set of performers who outshine the others. I don't see why software development would be any different.
Alchemists could do a lot, making gunpowder for example is non trivial. They simply worked from a bad model with little understanding of what was going on.

Consider, lead and gold are very similar substances and chemistry lets you transform many things into other things so it must have seemed very possible. Unfortunately, I suspect the current AI movement is in a very similar state even if they can do a lot of things that seems magical it’s built on a poor foundation. Resulting in people mostly just trying stuff and see what happens to work without the ability to rigorously predict what will work well on a novel problem.
There is one thing I'm completely sure about. Code quality is an order of magnitude worse.

I'm not really sure why, but that's how it is. With a few exceptions, the norm is to get a shit show every time something is outsourced to a team in India or China.
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"Encrypted ext4" most likely refers to ext4's built-in support for file-based encryption.
The author is refering to a different Tourlakis text than the one used in the 1000 level logic course for compsci students.
Ethics swing both ways.