skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the headline. the word "or" implies the object of podcasts is to kill music? I don't think those are the only options.

I listen to two or three podcasts on a regular basis that admittedly don't have top-notch production values, but also don't have "dinky interstitial stock music" or whatever vague "tone" this guy is admonishing. if he's only listening to badly-produced podcasts that use gimmicks that annoy him, that's basically a personal problem in my opinion. he should try listening to something that isn't just trying to sound like the radio.
The last few comics are about this, although they are somewhat vague. She seems to keep posting on Patreon, though, but only patron-only posts, so I couldn’t tell you what’s in them.
> I've setup BSD on linux on personally modded thinkpads (putting in faster cpus, new wifi cards, etc), and you have got to be joking when you say it's simpler or faster than turning on a new mac and installing brew. It's infinitely more customizable for sure, but it's not simpler or easier. Especially when it comes to tuning battery life.

This is not an apples-to-apples comparison. You're comparing highly modified laptops with questionably supported mods to a stock Mac. Of course the highly modified laptop isn't going to install BSD smoothly. It's unlikely to install anything smoothly, at least compared to a Mac where the hardware configuration is locked down.
But couldn't they improve the signal to noise ratio by showing contextually relevant ads e.g. showing rice cooker cookbooks after purchasing a rice cooker? Wouldn't this lift ad click through rate? This is truly baffling expected behavior, who would ever buy a second rice cooker after having searched Amazon for rice cooker and compared a few top models already? I'd love to see some studies or data proving otherwise...
I actually did the exact opposite but I hedged my bets. Accenture was awarded a 40 million dollar by Marriott. At the time I was a fairly powerful executive at Marriott that was in charge of the web middle-ware and infrastructure technologies. They delivered a plan and it was pretty much we are going to build this whole thing on JSP, Struts and WebSphere. I wrote a manifesto to the board about how doing so was setting us back years in development as the world has moved on from these technologies to front end, and back end web technologies.

So I remember they had a program manager from the middle east and he tried every underhanded trick to undermine my credibility. So I buffered myself by hiring a small crew of IBM's Solutions Services and borrowing the top UI designer from Apple on a consultancy basis, these guys are not global services but rather very high end DE's from IBM such as Roland Barcia and Mathew Perrins. Anyways we built a point by point rebuttal against all of Accentures proposals and how we could not achieve our goals using old page-post model that they where proposing.

So anyways, Accenture is arguing that JS based front end technologies are not mature, rest is not proven, etc, etc.

Anyways so we are in the board, meeting with the CTO, CIO and CFO from Marriott as well as my direct line president who is totally on my side. And this program manager starts going on and on about this (it was basically them covering for the fact that they had nothing but sub par Java talent in their org.). So while he is going on and on, I start walking around the table and start dropping packets in front of all my execs. Then I start dropping them in front of the Accenture top brass finally the program manager. The packet contained a Gartner research article from Accenture's CTO about how enterprises that fail to adopt disconnected JS and mobile UI's based on components communicating with legacy enterprise systems via rest ran the risk of becoming outdated and increase technical debt.

Anyway, program manager lost his shit, and came over the table at me. Accenture was escorted out the door, I was asked to provide a budget and a resource plan for implementing it in house. I went to my program manager, and two of my contracting outfits about scaling resource and we came up with a conservative figure of around 7 million, and a 1 year time-frame. We finished in 8 months, at 4.5 million total spend.

TLDR - I saved Marriott 35 million dollars by getting rid of Accenture, did it in house, was attacked by an Accenture personnel and was asked to consider the interim CTO position due to the overwhelming success. I resigned 2 months after the project was finished and went back to remote development, I have never considered a executive or CTO position again after that and other experiences as a CTO with other orgs.
Loop Detection in Content Delivery Networks
I have openbsd on an old thinkpad been sitting and gathering dust. Rstudio isn't on OpenBSD and it'll take a bit of the down time to emulate it with tmux and vim... so I never got around doing it... too busy trying to finish my thesis.

How is your R setup in OpenBSD? Like what software do you use in tandem when coding R?
An overall good introduction/guide is: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough.

The most complete guide is probably the Arch Linux one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM....
or recompute the data you're working with.
> > I appreciate that you are up front about it, but the attitude that you are entitled to my usage data

> The reverse is true as well. I wrote this app for free. You're not entitled to use it unless you run the analytics because that's how you're paying for it.

Then you really should add a License file specific for polar (you only seem to have imported license files for electron, chromium, and two resource modules) clearly stating this limitation. Note the below comments are based on what was found in the tar.gz on github.

Right now, with no license file directed at Polar, it is ambiguous as to what limitations surrounding use/sharing exist.

And, three of your license files (electron and the two modules that leaked in) are the MIT licence, where one is granted rights to:

(quote) ... deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, ... subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. (end quote)

So if one interprets the ambiguity of Polar's license status such that the three imported MIT files likely apply to Polar, then you have no stated restriction which matches your restriction of "no use, unless you give me google analytics".
A government has a much more plausible reason to be willing to siphon off and stockpile large amounts of cryptocurrency without using it, just in case they ever do need to have a bunch of coins on hand for something.
A huge amount of "forensic science" is complete bunk. Scientific validity doesn't matter, you just have to be able to sell it to a jury.
It's not really like littering. I don't think there are very many people that think littering isn't a problem if everybody does it.

Smart phones, on the other hand, are used by billions of people everyday to do all kinds of legitimately useful things.
I was referring to the Amazon resume model. The intern hires model was labeling, as GP said.
Send me an email, subject "Does your product have technical debt?" in 5 years.

Spoiler: Answer will be "no".
Stuff changes. Today's young Turks, when factoring in the time and energy to get to the point they would be listened to, will have antiquated skills too.

Old people can certainly keep up! But corporate climbers often can't (I do know of exceptions)
I’d guess they opt to do so not just to give you a chance to provide feedback but also liability.
Ireland blocks the world on data privacy
Where does the article mention the pilots dying?
First, it is a century old translation from French. What might sound perfectly normal in French might sound silly in English if you do a literal translation. Matching the tone between languages might significantly change the message.

For example, to use the English versions of French words...

To say "I'm sorry" in French you say "I am desolate"

Talking about a broken phone or a stomach ache you would say they are deranged.

Much of French vocabulary came into English but very often with some distance in meanings and usage. Often in translating you have the option to use exactly the same word with maybe a small spelling change, but you end up sounding ridiculous because of the shift in meaning or intensity.

Second, essentially what boils down to shaming people for not communicating the way you want is wrong. Not that I am saying you are directly or intentionally harassing someone, but (despite my distaste for how it is often used) things like this could be called microaggressions, making people uncomfortable using their language.

I experienced a lot of that growing up. In a place far from cities where people were generally less educated (and those that were left to find jobs) and I read a lot. I still struggle with the unconscious bias that people don't want to hear what I have to say or wouldn't understand or would respond with discouraging things.

Looking back, I'm not trying to say you are doing anything particularly negative, BUT be careful. Diversity can come in lots of ways, using language a little differently is one of them, and a little understanding (like how hundred year translations from French are going to sound a little … florid) helps with perspective.
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html
But the learned behaviour will be short => likely a shoplifter. Short people who don't shoplift will have to deal with being suspected of shoplifting at a higher rate than the rest of society. You could say that's just a fact of life, a minor thing, but it's still a privilege to not be in that group. If you then belong to multiple of these groups (dark skin, poor neighborhood), you become a primary target without ever having any intention of doing anything illegal. It's not immoral per se, but it does not set the stage for a fair society.
How does Nim do thread-based GC if an object is shared across threads? Does it not allow that sharing references cross-thread (not sure how it would without lifetimes though)?
Syd Barrett supposedly
Note that a data lake does not necessarily replace the data warehouse, but rather often complements it. As such, you store your raw data from various sources in a centralised data store (Hadoop-like, NoSQL, etc.). From there, you prune, clean, select, and potentially aggregate data that you would like to provide in a quality-controlled way to your business users, in a data warehouse. This data warehouse most often will be a more traditional relational data store (usually some flavour of SQL database), which allows users to select data from a curated, pre-selected slice of the overall data stored in the data lake, and which enables easier integration with common reporting tools, whether more traditional standard reporting tools or self-service BI tools.
I completely agree that surprising users is always a problem, precisely for the reasons you state.

I just hoped to give a better idea of how it came to be people who (in my biased experience) are thoughtful about user privacy, ended up bringing together a data set users were uncomfortable with:

Of course the team reviewing responses needs to see the user context!

Whoops.
Spark UDFs
I wind up using about once or twice a year when I pay for a foreign hosted server... My CC usually declines the charge and makes it a mess.. paypal to the same CC just works.
>> I imagine that in doing so I was unconsciously reproducing one of the best impacts of certain kinds of therapy: creating the acknowledgement that yes, I feel the way I feel, that is mirrored by my environment in some way, and it’s not something I need to hide or feel shame about. The music helped me feel that without needing to reveal anything about myself.

This was/is the purpose of the blues, an acknowledgement and release from adversity.
The terminology works very well for pilots, because pilots have got it locked into their brain that higher altitude == lower pressure. Pilots also have fairly extensive rules for how and when they can fly at a given "altitude", defined in terms of the atmosphere the pilot is breathing, so it makes sense to think of the cabin's pressure as "altitude". "Pressure" is not something you can really feel beyond the extremes, but altitude is something you really understand every second of every flight.

If you're a pilot.
Did you habitually take naps during the day, or sleep more on weekends?
Even in the Jobs era they pre announced the “3Ghz G5” that never happened and the AppleTV that did. Of course they preannounced the iPhone by 6 months.
Code Talkers
Or that's just the PR line they deliver to consumers through various marketing strategies. At this point it feels like a tautology to say that the main motivating force is not "cool ideas" but profit. Of course, you can't sell an idea that's not cushioned in "goodness". Corporations seek profit and governments seek control. No amount of "concerned privacy experts" are going to subvert the global trajectory of surveillance capitalism until the amoral paycheck-collectors awake from their hypnosis or the rest of the distracted world does. I see neither happening. In a world where all your movements and actions and communications are recorded, and even your iris' angle of incidence is analyzed, is there any meaning to "free will"?
I get the point, but why didn't you just exclude intern resumes from the training data? Do you still suspect a skewed result?
Awesome link!

The key line for me:

"The data lake stores raw data, in whatever form the data source provides."

The emphasis on"raw" was his, not mine.
Mind-Bending Video on the Scale of Black Holes
If you already have a service that requires ETL, Cadence might be a good choice as well. You will need more boilerplate and setup compared to Airflow/Piper, but you can share data structures between ETLs and services that use it and have more control over execution and deployment as you own your workers.
If Musk listened to expert advice, Tesla wouldn't exist.
The embeddable snippets don't work in an iframe, pops out and exposes the stripe domain which totally sucks.
Successive Chinese governments have of course had many periods of great instability over history. But the Chinese nation as a people (or at least the Han conception of it) has existed for far longer than any one government, and stability, unity, harmony, etc. have been a part of that nation's identity and ideals for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily
store something known in the secure storage...
If you have an abusive manager, the best thing you can do is find out if the behavior is illegal, and change jobs. You could hire an attorney to see if any laws were broken, and if they were, likely receive some respite through the legal system. If the behavior was not illegal, there's not much else that you can really do. A few rare companies might have systems in place that rectify the behavior of abusive managers, but that's probably incredibly rare. HR is never there to help you. It's likely best to keep them out of the loop in all these matters.
He talks about it at the 27 minute area
It is a fancy name for a data swamp. :) On the more serious note data warehouses called nowadays data lakes, not sure wjy people prefer this term, maybe because some folks like to think that it is ok to just throw all data in one place and it will be ok to query it like that. I still prefer data warehouse over it.
Craig Newmark funded publication investigating tech ousts editor, staff resigns
> A privacy-respecting design would have been...

Not really disagreeing with you, but every smartphone app that has access to your contacts also violates your contacts' privacy. WhatsApp, FB, Google Auto, etc, etc. More than anything, I hate the way this has been allowed as an acceptable practice.
Can Porn Save VR?
This kind of misses the point of the Unix philosophy of being able to dynamically reconfigure things - realistically, to get decent results, you'll need to do inference with the exact same connections as you trained (or at least finetuned) them, so there's no good reason to split the model in smaller parts.
I did not mean to imply that all AAA studios are that bad. Probably the missing part of the context is that I do not have much time for games these days, and this filter - while an overly broad heuristic - works just fine.
While it's similar, I think there's hesitation since the customer might not know that it's similar in this regard.

Plus the act of re-entering the credit card number and/or not being able to use a recurring PayPal balance to pay off something might be a non-starter for some.
I'm really curious how their upcoming PHEV F150 does. It is planned to act as a 110v AC generator for job-sites, which is a really cool application.
True, I guess it just sounds a little too hypothetical as a scenario for my taste given both Alexa's and Amazon's scale.
Don't get me wrong, I still absolutely think the conversation is important and will hopefully lead to a way to deal with these requirements responsibly. These systems aren't going away and it's not like this is something unique to Amazon or even smart assistants. Not sure why we as a sector haven't had the discussion to this depth after e.g. search engines started experimenting with user query logs, the content could be used similarly harmful - and the techniques were/are likely similar.
Admittedly not much on the technical side beyond new languages constructs etc, but the main benefit would be ending for good the wrong argument "Pascal is old therefore Lazarus sucks".
Like 20 years ago I've written network code in Delphi that would send and receive binary data between different endianess and word size machines, so I had to align them and manage data down to bitfields in the Pascal equivalent of C unions, that is, the language offers enough bullets and rope to hang then shoot oneself in the foot just like C, but every time I talked with someone about Delphi and later Lazarus, it was just about a matter of minutes before the inevitable "yeah, but Pascal is old".
I'm assuming you're using "an affect" in the sense of "an affectation" or "affected" here, in which case, no. Plainness, simplicity, straightforwardness are words that would describe "as spoken" writing. They are also literally antonyms of "affect" in this context, which would mean pretentiousness, artificiality, pomposity.
Amazon's Alexa Reviewers Can Access Customers' Home Addresses
What do you mean Spark tables? Generally speaking it is a bad idea to try to combine ACID with data warehouses.
So Bitcoin was used to finance and control the election of the most powerful country in history?

If you believe that HRC lost because a foreign power "hacked" the election, then yes.

If you believe that releasing actual, and somewhat unflattering, information about candidates to the public shows that political party leaders chose the wrong candidate, then no.

At the very least, this is an example of how Bitcoin is not completely anonymous, depending on how one uses it.
I currently have Netflix, Hulu, and Prime, with a number of "add on" subscriptions for Prime. This is one place I think Amazon really got it right. I login to Prime, and I can watch Prime specific content, as well as stuff from Showtime, HBO, Shudder and CuriosityStream, and it's all seamless. Plus if I want to pay for one of those "one off" movies that isn't part of a base streaming subscription, I can just click a button and it's charged to my Amazon account. I have my own issues with Amazon sometimes, but their idea of "add ons" really makes Prime a lot more desirable a service from a streaming standpoint.

Now the flip-side is, I don't really want to know how much all those little $4.99/month, $8.99/month, $7.99/month "add ons" are costing me in aggregate. :-)
I bet the frame busting is deliberate. As a consumer I prefer seeing the Stripe padlock on the current page...a reason this commenter gives for preferring paypal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741689
Pressure altitude isn't the same as flight altitude. You can decrease flight altitude dramatically without changing cabin pressure altitude. You can also vary cabin pressure altitude without changing flight altitude. So saying they descended to lower the cabin pressure altitude is not useless. It describes the outcome (lower cabin pressure altitude) and how they achieved it (by descending). There are other ways of changing cabin pressure altitude, and there are reasons to descend other than for the purpose of lowering cabin pressure altitude.

Edit: I see the "I don't understand this so it must be bad" reaction in a lot of junior devs. It's interesting to see it show up in other areas!
If you want your car to remain in pristine condition, keep it in your garage. Don't park it in a public space. In a shared space undesirable things happen. Just because you object to something doesn't make it a crime. Guilty mind plus guilty deed make something a crime.
> I just want to make sure I am clear on the argument you are making

Yes, that's a decent summery. Populations would be less healthy if meat just suddenly disappeared with no other changes. Although, in the United States at least, we massively over-consume meat to the detriment of our health. But we rely on it as a source of many micronutrients that we otherwise wouldn't get by default.

Additionally, these changes will never happen without regulatory changes on the supply side to artificially drive up the cost of meat production.
I successfully completed an Applied Math masters and defended a dissertation on symplectic integration. But that didn’t quite give me the superpowers my professors had.
Outside of the recommendations that I see, all of which I agree are excellent, I would say "The Broken Earth Trilogy" by N.K. Jemesin.
I think the Echo may be worth more to Amazon than it is to the people who buy them for use as glorified kitchen timers because it allows them to build a social graph which is very useful, when combined with purchase histories, for targeting ads.

I very much distrust it and am not at all surprised by this news story. I think that people need to learn that privacy is not about having nothing to hide, it's about not being taken for a ride.
Given that C++ is widely regarded as having unfixable problems (and even the ISO-C++ community is now basically admitting this, with the C++ Core Guidelines being nothing more than a somewhat pointless band-aid), yes I would. If C++ was fixable, Rust would not exist in the first place. (Same goes for e.g. Ada btw - if you could simply fix both the clear lack of openness in the available Ada toolchains, and its lacking anything comparable to the Rust borrow checker, Rust would also not need to exist.)

I can tell why Nim was created - there is a somewhat widely felt need for a systems language (Nim is clearly targeting C/C++ compatibility) with a more Pythonic input syntax! But it's far from clear that Nim itself as it exists today is a sensible answer to these issues.
Maybe with the new checkout, which seems to use dedicated domain.

If I remember right, the older checkouts were hosted on vendor's website -- and you would not know if the cc info really goes to stripe only, or if vendor grabs a copy as well.
>Snobs in general tend to look down on people who …

That in itself is snobbery. It's just fashion bouncing back and forth between hating on the poor and hating on the rich. One is fashionable until everyone does it then the opposite is in vogue.

Are the cool kids today wearing factory-ripped jeans these days or are they hating on people who do?

It is just stupid to say "this style is the only acceptable style and anyone doing anything different is an asshole". Surface quality is boring, substance is important.
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