skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People come to the US for its socialist school system, or the security of its socialist policing and fire services. Or the benefits of a socialist military industrial complex that prop up half the country and invest huge amounts into socialist research and development. People come for the security of the socialist banking system named too big to fail. Show me someone who comes for the capitalist healthcare or prison service...

There are very few countries in the world that lived by the laissez faire rules of capitalism, because its been a disaster every time.
Also when they are grown (30 years?) you could chop them, stack the wood or use it in some way that doesn't release the carbon and then grow another lot.
As a DevOps Engineer working for a ML-based company and have had worked for others in the past, these are my quick suggestions for production readiness.

DOs:

If you are doing any kind of soft-realtime (i.e. not batch processing) inference, by exposing a model on a request-response lifecycle, use Tensorflow Serving for concurrency reasons.

Version your models and track their training. Use something like MLFlow for that. Divise a versioning system that makes sense for your organization.

If you are using Kubernetes in Production, mount NFS in your containers to serve models. Do not download anything (from S3, for instance) on container start up time unless your models are small (<1Gb).

If you have to write some sort of heavy preprocessing or postprocessing steps, eventually port them to a more efficient language than Python. Say Go, Rust, etc.

DO NOTs:

Do NOT make your ML engineers/researchers write anything above the model stack. Don't make them write queue management logic, webservers, etc. That's not their skillset, they will write poorer and less performant code. Bring in a Backend Engineer EARLY.

Do NOT mix and match if you are working on an asynchronous model, i.e. don't have a callback-based API and then have a mix of queues and synchronous HTTP calls. Use queues EVERYWHERE.

DO NOT start new projects in Python 2.7. From past experiences, some ML engineers/researchers are quite attached to the older versions of Python. These are ending support in 2020 and it makes no sense to start a project using them now.
Why are these posts always so impossibly vague?

What's happened? What does she think has gone wrong? Why does she think should be done about it?

People struggle so much to get the basics across in their writing! I have to follow a long trail of equally vague posts like an archeologist to understand what happened.
You're right, it was a cast part that had been machined, and (from memory) the machining was not precise enough to locate the alternator (and thus the fan) in the exact center. It kind of seemed liked a backyard job, but the price was anything but.

I think from memory the inside of the circle (which was cast) was not perfectly round. From memory the original Porsche part was titanium, and this replacement was aluminum. But I might have that backwards.
Planting is something we know really well how to automate, though. Planting is the most tractable problem in this (hypothetical) solution.

Also, more rain means more clouds, and this is something the current climate models can't really model accurately, believe it or not. There's not even "consensus" on whether clouds are beneficial or detrimental.
It was a bit of both, My degree is in CS, I only took one EE/hardware class in school that was more about programming CPLDs than anything else. These days really all you need to know math wise to build simple stuff is V=IR and P=IV, things everyone learns in high school physics class. Everything else you can usually get by looking at the reference circuits in data sheets or looking it up as you go. The hardest part for me was finding the time to get over the learning curve of the PCB design software, in my case I learned EagleCAD. After I did that and formed good habits with how I used the software I now able to do some pretty complex stuff. The limiting factor now is probably that my ambition has outgrown the software I learned.

The niche was building adapters for old server power supplies so you can re-purpose them for use as general purpose 12 Volt power supplies. It was a thing in the RC community for a while to charge batteries but it got really big in the 2014 - 2017 time frame due to the Bitcoin mining industry needing low cost high wattage PSUs.
You're defending a very dangerous enterprise. SpaceX will cause a lot of death and destruction.
The burning an decay of a planted tree would at worst be carbon neutral.
It is a challenging job, no doubt. But for some perspective:
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-top-10-dangerous-jobs-...
Hah, exactly.

Capitalism is not perfect; apparently it is the better of the alternatives we have right now.

In order to effect fundamental change, and find a better alternative to capitalism, each human being needs to fundamentally change themselves--yet apparently no one is willing to do that. As long as we let instinctual passions like desire, and social emotions like envy, hold sway over us so will continue to exist institutions like capitalism and fashion. And forced change (like socialism), without fundamentally addressing the underlying human condition, wouldn't achieve anything fruitful as evidenced from history.
How did you start with sound design and mixing? Want to try it myself.
There's been a lot written already on the background, which is linked to in this post.

https://noamross.github.io/datacamp-sexual-assault/
But what is a partial differential equation? [video]
When was the kernel last security patched?
Doesn’t that release the captured carbon?
Are you a programmer during the day?
hey! another one in the wild. cool, ive had the same experience
I believe the Californian Redwoods are very good at this but one of their main disadvantages is they take forever to grow in their native climate.

Ironically, they grow much faster on the other side of the world (New Zealand) due to its wetter climate but the wood is not as hard due to this so they aren't useful in construction. Basically the ultimate carbon sync and useless for humans.
Who is dumb enough to add a noindex directive to an apology post after a hundred of your employees complain about one of the most-discussed problems in our society and think that no one will notice?

The bad behavior, or at least the tolerance of it, is coming from the very top of this organization, and to miscalculate on something like this signals incredible incompetence/complicity.
DataCamp: A Note to Our Community
Kibbutz are pretty egalitarian. The New Testament describes the early Christians as living with everything in common ownership. Not every attempt to be equally valued has resulted in the disparities you suggest. The problem is top-down vs bottom-up ... eg https://www.quora.com/How-did-Karl-Marx-define-socialism/ans... .

Genuine question, which bits of the Soviet projects were targetting making everyone equal -- all I've seen are the bits where a dictator rides the coattails of communist ideology to subdue the people. I'm still learning about this part of history, so am keen to understand which bits were started "properly" from a communist perspective. It strikes me that in all cases a portion of society wanted to impose communism, those who didn't want to give up their supremacy (of power or wealth) perverted that system.

As (IIRC) Galbraith says (paraphrase?) "in Capitalism man exploits man, in Communism it's the other way around". The thing is that communism at least seeks to gain equality, capitalism seeks to exploit others up to the legal limits imposed.
I've always used the "10%" rule:

Of the companies you apply to, 10% will get back to you.

Of those 10%, 10% will result in an offer.

My last job search (conducted 2017) bore this out: I applied to about 90 or so companies, got 8 interviews, and one offer. I have about 20 years of experience in tech.
You must not have seen the video. Something turned the capsule into aluminum dust.
I don't agree with the relativistic point of view either, but it's a common enough viewpoint that I can forgive the GP's casual usage of the term :)
Lack of mainline support and lack of blob-free GPU acceleration support are the primary sources of buyers remorse in such ARM devices.

They generally become paperweights in the hands of individuals because of it.

Everyone stuck using ancient kernel forks barely supported by the likes of qualcomm at their professional jobs hate it and only tolerate it because they're paid to.
That part yes, but not this, "Are you suggesting it's better to ban individual choice ...". That's not a fair characterization.
May I ask what car brands do you usually work on?
Am interested in a MIDI keyboard that can be used to come up with basic tunes. Any recommendations?
You do realize the moment we reform health care, living wages, housing, college, individuals all over the place will be starting shit, don't you?

Look at the impact near free college, the GI bill had on tech. People all over the place started shit.

It can and needs to happen again.

That perfect deodorant is denied us because the person who could produce it is extremely likely to be trapped econonically.

What you are getting is endless variations of the same shit from competing board rooms.

What is worth what to you?
Sri Lanka Blocks Social Media Following Bombings
I have no idea why you are injecting the founding of the United States into this.

Nobody can possibly weigh every Wehrmacht member’s actions. Those that acted with distinction have been documented. They are the exceptions that prove the rule. If they were not, the outcome of the Wehrmacht’s actions would have been very different.

Your criteria is impossible to satisfy, by design. An attempt to rewrite history.
I buy and fix up mid century modern and Bauhaus furniture and either sell it online or to local stores as a “picker” it’s a fun hobby and can score me an extra 800-1000/month in profit.
Ah I see - that wasn't my intent.
Since it seems that a lot of people are using Gnus to read mail, I have to ask: is anyone using Gnus with Evil-mode? I would like to try Gnus, but lack of support by evil-collection is holding me back.
Those are interesting ideas, which I've toyed with, but they don't solve the fundamental problems. In current systems, the wealthy figure out or create legal loopholes. They get tax breaks for hiring people, driving, spending, etc. - all of which help them grow more wealthy, but supposedly "costing" them something so they have an excuse for write-offs, which they find with the accountants who they can afford to write these things up for them.

Wealth laws tend to benefit only the rich, not because people don't have good ideas, but because the people in power always implement the ideas in ways that benefit them. Nothing changes. The problem is a people problem - which causes the economic problem - not a systematic problem.
Thank you so much for sharing. We should know this man's name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton
Planting floating seaweed forests seems like a more feasible thing to do at scale. It might even help with marine ecology.
It's not a particularly hard question, it's answered in the article for that specific case:

The act implemented Japan's compulsory national education system in Hokkaido and eliminated traditional systems of Ainu land rights and claims. Over time, the Ainu were forced to give up their land and adopt Japanese customs through a series of government initiatives.

This was in 1899, not 10,000 years ago. I don't know if they are 'shitty' questions but they aren't very serious since they are framed in a pointedly inaccurate and uninformed way.
So why does this post then obfuscate these facts as 'an incident of sexual misconduct'? Why be so intentionally vague?

> About two weeks ago, DataCamp published a blog post outlining an incident of sexual misconduct at the company.

Could have been

> About two weeks ago, DataCamp published a blog post outlining an incident where one of DataCamp’s executives danced inappropriately and made uninvited physical contact with another employee

Forward-load the basic facts so we don't have to go down a rabbit hole.
You should already have a full backup of your (private) RSA key anyway on an encrypted USB drive in a desk drawer somewhere, so you use that until you can provision a new Yubikey.
You can't downvote a direct sub-comment.
Why did Motorola stop working in CPUs?
You don't know the definition of nonsense. I'm guessing you're from those websites you list.
Not really, except out of necessity. Mechanics aren't, cheap, and where I am, really not cheap. Cars are just giant metal Lego.

As for paint matching, I don't. If I car needs any significant paint work, I'm not interested in buying it. It's also a sign that when I get underneath a car, I'm going to find other issues which are going to be an immediate no sale (as in welding required).

Even at normal, non-insurance repair rates (as in, full price), an independent mechanic charges around twice as much per hour than a body shop does for your average paint work (high end a very different story) -- I can get much more $/hour for my labor doing repairs than I ever will doing anything more than leveling a clear coat.
Modern science isn't a one-person affair. Few papers have single authorships nowadays because science is done in teams rather than by lone geniuses (and even in the case of Einstein it looks like his first wife, the mathematician Mileva Marić, should probably have been given co-authorships on some of those early papers). While some fields simply have authors listed in alphabetical order, many have special meaning to the first and last authors -- the first author is given to the person who supposedly contributed the most (which can be contentious; typically a grad student or post-doc) and the last author is given to the mentor of the first author.
I guess some land may become available as permafrost melts?
For the case of Polynesia (including Hawaii), they are considered to be Austronesian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples

It is widely believed that they are related to (and originated from) the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan, which is distinct from Chinese civilization in both genetics, culture and agriculture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia#Origins_and_expansio...

When the Polynesians arrived by boat in New Zealand (Maori), Hawaii, Easter Island and other islands in the South Pacific prior to AD 1300, they were the first settlers there. Also, their expansion is completely unrelated to "Chinese expansion".
I’ve always thought about starting a side business doing that. I love making cocktails and want to practice and actually serve people. How do you do it? Do you have a website?
If you're conversant in financial accounting, I can recommend https://www.portfolio123.com . They use Compustat data. However, building your own models will require significant effort, but it's worth it. I think of it as a site for the thinking investor.
Why not do something more useful and sequester the trees in buildings? Timber-framed houses for everyone!
You're doing the same thing by using the euphemisms "danced inappropriately" and "made uninvited physical contact". Point being: it's not productive to litigate this stuff.
That wouldn't be a sustainable pact. Any builder could profit by breaking it and there would be nothing the colluding builders could do about it.

Builders have an incentive to liberalize development laws and do push for upzoning. It's those who own condos who have an opposing financial interest in limiting development.

Beyond financial interests there are NIMBY and other cultural interests that seem to be decisive, like heritage preservation.

There is also bureaucratic inefficiency limiting housing development by imposing lengthy and expensive processes for getting permits and approvals.
On ethnography what books would you recommend?
One part that I would like to discuss is how people as individuals rarely would act badly in such situations, but companies almost always act that way.

Now I don't know the answer, but I believe this question is part of the core of the issue. In some ways companies are systems structured in a way that protect toxic individuals, and this protection is executed by normal people in their daily jobs. If you interview these people they might not feel guilty and might not even be able to tell how they participated in something immoral. And if they knew they wouldn't have participated. But it still happened. In fact you yourself might even participated in this protection scheme unknowingly in a job you did in the past.

What I'm not interested in is unconstructive blaming and flame wars between different sexist groups. Anybody interested in some serious discussion? I'll write my opinion on the matter if I have the feeling discussion is possible and enough people are interested.
I was actually thinking about ethics a lot while I was doing this little project. By ethics do you mean morals or something different? What framework would you suggest for determining the ethics/morals of doing something like this, where we're playing by the legal rules by trying to optimize for our own benefit?
Ethereum is very interesting, but it has some red flags for me:

- It has multiple implementations, which is generally a good thing, but not for consensus critical software. When you have a software worth tens of billions of dollars, and people don't have consensus on who owns those billions of dollars, that's really really scary.

- Ethereum has a lot of hard forks and the ice age, which is a way for the dev team to force users to always switch to newer clients.

- With Bitcoin backwards compatibility is one of the main features: you don't need to trust new code from the dev team to send your money (for receiving new money, the situation is trickier).

- The parity multisig theft was extra scary for me, because I use multisig to store my Bitcoin in multiple physical places. The 1 line bug fix without tests was even scarier. If you look at Bitcoin, the devs are working on MuSig, the newer multisig protocol for years now, and they are trying to have a protocol that's proven to be safe and goes through peer review before thinking about implementing it. Ethereum doesn't care about having a provably safe multisig implementation, because it focuses on general smart contracts.

- It's really expensive (more than $10k) at this point to have a machine that have a full sync node from the genesys block, which means that Ethereum has less security than Bitcoin, as there exist only a few full nodes in the whole world.

- State data is not cacheable, which makes it harder to improve on the node syncing protocol
That’s a really good point also where water and irrigation is concerned hopefully that would be done in the most sustainable way possible. The idea of “offsets” unfortunately has been given a bad name politically due to unscrupulous actors. Really it could work if the public oversight was there in real time and all the facts on the table. Still, we are living in an age where efforts done “in everyone’s best interest” are a hard sell. We wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t easier to sell a pair of new shoes than clean air and water.
Apparently the noindex tag was removed on the 17th. That's...even worse?
I would then have to deal with finding tenants, property maintenance issues, etc (or pay someone to do this), which is more than I really want to do right now. At that point I would be closer to a full time landlord, not a full-time software engineer who enjoys working on houses on the side!
> From what I understand, most modern Japanese historians are quite opposed to the above idea.

Japan is a country where even in academia, people often have an unshakable belief in the "uniqueness" of their culture. This has made Japanese unwilling to consider connections to other Asian regions and peoples. Consequently, a lot of the scholarly consensus on Japanese history has been formed by scholars from outside Japan who don't have an attachment to the notion that Japan is particularly unique.

Generally, Korean has been seen as the probable source of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages, not China, and there were Japanoid populations on the Korean peninsula centuries ago. However, Alexander Vovin (one of the world's most respected scholars on the history of Japanese) recently gave a thought-provoking conference presentation arguing that the Japanese language and certain aspects of Japanese culture may well ultimately spring from coastal China.
Wally Wallington
And the HN comment section has all the surprises of a box of biscuits: loyal belief in police testimony, and a complete ignorance of the point of the article in favour of pedantic point scoring. If anyone is looking for a position to fill, whataboutisms and supporting the right of the rich to walk all over you are still up for grabs.
Hmm I think "an incident of sexual misconduct" is the euphemism and "danced inappropriately" and "made uninvited physical contact" are the plain-spoken explanations so interesting to hear your opposite opinion.

If someone told me "an incident of sexual misconduct" I'd then ask "ok... so what was it?" but if someone told me "made uninvited physical contact" I'd say "ah ok I understand."
I feel your frustration, but you answered your own question(s) above. Sometimes people just struggle to write succinctly and clearly. If you feel particularly strongly about this, politely written feedback on the author's comment section might be useful?
Better article

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/world/asia/sri-lanka-soci...
When the money supply increases, the pie isn't growing: There are just more, smaller slices available.
Cops are also 4x more likely to beat their wives.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...
Python documentation is some of the best of any language, a lot of times you'll be able to find your answer quickly if you just look. The SO questions are almost all answerable with links directly to the docs.

This, above many other things, keeps me coming back to Python year after year.
Apple Software Design [audio]
Wrong, unfortunately. Copyright was dreamed up in medieval Europe, to protect manual copyists from fast copying by printing presses. The USA had a very relaxed way with copyright enforcement, until enough local culture was created. Europe was furious at the time but couldn't do much. Basically China today is doing to the USA what the USA did to Europe. And what parts of Europe did to other parts of Europe, for much the same reasons.

Copyright is a mess, but not one concocted by the USA.
It's not a hard question...

Indigenous peoples have their own cultures, languages, traditions, etc. Unfortunately, colonization has oftentimes wiped out these things, as said in the article:

>The act implemented Japan's compulsory national education system in Hokkaido and eliminated traditional systems of Ainu land rights and claims. Over time, the Ainu were forced to give up their land and adopt Japanese customs through a series of government initiatives.

>High levels of poverty and unemployment currently hinder the Ainu's social progress. The percentage of Ainu who attend high school and university is far lower than the Hokkaido average.

Recognizing that the Ainu are an indigenous people is one of many steps that are necessary to create a more inclusive society so the Ainu can preserve their culture/traditions and not be forced to assimilate.