skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have more info about this or know of similar projects?

We lean on the many of the statistical and mathematical libraries (numpy, scipy, ruptures, pandas) to help automate the analysis of 1000s of related signals when our alerting systems indicate problems. We’ve developed a time series correlation system...
> But I’ve slso made myself available on a contract basis to a former company.

And how many have taken you up on the offer? I'm 0/2. Usually people don't like people leaving them.
More background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GhleKNaPdk
For what it's worth, LibreOffice is probably LGPL because of OpenOffice's history with the Oracle buy-out. Oracle gave OpenOffice to Apache for the same reason Google gave Wave to Apache: They run a sort-of paliative service for software projects.
Because being fired is associated with incompetence, no?
Interior Video of B2 Stealth Bomber
One of the particular difficulties of the Japanese royal family is you have the ultra-nationalists who never really got over Japan's loss in WW2 and the resulting changes to the Japanese royal nature, but the royalty has. You end up with a situation where the emperor indicates that he wants the nature of the royal family to change slightly, but the biggest supporters of royalty don't want to listen to him.

This is rather different compared to the constitutional monarchies that are common in Europe: it's hard to imagine any major political party (even the hard-right parties) arguing against the monarch if the monarch is suggesting a more liberal position.
The soup is also great.
Why is this better than something like Golang, Cobra/Viper?

With that, my output is a small binary for almost every OS that just runs without dependencies.
Perhaps they are out of beta today? I just received an email from them today saying they are now introducing Cloudflare Registrar.

Either way, this is pretty game changing imo.
There was only 2 affiliate links, the other was for rescue time, but I have removed them both.

Blog planner is just a small tool I made on the side. But yeah, I should point that out. Thanks for the feedback!
Roko's Basilisk is just a technology-flavored reinvention of Pascal's wager: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
I have no identity online, except for Facebook and Linkedin. Linkedin is the only one that is public. I don't even have a photo.

I've been careful since about 1997 to always ensure that I don't attribute myself to anything I've written. Even accounts like this I'm always careful to write things that won't identify me ever, unless I did it completely on purpose (a blog post for my employer, etc). I learned very early on that the things that get written are forever, and I didn't want something I wrote 20 years ago to come back to haunt me.

I rejected a handful of candidates for things they wrote on Twitter (ex. "old people should give up their right to vote because they don't matter anymore", "SF is a piece of shit and everyone that lives there is a piece of shit").
The so called "high powered assault weapons" are so low powered that they are not allowed for hunting because they don't kill. (depends on the game of course, a rabbit doesn't need much, for a deer they are just barely powerful enough, for something bigger they don't have the power to kill)

100 round magazines are fun. Not practical, but I the art on my wall isn't practical either.
>The ability to drop into a bpython shell and improvise has saved the day more than once.

what do you really do here - connect to the flask instance and route requests manually ?
FWIW, I believe Cray had an SSD option for the X-MP back in the early 80s.
The advantage to having the service name last is that you can easily list multiple services. On a default Ubuntu installation, this is now possible with systemd, another opinionated piece of software:

sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm

I tend to prefer this syntax because I can perform an action on multiple services with a single command.
You're welcome. And I didn't feel accused. In fact we might document this clearly in our handbook so people don't feel confused.
Not with a 20% down payment.
OOP design is usually part of a CS curriculum (at MIT it was, at least) since it has some theoretical framing and applies to a wide variety of practical problems.

I don't think I've ever heard of a class in crypto scams or Agile.
Looks like they only do renewals/transfer, no new registrations.
Was that luck though, or active intent.
Macs aren't really designed for constant heavy load, they tent to thermal throttle.
In theory, that's what the standard deduction is for. If you spend $1MM/month on rent, that's a luxury and should use after-tax dollars. If you spend $500, that's a necessity and should use before-tax dollars. Thus the 12,000 standard deduction: the first $1000/month you spend on rent, food etc is done with before-tax dollars, subsequent dollars use after-tax dollars.
I was kind of thinking along the same lines as the OP until I read your comment, in particular "It’s about being able to share ones ideas and document your interests". I really like the idea (and it seems obvious to me now) that you could use a personal website as a documentation hub for various things that come up and that could be useful to others. Ha! The original point of the internet. I might have to set up a site now.

Hmm... let's call it a Personal Open Document (POD) or something like that.
In at least some states, being fired for incompetence (including failing to finish assigned tasks on-time) is not disqualifying for unemployment benefits.
For people getting fired, I can see that occasionally happening. But someone giving notice is leaving of their own free will, why would they make any sort of scene on the day they give notice?
This thing seems to be 2x the size though (more if you include heatsink height). Of course even rpi has a smaller version... so, meh.

I think it seems like a really powerful board for the price, though I do wish they full kits (+case and power) were a bit closer to the raw board price. After you add them it's often 2x the price.

Not that it would actually get me closer to done any faster. I have a kit by my desk I haven't even opened for 6 months. The last one is running various emulators in the living room. This board seems to do well enough for Playstation and Sega Saturn emulation from a couple youtube videos that came up yesterday.
Can someone say if the font rendering is improved compared to previous releases? This might sound like nitpicking but it's the thing that kept me from switching from Ubuntu, which generally has superb font rendering.
First sentence is "Purism is a Social Purpose Corporation (SPC), which means we put social good above exploiting people". I've never heard of a SPC before (probably because I'm not from the US) so had to look it up. It seems it's still a for-profit corporation, just that it "enables, but does not require, considering social or environmental issues in decision making".

Which means that "which means we put social good above exploiting people" should really be "which means we can put social good above exploiting people" as it's not a requirement.

So, what's the purpose of a SPC instead of just a for-profit company? A for-profit can also consider social and environmental issues, AFAIK.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
I had an experience similar to that in high school. When my grades started falling in it, my mother set up an appointment with the school counselor and the teacher; the teacher didn't bother to show up. I was immediately moved into a different class with a different teacher...

...who was excellent. Who had fun getting students to come up their own ideas. Who didn't treat teaching as a day job to be gotten past with as little effort as was possible.
They are really shaping up to become a proper major hardware and service provider. If what they are saying about their values actually promises permanence, I'll seriously consider switching to their hardware soon.
I was not hired via referral. They reached out because they were using a node module I had written. Not sure how common that is, but tbh I think any general characterization of the hiring practices of such a large org is bound to be wrong in many ways.
I guess if you don’t like software it’s not a great place
Makes me wonder if that close-up is a shot of a fake Timex.
I keep checking in on Go, trying to decide if I want to add it to my toolkit, but this argument usually bugs me.

Lisp is simple. Go is half-simple, but in its take on simplicity, it also takes away some constructs that make useful, high-leverage expressiveness impossible.

Some of its other benefits are appealing to me, but that's not one of them. It seems simple on its face only.
When safety is involved, yes. Laws vary by state, and of course enforcement varies even more, but the law in California is quite clear; horns are explicitly not a general purpose signaling device.
Do I just treat them as worthless and focus on base salary

Yes. Always assume the value of stock options for startups is zero. If you ever happen to benefit from that equity ownership in any way, treat it as "found money".

is there a formula to evaluate what they would be worth in say 2 years for instance ?

You could come up with an infinite number of such formulas. And they'd all be based on assumptions which you have no way to validate, until the two years has actually passed. And most of those things are also things that you can't control, or even influence very much. Ergo, startup stock options are basically a lottery ticket.
Why can't I read their articles through Pocket?
if there is a native markdown driven, login supported, file-based(no database), online editor supported blog platform that transforms both code and markdown to html5, I will start tech blogging right away.

drupal and wordpress users for years and I keep looking for a simpler solution, no not the static site generators which has no online editor and no login support either.

I plan build one with python/flask, then I will have my personal site.
Counter point by Susanna Zaraysky: https://createyourworldbook.com/livinginitalian/

Susanna is fluent in several languages, and has written a few books. It's always interesting getting her take on language learning at any age.
>Well..CCTV cameras caught the 2005 bomber's at King's Cross Station and helped establish their identities and their full itinerary when cross-referenced with other CCTV videos

But it didn't prevent the bombing
The page/link comes up for me... afaik it sold out really quickly.
Also for the same reason that Linux is common in webdev: there are advantages using the same OS for both dev and production.
How am I going to get to be a senior-level monarch if I can't get some experience?
Black Mirror: Post Your Questions for Creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones
I handle my websites in a way that provide automatic backups -- I keep complete mirrors on my own machines that are already part of a backup regime. I make changes to the mirrors, and then upload the changes from there to the public sites.

That way, I always have an offline copy without having to remember to make one specifically.
Consider the Pigeon, a Surprisingly Capable Technology
I've always thought that diagnostic-oriented specialties would be most at risk (pathology, dermatology, radiology, ophthalmology).

As long as you have procedures, you will have a need for an extremely competent clinician that can synthesize all information and coordinate with use of hands or devices.
Billboards in Times Square complain about repair-prone Teslas
I'd be wary of Librem Chat being viable long term, Synapse (the server software for matrix) is a real ram hog, we see it hover at ~2GB of ram with 5 active users and have bumped its VM up to a dozen gigs of ram to deal with it OOMing (despite having 4GB of ram).

The documented switches like SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR seem to cause wild oscillations in ram use and worsen the OOM problems, when enabled Synapse would jump between 500MB and 3.8GB of ram constantly, eventually OOMing.

Edit: Also, the support channels for Synapse exist, but you will rarely get any response.
profit != revenue
These kind of lists are really useful in helping you find tools you wouldn't normally come across and I'll definitely check out some of these links!

It's just better being upfront with any bias you may have.
I wonder if the results would be similar were the dermatologists to see the actual patient, in person, and then diagnose. And, then a photo was taken to be diagnosed by the CNN.

In other words, while dermatologists may have been outperformed by deep learning in image classification, it is not evident if deep learning could do the same against dermatologist diagnosing in person.

Also, not clear what the overall ratio of false negative/positives was in each case.

Also, unless I missed it in the paper, I'd be curious to learn if the cases, in Fig. 4, where majority of humans and CNN disagreed, were the same where majority of humans disagreed too or not.
It sounds like a dumb policy that some hack in HR would come up with, but couldn't really explain why. Probably not malicious, just stupid.

I've never seen it happen myself. When an employee leaves us, the only thing I like to do is immediately suspend access to all the equipment. I tell them before I do it, and it isn't to deny them the ability to damage anything. It's to give us two weeks of opportunity to catch anything that they were responsible for which was sliding under the radar, so we can correct the process while they are still around to explain it.
While the WSJ take may have presented a somewhat one-sided take on the findings, those findings do exist and his presentation is just as one-sided. For example, his comparison to his Tesla is a vehicle with 384 grams of CO2/mile.

Well, that's probably a gasoline powered SUV or truck in the US.

In Germany, you typically have smaller cars, much smaller engines and, well, Diesels, which these days easily manage around 5l / 100km, and that's in the range of 120 g of CO2/100km. So definitely competitive with the Tesla and with those small differences, differences in production become more relevant.

The studies I saw indicated that when driven long distances, Diesels are (still?) somewhat more efficient than EVs. Over short distances, EVs are better, but then you typically aren't driving a lot, so the extra production costs may not be amortised over the life of the vehicle.

The best case for EVs are vehicles that are constantly moving, but only small distances with lots of stop-and-go. So public transit, taxis, etc.

That said, I'd still prefer an EV if possible: quieter, fewer/no emissions at point of use (so less concentration of emissions in the cities), amazing torque, fewer parts, etc. And once we go fully nuclear/fusion it becomes a real no-brainer.

And electric propulsion for airplanes is also really interesting: short power bursts possible without much weight penalty for cruise, cost, reliability, noise (big issue in Germany, the only country in the world where people can see airplane "noise")
> What's the point of wearing cammo on a freaking giant ship?!

Navy personnel don't serve exclusively on ships, and people on the decks of ships can be individual targets when the ship is within smallarms range of land or another vessel.
I agree. Ms Druckerman needs to read a lot more books. She should make a point of reading the classics of French literature starting with something simple like "Le Petit Prince", then Maupassant and slowly work her way up to "Les Miserables" which will take years, but she has the rest of her life to do this. Even if she does not absorb everything, she should press on. She should do this reading plan on a e-reader. I've been glancing at the comments here and no one mentions the fact that e-readers are a great way to learn a language. Why? Because getting the definition of a word by touching it is way easier than old-fashion dictionaries. She should also highlight the word she does not know and when she is done with the book email herself the highlights which e-readers allow you to do. In this manner she will build up her own personal vocabulary list. This plan will require some discipline, but it's what you have to do if you want to be more fluent. Technology makes it easier than it used to be thanks to e-readers and online dictionaries.
UCP camo blends in well in some areas... https://i.redd.it/68lxwxjrbe001.jpg
Germany's third gender law is celebrated as a revolution (2018)
In fact it is worse. The hospital was not trying to save face or prevent knowledge of the incident, the implication is that they are trying to avoid paying for the now injured child's life-long care
I’m speaking from the personal experience of using it myself. I don’t doubt that some companies have large internal Python codebases with extensive type annotations. If you’re at one of those companies, maybe the experience of using those annotations rises from third-rate to second-rate. It’s never going to be comparable to a statically typed language, or maybe even a language designed from the ground up with optional static typing in mind.

And that’s fine! Python is probably the best language in its niche. Type annotations just don’t do enough to break out of that niche. Annotated Python with mypy is a terrible statically-typed language. Python generally is an excellent dynamically-typed language.
There's a big difference between apps and restaurants. One chinese restaurant can only serve so many customers, but one well made website can serve the entire market, making other solutions of lesser quality almost worthless.

That being said, I agree with the point of your comment in general, and we shouldn't stop ourselves from creating something we value just because it exists already. Working on something we care about gives meaning to our life, and who knows, maybe your solution will turn out to be the best one out there.
The two are closely related concepts. You can model checked exceptions as a secondary return type, except without the same first-order representation (e.g. inability to specify checked exceptions in generic terms).
Another common reason is that on distributed databases you often don't want your data stored in the same chunk/shard as the last one. You want to spread out your writes.

This of course is not good design if your access patterns involve a lot of sequential reads, so you have to be aware of what you are going to do.
This is a great example of where we need to get humans out of the equation when (if) a machine is conclusively proven to perform consistently better.

It was justified (cost wise) to replace many human labourers on auto assembly since machines don't get tired, need breaks, have off days. It could certainly be argued it is even more important in the field of health care (reduce costs and improve outcomes) for all forms of image scanning.
It's hard to imagine an narrow image classification task that humans will be able to beat NNs.
As always, let's see how well it does in live images. This system outperformed dermatologists on its own validation set of 100 images, which I would encourage you to interpret as "heartening preliminary evidence" but not much more.

Posting high scores on your validation set is only as informative as your val set is representative of the real world. 70% specificity, 84% sensitivity looks OK on paper (maybe -- as another poster noted, it's equally fair to say it's good evidence that image-only diagnosis is bad no matter what does it), but it doesn't always feel that way in practice. As a cheap example, your word error rate for a speech recognition system has to be extremely low in order for that system to be nice to use -- way lower than most otherwise acceptable looking scores.

This analogy only gets you so far, and i don't mean to impugn this study's test set, but another example is just because you can post 99.9% on MNIST doesn't mean that your system will approach that level of accuracy on digit recognition in the wild.
Interesting, however there is no indication from the publisher or researchers how this result can be reproduced. It's nice that they put in some of the training data, but imagine how much more impactful to the community this could be if those interested could reproduce - and iterate - on this...

At Gigantum (https://github.com/gigantum/gigantum-client) this is literally our raison d'être to make this process as simple as possible.
Have you read The Body Keeps the Score? Extremely well done book that comes to a similar conclusion
The prime question for me, as it relates to real estate, is:

"Will the majority of Silicon Valley's economic activity ever move to virtual locations?"

I.e., will over half of the meetings at Facebook, Google, etc, ever happen in a game world, with participants logging in with HMDs?

It's hard to make a conclusive prediction, but I have an extremely difficult time justifying a "NO" with even 51/49 odds. I would put the odds at least at 10/1 "YES" but again that's pure speculation.

The only real justification for a strong "NO" is something like "It has been tried before with other telecom tech and it didn't work" but we don't even had access gaze tracking yet, which science shows is crucial for language. We seem assured to have a blistering release of body tracking tech over the next 10 years, and the claim "none of it will change teleconferencing materially" seems impossible to justify.

The counterclaim, "teleconferencing will hit feature parity with in-person meeting for 90% of corporate interactions within 10 years" to me is very easy to entertain.

And if the counterclaim is true, what does that mean for Bay Area real estate? I can't justify a million dollar mortgage if there's even a 50/50 change of this outcome.

HMD teleconferencing vs. meetings in conference rooms seems like a classic disruptive technology situation. Right now HMDs are unacceptably poor in comparison. But they have key advantages the incumbent tech (in-person meetings) can never match: no commute, exponentially more and cheaper housing options, muting, easier and better access to data and visualization in the meeting space, faster transition between workstation and meeting, can include people on other continents, infinite meeting spaces available at all times, etc.

This seems to me the biggest looming change to Bay Area culture, period. I am surprised it's not more discussed.
Can you explain this further? I've noticed that compiling a large project on a Mac is significantly slower than on a similarly-spec'ed Linux machine.
From what I've heard, the Navy's camo pattern does a really good job of hiding the various kinds of dirt and grime you get from being in a manual labor job, especially compared to the older uniforms.
Privacy isn't fixed by technical products, it needs to be fixed at a legal level.

The existence of crypto near any product makes me immediately do a double take anymore, because there are tax implications there that you're kinda forcing on people.

The design of these apps needs to be much more refined if you want to charge money for them. I'm usually willing to give a bit on it when it's for the right cause, but... this stuff feels so off that it's tough to look at. If you're gonna play in the iOS app store, you need to be willing to invest in this.

End hot takes, I guess. I want Purism to succeed but I feel like they're just making the same mistakes every "year of the Linux desktop" scenario made, wherein they're not competing on the features that draw eyeballs. It doesn't need to be the focus, but you can't neglect it either.
Flying cars would be a great solution to congestion.

Assuming perfect reliability, reasonably low sound levels, super high efficiency engines, and flying pigs.
I'm going to opine that you probably are a lot more interesting than might think.

Granted that most people's lives don't serialise down well into a regular stream of weekly episodes. If one can put aside the requirement to "be someone" on the internet, I think maintaining a personal site can be a really great form of self expression, albeit with a few provisos.
Manspreading on the Beijing subway could give you bad social credit