skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I handle this in one of two ways depending on the needs of my company.

So first, you use pivotal tracker so you can do it the "pivotal way". (* Disclaimer: I am not a pivot but I worked with them for about 2 years as a client in their office.) Basically it's the extreme programming methodology. Have a prioritized backlog. Make sure items aren't too big (pivots shoot for 2-4 items complete per pair per day). Do not plan out a week at a time. Just make sure everything in the backlog is sized and appropriately understood by anyone on the team at all times. When a team member needs something to do, take the top item. It works surprisingly well. If you have a new bug and it takes priority over everything else, it's the top item on the list and the next available person takes it. The most important thing is always the next thing. After a while, you get used to people understanding how the backlog works in the business and if they want new big features, they stop adding requests to the top of the backlog.

Second, the "Basecamp way". Much longer time frames (I use 6 weeks). Buckets of work that are split out. Here's a page that describes it: https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-structure-our-work-and-tea...

I've found great success in both. I'm currently using the Basecamp way. I'm very open to questions if you have them.
But are they not a problem for themselves?
I suffered from anxiety and that's how I felt in hindsight.
My god, I just read a bit more about the Extension Manifold, and that is crazy good. I am doing both Java and JS, and I started to like duck-typing and extending prototypes so much in some situations. Now, Extensions give me something similar in Java?

I have the highest respect for your work, and no idea how you are doing that more or less on your own. I am just a bit sad your upcoming SQL/DDL extensions are going to kill one of my side-projects :) https://github.com/iSnow/sqlWebservice - if you can use a SQL schema as a type provider, you are leaps and bounds ahead of what I am doing there.

So, hats off, great job.
And thus the labor shortage ends. Less jobs, higher wages.

It’s just the markets at work mate.
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> So, what is the new, more common meaning? That exception to the rule somehow strengthens the rule?

Yes. And the fact this meaning is meaningless, or at least a very dishonest tactic, doesn't really change the fact it's now the most common meaning.

Pragmatically, the lesson here is that "the exception that proves the rule" is a bad phrase to use unless you're deliberately trying to confuse or derail the discussion.
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> The lack of objective, conclusive evidence.

It's my understanding that the Chinese government has acknowledged and even run television commercials, such as this one[1] about the camps. Chinese officials have also made several comments to Chinese newspapers about the existence of the camps[2, 3] and have commented that the purpose of those camps is "reeducation" and to "reform extremism" through labor. The comments also note the purpose of the camps is to prevent terrorism and "separatists" by forcing them to speak the language of the "homeland" which seems to indicate the camps are predominantly intended for Muslims.

Satellite images[4] of the camps indicate the rapid growth of the facilities and the existence of watch towers, redundant high walls, and barbed wire would least most reasonable people to agree these facilities are built to house people against their will. The Chinese government has also acknowledged as much. For example, the Government has repeatedly pointed to the "Opinions on Several Issues on the Application of Law in Cases of Terrorist Activities and Extremism Crimes"[5] as the legal justification for the imprisonment of "terrorist extremists." However one of the "extremist" activities that can be used to imprison someone is "inciting" people to hold a religious marriage ceremony. The document also allows for "administrative punishment" without a trial or conviction.

One analysis of arrests (using data reported by the Chinese government) showed 21% of all 2017 arrests in the country were in the Muslim region of Xinjiang.[6] Given the region accounts for only 1.5% of the total population of China the arrests of ethnic Muslims seems disproportionately high.

We admittedly don't have exact data on the number of people imprisoned against their will but people have been able to estimate given the number and size of facilities built and by using job postings/factory information available online.

Even if we only looked at the evidence provided by the Chinese government we can objectively conclude that:

(a) These labor camps exist;

(b) These camps detain people without a trial or conviction;

(c) The primary purpose of these camps is to "reform" ethnic Muslims living in the Xinjiang region; and

(d) At *least* 500,000 people from the region have been sent to these camps.

Given that the source of all of the information I've outlined above is the Chinese government can you be more specific about the "objective, conclusive evidence" you'd need to consider the information reliable?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REGM8I2iMjU

[2A - Requires Google Translate] http://www.chinaxinjiang.cn/zixun/xjxw/201810/t20181016_5707...

[2B - "Full" English Transcript is missing significant portions compared to 2A] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/16/c_137535720.htm

[3] http://wap.xjdaily.com/xjrb/20181111/118479.html

[4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-01/satellite-images-expo...

[5] https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/%E5%85%B3%E4%BA%8E%E5%8...

[6] https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/criminal-arrests-in-xinjiang-a...
But top 10 porn tube sites like Xvideos and Xhamster aren’t owned by Mindgeek. They have enough porn to satisfy the majority. The article is arguing mindgeek alone is causing issues and lower wages. When it seems more like it is people being cool with piracy and tube sites popping up.
They released an AI-powered language learning app two months ago https://bolo.withgoogle.com/intl/en/
A quick googling gave this historical graph of London's air pollution index: https://ourworldindata.org/london-air-pollution

The peak is at 623¹ in 1891. After another minipeak at 409 in 1935, it went down fast to 26 in 1994 and is now 16.

That's not to say this isn't a problem today. But it was much worse in the past, and this girl is far from the first to die from it.

¹ suspended particulate matter (SPM), measured in micrograms per cubic metres
Having dealt with some of these systems, let me tell you up front, its entirely possible it's nothing. I've seen tracks like those suggested in the article pass directly overhead support vessels during maneuvers, and theres nothing there. It can happen a few times a day or even hour, and just means your sensor fusion is a bit janky.

tfa:
"This, in turn, provides very high fidelity 'tracks' of targets thanks to telemetry from various sensors operating at different bands and looking at the same target from different aspects and at different ranges."

My take from last article:
Let me tell you: fast tracks moving at insane speeds with sometimes-faint signatures are the norm. a perfectly calm sea, esp near shore, can create 100s or a 1000 spurious tracks if automated tools are trusted. The incorrect association of signatures to hypothesized contacts can produce "jumps" in their location, altitude that makes it look like inhuman maneuverability.

Second, the proliferation of small aircraft does bias operators (and algorithms) to assume a real contact from small signatures, esp at low altitudes where noise is greatest.

In a well integrated, multi-vehilce sensor network, a small false positive rate for each individual recognition and classication module produces enough bullshit to trick automated trackers into labelling targets. If we cant assume common sense filtering like "aircraft cant go from hover to mach 3 in one sweep", then the possible associations of sensor data to hypotheses is astronomical, and bullshit propegates.

Its a mess when you integrate so many sensors and systems and try to make sense of the resulting noise.
Lots of jobs can't be offshored: domestic workers, farm workers, retail, drivers, food service, janitorial, hospitality etc.

These are huge portions of the workforce. Not every job is manufacturing or call centers.
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I know that it’s asking a lot, but any chance that you can post a minimum reproducible sample? From what I know it is quite smelly...
Possibly. But "inflation" is a slippery concept. It is often published as a single number but it is not. Prices do not rise in the same way for all people. Relative costs and prices across the things money is used for. A poor family is buying different things from a middle class one.

Nominal wages matter a lot. And these days prices are not moving much and it is recognised that it is very important that they go up, a lot, for those at the bottom.
probably because the article is written from the perspective of labour/macro- economics rather than welfare economics.

It's true it touches on where the wage gains are going (although to me that looked rather inconclusive frankly), but I think it's primarily concerned with notions of wage stickiness in labour markets, not measures of productivity or real-wage gains or welfare.

And to be fair, if the US is anything like here, official bodies have been having trouble modeling/predicting nominal wage growth and inflation over recent history.
Assumption: the military is in control of this narrative and the narrative is meant for the consumption of our adversaries. Conclusion: the intended narrative is that we are testing advanced systems against our own battle groups. Beware. I don’t know what the tech is or if it’s as sensational as being reported by the “witnesses” but the intent is to give the impression that we have highly sophisticated tech waiting in the wings
The definition of "unemployed" only includes those actively looking and it's been that way, in economic parlance. It's not a new suspicious trick.
Since this is recirculating in the public consciousness, I'm going to repeat my pet theory: they're automated Von Neumann probes that have been in the solar system (and probably ~all star systems in the galaxy) for longer than humanity has existed, and are performing reconnaissance now that there are signs of intelligent life on the planet.

I like this theory because it obviates large problems with other theories, ie crossing interstellar distances just to visit us (they were already here), the lack of observed Von Neumann probes when they should be common (now they've been observed), the idea that some earthly nation has managed to develop technology so far beyond all others and keep it secret (nope), etc.
I have kids and no doubt they have reinvigorated the journey of life. Watching them grow and learn and experience things for the first time brings back that taste of life that grows stale with age.

But before you have kids, it is more important to find a committed partner. There is nothing that will wreak havoc more on your life than a broken family. If you ever hear a parent regret having kids, you can bet there was trouble with their partner.
> Are you saying those countries did reach their current status with neoliberal trading rules?

The one and only thing I'm saying here is that you need to represent your sources and the sides of an argument honestly.
Ok, we'll use that above, shortened to fit the 80 char limit. Thanks!
This is true, but as an academic studying anxiety and someone who personally struggled with anxiety, it seems on point.
I'm not moralizing w/r/t good or bad. I pointed out conditions in which folks with significant assets start freaking out. It's not "higher wages" - it's the combination of targeting full employment and preventing unrestricted global capital flows. Wages will simply go up in that regime (in full employment, the highest workers/earners have no downside to negotiate and can leave any given job). Companies don't have a good counter. So employees win - yay. But employer/employee in not the only game in town. Since wages go up, if global capital flows are restricted (closed borders), inflation also goes up. The other game in town is what the folks with real serious assets want, and they absolutely hate high inflation, so there will be some political battle to decide how the situation is resolved. in the 70's it was resolved by the investor class winning the political battle, and switching the economy to neoliberalism - price stability over full employment, and globalizing capital to allow it to seek it's highest return.
> My understanding is that this is literally illegal in the UK.

What about this is against UK law?
Stating typing you have to explicitly opt out of, and automated tests you have to go to quite some effort to explicitly opt into, and most teams I've been on have been quite poor at this opting in.
First of all, AWS SageMaker is really a ML system that happens to include Jupyter notebooks as a component. But if you are talking about just the Jupyter notebook part, then I would say - you could use JupyterHub to build your own implementation of SageMaker (you would want to use kubespawner and some deployment of kubernetes if you wanted to scale to multiple nodes). For example, I run https://www.saturncloud.io/, and we orchestrate JupyterHub to do just that.

JupyterHub is more flexible - for example, you could deploy JupyterHub to one beefy server and have Jupyter deployed for many users, which could all read data from a shared filesystem. that kind of thing is not easy to do with SageMaker since everything runs on a separate ec2 instance.

I can't comment on EMR notebooks.
But no one was happy with that. So that was never how it was going to stay. The people making Whatsapp were mostly much happier getting millions and billions for the app.

There’s no point in talking about Whatsapp as a tiny company charging $1 to a small percent of its user base. No one had any intention of keeping it that way.

I also don’t think billionaires like the founders saying they regret stuff after they’ve become billionaires from Whatsapp’s sale should count as a counter argument. I doubt they’d be fine giving back their billions for a few million a year salary while being worried about what their future will hold.
> Say you remove/don't proxy the ECS information, and I get some generic, non-geo-location aware response back. In the majority of cases, wouldn't my next step be to open a TCP connection to the IP in the response, and immediately leak my full IP address to the other end?

That assumes that the nameserver and the actual server are run by the same party which quite often is not the case.
To me, the really scary thing about antibiotic resistance is not necessarily random infections in the hospital (as bad as that is) but the fact that antibiotics are what made surgery possible, and if they don’t work, all these medical procedures we’ve gotten used to as harmless suddenly carry a very serious risk-reward tradeoff. Imagine C-sections, biopsies, hip replacements, etc. all having a one-in-four chance of death. That’s what we’re heading back to.
It's a bit disappointing that the fractal tree was not mentioned in the article.
"All" the evidence? I don't think that is true.

https://foodinstitute.com/blog/nyc-restaurants-feel-the-sque...
this has nothing to do with feature engineering and generation. I never added or changed any features in the example. It is exactly in the realm of automl, you run a model, -because- you are missing data, your model is making wrong assumptions.

You could argue (which you didn't) that this would fall under model interpretation, but a model in this example would probably fail to generalize and make bad predictions in the future: IE slamming home values because they have large square footage.
When you're stuck in your amygdala, you kinda necessarily can't be operating from your cortices.
I'm quite familiar with S. Greer's work and I would recommend taking all his documentaries and videos not with one but multiple grains of salt.
Maybe an hour or so a day. If you're not talking with someone else the trick is to do it every single day. If I missed a day I lost a lot of momentum.

Also I'd recommend looking at Memrise. Their voice seems a lot better than duolingo's at least.
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Yeah that makes sense for Facebook.

YouTube is a money losing enterprise. Or at least not profitable one. So going that far is probably too much.

The Adsense argument is better but that’s for stuff not on Google’s properties. It might be a good idea for Facebook to do revenue sharing. But they’re a public company now. They can’t do something too big. They need their profits. Just like Google.
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What bothers me is the fact that everyone seems to be accepting the usage of these newspeakish romantically sounding euphemisms that are completely opaque about the purpose of things they stand for. "Normandy"... What is this - a place, a sort of champagne, a hotel or the internal name of some freaking area51 document?..

Like, "In order to disable Normandy, uncheck Vaduz, Monterrey, Vologda and select Newcastle in the Xinjang drop-down menu - we'll ship Bronx with next update".
Are you running into scaling issues because all students are on a single box? I think the JupyterHub proxying service should be able to handle way more than 70 users, but I could see 70 users on a single machine being problematic. I'm doing a lot of work around JupyterHub - happy to help out if I can, I can be reached at hugo@saturncloud.io
This paper may be relevant to your interests: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/08/how-bad-can-it-git-chara...
At least where I live you either burn it in a power plant (or gas furnace) or you flare it at the well head. It's a by-product of frack oil. Until that changes, we may as well generate power with it.
Does support have the ability to restore keeparound refs? Internally (at least as of late 10 series), anything show in the UI (ie, merge requests) is also copied to refs/keeparound/sha1, which isn't presented to users.
Okay so you’re a troll.
Yep, but the headline says listed as a cause of death. I don't know anyone who doesn't know about the London Fog from the industrial revolution.
The "zero experience" doesn't imply they've never programmed, just that they've never applied it in a job-like setting. It was entirely a side effect of personal interest and curiosity, often without any intent to make a job of it. MOOCs, bootcamps, github repos, etc are recent things, they didn't even exist for most of my career. A few such hires literally lived in rural flyover country with limited economic means, which created few opportunities to do things the formal way. It didn't stop them from learning though.

But if you had an in-depth conversation with them about what they had built, how they had built those things, and why they designed things the way they did, you could immediately see that they had a deeply intuitive understanding of computer science that went beyond just programming. And often they had other valuable skills, like being atypically literate writers or having a thorough understanding of how real silicon works (rare knowledge these days, sadly). And a couple stood out as being seriously deep on the theoretical CS side in their areas of interest.

I never said they stayed at my company, and I don't currently work with any of them. They all went on to have very successful careers working at the top tech companies. They just needed an opportunity. The vast majority of software engineers that have worked for me over the years have gotten a CS degree at some point in their life.
I should probably have been clear - I do use the train. (I was one of the Extinction Rebellion protesters in London recently, so have very firm beliefs about modes of transport). My point was that the vast majority of people just won't give a shit until it hits them in their pocket. I don't see that changing, so the only real way of doing anything about it in any reasonable time frame is to make driving much more expensive and public transport much cheaper.

I disagree with your point about public transport massively improving since the congestion charge though. In what respect? I've been regularly travelling in London since the mid 90s and haven't really noticed much beyond the re-opening of what used to be the East London Line. I get the feeling that things are starting to improve now, after some serious public investment, but it still feels like too little. Until peak-time commuters aren't packed into trains like sausage meat I doubt much will shift in terms of behaviour.
Do you know of any resources that lay out how the post inflation numbers compare when you take into account years where wage growth was less than inflation? For example, how do wages after this growth compare to the 70s and 80s?
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This is a great suggestion eridius! I'll update it to use split_first.

Note: updated the essay and left a thanks to you :)
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Thanks, I think I misread your original comment slightly. I appreciate your clarification.
Any way to preserve this workaround's functionality beyond 24 hours?
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I don't have access to this codebase now but I'll try to write some benchmark.
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We generally only merge into master at my org, but I didn't know you could conditionally trigger jobs using an equality expression on a GitLab-provided variable. I'll have to keep this in the back pocket for future reference, thanks! Any docs that describe this feature in more detail?
I've already planned to do willed body when I pass on. There's nothing like it in anatomy class. Ours had a pneumonectomy, which was interesting to discover (why was the tissue different on both sides?).
Does someone know whether it would be legal for someone to go through the ZFS code and write a specification of the features this author hasn’t figured out yet? I.e. could someone write a detailed description of the missing functionality that doesn’t include any details about the implementation so other people can implement it in non-CDDL code?
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LingQ is great but too expensive for what it is, in my opinion. You could build a similar (unpolished) app in a month over some weekends.