skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree overall but it's not that hard to get people to talk to you if done a certain way. If you are trying to sell them while talking, yes that will be hard/impossible. However if you approach it as learning from experts, then I find people are much more receptive because most people like to help and feel important/useful. I always say I want to learn from them and offer to pay for their time which shows them I understand they are busy. I still get some NOs but that's okay. BTW I've never had someone want me to pay them, but I would if they did.
Embrace humanity. It's not that nice, but pretending otherwise only puts you at a disadvantage for understanding and dealing with the world.

Our history is an inseparable part of who we are, and it should not be forgotten.
What is being branded "Deep Work", was just work before the electronics arrived. Really shows how the new mediums have eroded our attention span.
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I play what I thought way the recent version and I can play with my daughter (on the same LAN) by selecting Friends and clicking her game.
Since audio is usually sampled around 44 kHz, which is slow by signal processing standards, most ADCs can exceed 16 bits by supersampling and averaging the results.
I wish more authors would do this. I too prefer EPUB but I recognize there is lower friction to just publish it as a PDF.
I would say computation provides models for these systems, but, in general, these systems are not themselves computations - some of them are not literally the manipulation of abstract symbols by formal rules.

But, from a broader perspective, I don't think the "is this computation" question is a very useful one to pursue. Any true understanding of the conscious mind will have to answer the question of why it is different from the things we understand now: if it is, in fact, computation, then it is different in some way from the computations that we do understand now, and it is the differences that will be key to understanding it. When we understand it, we will have a informed basis for fitting it into our ontology.
I have at my desk the "Deep Work" book mentioned in the article. It was referenced in an HN comment ~2 weeks ago, so I bought it on Amazon.

Is "deep work" becoming trendy?
Other than being pretty public at this point, this incident could have easily happened in an upgrade/rollout in on-premise settings as well (at least without a good staging environment and test process).
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He said that, being from a consultancy background, it hadn't even occured to him that they might want the work done for free.
Reminds me of the manufactured sugar that feeds C Difficile strains in our guts and kills people. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/the-curious-case-of-...
Only if you look at it at a global level. If you can't break the problem down to local levels and solve it locally, you won't have a chance at solving it.
It seems like one of the main problems is that their target market was too large, and they were directly competing with slack which dominates that market. A better approach might have been to target a more niche market in the business communication tool space, and be the best tool in that space, before broadening to the wider market.
Please provide a single benchmark of any kind to support that. It sure sounds like you're stuck in 2016, though, before Zen happened with its +52% IPC improvement over Excavator. Otherwise basically all clock for clock battles shows Zen in single-digit percentage range of Intel on IPC. Combined with Intel having a clock speed advantage that does give Intel +10-20% in pure single-thread performance, but that was pre-mitigations. If this vulnerability fix really does cost 25% that'd erase that advantage entirely.

And no, Intel is not unique in speculation capability.
I don't work for a Fintech startup, I work in finance.

There's a huge difference between startup culture and corporate culture.
Chat is a complement to email, not a replacement. Over time some people may take their formerly-email activities to chat, but no cutover is required.

Running two chat systems side by side, on the other hand, is a huge pain. There really is a pressure to get everything migrated and the old one turned off.
I just got back from an American Airlines (I typically fly Delta, and haven't ever experienced anything quite like this) flight just like this. I was boarding group 5 of 8. 1-4 are the special premium "play the game" passes. I had PAID EXTRA to sit in row 7 near the front of the plane, because I had an extremely short layover and knew I wouldn't have any time to waste.

But when I got on the plane, the overhead bins all the way back to row 21 were full. So I had to go to the back of the plane, and then fight my way back through the crowds to the front of the plane. And then when the flight landed, me and about 5 other passengers spent the next 15 minutes slowly working our way backwards, seat by seat to try to get to our bags as people got off the plane.

Luckily I'm a runner and was able to catch my flight, but I'm going to be avoiding flying American unless I absolutely can't avoid it. It was stupidity.
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It seems like the signature of the functions should be different, especially the second example. I would have written the cmplt function to take tuple pairs:

cmplt(
(type_a, value_a),
(type_b, value_b),
)

That's much more clear about the relationship between each pair of values either way, and would get formatted nicely by Black.
Mostly defunct webcomics but also some of the small personal sites that documented and collected resources for particular events or strange people. A lot of those arose out of the SomethingAwful forums. For example, there was a guy named Brian who wrote batshit insane fanfiction about himself. One of these sites archived the fiction, interviews with Brian, videos, recordings of collaborative reading skype parties, etc, all neatly on one site and now safely tucked away on my drives. Now I have a little piece of nostalgia from 2004 I can step back into.
You are entering into a much more complicated territory there. The reason things like $90m TV shows and $200m movies get made is due to history. Solving distribution, getting things from point A to point B, was the hardest and most valuable problem to solve, bar none, for a century. It built empires. It made the publishing system that we're familiar with (and growing out of) possible.

You see, there is a problem with publishing media that relies upon popular reception. Popular reception is perfectly random. There aren't any trends to identify, and no element of the works themselves can be tailored to increase your chances of success with it. It's been extensively studied. The only way publishers are able to fund projects ahead of time that cost so much and still turn a profit on what is essentially a coin flip is because they control distribution. When a terrible flop hits the theaters, they can pull it immediately and replace it with another attempt. When a film finds success, they can keep it in theaters for ages, minimizing their losses and maximizing their gains. The public response to each work is still random, but since they control what is available at the box office, they can still find success.

Now that distribution is so simple a clever 12 year old can do global distribution in their spare time as a hobby, and the publishers don't have control over what options the audience has any more... they are destined to fall apart. It's not the content that made $90m shows possible, and no one remembers the $90m flops. That was entirely a matter of keeping the field of options limited and exercising control over distribution channels.
Yes, for example an inch is now defined as precisely 2.54 cm, so a foot exactly 30.48 cm, a mile is exactly 1609.344 m.
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> They're not a government

I'm not saying they are.

>it's reasonable for them to have some editorial control over what's posted to their platform

I'm not saying it's not.

I'm saying that their editorial policy is (in part) driven by fashion instead of principle. And complexity is used to obscure that rather than reveal it. My attempt to use Occam's razor to explain the obfuscation leads me to conclude there must be some utility that caused the system to evolve in such a way that it's possible to avoid seeing/acknowledging that.
I don't think my point was clear. I'm arguing that most of the extant providers are at best worthless. Too much of mental health "care" is focused on treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying cause. More money isn't going to fix ineffective treatment; it's just going to multiply the number of practitioners of it.
JetBrains' MPS does exactly that - it stores the code as an AST, then renders it based on your own preferences:

https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/concepts/
It's not subjective.

We usually sit right at the center of our main monitor for a reason. Reading that website on a large 32'' monitor is annoying.
Obviously the poster you initially replied to was trolling. My posts on the other hand were trying to highlight what I believe to be obvious historical parallels. If you still believe that to be "irrelevant", you certainly haven't made a case one way or the other. I'm going to move on, but try not to lump everyone into the troll bucket next time?
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> And yet I fearlessly upgrade my Linux system at any time

Only because you've never encountered an issue due to an upgrade, probably because your usecases are so mainstream and minimal that you've never had to use applications that aren't in the repo and well tested before release. If you look around and aren't wearing blinders you'll notice that a lot of people do have problems from upgrading.
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You are potentially conflating two different issues.

> Think of the privilege you had when you were younger. You could do something stupid and nobody could whip out a high def camera to record it and make it part of your history forever.

This is an excellent point, and I agree 100%. But it's not a priori obvious that we need to embrace internet rot to solve this problem. Perhaps we can work towards a future where privacy rights and digital literacy protect individuals from offense archaeology, and at the same time, work to preserve the knowledge, ideas, and sheer human weirdness that get posted every day (as long as the creators don't want it removed. My understanding is that the Internet Archive has explicitly stated that they are not interested in preserving stuff where there has been a takedown request.)

One might argue that we have to make a choice. This is touched on in the article - redundancy presents a tradeoff between persistence benefits and security/privacy risks. But we should examine this tradeoff more closely and see if there isn't a healthy middle ground before we ask for one side wholesale.
Technically speaking, you don’t add a tracking pixel. You add a link to something the client loads. The server on the other side can send whatever he wants, even different things to different clients. And given that there have been vulnerabilities in image parsers more than I wish to remember, that may quite well be malware.
My employer ran several pilots of alternative chat systems alongside our primary. It sucked. Having both clients open, remembering which rooms are actually in active in which systems, etc. was obnoxious. Might work for a single closed-loop team but even then.
I could argue the other side, as there's definitely value in a well assembled distro. But I won't because you're essentially complaining about what other people do with their own time. If you don't like it don't use it. Complaining about it with insults is a crappy thing to do and one of the reasons open-source maintainers burn out.
I had a trip where one (of several) bags got diverted and ended up arriving a day late - Delta got it to us ~125 km away in time for the second day of skiing. I don't remember if they comped the ski gear we bought in the interim, though...
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I don’t code in python so have no opinion on Black, but most code formatter can be adjusted to exclude some cases of formatting.

I you would be fine with 95% of what it does and just want it to ignore the 5% where you care the most, I think the tool could benefit you.

At least that’s how I feel about autoformatting in general.
Can you stash/remove the hip belt while still comfortably using the shoulder straps? The omnipresence of hip belts is one of the reasons I don't care for carry-on backpacks (that and the fact that I'm normally wearing a small backpack with laptop, headphones, snacks, anyway). I find the hip belt very useful if I'm actually backpacking and otherwise really annoying.
Said it better than I could.
While this looks interesting and useful, there's no pricing info anywhere, so I didn't bother sharing it with anyone at my workplace.
Those integrations are slack's moat, but I think many of those useful integrations are already multi-tenant (having to support hipchat for large corps), or through a proxied service that can add a new output integration. For smaller businesses who just use the slack connector store that might be more difficult.
They do realize that this same action finally pulled SGI under the surface of the water to drown, right?

It would be super awesome if there was a company that had a workable business model where it could successfully do "very large compute system" research and development. Given the way they handled "The Machine" though, suggests to me that this is not that company.
There are additional factors on both the in and out side, but they all work in favor of losing weight. In other words, there is a maximum amount of energy in the food you eat, and a minimum amount of energy required for sustaining your being and physical activity. There simply is is no way around this.
No the holding/Law is still:

Regardless of the location, a conversation is protected from unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment if it is made with a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

The law is not and never was:

>When through the normal course of using a technology you reveal information to the government (in this case the military) they can use that information against you.
Sure the wealthy fostered those feelings but I think the fact that a war was just waged on their land and lead to their economy being upended and blacks were the only ones who seemed to benefit probably had something to do with it. White southerners weren't going to instantly give up all the beliefs that they used to justify slavery just because they lost a war.
You can turn them off. Just use an email client that doesn't fetch images/load images. For the most part, email is very usable without images.
Citation needed?

Coast to coast autonomous drive, cross country summon mode, full self driving on highways from entry to exit, the fsd fake demo video with "driver is there only for legal reasons", million robotaxis that earn you 30k$ a year from 2020, lidar is a fools errand etc etc.

You need more? Here's Elon musk in 2016 proclaiming self driving to be easy and solved. Showing entire lack of understanding what driving is like and why computers fail at it. https://youtu.be/wsixsRI-Sz4?t=1h17m57s
> provider services for mental health are much smaller than they could our should be to serve our population

As I responded to your sibling commenter, I don't think my original point was clear. I'm asserting that those existing provider services suck and are ineffective, and that what is needed is a paradigm shift in how mental health care is formulated and delivered, not a spread of those existing services.
We had to do 3 supervised IIIc approaches all the way. Other than for training purposes I never had to use IT ;)
Huh, those numbers are lower than I expected. Perhaps CNBC counted grad students as well, which is half the CMU population I think.
The disaster IMO was what the act itself led to, it took something away from all of us. I want to live in a country where the PM walks home by himself at the end of the day, lives in a ordinary place and takes out the garbage after dinner.

I loved that with our country, I was at a concert last summer where the current PM showed up, this was a very small concert in the northern part of the country, with an entourage of SÄPO guards that only could qualify as a small private army.
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> CDs are so cheap these days, and Amazon has AutoRip for many albums

I usually buy MP3s from Amazon's Digital Store (I've never bought into the streaming stuff). What's funny is that occasionally, it's actually cheaper to buy the physical CD with AutoRip than it is to buy the same MP3 download-only format Amazon sells. I've had a couple instances where I bought the CD, got the digital downloads with it, and tossed the still-shrink wrapped physical CD on eBay.
I want one in a tooth, imaging the motions of the most articulate part of the body – the tongue – so that I can give subvocal commands to my devices.
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Paul Graham's essay "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" should be required for anyone working with developers.

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Email is for outside the boundaries (outside-of-company, outside-of-division in a silo'd company), chat is for inside - there's still people who do prefer email especially in partner facing roles, but I think its fair to say that most prefer using chat if they had a choice.
For looking for leads in an investigation it doesn't seem that different from having a person look through mugshot books. I agree it gets very sticky when figuring out where it appropriate to use it as evidence for a warrant or in a trial.
I write code like that, because lumping brackets together absolutely makes it harder to see what they are.
I don't use it. That's one of the big reasons I don't use it. And just as they are free to do with their time as they like, I'm free to say "my but that's an inefficient way to do things".

You're free not to like me for calling it out, and you're free to downvote me for disagreement. Freedom.

I didn't insult anybody, the "fuck you" here is what the community says to people who want to install things that aren't in the repo.
That reminds me of when I first discovered emulators as a kid and was playing a lot of SNES Mario classics and shamelessly abusing the quicksave/load functionality. I was playing so much I remember walking around IRL and having the thought pop into my head "this would be a good time to quicksave"
HP, Compaq and EDS.
This is absolutely disastrous for healthcare companies.
My current "problem" with Black is actually a 5-year-old bug in how pylint checks for bad-continuation issues with hanging indentation. Sure, you can ignore the pylint rule, but I imagine pretty much everybody who tries to use black and pylint on the same codebase runs into this issue:

* https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/289

* https://github.com/python/black/issues/48
> Downside: there are no new important torts cases popping up that you'd want to read.

Why is that? e.g. how long ago were the important torts cases, did the law or environment change?
Agreed, "always" is the wrong term. "Since the late '90s" would be more accurate.
Funny, I'm a postdoc (in biomedical research), and I and my boss, a PI, had this exact debate last night.

I took the side of 781, and he was justin66. My perspective is that you cannot take data, or a concept, that is fundamentally broken, add a little effort, and fix it.

For example, if a collaborator sends data for analysis where the sample size was too small for the effect, or worse, asked to find statistical differences between 1-2 samples per group, you can't fix that with any amount of algorithmic mumbo-jumbo. You can only fix it by redoing the experiment properly. Although we are asked to do this sort of thing almost daily (not always this blatantly).

His perspective is, and maybe I'm being a bit uncharitable, you take what you're given, do your best, clearly describe what you did and honestly note the limitations, and move on. Even if the result is something highly dubious, that is for the reviewers to decide.

But I personally think a little loud whining is called for in the sciences to discourage totally half-baked ideas and data from ever seeing the light of day. But the trouble is the pressures are so intense and funding is so tight, people feel compelled to halfass many things, which is the real problem.

EDIT: I should add I am not talking about data falsification or major ethical breaches like that. I'm talking about things that more amount to a form of pressure-induced willful stupidity, no dishonesty involved. I would speculate this is much more of a cause of the replication crisis than outright dishonesty.

People don't like to outright lie because it could cost them their careers. But they certainly can conveniently forget some basic scientific principles at times if it suits them and they can't get a decent story while being rigorous. And their excuse will be -- well, we clearly documented everything we did in the paper, and the reviewers thought it was OK (because the reviewers do the same sorts of thing). And this, folks, is how you get a lot of shitty papers.
> Anything that promoted the free flow of information, technology, and innovation is a good thing IMO.

Absolutely. And MIT fails spectacularly on that, since it doesn't consider the behaviour of downstream dependees.
Yup, I've had to work around this. I'll pick a song I like, and do "song radio" to find more like it. But this makes a playlist which is basically 6 more similar artists, and no variety beyond that. But I want to branch out more, several steps beyond that. So I'll open a particular song from that playlist, go to "song radio" for that, and drag a bunch of songs I don't recognize back into the first playlist. Repeat this for a few more songs. Then once I've added a bunch more variety, do "playlist radio" again.

It's super obnoxious. I wish they had a slider for "be more adventurous" versus "hew close to the line". Do I remember Pandora having something like that?
I'm really surprised that the recipients aren't following basic email security protocols here: don't allow HTML rendering of emails, don't allow linked images to be referenced and used, and don't open attachments that you weren't expecting to receive.
This is just a fork of Typhoon. Is anything even different?
You can't seamlessly replicate a REST server.
It reminds me of the continual stream of articles breathlessly proclaiming that some activity "rewires your brain!", like this is automatically some bad thing. But your brain is constantly rewiring itself; it's what it does. Your brain isn't rewiring itself because you played a ton of chess; it's rewiring itself constantly, and it's rewiring itself to play better chess if that's what you do. If you stop playing chess, it'll rewire itself to get worse at chess as it optimizes for other more local concerns.

Similarly, all sensory inputs release neurotransmitters. It's how you perceive things, so all perceptions release them, all the way from the bottom raw inputs up through the fully processed semantic content and emotional reactions. You can't say something is bad merely because it causes reactions; you need to do a lot more work and distinguish why some reactions are good and others are bad, which at the very least requires an operational definition of "good" and "bad".