skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Surely the number of eyes looking at that codebase will vastly diminish though?

I don't think the "many eyes" theory ever panned out. There are projects used by billions, and on which thousands of other FOSS projects work, and only have like a handful of people working at the codebase (and less catching bugs)

>Also Google have golang, which I'd imagine would be their target now, not python 3 (for migrations)

Not really, Golang was never Google's official/mandated language. Just a language some Googlers made with Google's use cases in mind. Google still uses C++, Java, and Python (plus some Dart). Some things use Golang, but not in some top-down "Googlers shall use Golang" way.
Is it lack of generics that has resulted in fewer dependencies, or the incredibly full featured stdlib?
PyDev of the Week: Ines Montani
Pretty cruel to ignore IQ and leave millions of mentally disadvantaged people in the lurch.
Moved or Not Moved – That Is the Question
You can join a church.
To address how computers establish context, usually the tokens are sent through an embedding layer (basically turning a word into a dense vector). Word embeddings, surprisingly, reflect the real-world semantic relationships behind words (for instance, king - man + woman = queen). It also happens that the algorithms for creating word embeddings group words with similar meanings/semantics together (for example, king and queen would be closer together in n-dimensional space). Overall, embeddings allow a computer to look at a language as more than a bunch of interconnected tokens and actually incorporate the semantics of each word into its predictions. Of course, this isn't perfect, which is why we need attention mechanisms and various other methods to help a computer try to understand context long-term.
Good on you, mate; this is just a bump in the road. Keep on giving bootcamps a good name.
I thought lawyers are liable for bad advice?
Iran being a tyrannical theocracy with grudge against the US is a direct result of the US overthrowing a democratically elected Iranian prime minister.
Yup, no one wants to consider actual radical change because it might require a lower standard of living.
> for the most part,

is a terrible standard for main content. You should be able to read it for the all.

You can read it, but many people do not have high-performance monitor and high-performance eyes.

Users can configure monitor/browser defaults for contrast and text however they like; web devs shouldn't try to forcibly reduce constrast for the primary content that is supposed to be the main recipient of visual attention.
Feynman's IQ was only 125 - what would he know? ;-)
This is the hazard of putting concrete numbers in a blog post like this. Among your readers will be people with experience sending this amount of traffic every second.
YouTube's problem is their allergy towards using humans. AI technology isn't advanced enough to replace empathy yet. They simply need to add more humans into their processes.

Copyright claims is a perfect example. That system is abused by large companies who know how to exploit their algorithms and they know it is worth it because there will be no humans in the loop to stop them.

If YouTube wants to remain viable, they just need to bite the bullet and hire a whole bunch of people.
400MB? Not bad for a chat client that sends a few bytes of text.
Old counsel read the regulation passed by the BPPE and said it didn’t apply to us because we didn’t have physical classrooms. The BPPE disagreed.

It took two people two months full-time to prepare and submit.
While the project sounds interesting, there are no screenshots at all, either as a gallery or topically when describing various functionality.
To a certain extent "Car hits traffic cones" isn't really a news story.

I know it's part of a broader conversation about Tesla's bad user experience, but still, traffic cones.
I hate that everything beautiful in this world is monetized. It's the root of all evil in my opinion. Greed and profits to feed ego and personal status. I think even in a Star Trek post scarcity fantasy the "Ferengi" will still be out there trying to squeeze personal wealth out of everyone. So much of life is behind a paywall and only available to a few. I dream of a world where we create and do things for enjoyment and the enjoyment of others. Where everything doesn't have to be priced or guarded to prevent others from pricing it. Naive I know...
Tess discovers three new planets nearby, including temperate “sub-Neptune”
Normally I'd agree but this highway was built as a highway in the '50s a new route where there formerly was no road. It's not like a main street that slowly grew into a major road. The only points where pedestrians cyclists cross the road (it's limited access, nobody is walking or biking on it) are at the aforementioned traffic lights. Based on my experience as a pedestrian I suspect the lights are about the same safety as walking biking past on/off ramps.

This is king of going off on a tangent though.
If you don't mind me asking, were you using a boutique lawyer or a big firm?
Huh? Please name even one example.

I’ve got one. Look at any country with natural resources. In a place like Norway, they try to ensure their oil wealth is fairly distributed throughout society. In Russia, they don’t even try to achieve fairness, and oligarchs run away with all the oil profits. Where would you rather live?
Until your boss fires you for not voting to the company line, of course not officially. Having a verifiable can turn into a double edged sword for many reasons.
> If the regime in Iran falls. It won’t be because of US sanctions. It will be because that country has been operated by a brutal dictator for decades, and the Iranian people grew tired of being the enemy of their own government.

If so (that Iran falls not because of US sanctions), surely it follows that there is no point to the sanctions?

They would only serve to embitter the targeted population.
Keep in mind the sanctions affect all companies that do business in the US.
That's a cool post-mortem story, thanks for contributing!
Google's decision to be the arbiter of acceptable speech will be its undoing.
I can honestly say that I have never checked or cared about how much RAM Slack uses. Or any other software for that matter. It's certainly not an issue that I'd use as the basis for deciding which team communication tool to use.
I wish every content creator was aware of the importance of having a backup plan. It's sad to read so many stories about creators losing not only the audience and revenue, but alse the content itself after YT shut them down.
The Power of Weak Ties
That's a failure of their implementation. That doesn't discount every implementation. I feel too many here are too quick to dismiss alternative.
Same reason you can't just go out and buy a car with your own damn money and legally drive it without a license. It's in the public interest that certain groups meet certain requirements in order to perform certain tasks. There's plenty of problems that come out of this, but generally people who support it think it's better than no regulation at all.
I just don't see the same takeaway here. Engineers don't go around building sewer systems for kicks. They were commissioned by people who were far more interested in the short term gain than for any long term considerations.

We see the same problem with the U.S.'s approach to the levee system. A neighborhood commissions an engineer to spare their homes from flooding, but without any care taken to protecting those homes outside of town lines.

The problem here isn't with the engineer; the problem is North America's unwillingness to fund long-term solutions that benefit everyone, not just a chosen (and temporary) few.
Maybe? The annual water quality tests for chemical contamination look reasonable.

But a quick check of boil water orders (i.e. bacterial infestations) suggests that Massachusetts needs five or six a year, and West Virginia needs five or six a week. That could be sampling bias.
>First, why shouldn't I be allowed to sell or trade my vote?

It's not about you selling your vote, it's about coercion. If your vote is verifiable, then you can be threatened with bodily harm for not voting a certain way, and/or for failing to verify that you voted a certain way.

Your freedom to sell your vote is worth less than someone's freedom to vote free of intimidation or threat of violence.
Thanks for the details. I still don't understand the point of calculating national scenarios with only wind and battery storage.
I grew up with all of these and I have no issues with Slack. It's much more convenient and useful than any of the above.
> compiler knows best when loads are needed

History has shown repitedly that in fact compilers do not know best outside some very specific use cases. Whether a load need to be issued early and how early is a dynamic property of a program and it is hard to compute statically.

Prefetching and deferred loads have existed for a long time but they didn't help, for eg. Itanium.
Guess what, over 70% of software project fail. The cycle of 'saving money' via outsourcing and offshoring never ends. "This time is different" continues.
I found a lot of the stuff on Matt Might's blog helpful. He writes a bit about compiling Scheme to C, which allows me to see what each piece of Scheme is doing in a language I know.[1] Following this approach, I found LISP In Small Pieces[2], Compiling With Continuations[3], etc. There's more but I have to dig it up.

[1] http://matt.might.net/articles/programming-with-continuation...

[2] https://pages.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html

[3] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/compiling-with-continua...
True, it's really bad UX that cost me and a coworker each 30 minutes this morning. Nobody expects the backend to be completely reliable, but the client should be trustworthy when it comes to reporting the status of the backend.
Well, on my Macbook I still have Slack (Since work colleges still use it) and I use Discord, Trello, Keybase, VS Code, Dropbox for Mac, Ledger Live, Skype, InVision Studio, Framer and Nylas Mail.

I just migrated off of and removed Atom, GitKraken and Github Desktop to only use VS Code but I don't think I am able to open Chrome or Firefox without it swapping out to my SSD. I have to kill two or three other apps to recover my RAM usage just to stop the constant freezing when using either browser. After sometime browsing the internet, I see a list of swap-files everywhere and eventually I run out of space.

So when I see another Electron app to use instead of Slack, I usually avoid it and I try to find another usable alternative if I can.
The electric grid is really well built out at this point. Every street lamp, every electronic parking meter, every exterior wall outlet on a building is a possible Level 1 "trickle" charge. We have the ubiquity of power everywhere, just not the access in most current situations (street lamps and parking meters don't currently have outlets; exterior building outlets are intentionally hidden away from parking lot usage; places that do have those don't have processes for clearing access to them / may want ways to bill the extra electric usage).

Cars spend most of their day sitting somewhere and most of that often less than a meter from any sort of electric grid connection (just most of those can't be hooked into today). (I like to play a game of spot the nearest electrical object from wherever I park. It's rarely hard.)

Fancier, higher voltage/current Level 2+ chargers are great, but it should be incredibly easy to very quickly up the number of Level 1 charging spots on the electric grid: aka add more traditional wall outlets in parking lots/garages/streets. That sort of bootstrap should be something we talk about more, because it really is hard to beat the ubiquity of our electric grid build-out already. We can take advantage of that.
Its undoing, or ours?
Every book should be written like this one.
"more pleasant to use and less buggy."

Borrowing from Lin Manuel-Miranda's Thomas Jefferson:

> These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em
> Don't act surprised, you guys, 'anaphor wrote 'em

It's a nicer way to convey the same idea, without triggering a combative emotional response in reaaders.
I don't buy these "regulation kills innovation" type arguments. While regulation does put up barriers to entry, it also ensures a baseline level of quality and prevents abuse of the system.

I mean there's a reason we don't allow everyone to perform surgery or fly commercial aircraft.
Big firm. We should have been using an education-specific boutique for this specific thing, but this started happened when we were tiny and still figuring a lot.
Beat me to it. Yeah, this is nothing new. Obviously the US regulation is about reporting and not payment mechanism as in AU, but the justification and thresholding for the for the laws are very comparable.

American libertarians are fine living with a $10k limit, Aussie ones will be too.
The consumer pays the tax.
Comparing it to your anecdote is not useful.

Most cars have a vigorous service schedule that is an endless sea of tire rotations, brake servicing, oil changes, belt replacements, among all of the unexpected maintenance of thousands of moving, wearing parts.

A Tesla or a comparable EV, in contrast, is a cartoonishly simplified variation with magnitudes fewer parts and maintenance needs. The probability of an EV requiring less maintenance than a ICE car is 100%.

Of course right now those EVs come at a premium, but as they hit the mainstream this is going to be a critical differentiation.
Dealing with climate change is going to be a fraught, expensive, and slow process no matter how you approach it. Nuclear technology has advanced and improved since the last plant was built in the U.S. If we don't reduce carbon emissions dramatically, the resulting catastrophe is going to make Fukushima -- and even Chernobyl -- look mild by comparison.

And who are we to say who can and cannot have nuclear weapons? The United States' claim to the moral high ground is pretty shaky nowadays, particularly with regards to Saudi Arabia. Saudi (and Iran too) is what it is in no small measure because of our meddling in their politics. If we don't like the results, well, you reap what you sow.
There is no set rule that says you need to get x% of your power from a stable "base load" producer. In many regions of the US you could cover daily demand using a dynamic combination of wind, solar, hydro, and natural gas. The base load power story has been pushed by coal/nuclear advocates to try to maintain skepticism about renewables.

In reality, power sources that have little to no flexibility in power output (coal and nuclear) are not ideal either. They either produce at near capacity or they are offline. You can't throttle a nuclear plant from 80% capacity to 50% capacity. As a grid manager, this doesn't always make things easier.

Plus, the fact that the grid survives when a nuclear plant or coal plant goes offline for maintenance shows that there is flexibility available.

We just need to stop looking at "base load power" as only an advantage and acknowledge that only being able to produce 0 watts or 1 gigawatt of power output is also very inflexible and not always an advantage...
>...likely...

Are you familiar with the regs? Your conclusion seems to be based on no actual knowledge, just assumptions.
California is known for overbearing compliance, but it isn't known for stifling innovation because of it. Our State recognizes that innovation is its lifeblood.

I'm not too worried about them stifling innovation. For one, it was stated elsewhere that they are working with Lambda school to get them certified, and for two, I think the fact that most of the self-driving car companies are working here now is a perfect example.

At first they experimented outside the state in areas with less regulation, but the state was happy to work with them to come up with a viable regulatory framework that still protects people while allowing innovation.
I don't understand. Are you saying the author shouldn't point out these errors, given what Taleb is arguing against? Or they aren't actually errors, given that the author hasn't grasped the specifics of Taleb's argument?
I've seen videos analyzing the YouTube trending tab and suggesting that human moderation suppresses videos from 'controversial' creators like Joe Rogan and PewDiePie.

It's dangerous to become the arbiter of taste, I can understand Google's aversion to more human involvement beyond just the problems with scale.
For the last tax filing that needed a voucher for income, I blacked out pretty much everything except the amounts received / sent. Is this not allowed in such a case for you in the US?
Except those probably both registered just fine...
Streaming Electron for Fun and Profit
When you say he should stick to topics he is an expert in, do you have issue with something specific he’s saying or is it that this information conflicts with your personal beliefs or politics?
The amount of advertisements youtube forces upon viewers is also insane. Sometimes they force 2 consecutive ads for one 5 minute video.
Industrial automation startup Fetch Robotics raises $46M
If that were actually true they’d all go out of business.
They could improve the AI to figure out when it doesn't know something. As for a cheap way to have humans in the loop, some kind of voting by trusted creators might work.
I wonder if it's not just a question of human nature for things to go into a cycle of overhyped boom and bust. People get very excited about something, progress doesn't happen fast enough, and then they get bored and move on to something else.

If we look at Google Trends, it looks like "deep learning" has hit a plateau back in 2017: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=d...

Artificial intelligence peaked in January 2018:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=a...

I work in AI and I'm very much thinking that another AI winter could come. I find myself wondering where are all the real-world AI deployments, and how effective they are. To my knowledge, there aren't super successful AI startups out there. There are startups getting a lot of investor money for AI research, but they do not have profitable business models. The venture capitalists are going to get tired of that at some point, if they aren't already.
We need neutral platforms where content will not be punished because of political agendas. If content doesn't align with a progressive viewpoint, at best FB/Twitter/YT/IG ignore it, more commonly they ban/block/derevenue it.
Why is it so hard to properly parse the wake word? My Google home turns on all the time from background noise. Is there a specific technical challenge that makes it hard to avoid these false positives?
I don't really disagree with you, but I can't even imagine what "hire a whole bunch of people." looks like in this case, the numbers would be enormous I would think.
Are you seeing any positive side-effects from doing the regulatory paperwork? For example from establishing management/quality processes that you did not have from before, but where actually beneficial?
TikTok is a mobile-only vertical video platform consisting of memes and kids dancing to popular music. YouTube is a platform where long-form, high definition, well produced content is becoming increasingly more prevalent. I genuinely don't see how the two are even remotely alike.

I appreciate that TikTok is the "new hotness" but I don't see its relevance to this conversation about YouTube or why the author felt the need to shoehorn it into every paragraph.
I was interested in off grid and RV vehicle AC solar, this video pretty much sums up how and where we are today on that. https://youtu.be/B0rZY5uotKI

Others recommend dehumidifiers as a compromise which uses less power, you can find this in multiple discussions in relevant forums
> The Iranian society is and was much more open a few decades ago. Truly a sad story of development in the completely wrong direction.

You can blame the US for fucking that up, you do realise that?

The US overthrew the democratically elected Mossadegh and put the Shah (a despot) in his place as ruler. The years after were characterised by massive unrest and (understandable) anti-US sentiment, eventually culminating in a fall into populism, arriving finally at the rise to power of the Ayatollah.
So, I know what is a quill. I don't know what is an "information feather" :) But thank you for answering.
https://twitter.com/UntergrundmannG/status/11558354759463813...

"Taleb has an updated post up at medium that takes care of most of this. You could take the time to weigh that in against this all over again.

And if you come back here in a few days, I may have a post up about how this is a trivial misunderstanding of NNT's case. Quantitatively."

Anybody who understands Taleb's argument realizes that these "counterarguments" are missing the mark. The fact that they spend more time obsessing his "meanness to them" than on his arguments, without understanding that his meanness is never directed at people who disagree, only people who bullshit, proves that point.
I think one of the problems that YouTube has is their three-strikes policy and how they interact with said offending user.

When a video gets flagged, it supposedly is queued up for manual review. Upon manual review, if the YouTube employee deems that the video has broken one of its rules, it will take the video down and it will notify the uploader that they have received a strike.

That's all fine, but the problem is really in how they handle this interaction. They tell the user which "set of rules" they've broken (e.g. "Hate speech, discrimination or other forms of bigotry based on race, gender or religion"), but they get no more specific than that. They do not offer a timestamp for the exact moment in which you violated their rules. The result is as you'd expect. I'm sure many terrible videos are rightly taken down this way, but there are plenty of people who don't believe their video violated any rules and are seeking clarification on what they did wrong.

It would also be beneficial for the relationship between YouTube and its creators if there was an opportunity for restitution. For example, maybe YouTube informs the user that their video has violated a rule and if they don't take it down within some period of time, they will receive a strike and it will be taken down automatically (of course, with the knowledge that some types of videos should be taken down immediately). Maybe when YouTube takes a video down, they could timestamp it and tell the user that they can re-upload the video without that specific part.

As it is now, there are people who make their livings on YouTube, and these somewhat vague rules and the nebulous enforcement of them does not instill creators (I'm talking about creators who post about divisive or controversial things - could be something as simple as viewpoints on modern political news) with a feeling of security and the end-result may be that they simply move to a different platform.

If YouTube listens to the complaints of this 'FairTube' group and engages them, I think that'd be best for everyone.
I definitely think PLA should not be able to be advertised as "compostable".
Could also mean 'talent'.
By the article's definition, yes, it would be a data race. With this example, I just wanted to make it more explicit to you what a data race without a race condition could look like.

Truly I'm still not sure why the author had to make a point and write a blog post about the conceptual difference between data races and race conditions.
Oh stop it. I encourage you to go for a test drive and try it out yourself. It works (in the conditions they claim it does), and it makes driving long distances or in stop-and-go traffic significantly easier. Dumb people will do dumb things, but if it were not for Tesla pushing the envelope, the car industry as a whole would be stuck in 2005.
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