skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are you attributing bad faith to the commenter?

Because people don't like feeling wrong, even if they aren't particularly wrong, and I've seen many otherwise very intelligent people say and do really stupid things when confronted with information that contradicts their beliefs. Just to be clear this does not make said commenter a bad person, it just makes them a human, with a brain that does occasionally really shitty things when it doesn't want to think.

It's less about attributing bad faith and more just acknowledging that we're all imperfect talking chimps here.

> It's a reasonable objection, and many have questioned whether its the moral duty of facebook engineers to quit over privacy issues.

I would never say another person needs to quit a job over ethical issues, because anyone of decent moral fiber and an objective mind is probably already wrestling with that problem, and having a disinterested third party dispensing advice from On High with zero skin in the game is not going to improve that situation. Alternatively, they could just not care, which is less likely, but also not going be affected by that same third party. Basically what I'm saying is there are numerous possibilities in that interaction but none lead to change, so I don't discuss it. It's moot.

All I'm saying is that the problem of making money in journalism is something that has no clear solution, and acting like the NYT is being hypocritical for using trackers while railing against trackers is a clear example of the Ad Hominem fallacy.
They could use waiver forms, like any other place hosting moderately "dangerous" things (like trampolines, etc.).

That said, you could still allow people who came to actually buy furniture.

Though, I think it would require more preparation than just winging it.
I just need to be shown how to do things 75 times before I figure it out sometimes.
As a new father who goes to bed at 8-9pm and gets up around 3-4am, I can't imagine _not_ doing this with a child.
That they keep a process which lets their team deliver new features without breaking existing features. I can't think of anything else, most things are so context dependent but that one is fairly universal.
They'd probably need special insurance for this - doubt their day-to-day policy would cover something like this.
Oh, don't look up who said things. When in doubt, attribute it to Einstein or Lincoln depending on the nature of the quote :)
Facebook confirms 419m phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapse
The central point of Roko's basilisk is that the "basilisk" is only dangerous to people who understand/agree with it, and thus, for LessWrong advocates, are vulnerable to acausal extortion from a malevolent future AI. To be a "victim" of the basilisk you must subscribe to various axioms, and if you wind up being correct, acting in accordance with your hypothetical singularity AI's hypothetical desires is paramount. For example, you must assume that the AI will come into being, can simulate copies of people derived from "first principles", and that "timeless decision theory" makes sense to both human beings and the AI to the extent that acausal motivation is viable. Some people are very convinced of these ideas, but there is hardly overwhelming consensus.

Runaway optimization of rent-seeking is more like a ponzi scheme "as advertised": the later you get in on the action, the harder you get screwed. It is uniformly bad for anyone who didn't have a combination of luck and capital in the early stages. The risk and payoff of not being able to afford housing in the forseeable future is much more concrete, universally applicable, and requires only extrapolating from trends; a far smaller series of logical leaps.

I'm not seeing the connection you're attempting to draw. Care to clarify?
I have a couple of ATN's older scopes. My favorite is a 4x Gen 2 that I picked up at a pawn shop for $200 a couple of years ago. It's amazing for what it is.

I have it mounted on a single-shot .22 rifle, which is somewhat absurd - the rifle is tiny and the scope weighs easily as much as the gun.

My daughters raise rabbits, and although I certainly don't live in an urban area (I have safe lanes of fire) I do have neighbors* on each side and don't want to be waking them up at 3am with gunfire when a raccoon or coyote tries to kill our rabbits. .22 "CB" rounds are about as powerful as a high-end pellet gun and quieter to boot.

There's an inexpensive IR IPcam pointed at the rabbit hutches and I get notifications on my phone when it detects movement. That combination has saved me a good deal in terms of rabbits and heartbreak - having to go clean up the remains of a rabbit that your five-year-old thought of as a family pet is not a fun experience at all. :(

* My neighbors are aware of and tolerant of my shooting at night. It's not at all uncommon where I live, but this is HN, and many people here don't share this part of my lifestyle. I'm adding this note lest someone not familiar with it thinks I'm sneaking around a residential neighborhood in the middle of the night with night vision unbeknownst to others here. They've called me more than once when they have had issues with animals getting into their trash and such. I use humane traps in those cases and release the animals on some property my family owns much further away from civilization.
Don't know what the cut off is, but at Harvard you go for free if you can't afford it as well no?
Auto taxes, auto tariffs, tax credits/rebates, fuel economy/emissions standards, charging/power infrastructure, gas taxes, urban emissions bans, etc.
Feels like you didn't the read the (whole) article.

The author makes a good point -- everything should either be covered by tested or explicitly marked as excluded. Having a gray area of code that is included but not covered by tests is a recipe for missing something. That much seems obvious.
Suggestion - read the paper.
> I feel like India has more important problems to solve than this.

OK. Keep "feeling" and others will keep doing.
In fight over facial recognition, district pleads its case on Today Show
It is my understanding that HN is a fork of that code and is not released.
Yeah, LXD is what I have been using. Maybe I should have said "LXC/LXD" instead of just "LXC".
> The problem isn't the notifications here. Sure, I can tune my notifications to my preference, but when you're a resident in a client's Slack the expectation is that they can directly message you, anytime, for any reason, and for any size request.

This is kind of true. I work with several partners of our ecom platform using Slack. Most of them are not that responsive, and that's fine - Slack is a chat app but it's still asynchronous! As long as people answer reasonable queries in a reasonable time (so e.g. within the working day) then it's fine. I never expect instant answers.

Manage expectations I guess?
A Brief History of “The Span”: Hard to Love, Hard to Kill
Really pretty easy. There are certain minimal requirements. I'd recommend reaching out to one. They're usually pretty responsive. Email me and I can give you a good list.
I'm curious why MacOS doesn't ship with a clock app for timers and alarms for this type of stuff. Seems like an obvious choice for an iOS port.
Today Show piece available here: https://www.today.com/video/inside-the-facial-recognition-te...
I think we need to stop assuming the general public can't handle 2nd factor.
i3 has mouse support, you can resize windows (by default i believe it is mod + right mouse button), and i am fairly certain drag and drop will make it into the next release, if you want to use it there's already a PR on github to test it out.
As do many of their echo devices, fireTV devices, etc. They absolutely "pried it away" if you can call it that? Obviously nobody can force Google to stop using Android themselves, but given the success of Amazon's many devices I'd say they accomplished exactly what they set out to accomplish.
At one point I did a bootcamp as part of a career change.

Some folks who completed it with me went on to work on a CS degree as well.

We talk a lot and many of them think a bootcamp like experience before a CS degree would be a good idea. A sort of fast paced, intense, and "ok now it is time for you to hit the internet and figure out steps 7 through 10" might be a good place to start for a lot of them.

But more specifically to your point working with people is so important. I did some customer service years ago, and I find myself using that all the time, no job asks for it, but when talking to customers (and people who talk to customers) it is indispensable.
Start with a scrum master ...
That's exactly what we practice. And it works quite well. Can only recommend this methodology.
As someone whose default ringer setting is off unless I'm expecting a call, and have been like that for almost a decade, giving fewer people a guaranteed option on my time is a great start to being able to build and choose with calm, higher quality decisions. We get what we reward. When you don't set boundaries, you can't expect other people to anticipate them, let alone respect the ones you have in effect imagined. Writing and answering emails at 2am just makes you the 2am email guy and who wants that person in their life?

In the morning, I read from a physical book first thing to set a boundary between my real day and the internet. It's not a trick and I usually forget most of what I've read, but it's a boundary I set and a choice about how I relate to the world. Forget about hacks to steal back moments so you can find a way to bear the suffering you've accepted as normal. Just learn to value calm, and place its priority above everything you feasibly can.

The quality of the decisions you make as a result of valuing calmness as a principle will alter the trajectory of your life. It can't always be the supreme priority, but being deliberate about making exceptions to it is most of the way there. When we worry about missing opportunities (FOMO), we tend to overlook that it presupposes those opportunities come from someone else. It is a figment of how we have chosen to relate to those perceived people. It also goes away as a result of recognizing that perception as an inessential obstacle to the calm that you value.

Sure, if you haven't set boundaries before, choosing to set them will be disruptive, initially. The relationships that dropped off were the ones that involved emergencies, panics, and ultimatums. They were also similar to the ones that dropped off anyway once I became more successful because their basis in shared, co-misery wasn't there anymore. It creates a self-selecting filter where your only remaining connections are to people who respect those boundaries, and in effect, you.

Anecdotally, it's a pretty good way to live.

This "tech-life balance" approach is a start and is a sign of the need we have for it. I'd argue a more effective approach would be to just choose calm. Make an active decision about how you relate to the machines and the perceived relationships they represent, using calmness not as a goal or temporary state, but as a principle.

Then, turn off your ringer.
> The media overhyped the vulnerabilities

No, the media underhyped it. It's a remote code execution vulnerability that's triggered by visiting a website.
Their definition of "delete" is to dissociate your identity from the data pieces. There's no true way to splice out a person from their database otherwise
Is the landing site on the near side or far side?
Why you should host virtual office hours for your remote team
git reflog is the best thing, then do a hard reset
Noisy notifications is NOT inherently a Slack issue - slack is just a communication platform; it is however a company culture /team culture/communication style. Fix that instead, Slack is just a tool, it also has controls of muting notifications as many others mentioned here.
Microsoft themselves tried in Windows 8, when they thought they might actually have a chance to reinvent most of the graphical shell. The original UWP "world" (app composition model) involved a separate tiling window manager that a lot of people hated (I loved it, sigh). In Windows 8.1 that tiling window manager got rather capable allowing for any number of vertical splits and the Win32 desktop taking up what remains after the splits. In Windows 10 the last vestiges of that tiling window manager remain only in Tablet Mode and devolved back to only supporting one vertical split at a time, just managing two semi-maximized apps running more traditionally like the Win32 desktop mode.
I'm in a mix of offense and amusement because COBOL on Cogs is the joke and COBOL on Wheelchair is the serious one.
I believe it's a specific POSIX standard that CLI tools are always in the same order: source -> destination[1]

ln, cp, mv, most everything will always follow this pattern.

https://www.gnu.org/software/swbis/sw.html#o-Explicit-File-D...
So, just to be clear.. when a person signs up for.. wait for it... Facebook... they shouldn’t expect that Facebook has an image of their... face?
> If this is the case, why is NYT showing absolutely no innovation in monetizing their platform?

Because they don't have ideas? I don't think that's an unreasonable position to take with such a complex problem that so many other companies are having a difficult time solving. Why expend further resources trying to fling more shit at the wall to see what sticks, when your current modal, albeit not ideal, does serve the purpose?

Not everyone has to be, or even should be an innovator. The NYT should be innovating on better and newer techniques of journalism, since that's what they do. It's not like Apple created a new bank for Apple Card to try and make it better, they contracted that part of a product they wanted to offer to a 3rd party that already knew how to do it, and I'd imagine if a revenue model came along that suited them, they'd do the same thing and dump trackers and ad-tech. It's likely they're just waiting for that.

> Insulting and unsubstantiated; how nice.

I mean, it was unsubstantiated, yes, but I think it was also a positive-leaning assumption? I'm not sure why you're insulted by that, but I apologize.
Could just as well turn off real customers who head home when the store has turned into a playground.
We liked this because it revealed that building something for the long haul is very different than building something designed for a quick exit,

Once they took VC funding, by definition they are building for a quick exit.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reify-health
"More than 800 statisticians and scientists are calling for an end to judging studies by statistical significance in a March 20 comment published in Nature."

While their sources are supporting this statement, I'm getting mixed signals.

https://www.nature.com/magazine-assets/d41586-019-00857-9/da...

This is their primary source, of the statisticians calling to retire statistical significance. However, their primary reasoning is because statistics is misused to make erroneous conclusions. It seems like there is a lack of understanding about the philosophy and mathematics behind statistics that's the problem by its practitioners, not statistics itself.
77 is a large enough sample size to produce statistically significant results in a lot of cases, depending on the problem. For example, using 77 men and women, you could easily see a statistically significant difference in height between genders.

This paper is pretty simple, it's just a straight-forward before-and-after test. They are holding a lot of factors constant and not doing an observational study, so 77 is actually a fine sample size for something like this.
Do I need to visit the US border day-of to get a TN-1 visa as a Canadian citizen? My immigration attorney in SF said I did but I've had other people tell me they got it ahead of time.

This sounded a bit crazy to me, I'd have to pack all of my stuff in my apartment and hope I get a T1 when I arrive at Pearson airport in Toronto? And if not I'll have to find some place to stay.
> They're a publicly traded company.

Period.

Few - if any - at the 'C' level are a game developer or likely even a gamer. Their job is to make a profit selling potatoes or car parts - it doesn't matter.
I think it's mostly due to a couple of reasons:

1. The debugging experience is probably better. Computing a derivative can be complex— you might be seeing a high value where you were expecting a low one, and you want to "step through the equation and how it changes. Having to do that when "the equation" is a bunch of obscure data structures, through the internal representation of functions in 3-rd party library could get very complex very quickly.

2. You might not catch non-differentiable functions and zero derivatives. Moreover, given just the nature of math, you could see millions of inputs that wouldn't trigger an exception, ship your model, and then one day the one that yields a 0 shows up, your model crashes, and you don't know why. Having the compiler essentially act as proof that something will _never_ be zero is awesome for correctness and reliability.

If you think about it, derivatives aren't really an operation "through" the equation, but "on" the equation. You're writing some function, but instead of passing a value through it, you're changing the function itself.

So the functions are the values, and need to be changed, morphed, combined, split, etc. If a library wanted to do this, my guess is either:

a) devx would suffer since wouldn't be writing functions normally, but rather defining them as objects with verbose constructors, etc.

b) for the sake of devx, the library would have to do some hacky introspection and jump hoops to get to work on the functions themselves, not with them, at the cost of performance or debuggability.

There's already software we use all the time that takes these functions, breaks them apart, understands them and does things with them though— the compiler. It transforms functions to machine code. Let's have it add a step in the middle there, and if a function is marked as being derived, let's have the compiler take it, transform it to its derivative, and then to machine code ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
You are giving Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde short shrift.
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We have studied it and there are some hypotheses, but that's it.
Lots, unfortunately. With no way to opt out
Allowing regulators to look at systems, data and source code is the inevitable conclusion of this madness where software companies say one thing and do something completely different.
My guess: delete flag set in db, data remains but is ignored.
Nit: Under Every Line The term "scan" is used where "skim" would be a better term.

Scan can mean either "to investigate thoroughly by checking point by point and often repeatedly" or "to glance from point to point of often hastily, casually, or in search of a particular item". Skim leaves no room for doubt: "to read, study, or examine superficially and rapidly"
Why is that by definition?
Which to me is a big yawn because as long as we have javascript engines in our browsers this will probably be possible. Browsing websites is basically an RCE anyway.
Sorry, but... So I don't have to go hunting for it (and get stuck in facebook land reading updates!) can some one provide a link to the place where this setting resides? Thank you!
Say the media lab takes his money, and then decides that they don't want to be associated with him or his alleged activities.

Should they give it back? Should they set it aside? Throw it into a temple? Something else? Was it even really his (Epstein's) to begin with?

Genuinely curious, here.
How meta! You're signaling in favor of signaling! <head explodes>
> just takes away money

ISRO makes more money than they spend. They usually launch satellites for private organizations and other governments.

If I remember correctly, ISRO makes one of the most money per unit investment among all the indian governmental organizations.
Holy smokes, had to take a look. In theory an interesting idea but HOLY smokes, just saw the one in the mission, 3 floors, 21 rooms for people to live in, and just the first floor is common space and seems pretty inadequate...maybe it works for some but wow, starting at $2100k for this... Maybe I am in the minority but I don't find SF to be that compelling to live in the city. In NYC I get it, I don't need much space, there are tons of places for me to hang out in the evening which leaves space less necessary. But in SF I never had that feeling.
This is a very convenient product. I use it all the time now
What came first: the file or the symlink? Of course the real file came first!

Mnemnic that helps me: IN SYMLINKS, REAL FIRST!

ln -s REAL_FILE link_name
Telling the obvious from the true is the role of science.
This is a wonderful app. I use it all the time now
Nice, I've been there with Django cookies too. One thing, I love about the programming industry is that people aren't afraid to write blog posts to debunk the bullshit expectations that develop every now and then. Not something you really see elsewhere.
Thank you so much for this app.
Interestingly, I just went into my account and I was already opted-out. Is this the case for everybody? If so, that's a very surprising move coming from FB.
okay....so how do you opt-out?
A distraction is still a distraction. Why not get rid of one if it's not needed?
All the prof-authored material ive seen has always been provided as a free pdf before the course started. There is really no excuse for not doing this in 2019.
That's tough because of ITAR. Essentially, the company/investors would need to be okay with limiting his access while he applies for a green card but the green card process is very slow now even for EB1s so it could be a couple of years before he has a green card.
Just take a look at "While Wall St. Talks of Recession, Bond Investors Make a Killing" (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/business/bond-market-trad...) for an idea of how smart it would have been to buy 30 year and other long term bonds.

An alternative interpretation of the yield curve is that long term bonds were wildly underpriced, and for some reason still are!
Four-Phase test with RSpec’s raise_error/raise_exception
Even less so. Google canned their project dragonfly, which was to share user data with the Chinese government, while Apple quietly handed over the iCloud encryption keys for all their users.
> > Loher is also a slow-morning devotee and she started her routine a decade ago, frequently waking at 4:30 and spending the hours up to 9 a.m. as “strictly me time.”

> So she started this routine when she was 16?

i want to know what high school she was at that wasn't already running classes by 9AM.
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AnimeJS - https://animejs.com/
Quill - text editor - https://github.com/quilljs/quill
Nprogress - slim progress bar - https://github.com/rstacruz/nprogress
Marktext - desktop app - https://github.com/marktext/marktext
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React Leaflet Search - https://github.com/tumerorkun/react-leaflet-search/issues/7
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