skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a really low bar, and does not even rise to the level of preponderance of evidence.

Really low bar for what? You’re saying “preponderance of evidence” to allude to a burden of proof required for a courtroom verdict. But a whistleblower complaint is basically an allegation; can you name a single legal process where one is required to meet a burden of proof in order to allege wrongdoing?

> We have Senators Leahy, Menendez, and Durbin leaning on the prosecutor in Ukraine.

They were asking the prosecutor to cooperate with an already ongoing FBI investigation. Whereas Trump is asking the Ukranain President to work with the State Department and his personal attorney to investigate a political rival.

> We have President Obama doing the exact same thing, leaning on Ukraine.

This has been misrepresented: the prosecutor the Obama administration (including Biden) pressured Ukraine to oust wasn’t actually investigating his Burisma, the company with which Hunter Biden was involved. In addition, other Western countries wanted that prosecutor removed. [1]

> And then there is the behavior of the Bidens, enriching themselves by selling foreign influence.

Sure, let’s hold Biden accountable for this. But you really want to step into this ring? Trump has repeatedly and flagrantly used the presidency to enrich himself since day 1.

Edit, responded to other unrelated points.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/us/politics/biden-ukraine...
Not at all. You cannot exist in the vast majority of the US without personal transportation.
The English description on that page doesn’t make it easy to understand what this key does.

”Its name comes from the fact that it has two key blades (the part which activates the bolt) at each end of the key, rather than the usual single blade”

How does that lead to the name “Berlin key” or either of the German names? I would guess “Berlin key” comes from the fact that it predominantly is used in Berlin.

”After unlocking the lock, the key must be pushed all the way through the lock and retrieved on the other side of the door after it has been closed and locked again”

I think the main features are:

- the key cannot be removed when the lock is open.

- you can remove the key from the other side of the door from which it was inserted.

It seems you can lock the door from the side it was unlocked from, and remove the key from that side, too. You only have to push it all the way through if you want the door closed and locked with you and the key on the other side of the door.

I also think you can close the lock and remove your key when the door is open.
Which chart are you looking at? The fifth chart in the page shows the homicide rate of England at under 1 per 100k in 1900, and over that from 1990-2010. World Bank data says 1 per 100k in 2017, and there has been a spike in the UK last couple of years. 0.5 in this decade is almost certainly incorrect.

If your point now is that the murder rate didn’t go up after getting rid of the death penalty, that’s probably true, but a different argument than you made previously. (We should keep the death penalty because some people deserve to be executed for their crimes. But death penalty versus life in prison probably doesn’t serve as a deterrent effect that would lower the homicide rate. It’s a moral rather than utilitarian policy.)
My 16 year old daughter has a spotify premium account yet has discovered vinyl and now is collecting it (yikes).

I think it's about the overall experience: tactile, "old fashioned", and functional.

Pressing play on an iPhone is a thoughtless experience. Lifting the needle or grabbing a knob is more engaging.
...in Europe?
oh it's been harped on for years. But people with mountains of cash already wrote their own STL and heap allocators :-) Those are usually your main bottlenecks in usability of debug builds.

I've worked on games with "DebugOptimized" builds where it's optimized,but instrumented in other ways. That's probably the best solution. You only drop down to full debug if you absolutely can't debug a specific issue in an optimized build.

With Visual C++, if you are careful you can build a version with release runtimes and third party libs so only your code is debug. Microsoft makes it harder than it has to be though.
You can meet an expected format in a fast path, and have a slow path fallback where it doesn’t meet and expected format.
If only it didn’t leave behind all that toxic effluent, which has a half life measured in thousands of years.
The same reporters (IIRC) also published the “NSA knew about Cloudbleed for ages” story which was similarly incredible.
In Los Angeles, we have little bike scooters with bigger wheels and faster speeds. They're probably exactly what you're looking for.
For a company so small, how much are you paying for salesforce?

(I’m not trying to push or sell anything, I just want to know what that are fleecing you for... (it not like salesforce has the biggest swinging dick in SF right now for being cheap)) {I’ve built every salesforce office in sf, ny, chi, Tel Aviv}. Prior to cock tower in sf....
Not to also mention that much of this would still be in the stone age if it were not for MUCH faster and accessible hardware (GPU/TPU/QPU/XPU), what I think makes up for the high salaries is that these people are quite aware of how to allocate for hardware on the ML/RL/AI training side and how to allocate time for the people responsible for tagging and optimizing models. They know how to reach the objective(s) in training/testing/optimizing already.
How terrible can Canada be if Berlin, as you claim, has better living standards?
At least where I live, the advantage of the scooters/e-bikes is that you can take a lunch break without coming back sweaty riding a bike and looking like a serial killer in a meeting.
Senior dev at a Canadian tech company here. At a good Canadian tech company in Vancouver or Toronto, as a senior+ dev, you can make $120-140K CAD (83-96K EUR). You can make substantially less than that as a senior+ dev too (plenty of senior devs making $80-100K CAD), but $120-140K is moderately common. And if you work for a Canadian office of a big American tech company (for example Amazon has a major presence in Vancouver), you can make a lot more.

Canadian costs of living are high, and the salaries are low compared to the states, but they’re still some of the better non-American tech salaries out there.
Something that isn't entirely clear to me from the video. Do you have to push it from the inside to retrieve it outside?
Because that would be super annoying.
Oh for crying out loud. No, we need UNcentralizable communication, as to avert undecentralization/recentralization.

Federation=bad:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687

Unfortunately, any communication protocol which mathematically always reduces to ye olde beads-on-a-string with enough extra steps to hide this even from most experts makes this fundamentally impossible… — …and both IP 4 and IPv6 fall into that category, despite their very name implying otherwise:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867467

Two brief quotes from over there:

"[…]

This does not mean that we should be doing OSI. Good grief, no. …

[…]

————

[…]

[22] Someone will ask, What about IPv6? It does nothing for these problems but make them worse and the problem it does solve is not a problem.

[…]"
Yes, I use my own topics map-based solution, Contextualise: https://brettkromkamp.com/projects/contextualise/. In simple terms, you create topics, attach resources (e.g., PDFs, markdown text and notes, images, etc.) to those topics and establish semantically meaningful relationships between the topics. The resulting map of topics can be navigated by means of a visual network graph. Contextualise is a MIT-licensed open source project.
And you can get an offline account with Windows if you're offline. Granted it's not transparent enough.

Thing is, what Apple is trying to achieve with iCloud is exactly the same as what MS is trying to achieve: bind you to a single account which will allow them to transition to a more service based business model. It's just Apple does it smoother.
>The ledger contains the history of all transactions which can be verified.

I'm probably late to the party here... but just how many transactions can be handled in current ledgers? I mean... let's say everyone on earth suddenly agreed to use some crypto. You suddenly have lets say 4+ billion people (let's ignore kids) doing transactions per day.. can that be anywhere near supported with any current cryptoscheme?
We went from Kitty Hawk to Apollo in 50 years. We then regressed for the next 50.
The irony is that you can still buy just a good screen with good connectivity options and basic controls, but the market is advertised as "display screens" intended for things like advertising or video walls.

I don't understand why the same manufacturers/distributors offering these products don't also pitch them as TVs with well-defined specs and no junk, probably with some sort of "expert"/"pro" branding that makes them look like a high-end choice.

You could pitch one of those, a basic 2.1 home sound system or the like, and maybe a small control/switching box that everything plugs into and that also accepts your source feeds, and you've got a mini home-theatre-style arrangement that could be quite attractive to those who value decent gear but don't have the budget and/or space for a full home theatre setup that would cost at least 2-3x as much for entry-level equipment.
It's quite normal here to refer to it as the war. "Back in the war..." :)
The point I was trying to make is that we are only at the dawn of commercial space flight. Compare the first commercial airplane flights, technology and cost, to today's 20 euro Ryanair flights. The same will happen with space.

>The same is true for spaceflight, where the formulas for rocket propelled vehicles are well understood.

You are assuming there never will be a replacement for rocket technology. I think you're wrong.
Math is a formal science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_science). That term seems to be a little bit obscure, but it's a useful idea.
As someone who grew up before smartphones, with plenty of noise pollution, I am sure it's not the noise. People cross the street stairing at their hands.
A vademecum for those that are new to machine learning
That's fair. I could have phrased things more positively.
I think that the other force is that the skills that are being created by ML Ph.D programs get commodified.

I don't think this will happen, because typing "import tensorflow.keras.*" isn't the skill that an ML Ph.D develops, and it is the part of the skill set that is (and will be) commodity along with the automl stuff.

Constructing a problem, handling the data and running a proper process is harder, and it's the value that will put processes that use ML at risk, and deliver differentiating value for the ones where it works.
"Im Western nichts neues" is a great typo: "Nothing new in (the genre of) western", instead "nothing new in the west".
Edit: leaving original below to own my words.

Political dialog has become more difficult than ever before, and I don't think it's accidental. That difficulty serves those to whom truth is at best an inconvenience.

It should be focused on facts. Facts should be verifiable.

Being that it's difficult for a human to process multiple things at once, it is important to discuss a single fact at a time.

Since facts are effectively a collection of words, one must then discern what those words mean.

Most of the time we can agree on the general meaning, but the language gives room to nuance, and nuance is guided by intention.

Intentions matter (note the degrees of homicide).

So when evaluating facts we should acknowledge the possible nuances and then look at the probability weighting of each one being appropriate considering environmental inputs.

If one is interested in the truth, then one runs the numbers and accepts the results (or acceptably refines the weighting).

It should be about "winning", it should be about what is right. If it changes the currently held understanding, then it's done its job.

I welcome criticism of this. I welcome the opportunity to discuss opposed-viewpoints on facts, if in a good faith effort to find agreement on the actual meaning of the facts. I will admit failure of any policy action from a pol on "my side". I just want truth.

----------------------- original below ----------------------

I love HN for the intelligent dialog, and it always surprises me that intelligent people can fall for stupid things too (hey, myself included).

@tomohawk, your whataboutisms are not accurate, and I would be happy do a address a single element of your claims (to avoid the fact distraction technique).

Warning: we are in politics land on HN.
We absolutely do, but it’s significantly harder to debug. Functions are inlined, variables are eliminated, loops unrolled, etc.

But yeah, very often it’s basically the only option, running an optimized build with debug symbols. This is why it’s such a problem with C++: debug builds are frequently pointless because the performance is so bad, which makes debugging a lot harder.
That is basically the premise of the awesome Nand2Tetris[0] book/project.

[0] https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Edit:
Just saw that it is even referenced[1] in the article itself.

[1] https://www.righto.com/2019/09/a-computer-built-from-nor-gat...
> living in a rural area with less crime

I doubt “rural” will continue to be “low crime”.

In our fully automated future I expect criminals will also be telecommuting — stealing, vandalising, or trading illegal substances with drones, drones which are quite possibly either bio-mimicking or even bio-printed so as to make it less appealing to shoot them.
Why is it so expensive to install solar in the US? In the UK you can get a 3kw grid tied system installed for under £5000 ($6100), and around double for a 9kw system - a lot of the cost is renting scaffolding and having people on site to do the work, so it gets cheaper per kw as you have more installed.
Yeah. Only on the weekend does "buy a new house to get solar" make sense. And no one seems to be phased that the DOE is the one pushing it.
> Why don’t you identify yourself online?

This got me googling a bit since I hate giving people my information that are not upfront with me about who they are.

Their trademark registration at
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:wpr... lists "(APPLICANT) ExhibitDay, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 6701 Democracy Blvd., Suite 300 Bethesda MARYLAND 20852" as the address. I also found that address at several of these weird online company listing sites:

https://www.manta.com/c/mkxv6hz/exhibitday-inc
http://ebusinesspages.com/ExhibitDay,-Inc._dziuo.co
https://chevy-chase-md.opendi.us/E/93.html

That address seems to be a "virtual office" (aka paid fake address?) https://www.regus.ru/en-ru/virtual-office/united-states/mary... - definitely not signing up for that one.
Taiwan Rallies for Hong Kong to Resist Beijing’s Influence
It seems that you can accidentally, or not, lock the door without fully closing it, thus leaving it essentially unlocked, so the key isn’t quite fool-proof.
(Note: I co-created this product, wrote this blog post, etc)

Your skepticism is something I hear a lot, and something I make it a rule not to argue with. A lot of people look at The Public Radio with disdain, and at least as many look at it without any emotional reaction at all (which is arguably worse). This was never meant to be a mass market product, and it's okay that not everyone likes it.

I will say, however, that our customer base might not be as young, bearded, and IPA-drinking as you might expect. We do sell a lot to Brooklyn (I live in Brooklyn; Kickstarter is in Brooklyn; etc) but one of our biggest customers to date is KUER, which is Utah's NPR affiliate. We've also sold large orders to a pop station in Singapore, an Orthodox Jewish community radio station in New Jersey, and to someone's grandma in rural Nebraska who makes mason jars into light fixtures that look like fireflies (one of our first customers, back in ~early 2014).

As to whether the market's going away: As I mentioned in another comment, I'm continuously surprised when I see The Public Radio in the wild and can say without reservation that we have sold way more of these things than I ever expected. And if it were someone else's creation, there's a good chance that I'd look at it with furrowed brows as well.
Nice. I had a idea a few years ago, but never got around to working on it. Let me know if you ever want to buy the aifighter.com domain off of me.
I miss non-AA’d text. Like PalmOS or Windows 95.

Gotta love the sharpness of it somehow.
Yep, but some say it's gone from Catalina. I don't try betas. Can someone on 10.15 verify that this still works?
It's not at all clear to me that the quality of life is better in Germany than it is in Canada. Or, if we nature it down, in Berlin vs Toronto. Having spent only a few months in Germany and bring from Canada, my guess would be the opposite of yours.
You seem to think "AI" means machine learning. In this case it does not. Theorem prover systems don't use neural nets.
> Things will get permanently worse but _somehow_ systems will get set up so that those at the top of society will basically live comfortably forever.

> The worst case climate scenarios are not actually "game over" for a lot of people. It will cause immense, quasi-permanent damage to a lot of people. But those people don't hold the levers of power.

This really depends on the amount of system damage done. Sure, at +1.5°C of global average temperature increase, you'll probably do fine.

But at +15°C? What will wealth buy you?
Yet another No Video Please vote here.
Is there a technical analogue to this?
True, many POs/PMs drive a lot of prioritization of work, since (maybe unfortunately), they're usually the ones left to "understanding the business impact".

It kind of adds more credence to people not being so siloed in responsibility. We all just bring different skills to the party. Thus, we're all responsible for quality, for business impact and prioritization, etc.

Unfortunately, I've often had situations where, upon a reorganization, I'm left with managers who love to "guard others from distractions" and end up cutting team members off from broader discussions. Thus, leading to the siloing.

This is why I think "DevOps" ends up meaning nothing. It's a _lot_ of details that requires lots of communication and knowledge sharing that can be overwhelming to, ahem, certain PHB types. Sometimes you can implement a tool, other times you can just not build a particular feature, but the reasons are usually very complex and never easily get broken into a simple one-liner task definition with a story point cost.
I don't think you even looked at the library, but from I can tell, debug perf would not be impacted at all.
I was impressed to learn that when Margaret Hamilton programmed this machine, she wrote an interpreter, and coded the mission logic in the interpreted language. So, in a sense, it really was microcoded; but the microcode was what looks like the real instruction set, and the instructions actually used lived in ROM.

The Xerox Alto, which was used for the original Smalltalk in 1972, also worked much this way: It had 16 program counters, one of which pointed to a program for interpreting Alto instructions. Other program counters were for refreshing the screen, operating the disk, driving the laser printer, and moving network packets. An interrupt just changed which program counter instructions came from.

The Smalltalk runtime was another interpreter, interpreted by Alto (interpreted) instructions. People complained about how slow Altos were, no surprise.

I might have misremembered some of the details above. Corrections welcome.
Honest, officer, I heard at the supermarket that my neighbor was engaged in activity that other people have publicly engaged in but I happen to think is illegal. To prove my seriousness, here is a brief prepared by lawyers about my hearsay allegations!

Did you see it? No, but I heard at the supermarket...
And? This doesn't do anything about that if you still need to be line-of-sight.
I sometimes forget because it's not something that I regularly have. I just have to spend a few moments on my phone before buying certain fruits.
I started at 47k 14 years ago at an automotive company in southern Germany. I think they generally pay a bit better than the small companies, and nowadays it certainly is even more. The caps will also be higher than what you mentioned. But there is certainly a lot of a lower limit than what people can make as individual contributors in other countries.
The point is that data provenance isn't encoded in the data. Like the difference between a schema where column X has type `int` versus X having type `do(int)` or something cleverer. If the way you get your causal model is to ask the person who ran the experiment, then it's very much an uphill battle for an algorithm to get a causal model. We want to enable automated causal inference, so we should better record our causal models (data lineage).
At least in the EU the "no one cares" is changing. Member states need to have legislation in place that means from 2020 all new builds are "nearly carbon zero" (unfortunately left to interpretation by country). In my country that means homes have insulation and heating requirements on par with Passive House standards, as well as the majority of their energy coming from renewable sources.
I use (Apple) Notes on my iPhone and MacBook. They are always in sync. The notes don’t use MarkDown, but they are plenty of styles and features. I highly recommend checking (Apple) Notes out. I’ve used MS OneNote, which is also very good and available and syncable on/across several platforms. For me, (Apple) Notes has a slightly better UI. If you just want a cross platform syncable to-do list, and the above are too heavy, you might look into MS ToDo 2.0.
You are much more likely to die in a fire in USA, so it makes sense for Americans to take more measurements to prevent it. But in for example Switzerland fires is not a big thing so there is no need to have any laws against it.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fire-death-rates
nefitty: You make some good points.

I would like to share my views around fairness and judgement. My apologies if the numbering makes them seem formal; my intention is only to give them a rough ordering.

1. One should not be eager to criticize others.

2. One should seek to understand others.

3. However, one should be willing, intellectually, to differentiate between aspects and assess those differences.

4. It requires some care to balance 1, 2, and 3.

5. One should be honest with oneself, at least, about your conclusions.

6. One should be comfortable with your assessments, particularly if you've thought them through.

7. One should be willing to share these thoughts with others, because debate will improve your thinking, scope, and articulation.

8. One should accept the consequences of what you say.

9. One should learn from what you say.

10. One should not refrain from making assessments only out of a fear that someone will label you as "judgmental".

11. Some people criticize others because they dislike the other person judging others. This is somewhat ironic, because in some cases this criticism is premature. If one judges another without engaging to develop an understanding, I think that is unfortunate. Doing so would be acting in a way inconsistent with one's own values.

All of these "should" statements should be adjusted to the situation. For example, repeated experience, if reflected on fairly, may warrant that some particular people do not deserve the same degree, say, of "benefit of the doubt".
Probably not very much considering that the lawlessness delta is to blame for this, not reporting requirements.
Different classes of anti-tumor drugs employ different mechanisms; some more than one.
I stayed in a house in Germany in which the walls were filled with dried-straw for insulation. It was several hundred years old. There was a no-smoking rule.