skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said it before, and say it again StackOverflow has taken a huge nosedive sicne the "Time to take a stand"[1] post, where Joel stated openly that if you don't support open borders, you aren't welcome on StackOverflow.

[1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take...
It is reversible, if the decedent is only mostly dead. I've seen it in film.
Agreed. Outside the world of ML (but working with reasonably large data, ie a few billion rows of server log entries in varying formats) I had some success grabbing a narrow slice (single-digit millions) and experimenting w/ ways to query it using combination of regex and SQL, thanks to an amazing little powertool called lnav (https://lnav.org). It's like an intuitive, scriptable, mini-ETL on the commandline you can learn in no time. I once used it to track down the root cause of a p0 in prod, in parallel to the ops gurus and most senior devs using dedicated tools and processes; we arrived at the same conclusion around the same time, and the stuff I'd extracted helped speed the patch. Felt pretty good, and I've been singing lnav's praises ever since.

Shoot I must be getting old, rambling on a tangent. Get off my lawn! ;)
Previous discussions:

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486541

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013136
Well, and GE-645 (ie. the special purpose MULTICS machine), the iAPX 432 (that Intel chip that gets a bad rap), the Plessey 250, and the CAP computer off the top of my head.

ie. anywhere that describes the segment base, limit, and permissions on a separate privileged table.
> I question how much an employee should concern him/herself with how a product is used once it's created. You have to let certain control go after a point. Or if your product is open to everyone, you'll have to live with the fact that people may use it in ways you disagree with.

Well if a business fostered a culture where it's deemed acceptable to question who the business should or shouldn't be working with, nobody can blame the employees for doing exactly what they were incentivized to do.

Plenty of businesses would fired a rebellious employee on the spot without a second thought, or at the very least ask him to resign if he dares question managements on a matter that is neither legally questionable or related to the employee's work conditions, for instance, a group of employees that would be asking management to boycott a certain country.

Seems it is a different culture at GitHub,Google or Facebook where apparently questioning management is a virtue.

I see nothing wrong with that. It's their own doing.
> Indemnity is a wonderful thing. Indemnity is why we have open source.

What do you mean by this? I don't see any necessary connection between open source and indemnities. Professional developers might want to release free software but accept payment to guarantee its fitness for purpose. Conversely, malware authors shouldn't be able to disclaim responsibility for their actions simply by publishing source code.
Since this comment was down voted, this is a legitimate hypothesis..... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/65342-c...
Is your country of a similar size and complexity as the United States? Or are you from one of the smaller countries that is more comparable to a US city?

I can see all sorts of things working for a small country that do not scale to a large country. Something that works well in, eg, Denmark might be appropriate if applied to somewhere of comparable size and complexity like the New York city centre but in appropriate if applied to a continent.
I have started using prefect.io as a workflow runner. It helps me define tasks and deeply define what should happen on failure of a task including cleaning up a cluster.

Because Tasks are just functions you could test your tasks with regular unit testing and mocking methods.

But I agree a lot of data people seem to think interactive is good enough.
Important to note that there are different divisions of ICE. The division that tackles International crime (HSI) is different from the one that subjects immigrants to cruelty (ERO).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/seeki...
GitHub doesn’t sell product in the same way as your examples. They are a service provider. I’d say different dynamics come in with services (hosting content, providing and managing infrastructure, providing support and maybe even consulting) vs products.

Also for people who draw comparison with discrimination against individuals: Companies, agencies and organizations aren’t “discriminated” against in the same sense as individuals. I am not aware of any legislation where it’s considered wrongly discriminatory to decline B2B contracts.
Probably not accurate. Many more people will switch on due to the social justice angle than will respond to the libertarian aspect.
Running a company is also not good for my teeth. I grind like crazy when sleeping at stressful times.
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Hacking the Xbox 360 DVD Drive (2006)
There is a difference between a) offering something (for free or gain) ubiquitously to the world at large regardless of any of the myriad ways we choose to distinguish one from another and b) have an arrangement with a specific entity to further their specific cause.

I'm not under the impression that gitlab employees are complaining about the first (surely ICE employees and contractors can make use of the myriads of repositories gitlab makes available to the world at large). They are reacting negatively to specific contracts gitlab has with ICE.
This is not a false dichotomy at all.

Businesses should have a moral position, sure.

That moral position should be right? According to who? The business itself? Then that second point is redundant. Everybody thinks their moral position is right, that's what morals are. It's a tautology otherwise.

GitHub employees think their moral position on ICE is right. Many disagree. But according to them that's fine, because they think they're right so should be able to boycott who they like.

Replace Github with bakery refusing to serve same-sex couples. Bakery thinks they're right. Many disagree. But according to them that's fine, because they think they're right so should be able to boycott who they like.

You only think it's a false dichotomy because you personally disagree with the bakery and (presumably?) agree with Github. By saying "the moral position should be right", is you simply saying "and they should agree with me otherwise they are wrong".
No, don't do this both sidesim over here.

Obama prioritized deportation of those with criminal backgrounds. He created the DREAM program to help the millions of immigrants who spent most of their life in the US.

Its not the same.
You are much more likely to get good results if you go to a doctor's appointment armed with knowledge and good questions to ask. Yes, don't trust everything you read on an Internet forum, but don't dismiss it either.
Pervasive surveillance is inevitable. ACLU would be better served fighting to protect rights that exist in the constitution (the second amendment) than rights that do not (“privacy” right not to be tracked in public).
Unemployment numbers in Iowa are 100% rigged. They shortened the window from 2 weeks to 1 week to make continuing claims throwing many off the rolls. There is also a benefit cliff that screws workers penny for penny out of side hustle income over $100/week giving them little motivation to file claims despite making less than $600/week.

Also the system is rigged against minimum wage workers. They have to work weeks longer than $100k wage employees to qualify for coverage.
Yes, and in the case of a closed timelike curve, the laws of physics won't let you do something different the second time you are at a particular event in spacetime than you did the first time. Both are straightforward constraints from the point of view of the laws of physics.

But that still does not mean they look the same to us, intuitively speaking. For example, the laws of physics won't let you walk on the ceiling at all, whether your worldline is a closed timelike curve or not. But if your worldline is not a closed timelike curve, then, intuitively, it seems like the laws of physics will let you choose which direction you want to walk on the floor. However, if your worldline is a closed timelike curve, and you come around again to the event in spacetime where you chose to walk to the left last time around, the laws of physics will not let you choose to walk to the right this time; they constrain you to walk to the left again, since from the standpoint of the laws of physics you are at the same event in spacetime and that event can only happen one way. To many people that seems like a much stronger constraint than the constraint that you can't choose to walk on the ceiling.
The organs belong to those kids. They are in their possession, and they made them. I’d have to take those organs from them by force or threat of force.

Kind of like my money that the government calls a tax and takes by threat of force or, if it decides, by force.

Your analogy is terrible and is completely oblivious on who the bad guys actually are.
Insanity must suck.
>>>No, they are people fleeing violence in Central America through Mexico, in large part.

If you are passing through one country because you desire to get to a specific destination, you are basically asylum shopping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_shopping
Do you know if it can target a particular unit from a clump of air units? If yes, then there is another "unfair" thing.

Also I wonder how their "camera-like interface" works with tactics like fly a building above units to make them harder to target.
The largest methane fountain so far discovered in the Arctic Ocean
I hail from Germany. Not exactly US sized, but not a small country either.

One thing that I think would actually be easier to do in the US to achieve the same thing is to cap and publicly finance campaign spending. Given the strong emphasis on free speech that the US has it might be simpler to go the reverse route. If 'money is speech', even out the playing field on a financial basis.
Recent? Genesis 9:7
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I remember a time when it was good manners to ask before taking someone's picture.
We can detect the CMB which, using the Stefan-Boltzmann law [s-b] and a CMB temperature of 2.725 K, is about 3.12e-6 Watts/square meter. But, the CMB is pervasive. The blackbody sphere you're asking about is very far away, and the amount of power you'd receive scales like the inverse square of the distance from the sphere to us here. So forget it, the CMB's blackbody energy flux on/near Earth is ENORMOUS compared to the star's.

[s-b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law
> That's nonsense. Philosophers will debate subtleties around morality until the end of time, but that shouldn't prevent us from taking a stand against evil when we see it.

"evil" is exactly what religious people called homosexuality for centuries, which is ironic considering your statement. Morality is purely an opinion, just like religion.
I'm actually building a tool right now that aims to solve this problem. I partially agree with your statement. Yes, designers need to learn how to interact with a UI component, but I don't think they should go so far as coding.

Code necessarily involves implementation details that are not relevant to designers. Also, there are so many different platforms for UI code that it's not a realistic goal, unless designers are willing to constrain themselves to one platform.

My view is that a truly modern UI design tool will allow designers to express the "visual logic" of the application. The output/handoff would essentially be a set of visual specs that are platform agnostic.
On a whim I responded to a recruiter last week about a job. The first step was an online coding challenge. The company wanted a "Java developer", and I told the recruiter I have never used Java regularly, but given my experience she said it wasn't a problem. I figured the code test would be some simple filter stuff.

Instead, it was five algorithm quizzes... all in Java. I had an hour to finish it and, after spending the first fifteen minutes searching for Java standard library stuff just so I could write the code I wanted, I decided this was a waste of my time and closed the tab. This was all before I could even speak with someone who works at the company to find out if I cared to move forward.

I worked as a hiring manager for a couple of years and have had input into the hiring process for more than a decade. I've never found it difficult to screen someone out who had no place applying to begin with by taking a fifteen minute call. This at least gives them a chance to ask some questions and they don't feel like you're yanking them around.
Thank you for responding. The “shallow and wide” query you describe is not a challenge for any recently built column store, which will partition the data into blocks of 10-100 MB. So when you run a query like:

select * from time_series where ingest_time > ?

You will only scan the most recent block, and it will be extremely fast. I have no doubt that there are individual queries where a time-series database will “win”, but I earnestly question whether there’s a real-world use case, with a mix of queries, where a special purpose time-series db is preferable to a good column store with time-based partitioning.
H1-B visas and asylum seekers are two entirely different things, I'm not sure why you're trying to conflate them.

Edit: arguing about the legality of the asylum seekers is also missing the point.
Matthew Walker wrote that book [1]. He also has a few talks on YouTube worth checking out. From memory [2] was an informative one for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXflBZXAucQ
Refusing to give business to a government department because you personally morally object to what they do? Perfectly fine, Github is a private business, nothing to see here.

Refusing to give business to a same-sex couple because you personally morally object to what they do? Utterly bigoted, bake the cake or go to prison. Private businesses can only make decisions on who they serve if I agree with them.

See the problem here?
“Obviously immoral” - the ChiComs disagree.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/organ-harvesting-china-survivo...
. . . Trikafta will likely carry a list price of $311,000 when it arrives shortly on the U.S. market . . .

Now that's compassionate marketing (sic). I guess smart people with CF will all move to Canada or Britain where the politicians in those countries place the sick first, and force Big Pharma to offer their medicines at responsible, affordable prices. All our US politicians sell out to Big Pharma lobbyists so they can rape and blunder us on new drugs . . .
Not-GraphQL library that solve the same problems that GraphQL solves
A few weeks ago I read about an alternative design to API that is not GraphQL but it solves the problems that GraphQL solves.

For example, it provided pagination, filtering, etc. out of the box. The author wrote a very long blog post on the issues of the GraphQL and proposed her solution. The blog was purple.

I am dying here and spend a couple of hours to find it with no luck. Please help a brother out if you know what I am talking about?
Because that is what they advertize themselves as (connecting with people and seeing what they post), they should be held to the image they project.

The truth is they let you see most of your friends' and family's posts, but pretty much any commercial or non-profit's post is held for ransom. If you "like" a local band or want to hear from the local gardening club, they will be encouraged to pay to "boost" their posts to you.

If fb had to say "you will see the posts from your connections based on how much they pay us," up front when registering and in all their ads (like the fast-talking disclosures in US drug advertizing), then people would have a more accurate view of the service they are using. Of course, long privacy disclosures would be necessary too.
The article mentions subjects like history and philosophy. The only reference to art is in the context of art history.

Poetry can be empathetic, but it can also be selfish or impersonal, so I suppose we'd have to examine Stalin's poetry to find out how it might have related to his personality.

Four of his six poems are published here:
https://historyradio.org/2018/06/17/historical-documents-the...

The first one doesn't mention any individual people, focusing on people-less descriptions of landscape, only making a reference to Iverians/Georgians in a nationalistic context. No real empathy here, but an instruction to a group of people about how to feel.

The second one is a lament about old age. While it involves an individual person, Stalin admires that person because of his previous machismo. There's a certain amount of empathy for his current frail state, but it's really focused on the ability of age to bring such a previously strong man low.

The third one is back to landscape, along with some religious references and a generic "oppressed man" who can be "exalted by hope". People seem to be an abstract concept to him. The final verse is in the first person.

The fourth poem is an ode to a Georgian poet and playwright who "sang hymns to the motherland" and who he hopes will have many like him "in the fatherland". There are two references to "the people".

In short, his poems seem to reveal the mind with nationalistic tendencies, who sees "the people" as an abstraction, with individuality being largely irrelevant except when it can serve as a useful example. The only such exemplar happens to be a hyper-masculine man.

Perhaps people should have paid more attention to his poetry, it could have saved a lot of trouble!
Beam it at a black hole
With near-record low unemployment and rising wages, conditions are near optimal. It's very difficult to imagine some environment where the people suffering today are going to do better.

Conditions are pretty much maxed out.
Funny to see this reposted today, as just today I encountered an open source project which primarily uses Discord for chat - a terrible idea for all the same reasons. I had planned on writing a similar follow-up article reminding people that Discord is a bad communication medium for open source projects, too. I think that this is something the community ought to be occasionally reminded of, lest we lapse.
Interesting thing I learned from a European nurse when my Dad was in the hospital: What is called "Acetaminophen" in North America is called "Paracetamol" in Europe.
Anyone know why this is?
Trikafta will likely carry a list price of $311,000 when it arrives shortly on the U.S. market
Not even sure if that's about space or about heaven. Same baseless belief in salvation to me.
A sci-fi tale in which a man is resurrected using technology:
https://knowingless.com/2016/08/20/you-wake-up-on-a-table/
You Need to Design Your Programming Career
Missed opportunity to render pixel art in the calendar display.
“The observation of the world began from the noblest spectacle that was ever placed before the human senses and that our understanding can bear to follow in its
vast expanse, and it ended in — astrology.”

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
How to think about errors in your [C++] code
If you tend to do this a lot and use Chrome, you might find the tweak this comment inspired for me useful:

open chrome://settings/searchEngines

add a new search engine, called anything you want, with a convenient shortcut. I use "r". The important bit is the search string this expands to:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s

This does exactly what it looks like: search google for whatever you're looking for, but only for reddit pages. You access it by getting into the URL bar, hitting r<tab>, then you should see whatever you named this, then do your search and off you go.

Sadly, this is substantially better than searching reddit for the same string. (I work at reddit, and hope to help fix this sometime in the first half of next year)
The same can be said of probably most disorders listed in the DSM.

Mental disorder diagnostics are all 'Design by committee'. People get together and vote and they are argue and they create categorizations based on that. They do their compromises every time they need to update the book.

Diagnosis is then based on observed behavior and interviews. They don't do some sort of blood test, MRI scans, or X-rays or any other kind of medical diagnosis. Yeah, sure, there is some sort of questionable neuroimaging scan they can do, but none of that stuff ever gets used to actually diagnose people.

In terms of a science it's much closer to the 'sociology' side of things then 'search for the cure for cancer'.

The original purpose of DSM was so that psychologists and the lot have categorizations handy for filling out claims with patient's insurance. It's a lot easier to convince insurance companies to pay for treatments when the diagnosis is 'Attention deficit disorder' rather then 'Little Timmy is having a hard time sitting still in class and occasionally gets completely out of control'.

That doesn't mean these disorders don't exist or that DSM diagnoses are invalid or useless. It just means that it's all a bit 'hand wavy'.
Splitting up families is worse than detaining children in my opinion

You don’t need to pick and choose because ICE is splitting up families AND detaining children!
There have been months where the spam on freenode was unbearable, and fundamentally IRC is, like SMTP, a protocol where spammers have the advantage, and only heuristics stop spam.

A big part of the value of IRC-replacements are accounts that are tied enough to a person's identity (For example, by requiring sms confirmation) to deter most spam. IRC hasn't been able to do that.
Let's do another one!

Note that it's often been an excuse that Slack has an IRC and XMPP gateways, but, per the article, they've been shutdown in 2018.

I really hate Slack for how much memory it requires, and how many bugs it has. The Android app, for example, logs me out of every community if I'm removed from one of them; really "nice" when someone cleans up the resources of an old hackathon to be logged out of all the dozens of various teams you're part of. (Noone even knows how to call each of these individual teams or communities, either; requiring a separate login for all of them is pretty annoying, given that it's all maintained by Slack anyways.)

Or when they remove you from an existing hackathon team to make up space for new members, and now you lost all your contacts, and/or have to be re-invited again if you're still participating in the next-year-edition. It's basically a mess.

Even for employee communication — from a contractor's perspective — it makes you a non-owner of your own communication, unlike IRC, so, if you so happily accept it, you're basically working against yourself again.
Doesn't IRC support the registration of usernames?
Your false dilemma posed no problem for Bush and Obama.
Yeah. I think watching it split a line of Stalkers into two flanks that isn't done with a rectangular selection is crazy unfair.

I think you're saying does it suffer from occlusion during selection. Based on how APIs typically work, I would say no it does not. So yeah that's another thing humans can't do. AlphaStar could hypothetically stack units into a singular mass and it would be discretely untargetable by human players.
Would it be really be good to prevent Homeland Security Investigations, a major division of ICE, from investigating sexual abuse of children, and rescuing children from abusive situations?

And about one of every 10 agents in Homeland Security’s investigative section — which deals with all kinds of threats, including terrorism — is now assigned to child sexual exploitation cases.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...

https://www.ice.gov/predator
Yes. You will never let that go will you?