skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... If you don't like the data, change the character of the data?

I get what you're getting at. If the data collection is biased, massage the actor on the data to compensate. Got it.

...but if you're uncomfortable with the consequences of unleashing a Machine Learned system trained on your data as part of your decision making process from the get go, why in the heck would you want to anyway? There is no benefit to doing so when you realize that the system only works as well and unbiased as the sum of the biases of the data architects, data populators, and data interpreters combined, and that extra loss factor you added is, in fact, another bias. An unacceptable on to the minds of many no matter how disagreeable one may personally find it.

Better to just leave it in human hands to deal with on a case by case basis by that point. At least by doing that we stay ultimately in control of the overall decision making process.

People being in the loop is not a bug. Trying to solve social/political problems with poorly thought out applications of inexplicable technological systems is.
Why the L.A. Times has stopped italicizing names of foreign foods
Autocrypt Level 1: Opportunistic, low friction, email encryption
Not ironic at all! If I were a foreign entity pushing for bilateral agreements I would seed paranoia and doubt everywhere I could. The degree of explicit control that comes out of this manipulation is miniscule compared to its destabilizing effects on political focus.
> This will be a wakeup call to the world that if you can control the screens, you can control society.

Have you realised it just now? It has been like that for a decade.
I use a custom email service I made with interactive brokers, investing.com charting, and Interactive brokers account management
I agree with you, and that's how I personally choose to work. There's a lot of folks who would prefer a different lifestyle if they could manage it though.

Ultimately, the number one thing that gets repeat business is results. Because of that, I can totally imagine people who offer a smaller time commitment still being successful. Regardless, I definitely wouldn't recommend going the 'part-time' route to anyone that isn't already established enough to get away with it.
Let's actively avoid the delusional masses. Somebody had to do this
People who are grounded in reality and who are functional/ethical (according to my biased definitions of course) are rare and may often be lost among the sea of the deluded masses. So this write-up of mine is an attempt to gather people who are like-minded (through my own colored lens of the world). The goal is to improve one’s life by preferentially associating oneself with similar functional people and taking on projects that would be normally be difficult if one were to attempt it on one’s own. Right now this process of forming alliances is somewhat unplanned and subject to chance events (you meet/know someone reasonable at school, work etc.). I’m hoping to cast the net wide by leveraging the internet.

If you are as jaded as me please look at the first link on my profile (there is more to this, than my short rant above), if are not jaded, I envy your cheery optimism. Thanks for reading this far.
My team and management (who is even older than I am so he’s not a young idealist by any means) are aggressively “killing as many pets” as possible and going all in on managed services and serviceless - including lambda, Fargate (Serverless Docker), CodeBuild (Serverless builds), AWS SFTP (getting rid of our sftp server).

Don’t get me started on the “cloud consultants” who were just a bunch of old school net ops folks who only knew how to click around on the web console and duplicate and on prem infrastructure.

Yes, working for small companies I’ve had to manage servers and networks back in the day in addition to development.

We would even go with “Aurora Serverless” for our non production environments if it had feature parity with regular Aurora.
There’s a relatively hidden option to re-enable this on iOS, at least; the “Button Appearance” Accessibility setting.
Or another fireworks disaster, in Netherlends 2000, a series of explosions from 0.8kT to 5kT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster
Well if iOS 13 adoption keeps growing like this I think any project released mid 2020 could use it - unless every % of missed users really means a lot of missed income.
I have one of the new models, it's pretty cool. I backed the kickstarter so I got it cheaper than its listing price. If you find the concept interesting and don't mind spending the money it's a good option. If you find the concept interesting and do mind spending the money I'd recommend a 7-11 burner or prepaid phone
Let code be terse
Sorry - I saw the archive prefix, and assumed an alternative for the same article.

Yes, in the article I read (the second), his tone is provocative at best, and reflects a personality defect at worst, but I think he is saying the same thing - the award was inappropriately awarded, and he has a point.

I don't think your original assessment of him is fair.
The answer should be apparent from the signal-to-noise of OP. He merely
needed to ask "Are books worth the time?" to get his point across, but instead
couched it in 350 extra words. Books are similarly inefficient. Verbosity is
an existential threat.
They might literally mean WinAmp is back in the sense that Radionomy acquired it and restarted development.
Whether or not we agree on what constitutes "fluff," I don't really disagree. A lot of fiction would be better if it were tighter and a lot of non-fiction, especially business etc. books, do have padding.

A lot of it is publishing economics. For non-fiction, most mainstream publishers are looking for 250+ pages. And that often means adding more examples, more background, more...

There can definitely be a sweet spot between a magazine article and a typical published book. But that's hard to get published through mainstream channels which still have both real (and perceived) value relative to doing it independently.

When I did a book about a year ago, I was certainly aware of hitting page counts. I don't think of it as having a lot of fluff but it's not as short as it could have been either.
Um, yes?

Kids compete at whatever they are good at, including the cohort who are good at academics. Jocks think weaklings are losers, and nerds think dumbdumbs are losers.

Not everyone does, but everyone knows one.
See, in the present world, the majority of voters have no good prospects - for purely objective, technologically-driven reasons. Therefore, there are only two ways to make society workable - shut down popular democracy, or manipulate. Meaning, there is no way an average American, or even European, would vote for anything which won't be a blatant lie: because it is too grim.

Alternatives as i see them are either "democracy with prequalification", limiting voters pool to 1-10% of population (back to good old days, basically), or outright dictatorship (which is unstable). If i were to pick, i'd probably prefer the manipulations route.
I assume the meters are network-connected because they take credit cards, but they can't be remotely updated? Seems like an obvious omission.
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> The one thing that is unique about the [New Tab Page] in the new Edge is that it's actually an online website

> [The New Tab Page] is actually a higher privileged page.

This combination sounds risky no matter how you slice it. Amongst other things, your user's browser security now depends on the security of your user facing web site.
This question better posed as "Are any books worth it?", a much easier one to answer, then if yes it naturally follows with "Which books are worth it?", and I am sure there are several heuristics available to help approximate solutions to this third question.
I'm reading a lot and have done so for many years. It is one of the great sources of joy and richness in my life. Choosing a book is more difficult than it might seem. It sounds like you haven't encountered many great books yet. Humanity has produced about 130.000.000 books and roughly 4k are added each day.

If you are an avid reader consuming one book per week from age 20 to 80, you'll get through a little more than 3000 books. Few people make it this far. 60 years of reading don't cover the output of a single day of publishing.

There are many more great books than any single person can hope to get through in a lifetime.

Regarding the reading speed: As you read more, you will get better. With enough practice, reading becomes a fully-immersive and effortless experience (though the ideas in the book might stun you!). Your eyes and your mind get more accustomed to the practice, for example through a better knowledge of vocabulary.

Forgetting is a real issue that I struggle with as well. Spaced repetition is helping a lot of people [0].

Paul Graham (pg) makes some great points about how reading shapes the mind (so even if you don't remember all the facts, the act of reading still changes who you are) [1]

I suggest you look learning strategies to process text more efficiently and to aid retention. There is a well-rated course called "Learning how to learn" on Coursera. [2]

Since selecting books is such hard work, you can benefit from the reading lists of others, here's mine on Goodreads: [3]

[0] http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html

[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/10152457?view=table
With little or no thought or concern for what happens next.
Cool, that works!
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> Math hasn’t changed in 500 years.

What do you mean? Almost all math you learn in college were invented in the last 500 years. I think the last big things in math which they teach in undergrad were invented 50 years ago, so it is still a bit stale, but not that stale.
You can download the ipsws with iTunes. You can get the links by monitoring the network and seeing what iTunes does. You can reverse engineer iTunes. You can use ipsw.me, which does not pirate anything since it only gives you official links, it doesn't rehost anything on their own servers.

My point is that Apple doesn't redirect you to an EULA page when using those links. Apple can block all direct links and force you to go through an EULA, but they don't. And how you get the links is irrelevant. So is the fact that a user isn't supposed to have them.
As a counter example, I thought roughly 25% of Americans thought Obama was not born in America, despite the birth certificate? And that a similar percentage believe the Bible is the literal truth of God?
The tech community has always had that element. It's nicer here than on Slashdot but it's here too.

We've been through a boom for strong-man tech ceos with elon and amaz launching all kinds of projects. There's going to be a natural pendulum swing the other way for a bit.
> Are books worth it?

Maybe not for you. They are for me. This is impossible to answer generally.

> Is it more true for [older/some fields]?

I don't believe there will be such a simple heuristic. I've read many books that were not worth it, many I did not finish, and the common aspects were:

1. The topic did not interest me / My motives to read were not the right ones

2. The author was not very good / The content was low quality

You can prevent(1), but you'll have to at least give it a glance to identify (2) where you can just drop it.

> Isn't most of the information from books freely available online?

Including books? Free online books? What's the point here?

> Am I missing out?

Maybe not. If you don't get enjoyment from books, move on. There are plenty of rich and informative entertainment nowadays.
>Can anyone familiar with CC processing provide insight on whether that's a reasonable explanation?

It is not.
This is what people say about academia, that the politics is most vicious because the stakes are smallest.
I imagine these 8 executives are there to lay down suppressive fire, keeping customer's management at bay so that the engineers can go in and fix the problem uninterrupted.
Literary-minded folks often don't understand what might make 'genre' literature compelling, intellectually worthwhile etc., that's why they're sometimes inclined to regard it uniformly as trash. The reverse also happens, of course. I'm not saying that pure snobbishness does not play a role, but there's also a real divide in aesthetic outlook behind these attitudes.
How do you decide which books to read?
The main impact of these regulations is not going to be on the software availability overseas but on the software jobs availability for foreign nationals, IMO.

I work on ITAR-regulated software and, even though, the software itself is exported all over the world, I would not be able to write it if I had been a national of a restricted country, working in the US on a temporary visa.
Presumably you have to accept an EULA to run iTunes in the first place, right? Perhaps there's even another license agreement that pops up before you can download firmware.

>You can use ipsw.me, which does not pirate anything since it only gives you official links, it doesn't rehost anything on their own servers

I'm not saying that ipsw.me pirates anything, but that you may be pirating by using ipsw.me

> Apple can block all direct links and force you to go through an EULA, but they don't

But they do require you to go through an EULA. You're using a weird technological argument that firmly places you into weev-CFAA-violation territory.

I'm not saying this is how things should be, but this is how things almost certainly are in the eyes of the law.

> So is the fact that a user isn't supposed to have them

Yeah, so how is this not unauthorized access to a protected computer? A crime under the CFAA, as previously demonstrated in United States v. Auernheimer
The real tragedy of a troll patenting parts of the protocol developed at Signal is that Signal had millions of dollars of US government funding behind it.
> But that has nothing to do with whether the term “serverless” has a well-established meaning. It’s not just a buzzword, or at least it’s not always used as a buzzword and does in fact have a straightforward meaning.

You're confounding two independent issues: "serverless" being a buzzword, and "serverless" not having a precise and well established meaning.

The fact that "serverless" is indeed a buzzword is indisputable. Thus the only issue that's up for debate is whether "serverless" has a precise and well established meaning.

The problem with the assertion that "serverless" is a meaningful term is that it turns a blind eye to the fact that "serverless" is expected to be an umbrella term that refers to multiple concepts, some of which are well established. For example, "serverless" is used by some people to refer to a more concrete and specific and well established concept of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS). Yet, albeit FaaS is portraied as a subset of "serverless" concept, FaaS does not represent the concept, which is assumed to be more broadly defined.

This ambiguity and vagueness opens the door to discussions on whether pain old "managed services" warrant the "serverless" buzzword, which would underline the buzzword factor by the way an old and well established concept is being rebranded. Then there are futile discussions on whether irrelevant and secondary implementation details of managed services, such as the degree of automation and auto-scaling, are in line with what is true "servelessness".

But in the end this collective grasping at straws just underlines the lack of substance behind the "serverless" keyword.
A lot of useful ideas are pretty timeless, and for learning fundamental technical content, a _good_ book is worlds better than a collection of blog posts and wikipedia pages. I remember when I was learning about quaternion math, I spent a few days googling around, but often different authors would use different notational conventions, or have different assumptions (e.g. whether the coordinate system is right or left-handed), so the math would be subtly different. Not to mention the ones that were just flat-out wrong.

So I went to the library, browsed through several books to find one that seemed most relevant, and ended up checking out "Quaternions and Rotation Sequences" from J Kuipers. Having a single well-thought-out book that walked from the basic background all the way through, with consistent notation, was way easier to follow than the scattershot collection I'd found online.

So in general I'd say if you're optimizing for the most up-to-date information on a subject that's changing quickly, looking online is probably your best bet. If you want to learn something more foundational and can find a good book about it, I'd definitely go for that.
IIRC it was said in the context of the next major release (0.6.5), i.e. concentrate on 64-bit support ASAP or instead focus on the planned milestones that were already in the pipes. As you said, there was back-and-worth discussion in community chat, where the team tried to gather some feedback from macOS developers and gain a perspective on how urgent this issue is.

Really unfortunate that you cannot give Red a try, but I think it's still worth checking out in a VM of your choice. Drop by one of the Gitter rooms if you need help to get started:

https://gitter.im/red/red/welcome
The point of the English degree in this case is not to teach anything useful, it’s to inculcate one into a class. If you come from money and don’t need to develop any particular skills before being given a pile to manage any canon works as a shibboleth to allow people to distinguish whether someone else is of the “right sort”, whether the Confucian classics, the Western canon or Old Skool Rap.

Obviously social sciences or public policy work as well but the idea that they’re superior to the other methods is very weakly supported, at best.
I'm genuinely baffled at how you're going back and forth between authoritatively talking about how ETOPS is definitely scary, unsafe and new, but you also clearly know nothing about it.

Why not research a thing BEFORE deciding you have a strong opinion about it?
Another scary thing about Edge I hope they choose to amend in the future: Edge "stories" on the new tab page often include Outbrain/Taboola "stories". This means you can actually be one-click from launching Edge to a Windows support scam popup page.

I originally looked at Edge as a very secure browser choice until I realized Microsoft's zeal for ad revenue meant it literally came with malicious links built-in.
Thirty percent of Founder Institute startups today founded by women
“democracy with prequalification” is not democracy at all
Yes you are. High temperature from concentrated solar power has been something of a holy grail for a while. How it was achieved ("with AI") is less interesting than the result.
That seems fine. Students who learn quickly move up quickly. Students who learn slowly take more time to learn the material (and set the curve next time). It's bad to push ahead to higher level courses while still not understanding fundamentals.
Or a deliberate security measure. Embedded devices often use Harvard architecture, with separate memory for code and data, so not allowing remote updates makes remote code execution impossible.
That is not a modification of iOS, that's a custom restore tool. Restore tools are not part of iOS. You can make your own restore tool and instruct it to do whatever you want. Such tools include idevicerestore, futurerestore etc.
From one of the best guides on reading a book:

“....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.”

― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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Cool, an Archimedes Death Ray with AI.
I'm sure he had other interesting qualities other than being a snob, and I'm not putting down his other contributions, not being familiar with them myself.

But I don't think classifying him as a snob based on that sample is unfair. It's the difference between "I don't like this work" and "people who like this work are wrong".
I will say, it's very convenient for a billionaire to have an alternative theory to class struggle to promulgate.

I don't think it helps the rest of us quite so much to view society through his preferred lens, though.
If you are heterosexual in a non 1:1 balanced environment, then romantic partners are a rivalrous good.
Closed loop enables higher temperature. I doubt material saving is worth it.
+1 all the way. Online content is optimized not for quality but rather for clicks and interaction. As someone who grew up during the 90s the hope was that better quality would lead to more clicks. Clearly that’s not the case.

As a technical author myself, I can speak to the effort required to create a book versus a blog post. A book requires you to think holistically about a topic- building a comprehensive outline of what you intend to cover. Then you have to write. A lot. If you’re a good writer (for example take w. Richard Stevens) your text will include not just the information you wish to convey but context around that topic which is paramount to a deeper understanding of the topic.

Finally you go through a vetting process with other people in the industry. You’re challenged on your assertions, they help you correct errors, etc. Here the Wikipedia model may actually be superior as you are not limited in time or selection of experts for the tech editing phase.

In contrast, blog posts or tweets are optimized for speed and engagement. Superficial yet sensational topics are emphasized, context is lost due to lack of time and space to write, and the quality of the writing is highly variable.

Books are excellent and in fact I wrote my first tech book expressly because I found no good online resources for what I needed to know. I highly encourage people to read. It provides an excellent counterbalance to blogs and tweets.
I like this thing people are doing where they're like, "huh, my post on Hacker News was downvoted? must not be for content, must be because, um...its DEFINITELY because airlines arent going to publish negative things about them, theres definitely a logical connection there!

...?
> It’s nevertheless extremely valuable to continue working on ways of reducing the expense of running full nodes.

And nobody will claim otherwise. But there's always a trade-off, and focusing only on reducing the expense is severely misguided.

> Throwing caution to wind so Bitcoin can have fast payments Now at the expense of failing at sound money later is short-sighted and irresponsible.

The funny thing is, the inaction of the Bitcoin devs have made it fail at one of the core features of money. You cannot consider it to be acceptable, as fees are so expensive they price out a lot of people. Money should be easy to move around, and you should be able to buy large and small things with it.

Yet this is somehow preferable, because doing otherwise would make Bitcoin "fail at sound money", whatever that means.
You often see overwatch cheaters firing at the ground between kills to keep their accuracy stats from looking abnormally high
What sites do you mainly use in Russia? The big western sites or something like VK for finding videos? Sorry if personal, I'm just curious.
Unlike content on the internet, whose links can die for a myriad of reasons, physical books are always with you. I intentionally make a distinction between physical books and e-book options, where sometimes you have the book on subscription.