skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard of some organizations rejecting this because if it wasn't for all the unprepared people heading out and getting in over their head they would have to pay someone to go out an pretend to need rescued for training purposes. Having someone who really needs help is much better training than a planned mission - even if they shouldn't have needed help.

Your mileage may vary, each rescue team has different situations. In some areas they get too many calls (remember a call takes the rescuers away from their family and other thing they would do instead) and should do something about those who didn't make at least some attempt to be prepared.
I've wondered why diagnostics doesn't work differently.

Why not have a specialist collect the data needed: pictures, temperatures, blood pressures, basic answers to questions, etc...

Then farm this data out to several doctors who make a diagnosis -- until you've reached a statistical significance.

Then, use this data to train a machine learning model.
Heartbreaking is the word for me too. I started out more in ops research and did well, but after the early 2000s dotcom bust thought it would be wise to pivot toward software. Mythical job of tomorrow as it were. Now surrounded by charlatans and it seems there is no escape!
In Davos, the Spectre of a Tech Cold War
These tinker use cases of GPT2 (including the dungeon game) are amazing to see. As the model improves, makes me think of essentially everyone having access to a conversational Einstein, Lincoln etc...instant friends/advisors from history.
Doesn't always work, but when it does, it is great. On some sites you have to click the icon quickly enough if they were dumb enough to load all the content just before removing it.
Heart-stopping bodycam footage captures hero officer tasering machete attacker

https://www.toointeresting.com/heart-stopping-bodycam-footag...
There are a lot of silly lies about the War that have yet to be dispelled. Actually, a recent book that contributes to this effort is "First to Fight" by Roger Moorhouse[0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/First-Fight-Polish-War-1939/dp/184792...
Funny. I feel exactly the opposite. I use Quicken because I don't need a web app or an iOS app, just a desktop app. And I'm happy that Quicken seems to be mostly abandoned. It does what I need and I don't want a bunch of flashy new features added every month when I'm not going to use them anyway.
And quite a few politicians have an equivalent of economics degree.

Those fields are in neighborhood of STEM more than old "liberal arts" standard of language, foreign language, art (painting or music) and history.
(Note: no ethics or philosophy.)
Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon Winners Announced
It's good news for specific types of farmers, mostly midwest commodity farmers and feedlots.

This is just patronage for flyover Senators to cement their support.
Researchers develop an app for tracking trade of endangered fish
Options 1 and 2 have been tested through time. It seems that option 2 actually makes for less wars and less deaths from war than option 1, so there is a progress.

Should we test option 3, and how do we roll back if it doesn't work out and turns out to be the worst option ?
Speed by a Thousand Cuts
Simple, single fraudulent tax benefits one person, with everything in the record, and is easy to trace (bank account owned by someone else)

A single fraudulent vote doesn’t benefit anyone, but thousands of them benefit someone greatly, and it’s difficult to trace, as it looks the same as a regular vote.
to add to this statement, keep in mind the U.S. spends way more per capita on socialized medicine than any EU country.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/08/08/how-us...
Hey, don't disrespect Nimrods! They are just regular hunters.
From the about page:

This community is open, meaning everyone can join (even men), as long as people joining are here to empower women. We believe a change is only possible together.
My wife and I recently tried to do the same with Dracula for Halloween! Unfortunately those first few chapters are on the longer side and we got tired of reading aloud :p

I ended up finishing up the book on my own, but the chapters we did read aloud were fun.
There's a tunnel. I was there with my dad in 1993, and we only discovered the tunnel after we crossed the 8 lanes to get to the monument.
No one said there is any problem.
There really needs to be some test scale of procrastination since nearly everyone does it. Something like being 5 degrees from Da Vinci (the Mona Lisa took 16 years).

My feeling is that anyone w/o an A average going into college should have a first term class in time/study strategies, and register for no more than 4 classes (outside Loafers 101). Many people much brighter than I crashed and burned early in college and our vaunted centers of learning had nothing for them.
I agree: Leave a little more to local governments, which might rub some the wrong way, but some issues might only affect a small area, or set of smaller areas.
They are almost certainly getting their own privately built cloud which they can 100% show up and audit whenever they please.
Fine tuning. For training from scratch, you want a dataset of at least 20GB gathered from all corners of the internet. I think OpenAI used around 160GB.

Even if you can't process that much data, merely having it available forces the model to learn a diverse variety of knowledge.

The difficulty of training from scratch (and generating a quality model) vs the difficulty of fine tuning is like the difficulty of becoming fluent in emacs vs using notepad. It's doable, but quality results take focused effort.

It's fun! Definitely within reach of lots of people who wouldn't normally consider themselves data scientists / ML engineers. (I'm one of 'em.)
Did your colleague say their name in the message to you?
I agree 100%, but that would require we have progress instead of congress.
That article may as well have been written by or about me, it's uncanny.
> That said, is building a community where one class of gender is prioritized over another healthy? How is it better than a MenMake?

The theory is that providing encouragement specifically to women will help women "get their foot in the door".

It's a perfectly plausible theory and it seems to have worked in medicine and law. Will it work in tech? Time will tell -- but you can't blame people for trying.
Not only Women Make is open to all women, but it's open to everyone. So trans women are more than welcome. Since you're asking this question, maybe I should make it more clear.
Look at average of all REITs, VNQ. It'll return about 3% dividends plus appreciation (roughly inflation over the long term ~ the last 10 years have been a bit of an anomoly). After tax 3% ends up as 2%. And these are the Pros they know what they're doing.

If your using leverage then you're playing a very risky game and just as the upsides are very high, the downsides are equally higher if not more.

Properties that rent 7%+ are very high risk areas where you could easily loose much of the principle. And, you need to look at the percentage return on the total investment after all expenses. After all that, you need to multiply it by .7 because it's considered income.

There are people who this for a living, who know far more about it than anyone else. They run REITS.

I mean, just look at the total returns for REITs. yes, there's some that have dividends as high as 5% up to even 10%, I even have some of them in retirement portfolio but I expect they'll loose some of their principle as any REIT with such a high dividend probably would. Just read any financial review and you'll see that anything with a dividend above 10% is highly suspicious or Risky.
IIRC the Executive gets to do this because the EPA is part of the executive branch. Can congress setup an agency that is outside of the control of the executive?
I'll second all of that. It's well worth actually learning C++ (and not C masquerading as C++) if you want to go into the broader scientific computing job market.
I certainly wish I had focused more on "real" C++. I have maintained some very large C++ codebases, but I still don't really know C++, just "C with classes". Thankfully, C++ is not my day-job anymore.

I'd also give a quiet nod to trying to get familiar with modern dev-ops tooling. E.g. docker, kubernetes, and interacting with at least some forms of cloud storage. Get used to the idea that a bucket is not actually a directory, it's a hierarchy of prefixes and learn how to use that. Think of a dockerfile as learning how to write a makefile. It's worth learning the basics of, and it's not hard for simple things. HPC work has traditionally been a lot of fairly custom clusters (Condor, anyone?) or problems that are best solved with a lot of RAM on one machine. However, things are moving towards commodity solutions (i.e. "the cloud") or at the very least, common software layers. You don't need to understand the the ins and outs of managing a kubernetes cluster, but it's helpful to have used kubectl to spin up and debug a pod or two at some point.

However, I will say that there seem to be more Python-based jobs than C++ or Fortran jobs in the industry-based scientific computing world these days. Perhaps less so for fluid dynamics or finite element methods or other "simulation on a grid" problems, but there are a lot of python codebases out there in industry right now. I think it's very important to be comfortable working in higher level languages as well, and python is kinda becoming the lingua franca of a lot of sub-fields. For better or worse (I'm in the "better" camp), a lot of users are going to want a python library for what you're writing. It's best if you're used to "thinking in python" and can design a pythonic api.
One thing I think is key to being a good ally is to work mostly in the background, to avoid the spotlight unless necessary, and to yield or share it when possible. Speak less, listen more, trust what you hear and defer to the judgment of the underrepresented party.

There was a moment in college when I was participating in a Take Back the Night march, and I was leading the call-and-response chant "What do we want? Safety! When do we want it? Now!" It felt awkward and wrong. Once I stopped leading the chant and started participating vigorously in the response of the call-and-response, it felt right.
That is not correct. The Clean Air and Clean Water acts don't really show up as important events if you chart out the levels of pollution in America. The levels had been decreasing before the acts, largely because of state-level regulation and self-regulation.

Of course, it's not that these acts didn't do anything. They were discrete pieces in the larger edifice that led to the environmental improvements. But it's certainly incorrect to claim that these acts were THE reasons for the cleanup, and thus it's also incorrect to expect that rolling back those acts would return pollution to the previous levels.
Open and Python
On the surface your thought might seem valid, but it is not.

The reason a community like WomenMake is valid and important while something like MenMake is not, is because women have and still do face systemic discrimination in society, and in the workplace (and especially tech workplaces). You referenced this yourself (Global Gender Gap Index) so I assume you’d agree with that.

So women have a much harder time breaking into and progressing in the tech community, either systemically or even more explicitly through direct discrimination or abuse. WomenMake provides a valuable place for women to help each other through these issues that are specific to them, support each other in general and try to improve this imbalance. Men do not face these issues (although of course race, ethnicity etc are also issues, so many men face discrimination, but not because they are men, for other reasons).

Once women face no structural societal discrimination in the workplace, then something like MenMake and WomenMake might be equally valid, but until then you are not correct to make this comparison. (And at current rates this won’t be true for a very very long time).
In that case wouldn't it be a better solution to aggressively remove those who harass others about personal things rather than the topic at hand instead of making a site where women specifically are treated as a special/protected class?
A lot of practice comes a long way. A few truly top politicians were also actors. (Not necessarily very good ones.)
Well, the article states that a solution to procrastination is therapy (cbt, act, or whatever flavor you choose). Procrastination is a manifestation of general anxiety and your brain can be reprogrammed by a combination of reframing your thought process and medication if needed.

Supervised exposure therapy is probably the best biofeedback you can get.
Imagine that brilliant feature isn't just "a break" but the norm... it's not just "when I get bored," it's:

- In the middle of flow
- Trying to fall asleep
- Trying to go back to sleep
- In the middle of important conversations
- During meetings - even one's you're leading
- When you're getting dressed
- When you're making breakfast (where the hell did I put the 3rd spoon I've pulled from the drawer)
- When you're in intimate moments with a partner (or by yourself - no judgement here)
- When you're making lunch (just burned my second grilled cheese because I can't stay on task for 5 minutes)
- During exercise
- During free-time and hobbies
- Between small tasks
- In the middle of small tasks
- etc
- etc
- etc

The article itself is about the issues surrounding the person's ADHD, not just "procrastination," which for many people is a good thing, because it's a brain break; but for many of us with ADHD it's the norm and a cycle we have to fight instead of embrace.
Some people believe, if a politician has $X to spend, they're more likely to spend it on things demographics with high turnout rates want than things demographics with low turnout rates want.

So for example, these people see the interests of people of retirement age represented much better than the interests of under-30s. They see this as part of the cause of rising college costs, and rising house prices transferring wealth from the young to the old.

By this model, every non-voter that starts voting is a step towards more even -and hence more just- representation. And if you're in a demographic with a below-average voting rate, the state better serving your needs.

Of course, that's a largely academic argument in the election of the board of supervisors for a conservation district, who probably don't have much influence on matters like house prices.
Class action lawsuit alleges Tesla alters sensor data after sudden acceleration
Porting is a non-event for most non-large projects. In short:

- First cut a new major version

- Write a few tests if needed, they go a long way here.

- Update to 2.7 best practices and logging

- Run tests, commit

- Add a few future statements, commit

- Run pyflakes3 on it, fix, commit

- Run under 3.x/fix until clean, commit

However, if your project is huge and/or does a lot of string and bit twiddling it's excruciating. Hence the controversy between factions.
Do you find it easier to write code if you can talk to yourself while you do it? I don’t do it very often since there’s usually people around, which would make it pretty awkward. But somehow I find it makes it easier to stay on track - it’s as if a thought spoken out loud is easier to remember even after your mind has shuffled through five other thoughts. Almost like there’s an echo lingering in the room.
We have over 800 military bases in ~70 countries around the world.
This model is only valid under the assumption that all countries are equal, as that is not the case we find ourselves somewhere in a multidimensional, temporal, observer-relative, non-euclidean, indeterminate, irreducibly complex, continuous "option 2".
> other drivers also have no option to merge wrong or try anything weird

If they're following the markings, yes. We have a 1.5-lane roundabout in my area[1] (two lanes on the north side of the circle, one lane on the south side) fed on the southwest by a two-lane road; the right lane is supposed to be a bypass for vehicles turning right, and does not actually enter the roundabout. Some vehicles still make the attempt, ignoring road markings, adjacent vehicles legally entering the roundabout from the left lane, and even the impending concrete barrier.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0332849,-91.6029348,100m/dat...
Show HN: I want to do an experiment: I'll do your MVP for $499
...with a catch: I won't be asking your feedback on the design, although I promise it will be good (you can hire someone else to tweak it later). Apps, webapps, desktop software... Saas tend to be more complicated, so probably not - but happy to discuss.

I'm a software engineer with over a decade of experience, with a 100% success rate on Upwork - my profile there is locked for lack of activity, but here's a print taken on 23jan2020: http://t.ly/q8xw9

Of course, there's limited availability. For private discussions hit me at pepicon / gmail.
I'm not English native so copywriting suggestions are more than welcome. How would you have said it?
Test Desiderata 8/12: Tests should be isolated from each other [video]
They say more in the link if you care to read it:

Continued corruption of the information ecosphere on which democracy and public decision making depend has heightened the nuclear and climate threats. In the last year, many governments used cyber-enabled disinformation campaigns to sow distrust in institutions and among nations, undermining domestic and international efforts to foster peace and protect the planet.
First,

> "Amazon is a big company and they don't enter lawsuits they won't win"

this simply isn't what I said.

Second - my evidence? We're not in court and I'm not trying to prove anything to you. I just explained my thought process - if you disagree or if you think there's a flaw in my reasoning, you can point it out. Or you can move on and ignore what I've written.
Well, that is an interesting take, but if collecting such a tax really helped reduce the number of people going out unprepared, thus needing help, it would really be a no-brainer to do so, as it could avoid people getting hurt or killed in the first place.
Standard counterpoint objection here that I'm not sure I "buy" ADHD. How much of it is just "being human" (and in particular "being a young human") in a world that's inhuman? Is it a coincidence that the condition was first "observed" around the onset of industrialization a couple hundred years ago? There are numerous evolutionary advantages to being tuned-in to your environment. Certainly every tribe could've used at least a couple people like that. But in an industrialized world, with industrialized education & work processes, where you're called-upon to sit still for hours doing things that don't matter (and that you hence, don't care about), where subtly you tend to find more success the more you act like an automaton, it's apparently maladaptive, a liability and an aberration. Because we've made it one. It's industrialization itself that's maladaptive.
I love how in this thread about, ostensibly, why tracking is bad and trackers should be blocked people are arguing that using GA is ok because doing anything else is "too hard". Why can't this same argument be applied recursively to any of the trackers in the NYT tracking sphere? I'm sure it can, and I'm sure that's why loading a NYT page loads dozens of various third-party tracking scripts: because doing anything else would have been "too hard" for the NYT marketing & technology departments.
They added a new explanatory line to the 2018 form 990. It clarifies that the compensation comes from the subsidiary. That seems quite odd to me, but at least it isn't eating the foundation's budget.
Really even assuming an utter breakdown in norms for not using chemical weaponry they would lose that arms race as the adversary would only need one non-immune chemical weapons.

Of course the implications of the gene mods go far beyond that niche military application. Being able to reliably mod organs is obviously therapeutically helpful - say being able to reverse sickle cell anemia. Being able to "vaccinate" against toxins is likewise obviously helpful. Drugs that technically work on the pathogen but would be lethal to the patient could be used harmlessly if the patient was made resistant first.
When I used to tutor, if we hit any Shakespeare, I had the kids read it aloud. Often, I would rope parents in to read from a different copy (the trunk of my car was rather full of books) for other characters. This worked for most plays but especially well for Shakespeare. Poetry, too.

I sometimes rewarded good behavior with reading from The Hobbit or something similar.
I think you are misreading Trump. The flagrant openness is part of the power play. By doing it openly he denies plausible deniability to his foot soldiers and limits their future ability to defect.
Wuhan to build special hospital in six days to receive patients
>That said, is building a community where one class of gender is prioritized over another healthy?

The issue is that society already prioritizes one gender over another. A community which prioritizes one gender over another is merely attempting to tip the already unbalanced scales of society towards equality.
I don't agree with that. Obviously it's better to have a quote, but in many cases having an exact quote isn't possible. Most "credible journalists" write stories detailing "what happened" all the time without exact quotes, because if that was the standard required then we would never hear about anything that wasn't public.
Unlike Kant, knowing calculus will help you with balancing books. (And many other useful real world stuff.)

If you want to add something useful to the mix, try law, ethics (technically a subset of philosophy), logic (as analysis and rationality, manipulation) and acting. Group work can be exercised in any field, therefore including basic management.
Or the Bypass Paywall extension for Chrome: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
I wonder how this differs form dipping in chilled water at a typical Russian Banya. I can’t swim well in cold water but experienced a great effect on my body at a russian spa. After alternating between sauna/steam room and quick dips in a small tank with chilled water (near freezing point) and all i could say is after the initial shock I felt absolutely fantastic.
LindyFrame 4.0
I'm not exactly sure when it started but I've been amazed at how weak Congress is. Presidents are basically conducting war without Congressional approval, signing 'trade deals', vast executive orders, etc. all while Congress twiddle their thumbs. The judiciary and executive have way more power than Congress right now.
This is slightly disingenuous, given McConnell/the Republican party's boycott of any Obama-related laws. Obama executive actions are somewhat different than Trump executive actions, in that Congress was essentially thumbing their collective nose at Obama, while Trump could easily piece together votes for legislation, but is choosing not too. So it's not exactly "both sides" here.
From what I understand, it's possible he did violate the law when they systematically denied and ignored all the science related to it. There are already multiple lawsuits alleging this. My understanding is that the EPA's mandate requires scientific input in the rational decision making.

I think it's _ok_ for congress to grant some power to set rules, so long as there is appropriate checks and balances. However, we have seen in the past few days that the GOP does not want to enforce the checks and balances anymore.
This is a case where I think both sides are true. One can be both self-reliant and reliant on others, and it turns out that's pretty much reality. One cannot rely on someone who is not self-reliant, nor can one be self-reliant without others' help.
It's almost exactly what I am working on.