skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely it doesn’t matter when you have 10,000s of drives? Aren’t you already at a large enough sample size? If it isn’t, what is the point of them publishing this every year? I don’t know the math of the matter though.
Until self driving is possible with purely unsupervised data, self driving cars and other algorithms relying on massive datasets are unlikely to get really strong because label inaccuracies like this are inevitable

Also, far worse has been found in large scale datasets. Pretty sure there was CP found somewhere in imagenet
>No. Poverty is a lack of education and, more importantly, mentorship.

Yep, you nailed it. A friend of mine was ranting on how the poor people(in Europe) spend their money on iPhones, cigars, alcohol and cable TV instead of saving it. Lately, I realized that poor people spend their money on those things since it's their way of short term escapism from feeling poor and if they were to save it, the amount would be too small to suddenly lift them out of poverty so they don't even bother.

However, if poor people were clever, or had good mentorship, they would save that money and spend it on some courses in tech like sys-admin or getting certified as a professional plumber for example and get a better paying job, leading to a path out of poverty.

Unfortunately, most popele don't have the will or the guidance to figure this out by themselves.

Edit: Sorry, replied to the wrong parent
Those poor decisions however need not be theirs.
Brooks’s point, it seemed to me, was to make an erudite case for why the nuclear family is, even in the US, a historical oddity. This is not a point that’s routinely made in US cultural discussions, so it needed a fair amount of background.

His next point was that what comes next is path dependent, and may not look like what’s come before.

So it seems overly dismissive to say that Asian cultures offer an alternative trade-off, end of story.

There are other possibilities besides tight genetically related extended families and nuclear families.
One thing that this article misses about twitter is that you carry your followers around with you. So if you have 1000 followers and you tweet at someone, whatever you're saying, you're saying in front of 1000 of your fans. So if you disagree with someone not only are they going to get your criticism, they're likely to get 1000 people piling on behind you. There are lots of things I can say to you one on one that are suddenly basically bullying if I've got a mob behind me.

Equally, if you draw attention to someone, even if you aren't disagreeing with them, you have to be aware that you're likely subjecting them to a level of unwanted attention from your audience.
I knew there were things like what I was mentioning, but couldn't remember the names of them. Thanks.

I don't think any of these biases are necessarily consciously enacted, but I think they exist in some of the ways you mention. There's a sort of echo chamber effect or positive feedback loop with citations.

Somewhere I remember reading a bibliometric analysis of citation patterns in the nutritional sciences regarding the effects of salt. There were two huge clusters of papers, one basically "salt is basically fine" and the other is "salt should basically be avoided". The papers in a cluster cited each other a lot, and not so much papers in the other clusters.

I agree that quality reviews become more important over time, but there's the issue of "according to who?" I suppose this becomes an expert judgment call and is the nature of these things, as it always has been, but I feel like as things become more parochial and balkanized the meaning of a "good review" changes somewhat, or becomes harder to agree on.
That's definitely a possibility I didn't give the proper consideration. On the other hand, if I wrote that sentence with that intention, I would strip 'actually' it for being unnecessary.

Overthinking? Well I can hardly characterise this tangent as important.
> C and C++ also have a runtime

What do you mean by "runtime?" libc just makes it so you're not writing your own system calls. Things like attaching a profiler post-hoc, hot-replacing code, optimizing code, remote debugging, etc. aren't really things in C-land.
Yev here -> Thanks! Out of curiosity, does your school provide backup to all the students?
I believe open sourcing the financial side of business will become more popular in the near future when more people want increased sustainability and fairness in business practices. It helps create a culture where employees and employers have a transparent and balanced relationship.
Google polyfill badly done JS because firefox doesn't implement some "advanced" features that google tought but is not(or will never be) in the standard.
It result in more usage of CPU and RAM.
I noticed that Facebook have a memory leak on firefox for exemple (12Go, then 3Go after closing facebook).
They've all got massive bureaucracies above them that tightly control what they can do.

Also, everyone wants to eventually end their shift and go home. That means just doing what you're told & screw the damage done.
> you can add images, using data-uris

Seems like a good way to detect when someone opens the console.

Edit: Actually I am wrong
Do you have a problem with Mozilla's revenue from Google?
Cached db query ? :P Totally fine in Infrastructure
The big problem is that far too many people care about the man who lost his job and far too few people care about the underage woman who was coerced.

If this happened again, exactly the same arguments would be made as to why the woman should not have reported it and why nothing should happen to the perpetrators.
> Keeping code "clean" is more about how it represents the concepts and relationships it is dealing with and less about whether it follows any specific style rules.

I really disagree. To take a prime example, short functions are almost always better than long functions. Regardless of the content, codebases that are refactored into smaller, more self-contained functions almost always improve in reliability, performance, readability, and extensibility.

I think the reason for this largely comes down to reducing the surface area of interactions. A 100 line function can introduce subtle interactions between the first and 99th line. Whereas a three line function, the graph of potential dependencies is much smaller.

A similar logic extends to smaller, more self-contained code blocks, classes, modules and even applications.
You can always boot up Chrome for the few times a month you need lighthouse. Run the test, get the data, then quite chrome.

That's what I do. I use Firefox as my daily. But I still have chrome installed and boot it up probably once a month. So it's there, but I don't stay logged in, and I don't use it very often.
We do this for our database connections in Azure Data Studio / the Windows version of it. Really great idea.
> Poverty is not a lack of character – it’s a lack of cash.

No. Poverty is a lack of education and, more importantly, mentorship.

I am battling this right now with my next door neighbors, who use HOC, a Maryland social service that basically puts poor people in middle class neighborhoods by subsidizing rent.

My neighbors have money. They spend it extremely poorly. It's a single mom with 2 kids. Both kids have iPhones, iPads, PS4s, cable TV, you name it. I'm constantly cleaning up scratch-offs and cigarette butts from the shared sidewalk. Yet they are also on food stamps (SNAP) and near the end of the month the 11 year old boy inevitably starts coming over to our house for snacks because they are out of food. Just recently he boasted that his mom is going to buy him a brand new $1500 gaming rig. I remarked that seemed quite expensive and wondered where the money would come from. "tax return" he replied non-chalantly. He also said once they got their tax return they would be going to Disneyland.

I see this 11 year old boy on a trajectory for poverty. I've tried to help him with his math homework and with reading, but he is at a level far below his grade and seems to be constantly skipping school. He hates reading because his reading comprehension is low which means it will never improve because there are no adults in his life (other than me) trying to get him to read books. It's a viscious cycle. He has virtually no adult supervision or guidance (other than what I can offer when he occasionally comes over) because his single mom is always absent or in the hospital or sleeping or working or with boyfriend.

It would require an insane amount of cash to make it so the single mom didn't have to work, and even then, she is uneducated, can't help her kids with their homework, doesn't see the value in school having not used it herself, doesn't know how to be a good parent, not having had them herself, etc.

These kids need mentors more than they need cash. They need adults they can emulate who can help them break free from the viscious cycle.
This reads as coming from the disgruntled perspective of a 'turtle' who resents the strong opinions of 'rabbits' and the lack of experimentalism of 'birds'. Little consideration is given to the value of the other animals except as an inferior contrast to the turtles. An optimal solution would not be a 'Turtleocracy' (tyranny of turtles) but a balanced ecosystem where different strengths are given their due, and no group has tyranny over another.
That's pretty much the idea behind Locus of control, the (perceived) degree of control you have over the outcome of the future vs outside forces beyond your control. If you don't believe it matters what you do, not wasting energy is the rational answer.
Are you running Wayland? Make sure Firefox was running in Wayland mode. Fedora had a separate package for Wayland Firefox for some time, though it might be the default in 31. XWayland can result in a performance hit.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Firefox_Wayland_By_De...
What do you find limiting about Firefox? How does your browser of choice free you from these limitations?
OP is using Chrome and complaining about tracking.
Hey Michael, I host RAW photos I want to share inside B2 (48mb each), and then put CloudFlare in front of it using their tutorial [1]. It gets edge caching, and achieves 200-500mbps. Its great, and I have absolutely no complaints.

1: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666928-Using...
99% of Crypto is speculation. 0.5% is darknet markets, 0.25% is crypto ransomware, 0.1% is Saudi princes and rich people moving money out of a country. Somewhere in the remaining fraction of a percentage is legit legal usage.
That isn't entirely true, though. Your parents being poor often means you will be too simply because of the disadvantages it brings. Being a teacher is hardly a poor decision, but you will probably be poor because other people have decided it isn't worth it to pay you well.

My ex has very little chance of being anything but poor, no matter the decisions he makes. He's on disability due to a mental disorder: Anyone that is on disability, especially at a young age (no matter reason), is in the same boat.

The business you work at could close. Even if you made good enough decisions so far, you may or may not bounce back well. You might not have ever made enough money to be able to save 3 months worth of expenses, for example, and this is more likely if you are young and simply haven't had a chance. Or you might get cancer while working somewhere that isn't covered by FMLA (in the US, anyway) - and while you aren't likely to die, you also have no job and no insurance.

On the contrary, you can pretty much pile on debt if you make enough money to make the monthly payments and never really be poor. Just indebted. Heck, this might even mean you qualify for loans easier in the future as long as you don't fall behind. The person that lives in their means cannot always find the same fate.
Bummer you're being downvoted, though I don't totally agree with what you said - I think it makes sense.

I think the emojis in theory could aid in machine translation - that is - if the machine translation has some ambiguity, maybe the emoji could help, then again, I bet animal names and the concepts that an emoji can convey are the easy part of translation, so I guess I've convinced myself you probably are right.

With that said, I do think that they could still act as visual aids and assist memory/retention, at least for some folks, though I'll admit at this point I'm trying to create a justification for the sake of doing it.
Nowaday | Full Stack Software Engineer | New York City, NY, USA | Full Time | REMOTE and ONSITE | VISA

Nowaday.com is a full-stack experience company uncovering and narrating every city’s most fascinating stories so we can all feel them first-hand. Launching with a private and on-demand "Roaring '20s" classic car tour in NYC, the company has built an experience that highlights the unique culture and history of the city and invites travelers to step into the story of the real New York.

We are a seed stage startup closing in on our series A round. The team is composed of startup veterans with successful exits and our seed round was backed by several leading VCs. The tech has lots of greenfield opportunities, especially in the front end. So far some things we've been working with: Python 3/Django, Django Rest Framework, MySQL, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Etc.), Terraform, CircleCI.

You'll join a small team of a combination of remote and onsite technologists. Ideally, you would be available onsite as it's a small team just defining how and what we are doing. The company will be moving towards full remote as the business spreads across the US.

Full description and apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/nowaday/jobs/4517159002
Yev here -> great question! We are a bootstrapped company and we focus on inexpensive storage (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...). Because we've built a robust system that doesn't use a ton of expensive components we can provide hot cloud storage (B2 Cloud Storage) and computer backup at an affordable rate while still making decent margins. To learn more about our business and decision making, we have a pretty cool series of entrepreneurship blog posts that might be interesting to some: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/category/entrepreneurship/
The result of that is a merger on the cheap. The surviving companies get to acquire talent, patents, trade secrets at a far cheaper rate. This would essentially kill off any company's chance of merging if it wasn't relatively healthy.
> gross intelligence breaches at the highest levels aren't anything novel

True. Same portrayals too. If breacher is an R they're incompetent, it's a D they're a traitor.
What I learned raising money as a first-time founder
PM @CockroachDB here. Have you seen our performance page? https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/dev/performance.html CRDB can easily scale throughput.
>Privacy is a concept in disarray. Nobody can articulate what it means.
As one commentator has observed, privacy suffers from “an embarrassment
of meanings.”

So true of many things we discuss, but it doesn't stop us from assuming everybody knows what we mean.

This is a great paper.
There seems no point to mention Hacker News in this interview but mentioning HN is beyond understanding.
Right, I was just responding to the parent's assertion that preventing a monopoly doesn't require propping up competitors. Sometimes it does require that, and we should be conscious of the trade off we'd make in that situation.
For anyone looking for more of these, I find Baremetrics' "Open Project" fascinating.

https://baremetrics.com/open-startups
It should be noted that Bushnell has disliked Stallman ever since Stallman dismissed him from the Hurd project due to inactivity. It’s not clear how much of what Bushnell says is true. I haven’t stumbled on anyone willing to corroborate his claims and a couple people directly contradict him.
Fun trivia about rotary phones: it takes longer to dial higher digits (0 taking the longest), so major cities (more people, more calls) got lower area codes like 212 (Manhattan) vs 307 (Cheyenne, Wyoming).

The general idea is like Huffman coding.
I'm not convinced that they do, although it probably depends on exactly what you're doing.

Personally, I'm a software engineer for my day job, and I engage in complex software hobby projects in my downtime. At work, I have three large monitors. At home, I have one small one.

Having the three large monitors at work is very nice, and very convenient. However, there's no question that I'm more productive at home. So, for me anyway, if bigger/more monitors increases productivity, that effect is much smaller than others that are in play.
IAM access control, ease of use, reliability, speed.
Confluence is absolutely terrible. Their accessibility user experience is abysmal. It was designed for people who operate user interfaces with their mouses rather than their keyboards. Not only that, but it seems to be quite unreliable. Seems every other day some random component is not working, like uploading screenshots.
Multiples for small companies are not insane but there are some real challenges with this.

First, it’s like buying the perfect used car. The people who take the most care and build the best thing are likely in it for the long haul. If an entrepreneur thinks they have something great, in SaaS the math almost always works to just hold on for one more year and likely double their equity value.

Second, buying 3000 euros of profit a month is going to cost at least 100-150k euros. You need that liquid. That’s not common. So it’s a bit glib to say “why not just buy the business”.

When real win/win small company buying occurs it’s often because the acquirer has a structural advantage (existing customer base or audience, ability to amortize costs across a portfolio, wizard at marketing etc) that allows them to unlock substantially more value than the original creator. Again, this is not common.

Yes, building something is hard work but it’s rewarding and can be quite profitable.
Free as in...? Free to watch?
The coronavirus outbreak: 3 ways the United States was (and is) unprepared
Ask HN: Is Apple Pay secure post-password?
It strikes me as odd that Apple Pay has no confirmation prompt. Once I input my pass-code, my wallet immediately processes the nearest transaction without confirmation. Anybody within NFC range could generate a transaction that my device would complete.

Sure, if this happens you can contact Apple, who will pass this off to GS's fraud department to remedy, but this feels like a blatant oversight that will create many needless headaches. No?
Thank you, this just made a huge connection for me between the role of sleep, memory, and its role in decision making (in the "consolidated episodic memories" link):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28641107

I was suffering from sleep apnea at this time last year and was on call 1 out of every 3 weeks so was not defragging my brain's hard drive. I got decision fatigue and my productivity fell to 10%, which led to me being unable to work for several months.
Yep, everyone lost to Chrome, by a margin so large it can only be correlated to Android's formidable dominance.

See this other comment I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299884

There's s link to a video by DataIsBeautiful which, if you think of OS market share (notably switch to mobile big time at the detriment of x86 in the early 2010s), is as clear as it gets. Mainstream users in their vast majority do not even think of using a different browser — there's one out-of-the-box, right?.. more pressing concern is getting on with one's life.
Yes, it should be lower. Yet there is a lower figure estimated for a mixed worlkoad.

"A more realistic application might consume 5 GB/s at 144 Hz which is just 69 MB per frame."

But, now I see what it's about: tje 7 GB/s figure is for 6 threads, for 1 thread he gets 2 GB/s.
Data-uris don't make network requests.
That sucks. No fan of the intel agencies in this country, they are the Deep State and will harm us just as readily as they would harm communists or terrorists. They are as much responsible for destroying our freedom as they are protecting it. The world needs strong crypto, even if it enables evildoers because it also protects the little people. Strong crypto makes the playing field level, something that control freaks all despise.
Have Students Interview Someone They Disagree With
http://archive.is/tft4l
That’s fair. dang admonished me for my wording as well.

I had written it that way because journalists can choose how carefully to fact-check what they write, and how much energy and timeliness they apply into corrections. This gives journalists an ability to “optimistically” publish errors and give misunderstandings narrative momentum. I believe Gruber wielded those tool in his Stallman piece and the correction, and I thought the proof was that he did not to try to correct the perception resulting from his original story. But, as dang said, I don’t have a mind-reader, so I had broken the site guidelines by writing as if I knew that for sure.
That's not true. Operating systems don't know if a process is a browser.
Simdjson-Go: Parsing Gb/S of JSON in Go
>Unfortunately, most popele don't have the will or the guidance to figure this out.

That is an incredibly naive way of looking at the problem.
Is your outbound data free because of the bandwidth alliance deal Cloudflare has with Backblaze?
On the face of it sure, but then the key people start having heart attacks and mysterious accidents and suddenly the problem goes away. And that's the world we live in.
Sony, Amazon, NTT drop out of big tech show over coronavirus
Motorola Razr Blush Gold version coming this spring, company confirms – GSMArena
One of the fist things my boss told me at my first "real" (good career type money) job was:

"Everyone screws up, you will too, just be honest about it and tell me and it will be good."

It was a job working with this memory mapped wonky hardware tied to mainframes. There was no "undo" and as soon as you wrote to memory there it was. It was inevitable that you would typo something sometime in an important system.

Finally 3 years later a buddy is talking to me over the cube wall "Hey was that #3 you were working on yesterday?" I of course am typing away while talking and say out loud "3? Um..."

So I type something like -RESET SYSTEM 3-

I meant to type 9 a non critical system. 3 tied to a data replication system that was absolutely critical that it be running otherwise all transactions would stop (well for a bit while backups take over).

So if you couldn't use an ATM for a huge bank for a little while decades ago (fortunately it was the middle of the night), that was me ;)

I went to my boss the next morning and told him what I did, and he says "This like your first in 3 years, that's a record or something, it's usually a few within like 6 months. Nice job!"

It was a great place to work, no finger pointing, if you screwed up no big deal, everyone stuck around working with that team for decades.

When there were conference calls it was rarely stated (if ever) who actually did the thing. It was just accepted that it happened and we could discuss how to prevent it and such. "The engineer" or "the support team" and such were common phrases.

Inevitably folks would ask "who was it" and the answer usually was something like "it doesn't matter".
Getting Remote Employees Swag in a Breeze!
How about working with poorly designed schemas? I work with SQL-Server as well, dealing with legacy data designed around imperative t-sql programming. Our 'BI-Solution', SSRS, crawls on pretty simple queries, where 'hacks' need to be done, joining on same table, all kinds of dirty tricks...

I don't know... I honestly feel like 'BI-Solutions' are a poor-persons Python if you are doing anything more than simple dashboards. Something that can be done in 2 lines of code in a Notebook requires endless fiddling in an IDE, to produce something not easily reproducible.

Aside, I've no experience with Tableau or Power-BI, just know that Crystal Reports and SSRS which are pretty painful.