skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is to say the benefit of this algorithm isn't doing such filtering in a nominally neutral way? What if it turned out 40 year old Latino women with vision loss are top performers and the algorithms just naturally selected for them?
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It depends, does the society we're imagining have a working liability system, or does money always win in the courts? FDA regulations come along with protection from liability, so you could imagine two adjustment knobs: one setting Bayer's control over the FDA through regulatory capture, and the other setting Bayer's control over the courts, through procedural loopholes and lawyers outsmarting judges. If both knobs are turned up, drugs will poison you no matter what. If the courts are less controlled than the bureaucracy, then when the bureaucracy awards protection from liability it will be making the drugs more dangerous. If the bureaucracy is less controlled than the courts then you will depend on it to hold back against the companies who know that hurting people will be pure profit if they can sneak through the approval process. If both knobs are turned down, it doesn't matter who is protecting you because you'll be protected.
That's interesting. I think I have aphantasia (the way people describe their visualizations seems very strange/foreign to me although sometimes I think I can visualize some things) but I can hear music very well in my head. The other sensations I cannot imagine at all.

Particularly, the idea of imagining pain and feeling it is strange to me.
I picked it up because it is so frequently recommended on HN, and it is much less...academic(?) than I was hoping for. It gets recommended as a great explanation of debt, but it read a lot more like a very biased opinion about debt coupled with what felt like rather cherry picked history. I'm going to try reading it again, but the first time didn't go well...
The main developer of this at Github wrote a blogpost about the design decisions behind CLI, and how it fits/replaces Hub. [0]

[0] https://mislav.net/2020/01/github-cli/
The statement was "almost free", which is much more defensible than "always free", even if it doesn't fit every context.

If we're limiting what we mean by "computation" to a few extra non-branching instructions on data we already have, I would probably even endorse it outside particularly unusual settings.
Arq is great, but like all third-party backup solutions, it relies on scanning the file system. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311053.
If only textbooks could be this good.
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Legit question: I have a dataset that's a terabyte in size spread over multiple tables, but my queries often involve complex self joins and filters; for various reasons, I'd prefer to be able to write my queries in SQL (or spark code) because it's the most expressive system I've seen. What tool should I use it to load this dataset on RAM and run these queries?
Swift Playgrounds is not a real REPL though as it re-evaluates the entire program after every code change†. While it nicely annotates the code with per-line results, program state is not persisted between edits and side-effectful operations are repeated each time. That seriously limits its real-world usefulness to little more than a cute toy.

Ironically, Swift does have a true REPL which you can invoke in Terminal (`swift`, unsurprisingly enough). That does persist state over the entire session while showing the output of each line, albeit with old-school CLI line editor. The Print bit really sucks though as it ignores `description` methods and does a full debug dump of complex structures every time.

(Plus, of course, users need to be comfortable finding their way around a 1970s shell, which Playgrounds’ audience won’t be.)

Two partial “REPL” implementations that could’ve been a single knock-it-out-the-park REPL had they bothered to consolidate and refine. Swift may be many things, but great at joined-up thinking it is not.

--

(†Unless they’ve changed that behavior since I last tried it. Probably not.)
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well not using PGP specifically, but imagine having a social security card with two QR codes on it in addition to your social security number. one of the QR codes contains a private key and the other a public key. The financial institutions and credit reporting agencies can freely access your public key and it's safe to give away. You can make signatures with your private key when it's scanned at a bank or on a phone and the signatures can be verified to be correct by your publicly available public key.

I like the idea better of making additional keypairs that have a chain of signatures back to your social security card so that you don't have to rely on it as much. It seems to me there's a lot of things that could be very workable as far as this is concern, but just to be clear I just like to use PGP as an analogy to a system that could work.
No mention of potlatch.

> A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,[1] among whom it is traditionally the primary governmental institution, legislative body, and economic system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch

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I have a crude "theory" that economic forms follow density:

Small groups, families and small clans, operate more-or-less communally (not political Communism; I mean communal living. Sharing resources, etc.)

Larger groups, tribes and neighborhoods, operate more-or-less on barter or favor-balancing.

Beyond that, you get money evolving out of long-distance trade, and modern mercantile and financial (as contrasted with "just" economic) systems.
I wouldn't feel comfortable in a vehicle that may, or may not react to some situation on the road ahead. Because one day it will decide to do $something_really_stupid and you won't be able to react in time/correctly because you'll be too busy singing karaoke. With some extra bad luck, you'll die/kill someone else because of that.
You can't say that a C daemon interacting with a network has no attack surface, especially as the thing runs as root.

It promiscuously makes outgoing TCP connections to an unauthenticated P2P network, so given enough time you'll eventually interact with an attacker if there is one.
Can websockets be used as a self-hosted push notification alternative?
I've never used Choco, but scoop is fantastic. It's very easy to contribute to and use.
I make of list of all things (in a spreadsheet). Then I order the list Most to least. Add a multiplier factor. Sometimes comment - if they do not have this its a deal killer. I then make sure I answer the questions either through the interview, or HR. End result is I put a dollar figure to all the thoughts. I include work environment, ability to progress (everyone says they promote from within, do not believe it), salary, benefits, commute time.

The job before last I took, because of the work life balance and the benefits. Salary was lower, over a year, but side benefits and hours per year made it much better.

I do the same when I am house hunting.
This was mention in the article discussed here when the family first sued:

Tesla issued a statement placing the blame on Huang and denying moral or legal liability for the crash.

“According to the family, Mr. Huang was well aware that Autopilot was not perfect and, specifically, he told them it was not reliable in that exact location, yet he nonetheless engaged Autopilot at that location."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19802284
It is not the same as Namecoin.

Handshake at it's core is a decentralized root zone of trust, the equivalent of ICANN. It's up to people building on it to create the registrars and such.

Previous experiments were for one TLD like .bit or .eth

With Handshake, every possible TLD is released over 52 weeks

Even more so, it works with existing DNS infrastructure and tools. All it is doing is allowing for all TLDs and resolving them (with preference for ICANN / HNS) where the overlap occurs. It was built from the start to exist along side today's systems.
That's what I use.

Arq is great, but my quibble with it is that, like all third-party backup solutions, it relies on scanning the file system. Any such program, Arq included, will take a very long time to run on a hard drive where absolutely nothing has changed.

What Time Machine does is use macOS's local database of pending changes, FSEvents. On the next backup cycle, it knows what's changed and doesn't need to scan unless the FSEvents database is missing or corrupt.

I'm looking forward to a time when Time Machine can take advantage of file system snapshotting, which apparently was a design goal for APFS. Snapshotting is used for Apple's Software Restore function now, but the Time Machine parts weren't ready for Catalina [1].

[1] https://eclecticlight.co/2019/08/16/are-we-ready-for-time-ma...
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This is the modern version--based on Abseil--that we use in production for practically every C++ binary. It includes a number of performance optimizations (per-CPU caches, an improved fast/slow path, and a hugepage-aware backed), along with improved telemetry (a low overhead, always-on heap profiler, for example).

gperftools includes a decade+ old copy of TCMalloc and several other things (a signal-based CPU profiler, a heap checker, etc.). The two have diverged significantly.
DMT, you say?

It's entirely possible. My friend Jamie has a video about that.
In all fairness, the vast majority of people are driving to those town squares/greens and the shopping options are usually pretty limited--especially for day-to-day rather than artsy/crafty stuff. But, yes, many towns have a nice little center. (And, indeed, many smaller cities do these days even if the rest of the city is mostly sprawly and not so nice generally.
This actually got me into amateur radio as a hobby.

It started when I was young and not tired enough to goto sleep. I had a decades-old transistor radio and would scroll through the dial using the smallest fractions of adjustment and hearing the world open to me.

Dark of night, speaker pressed to my ear so my parents wouldn't hear and yell at me. Languages I'd never heard before and had no way of knowing where they were.

Magical is the best way I can describe the experience.

The world became both small, and vast in the same moment.
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LOC is a terrible measure for productivity, but I like to think about it more as a measure of capacity. LOC/day is useful as an upper bound in the same way pages per day is an upper bound for authors. Stephen King is notorious for being one of the most prolific writers, and he can’t produce more than 8 publishable pages a day (top hit on google suggests his average may be close to 6). Knowing that the number of LOC/day is so low on average, can really help keep estimates honest, and remind us how truly difficult what we do actually is.
I recall that as well. I think part of the reason was that programming was far less technical then. There were a lot of programming teams where it was "you do the balance screen, and you do the deposit screen, and you do the help screen, etc". I can think of quite a few episodes of (usually) women coming up to me and asking for me to peel off small tasks for them to work on. These days that just doesn't fly as much.

I do recall plenty of sharp women, but they tended to do math, EE, physical sciences, or even CS proper (i.e., math). Not really any advanced programmers, though. Seems understandable--programming is a rather tedious and solitary activity. Maybe a bit like music composition. I wouldn't do it myself if I wasn't driven by it (and from a very young age, with absolutely no assistance from anyone around me).
Nasdaq-100 dropped by -41.89% in 2008, and then went up by +53.54% in 2009. That's it. The only other negative performance since 2002 was in 2018 (-1.04%). If you are a kind of investor who starts selling off in the middle of an economic downturn, of course you will lose.
I attend standups/morning meetings virtually and then mosey on into work after the standups.

As I'm not a morning person this has been great for my mental health, and it's a good combo of "WFH" with "real work" without the addiction issues associated with the former.
Melatonin is broken up by sunlight exposure through the eyes, perhaps endogenous DMT might be impacted in a similar way?
Mile for mile, it's still significantly safer than driving the same distance.
With some extension even navigating issues can be done in cli through markdown viewer in console (I opened a suggestion[1] in Hub's repository).

[1] https://github.com/github/hub/issues/2192
From my experience, I find that Chocolately has way more packages in their main "bucket" compared to searching for buckets with choco, however, I do like the isolation of installed programs with choco.
> If you want to be a team lead, though... you want to worry about these costs...

This may depend on the extent to which your organization conforms to the Peter principle.
Respecting human choices and agency is 'legalistic'? That's quite the reductionist leap.
My company has been experimenting with doing our feature estimations in LOC changed instead of points (1, 2, 3, 5). The general idea being that point estimation can vary between engineers based on ability, but LOC changed should be similar among engineers. This is supposed to make it easier to answer management's favorite question of "How long is this gonna take?". The answer is calculated using a team's historical average LOC/hr rate.

It remains to be seen if our estimates are any better.
Most DB engines will use what RAM is available and even if they don't, your OS's page cache will make sure stuff is fast anyways.

> What tool should I use it to load this dataset on RAM and run these queries?

The question should really be: What tool should I use to make this fast?

Postgres can be pretty fast when used correctly and you can make your data fit.
Additional info for those of us unfamiliar with CSME: https://threatpost.com/intel-patches-high-severity-flaw-in-s...
What tickers?
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> I can't possibly imagine how one can both treat a source as holding profound and transcendent views and be uninterested or unsure of what the author meant when writing it; at that point it seems that the literary work is merely an excuse for the reader to project their own ideas into an authorative source, and the work is only valued for its prestige.

What I've found is that, in critiques of an earlier philosopher, the most common attitude is an acceptance of key insights, but debate over their implications and the extent of their application. So, whether or not you see The Prince as satire, it is valued for its skepticism of abstract ideas and insistence on realpolitik. That is the transcendent perspective of The Prince, and that isn't really debated, as far as I know.

When I read Machievelli in school, we learned that he was a republican but that The Prince was really, truly advice for autocrats. There's no contradiction here because Machievlli is a realist and he understands that autocracies happen and sometimes they might even be necessary (hey, we in the US have martial law for a reason).
Does putting self-signed certs on a blockchain really solve the problem?
Your Code in Action link[1] doesn't seem to work. It takes me to a youtube playlist that shows as unavailable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLcvrwLe1849uRCrEOlQ...
I am not a big-data guy but wouldn't it be along the lines of A) get a big honking server B) fire up "X" SQL server C) Allocate 95-98% of the RAM to DB cache?
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What I dont understand is why they just didnt use the trimline case as the case for the thing - or at least the blueprint for the case - this thing looks uncomfortable to hold for any length of time.
How about 2000?
> I really can't walk around inside of The Greene without having to watch traffic (I am simply amazed at how recklessly folks drive in there).

If you're talking about the one in Ohio, I'm not sure you have reasonable expectations of what walkable means. There's not going to be many places where you can walk in the street without having to watch out for cars. But if your expectation is more like I can walk to shops and restaurants then it fits the bill. The only real difference between it and a classic downtown is that it's full of chain stores/restaurants instead of locally owned places.
Google Analytics doesn't report visits for users that have ad-blockers on, right?

I own a website with about 50k pageviews a month. This could mean that actual viewership could be -much- higher?

It's insane that GA doesn't offer a server-side solution like SimpleAnalytics does.
Huh, maybe it's because I'm using off-the-shelf software, but I've managed to get Invoice Ninja's Apple Pay integration [1] working with my Stripe account, with very little hassle.

[1] https://www.invoiceninja.com/payments-apple-pay/
> Boeing leaders have faced questions from federal lawmakers about who has been held accountable for the MAX crisis.

so, apparently the leakers?
I use a similar tool for GitLab [1], I wonder if this will propel GitLab to maybe put some money and effort into officially supporting it.

[1] https://github.com/zaquestion/lab
Nicely done. Reminds me of https://geargenerator.com/ which I used to build gear systems for fun.
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A lot of the negative Amazon reviews, at least, comprise complaints that Graeber doesn't address or defend points that he actually does, usually a paragraph or two after they're raised. They don't claim the points are poorly defended or explained, but that they're not, when they 100% for sure are.

The book's very well-constructed that way, actually—make assertions that the thinking reader will have objections to or questions about, proceed to directly call out and address same in following paragraphs—but apparently some people's eyes go so red on reading something they don't immediately agree with that they totally miss the explanation and defense that follows. In short, many of them accuse the book of specific sins it did not commit. Others don't provide enough specific criticism to be analyzable, usually accusing it of the same sorts of problems but without enough details to tell whether the reviewer's just a bad reader like a lot of the other people dumping on it.

Possibly there are good negative reviews out there, but a good percentage of them seem to be folks who are, bluntly, not literate enough to read the book—though it's far from a challenging read.
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C# dev here as well, but from a Java background. When I first moved to C# from Java one of the best AOP usages was transaction management. Database transaction management. You could write all of the code, whether it was dependent upon the db or not, and then decorate the methods with a transaction attribute. This decoration contained all the logic to get a db connection, begin a transaction, become part of an existing one, or create a new isolated one. Any unhandled exception caused the final unwinding to rollback any work that had been done in that transaction. So many try/catch/finally's avoided and so much boilerplate code.

I have yet to find any equivalent to this .NET world. Especially of you're using EF. Either you use ADO and have your try/catch/finally with manual transaction management, or you have the EF context which is just one big blob you hope succeeds at the end.
https://regolith-linux.org/ solves much of what you’re asking.

If windows don’t behave, I put them in floating mode with Super-f or Super-shift-f to toggle. As you say, full screen when they shouldn’t be, or vice versa. In practice, the only app I have issues with is Zoom.

The i3bar implementation, includes battery charge, network info, etc. a click takes you to gnome-settings, where you can make changes. One of the few changes I make to i3.conf is to move the bar to the top. Personal preference.

If you tried it and liked tiling before, regolith is worth a shot. It’s pretty well done.
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Sounds like a mises.org post Jeffrey Tucker wrote

https://mises.org/library/halloween-and-its-candy-economy
That would be a reasonable explanation I think if the rates of schizophrenia were merely lower amongst the blind. But what's said here is something quite ab it stronger than that: there are zero known cases of schizophrenia among the congenitally blind. If true, and if not simply a sampling artifact, it implies something pretty profound about the nature of schizophrenia as a disorder that has hitherto not been known.
- Names are released over the course of 52 weeks. Determined by hash(name) % 52. So at worst the name you want to register will not be available until ~51 weeks from now (Handshake launched last week!).
- Names have to be renewed bi-annually. You don't need to pay a fee, you just need to submit a transaction to prove you still have access to the private key. I don't think this will be any different than the existing DNS in terms of link rot.
- I think the main thing names being released over time does is it allows for more people to find out about Handshake and start competing for the good names before they're gone. In an ideal world, everyone would know about Handshake at the same time, and so any name that is registered has the maximum competition for it. That world is not feasible but we can get closer to it by releasing names over time.
- I've only heard Zooko's triangle described in the first way, which matches the wikipedia article on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

Disclaimer: I'm the ceo of Namebase.io, we built a registrar for Handshake domains and exchange for Handshake coins (HNS), so I'm pretty bullish on Handshake.
With regards to being skeptical of scientists and their motivations, I m as myopic as they come, but even to me this is a stretch. This is a legitimately interesting observation, something that does make sense given how big a role our visual cortex plays in the brain. You're right that there are risk factors but they just increase and decrease frequencies. If a factor eliminated this condition, there's definitely need to investigate that further to understand why.
To capture the other processes pgrep 'firefox|Web' to capture WebExtensions and Web Content
This imply that cost-cutting measures have not been applied to these algorithms, which they probably were. This also imply that algorithms are accurate.
Weirdly, that page is listed as updated in 2019. Someone must have missed the SW one.

The Southwest page does mention the 2018 incident and fatality, and was updated the day of the incident in fact. However, the incident isn't "numbered" as a fatal event--instead it has a UL bullet instead of an OL number, which looks like a mistake.

On one hand, AFAIK the event wasn't SW's fault at all--they'd performed maintenance on the engine to standards. The fan blades failed due to a material fatigue issue, and happened to hit the engine cowl at its weakest spot and detached it.

But I thought Airsafe still would've counted that as related to the operation of the plane, though, and the FLE for that flight would be like 0.007 (1/143) and still round up to 0.01. Since only flights with a fatality at all count for their calculation that'd be an overall FLE of the same.
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Without taking a position on the rest, it seems like madness to expect a novice to walk into CS101 at 18 and become a master programmer. It's like learning to play a musical instrument or learn a foreign language. If you're not already well into by 18, you're never going to be really great at it and certainly won't catch those that started early.
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