skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All metrics can be horrible. To take an obvious example, we used to repeatedly see the temperature on one cold day being quoted as proof that global warming wasn't happening. So clearly the temperature must be a horrible metric for global warming, right?

It is of course the main metric for global warming, but it can be used badly or very well. Just like Lines of Code, it's hard to even get the measurement right. Do you measure it in the sun, or the shade? Do you measure it in a city which is relevant to the where most people feel the effects, or in the country so you get a repeatable environment. Similarly does LOC include comments and blank lines, what about patches - how do you count them? In terms of LOC per day, so you measure a single person who is churning out the code, or the entire team including the designers and documenters, and do you include the time after the project is completed doing support because of bugs?

I don't think you can blame the "temperature metric" for the bad ways it's measured or used. And I don't think you can blame Lines Of Code all of it's bad outcomes either.
Are things still biased if its also reality?
Seems like they're utilizing a version of GPT-2 : https://notrealnews.net/about/
I'm amazed at how many people speak nonsense with seeming authority, with bad or unread or irrelevant sources and credentials that are either fake or maybe just don't mean much. Yahoo Answers was clearly just random people answering your questions. Quora is full of people pretending to be experts giving perniciously wrong answers that sound authoritative. That's far more dangerous, in my opinion. When your girlfriend's friend recommends you a crank cure, or your cousin who was in jail once tells you that you can't sue for damages, you're more skeptical of the claims. When that person calls themselves a doctor, or suggests they're a legal expert, but really they're a poorly trained nutritionist or LEO at best and not true experts, then people get seriously fucked over.
If you run on MySQL/InnoDB you can
set innodb_buffer_pool_size=1000Gb and it should cache your data after the first query.
The real world has a base set of stable frameworks on which everyone can rely, such as physics. Software must implement not only a thing but the entire universe in which that thing operates.

Everyone claiming tooling or funding or this or that is missing the forest for the detail of trees in the client spec.
You do still file an expense report so I feel confident that it's on the up-and-up for tax purposes. The docs said they did research and people got a greater sense of reward from bonuses like this instead of just having the number in the next direct-deposited paycheck be slightly larger.

Anecdotally, it certainly made a larger emotional impression on me. I had gotten a similar cash bonus a while back that I intended to also use for music stuff and basically procrastinated figuring out what to get until I forgot about it entirely. This time I actually got something and then sent a nice email to the person I got the bonus from thanking them.

It's been a really nice experience.
> This is why people push the most difficult tasks to the most junior developers.

Who does that?

The correct thing is to manage expectations and then do the work. Unfortunately there are many lazy developers (or people in any sort of job) who won't be productive with even the most simple tasks.
I know someone who has a small business that registered a 3 letter ccTLD 20 years ago and they wouldn't be able to justify a one time fee of $50k let alone $50k / year for their domain.

Domains are basically property, so why not start charging people fair market value for the physical property they own that's appreciated significantly over the last several decades?

And if you're talking about only doing it for new domains, all that does is massively increase the value of good grandfathered domains, so it's even better for the squatters.
> for covid-19 estimated Ro is around 2.5

Los Alamos study today suggests R0 is between 4.7 and 6.6:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v...
not really, i'm 22 years out of that game. While most related info on web is in Russian, googling something like "russia multilateral mutual offset barter 1996" (any 199x year works to filter out links talking about modern situation) seems to bring links describing various facets of how it was back then.
Impressive performance for a $345 consumer grade SSD.

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-pro-1tb/p/N82E16820147694
Oh I think you misinterpreted, I was talking about a 7% price increase every 1.5 years, not a 12,500% increase today. It goes without saying, but such wildly different ideas would also have wildly different effects.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that a 7% increase every 1.5 years wouldn't change much at all about the domain market. The only thing it would break is using value estimation algorithms so rough that you need to squat on 10,000 domains just to find one that somebody actually pays for. But, of course, that would mean displacing hundreds of people that have legitimate uses for those domains yet can't justify the asking price, and I'm sure not many people have such a disregard for others that they're willing to displace hundreds of people just to make one sale.
The newspapers of the time also dubbed the Spanish flu: just a familiar grip we've seen time and time again.

China desperately wants to save face, at the cost of lives. They rejected help from the U.S. CDC as to not appear weak. They already thought they had it under control, before locking down over 50 million people and damaging their economy.

People at risk for the flu can get a flu shot. This disease kills the healthy and average aged. And we all have family members at increased risk.

Even a 2% mortality rate is absolutely horrific. Would you play Russian roulette with those chances? If 60% percent of the world gets infected we are talking many many millions of dead.

How are you going to track contacts, when someone working in a brothel gets it, or someone preparing food in a McDonald's? What if someone takes the virus back to India or Africa?

With 20% needing intensive care, even modern European countries will suffer badly. There simply are not enough beds available, even in the bigger cities.

Mortality is a red herring when you do not count the people still hospitalized after months! Look at the tiny amount of recovered people.

Despite their titanic and gruesome methods to contain it, China has failed. Imagine such an effort in Europe, where people gladly will walk away from quarantine and can not be cowered into compliance or snitching on their coughing neighbors.

We simply do not know enough about morbesity and mortality to say we overreact. Better safe than sorry when uncertainty abound.
> Rawls argued that producing a password for the hard drives would amount to an admission that he owned the hard drives. But the 3rd Circuit rejected that argument. It held that the government already had ample evidence that Rawls owned the hard drives and knew the passwords required to decrypt them. So ordering Rawls to decrypt the drives wouldn't give the government any information it didn't already have. Of course, the contents of the hard drive might incriminate Rawls, but the contents of the hard drive are not considered testimony for Fifth Amendment purposes.

This would seem to imply that if the government has ample evidence that you murdered someone, they can require you to admit to it in court.
I think it seems fine as well, you can still accommodate parking in a different way. Perhaps make a multi story garage, or make it underground, but not if near the coast(flooding).
And if you want less parking structures maybe make more living space there, commercial on bottom and a few stories of residential on top. Overall the models look way better than 90% of the strip malls in America.
(1) is not obviously true. Even judges known to favor defendant's rights can't agree whether this would constitute a testimonial act. Claiming otherwise suggests that you don't understand how the law works, how the technology works, or both.

(2) is not obviously false, because you're conflating two separate things: the encryption key and the contents of the encrypted device. Using the analogy of a locked safe: a picture taken by the defendant, for example, would be testimonial, but a picture taken by a third party would not. There's no way to know without actually reviewing the contents.

If you have a simplistic understanding of the law, it's easy to make black and white statements. But the law is not deterministic code, and has never worked that way.
I found the absurd over-precision more problematic. There probably were exactly that many people in the USA at some instant in time in this century. For a minute or two at most. 310 million is a more sensible way to report the population.
Sweeney was successful well before Tencent even existed, let alone their investment.

He founded Epic Games in 1991. If you were a gamer anytime from the 90s onward, there's a good chance you either played their games or games built with their tech (Unreal Engine).
This would be a nice world to live in, but I stand up more domains in a day for review apps than LetsEncrypt will issue in a week. I don’t even have a large engineering org.

It’s 50 certs per week, not very much.

Honestly I’d pay LE happily for a paid tier option; I would love to subsidize this piece of internet infrastructure in return for all the certs I need.
There's a theory out there that traders think the Sanders win(s) mean that Trump will end up winning in the fall, and that that will keep business conditions friendly.

That has a certain ring of plausibility, though I'm skeptical of all explanations of market behavior.
You have a lively imagination with respect to what I hypothetically might intend to say. In fact, I only intended to record the oddity of your objection to thread parent [0]. Apparently we agree that large militarized states are a plague upon humanity. China is too large to see justice in governance, as USA is. However, it will have to change a great deal in twenty years in order to menace the world in the way that USA does. China might be our equal in terms of news and social media totally committed to fear and mistrust of other nations, but they fall far short in terms of a vast rent-seeking self-dealing industrial armaments sector. I'm not even sure that such a sector can arise in the sort of polity they have...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311947
and one that has brought back the scourge of exclusivity to the PC

essentially the opposite of openness
The most surreal of these developments that I've visited is the Town Square of Copperopolis, California.[1]

It's not visually unappealing, but is a rather odd addendum to a historic 19th c. town which apparently won't suffice for tourists or affluent retirees (not enough parking). It's just as managed and tidy as the developments discussed here. Speakers on light poles blare top 40 hits from the 1950s, for some reason.

[1] https://www.gocalaveras.com/location/california/gold-country...
Meanwhile, also from Tim Sweeney: https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/964284402741149698...

I agree that the industry needs to be more open and shouldn't be beholden to the platform owners. But the Epic Games Store is probably the thing that now threatens gaming on desktop Linux the most, with its paid exclusivity that ends up forcing developers to drop their Linux releases.

And Linux is one of the most open platforms available, so... practice what you preach? They're making themselves reliant on the platform providers.
> why they allow those backdoors exist in the first place?

To catch bad guys and protect the children.
Funny thing, the PE software engineering exam was so unpopular they discontinued it... https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
If it was just a matter of adding more memory people would. A few thousand, or tens of thousands of dollars aren’t much to organisations that have that much data.

The trouble is that there are limits to how much memory you can fit on a motherboard.
> How do I do that if other people's bids can contain blinds?

You're right, you can't. I'm not sure what "just make sure your bid is greater than the highest existing total" means when blinds are in the mix.

> If I'm China and I want to censor this system, what stops me from monitoring the auctions and throwing a measly $2000 at any domain name that sounds critical of me in any way?

Nothing, but there are quite a few(TM) domain names. Everything that isn't an ICANN TLD (or a future ICANN TLD, I guess--not sure how that would work) is available. I don't think a government could reliably censor all objectionable TLD's.

Furthermore, once you own a Handshake TLD, you become the registrar for that TLD. So every subdomain is yours to sell, no auction necessary. So as long as someone purchases some simple TLD and is willing to sell you some relevant subdomain, you're good. It's not really necessary to have censorthis/; you can just buy censorthis.sometld. Of course, then you do depend on the owner of sometld as a registrar, but that's not very significant given the space of TLD's available. It wouldn't be difficult to find a new registrar if something happened.
Even in small groups you still need a currency (unit of account) before you can keep a tally, though—unless you're going to keep separate tallies for each kind of good, which quickly becomes impractical since even similar kinds of goods may not have equal value. Also, you need some standard good with broad marketability as a means of settling debts which can't be paid in kind (i.e. legal tender or equivalent).
A. You're innocent.

B. You're guilty.

Uh, this is the essential question to begin with. The judge doesn't decide this unless you're in clown court.
Followup: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/world/asia/china-coronavi...

China just changed how it classifies NCV cases to reduce the number of cases by eliminating those who are infected but not symptomatic meaning the numbers are even less reliable than they were before.

The problem with this is that a number of the superspreaders, like the British fellow that infected 11 other people, and the passenger that infected the cruise ship quarantined in Japan, were not symptomatic when they were infecting others.
How Many Coronavirus Cases in China? Officials Tweak the Answer
Haven’t spent the time and money on it yet :)
Australia called, and wants its irony back.
In most companies, it's both. On the employee side (non-finance) you have things like Manager -> Director -> VP -> C-level (often with "Senior" versions of some of those), but then the people who serve on the board are also called Directors.
That's still just a convention :-) But you'll find that most of the things humans do are. Everything is a social construct.
> Teams that actually practice Software Engineering, like the famous Lockheed shuttle group, are as good at it as we are at any other branch of engineering.

I’m not sure that’s true, or perhaps more accurately, I’m not sure that bar is high enough.

No other branch of engineering, at least none that come to mind, have to deal with the number of variables that any medium-sized software application does. Software, being infinitely malleable and running on a seemingly infinite variety of hardware in an infinite number of environments, is vastly harder than any other engineering.
I was wondering the same!

The author appears to be using his own functions written in vanilla JS. The Gears page loads a custom Canvas library base.js [1] plus an page-specific gears.js [2]. iOS graphics appears to be an area of expertise [3] for the author.

[1]: https://ciechanow.ski/js/base.js

[2]: https://ciechanow.ski/js/gears.js

[3]: https://github.com/Ciechan?tab=repositories

(P.S. <canvas> is an interesting choice, I had expected <svg> before opening the page inspector. Separately, I love the creative use of TLD in the domain name.)
Needs more money to buy more gallons of young peoples blood?
:)
Dealing with bugs in other APIs. This is such a sad truth of today's software - you are dependent on other libraries, and as you use them, you encounter bugs - and quite a few, I may add.

And even sadder, Microsoft ('s APIs) is not the exception, Microsoft is pretty much the norm.
A fun one to watch afterwards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg&feature=emb_titl...
This all started in the US with Judge Easterbrook in ProCD. https://www.bitlaw.com/source/cases/copyright/procd.html

The basic gist of Easterbrook's argument is that in everyday life it is common to buy now and find out the terms later, and under the law and the UCC the sequence of money and accepting terms don't matter.

While the case has been stretched to the limit, and lots of research shows that users aren't reading the terms of service, the practice and the law in the US has only strengthened.
Side Gigs That Will Make You Money as a Programmer in 2020
Yeah, but we either need to standardize on the (metaphorical) wiring and dramatically impede progress in that area, or accept that we will indeed have to build the panel from scratch.
Doesn't it change the incentive structure though? If Lambda only gets paid when students get a job, they are much more incentivized to work towards positive outcomes for the student. If they get paid regardless, then they might as well enroll as many people as possible and care much less about their outcomes?

I think schools like Lambda have a massive role to play in education, the problem is it seems like the vast majority are predatory ( not saying Lambda is, they seem like one of the more honest ones). But if the financial realities of running them means packaging students into CDO's, i fail to see how market forces won't force them all into predatory practices?
Wow. I’ve heard people complain that I write too bash scripts when I should be writing python scripts (eng student). Can’t wait till I show them this!

On a more serious note, I do like the idea of not building a argument parser / switch case in bash and using a makefile instead. Makes things neater somehow (especially with flags).

And the best part of it is that it’s also an installation script! So gonna try to make my Linux installation script a single makefile now.
Ecology Building Society, Charity Bank and Triodos have pretty much sewn up the ethics market between them.
Either you have proof or you don't. Period.
I mean, if it is genuinely a whole population cohort, there's a legitimate question to what "power" even means in that context, because there's no statistical uncertainty. It simply is.

Whether or not hypothesis testing in registry data is justifiable was once the topic of a legendary fight in my graduate department during someone's defense.
War Books: Preparing for Underground Warfare
As we see in the comments above, the gift economy scaled to include Bronze-Age Mesopotamian international trade. It's true that a Hittite in Hatti wouldn't know everyone in Nineveh, or indeed anyone, but he knew the Hittite king, who knew the king in Nineveh.
I already tested out the first step . e.g : I can go one per one until it's normal but when it comes to the top, I have this feeling of fear.

For the second step, I also tested it even if I had physical injuries from it, I'm always scared when the same moment happens another time..
I like the automated ranking. The issue you see with popular websites could be fixed by asking for a panel to review your website against a fee. Reviewing who should own google.com would cost 5 euro, other more complex reviews would be more expensive. The conclusion could also be that there should be an index page listing all of the tools on [say] video-converter.com which in turn could be claimed by a website that reviews video converters. Any converter company can request that website to be reviewed (for a large fee) afterwhich it may revert back to a flat list type of index that also lists the review website. The review should be subject to specific rules and regulations and aim to serve the end user.

Now if only I could figure out who reviews the reviewers...
It's funny how many engineers, especially in Silicon Valley, presume themselves apolitical and above such petty social concerns, when the process of making software is itself intensely political.
So you see developers selling their stuff based on how nice it is to be outside, and your conclusion is that people don't want to be outside?
I don't think people are downvoting you because they disagree with your assertion that the court system is in some way bad, they're downvoting you because you're just basically saying 'courts sux man' with no further information, which adds nothing to the discussion.

Also now they're probably downvoting you because you're calling them 'bootlickers'.
But if phones were built more durable would they be smaller than the thick case or could they make use of the extra space that a case requires by having larger batteries, etc.
I doubt that. We even have emails from Google tied to Pagerduty so we never miss one. Were also using GSuite for email.
Sure, if you're not important, the data will not be used against you directly.

I'm sure you can concede that it will, however, be used against organizations, institutions, and people who are important.

Some of those will directly impact your life. This isn't a new idea, the power of both espionage and propaganda are well studied and long established to be effective.

For example:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-documents-reveal-...
The first phone only sold 150,000 units over its lifetime, even after a fire sale. It's reasonable to conclude that iterating on the same concept won't create enough sales.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/andy-rubi...
> Not to dismiss your work [...] assuming this is an undergraduate level book in a relatively well-explored field [...] not saying this as a moral condemnation of what you're doing

Why is that your default assumption? Seems very strong when GP gave basically no details.
Kubernetes, Object Storage and Why Appliance Vendors Are in Trouble
> "I forgot" is generally not a valid defense.

The number of times that people invoke "I don't recall" while giving testimony under oath says otherwise.
Hey - great work! This project can save me a lot of work writing integrations, which I find tedious at times, so I'll take a look at it.

One piece of feedback: it's confusing that the org's name is Polybit, the site is https://stdlib.com/, and there's also something called Autocode.

Please consider choosing one name for all of them (Standard Library, preferably).
It's definitely a problem with the "mixed use" buildings going up on the SF peninsula. The ground floor stores are marginal, vacant, or used as office space. A 5-story building can't support a convenience store by itself.

There have been startups which tried convenience stores that were giant vending machines, but that hasn't been successful. Amazon Go didn't really work out; there are a few stores, but no major deployment. There's a startup in China which puts automated stores in a shipping container sized box, but that hasn't been successful in the US.
2020-NEthV – The EtherVirus
There is probably several FM radio stations in range of you wherever you are on the interstates in the United States. However, there may not always be stations in the genres of music you like. The frequencies are also not always consistent so as you travel from city to city you'll have to scan around to find something you may enjoy listening to. Its not like you can tune in to an FM talk radio station in New York and expect to still be listening to the same thing on the same frequency in San Francisco.
I like my S10e. I got the 256GB because I have lots of music and video. Works nicely when it is plugged into a monitor.