skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VCs have a long way to go to create an equal space for women founders
I am not experienced enough in machine learning to say when it's not, but I can say it's extremely useful for quickly building classifiers of stuff that would be a nightmare to label by hand for training purposes.

I do a lot of text classification where I'm working with a set of semi-structured sample documents. I can usually hard-code rules to classify my sample set, but I know that any new sample document might well break my rules. Typically, I know a handful of things about what distinguishes some documents from others-- some I know will always be true but many I only know will sometimes be true. The naive way to handle this tends to be a score-based approach, where documents get "points" for meeting certain criteria. But unless it turns out that stuff you thought was sometimes true is always true and/or the things that are always true are enough to classify correctly 100% of the time, the naive approach is always going to regress (no pun intended) to a model because you have to identify a cutoff for your scoring. You can take statistical approaches to figuring out the best cutoff to achieve the result you want (e.g. a Principal Component Analysis optimized for a certain chi-square distribution), but it's still turning into a modeling task no matter what you wanna call it.

It's great to be able to dump all of my roughly understood features into Snorkel and let it build a model around them. It's also super fast because I've usually already written the hard-coded "rules", so I have very little new code to write.

Usually the classifier ends up being a supplement to what I'm already doing but in certain cases it could become an outright replacement.
For me it is its integration with tmux, and therefore being able to use the command line in a remote computer as if you were using it locally.
So if someone is chewing loudly unmuted on Google Hangouts, it's not bad etiquitte, it's that the tool is bad?
The e32, e34, e38 and e39 series are iconic and really good cars.

Just like MB's w123 and w124 series.

Today, not so much.
Sierra Nevada Corporations Dream Chaser Space Plane
Yes, that's basically what I'm saying, but I see now it could be a pain with a big repo, so probably not the greatest idea. I do still like a squashed master branch, but I suppose if you trained your developers well enough (ha-ha) they could just commit good messages, however I know several awesome developers who, from time to time, commit a "fixed the thing again" message here and there.
You are correct. The coalesce can go inside or outside the SUM().
Arthur C. Clarke and TheLimitations of the Oceanas a Frontier [pdf]
There's no denying the technical side of this is simply incredible. As a user though, my personal (and probably very divisive) preference for the iPhone is exactly because it is _not_ Android. Many companies make very solid phone hardware, I don't think Apple is that far ahead in that regard, if at all. For me, the isolation, privacy controls, and more on iOS are the reason to prefer that over any Android phone. So while I have massive respect for pulling such a technical feat off, I can't help but scratch my head when I see it.
I've worked in healthcare in the past (Drug Discovery) and have two parents in healthcare (Autism Clinical Psychologist and a Non-trauma ER Doctor).

This is really interesting and honestly, rings a bit true to me given what I've observed from their interactions. Here are some anecdotes I've observed from parenting information asymmetry:

1. A lot of young parents (think: less than 20 years old) show up at the ER with healthy crying babies and little or no information. When I was pre-med track and shadowed my father in the ER, I would see 3 or 4 of these parents in a 12 hour shift. Watching my father "bootstrap" each of these parents into what normal clinical baby behavior is prior to any health diagnosis was interesting: It was essentially a 30 minute 101 session about babies that are super important but also non-obvious. It was also obvious that the lessons really sunk in when it came from a third party clinician. It also wasn't uncommon to see the baby parents and the parent's parents in the ER, all taking notes.

2. For my mother (the clinical psychologist), I've observed that even highly-educated, well-resourced parents still struggle with everything necessary to learn when having an autistic child. These sessions would often range from immediate clinical needs, to year-by-year details of specific education needs for the rest of childhood, to the region and state-specific financial resources and saving accounts available for lifetime planning. My mother works with schools and publishes papers on this stuff, but the parents always came back because ability to have a very direct Q-and-A session about specific issues was incredibly valuable.

Anyway, my father is retiring soon but I'll tell my mother about your service. She can't travel as much but if it works via video chat, she may be up for taking sessions on it.
>There's no need to invent violations.

I think the deceased and their family would disagree.

Sure there are existing regulations, but the idea is that as this new technology evolves and is being tested in the field we will find failures and create new regulations to govern.

Consider when the horseless carriage began replacing horse and buggy, traffic laws evolved over time as we realized we needed lanes, traffic signals, speed limits, etc...

Those laws continue to evolve to this day (ex.: red light cameras, ride-for-hire, etc...), to suggest new laws are not required for driver less vehicles and the current laws are sufficient, especially where we have driver-less vehicle death, suggests a serious disconnect with how law works.
A Simple Physical Investment – SpecieCo – Launch
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Here is the product/company in a nutshell.

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- This group is under-invested in the traditional financial markets, they often do not have a 401k, Roth IRA or Pension.

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Yea, I think many in the tech circles forget how predatory a lot of industries are. My first "real" job was a state job (good benefits, good hours, etc), and eventually I migrated to tech. After years of that I met my wife, who worked retail.

At basically every aspect of her job it felt like her employer did not respect her as a person. Her work hours weren't steady, her pay wasn't good, she was constantly at risk of losing her "full time" status and if she did lose that she could drop down to random ~5h/week slots. Her employer wouldn't even fire you, they would just drop you down to basically no hours until you had to quit and miss out on unemployment.

Most of the staff she worked with in fact, most of which I'd argue were full time employees were withheld hours just so they wouldn't get full time benefits. Looking around for jobs was also difficult as most other employers did not want full time employees either.

Employers in lesser skilled fields get away with murder because employees have very little ground to stand on. They don't have the income to build financial independence, nor does the government help them out in many cases. Even unemployment is gamed and withheld.

I don't know if UBI is the answer, but something needs to be done.
If I give you 1k, you get some amount of spending power x, if I give everyone 1k and you're on the lower end of the income scale then you've got an additional spending power y. 0 < y < x - getting UBI offers an absolute and definite increase in spending power to those in need, it doesn't give them that spending power at 100% efficiency though, it just shifts some spending power from the richest to the poorest.

The reimbursement of janitors might go up with UBI, that's fine, if it's going up then it means that something in the current market situation was artificially holding back their reimbursement. The market can correct pretty easily for UBI and make sure that the jobs that need to be done are indeed done (or else they aren't jobs that need to be done) and maybe janitor, as a profession, is scaled back to just waxing the floors and we discover that people working in an office should, once a week, empty their own trash cans - it's a very plausible outcome from UBI and one that will happen naturally if it'll happen at all.
Nothing much? The world stops producing software:)
They might choose it for a little while. Eventually, the novelty wears off. As building the bunker shows, even this guy chose more stability. As he said, "I’m getting too old for breaking tents apart and shoving them under bushes."
I dont understand the sarcasm. The core of most ideas is simple, wouldn't you agree? I've always struggled with retaining what I read, and "highlighting" is not an obvious answer.
What outcomes are basically identical? Could you share the study you seem to be citing?

Kids go to school around age 5, but I'm not sure that is the end of child rearing.
https://b2a35d79-f56d-4b5e-b088-483c16786cf0.filesusr.com/ug...

white paper included
Valve is, by all accounts, a toxic cesspit that's ruled by various influential cabals. They still have a hierarchy, they just aren't explicit about it.

At least for Medium, "Holacracy" pretty much imploded. Zsppos switched from it to an internal marketplace - which is, oddly, controlled by excecutives.

Flat organizations beyond a certain size either move away from flatness officially, create unacknowledged hierarchy, or fail. I'm really not aware of a single large-scale example that still works.

This is much different for small orgs - there's something about org size that requires some sort of centralization. (I think it's communications overhead + complexity exceeding the limit of what a single person can keep in their mind. I'm not 100% convinced, but these are the pressure points I usually see)
I currently work with a lot of residential construction and repair.

I feel like truss factories could use some help with quality control with machine vision probably. A problem is trusses are built by alcoholic meth heads making minimum wage rather than carpenters on site to save time and money, but then the truss factory has to send out an engineer to fix it on site, usually missing or wrong gang nails or its just out of alignment.

Temp laborers could probably use some software to help with tracking hours etc. Typically all the hours are tracked with just the supervisor writing down on a carbon copy how long they worked and gives it to the laborers to take back to their office which is then manually input to the billing system to pay the laborers at the end of the day.

Keep in mind there's a much larger population of non-smartphone users that only use flipphones in construction especially day labor so any sort of app meant for the workers or laborers to use would just go unused.
Not all streaming services are DRM-free, though.

This article [0] is 13 years-old, I wasn't able to find a better source with a quick search, but e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ AFAIK have DRM, and there's a whole scene of crackers around this, if you check Torrent-sites, you can probably find the aliases of the ones that are currently active.

Looks like you're lucky PBS has pretty lax security.

[0]: https://betanews.com/2007/08/09/netflix-drm-cracked-with-fai...
Looks like an enticing solution to the age old problem! Great work guys
Yeah, well that’s just like... your opinion, man. Not a very interesting one. Par for the course online.
I don't think that's quite fair. It's pretty easy to know that COALESCE exists and still make the mistake.

A language should help you avoid making mistakes, not trick you into making them. The path of least resistance should be the safest and most normal thing, and SQL fails here.
Artists, Engineers, and Pepsi Collaborated, Then Clashed at the 1970 World Fair
How is "which number will come up when I roll this die?" better or worse posed than "how many even numbers will come up when I roll this die several times?"?
The universe's biggest gear reduction
Lexus has a good rep for being super solid and reliable. Always has been. But why shouldn't be, it's a Toyota.
The guess is a big miss, yes.

Assuming certain pruning is done that I can see, we would reduce it to maybe 40-50. They are all separate concerns, independent from each other, the pruning would merge the most mergable elements back (those are, honestly, a tech debt and I'd welcome replacing them with one common app).

BTW, those 62 apps? They map to ~260 domain names. Those domain names and what shows when you go there are what the client is paying us for.
I notice this pattern all the time in guides to "polite" workplace communication. Their examples are hypothetical, so they look at how positive something sounds without considering the underlying content, or go even further and change content to improve tone. The advice looks good on paper, but using it when there's an actual task at hand might just sound sarcastic or disingenuous. The worst example I've ever seen was something like:

> Instead of "I need that report by the end of the day", try saying "I really appreciate you working to get that report out soon, it's a big priority right now!"

That's absolutely insane, because those are two completely different statements. The second one sounds less demanding because it's not the same request. So the tip isn't positive communication advice, it's either a schedule rework or failing to convey a deadline.

As for this specific example:

> By adding an emoji below, it's clear that the sender is embarrassed to make this last-second request, and isn't trying to come across as sarcastic, rude, or overbearing

That wasn't clear to me at all. If you type in "embarrassed", Slack will only suggest :flushed:, although I'd also have understood :sweat_smile:. I guess the monkey was meant as "I'm hiding my face with shame", but Slack calls that emoji ":see_no_evil:", and at first glance it seemed like "I'm trying to not to look over your shoulder, but is this done yet?". If the problem is "making a last second request", there's no particular reason that emoji are the best way to address it - one example simply has more content than the other. So I like your direct phrasing, and I might add:

> Hi <name>, will you be able to have the report on X ready by <time>? I'm sorry it's such short notice, thank you!
Loving Mailbrew so far, but it's too half-baked at the moment for me to be willing to pay $10/month for it. For context, I happily pay for 1password, fastmail, workflowy, notion, stratechery, NYT, Spotify, blackblaze, 2 VPNs and countless other subscriptions so I am not your average cheap bastard on reddit.

It doesn't even support producthunt, indiehackers, designer news, etc. yet. I'd also love for the ability to scrape and detect updates to websites that don't actually have RSS feeds (no idea how to achieve that technically, but that is something I'd pay $10/month for).
There were still internal costs related to running IRC though, assuming you weren't paying some provider to do it for you... not large internal costs, but I don't think on a radically different scale from Slack considering that you could also view a Slack subscription as covering a client with a lot more features than a typical IRC setup (sure you could run a web client, bouncers, services, but that's all increasing your internal costs).

I guess my point is that I feel like what GP refers to as "free" is actually just "developed/operated/maintained internally"... these commercial services are still by and large based on free software but you're paying someone else to do the work your internal IT capability used to do.

This couples with a general trend I've observed of organizations shifting their IT workload from inside to outside via PaaS/SaaS providers. This could be viewed as a form of outsourcing... in the '90s enterprises were moving their IT functions to India. Now they're moving them to a hundred different contractors, each supporting one system.
"Most places manage not to run out of inventory when they give out their own coupons or choose to run sales and have decades of experience in knowing what to expect from them" does not translate to "will know how to avoid running out during a black swan event like a pandemic".

Limits are legal, but sufficiently desperate people will do what it takes to get around them. A major component of the problem here is that neither you nor these stores can take their normal day-to-day experiences and apply them to black swan events like this. Your System 1 (bleh, what a terrible name that is....) heuristics are lying to you; you need to engage System 2 for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Exactly. With a permanent UBI in place you can throw all these studies out the window.
Shareholders are only able to make contracts because the government uses guns to arrest people who break contracts. Don't like it? Move to an offshore oil rig, I guess.
How the movies and television are made
People connected to the media takeover parts of software companies like Etsy in order to use them as platforms for raising the anxiety levels of software engineers who are in their mid to late 30s since they are supposedly the most skeptical audience. They use really poor practices like rapid continuous deployment to production infrastructure in order to shake the confidence of a person. They abuse behavioral biology and then make the person experience as much failure as possible doing the job that they were previously successful at. Once they raise the anxiety levels of a software engineer, shake their confidence and make them experience enough failure they fire them, block them from getting a job repeatedly and try to advertise things that might make them "feel"better or get them to chase after completely illogical life choices. People connected to the media keep track of what is happening and make scripts for movies and television based on what the person says, does or believes in. Much of the tactics that are used can be read in Professor Robert Sapolsky's book Behave.
Handling user authentication with Firebase in your React apps
One Twin Got Cancer in the UK, the Other in the US. Very Different Bills
Have you seen the recently updated GitHub project: https://github.com/google/tcmalloc
> in the 16th and 17th centuries in England, too with the move from rural cottage industry to wide-scale factory production.

The industrial revolution started in the late 18th century. Keep in mind that the population was booming then, so there wasn't enough space on the cottage to support the same standard of living.

I feel like the concept of a idyllic peasant is the modern iteration of the "noble savage." For complex decisions, you indeed run into the paradox of choice and other strange psychological phenomena. However, choice between sacrificing time in order to accumulate capital is an easy one, as this has been done billions of times. You need extraordinary evidence to prove otherwise.
> Doesn't higher output per an employee lead to a change for demand of that type of employee

Yes, pretty much so.

> lowering pay?

Nope. Reality is way more complex than that.
I think a lot of issues can be solved not by nationalizing the pharmaceutical industry, but by setting up a competing government funded drug company. What the drug company researches and what it charges for it's drugs can be determined by government policy. If done, it would be interesting to look at how efficient it was vis-a-vis the private sector and what drugs actually got developed at what cost.
If you look closely at the Go code you'll see it was once C code generated by some parser generater (which I assume was Bison). Believe it was Russ Cox that wrote a program that transformed the generated C code into Go.

Edit: I forked the compiler a while ago to add maybe types (a la Rust result). Looks like the compiler code has changed quite a bit from when I was playing w/ it.
exactly! I saw it on youtube as well and was pretty surprised...
Sure! The same learning still applies though - don't be scared, it'll be ok, keep investing.
>building blocks

Yeah, we seem to have strayed a bit too much towards the turn-key end of the spectrum.

IMO both have their rightful place on an open market. The problem with managing building from blocks is that it requires innovation for end results, and, as the saying goes, "Innovation is hard to schedule" (with apologies to Dan Fylstra).
Not at all! Webpages can still do as they like. That’s general purpose!

We’re talking about extensions distributed on a store that often end up with malware. I’m not even necessarily advocating for them to remove the ability to anything they wish (yet)... but let the browser catch up to already do what these extensions want in a more secure way. What’s wrong with that?
That's funny, I was thinking of all of the things people pay even more for to replace Jira.
Can phagocytes transport tumour cells?
Also keep in mind sometimes... the "undeserved industries" are "undeserved" for a reason... like politics, culture, and or refusal to change etc..
Poor Syrians, they can not even make their hand sanitizers nor buy off the shelf: isopropyl is an essential ingredient in sarin production. People were put in jail for shipping it overseas. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/01/22/isopropyl-alcohol...
You're not alone. The article tends to leap from one story to another in a way that's not really fully clear or consistent at times.
Observability – Timing Is Complicated
Agreed. But also agreed there’s little room for paying for software in this world, either. From my anecdotal observations, grad students or postdocs learn just the bit of code they need to accomplish a few things, then either never sharing the code online or never attempting to maintain it (because they never would have learned that anyway, nor do they have the time or motivation). And there’s no significant funding to change this.
I would qualify that a little more. If you are using docker and deploying to a cloud environment already, then moving to a cloud-managed kubernetes cluster really isn't that hard.

I've seen too many full-time employees eaten up by underestimating what it takes to deploy and maintain a kubernetes cluster. Their time would have been far better spent on other things.