skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of those who responded to the 'what is your blog and why should I read it' thread. HN is large. Likely larger than many of its visitors realize because the participants are a relatively small fraction of the readership.

So HN readers are not necessarily contributors. And not all contributors would plug their blogs in a thread asking them to do so.

If you want to get an idea of the HN readership rather than of the HN contributors you may want to start off by scraping all the profile pages instead, it will give you a much larger set of sample data to work with.
If you wouldn't buy the license key from Oracle, don't rent the network API from Amazon.

Proprietary software can be good in contexts where the integration surface is small. The denominator you want to code against in such a way that you become deeply intertwined with it & would have a hard time backing out is open source.

The "lowest common denominator" being Linux, Postgres, Kubernetes, etc. is not such a terrible thing.
Every time I see a privacy outrage thread over here I think about how many readers/commenters on this site work for advertising/tracking companies or companies whose products include tracking code. (Full disclosure: I don’t.)
Specifically, the team labeled 1.6 million tweets in 13 different languages. Using these annotated tweets as training data, the team built multiple automatic sentiment classification models.

Their experiments resulted in a number of interesting conclusions. Firstly, the researchers state that there is no statistically major difference between the performance of the top classification models. Next, the general accuracy of the classification models does not correlate to performance when applied to the ordered three-class sentiment classification problem. Lastly, they state that it is more efficient to focus on the accuracy of the training data, rather than the type of classification model used. ゛

ive read that paper before it was really interesting higly recommended for beginner data scientists
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There are no internal biases in favour of men in any organisation, anywhere. This is feminist propaganda - an assumption that if women dominate a field it's because they're good at it, but if men dominate it's because of innate sexism.

Showing bias in favour of women is very easy: just quote the executive leadership saying things like "we want more women", cite pro-women policies or present one of many other pieces of hard evidence. No such evidence exists for a pro-male bias which is why this argument always ends up relying on logical fallacies and innuendo.
Coronavirus pivots
It seems to be paywalled, though.
Politics doesn't select for altruism. Politics requires lying, bribing and stealing so it's no wonder the very scum of the earth ends up in positions of power (same for most NGOs executives BTW).
Power corrupts, so you will never be able to get altruistic individuals in power. You can't square that circle. The only solution is to severely limit their power.
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From looking at the specification, I don't see any serious loss of privacy there, if this is implemented as stated.

2) You don't need 100%, you only need enough to drop the R0 below 1. You'll likely need a majority of people using this, which is hard enough, but you don't need everyone using it.

3) The apps are not supposed to include every single registered contact, only contacts that are over a bit longer timeframe. A typical value I've heard is 15 minutes close contact, that is considered a high risk contact when contact tracing.
That's entirely a matter of perspective. The exact same policies can be phrased as "your full comp is not available if you hire men".

Fact is, hiring is in the instant a zero sum game. If recruiters are prioritising women it means they're putting men to the back of the queue in the hope they won't be forced to hire them. It's sexism, it's wrong and it makes a mockery of everything feminists claim to believe.
Yes - the CoC seems powerless to stop the problem. That guy recognised that earlier and dropped out of the CoC board; eventually he followed others who dropped out of the project.

From what I can determine, this is not one of those “omg the newfangled CoC is driving people away” situations, but rather “we have an asshole in our midst and, despite all the big words about CoC, nothing actually gets done about it, so I’m out”.
Because exponential growth always levels off or goes down in real life (eg logistic)
What's the purpose of the VPN? If it's anonymity, you lost that by being the only person it serves.

If it's so you can sit in the café and use the WiFi, this is a great solution.

I'm curious why you're using IPSec VPN, what's your requirement?

The novel solution these days is to use WireGuard. It should be even faster than what you're using now.

Also, the article seems mostly about sharing your affiliate links to get your next few months free from people signing up, no speed comparison numbers, no reason why you used one VPN over the other?
I had one get through my spam filter maybe six months ago. Someone was claiming to have used my webcam to capture me carrying out [actions] while looking at [illegal content] on my computer.

They said they had access to my computer. As proof, they were sending the email from my own account, and sure enough the email had been sent from my account.

Finally, as proof that they weren't messing around, they attached part of the video to the email, which I could download and open and use to verify that they really did have me.

Imagine being someone that uses the internet but doesn't understand email, who had actually done the things they described:

1. Someone sent an email describing your illegal act.

2. They proved they have control of your computer by sending you an email from your account.

3. They sent part of the video. Downloading. Installing. Why's there no video?
This. When npr.org has more timely, relevant information than congress.gov--e.g. S.3548[1] wholesale pivots to H.R.748[2] with significant changes incorporated, and the latter isn't updated until days later--it leaves much for the general public to desire.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/354...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748
Ah, that makes sense; I read GPs phrase the other way.
It would be interesting, in a future part of this series, to cross-reference the performance data with the technology used.
> The only people who I would trust are named specialists in this field, that are willing to stake bits of their reputation on what they say.

That is basically the antithesis of the enlightenment and the whole idea of the scientific method. You should not trust experts because they say so, you should trust because they are able to present evidence which is persuasive and reproducible. Even experts are wrong, and the history of the N95 mask illustrates this in the case of a relatively unknown Wu Lien-teh being correct over the objections of the prominent French Mesny. In less contemporaneous things, it took a long time in North America for gluten to be recognized as the cause of Celiac's disease because too many people there trusted the expertise of Sydney Haas who asserted that eating bananas would cure the disease.

I trust evidence and citations to evidence. Experts are generally willing and capable of providing those easily and so experts generally quickly earn my trust. Assertions based instead only on claimed or even actual expertise do not earn my trust and often arouse my suspicion.
I know HN likes to berate on SO as if it’s some has-been that nobody uses anymore.

Just the other day I asked a fairly specific question, putting in some effort of writing code examples and add links to relevant documentation and within a day I had a four paragraph, in-depth answer.

No, I did not get any upvotes or smiley-stickers, but I got for free what I wouldn’t even know how to buy.

Moreover, I end up on SO daily when programming.

The utility of SO is second to none and it has been that way for over a decade.

That is pretty amazing in my book.
Questions I might ask during an interview as a developer
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I am not sure it is that, but I def trying to figure out what is causing it but so far no luck
The third link was a very interesting read, thanks!
This seems like it would suffer from the principal-agent problem.
His use of a throwaway speaks volumes about fear of political repercussions. His regular account (assuming he has one) is probably associated with his name, and he most likely works in a place like San Francisco or New York City. If so, he could lose his job for being non-hostile to Trump. Some employers are really bigoted about that.
I am so terribly frightened by that move I am seriously considering getting rid of Android. Of what I have heard it's going to be backed into the OS and not installed as an app I could de-install / block, right?

What truly open Smart phone OSes are available besides Android and iOS?
Lots of good suggestions about questions to ask, thinking about aligning business and development needs, settings expectations with customers, giving them a chance to pay for development and other 'what are you even doing?' sort of ideas. So instead I thought I'd give a very simple recipe and set of rules how to deal with customer requests that I follow, to try to align with this:

- Never promise a feature immediately when receiving a feature request. Say "Thank you for the feedback, we'll discuss this with the development team and get back to you if there's any news regarding this" (tag the user, so you can actually do so)

- Never choose to develop a feature until you've gotten at least three separate requests for it. This will help you not over-adapt to random noise, and make sure the product stays relevant to a majority of users.

- Never promise a timeline if you choose to promise a feature. Keep stress levels manageable for you and your dev team.

- If you have something 'up next' on the roadmap already, you may choose to share the estimate with the inquirer - but favor not doing so, and underline that it's an estimate not a promise if you do. Estimates also become much more reliable if random stuff doesn't get to jump to the top of the priority list all the time. Your roadmap is a priority queue, not a stack

- Consider thinking of it as two priority lists. One is for smaller feature requests and improvements, the other for larger projects and system/business needs (e.g. refactoring, features to target new demographics rather than existing users). Not progressing on either list is frustrating for everyone, so think of yourself as a scheduler trying to guarantee progress on both threads. For example you could have a rhythm where it's ~1 month of work on one or two big projects (until completed), then ~1 week of work on smaller feature requests and polish, then repeat. This way you batch up many smaller tasks so you don't incur the cost of context switching for your dev team while they are working on a bigger feature (which typically require deep concentration over many days), you don't block major projects, but you also get to be relatively responsive to customer requests.

- Remember that things take time. Your job as a product manager isn't to cater to every user's every need immediately, it is to plot a path through an endless and evolving roadmap in order to 1) Keep the business alive and prospering 2) Keep the development team productive and sane 3) Make customers happy. In that order
Can these articles please stop? Yes we understand “exponential growth” sounds smart. You are a genius lol

like in any real-life projection you can’t approximate growth function until you see enough of it plus there are a bunch of factors that may influence curve angle dramatically.
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Quite. A proposal for yet more of the consumer-capitalist program of dehumanising via inculcation of greed which is devastating the globe. I entered tech because I was broke at the time. But it truly is an ethical wasteland, and I bitterly regret not having done something more hospitable to human fraternity.
That’s a helpful list of Google Analytics alternatives to check out, thanks!

There are 13 websites using Parse.ly, which starts at $500 per month! For a personal blog??
Some would receive on-the-spot etc etc. Many (most?) would never get anything. Bullying and discrimination were socially accepted pretty much in all ways of life - they still are in many (most?) of them.

CoCs are an effort to formalise a more respectful approach to relationships. Sadly, formalisation is not necessarily an engine for change: we have had plenty of very hard laws against theft and murder all over the planet, for millennia, and still plenty of people will routinely thieve and murder every single day.
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Yep. That came from annoying.technology
I feel this might have grown beyond its title.

Picking the point where I gave up, giving me a list of 7 vscode plugins, without any guidance as to which are more mature, doesnt feel like a thing anyone would wish to know before they start.
I like the analysis. However, I am curious why entries are not sorted by counts. As a rule of thumb, sorting alphabetically makes no sense!

Also, 382 sounds like a very small number, given the size of HN. I did try to find many blogs I read, but couldn't find one. So, crucially - was it a random sample? Or sample from top-liked, or from a particular month?

some findings (e.g. the prevalence of Wordpress) may depend on this procedure.
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> I strongly suggest that people using chainsaws wear some protective gear. Minimum - steel capped boots, safety glasses and mask and proper gloves. Best idea - proper chainsaw trousers.

Ear protection too. Working with chainsaws (and similar equipment) all day long is not great for hearing in the long term (though admittedly less dramatic then slicing a toe off.)
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/18vnO
I've used krdc with rdp to connect to windows clients often and always without any issues. Maybe it's a regression introduced only recently?
> You'll need to either use a separate 3D depth estimation AI

They seem to be using MiDaS https://github.com/intel-isl/MiDaS for depth estimation which does a reasonable job on some random image pulled from pixabay https://i.imgur.com/IfbeaqY.jpg
It doesn’t really matter if mortality in ICU’s is high so long as it’s much higher without ICU treatment. For young patients the mortality is very low exactly because they are likely to survive ICU care, while a 70 year old is unlikely to survive and an 80 year old is unlikely to be given ICU care to begin with.

If ICU mortality is extremely high (e.g over 2/3) then doctors probably need to be more selective. The judgement should be not only that patients should walk out, but also survive for a period after treatment, say a year. It’s also not only about ICU treatment, regular hospital beds and doctors are also not unlimited.

I think in many places doctors are feeling pressured to use invasive ventilation for patients that have a low chance of surviving a year after care. Patients who get invasive ventilation should be carefully selected even if there is no shortage. If mortality is very high, this is a signal that doctors are giving ICU care to too many patients that aren’t helped by it.
EU member states do not want a common coronavirus policy
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> So basically, if you have impossible to get input data, this network can do its magic.

Except they evidently got the input data for the examples in the paper, so it can't be impossible to get.

They cite at least two different methods for adding depth information to a single image to generate the necessary RGBD data, different views of which can then be rendered with their inpainting applied:

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01341

- https://research.cs.cornell.edu/megadepth/
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They can raise menu prices and offer a pickup discount. Chinese restaurants near me have been doing this for as long as I can remember.
> we collect user's contacts and use them to remind people of their bill if they don't pay

Are you saying you contact the user's contacts to try to get them to pressure the user to pay their bill?

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I read through your TOS and it looks like this is the relevant line:

> In case of default or late payment, GalaxyCard reserves the right to use suitable means to collect dues including electronic and or physical communication to the debtor and the debtor's known contacts

I think this is a digusting practice, and I am not surprised Google is blocking your app. This is nothing like what WhatsApp does - in fact I don't know of any service at all that does this.
>> They do give you ssh access to the Unix-compatibility environment though so maybe it's possible to edit files using Tramp in Emacs locally.

It's a UNIX shell. You can always use ed :)
Unemployment claims processing is something that each State does and yet each has its own unique way of handling it. This approach is followed for every multimillion dollar endeavor, building costly, redundant solutions to the same problem. This has been great for the private sector but costly for the public.
Which of these languages has good materials and is suitable as an introductory language?
The vast bulk of those are medium sites, possibly a volume deal with medium?

http://robotoverlordmanual.com/
https://medium.com/@andzwa
https://medium.com/build-ideas
https://medium.com/chrismarshallny
https://medium.com/ing-blog/tech/home
https://medium.com/@matthagy
https://medium.com/modern-nlp
https://medium.com/open-factory
https://medium.com/@romanorac
https://medium.com/@soatok
https://medium.com/@zakjan
https://sidstechcafe.com/
https://vladaionescu.com/
> To ensure recovery we collect user's contacts and use them to remind people of their bill if they don't pay.

Could you explain this sentence in more detail please.
At the top he writes how he got the data, from the 'what is your blog and why should I read it' post.
We reacted late, but not as late as for example Italy. And at least where I live, many people tried to reduce social contacts. Not all obviously, but streets got emptier. But probably the most relevant thing to do was closing schools and especially kindergartens.
It may just work out fine, I think it also depends on whether people get their shit together during the Easter weekend regarding family visits. Good weather also helps making things look less grim.
What's a “Server”
This was sourced from a posting asking people to promote their blog. People that promote their blogs are likely going to have some kind of analytics tool installed. Also, lots of blog platform sites come with analytics built in and some of those use Google.
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Yes. We first contact the user if they don't pay despite calls/emails/push notification/sms for 45 days. Then we warn them for 15 days that their contacts will be asked to remind them of the bill, as per the terms. Finally we contact the contacts.

We do this to prevent having to file legal cases against the users as those can drag on for very long in India and are a pain for both parties
Wait few days after Eastern celebration, parks in Munich are full, people around houses are celebrating in packs. Even deep in woods 30 miles away isn’t that empty as it was few days ago. 4000+ new cases alone yesterday. So another 200 intensive care beds needed. I am really worried about all this careless “we are doing well”.
We are college students who got tired of having limited options for side project partners. So, we built a platform where you can discover and recruit team members to build software with.

redsand.io is a community of software developers who are open to collaboration. You can filter users by specific skills and find your ideal teammate.
We first contact the user if they don't pay despite calls/emails/push notification/sms for 45 days. Then we warn them for 15 days that their contacts will be asked to remind them of the bill, as per the terms. Finally we contact the contacts.

We do this to prevent having to file legal cases against the users as those can drag on for very long in India and are a pain for both parties
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That vimeo link doesn't work.
I suspect that kind of innovation is frowned upon by Google. It's not the same context as WhatsApp at all
I should add, this is a common practice for low ticket, high risk loans in the FinTech lending space in India
But who would rewrite it for the low salaries? Most people I know are not interested in low-level correctness at all, the open source C++ projects on GitHub with a high churn rate always have tons of corner case bugs.

If you don't get the right people, the rewrite would be an overengineered object oriented nightmare with an endless stream of bugs.
But most people won’t know very well who they have seen. For example, I went shopping this morning and probably saw around 50 people. I would recognize less than 10 of them, if I were to meet them again. I know the names of none of them.

Since most governments can’t ask their entire population “were you in the neighborhood of this walking path”, there’s no simple way for them to find those people (t.v. broadcasts and canvassing in the neighborhood would work, but are labor-intensive and slow)

That’s where this will help. The people who came into close contact will get informed, and, hopefully, will self-isolate. The government doesn’t have to know who they are, where they were, etc.

It will require a significant part of the population to opt-in on this, though. That’s challenging. In Singapore, only 20% of people did. That’s why privacy is so important for this for many countries.
Absolutely (and I say that as an erstwhile mainframe COBOL programmer). The language itself is dead easy.