skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice interview, great mindset.

Netflix is indeed becoming quite the sensation for its internal policies— the general intelligence apparently prevailing there. Seeing tools as first-grade citizens seems like a very sane approach to me— empower each other and watch people create marvels.

Papermill¹ notably is one incredibly seducing tool IMHO.

1: 2019 talk by Matthew Seal, ~40 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FmBJ847_y8
I wrote a blog post along similar lines in 2018 (https://minimaxir.com/2018/10/data-science-protips/ ); unfortunately, the industry hasn't changed much since then.

As noted in the submission, there's a lot of flexibility in what a "data scientist" is. Normally that's good and healthy for the industry. However, it contradicts a lot of optimistic bootcamps/Medium/YouTube videos, and many won't be prepared for the difference.
Personally, I don’t mind driving through NJ for just this reason, traffic aside.
A Chinese airline cannot run domestic routes in the US. You seem to know very little about travel regulations.
Looking for participants to evaluate an experimental AR toolkit for Unity
I’m part of a research group at the University of Waterloo working on tools and platforms that expand the capabilities of augmented and virtual reality. We are looking for qualified individuals to evaluate a proof-of-concept development kit for Unity that combines an actuated pico-projector with an AR head-mounted display (i.e. Hololens). The study is self-paced, lasting a week (1-3 hours total), where you will use the toolkit to build a simple application that utilizes the capabilities of the pico-projector and HMD. If you are interested or know of someone who is, feel free to fill out the form below or send it along:

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Thanks!
The title was exactly correct
What is good, hard, honest work, exactly? I certainly work hard, but is it honest? I'm not sure. I certainly don't intentionally go around breaking all the rules I can, but I do try and use my brain to figure out every possible loophole and advantage I can. I don't think exploiting loopholes is dishonest, but I'm sure some would disagree.

For example, when playing board or card games, I always try and discover some dominant, completely broken strategy that is definitely not in the "spirit" of the game. Some people have gotten very angry at me because of this, but isn't this how games are supposed to be played? The same applies to life, I think.
A little uncharitable to say the entire intention is pirating, especially given the global pandemic, quarantining and social issues this can help with.

But yes, showing legal or illegal copies of movies you own or don't own is possible if one were so inclined, among the myriad legit uses. I can see why it looked like that was implied.
Hi all! With all that's going on in the world I thought I'd make a fun little project to make the world feel more connected! It's basically a map with an overlay that allows you to send love and happiness to others :)

I also embedded the lofi hip hop radio to make the site more chill (but can hide it if you want).

Thanks!
tried the mobile version, because of the p2p aspect it sucks your battery dry.
can't seem to reply to your comment below (no 'Reply' option for me, likely HN feature to avoid too deep nested threads)

> Not sure if I've misinterpreted your comment then?

Yes, misinterpreted.
Refer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22807146
I can go find NES games and Gameboy games in my parents basement. If the NES worked I could play it or find a knock off on Amazon. Pretty sure I have a Doom floppy.

Kids these days will be lucky to remember their favorite mobile games. Let alone be able to play them.

Will they ever have an iOS or Android equivalent of ROMs?
Just to clarify, the design is 100% post-war-modernist, not brutalist. Not surprising for those parts, what with Scandinavia going all-in on modernism back in the day (afaik).
> 3. Buy back your own stock, which gives back to shareholders.

You mean props up the share price so board members can hoard more wealth?
> If I'm allowed to bring along an unlimited amount of background data, then I can compress everything down to zero bits.

If by "background data" you mean the decompressor, this is patently false. No matter how much information is contained in the decompressor (The Algorithm + stable weights that don't change), you can only compress one thing down to any given new representation ( low resolution image + differential from rescale using stable weights ).

If by "background data" you mean new data that the decompressor doesn't already have, then you're ignoring the definition of compression. Your compressed data is all bits sent on the fly that aren't already possessed by the side doing the decompression regardless of obtuse naming scheme.

> I'm arguing it's the same as this image compression technique.

That's wrong, because this scheme doesn't claim to send a custom image generator instead of each image, which is what you're proposing.
There are things called PAPRs which are an enclosed version of what you’re taking about.
How does Apple make these nice animated videos?
Q&A with Apache Kylin Committer, Kaige Liu
Like in Go, you don't need a framework. the http module has all that you need.
I personally am working on a barebones api server without using any libraries or frameworks.
Social-network, mass-participation and mass-publication platforms, like YouTube, are not "theirs". They are a public resource under formal private ownership. This is not unheard of, of course - in some countries it's like that for water, or electricity, or mass transit, or healthcare, or schools and so on.

Allowing private owners to have total control of these public resources is obviously not what we want or need. The problem is that the formal owners of such resources also have a tremendous amount of influence - as single entities or altogether ("Big Tech") on the politics of states. And this influence is very fundamental to modern democracies, it's not some aberation.

Also:

1. It's nearly impossible to "compete" with such platforms once they are established.

2. Google not only allows misinformation, it intentionally pushes misinformation on YouTube: Sources which are politically acceptable to it are strongly promoted and recommended (e.g. CNN, MSNBC, Fox) - even when they peddle misinformation, which they occasionally do.
At that point you might as well just make an "Addresses" or "Address" table with a raw text field for the address. At the end of the day this thing is something that a human will read and map to the real world location.
In my country, the UK, it's not that good.

Eviction proceedings require 3 months notice now. That's not as good as it sounds: It was already 2 months normally.

Notice can still be given. If you miss rent on 1st April and then the grace period passes (which is not long), they can send you notice of eviction proceedings that will start in 3 months.

So you can't be removed from your rented home for 3 months, but you can lose your right to continue renting there in 3 months, caused by events happening right now.

I don't think they can evict due to lack of payment in the emergency. Which is just as well, because the notice period for non-payment eviction proceedings is quite short.

However, landlords have the right to give no-reason eviction notices to most tenants anyway (I think it's mostly tenants who've been there for > 6 months). They don't need to give a reason, they just have to feel like it.

The notice period for that is now 3 months instead of the former 2 months...
Thanks all for the input, it helps. I didn’t mean to downplay anyone’s contributions. Just looking at how big companies in tech vs in healthcare are solving this. Of course, smaller players innovate on a different scale. Cheers!
This feels ill-timed because I feel like my work is at v0.43 Alpha, but here goes. I certainly would love any criticism because I've been doing this withoout much feedback.

I've been writing a guide for everyone to be adequate at every normal human thing (https://adequate.life). It's a guidebook/list-set for everything. I'm about halfway done.

I'm also writing a summary of philosophy without the meanderings of thought ruminations (https://gainedin.site). It's an attempt to slice up reality into its knowable components. I'm about 10% done with it.

Updates at https://stucky.tech/now because my past experience with multiple blogfeeds made me lose hair.
Coase: "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."

via https://www.reddit.com/r/QuotesPorn/comments/b76ujr/if_you_t...
That is a completely different situation from what I'm discussing.

I'm not talking about who should get priority for PPE right now. I'm just talking about the idea of the general public having a couple uses worth of PPE just in case. Is now the right time for them to prioritize buying PPE for themselves over hospital workers? No.
All Crystal needs, is 1 major company to support it. :(
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Lack of testing and a laggard&lackluster response by authorities. USA will be one of the hardest hit countries in the world. There's still no stay-at-home order. Trump wants to reduce what little is being done after Easter. That's going to make the situation considerably worse.
Since everyone has to have an opinion and provide it, here's mine, maybe a retitle?

>A humble guide to transactional database schema design

There are a number of things that don't apply to analytical database design and I'm seeing the two confused fairly often, then again, this comes entirely from my point of view so take it for what it's worth.
WeWork has an existential issue in that the entire workforce will emerge from this with at least 2 months of remote work experience. Many, many employers and individuals will realize that remote is OK, and in fact has a ton of benefits.
I assume the values must be all be in memory beforehand and not hard storage.
> Is it really that important for the United States, and one particular political party inside the United States, to have control over the "free world"?

(As a German) I massively prefer a global system led by the US (or for what it's worth also the EU if we could get our fucking act together...) and a common basic value set (liberal democracy, rule of law, universal human rights) than nationalist chaos (like what the EU is sadly heading towards) or, worse, authoritarian/illiberal surveillance state systems like what China is exporting.

As for the "one political party" I hope that the current administration has disintegrated this party so hard that the USA will get someone sane as president again who fixes the issues that are no longer avoidable and that the Republican Party goes down forever (many have already left the ship / been forced out by Tea Party and now QAnon types). Obviously I'd prefer Sanders but even Biden would do IMO.
Also just a thought - consider offering online training classes to prospective yoga instructors. Maybe you can attract a more well-known yoga teacher in this regard, which will increase the attraction. You can charge people to learn from a popular yoga master (unsure of the industry terms in this space so I'll stick with 'yoga master'). Hope you continue to navigate through this tough situation!
If it's a placebo effect that's even better!

It means you don't have to buy the expensive magnet. You just get people to hang out with a patient for a couple of days and they'll respond better than 10x the average response of an SSRI.

To get a feel for the impact, an SSRI makes you an inch taller, the placebo effect makes you another inch taller. And this intervention would make you 10 inches taller.
The Hate Store: Amazon’s Self-Publishing Arm Is a Haven for White Supremacists
Thumbs up to Softbank for dodging a bullet! What a timing!

I bet they are smiling ear to ear - could have been one hell of a blow for them - buying quickly deflating unicorn startup sitting on a bunch of depreciating assets.
A fair point, but we both know there's no shortage of people who will click on a link to an executable and then blindly run it, especially if it purports to be from "Microsoft Technical Support" or "Amazon Security" or some such.
It looks like this guy is "looking for the penny under the lamp-post". To him, FOSS = stuff on GitHub.
Looking at this shows completely different story:
https://www.euromomo.eu/

January 2017 was much worse overall in Europe, it's not even comparable.
If such a feature existed, it would be used for abuse 99% of the time
Indulge me with the scenario. Do you think that pill is safe or unsafe or do you think we need to give one more guy the pill to test?

If you think it depends on something, go ahead and say so and I'll constrain the thought experiment.

IAmEveryone (user w/ sibling post) is correct in that I'm referring to the fact that effect size affects statistical power.
"We all assume the government is going to make sure the food supply is maintained"

Do you assume this? I assume that capitalism is keeping the food supply maintained. When that fails, I think we're up the creek.
Oh, I didn't read your comment with a view to the future - I certainly hope a spec and further development of the ecosystem can help improve the deployment story - which would help keep the development story relevant.
See my old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19468090#19468699 . That kind of thing used to have a much higher public profile about 30 years ago.
I Lived in Disney World
See this blog post from a radiologist and ML researcher: https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/ct-scannin...
I think programmers over complicate things too much when it comes to addresses. When you're dealing with a global system that is able to deliver a package to "the 3rd house on the right, past the pond, with the red fence," or whatever, in rural anywhere, you probably should just treat it like we all do in the real world, as just a string to be interpreted in context.
> If students in your program can ask the mentor questions about their problem sets, I highly doubt Duke CS department will allow this.

Came to write this. Homework help services were specifically called out in our course policies as a form of academic dishonesty. Getting outside help on a problem set would get you kicked out of the major. It would take a lot of care to design a tutoring program that was specific to our courses and didn't run afoul of our academic integrity rules.

OP: this is a nice service for universities that allow this sort of thing, but you should be sure you're not running afoul of programs with stricter academic integrity rules (which, AFAIK, includes most top programs).
It's nonsense, except it's a summary of what a bunch of professors and research scientists specialised in biology and medicine think. So you[tube] are now in a position of deciding which experts are right and which are wrong.

Is there anything that defines your view of what nonsense is other than government approval? Wait, except up-thread I am reading that the problem is politicians who don't accept experts.

So who defines expertise? Who gets the label of expert and who doesn't, in your view, if qualifications aren't it?
With Ajax, definitely not, though I imagine some wizard will mention some mode where it can be done. Fundamentally, imagine if you started running code on partially downloaded JSON. Imagine an array of objects is partially downloaded, then the JSON is parsed, the code starts running, then suddenly more objects are added to the array later? That would be a runtime nightmare.
I think his point was more that it won't increase every time you refresh the page.

But then neither will the actual view counter.
> Never store firstname and lastname in the same field

I disagree. Why would you want to force the "firstname lastname" pattern on people? What if someone has three names? Or only one? Just use a "name" field!
I dunno, I feel like this could swing either way. I'm a remote worker and I work out of a coworking space. If more people go remote, demand for coworking space could also increase.
A new title means a new opportunity to ask for more money and influence. See also, "devops".
The ffmpeg command used in the article is key frame seeking because the -ss argument comes before the -i argument. If the -ss argument is placed after the -i argument, an all frame seeking mode is used.

The difference is explained here: http://www.markbuckler.com/post/cutting-ffmpeg/
I don’t, but Node Red is giving me the same fun feeling I had with Yahoo Pipes, but for Home Automation.
Could be a line on CSI: Los Angeles.
OpenStruct for Ruby
ZeroTier's core is only about 30k lines of code including quite a lot of verbose multi-line comments, crypto, C++ cruft, and boilerplate. Core functional code implementing ZT is probably roughly 2X the size of Wireguard. How in the hell is IPSec that big?

It's bigger if you include all the service and virtual net device and UI stuff, but IPSec doesn't include any of that so comparing to the ZT core is apples to apples.
I'd advise you to not shy away from remote in general. Many people, apparently yourself included, think it's some sort of a grand transition. It really isn't. :)

I am thankful that people like you exist and are willing to take the plunge and then find out that it wasn't that bad. You're certainly doing a much better job than most managers I ever worked under.
> So if I have the cash and I want to buy a lake cottage, a hunting cabin, a second home near my kid's college, etc.--that should be illegal?

Why do you need to own those things? If anything, capitalism has come around to this idea with the "sharing economy," and it works.

Do you not think those facilities can be provided for the common use of all who have a need or desire to use them? Why do you feel you should be entitled to exclusive rights to hunt that land, or enjoy the lake shoreline? More importantly, why do you feel you should be able to deny others use of that land?

Is there nothing else more useful you can think of to do with that money?

> Commercial property developers should not exist, and any housing needs should be met presumably by government construction?

That's one way to go about it. As long as builders are adequately compensated for their labor, does it matter?

> I agree that overly restrictive zoning and planning regulations, IMO largely driven by owners' considerations of property values, distort the housing market by restricting new supply and inflating prices across the board.

Explain Houston, then. The housing market in Houston still inflates at a rate higher than the general rate of inflation, and yet, there is literally no zoning there [0].

> The problem is the local government in these cases is being misused to prevent the proper functioning of the market.

Correct, because people think just because they put a lot of money into buying a house, that it should be an investment and prices should always go up. Japan provides a decent model of how to do it differently within a market framework: https://archive.is/jNx7X

> The solution is not to get rid of private property--dude, it's 2020, and communism is still a failure--it's to reduce the local governments' ability to interfere with the market.

Where and when have we had communism on a nation-state scale? Cuba arguably comes closest to the ideal, and they're doing well. China and the USSR were really more state capitalism than communism of any sort.

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[0]: https://www.zillow.com/houston-tx/home-values/
Callstatsio acquired by 8x8 for WebRTC monitoring
The actual right is to self-defense - itself a derivative of other fundamental rights. Access to effective means of self-defense follows from there, just as abstract freedom of speech has many derivative rights like freedom of the press.
https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/428914681911070720?lang=en
All it takes is one accidental sneeze in a grocery store for a face shield to become useful.
Not sure about open source and paid hosting, but there is node-red, https://nodered.org/, which is open source and easy to get started with. Combining stuff is something Zapier excels in, https://zapier.com/, and the free tier can suffice for some tasks (not open source). You could also try my attempt at a spiritual pipes successor, https://www.pipes.digital/ (but it's also not open source). If there is something missing there to reproduce how you used Yahoo Pipes I'd definitely be interested in hearing from you, so I can restore it :)
I've seen a few similar articles now. Does this represent the general view of folks working in data science? "Data Science" is such as meaningless catch all term. The reality is in many organizations it's simply advanced business intelligence or advanced business analytics. There are some industries that lend themselves well to this whole practice, and they tend to be industries that have been borne out of the internet age (e.g. social media, internet advertising, etc.)

Some other industries have been doing "data science" for ages. Credit Risk Modelling, insurance and so on.

Every time I read one of these articles, I feel it's just an individual who entered a kind of crummy situation and they're learning what it means to work in a corporate environment. Some are better than others. Some are more motivated than others. Some have better cultures than others. Some are more willing to make technology a key part of their business strategy. Some are more data driven than others.

My recommendation is to always ask the fundamental question before joining: what are you trying to achieve with data science, and is it actually achievable?
I actually meant that with vagrant, even us on Linux would run VMs, so if I set up a dev env, I can be pretty confident a colleague will run the same thing, with similar characteristics, on windows or Mac. With Docker, I feel it's still a bit kinda-sorta. Especially if you need to run multiple stacks for switching between projects.
Had he done the same thing in Jeopardy!, by studying the most common categories, figuring out common clue patterns and how they lead into responses, and practicing with a buzzer, he'd be considered a smart player, as opposed to a power-gaming asshole who munchkined his way into money.
Amazon’s Left Hand Has No Idea What the Right Hand Is Doing
Unless you're a game developer! Lots of people are still playing Super Mario Brothers daily! They're running it in an emulator now, most probably, but all of the original code is doing the work.

Obviously it won't outlast the heat death of the universe or anything, but I'd say it's has the potential to live as long as any other human creation.
Not generally understood but .. my analogy is the castle and the keep.

The keep has a smaller attack surface than the castle. Of course if the keep is compromised, your security just failed, dramatically.
There are some differences between stats and data science.

At least initially, DS was a lot about machine learning. While those methods may be statistical, it was the computer science field that drove and embraced the ML revolution. Currently, it’s mostly ML engineers who make the impact (deploy) ML and these are mostly CS folks. Statisticians still can’t code themselves out of a box (2013 MS Statistics here from top school)

Also, there has been a lot of innovation in managing data at scale (tools, infra , etc) This, again, has been done by engineers not statisticians. But this is still related to the science of data.

So the difference between the new (data science) and the old (stats) is about culture and about some of the methods for dealing with data at “scale”.

In other words, statistics is just a part of data science, but not the whole.
All true, but even with stay at home orders, not everyone stays home. Some people are essential workers and have to go to work. Other people go out for exercise, grocery shopping, etc. If those people have protective equipment available it is truly senseless to not wear it given the extreme danger.