skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was bored one lunchtime. Looking at my boring settlements app I thought why not add the company logo.gif. Cool. Would be better if it went 'Moo' when clicked. Fun. Was the fave 'cool' application for 6 months. >30 pints in the local. One of the few things that I've written that has been acknowledged by management (*has inspired similar).
This is a crucial point. The idea with BTC is that as the block reward decreases over time, transaction volume (and therefore fee collection) would increase. This requires the network to be used more over time, which does appear to be happening.
Suggest you check out https://composable.ai for building out robust data pipelines
www.flexport.com
This is my experience. One part luck, one part upbringing, one part privilege. Both my kids are thoughtful, even tempered, curious, and tenacious. Often they are called "mature" for their ages (8/11). Such is not a description that fits most of the children in their peer group at school. FWIW most would probably call me a strict parent. Not in a punitive sense, but we do keep our standards high and do not normalise behaviours that we don't like.

Honestly the school board's efforts have been phenomenally bad. We're in BC, Canada, which appears to have said "hey teachers, here's your Zoom license! Get on that e-learning thing - kthxbye!" In aggregate it's a bum deal for the teachers, students, and parents. Hopefully it works for some but it doesn't for anybody that I know.

However... I took control of the curriculum. I'm not a teacher so I didn't presume I knew best: I based it on the Khan School Closure Schedule [1]. We sprinkle in a few arts & crafts projects with their mom, some nature walks in the afternoon, some Khan math and language arts in the morning, and an hour or so of coding after lunch. They have a few extra chores around the house - nothing too onerous. We've increased their music practice sessions.

I've been working from home for several years so I did not have much adjustment to my working situation. It took a bit to find our education groove but, by and large, I'm happy with it now that we've deprioritised the haphazard din coming from the teachers.

My wife's impression is that both kids are performing at a higher level than they were in meatspace school. The kids and I agree.

I could probably sustain this indefinitely as my kids are kind of self-directing their way through the assignments. I'm keen for the new normal to kick in but, from my POV, this has unexpectedly turned into one of those "golden years" moments for me. We're making some memories and the kids are fine. Lemons and lemonade, I guess.

[1] https://keeplearning.khanacademy.org/daily-schedule
Whenever I see someone publicly talking about smaller government, I look at their actions and see that they are really talking about eliminating public welfare and expanding corporate welfare. Fiscally, every R in DC is a neoconservative. They hold their traditionally conservative social positions simply to secure voters who would otherwise have no reason to vote for neoconservative policies that are often against their own economic interests. I doubt Mitch McConnell actually believes in any of his social policy stances, they just exist to drum up votes to keep Rs in office to pass neoconservative economic bills.

For example, when Republicans have DC strangled, they still don't make serious efforts to ban abortion despite their rhetoric over the past 50 years. Why would they? That's one of their best wedges to divide the voting block of the working class. If they actually banned abortion, they would lose a talking point at best, and swaths of single issue voters at worst. The tea party movement is another great example. Funded by conservative groups like the Koch brothers under the guise of a grass roots movement. It strengthened support among the R base, some new faces appeared in DC, but the overall economic ideology of the republican party did not change. The Republican party is powerful in this country, most of all because it is a single beast where every member from the highest to the lowest office tows the party line.
Most "satellite view" imagery of cities is actually done with planes and drones. I just looked up a 3D model of my house in Apple Maps and can see stuff with a few centimeter resolution, which is much higher than any satellite can do.
Yep, anything of real value where I worry about quality I order from Best Buy. I don’t want to deal with amazon for a tv or freezer.
Meh, it's fine for 1:1 chat, but I hate it's group chat support. It's just messy and hard to manage. On the other hand, it's VC support is top notch.
https://logicalclocks.com with their ML + Feature Store open source platform Hopsworks and their managed cloud version https://hopsworks.ai
This comment reminds me of a Mexican friend talking about farming in the town he grew up in. It's not that the farmland is necessarily poor, but it's uneven. To farm productively means knowing where and when to plant what. Problem is it doesn't mesh well with mechanization. At least currently.
I don't think that's a huge problem. I almost had no interest in anything my classmates talked about but in the morning before going to school, I would open few trending pages and check up news for about 10-15 minutes and drop small hints to start conversation and let them continue since I lacked depth. Discussions are pretty cyclical and repetitive in nature. It's easy to pretend that you care about something superficial because deep down, people are also aware of it.
I could be mistaken but doesn't that just mean the value computed into a compile time constant can do arbitrary computation? Whereas I think this is saying that the Turing completeness leaks up to the parsing level.
Generally they can turn around and activate a reserve plane in about 30 minutes. It’s got everything it needs except food, water, and fuel.
I'm actually building a "modular open-source company/product" in the MLOps space:

BentoML https://docs.bentoml.org/en/latest/
As an driver, I think too much emphasis is placed on those global mean crash/fatality rate statistics. That sort of analysis is too reductive. By not being an alcoholic and choosing to always wear a seatbelt, not driving in bad weather, choosing to obey the speed limit, etc.. individuals can deliberately boost their chances well above the national mean. Insurance companies charge different people different rates because they aren't so reductive as to only consider national averages.

The response I usually get when I talk about is "everybody thinks they're better than average, so changes are equally good you're not", but that too is too reductive. Loads of people drive drunk, while I know that I don't. That alone significantly stacks the odds in my favor for the likelihood that I'm correct in thinking I'm above the average.
It does make sense to evaluate the default value for the parameter at the point of definition for serveral reasons.
First of all, the default value does not have to be a literal value, and if you wanted it to be evaluated at call time the function would need to capture all of the default values in a closure.

default = 10
def foo(x=default):
return x
default = 20
assert foo() == 10

I think tat makes a lot of sense.

It could also be that the default value is a more ocmplex expression, we could use a function to generate a default argument.

def foo(x=create_default(y, z))

By evaluating it at definition time we only have to evaluate the expression once and not have this weird lazy expression.

And yes it is used, for example the fastapi Dependency Injection system has been build quite cleverly using the ability to construct default values

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/query-params-str-valid...

Yes it is one of those things you just have to learn, but there are tons of stuff like that in most programming languages.
The issue for me is that my kindergartner feels far more comfortable simply telling me "I don't want to do that now" than she does for her teacher. Her teacher never has to yell/scold/punish, but she is motivated to do it for her teacher and not for me. And I refuse to yell at her (I'll admit, I have, it did get her attention and made her cry, but I felt awful and I don't think it was a positive even if it resulted in a temporary attitude change).

She's a smart kid and self aware enough to be able to discuss it with me, and say that it is simply different getting instructions from a teacher than from someone she is so close to. She knows I'll love her whether or not she does her work. And there is also the peer pressure aspect, being in a class full of students is motivating compared to being at home.

I haven't given up, but I have given up on attempting to do everything the teacher assigns. It is not worth the stress, for both me and my daughter.
Polyaxon is an open source machine learning automation platform. It allows to schedule notebooks, tensorboards, and container workloads for training ML and DL. It also has native integration with Kubeflow's operators for distributed training.

https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon
Many of these people will take the high comp jobs at Google. Many of them also openly state they are salty at being rejected in Google interviews.
I find it bizarre that that was taboo. It seems incredibly intuitive and obvious to me.
I feel like it's relevant to mention that Oracle recently disabled all of the free tier virtual machines from every one of their cloud customers and after like a week of downtime with no public announcements, they were somehow restored.

So yeah, that should give everyone a pretty good idea of their reliability if they are not multi-million dollar customers.
If Zoom gets all cloud services forever free, it is still a bargain for Oracle.

First time in decades Larry can actually claim a legit cutting edge operation runs on Oracle.
The OWL = Overwhelmingly Large Telescope for anyone curious about the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope
Maybe the model can scale with high schoolers helping with younger students. Remote montessori?
What's in Safe 5.0
Warning: was diving into waves. A terrible, terrible idea. The hospital in San Francisco sees about one a month - young person with their whole life ahead of them, a quadriplegic because they decided to dive into a wave at the beach.
> ... manipulating the URL, that presumably counts as a crime.

"Manipulating the URL" -- "?id=1", "?id=2", "?id=3", in effect -- was enough to get Andrew Auernheimer (a.k.a. "weev") convicted and sentenced to ~3.5 years in prison [0].

Yes, his conviction was later vacated -- albeit due to a "technicality" ("improper venue"). Regardless, he still spent more than two years locked up for what really does seem like some completely exaggerated bullshit!

> "... [the Third Circuit judges] were skeptical of the original conviction, noting that no circumvention of passwords had occurred and that only publicly accessible information was obtained."

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(Note: I've never met the guy, nor would I ever want to. Everything I've heard and read indicates that he's a pretty shitty human being -- and I suspect that didn't help him very much at trial. He almost certainly was deserving of some "bad karma" but that's not for the "justice system" to dish out.)

TL;DR: If you're in the U.S., you might want to think long and hard before taking that chance!

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach
Poor people are supposed to benefit from inflation because their debts can be paid back with money that's worth less. Meanwhile savers are supposed to use investments, not cash.
The three most important things I do are:

1. Imagine the perfect candidate personality and skillset for the position

2. Design a list or scorecard with questions to ask about those skills and also general background / personality based on their resume

3. Ask for theoretical explanations and more importantly concrete examples of those skills in practice

I find that the two biggest mistakes in hiring are confusing theoretical knowledge with practical skill, and hiring somebody who generally seems like a smart or nice person but who doesn't fit the role (and doesn't seem likely to grow into it).
I think there are three problems with the title:

1. Clickbait exploitation.

2. Conflating people who have sought redemption from past deeds with those who are jerks for other reasons.

3. Social fascism isn't the proper response to actual fascism. Throwing people away, instantly and permanently, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. If people "can never change" when they clearly have, this isn't the sign of a decent, functional, nuanced, or tolerant society in touch with the meaning of words or self-awareness.
Development used to be (15 years ago)
I can't access it. It's paywalled.

I was a homeschooling parent and, for me and my family, it was wonderfully less burdensome than public school.

A snippet from a recent comment of mine which may be pertinent, though, based on the headline and long experience with remote learning (I also have taken college classes online):

Most people overestimate how much work they need to put into homeschooling. They think they need to teach their kids like eight hours a day because that's how long they are in school usually and they feel overwhelmed.

This is not true.

One article I read years ago indicated that after standing in line, changing classes, doing lunch, having roll call, etc was accounted for, students in public school spent between one and three hours a day on actual learning.

Similarly, under California law (back in the day), one legal option for homeschooling was to hire a tutor for three hours a day. Not eight. Just three.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681334
i wonder what would happen if Larry was forced to do a 10 day vipassana
Hey! Can you email me to talk about your t-mobile sim swap hack from January sometime? My email is in my profile... thanks!
I don’t think anyone was denying that...

What I read was a repudiation of the argument that on average poor children fare worse in school therefore a given child from a poor family will necessarily perform poorly. It is entirely possible for a poor child to outperform wealthy peers, and the behavior of that child’s parents or the culture at home may have a large effect on their performance.
I agree with that. I dislike having to start a new group chat just to add a new person.
Lots of insiders claim that amazon looks at its competitor's traffic and usage data for ideas. kinda like how grocery stores know which generics to make based on which types of foods do well.
Yes this is all quite do-able. It is often much easier to implement from the beginning, than after the fact.
https://drawsql.app/templates/drawsql.app would be "more meta" :-)
Not sure if it would fit with your use case, but for me, immer.js has been a game changer in terms of object equality/mutability.

https://immerjs.github.io/immer/docs/introduction

Once all state/object changes are being updated this way, a simple === can check for object equality. It's so useful, it makes me wish this was baked into the language itself.
Why most African countries are not prospering
It's almost 100% vote by mail in WA, but each county needs an in-person voting place for accessibility reasons. (Example: How do you fill out a paper ballot if you're blind?) I assume it's similar in CO HI OR and UT.

> Can I vote in-person?

> Each county opens a voting center prior to each primary, special election, and general election. Each voting center is open during business hours during the voting period, which begins eighteen days before, and ends at 8:00 p.m. on the day of, the primary, special election, or general election.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/faq_vote_by_mail.aspx
The system is certainly biased towards having only two presidential candidates. (If one candidate is too similar to another candidate, they split the vote, and the most dissimilar one wins. That is the intrinsic design of first-past-the-post voting, and is a reason why we should get rid of it.)

My advice is to turn the focus local, where you can have more of an impact. The President of the United States is accountable for 330 million people, so your individual views matter very little. In your own congressional district, or city, or state, though, representatives are more accessible. You just have to decide what problems you want to solve and who can do it for you. Very often, the President doesn't have that power, so you probably don't have to feel too sad about not liking the choices.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/haarp-secret-weapon-used-for-w...
Man, it is so much cheaper south of the border. Canadian green bean distributors seem to be quite a bit more expensive, even when factoring in the exchange rate.
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I agree with that, but would you extend that sympathy to e.g. people running for political office?
No they are not. Businesses are legal entities which have different standards of liabilities than people. The way to support businesses is not to make sure that the government hands them a wad of cash, but by handing a smaller wad of cash to individuals so that they can continue to fund businesses directly through the market. This has the benefit of also keeping corporate taxes flowing to federal coffers.
I remember a friend of mine in high school was pulled out to do homeschool. The parents had a family friend who was supposed to come over and teach them, but after a while, Family friend just come over and sit on American online all day… It was a couple of years before anyone realized the kids were not being taught anything. My friend “graduated“ but he didn’t know how to do multiplication.
Honestly, I'm not holding my breath when it comes to ET2. Chances are they won't get the game physics right in ET2. But ET without trickjumping is simply not ET.
Not to advocate for one language over another, but sergio, you're right, Nim is ridiculously underrated and a much easier to use than rust. There's just a lot less mental overhead in almost anything and iteration is going to be much faster because lifetimes do get in the way.

Unfortunately this is one of those things where hype has kind of won out and I think a lot of people are dismissing an option like Nim simply because we're not talking about it on places like HN. Though, to be fair to Rust, the community is doing a lot of bleeding edge stuff that Nim's community just isn't big enough to.
> The current coronavirus is 1/100 as deadly as the flu of 1918.

Wow: you are saying the final death rate from Covid19 will be from 0.01% to 0.06%.

You are making irrelevant comparisons: we don’t yet know how many people will die from Covid19; we have no idea of numbers of deaths in many poorer countries where deaths can’t even be counted; comparing number of deaths in a world with 7 billion people against number of deaths for 1918 population is pointless.
Geizhals is really crappy compared to the Tweakers Pricewatch I was used to, but yes I use that one to at least narrow down the comparison. Still, thanks for the tip!
Words like "aid" or "stimulus" or "relief" are one word arguments. Who doesn't like aid? These are marketing BS words. We need to use more clear language like "economic transfer". This puts us in the right frame of mind to discuss who the money is being transferred from and to.

"Pardon me, Average Joe Taxpayer. We noticed you haven't been purchasing any tickets on American Airlines lately. In order to help you with this problem, we're going to take money from you and give it to American Airlines. What's that? No, you won't be getting free flights, you silly goose. We're just going to give them your money and you get nothing in return."
That theory is discussed in other threads. I’m just responding to the “funding the competition” argument, which is a different angle.
It's more about designated environment. If you think you can study in the same place where you play video games, it's not going to work unless you have extreme self confidence and control.

But if you build a discipline slowly and steadily, change what you associate your current environment with then you can effectively focus on things that should matter.
A YouTuber (carykh) made a video where he explains an algorithm he made to automatically process lecture videos by speeding up, condensing and removing parts of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ8orIurGxw
"Cougar Gold Cheese" from Washington State University: https://m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_Gold_cheese
I think the key difference is that Jitsi doesn't have breakout rooms nor a desktop app. Otherwise user experience is rather similar and from my pov the Jitsi meet style with room name is much more friendly than random numbers on zoom.
anecdotally, having used it internally before I left. I found that VC stability top-notch, I had some stability problems using the web client, but those had mostly resolved within the few months before I left.

I now find my self yearning for the stability of Chime outside of using Zoom. and using Zoom, feel a concern for my privacy in a way I have never using an AWS product.
Virtual rate cut forces Nintendo gamers into riskier assets
Couldn’t agree more. Parents who score high on conscientiousness and are able to set up that kind of home environment are going to have kids with many of the same traits (on average).
> Maybe someone who actually works on Oracle cloud can jump in here and clarify.

I'd love to, and I'm sure others would as well, but I'm not sure what can be said that wouldn't run afoul of legal.
“ Midler was not seeking damages for copyright infringement of the song itself, but rather for the use of her voice which she claimed was distinctive of her person as a singer.”

Whereas Roc Nation is making a claim that the videos infringe on Jay Z’s copyrights, as well as another claim that they impersonate him without permission.

In the Midler vs Ford case, Ford had already secured permission from the copyright holder for the performance.

It’s quite a different case.
Still applying copyright to digitized versions of public domain works. That's NOT OK.
Don't worry, we have minimum wage! So it's illegal to hire anyone whose work is worth less than 10$/hr (or whatever, I think LA (CA) would be 15). But no basic income, because then businesses might actually have to negotiate with people who aren't desperate for any way of affording basic necessities.
It’s not about competition per se. It’s about using public policy and economic incentives to prioritize supply chain resiliency and distributed production over maximum efficiency.
Children aren't major vectors for this particular disease, though. It was pretty obvious even at the time, and the evidence for this has only got stronger - they just don't seem to transmit Covid-19 very well, not to parents or to other kids. Also, closing schools risks them all starting to socialize in much less controlled ways all day outside of school, as the comment that started this thread points out is already happening, which means that they might end up being more of a vector for transmission rather than less. Then there's the impact on key workers and nurses, the child abuse epidemic caused by not having schools as an early warning system...

Pressuring the government to do something that's a terrible idea on the basis that they must be wrong because they're the government isn't "accountability". It's making the world a worse place for profit.
Given that transaction volume is capped, fees may be very very high in the future.
Do you think that perhaps that issue might be alleviated if the lecture is intertwined with interactive quizzes, models, examples, things like that?
Really awesome, thank you - recently I was tinkering with ideas for some projects and I was slightly annoyed that I had to manually crate schemas for some common and battle tested scenarios like blog, registration, etc.
Try serveless function, how about moving your personal blog and website to always free tier?