skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wuhan was basically shut down for the whole quarter, but the rest of China was impacted for only a few weeks though.

The shutdown started on Jan. 23 and things were already reopening by mid-February, and mostly back to normal in March.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/13/21136648/apple-beijing-st...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21177964/apple-stores-chi...
Inertia, I assume. You can't get any kind of serious loan without a report from all three, and other things like background checks and rentals usually have one or two they prefer.
His book, "Game Programming Patterns," is great as well: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com
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So, wait, their thesis is _numerology_?

And numerology with suspect numbers at that; 1978 was the year after the introduction of the first viable personal computers, 1993 was, er, Mosaic came out I suppose, but it was not the year the web showed up (that was earlier) or the year that it started to see widespread adoption (that'd be, er, 95 or 96). 2007 was the year that smartphones became mainstream, if you don't count blackberries or other consumer quasi-smartphones. This all feels very cherrypicked to fit the thesis.
Bravo using the word "crypto" with two different meaning that both fit the sentence.
So in your "narrative" do social security numbers and other sensitive personal details have some sort of expiration date where if they don't "surface" within a certain time frame they are no longer useable?
In the case of POWER, the scenario where they are clear winners is the scale up one. This is a scenario you usually don't want to be in.
A common type of example involves relatively small or uninformative datasets. Say you flip a coin a few times and only get heads. Your maximum likelihood (frequentist) estimate is that the coin will always land heads. In a Bayesian setting, if you have a (say uniform) prior on the probability that the coin lands heads, your maximum a posteriori estimate of this probability will be non-zero, but will get continue to get smaller if you continue only seeing heads.

The above example is contrived, but makes more sense in the case of language modelling. Since a bag-of-words vector, containing say counts of words seen in a document, is typically sparse (most documents only contain a limited portion of the full vocabulary), a frequentist estimate of word probability will say that certain words can never occur, just because it's never seen them. The Bayesian estimate will still assign some non-zero chance of seeing that word.

Practically speaking, this leads to the idea of "smoothing" in tf-idf (text-frequency-inverse-document-frequency) vectors, by adding 1 to document frequencies. You don't need Bayesian statistics to do this, but maybe you never would have thought of it otherwise!
Sounds a bit like Google trying to sell Stadia: "Nobody needs processing power close-by, let's compute everything in the cloud and access it with thin-clients!"

Which sounds workable in theory, but is unworkable for many people due to limited Internet access speeds/volume.

And the real disadvantage then becomes obvious when the "super powerful cloud" only renders the game at console visual details levels with in-built control-lag.

Not just limited to gaming: Video-editing is becoming increasingly popular as a hobby and a field of work, which is another use-case for lots of local processing power.

So while in terms of market size desktops might be a niche, that niche still fulfills an important function thus I don't see that going away any time soon.
All I see is a blank white page on Safari 13.1 EDIT: It's been fixed.
Under the window somebody was singing. Winston peeped out, secure in the
protection of the muslin curtain. The June sun was still high in the sky,
and in the sun-filled court below, a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman
pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her
middle, was stumping to and fro between a washtub and a clothes line,
pegging out a series of square white things which Winston recognized as
babies' diapers. Whenever her mouth was not corked with clothes pegs she
was singing in a powerful contralto:

It was only an 'opeless fancy.
It passed like an Ipril dye,
But a look an' a word an' the dreams they stirred!
They 'ave stolen my 'eart awye!

The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless
similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of
the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any
human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.
But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an
almost pleasant sound. He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of
her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of the children in the street,
and somewhere in the far distance a faint roar of traffic, and yet the
room seemed curiously silent, thanks to the absence of a telescreen.

(1984, Chapter 4)
Thanks for these suggestions!

Shouldn't there be a way for the compiler to know enough to convert the map to positional arguments, so long as the map params could be put into a spec? Something like that would be super nice, because I think tail calls in Erlang cost nothing so long as you keep the same arg positions. Having a map is always a convenient way of starting a function and evolving it, but having it with a few more constraints and with equal performance would be better. If I'm not mistaken I remember dart made a similar optimization.
The self-hosting story is pretty good(TM). It's not turn-key, and there is not an installer. You need to run through the steps manually, which are documented here:

https://man.sr.ht/installation.md

Most people get this done in an hour or two, sometimes with the help of #sr.ht on irc.freenode.net. It's also often made easier by the fact that you can skip any services you don't need, like paste hosting or wikis. By making you go through the steps and set it up, it makes sure to leave you with an understanding of the pieces and how they fit together, so you're better equipped to deal with it if/when it breaks and to adapt it to your particular circumstances. After you set it up, upgrades are usually pretty painless, you just run `apk upgrade` and it takes care of the rest. In general, I think this approach makes a lot more sense than the turn-key Dockerized approach.
That is not true. It is almost impossible to rent a flat in the larger cities of Germany without showing a positive credit record to the landlords. And requesting even small credits of a few k will have your credit rating checked and recorded that such a check happened.
check out most of hashicorp's product line:

https://github.com/hashicorp
I did not miss that portion. I wasn't addressing moving away from Jira. I was saying if you don't have a choice in tool, and you're unhappy, then the path forward is to make the experience less bad by getting someone (more experienced/outside your political structure) than your current team to help you.
Aren't they? How else do you explain their subversion of the mechanisms of government to maximize their own profits without regard for societal cost?
Come on now that is not quite true. Some politicians got paid to make this thing go away with a legislation.
Pretty sure you can find all of the code here: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn?search=sr.ht
However, I don't know how easy it would be to piece all of the components back together... but, I did find the installation instructions here: https://man.sr.ht/installation.md

And if you're just looking for Git hosting, here is the install doc: https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/installation.md
>They have replaced Atom with a fauxpen source editor.

I'm gonna counter this with the fact that VSCode was way better maintained and optimized than Atom.

The GitHub before Microsoft seemed to me as an company that would half-ass everything they could, and Atom was one of those things.

When VSCode came, at least to me, it absolutely destroyed Atom with versatility and stability.
This type of cynicism is exhausting. It seems that if they're damned if they do and damned if they don't, Amazon might as well pocket the cash and not worry about doing good things because people will trash them regardless.
I was curious why there was no hiphop examples and I found one on the Soundcloud page which wasn't very listenable yet, which probably explains why they skipped it:

https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/snoop-dogg
Considering I have been getting non-Amazon purchases much faster than Amazon purchases I suspect that's really code for paying for the delivery costs that exceeded the actuarial models that were baked into Amazon Prime and thus turned 1 day free delivery into 8 day free delivery.
You can also find all of the code here:

https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut

In a nice new project hub UI ;)
if they never surface, are they usable? if they are used by a government but not to steal, how do you quantify the damage?
I meant that if employers were looking for people who were adept at critical thinking and software developers didn't fit the bill (the original posters implication) that there was a category of people who would be even more adept at it than philosophers. Sorry if I was unclear.
> due to signs of debuggers, development tools, network monitoring, usual network settings like to proxies or DNS, etc

Then that's your counter measure... run a debugger 24/7.
Has anyone disabled mouse acceleration? This has been my difficulty with Linux desktop
I was initially skeptical of that claim, but it looks like [1] System76 are a million dollar company, which is great! That said, "hiring IDEO" is not a one-and-done sort of affair, you can hire great designers to do some work for you, but they want to keep getting paid as you have them work on more stuff.

1: https://incfact.com/company/system76-denver-co/
> Git would make more sense, but implementation seems daunting.

Do you use version control now? If not, do it immediately. Initiating a git repo is very easy. You can use a boilerplate repo if you don't understand how gitignore works[1]. You should also look into gitattributes files.

If "implementation" means "deploying from a git repo", there are a million tools to do this. It's built into GitHub and BitBucket now, but you can also use Elastic Beanstalk or CodeDeploy on AWS. Azure and GCP have similar tools.

> What is the standard practice for pushing updates?

Bare minimum is having a way to trigger a deployment from a particular commit in git.

Best practice would be a full CI/CD server. It sounds like you probably don't have unit or end-to-end tests, but if you did, the CI/CD server would run the tests on any individual commits and report errors to you.

You could have manual or automatic deployments based on the latest commit on certain branches.

There's a lot to understand and unpack here, but there are also a ton of SaaS products to make it easier.

Honestly, though, you're a lot better off just moving to Shopify...

1. https://github.com/Partyschaum/php-boilerplate
For Bayesian stats, "Statistical Rethinking" by McElreath is a masterpiece.
It's not lying; they've never been convicted of a felony.
Gemini a protocol inbetween gopher and the web
Canada has the Tax Free Savings Account, which can be used like a Roth IRA (long-term investing without taxes due at withdrawal) or like a regular savings account. It's an after tax account, but earnings are, as the name says, tax free regardless of type.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax-free_savings_account
Man that sounds cool. I don't have any use for something like that, but I would love to see it opensourced to play with it (which I assume you guys won't be doing anytime soon)
Yeah, I'm getting a 404 on some assets on Chrome. :(
Generally speaking, it's pretty shocking how utterly abysmal crisis/damage-control PR is for companies. Rather than "never letting a good crisis go to waste", most companies/leaders just dig a deeper hole.

A small part of me would love to just start a Crisis PR firm for tech companies.

Regardless of who's right or wrong, it's really nice to see a leader come out and actually face criticisms with a cool head, and at least from my point of view, not bullshit legal language. Even better if it does encourage positive change.

(Specifically about Stripe, I am positively biased because once I submitted some feedback and their product team immediately jumped to communicate with me as to how to best design and implement the feature.)
probably out of topic and not too helpful, but lately I feel we spend so much time in intellectual discussion about other intellectual discussion that we kinda forget about the basics. what does people want and why don't we have it? maybe I'm just too tired today, but in my mind it's like nowadays debate about the world always ends up polluted by a never-ending collection of disconnected elements and a cloud of complexity that we can never manage to navigate with a clear sense of direction. To me Andreessen's essay sounded like just another political speech, and then this article diffuse echo around the former. Maybe I need some sleep.
Nice, congrats on launching! I'm excited to try it out.

Curious - what if there's a transformation that happens with data from the data warehouse but can't be performed with SQL (such as a Python script)? Is there a way to send that data back into the integrations that you support? Or would be it best to push back into the data warehouse and use Census from there?

Aka, can you only transform with Census using SQL? Or other languages as well?
Hmm, I just tried this with a few pictures, including one of mine. I forgot about all the "your selfies are being data-mined by the bad guys!" stories.

Ever heard of browser fingerprinting? If this site is doing it, now it has my IP, my browser fingerprint, and my face (as well as some friends' faces...). Search for my face on Facebook and they have my name too. Sell to marketer.
Do you think that Equifax provides the general public with a useful service?
The pseudoscience issue doesn't matter; pragmatically it works.

Its intentionally designed to be intimidating for three very non psudeoscientific reasons. Will you break under pressure? Some fraction truly believe and will confess in terror and can be filtered out. A weak effect is its an intelligence test, obviously it is not magickal and if you're smart enough you'll see thru it. It hasn't been gotten rid of because there really is no downside.

It is cheaper than the expensive labor intensive alternatives like interviewing more people or trying to find more records.

Much like astrology or prayer or swearing on a bible in a court of law, it is cheap and effective enough with minimal cost.
Arc is underrated as an information management tool. There's something to be said for having a web framework that works out of the box. Rails is probably the only other framework that makes it as easy to "just make some forms that pass data around and run some code on that data." But not quite -- I haven't seen arc's closure-storing technique used in any other web framework.

The main issue that arc solves is that it gives you a full pipeline for managing "objects with properties" via the web. It's so flexible. I wrote a thread on how we're using it in production to manage our TPUs: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1247570883306119170
Just to put numbers on that, nothing pays off quite like science and engineering: https://studentloanhero.com/featured/majors-students-debt/
They recently reported 100 million daily active users and growing by 3 million a day.

I think people are taking it seriously.
"I never let schooling get in the way of my education."

The problem with your view is you assume the only way to get educated is via academia. There is a lot of education when you become a mechanic, an electrician, a factory worker, a firefighter, etc. That is not academic. You learn on the job. There are also many certification courses for these fields that run outside of traditional college system.

I believe in free schooling to teach basic, essential skills like reading, computing, math, etc. I'd even argue for a greater emphasis on financial education in K-12. But college is different.

The college system is very expensive, it's heavily subsidized by the state even in the U.S. If it is not teaching people valuable skills that they will be using in their profession, then it is not serving it's purpose. It costs people resources in the form of taxes.

In the meantime, we live in the information age. Teaching people to teach themselves is probably the most valuable skill we can teach.
I feel this is how Jira took off initially in orgs when they had a really affordable unlimited user tier. When hooked into LDAP/AD, suddenly every employee in the company was a user.
a.3 was an attempt to summarize the terabytes of text generated by people within a few degrees of the project in a pithy statement - about which somebody else has said they "did for words what bitcoin did for electricity." It's a bunch of rhetorical logic fractals.

In short, avoid.
He didn't specifically say that it was 60% of homeowners. Could be 60% of households have mortgages, the other 40% either own outright or rent.
Sounded like his comparisons were for Mars vs. the moon.
I deleted part of comment above because it was in no way intended to begin an argument about Nazism nor associate it with anybody in particular. I'm not qualified to speak on the subject. I see the word Nazi used all too often where it really does not apply (from both left and right wing commentators), and I was merely suggesting it should not be used so liberally.
I watched the whole awful video.

There's absolutely no reason that (1) Microsoft licensing should have taken a month to begin with, that's madness, you can buy a license on their website in seconds -- so it was a process and policy issue, not a technology issue and (2) there's no reason that if you trust Microsoft and Windows to validate that license information that you can't trust them to store that license information alongside your receipt/proof of purchase. None. They're required to hold on to it by law anyways. And if they don't honor it (and they will) you can always sue them.

Who on earth needs to validate MyCo has a license to Windows other than MyCo and Microsoft? Absolutely nobody. And if you don't trust Microsoft to honor the license in the first place why are you doing business with Microsoft?

Now beyond that, EY. They're not selling blockchain, they're selling SaaS apps built on top of blockchain technology because they need to meet CTO/CIO buzzword quotas. Their SaaS apps could be just as easily run on, wait for it, AWS.
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I'm curious to know more about what you mean by this. Are you referring to marketing material like this release announcement? If so, this seems pretty polished to me, and easily on par with other computer companies; I'd be interested to hear what you feel is lacking.

If you mean the design of the hardware, I'd be interested to hear what you dislike about the Thelio – the reviews I've read have generally evaluated it as one of the best designed/most distinctive/prettiest desktops on the market.

(If you mean their current laptops then, yeah, those aren't designed in particular. But presumably that will change when they start designing/manufacturing those themselves instead of reselling Clevo/etc)
Great! So just pick people with benevolent rich buddies.
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Yep, same, though not in CA.

I had a record but no convictions. It didn't prevent me from getting the job but they did try to use it as a negotiating tactic to lower salary (didn't happen, I also forced them to increase it by 10% at the 3 month mark)
Like many others I too admire Drew's work. But one thing I appreciate the most is the visual style and usability of Sourcehut. I don't know what it is exactly (am not a UX or visual designer myself, although work with them a lot), but to me it is one of the most aesthetically appealing sites I visit.
No it isn't, presumably that person will graduate and go on to have a career where they are paid a salary and pay taxes on that salary. How is paying higher taxes for one's entire working life different than making payments on a loan with lower taxes?
> I understood from the start that this data was for fraud protection.

If we're being honest with ourselves, the title of your original blog post ("Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites") is worded like they're being being sneaky and have something to hide.
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Really sorry, I deployed using Google App Engine, trying to resolve this now... :(
I sincerely doubt the veracity of your claim.
Their business model shouldn’t exist. That is precisely why we should punish them.
Isn't the elephant in the Amazon boardroom that AWS essentially pays for any mischief they can do with their retail arm?

i.e. Sell an equivalent item at a loss for an extended period of time to force a competitor / retailer out of business? Opening up a physical bookstore after essentially crushing that market felt like a "finger" to ex-businesses to me.
:) That's where I looked!
You still bought this laptop and this watch, they just didn't get it to you. Seems like apple was still selling plenty.
Yes for sure, in terms of expansion/adoption. It's not so certain in terms of function/utility. As a Google outsider, gRPC really does seems like Stubby for the rest of us (with balancing left as tradeoff for the community). Kubernetes does not seem functionally at all, to be a Borg/Omega. it's more like a porcelain for running Heroku/12-factor/Nanoservice style workloads on top of a Borg-like (that's no small thing, but it is just a thing) after learning what Amazon learned out the gate on AWS, that developers will not be constrained on framework choices (ie they're not ready to settle on a PaaS).

To that extent, there's a hole left dealing with things that do need to consider state versus run networked API services. Kubernetes seems to have no good story here, whether it's the evolutionary progress happening around StatefulSets/PVC/PV, or a per appliance operator for you, and you, and you, which punch a hole as big as you like in the scheduling abstraction. Streaming for example is a notable pain, but pretty much every OSS project created in this century that has state needs a compensating tool, typically an operator, to function on Kubernetes. I'm not even sure at this point whether state is a design consideration that can be retrofitted—that's not a criticism of Kubernetes, but it is a complication and investment factor for stateful workloads. So what may happen should Kubernetes be one of those things that does in fact end up being a long term technology, is the entire software industry offloads state management to vendors (ie to a handful of cloud services), or something in open source reacts and is created to fill the infrastructure gap for state management.
I think people misinterpret what I'm saying as negative about this accomplishment. Quite the contrary, I'm impressed as to how far we've come.

But I also know that in AI, it's that last little bit that's always the hardest.
Colleges have been peddling shoddy goods to unsophisticated buyers for years with little or no regulation or oversight.

In fact, the government has propped them up with federal money, loan guarantees, and a feeder school system that conditions their potential customers and funnels them in the doors.

The shoddy goods are degrees that are highly unlikely to be worth what was paid for.

You can't get more unsophisticated than an 18 year old who's been fed a dream about how their life will be awesome if they get into the school of their choice.