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Must not be learning? My code changes because I learn and change.
> "every busybody agency going through people's data like food standards in the UK"

The fact that you believe this suggests to me that you have mainly acquired your opinions through highly biased and sensational sources.

Perhaps you could restate more specifically what you mean by the FSA "going through people's data", or give some specific examples of what you believe are oppressive breaches of privacy that have been committed by the FSA?
And there's an opposite effect. Way fewer people are dying or being hurt by car crashes. Normally one of the leading causes of death in the "prime of life" age range. And even more weird, deaths and injuries for young people are way down as impulsive risk taking and peacocking are reigned in. So weird all the indirect effects.
I agree on almost all the points. Corporate and government are not the same. Government will beat you up or put you in jail. The worst that a company can do is take your job away (and maybe never get a job again).
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CPython keeps an array for "small value" integers (I think in the range [-5, 256]). So when Python wants 256, it'll give you a reference to the existing object. Larger numbers require a brand new object.
https://paste.gg/p/anonymous/b7c95d3967514e78a652840b5b666d5...

Here are the permissions it seems to use. I am surprised it's not as draconian as some other government released apps.
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Where I drink 5 or 6 with lunch. Not coke - sweet tea.
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`is` is identity comparison and in python everything is "object". It check if two variable refer to same object (location in memory) or not. So you should not expect that `a is b` for `a=1.2 , b=1.2` be true. In this case actually first expression returned True is weird. because 0-256 objects are cached and every instance of them refer to same object.
Hi, I'm Zo (co-founder). We have no affiliation with Zoom. But given the fortune they’ve made recently, we would certainly appreciate it if they donated (https://bit.ly/2z7J4CP).

While many of us are Yale students, we come varying backgrounds. I'm a Nigerian-American (born in Chicago, spent my early childhood in Nigeria, and now live in CT). Gabe is Brazilian, Jesse is from Iowa, etc. We all connected on this project because we are committed to social innovation and want to do all we can to stop the exploitation of loved ones of incarcerated people, who are disproportionately low-income.

Re data and prediction: scholars of incarceration lament the dearth of data on the criminal justice system.

NYTimes- “Missing: Criminal Justice Data” (https://nyti.ms/2FUEkDq)— “Criminal justice data in this country is hard to come by. It can be messy and difficult to understand. And in many cases, the data doesn’t exist at all...Missing data is at the core of a national crisis.”

John Pfaff- Locked In (https://amzn.to/3aZYB5X)— “Perhaps even more troubling, there are some issues where we simply have no data, where almost nothing at all is gathered.”

Elected officials are creating criminal justice policies, that impact millions, with limited information. We want to inform better policymaking using data analytics. The folks are Measure of Justice (https://measuresforjustice.org/about/overview) are leading way, and we want to help where we can.

Scholars of algorithmic bias have convinced me that algorithmic risk assessment has disparate impact on minority groups, so I’m personally not in favor of these tools (https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/eaao5580; https://ssrn.com/abstract=3257004). We will not be doing any risk assessment etc. Using past data to better understand and predict how the state prison populations might change in the future could yield insightful information.

In my home state of CT, “between 2008 and 2018, the state prison population has fallen by 30 percent, and the minority prison population has dropped by 32 percent” (https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/02/13/ct-prison-populati...). The article also notes:

“Marc Pelka, undersecretary of the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management’s Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division, told the News that while it is “hard to pinpoint a single policy or trend,” he named a few reasons for the decline in state prison population.”

Understanding why states like CT have been effective in reducing their prison population could help other states do the same. I really appreciate the feedback, we will make our language around data analytics more clear. Please keep the comments coming!

Zo
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When I said documenting, I was thinking about publicly documenting what you do, in order to create an audience around your company.

That's really great, especially if people buying your software are also interested in entrepreneurship.
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I don't know about the US, but we also have online brokers in the UK, for new cars.

They take a small commission (usually from the dealer), then contact a bunch of nationwide dealers on your behalf. The prices they get are better than or very close to the best you could personally haggle, and it takes like 2 minutes to make the request.
Some ideas would be to listen for, or create your own, long sentences with multiple clauses (even if shorter sentences would be easier. Also by speaking to different age groups, for example older generations tend to have many colourful expressions that are not commonly used anymore. Apart from that, if you wanted to get very complex you could ask someone to explain a difficult subject matter to you, something they might have expertise in, e.g. something scientific, their heritage, their thoughts on politics etc. Anything that forces multiple clauses and deep consideration and revision of ideas.

In a very basic way, with my less fluent students I continually ask then to explain their thinking behind an opinion... Why, why, why

And of course including more advanced material than their level dictates, to push them harder and learn faster.

Hope that helps somewhat!
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And not all questions are questions of importance, Rb!
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You've completely missed my point: if you want my attention you're more likely to get it for the longer term if you provide me with what I'm looking for, including citations, because I'll keep coming back. If on the other hand you're obstructive by not providing this, you probably won't. From a monetisation perspective it therefore makes sense to provide those citations.
so, why do you sit then at desk in a generic office? of course working with human beings is more interesting and refreshing than programming bullshit services on a bullshit schedule. no doubts about that.

oh wait - you're a philosopher and entrepreneur travelling the world (4hww and drop shipping ?) - judging from that self-description you are part of that scene where everybody needs to be passionate and craving for some hip and pretentious someting which you probably document for everybody to like on your instagram profile - doing yoga on the beach and that stuff (while not knowing anything at all - especially not about yoga which you confuse with doing headstands and sitting somewhere with eyes closed planning your next great adventure).
AI/ML consciousness requires emergent needs
In a prior posting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23048919) I speculated that "consciousness is emergent need". That is, to quote:

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"First, understand the 'emergent' behavior. Traffic jams "emerge". They are not related to cars. They can happen with people pushing through an exit or sand clogging up a hole.

Second, understand "need". Things that impact a system and threaten its smooth functioning create a "need". For instance, you "need" to urinate. A cell "needs" to eliminate waste. A city "needs" to remove trash.

Needs generate a response. The response (urinating, cell waste dumping, trash collection) is a systematic attempt to reduce the "need".

"Consciousness" is the "awareness of the need" giving focus to a response.

Computers show no signs of having any need and thus are not conscious. "

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AI/ML systems focus on sensing and recognition. I am suggesting that there should be a focus on defining and creating the idea of a "need" that an AI/ML system must fulfill. Define a system that is homeostatic, and needs to create an equalibrium. This already exists in some robot systems that have a goal. I'm suggesting multiple, competing goals where the AI/ML "needs" to maintain the balance. A paperclip factory "needs" to schedule trucks to bring inventory but also to remove machine shavings (waste), resharpen blades, schedule packaging material, etc.

How complex must a system be to "define new needs" based on environmental change. Insects don't seem to adapt to damage of environmental change. "Higher level" organisms, such as an Octopus, will adapt.

Ultimately, it seems to me that "self-modifying systems" are at the highest level of adaptation, and thus, of consciousness.
Stefan Molyneux is good on philosophy and parenting.

https://www.youtube.com/user/stefbot/videos

Edit: He is also good on politics and economics. (He does not hold the positions of the far right or "alt right".)
The general rule that I've seen in the handful of UK establishments in which I've chef'd, is that food should be priced by ~tripling the cost of the raw ingredients. It's a pretty inexact science for anywhere small ish with a frequently changing menu - but it doesn't matter.

Alcohol also has a big markup, don't get me wrong, but it's not alone. And if you want to know the biggest "free profit" in a restaraunt - it's postmix soft drinks and tea/coffee.
Wonder if restaurants could try doing blue apron style meal kits.
One of the things I've read from folks who know a lot about startups used to amaze me. Intelligence is not necessarily a critical factor in whether founders will be successful or not. In fact, it can be counter-indicative! The more intelligent you are, you more likely you're one of the people like the author mentions. I've also read that it's not the geniuses, necessarily, that make it. Most times it's just the slow plodders. A genius may become overly-attracted to one of their own ideas. They may stick with it too long, or they may be overly-defensive when they receive honest feedback. A plodder just keeps trudging along, happy to take whatever feedback comes their way, happy to change if needed, happy to learn from others.

I captured this concept in my first book with a phrase I call "profound ignorance". It's not just admitting you're ignorant, it's admitting you're probably ignorant about everything. And that's fine. Ignorant people don't know yet, and if they're curious, they go try to find out. Even when they do find out, they're still quite open to being wrong. They are, in fact, ignorant.

I found this had a profound impact in my programming and consulting career. Frankly, it's bad for your career and good for your life. People want to hire people that know a bunch of stuff, and to be open, honest, and curious about being profoundly ignorant is not reassuring. Other programmers many times want to play posturing games. It is, after all, part of our social programming. Ignorant people usually don't do so well in these games. But on a personal level? It was liberating. I could find whatever I wanted to and deep dive in it. Since I didn't know much of anything, I was able to talk about topics I have a ton of experience in without feeling like I had to attack or defend any pre-held opinions. It was, in fact, what I consider "growing up", both as a human and as a professional.

When we think of how much programming is skewed towards youth, we should keep in mind that most really young people have not had this growing up experience. We should wish them well and cut them a bit of slack if they're acting like we did when we were their age. After all, it's human.
Recently at work, I wanted to standardize our workflow for building the layers used by our AWS Lambda functions.

First, I tried to hack together a shell script. While this solution offers the most flexibility, I quickly had to realize it does not scale well since you have to repeat a lot of code.

Instead, I wrote this simple tool in Python. It allows you to define the build steps for the layer in a YAML configuration files, along with features such as pattern exclusion.

More details about this tool available in the repo as well as in this blog post: https://blog.cubieserver.de/2020/lambda-layer-tool/

For now, the tool is quite simplistic, but if you have any ideas or feature requests, just let me know.
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It's good for the media hype and they must think that is worth it for their stock price.
Exactly! I use R every day as the head of the data science department at a corporation. Most of my work is medium-sized data analysis projects and nothing can touch R for that level of work.
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contractual obligations.
Thank you for the great comment.

It is astonishing to me how professional people from the oil industry generally were in my previous interactions. Such a nice change of pace compared to many others.
This starts in elementary school when the the cargo cult that is math pedagogy teaches the terrible "order of operations", instead of teaching students to use clear unambiguous syntax.
items
.select(&:is_the_best)
.flat_map { |i| i.sub_item.map(&:value) }

Not having functional constructs really hurts readability, and I don't want to think about what would happen to the list comprehension with more complicated logic
Are there any similar monitoring (hardware) devices that you can buy just for yourself? (aka you don't have to be a hospital or talk to a sales representative to be able to buy one)

I don't care that much if it has a display, just being able to access the information similarly to what's described in the article would be enough.
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1. You don't actually know that the answer was obvious to the asker. They may have missed a critical piece of info. Or, you may have missed a critical piece of nuance in their question.

2. Also, when someone asks if anyone has questions, and nobody has any questions, it can feel demoralizing and like nobody cared or understood what you were saying. Filling that space with an obvious question can be a small kindness. If you had a better question, maybe you should have asked it.

Disclaimer: I felt the exact same way as you when I attended university and have gained some perspective since.
This comment is uncalled for and doesn’t belong on HN. I have nothing to do with drop shipping, 4HWW, or whatever imaginary identity you’ve given to me. I have a degree in analytical philosophy and I live abroad. Pretty straightforward.
You just said [Business owners will commit suicide] "good"?

Moderators please, this is time for the hammer on this entire post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23043771

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042970

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23046047

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23046857
China probably lacks the decades of institutional knowledge that the USA has. As much as us young ones complain (in anglo-saxon developed countries), there is something to be said for the old men who chair the committees and head the labs. They have a lot of experience.
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The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe has been a weekly must-listen for me over the last decade+. They cover “science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies, and controversies”.
Exactly. If you don't care about Apple ToS, you can cross-compile on GNU/Linux just fine without ever touching macOS.
I'm unconvinced that it would cannibalise Mac Pro sales. The Mac Pro is so unnecessarily expensive that it has to exclude all but the richest companies and individuals. It's for people who have money to blow on £600 novelty chrome wheels as an afterthought. Apple have clearly noticed that there's a market for people with more money than sense, but it's a small niche.

The market for mid- to high-end desktops is indeed lower margin, but it's a much bigger market overall. The old Mac Pro was at the high end of this market. Expensive, but justifiable if you needed it. If Apple had the will, they could be profitable in this space. They have chosen to exclude themselves from it.

Back in the mid '00s, I saw Mac Pros in use in scientific research settings, because they allowed use of lots of RAM compared to equivalent PC mainboards of the time, could take lots of storage, and had lots of horsepower to throw at bioinformatics and modelling problems. We had compute clusters as well, but for some problems these were a better fit. Today, Macs are banned. The academic funding bodies don't consider them good value for money. And they are not wrong in that assessment.
The DoD is also the single largest conglomeration of systems in the USG. NIH and DoE would also (presumably) be real benefits, but that’d be two different organizations to hack through.
Yo are you completely blind to what's happening? Like it's as close to "the sky is falling" as you can get in reality and you're out here complaining that you're inconvenienced. Unemployment is at 20%. The high during the great depression was 25%. GDP is projected to contract 37% percent this coming quarter. People are being evicted en masse. If you have any job let alone one that pays above median you should count yourself unbelievably lucky.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/u-s-econo...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/economy/unemployment-benefits...

https://whyy.org/articles/philly-council-wants-to-stop-an-av...
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We're seeing this from the worker side already [0]

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa75a8/worker-owned-apps-...
I think a major part is the lack of independence of the boards or these organizations. The board of one hospital is made up of executives from another hospital. And their boards are made up from the first one. So they all keep supporting each other.
Yeah... and here's a thing. I can write programs all day long at home. I could spend the rest of my life on personal projects if I so chose, and had the financial security to do so. If I somehow ran out of ideas, I could write software for friends and family. If I wanted to scale up from there, I could work on open source projects. Some types of projects would be closed to me (big research, projects requiring specialized hardware, etc), but there's a lot a person can do on their own as a hobby.

Compare this to food. Beyond a very small scale (cooking for the immediate family, occasionally cooking for family events) there's a very fast, hard limit on what you can do as a hobbyist.
>Sorry, they're not startups.

They are still living off of venture capital though, no?
I’m not saying the internships need to be for free, but personally I think it’s reasonable to expect college students to have spent some time interning, paid, in the field they would like a full time job in during the summer
Science Talk has been a longtime staple of mine: http://rss.sciam.com/sciam/science-talk

I know you asked for conversations/talk and John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed is a monologue, but wow is it a well-told and researched monologue. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed

I recommend it for anyone who wants to think more deeply about all things, including those which we previously might have considered unworthy of our mind cycles, such as the Taco Bell breakfast menu.
It looks like this could be used by any industry, example a hardware store or toy store. While listening to a podcast, I heard about a toy store that was doing more business now than before COVID and self-isolation.
Testing 1 USD a month VPS CPU, well, it is flagged now
> GitHub and GitLab (and bitbucket) all support the ability to enforce this as a policy on a repo.

Relatively recent feature additions, it should be noted

> Of course not, because that would be silly.

No, actually — see the preceding.
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Minimal amount of code change required to fix the problem is generally a good sign.

A simple fix is always better than a convoluted one.

A fix that deletes code instead of adding more sounds fantastic.

If the fix contains the tests that reproduced the problem it's marvellous, I am in tears.

Is there a documentation about the bug, how did it surface, what were the impacts and what was the fix? Superb.
Btw nixers is a nice little forum. Check it out if you are into minimalism, suckless software, macos/linux/bsds and such. Very cool community
Your input is great but it begs the question: why, then, isn't production being shut down during this time?
I read interview of Hal Abelson, in that interview he explains the reason behind moving away from scheme to python to teach concepts of SICP.

1. The purpose of course it self has changed, the current course 6.01 in MIT attempts to introduce grads to breadth of the software engineering rather than depths of software engineering. 6.001 course was for the later purpose.

2. He says entire debate is superficial as both the course have different purpose.

It's a lengthy interview.

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-quarterly/2011/hal-abelson/
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There’s a number of reasons why I think that won’t happen here, but you’re right generally. My disposition leans cynical so it took me a week of badgering leadership to be confident this wasn’t the case. I don’t want to dive into the details of our particular case, but I agree with the thrust of what you’re saying: cuts almost never inspire confidence.

If you’re in a leadership position and you’re making a preventative cut and you’re super confident that you won’t need to make more going forward, you need to overcommunicate this, otherwise the anxiety you induce will reduce productivity and undo the cut.
Contact tracing is useless at this point. Contact tracing is good when there are dozens of cases, maybe even hundreds, but not millions.

It'll be good for the next pandemic - but not this one.

Over the next 12 months, we should focus on how we change society to be more sanitary, in general.
I agree, but you still need a program / app to review and schedule your previously embedded cards, no? It would be amazing if there was an agree-upon data format for flashcards so that courses could provide them.