skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello! Thanks so much for the reply. This is exactly why I post critiques. I want to spur conversation.

Everything I'm reading in your comment and in the links you shared, I agree with. I think the main difference is in our choice of tools.

For the network mapping (for trust and petnames), I believe that a graph structure is required. Having this at a foundational layer is important for scalability and mathematical simplicity imo.

Other than that, I think we agree on offline-first and multi-casting being requirements. And bonus points for keypair management through shamir's secret sharing and multi-device key management.

Can I contact/keep up with you directly somewhere to continue the conversation?
American Tests
That's part of something larger I've heard best described as market fundamentalism: the belief that markets and markets alone can take over and handle all aspects and functions of society.

Globalism was implemented in a market fundamentalist way. No special attention was paid to rights, fairness of trade, etc. because it was assumed that trade and markets and then (magic happens here) and then everything is great and liberal democracy spreads everywhere.

What really happened was corporations and international finance going trans-national and exempting itself from the rule of law and then leveraging foreign totalitarian or lawless regimes to break workers power at the wage negotiating table.

The real long term winners were totalitarians and would be totalitarians though, not the corporations or finance. Capitalists selling nooses and rope, as Marx quipped.
I am not saying that I am smart. But I will say that I regret having gone into law.

Regret is too strong of a word. I don't regret it. Law is fun and you can make a lot of money. Who doesn't like that? But, I had been dissuaded from getting a CS degree at university. It was partly because my dad was a SWE for one of the big ones when I was young, and I was a rebellious kid who could be swayed away from something I loved in part by not wanting to be like him. And, like I said, law was a field where I could make a lot of money. Back then, I didn't realize that I could have done CS without being like him.

Rather, I regret it because I could have spent these years doing something that I loved.

Anyway, I am rectifying that now by doing a masters in cognitive science with a goal of researching human curiosity and building curious machines. In other words, I am trying to rectify the error I made the first time around where I went into something for reasons other than because I really wanted to.

I would also note that way way way too many not-smart people go into law and finance, as well. But I'm not sure there is much you can do about that.
What would be the result when we add these sort options

sort -f -s --batch-size=1024 -T/home
I disagree. Most of America’s car-first city infrastructure was set up remarkably quickly during short bursts in the 1930s and 1940s, depending on which city you’re talking about. We just don’t think about how remarkably fast it happened, because it’s outside of living memory.

Undoing some of this infrastructure should be an easier process than setting it up; bikes take less space, asphalt, and steel than cars do.
Conspiracies are (or rather, try to be) secret. As you yourself say:

> they openly state they want to undermine local executable files and make every piece of software client server. [emphasis added]

The only 'effort' software companies have put into keeping this a secret is that they they don't usually publicly announce what they're trying to do.
Not at all. When companies give power to employees, they expect that it be used responsibly and roughly in line with the goals of the company. If I give somebody root access and they just rm -rf everything because it seems like fun, or because they're trying to prove some sort of point, then I'm going to fire them.

Google correctly gave employees a lot of power to have internal discussions because they thought that would benefit them as a company. And the great bulk of people used that responsibly. Damore didn't and paid the price.
Yes smart bettors call themselves "sharps" and "AP"s (advantage players) I don't think I have ever heard an AP call themselves a card shark. This seems to be a piece of fiction as most of the terminology doesn't line up and the tactics are odd too.
Pulitzer and IT’S New Sparked Controversy in India – More Than Just a Award
The Pulitzer award has been a topic of controversy ever since it’s inception. The Pulitzer Prizes were conceived in a 1902 brainstorm by their benefactor, Pulitzer, the owner of the wildly successful New York World and other newspapers.
There is no way a lawsuit like this would survive a motion to dismiss. Intentional infliction of emotional distress requires an underlying wrongdoing, among other things. There was no legal wrong committed when the document was leaked.
Great software.

Now if only they can start to catch up with Reality Capture in terms of speed...
Thank you, that's an awesome tidbit
To Google it (but telling them to use Bing since they couldn't find it with Google ;) )
1. Calling it an outrage "mob" is dishonest, and that's why I say it doesn't exist. It's not mob mentality. Did it occur to you that there are reasons that many people could have been outraged by what he wrote? Calling it a "mob" is just you dismissing that.

2. Yes, he got himself fired. Nobody made him write that, and even after writing it, nobody made him post it on a large mailing list where an entire workforce could read it.

3. You don't think his actions were what caused him to get fired. So whose fault was it, if not his? You're more intent on making a statement against the "outrage mob" than actually acknowledging why doing what Damore did might get you fired at any company.

Again, it's especially telling that you and the people who defend Damore attribute zero fault to the person who actually wrote the memo.
Pattern-matching callbacks in plotly dash
Odd that the title didn't use the word "photogrammetry" which is what most people call this thing.
Pretty sure unions were nuked by Reagan and Thatcher before globalization and outsourcing were even a thing.

As a society, the boomers made a choice in the late '70s / early '80s: egoism should be rewarded and money is the measure of all things. Everything else was a consequence.
On the other hand, banks aren't building systems to extract more and more private information from individuals. The harm coming from a business like Alphabet significantly outweights the beneficial things they do.
I don't have as much faith as you. I believe being "woke" is one of many things filling a void left behind by religion as more and more people find that void needing to be filled. I can't see that changing anytime soon.
Would love to follow the progress of your venture. Do share any links:)
Luckily most people are starting to see the light of index investing. Good times for these investment firms are coming to an end.
Align your windows near the middle ok your display.

Displays are always in wide shape and if you maximize windows size of any app, you'll be looking to the left quite a lot.

What I do is I just narrow every window, so the left edge starts from a little bit left of the center of the display, so if I'm reading a page on a web, my neck would mostly be moving around the center of my natural facing position.

You can put other small window to the blank space at the left or put some desktop files there to be always accessible.
Well, obviously they sucked at searching for it, so may be the competing tech wouldn't
I watched the "episode" and I believe he was calling for more of the these intelligent, driven young people to be incentivised to pursue careers in engineering, medical research and things that would build a better future for humanity going forward, in the long term. I may be wrong, I had it on as back ground noise while I was working.
I don't think "glorified hole punching" is fair at all. It was still an intellectual challenge, just a different one.

I find it hard to believe an explanation that proposes an industry has become more sexist since the 70s.
I can agree with #2 - I don’t believe he saw this memo as being particularly political or as an attack against anyone.
Teaching. In all the fields, both the popular and unpopular ones.

Epidemiology and Public Health. The capability for disaster response hasn't increased with gains in technology. Clearly, the way technology has increased the dangers of contagious disease has far outstripped the technology driven capacity for containing outbreaks.

Discourse and News Media. Right now, the incentives and technology align in such a way, that Social Media becomes an outrage spreading and viral amplification machine.

(Obligatory link. It's practically my personal religion by now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc )

It turns out the Internet isn't for raising human discourse and encouraging brilliant thought. It's for preventing good thinking by fomenting interfering emotions and replacing actual thought with its doppelganger, ideology. And what's big tech's response to the above? Things which aren't technically censorship, but which insidiously have the same effect. Clearly, something is wrong with this picture.
1. It does follow if you add in the money & prestige aspect. For a long time software development was neither lucrative nor prestigious so a lot of men simply weren't interested. As economic expectations for computer science careers grew, so did the number of men.

2. I personally don't find software dev collaborative or social in any meaningful way compared to other careers or industries.
> The Food and Drug Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have prohibited the use of ethanol in place of isopropyl alcohol even though both are equally effective as germ-killers.

Huh? I thought most of it was made with ethanol?

Just checked a USA Target, and Purell is 70% ethyl alcohol.

The problem with using IPA is that you can easily die if you drink it.
Picture pandas – little intro guide (Olympics data)
I'm sorry, but I don't follow.

- There is a score threshold you must cross to get a job;

- score is normally representative of competence;

- individuals belonging to group X get a score boost.

It follows that it's possible for someone to cross the minimum threshold thanks to the boost given by their belonging to the favoured group, and not because of their competence alone. It's not a matter of "the point of view of the woman" or "my point of view". It's not a point of view. It's a logical consequence that can be inferred by women, men, everyone, equally.
Solar panels only recover around 20% of the sunlight that hits them under optimal conditions. Typical installations average to about 10-15% of their peak capacity, so they only harvest less than 4% of the ~1000W peak insolation if you average over a year. So if you manage to recover a larger fraction of the microwave beam you can get away with much less than 1kw/m^2. Plus you save on storage costs.
IMO, the problem starts with sending an email to thousands of recipients (or groups containing thousands) in the “To:” or “CC:” field.

I cannot think of cases where that is the right thing to do. If you want to host a discussion with thousands of people in real life, you let people send in questions beforehand, manually filter and group them, then hold a panel discussion between a selected representative group (or something similar)

Discussions over email are harder to do than face-to-face ones, so, at the least, that’s what you should do with email to.

If, on the other hand, you want to inform thousands of people, using BCC is fine.

If you want to make sure everybody knows that a message is sent to thousands, start the email with “this message was sent to everybody in the foo, bar, and baz departments” or something similar.
FWIW, etcd uses a forked version of boltdb with bug fixes and features: https://github.com/etcd-io/bbolt
I’m not talking about Canada
You left out that he double majored in economics and physics in Pennsylvania after he was in Canada, started and quit a PhD in material sciences at Stanford, sold zip2 to Compaq for $340 million and only then started a finance company.
> Politics is about how resources should be spent

> how things “ought” to be

Those are the same thing.

> Posting a disagreement about policy is inherently political

Yes if his memo was a paragraph saying "We should change our gender policy to X, Y, and Z", then yes it would be political.

Instead it is a 10 page document explaining how biological differences may explain gender imbalances, and the implications of this.

But sure if you want to dismiss it as "politics", then I guess there's no reasoning with you.
There's a certain irony to saying that, considering the whole point of a workplace is to make someone richer, usually the already rich.
This is exactly the point. What's happening today is that discussion of any topic of consequence is considered taboo. The main stream is largely shutting down debate by labeling people without ever actually addressing the claims made by those same people. If their claims are so ridiculous you should be able to make a cohesive argument against them without resorting to personal attacks or other logical fallacy arguments.
100% agree with you. See where he initially put his skin in the game and took his initial risks, and don't pay too much attention to what he's saying beyond it being his own brand of infotainment. Surprised by a lot of the replies to this that try to make it out like building a fintech company or going into online payments is not finance.

Of course it's finance, and a great way to tell is to ask the question does a big bank offer this service, albeit in a product I may not personally use? The answer is yes.
I have three things to say about that:

1. I did allow for "rare exceptions". Some things do need to be explained outside of the code. Maybe we're not so different after all :)

2. There are a number of techniques to write such code. Before I learned them, I had NO IDEA. One is to take what would have been comments and use them as variable or function names. This includes (and I had real resistance before I accepted this) breaking out a variable of function only in order to give it an informative name. "Level 4" doesn't just happen. You work at it for a long time and sharpen your skills in that area.

3. To me, much of the art of writing software is to find ways to divide a complex problem into simple pieces. If my code is real complex, I look for simpler way to write it. And I look hard.
> There needs to be a different word than conservatism for having positions that aren't part of the Liberal platform

It feels like in many circles the most accurate word would be “heretic”. (and the same is true in many conservative circles - if you don’t hold the right beliefs in the right way you are a “liberal” - in this context, meaning “heretic”). It’s fucking exhausting to get into politics with anyone at all because it’s all just witch hunts and inquisitions.
What recruiters are saying about the tech job market
Meh. I can play Minizork and Curses (version 3) on a:

- Monochrome GameBoy and compatibles.

- PDAs, nearly all of them.

- That intelligent pen which parsed everything you wrote.

- KA10 with Tops20 with dfrotz.

- GBA/NDS/PSP/Android/ioS... anything portable.

- Everything SIMH emulates, or nearly everything.

- All of the 8/16/32 bit minicomputers.

- Any OS with a gopher client. Even Nethack/Telnet may work with a dumb wrapper.

- A PostScript printer with a crafted input.

- Over telnet/ssh/irc... name a text protocol and you will
be able to play it.
So what? That’s not “too many” - the collective enrollment per class of those 3 schools is like 1000 students.
I wouldn't call Roomba old fashioned. It's based on emergent behavior instead of forecasting and complex rules.

I haven't touched this area since 2016, but I remember coding swarms of of robots that could manage to do very complex things from simple rules. In addition, they would be quite robust as they made very few assumptions about their environment / problem space.
Yeah fair. I guess the original point to OP is: just to live your own life :), and don't feel obligated to live up to anything others set forth for you.
FWIW, CockroachDB uses and co-maintains etcd/raft not hashicorp/raft.

https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/raft#raft-librar...

Users:

- cockroachdb A Scalable, Survivable, Strongly-Consistent SQL Database

- dgraph A Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency, High Throughput Graph Database

- etcd A distributed reliable key-value store

- tikv A Distributed transactional key value database powered by Rust and Raft

- swarmkit A toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems at any scale.

https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/raft#notable-use...

Go docs

https://pkg.go.dev/go.etcd.io/etcd/raft?tab=doc
That’s a nonsense argument.

Humans will always be judged by the company they keep. You can be angry about that, but you’ve got to rage against human nature. He decided to repeatedly go on conservative outlets and be associated with alt-right figures; he should have been aware that he’d be judged by that.
This post does the best job that I've seen of laying out the 'less inclined' argument: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...
Not last enough in corporate? We're talking about engineers here not NFL players. Why would they have short careers?
The <figure> element should just work inside a body tag. To pretty it up though you will need some css targeting some of the child elements. For example, to make the container have a dashed border like we have, you would do:

line.volume-line {
stroke: #666;
stroke-dasharray: 2,1;
stroke-width: 1;
}
The Feature Snowball
I think you're ignoring reality if you think that online payments is somehow not finance. That he built companies that successfully competed with big banks on their own turf doesn't preclude the fact that he built on their turf.
Programming: For Beginners with Examples
Apparently a projection of Golding's feelings:

>I first read Lord of the Flies as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I think to doubt Golding’s view of human nature. That didn’t happen until years later when I began delving into the author’s life. I learned what an unhappy individual he had been: an alcoholic, prone to depression; a man who beat his kids. “I have always understood the Nazis,” Golding confessed, “because I am of that sort by nature.” And it was “partly out of that sad self-knowledge” that he wrote Lord of the Flies.
It's nice to see someone else have this point of view. I have a personal domain but still run @gmail.com because I get the impression that having my own domain makes me look like a complete nerd to my friends.

Of course, I am, but no need to reinforce that.
Secessio plebis could be compared to XVIII century emancipation of middle class. It was a struggle between hereditary wealthy (aristocracy) vs acquired wealth of middle classses. Like American revolution and similiar emancipation in England and Europe.

Both sides were relativly wealthy people but birth rights were giving them unequal status.

So not really a conflict between rich and poor. But of course populist side claimed tactical class solidarity with city's poor people. Later on bipartisan system of optimates and populari stayed for years but the division lost its practical meaning.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Optimates-and-Populares
Run Containers from Slack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125450 This comment explains it very well. Biological differences used to explain keeping people in lower status is a traditional idea and long wielded by conservatives. Explaining that lower status with oppression that needs to be changed is a liberal idea.
House-GAN:Relational GANs for Graph-Constrained House Layout Generation
I should have said "the US, today?"

In the 1940s the United States was able to mobilize into a war economy in months. Today we are incapable of manufacturing medicine and surgical masks.

It absolutely happened quickly back then. There was money to be made and a capable leadership class. We are now led by their incapable grandchildren. The smart money is seeing strong returns in Silicon Valley and Wall Street, and has no interest in long-turnaround you-need-to-know-what-you're-doing stuff like concrete, asphalt, and steel.

Just as a medieval peasant had no hope of figuring out how to build a coliseum or an aqueduct, a modern American neoliberal technocrat is entirely un-equipped to engineer, build, or plan much of anything.
Why wouldn't you generalize from Musk to billionaires? The amount of agency and power that billionaires hold is not shared by anyone outside of that socioeconomic class. There is a whole category of things that can be done and lifestyles that simply do not exist for those who are extremely wealthy but have, say, 1/10th of that level of wealth.
Pool shark perhaps?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_shark
You're not considering second order effects. Massive, instantaneous changes in diet are not healthy.. what if that ends up making people more susceptible to illness? Not to mention those workers are out of a job if the plants go bankrupt. And no, "printing money" isn't a solution.
> Calling it an outrage "mob" is dishonest

> Again, it's especially telling that you and the people who defend attribute zero fault to the person who actually wrote the memo.

I've been honest and I replied in good faith, and yet you just sidestep and lump me in with some made up group of people whom you say attribute "zero fault" to Damore. You didn't listen to me at all. You didn't even ask me what faults I would attribute to Damore after I denied your perception of what I'm thinking. Why should anyone have a conversation with you?
law has a serious conflict of interest: it's a profession that gains by fostering and even fomenting disagreement.

reducing it's stature and influence might lead to a more harmonious society.
I've never worked at Google, so I can't say for sure. But from what I hear, there's plenty of disagreement. And Google may have generally asked for feedback. But I'm pretty sure they didn't say, "Hey, James, could you write a maximally divisive political opinion piece attacking a bunch of important internal efforts and implying that anybody who doesn't agree with you is just a villain in an Ayn Rand novel?"
Twitter card – how to display a preview of your site
The comparison to children playing with blocks makes me wonder: If you spent long enough playing with these 4D toys, would you develop a deeper intuition for the 4th dimensional shape of the objects?
The closest German word is 'richter', which means judge. Church would be kirche. That is indeed a strange passage.
Python Panel completes the future of REPL in Python?
I don't watch CNN. I live in the UK, and even then, I don't consume much mainstream news.
I believe Revolut has opened shop over that side of the pond, they don't do currency conversion fees, and the rate is the VISA standard rate which is probably as good as you will get.

As a consumer in the UK who has been using them a while, I would recommend them completely. When Monzo reach you, they are also brilliant.

I use both because the one drawback is their lack of multiple accounts.
What Makes Kafka
Not even close. Sorry.
The API interfaces were published, but you're correct implementation is yet to ship.

https://blog.google/documents/55/Android_Contact_Tracing_API...
> Imagine a future where citations of previous work looks like "As H.G.Wells et all mention in block 4f98aaf1 document #391, the foo is better than the bar."

I dunno, it’s easier for me to describe and to remember “Radin’s 801 paper” or “the ultimate papers” or such.
> No one could have ever predicted

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