skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is not what free speech is about. Freedom of speech means they are free to publish their opinions, but it doesn't mean that you, or anyone, have to let them publish their opinions on your platform/paper/channel.

In the case of Mastodon, they've deliberately avoided putting themselves in the shoes of a platform/paper/platform owner in the interest of a system where no central authority fully controls its use.

That the creators of Mastodon are "completely opposed to Gab’s project and philosophy" is in no way a departure from that ideology. They're criticizing Gab's use of free speech using their own free speech but have deliberately relinquished their right to exert any more authority than that on an ideological basis. That they can't control it themselves it their unique selling point.
The problem with brexit was that they decided to do it, then looked for ways it might work. That strategic idea was more of a strategic excuse...
And if you miss that, if you press Ctrl-C, vim display the proper way to quit vim from ages ago.
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> The people involved in knitting probably just aren't heavy internet users.

Well, probably not heavy Wikipedia editors, but then neither are most heavy internet users, so concluding that they aren't heavy internet users is probably unwarranted.
I'm not sure about Schemes in general but you've described my experience of Racket precisely. It's somehow a completely different feel. For me the 'live system' Lisp spirit is fluid and always makes things modifiable and bend to the will of the programmer. The 'batch' sensibility thwarts this. It shows up particularly in module systems that force you to jump through hoops that aren't worth it and that compound into difficulty upon difficulty. In this respect the Common Lisp package system has always struck me as a miracle of design: it allows disparate systems to compose, while allowing the programmer full access to whatever they want to do. You just sometimes need to type an extra colon—a small price to pay.
It's a pendulum. It swings.

A single super-platform has the benefit of integrating several functions in a nice package. But while accumulating more functionality at some point it becomes too bloated, innovation slows down, it's a big ball of mud able to do everything, but also bad at everything, at which point it is outpaced left and right by small speedboats specialized on single functions, highly innovative, but with less tight coupling between them. This leaves more burden on the user to integrate them, but at some point the qualitative difference between the big ball of mud and the individual tools is so big that users will gladly do this integrative work if they can then enjoy better solutions...until the individually-constructed "big ball of muds" made out of haphazard integrations of many individual solutions become convoluted enough again for someone to "professionally" integrate some of these functions at the current level of quality into a new "super platform", and the cycle starts anew.
I can pick and choose who my community and moderation team is - that's why I am on the fediverse and not Twitter. I am strongly opposed to having extreme right-wing views (along the lines of "you should be dead for who you are") forced into my conversations? I can pick an instance/moderation team which proactively blocks other instances which refuse to moderate their users according to such basic social norms.

Fact of the matter is that I don't really want to talk to most people on the internet, and I don't want to see what they have to say about me every time I want to see what my friends are up to. I want to talk to my friends, maybe have our wider communities able to chime in, and occasionally discover new people through that. It's not my job to convince random assholes on the internet that I deserve to exist, and it's not useful in any way to see their messages. Blocking extremist free speech instances which promote harassment as a normal part of their operation is... a feature, not a bug.
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To be able to afford a home and starting a family in a major US city.
Cummings yesterday said that he'd specifically warned of the threat of /coronaviruses/ a year previously.

"Last year I wrote about the possible threat of coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-cummi...
Just searched on 'wikipedia editing for beginners'

The top item links to article 'Help:Editing'. This page is -not- for beginners.

The article: 'Help:Wikipedia'
does not mention editing. It does lead to 'Help:Menu'. It offers general help.

Anyway, I had to wander around a while to find this article: 'Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Editing for the first time'. This page also tries to do too much.

It seems clear that a site this size, trying to attract new and diversified editors, could afford to invest in a 'tutor-text' approach to taking on different kinds of editing tasks. Beginners could jump in at 'adding a link' or 'changing a spelling' or 'rewriting a sentence'. Each would offer them a sandbox to try out something they want to learn to do. After couple of dozen of these, they'd feel more at-home in the editing environment.
I guess the word "culture" in the name of the test should have been a warning sign for upcoming vague borderline BS-bingo.
You don't think TheFacebook orignal pitch deck was called "Facebook's Original Pitch Deck" ? /s
I still believe it's because of an original intuition everybody has : more is better. It actually takes a lot of time and (collective) experience to accept that 'less' is actually more. "emerging" markets will probably get there too, with a bit of time.
> There is not a huge gap at all.

> Li-metal batteries top at around 14 MJ / kg, and gasoline is at 47.5 MJ / kg.

Wouldn’t this gap actually be very close considering that the efficiency of an ICE on gasoline is what, 30-40% at best (IIRC)?
Not only that, but the drive he took to “test his eye sight“ was with his wife and child in the car, they ended up driving to a local castle, and it happened to be on his wife’s birthday.
Maybe it's just me, but I find the serviceability of Thinkpads subpar. This one is from the T420's maintenance manual:

1170 Fan assembly
For access, remove these FRUs in order:
* “1010 Battery pack” on page 67
* “1020 ExpressCard blank bezel” on page 68
* “1050 DIMM slot cover” on page 73
* “1070 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN” on page 75
* “1080 Keyboard” on page 77
* “1110 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN” on page 85
* “1120 Keyboard bezel assembly, FPC cable, and Bluethooth daughter card” on page 87
* “1150 Speaker assembly” on page 95
* “1160 LCD unit” on page 97

https://thinkpads.com/support/hmm/hmm_pdf/t420_t420i_hmm.pdf
What specific aspects of the UX would you say are awful? Because at the moment I’d strongly disagree, Zooms UX, along with how easy it is to join meetings, is one of the primary reasons it’s popularity has skyrocketed since the pandemic started. Users find it extremely simple and easy to use.
>t is definitely not DRM.

It is definitely functionally DRM since it prevent using other suitable chargers for no reason.
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He appears to rank higher than the head of the civil service, previously the most important unelected job. He’s not a party member and is deeply unelectable, so he’ll never be a politician. I think this is his peak.
Employers pay more when there are more competitors in the same labor market paying more. Right now that depends on where you live because most positions are not remote and candidates already relocated looking for valuable experience and better offers. If that changes, then Bay Area and New York offers might no longer be much higher (maybe they won't even cover the cost of living here).
being a VC is hard, but the surprising part is how and where. it's not in picking investments, as we might imagine at first blush, but in constantly securing funding, accessing good deal flow, building relationships, making connections/deals (partners, companies, customers, employees, etc.), gathering (private) information, etc.

once you do all that hard stuff, picking the investments is relatively easy, and mostly a numbers game, because any (large enough, ~60+) portfolio of not-unviable investments will perform reasonably, assuming you do, and keep doing, all the hard things noted above.

it's mostly tending to people and being proximate to both talent and wealth. only a small slice of the job is picking investments.
It's not so much the travel to Durham, it's the travel to Barnard Castle ( a 60 mile round trip) to 'test' his eys, including a nice little walk along the river bank - on a day that just so happened to be his wife's birthday.

There's is no fathomable justification for that and exposed his contempt for the rules.
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In my opinion, most of the issues leading about AI "failing" in traditional organizations are due to the following:

(1) Inflated expectations from higher/middle management which trickle down the organization. AI is seen as a high-profile case which has to lead to success (and a larger budget next year for my dept.)

(2) Data quality issues. The data itself has issues, but the key issue is lack of metadata and dispersed sources. Lack of historical labels (or them being stuck in Excel or on paper) is part of this as well. Big data without any labels is mostly useless, contrary to expectations

(3) Most AI or ML projects are not about ML. In fact, they're mostly about automation or rethinking an internal or customer-facing process. In many cases, such projects could be solved much better without a predictive component at all, or by simply sourcing a 1 cent per call API. AI is somehow seen as necessary, however, without which our CX can never be improved. ("We need a chatbot" vs. "No, you just need to think about your process flow")

(4) Deployment issues and no clean ways to measure ROI leads to projects being in development indefinitely without someone daring to stop them early. This is also related to orgs starting 30 projects in parallel (2m lead times with one to two data scientists for each), which end up all doing kind of the same preprocessing and all lead to kind of the same propensity model. No one dares to invest in long-term deeply-impacting projects as "we want to go for the low hanging fruit first"
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It could just be that the kind of people who knit are unlikely to enjoy writing dry, factual encyclopedias.
He was talking about pandemics and quoting an article which does mention SARS and coronavirus.

This is a tiny gotcha "oh but you didn't technically use the word SARS or coronavirus yourself when quoting the article the first time so it doesn't count".
Isn't the story itself about a senior government adviser updating his blog, to make it look like he expected the Covid-19 crisis?
The fact that the same adviser ignored his own advice, while both sickening, and amusingly ironic, is incidental here.

I suppose though, it does help for context.

It's basically Steve Bannon all over again.
Good grief, his covid-positive wife was with him!?
That holds for anything through - including programming. Why would it be so hard to accept that a group of people can be active on internet without adding stuff to wikipedia?

Not a problem for me, I agree with your post.
He didn’t technically break a law, but definitely broke very clear government guidance – “Stay Home“ is about as unambiguous as it gets. Millions of people took the rules very seriously, missing loved one’s funerals for example, and he drove 260 miles to his parent’s house and a local castle.
Maybe I'm missing something, but that just looks like a regular C switch to me. Yeah, it has fall-through, but all C switches has fall-through unless you explicitly break. The point of Duff's device is that it interleaves two different structures: a switch and a loop.

It's unusual because in structured languages you expect the lexical structure to be entirely hierarchical (you wouldn't have an if block that somehow overlapped with a for-loop, for instance). Duff's device breaks that assumption because it uses one control structure (the switch) to jump into the middle of a second control structure (the loop), and lexically, the switch is both inside the loop and outside of it.

This is why lots of people when they first see it don't think it is even syntactically valid. A regular switch with fall-through doesn't violate the "hierarchical lexical structure" assumption in that way.
This could actually be done with just a tiny programmable mcu, like an AVR. Interesting proposition indeed!
I'm not sure that's an apt analogy; if you have DSL instead of fiber, it's probably because fiber wasn't available at your location (or would've required you to pay some company thousands to dig up trenches and lay new infra).

If electrics take the mass market, as I think they will, then new ICEs will largely just vanish from the market, and anyone who needs a normal family car can and will buy electric. Improvements to ICE tech don't go into old used cars because we don't upgrade their engines. The only ICEs that would be sold new are ones built to meet special needs, but they're probably going to be uncommon enough that improvements in them don't benefit "us" in a meaningful way; instead they become something you can largely ignore.

Like, nobody is campaigning for fuel efficiency / pollution mandates for ATVs, tractors, supercars, or excavators, because they aren't a blimp on the radar. In these applications, fuel economy tends to be a very secondary concern anyway.
Personally I went from cli vim on servers (sys admin) to vim mode in atom. I loved atoms vim mode - especially the way it handled multiline input.

Then I switched to vscode and struggled a little. Copy paste didn't just work, i.e. getting things from the register (yank) into another application and multiline input was not pleasant (esc deselecting instead of exiting input mode etc)

Then I switched to intellij (developer now) and installed vim mode. When I noticed how often I had to use the menu because I wanted to use an ide feature I realized that it got more in the way then in helped, so I removed it and went back to just navigating with ^-f and arrow keys.

I definitely miss atoms vim mode. But it's not that big of a difference, because the actual input time is usually less then the time thinking about what to implement and how to do it.
Yeah, not much difference to the end user but I think the council are trying to attract businesses. That could be the good mix up the economy needs. The future will tell whether it works or not.
> I make no comment on her politics, but the previous UK Prime Minister had exactly the demeanor you could ask of a public servant.

Hells no.

Repeatedly ignored real scientific evidence in favour of her own authoritarian bias when it came to a whole bunch of stuff. Dreadful attitude.

A pox on all their houses.
> nowadays you need to be (or rather show) “diversity and inclusion” as a business if you want to appear as a “better” company (useful for soliciting VC investment when you don’t have a profitable business), regardless of whether diversity & inclusion has ever been a problem at the company.

Could you expand on this? My naive impression is that VCs do their best to make hard-nosed expected-value-in-USD estimates, perhaps specifically estimating the likelihood the company will be worth >$100M/$1B or whatever; and that acting like that is probably in their job description because they're investing other people's money who expect a return.

How does the phenomenon you describe fit in? Is there some group of VCs that believe that championing "diversity and inclusion" is likely to lead to 10x growth? Does the company making the pitch make that claim—or, as one reading of your words suggests, claim that not having achieved 10x growth in the past is due to the lack of such championing? Or do VCs face social pressure (from, I dunno, other VCs, journalists who write about them, whoever else they talk with) to make it look like they're funding virtuous causes (er, companies)? Seems like the last is most plausible.
They wont because the PRODUCER value is wrong in the VSI licenses. But you are correct, that for most uses outside of commercial museum systems, its probably not much of an issue since there are license generators out there in the wild.

It is really unfortunate, that a community which has always been highly adverse to software piracy, would be forced into such a situation by HPE to maintain their hobby systems though. At this stage, VAX VMS being out of support for so many years, and having such little commercial value even under emulation, it just seems silly HPE does not issue a perpetual non-comerical license for VAX systems.
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So I've always seen the word "deck" and never really understood what it meant. Turns out a "deck" is just a powerpoint? Why do people call them decks?
Movies are at least one to two orders of magnitude more expensive to make than entire music albums.
Go philosophy is to optimize for the brain, to lower cognitive load.
This statement is in absurd opposition to this philosophy.

No need for benchmarcks to know that a developper is less productive and more error prone without semantic highlighting.
And a curious coincidence he made such a modification when he returned from Durham. Almost as if he knew he'd have to start creating justification for the trip. A coincidence indeed!
He cited doubts about eyesight as an excuse for a 30 minute leisure drive. Apparently, one retired police chief suggests that's illegal. Which does sound about right.
>he cited the fact that he predicted the threat from coronaviruses a year previously.

He did, at least about viruses in general. I was specifically remembering him warning about pandemics preparedness when this started. I assume others familiar with him were well aware, too and that it was partially why he played such a big role in the UK's response.
The differential equation is still a model and not what's happening in "the real world", remember, all models are false.
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That's fair. Can the names in my post be redacted? It still shows up in DDG. I tried to edit it earlier after your response, but I left it too late.
We just added a new feature to SeekWell[1] that lets you iterate over SQL results and do things like send emails and Slack messages using the data from each row. We're using it internally for transactional emails to customers that were tricky to build in Intercom but easy to do with SQL. Other use cases would be things like:

- Triggering a Slack notification or Stories[2] for each row of a SQL result

- Assigning tasks or sending data driven messages to a group of internal customers / coworkers

- Sending an email to a set of users that meet certain criteria in your database or a Google Sheet

You have full control over the HTML in the email and can add data from the SQL row to the email. You can also evaluate short JavaScript snippets (e.g. conditional statements) before the email is rendered. The job can be scheduled to run daily, hourly or every 5 minutes and you can add Triggers[4] that control if the job runs (e.g. if you wanted to prevent the run if some other condition is met).

Let me know if you have any questions.

[1] https://seekwell.io/

[2] https://www.notion.so/Stories-d4dcb303d28b400492741b5741fc2f...

[3] https://www.notion.so/seekwell/Destination-Lists-2bfd3807af6...

[4] https://www.notion.so/seekwell/Triggers-e4d9975bf79942948c11...
Sadly, when you have rules in society you will get people who will try to enforce those rules just because they are the rules. In some sense it is logical - this will get bad rules changed quicker, but in another sense it just causes harm to people.
> Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
There are laws against leaving his house without a valid reason and driving with impaired eye sight, aren't there?

https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/12649555774715043...
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That is a fair point, but what happens when the moderation team deviates from your beliefs? What happens if your instance is declared not-safe? You're effectively exiled from the fediverse, people you follow will never see your toots again.
> "then please hold them to a higher standard, especially if they have any kind of public role."

Thing is, the law doesn't allow one class of persons to be held to a higher standard.

Everybody is supposed to be held to the same standard.

Of course, it seems in this situation that certain people in public service can exempt themselves from the common standard altogether with no punishment.
> The irony in this is that this type of language about "inclusivity" only really appeals to a narrow subset of upper middle class white people.

IME, bourgeois identity politics is mostly popular in members of the petit bourgeoisie and the proletarian intelligentsia (which maps loosely to the dominant American use of the term “upper middle class”, which is really tied to any coherent model of economic class), but seemingly slightly more (Proportionately) in the groups it on its own term seeks to extend inclusion to than Whites.
Hi there,

this in our jenkins.

https://imgur.com/a/BkdgVHK

The matrix that you see is one of the most complex one, jobs that build the documentation are much simpler.

If you need more, please let me know.
I think the other thing that's incredibly annoying is the queue of MPs that support him. When the AG comes out to say that breaking the law is okay or Secretary fo State for the Department for Health and Social Care says it's okay to break the guidelines we know there's a serious problem.
If web programmers had the choice to install an arbitrary language's runtime in users' browsers, they would. But users have disparate browsers with disparate JS implementations, so if you want to code in a sane language with consistent behavior, you'll need to transpile and polyfill it.

You can't just distribute arbitrary binaries to users on the web, so web developers have to deal with a layer of complexity that other programs don't have to. That said, maybe WebAssembly will change this story.
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He was specifically talking about biolab incidents, which are not how this pandemic started. Using the word "coronavirus" is the only plausible connection to the current crisis, and he fabricated it after the fact for political ends.