skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The core problem is that at the end of the day no one has to play nice. So we have to have government to set rules about ownership (among other things). But then some entity has to be in charge of government, which means they are actually in charge of allocating ownership. At current our only options consist of some structure made of humans, and even the best among these are corruptible. As such people who have power to corrupt this process (which is to say own the resources necessary to corrupt the process) can do so in an attempt to increase their own ownership. One example is political advertising to push an agenda that is likely to be more profitable. Be this a brick maker getting an agreement to have the new town hall made using bricks, or be this colleges having their customers being given access to large amounts of financing so they can raise their prices.

>College education becoming increasingly expensive proves this false, I believe.

Or is college education becoming more expensive because government has allowed for loans that can't be discharged to be given to people who have been given a false sense of the value college provides. This in turn means there is more demand (including the ability to actually purchase the desired product) for a product that isn't always worth it, increasing price?

One last consideration. Being the most efficient doesn't mean it is as efficient as one could theorize, only that it is more efficient than any alternative that can be put into practice.
Or you know, have a meeting where your manager directly discusses the issue with you like an adult.
Looking at the listing as shared by another poster, it's striking how little the thing weighs:

The empty weight is 8640 lb (3919 kg) and the maximum takeoff weight is 13375 lb (6069 kg).

It's maximum takeoff weight is still well below the empty weight (18,900 lbs) of an F-16.
They have a really poor UX imo. The categories are seemingly arbitrary, and they have niche and seasonal ones that don’t make sense. During the December holidays they didn’t have a holiday themed category until near holiday end.

Further, they make “innovation” like auto play when nobody asked for this, and without any way to stop it (unless you go to desktop and disable it deep in your settings).

When searching you will receive similar results for titles they used to have... well why not state “are you searching for x? It’s no longer available, here are some recommendations” so the user isn’t wasting time wondering if the search feature is just “bad”.

In the world of constant, unannounced, and live experimenting on huge user bases a little messaging goes a long way (with the comparison being nothing)
It would be better if that library was available outside of the Unity ecosystem.
>What's the idea behind convicted felons not being allowed to vote?

Disenfranchisement, and the 13th amendment. The "justice" system in the United States, especially enabled by laws surrounding drug prohibition (created for the purpose of suppressing Nixon's political opposition, hence why cannabis is schedule 1 federally), is the modern embodiment of the Jim Crow system that was supposedly abolished.

Prisoners are specifically exempted from the slavery protections provided by the 13th amendment. Allowing prisoners, who are being housed at the expense of the tax payer, to be forced to work for pennies as literal slaves, often for private corporations.

Despite marijuana use being equally prevalent among white and black populations, blacks are several times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. Despite cocaine and crack being literally the same drug, the only difference being if it's in its hcl salt or freebase form, crack is prosecuted by a weight ratio of 18:1 compared to cocaine. Before the "fair sentencing act" was passed in 2010, this ratio was 100:1. Low level crack dealers caught with 10g were prosecuted the same as somebody caught with a kilo of coke, triggering mandatory minimums of decades for drug trafficking.

Can you guess why this prosecutional disparity existed (and still exists) between two different forms of the same drug?

Hint: it's the same reason why felons are politically disenfranchised.
I would say "it depends". Photoshop is easier to use than Gimp. But I would choose any Unix over Windows for development any day.
We made a site that lets you collaboratively tag a bunch of images, called tagpls.com. For example, users decided to re-tag imagenet for fun: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1262535747975868418

And the tags ended up being hilarious: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYXRzDAUwAMjXIG?format=jpg&name=...

(I'm particularly fond of https://i.imgur.com/ZMz2yUc.png)

The data is freely available via API: https://www.tagpls.com/tags/imagenet2012validation.json

It exports the data in yolo format (e.g. it has coordinates in yolo's [0..1] range), so it's straightforward to spit it out to disk and start a yolo training run on it.

Gwern recently used tagpls to train an anime hand detector model: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimeResearch/comments/gmcdkw/help_...

People seem willing to tag things for free, mostly for the novelty of it.

The NSFW tags ended up being shockingly high quality, especially in certain niches: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1270624312769130498

I don't think we could've paid human labelers to create tags that thorough or accurate.

All the tags for all experiments can be grabbed via https://www.tagpls.com/tags.json, so over time we hope the site will become more and more valuable to the ML community.

tagpls went from 50 users to 2,096 in the past three weeks. The database size also went from 200KB a few weeks ago to 1MB a week ago and 2MB today. I don't know why it's becoming popular, but it seems to be.
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Yes, it would be extremely expensive. The price of the plane for something like this ends up being only a fraction of the total cost of operating it. Between needing to source or machine parts to specification (many of which will be titanium) and the frequent inspections and maintenance needed it's a lot of time and money to keep a plane like this running.

Flying a GA plane is already a fairly expensive hobby... flying warbirds can be on a whole 'nother level of expense.
Perhaps the greatest reason why joking about job security is so bad is that it forces an irreversible wedge between the employee and the employer or team.

If a person believes their job is in peril they lose focus of their work and shift focus into matters of personal security. People tend to over emphasize the nature of their employment as a matter of personal identity, accomplishment, and life progress. When those things are in peril they become more important problem to fix than their assigned responsibilities, work/life balance, or even familial relationships which can snowball into further problems. While this is frequently more a matter of personal vanity than finances the problem is still there and it’s socially contagious, which is toxic.

Counter intuitively I have found many people are less emotionally troubled about losing their jobs when the harm is purely financial. That isn’t to say it is free of stress, but rather there are fewer panic moments.
I think you're missing the point of the conversation. I'm not excusing or justifying what he did at all. The point of this is, other than our sense of justice and desire to punish someone for doing something bad, what is prison supposed to achieve?

I'd like prison to achieve the kind of justice that yes, does provide some sense of justice to victims, but aims to reform criminals and reduce crime. Now, independent of this case, America is clearly failing, because our recidivism rate is (depending on the study you look at) between 40% and 70% over a matter of months and years, which is pretty terrible [1]. Many other first-world countries are achieving far better rates. And for per-capita imprisonment, America is literally the worst in the world according to Wikipedia [2]. Last I checked, a couple of years ago, it was second.

But back to this specific article. Yes, this person was convicted of a serious crime and went to jail. But while there they were isolated in a way I consider a violation of the 8th amendment without due process. Not only do I consider this a failing of "justice" in its own right, but it's left this person less able to go and rejoin society in a productive way. Poverty is one of the strongest predictors of criminality: how is this helpful to anyone? Just because you want to punish it and doing so seems fair, doesn't mean the way the US justice system will implement that punishment is doing something good in the end. You can reform that system without just excusing serious crimes.

[1] https://atlascorps.org/recidivism-united-states-overview/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

edit: I feel like this is the same kind of misunderstanding everyone's having with the #BlackLivesMatter vs #BackTheBlue stuff right now. People complain about the way some police are doing their jobs, and point out ways some other police departments or police in other countries do it much better, and the alternative we consider is no police. What the actual fuck? Can't we just have police tone down the tactics and approach the problem a different way? Since when is saying that police are killing people too easily and too often saying that they just shouldn't have even arrested the person?
I watched a video last night where someone was using a CNC to cut sheet metal. I wonder if one could make MiG parts using a CNC or 3d printer.

Imagine upgrading the avionics to modern computers too. After a while you'd have a MiG-17 of Theseus..
Ah, I get it.

I was interested (from a distance) in "Holacracy" but it's hard to find information about how well it works in practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy

Also, FWIW, I'm hoping that automation frees up enough time to be able to support "consensus driven" governance, which is I suspect is theoretically optimal, but it's really expensive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
A status page should be a static site hosted on multiple providers in multiple regions with multiple nameservers. So, Amazon S3 hosted in 2 regions, Azure Storage hosted in 2 different regions, 2 different nameserver providers in 2 different countries using two different backend colo providers. Costs probably <$150/year and that will survive BGP outages, backhaul link outages, hosting provider outages, DNS outages.

I'm not going to make fun of them for their status page being down, but it certainly doesn't reflect well on the brand/products.
These are all extremely valid points! I guess I should've clarified how things work a bit (which I am currently in the process of documenting how it works and how to deploy it).

Ingress management is done with the very useful nginx-proxy[0] service that loads virtual host definitions directly from the docker daemon and sets virtual hosts based on env vars set on the container. Configuration changes are loaded using an nginx reload, so even if there was an error in the configuration (which I personally have never run into though is likely possible), it wouldn't take effect. LE is then handled using the nginx-proxy-letsencrypt-companion[1]. My goal was to abstract away reverse proxy+cert management and I think any solution (traefik, caddy, etc) would work here and I'm more than happy to change it. More or less just went with nginx since it was easy and I didn't have to do any configuration other than adding it to a docker-compose file.

I guess my goal wasn't to handle ZDD for stateful applications. As you mentioned, there's a plethora of issues that arise and make that type of application much more difficult to do ZDD. I tend to write a lot of stateless web apps for simple use cases and like to have an easy way to deploy them. In the primitive sense, creating a new container, waiting for it to be ready, and then swapping the upstream used for the reverse proxy with the new pointer would be ideal but isn't supported directly with docker-compose (as mentioned).

Happy to talk this through also, especially if you'd be interested in contributing!

[0] https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy
[1] https://github.com/nginx-proxy/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-prox...
Black Lives Matter' painted in 50-foot yellow letters near White House
Muralists painted "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in roughly 50-foot-wide yellow letters on a section of 16th Street that sits just in front of Lafayette Park, the site of huge protests over the death of George Floyd.
Did the new company require a non-compete?
Even if you're not a manager, do not underestimate your position. I'm on a small team (<10 devs, <50 employees total) and I'm one of the longest tenured employees and wear just about every hat possible at the company. I am not a manager and I report to the same person every other developer does. I also do not have the authority to fire someone and have never once suggested we do it. But I have a heavy influence on the direction of our team and company, am involved in the hiring process, handle most of our development rule and workflow decisions, etc. Just because I can't fire anyone, doesn't mean other people know that.

A few years ago, back before I had even half my current responsibilities, I was sitting with one of the other devs trying to figure out a bug that made it into production and they asked "How bad is it?" and I offhandedly/sarcastically said "You're going to need a new job" without even looking at them. At that point, those kinds of things were pretty commonly said by devs to one another. But a few hours later, I got a frantic message on Slack asking if they had been fired. They had apparently spent the last 3 hours in a state of high tension thinking they'd be fired by EOD. At that point, I realized my role was ambiguous enough that I couldn't joke about it anymore.

And if you're in a position like me where you have a lot of responsibilities and influence, you need to be aware of how you interact with other teams too. I've had instances where I've gone over to talk to someone in marketing about something and they jokingly ask "What I'd do this time?" and I'll respond with "You're in trouble" and immediately go into what I wanted to talk about, which in most cases is a greeting you'd ignore as obviously ridiculous, especially when followed up with me asking questions about how to best optimize something to help you do your job. But I've had it happen more times than I care to admit where they'll interrupt me a few seconds later and ask if they're going to be fired.

Moral of the story: If you are at any elevated position, never joke about someone losing their job. It might seem okay when you're moreorless equals in the hierarchy, but it causes undue amounts of stress for others when you aren't (even when you have no authority over their job). It's just not worth the stress for them and doesn't help your relationship with them either.
Python received much of its latest praise from introductory level college students that haven't done much programming other than "import numpy". I've used python and sure i like it better than other "bad languages" but when you look around in the real world you see that it's not the best or the most popular choice.

- cloud/ops space has moved to Go

- Java/C# are overall better languages and more productive environments than python for large scale services.

- A million websites still use php and the community is thriving. Billion-dollar companies use ruby to transact billions of dollars (stripe,shopify).

- Js is eating the world

Python found its niche in AI/ML space and sure is a great language but that's it?
I'm very much in the same situation. I also recently finished a MSc in Data Science with the hopes that I can make a career switch into something a bit more exploratory, but that isn't really happening and then COVID happened.

But I think I've come to a realization. What we are experiencing is burn out. We have all the signs. We are jaded, cynical, tired, can't focus, easily agitated. (I'm assuming all this applies to you too).

If you have enough money, can I suggest taking a break? A sabbatical if you will. I'm considering doing the same. You might discover something else out there you'd be more interested in. You might come up with a brilliant idea that will be a viable business. Or you might just...take a break. That in and of itself is an incredibly important thing to do, especially for your mental health. When you've spent most of your adult waking hours focused on what is fundamentally bullsh*t to make other people money, it's easy to lose yourself and to lose perspective.

At the end of the day, we are humans and we need to remind ourselves of that.
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Oh no? Took about 20 seconds to find this:

https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/elon-musks-historic-spacex-mis...
And even if they don’t have justification for use of force, unless if there’s a super narrow precedent showing they shouldn’t have, they’re immune from lawsuit. And since qualified immunity dismisses lots of cases, very few new precedents are being created. The total effect is that if you have a device created after QI was invented by the courts, you’re effectively totally immune.
Spain should've kept the South America - Cadiz route on sailing ships. They'd have million trips under their wooden belts already, beat that internal combustion engine!
They are serious about not making profit with these. $100 for a full up tablet and it includes the keyboard/touchpad?

2GB of RAM is pretty limiting but 64GB of storage is quite respectable at this price point. The 6AH battery pack is quite beefy too.
Haha I use YouTube as my music player or soundcloud/bandcamp

Podcasts are hard to listen to while writing code imo/same with new music I usually loop stuff I already know.
Nope. You have to buy it when the shares start trading.
We're on a slippery slope to being disappeared whenever it's convenient for the US government, by the loss of habeas corpus. I first noticed it being undermined in the 2000s under the George W. Bush administration:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/12/04/killing-habeas...

Right now habeas corpus is mainly being suspended for non-US citizens, but more authoritarian-leaning elected officials keep trying to undermine it domestically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_St...

Unfortunately we're vulnerable right now because the public is easily distracted by straw man arguments. For example, they might feel that it's ok to deny an antifa demonstrator habeas corpus (since antifa was deemed a terrorist organization by Donald Trump), without realizing that in order for habeas corpus to work, it must apply to everyone regardless of criminal accusation.

I'm seeing this fallacy constantly right now, so if there is a better word for it, please comment because it would be good to have a name for it.
Good, they should do it more often.

If the technology exists to put people known to be terrorizing people, and hurting people online behind bars then we should absolutely be doing it.
Oh, I thought of it as "news" and was confused
There's no way Google hired him without this kind of agreement in place. Amazon's relentless pursuit of non-compete enforcement is well known.
Stop looking at the syntax, then. PHP semantics almost completely match Java's- single inheritance, no const, everything is a reference, effectively no top-level functions, etc.

And in what way is it actually less verbose? It's almost identical to Java...
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I would have expected a sportsman-like congratulation to the NASA and SpaceX, maybe followed by some intelligent and good-mannered trolling.

Something along the lines of Apple's "Welcome IBM. Seriously" ads.

This boring and aggressive piece of Cold War rhetoric definitely fits into the recent trend of worsening international relationships (of course the current US administration has its own part in this). But it's still extremely disappointing, no matter which side.
My main complaint.
The magic line would be when the majority of privately owned businesses are illegal.

Or, as the socialists would call it, when they take control of "the means of production".

Which is just another way of saying that private businesses are illegal.

Collectively funding some services has nothing to do with socialism.
Only 33% of the cases even result in an arrest [1] and 6 in 1000 cases actually result in jail time. That only 384/1000 are even reported to police shows what people think their options are in getting justice. (US is not an exception by any means.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Pros...
It's great for peers, dealing with opposing viewpoints, and controlling your response vs having a reaction.

But when it comes to the person who controls whether I work here or not, how my performance reviews look, what my bonus is, etc I just don't feel like I can brush off their politicking and weird mind games. I need to keep that person happy whether they want it or not to ensure my continued survival. Maybe they mean nothing by it, but what if there is a chance that they do? People have gotten termed for much less.
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Googles lawyers would always use an outside firm. Corporate in-house counsel are for creating corporate legal policy and coordinating with other lawyers for the actual lawsuits. They rarely litigate themselves.
Maybe try meeting someone who is not "everyone", and also make sure you don't fall into the same trap yourself? If you meet a person you settle down with, it doesn't stop attraction to other people, but you have a choice to limit that expression to managable levels, or live with the hell of not doing that.
I have no idea what I'd do with one of these, but that price point is barely more than a Raspberry Pi 4 with a few accessories. I think I might buy one.
The average American couldn't afford any airplane.
Sure. A wholesale Internet connection that allows resale usually goes for a few thousand dollars per month.
I've discovered when there's a power dynamic going on between two people, it's usually not a very good idea to pretend like that doesn't exist -- despite the fact that it is my natural inclination to joke about it and downplay it.

Instead, I find it's better to be kind, take things seriously and treat people with respect.

Yes, the power dynamic exists. Yes, I believe it's somewhat unfair and I wish society wasn't structured that way. But make up for it by being kind, being direct and treating people fairly.

Otherwise, it just comes across as an inability to accept responsibility, and if someone with power over you doesn't seem predictable it just feels scary and unstable. Or worse, you'll give people the impression that you're actively taking pleasure in toying with them.
Those are the two pitot tubes. The other tubes on the fuselage forward of the canopy are cannons. Aft of the canopy are radio aerials. This [1] only mentions the right-hand pitot tube, but since they appear to be identical, I assume it was just an oversight on the document's author.

[1]https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80T00246...