skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same with Meet, at least if you're using the regular enterprise/GSuite version (probably different for schools and/or the nerfed version you get with a personal account, since kids muting the teacher gets old really quick).
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I can't tell, from the blog post or comments here, how the web component is an improvement on just using <blockquote> and <cite>. The styling does look nice, but is that the only real difference?
This kind of thing happens all the time; a crisis in economic terms forcing companies to aggressively pursue cost savings measures that never go away once the economic constraints are lifted. A similar process happened with oil rigs, where automation was available, but only pursued once the price of oil crashed. Those jobs also never came back.
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Unfortunately their LTV / Cac is terrible, I've provided a full teardown on what parts of the S-1 trouble me the most (unit economics and revenue growth).

https://balancedview.substack.com/p/lemons-for-lemonade

Their payback period isn't 2 years, not even close with 18% gross margins.

Let me know what you think!
No, it was just a really big plastic bag, in a big tray. We used those catering trays with the hot water, which are generally useful if you’re ever throwing a party.

The run included mustard as a base with lots of the predictable spices.
I think GitHub gets used there as a social network because it isn't fully censored. I've read about Chinese using it to share/collaborate on unsanctioned information because it can't just be blocked: unlike Facebook and Twitter, it's too important to their software industry.
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Wow, such a good idea!
People joke about death in the singular, natural disasters that kill thousands, and the extinction of the human race but this is the matter so serious humor must be absent?
Doesn't seem like it would be that hard... Couldn't the server just run grep if a user searches? Grep could scan every static file in milliseconds
In modern America we used to have that, but non-job social structures have been hollowed out since the 1970s. Now Americans get a distressingly large percentage of their social interactions via work, making them psychologically dependent on their job too.
Wow, seven miles down
Completely agreed, and there's a ton of low hanging fruit from simply applying determinism to ethics and really following it. I think it becomes an incredibly powerful tool in moral philosophy that really clears a path of progress that I think the field has been struggling to move on. It kills some ideas dead in the water and makes very strong cases for others, unsticking so many fundamental debates that often came down to "agree to disagree" for so many philosophers that didn't have the formal argumentation tools to properly refute big ideas.
I have no inherent strong opinions on terminology, so I'll roll with it. But I am concerned that this might be a symptom of a larger trend toward whimsically inventive "solutions" that have ill defined or undefined MOEs.

What does this get us? Is there any evidence that these terms are harmful to racial minorities? Do fMRIs or glucocorticoid sampling indicate that the use of these terms causes a stress response? I'm skeptical, but I don't know.

By all means, we should question conventions that might be ill suited to an enlightened society. However, every change costs political capital, and we should be spending that political capital on actual change rather than self-congratulatory tinkering.
“Quantum mechanics disproves determinism and therefore disproves free-will-skepticism” is an asinine argument I hear parroted everywhere and it drives me bonkers.

Ok, say quantum mechanics is at play and your cells don’t behave deterministically. Is that randomness somehow your free will? Are you willfully collapsing wave functions or whatever?

The real reason free will doesn’t exist is not to do with determinism, but the fact that you don’t exist. You’re a collection of cells that, regardless of whether they behave deterministically or randomly, are out of your control. The concept of “you” is just a high-level abstraction, a shorthand, that falls apart as soon as you dig into the details of what’s going on (as all abstractions do).
So cool to see more bootstrapped successes! Congrats :)
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The meat industry does not inherently cause suffering, but the death part is certainly unavoidable. It's not a question of whether or not death is "bad". It is a question of whether or not death is "worth it".

In my experience, most people put a relatively high value on life (especially human), but not an infinite one. Most societies agree that human life must be highly valued; however, I think you will find that many people do not value the lives of livestock so highly. For many, even human life can be traded for something of great enough value. Ultimately, the value of a life is a matter of opinion.

I'm not trying to challenge your opinion here. I just want to remind you that not everyone shares that opinion, and you'll have to convince them before you can use it as justification for declaring "meat is bad".
Is this where powershell got it from?
Here's the little security analysis I did for myself. This machine:

• Is running an up-to-date web browser (Firefox ESR).

• Has all important data backed up to cold storage regularly.

• Is behind a router. All incoming ports are closed, except one for ssh. I've looked through openssh's CVE list and there's nothing concerning.

• Is running local software which I consider trusted.

I was originally also planning to get a copy of Little Snitch, as an additional form of monitoring. I haven't actually done that yet, but I should.

Some possible attack scenarios I can imagine:

• There's a zero day in Firefox. My vulnerable OS does not offer the extra layers of protection that a newer one might.

• Someone exploits Spectre/Meltdown/etc via Javascript. My attacker is incredibly lucky, and the tiny portion of memory they retrieve just so happens to be the bit that contains something vital like Bitwarden's master password.

• Someone emails me a malicious image which isn't caught by Gmail (personal accounts) or Microsoft Exchange (work account), and it infects my machine upon being rendered by Apple Mail.

• A person I know/trust is tricked into sending me an infected document, likely a PDF or MS Office file. Even though I don't have Acrobat or Microsoft Office installed, the vulnerability is compatible with Preview and/or iWork '09.

None of these scenarios seem particularly likely. The key here is that I'm not important enough to get hit by a targeted attack, and frankly I don't think I would survive one on an up-to-date OS anyway. In exchange for this minor risk, using my computer makes me much happier right now than it did six months ago.
It's something relatively local to you. The certificate is fine, the server speaks TLS 1.3, and it works fine in latest Chrome.
Surely unrelated to the author's referring to (his quotes) "experts" and their (my quotes) "bullshit."

My takeaway: invest in rock delivery. Everyone wants to live under one. And what with COVID-19, not enough people will be able to scavenge their own.
It just has become a filter for people with serious enough problems.

If you can spend 10-15 minutes navigating voice menus, waiting, and listening to canned messages, likely you need operator's help badly enough. Anyone with a petty problem would have hung up already. And the canned messages also eliminate some of the calls which seek some obvious information.

You know, it used to be somehow hard, but not impossible, to reach an oracle in ancient times. Now the same is done on mass scale.
Apple should buy Tesla ;)
Just wondering, are you a one man show running a search engine. That is extremely impressive. I did some relevant local searches and was able to find what I was looking for in the first page.
Could I use this to clean up my code? First write some garbage in java then do a round java -> python -> java. Does it result in cleaner code? :)
When talking about health effects from coal pollution, it's not about the CO2.
> Morals can still exist without the principle of free will

Not really, because you've just done away with moral blame. If there can be no moral blame, then the moral classification of actions has no meaning.
Way to keep your cool running a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)
Well, then we agree to some extent, because indeed politicians are not necessarily the most competent.

FreeBSD being an international project I doubt any member really benefits from any particular kind of group majority "privilege" or benefit. From my observation, it seems to be way more meritocratic than the outside world.
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You're right it does have issues, but far better than any other alternative Operating System, at least in my case (games)
It seems like the abstract is a little bit misleading. WaveNet is almost scoring half a point better on a scale from 1 to 5. Tacotron 2 [1] is scoring even better and reporting a score which is almost human-like:

EATS 4.083
WaveNet 4.41
Tacotron 2 4.53
Human Speech 4.55

It seems like a stretch to me to say it's "a comparable to the state-of-the-art models".

[1] https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...
Hi all, I think this thread has been full of great discussion, and there has been many questions surrounding Lemonade's financials and strategy.

I am a former investment banker, and enjoy analyzing companies in my spare (limited) time. I've been following Lemonade since 2018 so their S-1 filing piqued my interest.

https://balancedview.substack.com/p/lemons-for-lemonade

Long story short, I think there are two major topics that pop out upon reviewing. 1) The unit economics are extremely concerning. 2) Cedeing 75% of gross written premiums starting June 2020 not only shifts business model towards a brokerage business, but also calls into question the true value add of their heavily marketed ML / AI platform for underwriting, and the ensuing loss decrease that can be generated from better data = more profits.

Happy to answer any questions, appreciate the look!
> I'm not your son, nor am I talking about what DevOps "is about", but about what is became in practice, which you would have understood hadn't you rushed to reply in the most condescending tone you managed to invoke.

Fair enough. I am letting you know though the part where you got mixed up - that is not because _What DevOps has become in practice_. That is precisely because of failings and shortcomings in team culture and/or the organisation that practice DevOps.
I bet it was something like

- Do we do the experiment now (or in the next quarter at least), or do we spend a lot of time getting through ethics boards with new unique proposals that would likely take forever to get approved.
this search does not work, but I enjoy your enthusiasm.
"Former senior writer"

One idly wonders what must be going on at Quanta that she ended up with such a title.
the comments section of this article is definitely something...
Oh bummer
Agreed that phone trees are awful, but the exact same logic done in a chat form is surprisingly sane. We can easily skim past the bullshit with our eyes, and hone in on what we need quite quickly. In many cases I prefer it to the triage by humans, with their bad microphones and unfamiliar accents.

It doesn't even need to be sophisticated logic, with heavy use of AI and conversational styles of communication. A simple "what are you looking for?" with some preset options is pretty great.
You don't think _Google_ has the resources for a proper build server? They're not doing builds on a dev machine anyway.
It absolutely is fearmongering when you default to assuming maliciousness/bad faith just because the author is relatively unknown. There's nothing deep/unusual about what this program does, and I assure you that if it was created with malicious intent, it would not remain undiscovered for very long.

That Windows users have chosen to accept Windows becoming spyware

The developers of this, and others, are clearly fighting against it.
Beautiful: https://www.deepsoundsai.com/song/tfw0wv - wish I could somehow tell it to continue this forever :)
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This is only true if you ground morality in objectivism and objective meaning, and require all useful conceptions of morality to fit that. What you have highlighted is that the meta-ethical view of objectivism is not compatible with determinism.

Subjectivisms (both individualist and things like cultural relativism) and error theory are perfectly compatible with determinism. I personally ascribe to and argue for error theory which essentially leads to moral psychology actually dictating what ethics are. Based on that, it's quite easy to get to "murder is bad" via human traits like empathy and our social nature.
How do we square "teachers get paid pretty well actually" with "teachers have to buy student supplies out of their own pocket"? Is this happening simultaneously in the same school districts? Or is there a bimodal distribution of resources to school districts?
She's had her ups and downs.
Because I am not about to be indoctrinated with relentless self-loathing on the basis of my skin color or sex, but most especially for past actions of other people over whom I had no control.

To blame white men for the crimes of past white men, well, imagine if history worked like that everywhere. You could do the same with just about any particular group -- they've all exterminated or maltreated someone. And yet you have this focus on just the Caucasian ones (even ones with no history of colonialism in their regional past) ... who taught you to fixate on this? And whom does it benefit?
Besides being a well respected film critic and incredibly knowledgeable about film, he was also just a great writer. I read his reviews every week simply for the pleasure of reading them, even if I wasn't interested in the films he reviewed.
I've programmed for DOS and BIOS before, and using the `h` suffix for `int 21h` and `int 20h` and `int 10h` and `int 13h` still feels natural. I never wrote `h` literals for anything but a few interrupt numbers, though. And when I programmed for 32-bit Linux, `int 0x80` felt more natural.
Although it's not listed in this post because it's a rental. I feel like it deserves a mention nonetheless. "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" is a 1960s cult classic. It was directed by Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert. There's a link to it on Roger's site as well as available to stream from Amazon for cheap:

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/beyond-the-valley-of-the-...
Powerful rulers subdue their enemies. It's a common formula seen over and over in various royal tombs and elsewhere. Sometimes, like in the case of the Libyans in some periods, the enemies the king claims domination over haven't been seen or heard from in generations. These kinds of inscriptions can tell us interesting things about foreign relations sometimes, but it's not the type of thing that's easy to extract.

As karatestomp states, there are far more interesting texts out there. The Story of Sinuhe says more about the milieu it was written in than most monumental or funerary inscriptions. It also happens to be one of the world's earliest surviving literary masterpieces. The Story of Wenamun argues against the common notion that the ancient Egyptians didn't have a sense of humor.
You can probably push that "certain size" a long way down the road if you need to. (at least in this specific client side text search case, rather than a generic "how do I server large json files" way)

If you tweak the search box so it doesn't do anything until you've typed at least 2 or 3 letters, you could then serve regenerated son files that only contain that matches that have that prefix... No need for any of the json payload for words/phrases starting with aa..rt if someone's typed "ru" into the search box.

That means you'd have 676 distinct json files, but you'd only ever load the one you need...
I believe the answer is yes. Jefrrey Snover (inventor of PowerShell) apparently used IBM OS/400 earlier in his career and liked this aspect of it, although PowerShell does implement the idea a little differently (dash between verb and noun; using less abbreviations.)

(Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a direct quote from Mr. Snover stating this, but I can find a number of people saying he has said it before.)
YES! Had my doubts!
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"You are not your job" is one thing I keep teaching all my junior colleagues. Your work is not your identity, and should not be seriously attached to your ego.

This helps very much at code review and performance review times.
Most of those package issues also apply to C# particularly as it stabilizes towards .NET 5. However it isn't too bad once you get it; and for most standard use cases it seems to work with the dotnet cli out of the box. Many people seem to be productive with C# so I'm not sure how big of an issue it is other than the small initial learning curve but many package managers have that (IMO Maven is harder yet many people use that in Java space and not too hard once you learn it).

REPL's often have problems with package management in a number of languages as they often have a different build chain from the compiled style apps which have the chance to resolve packages. When doing .NET Core in the past I know Paket can generate these scripts for the REPL to import packages (seen csx/fsx scripts for each package) - but another comment alludes to a more supported way in the future which is good.

Doesn't seem like you have a problem with the language per se; rather the package management story for .NET Core.
It's in a shit journal, so that's a start. I think part of it is that he's strawmaning here. The fear of automation isn't quite that it's immediate, it's more about the ability of machines to erode away economic opportunity of communities. People haven't been saying jobs are gone, just that eventually they will be soon(ish). Arguing that jobs aren't gone yet isn't helpful.
> In other words, the 4-5 hours of logical thinking per day is enough to completely drain me.

Sounds normal to me! I spent years composing classical music hours every day, which was great fun, but after about 3 hours writing in the morning I'd be utterly, totally exhausted. Sometimes much later in the day I'd do more, but not usually. I've heard from various places that that's not uncommon, being worn out after a few hours of totally focused work.

I read somewhere recently that Michael Phelps (I think it was) swam for a few hours each morning then had a sleep, doing more later in the day. I never thought of doing that, not being a napper, although I like the idea of napping, but maybe I should've. I imagine relaxing by reading online or chatting or something doesn't have the same restorative effect napping does.

I get a lot of ideas when I go out the back and stare at the trees while having a smoke. Most of my good ideas. I think it's the sitting there, letting your mind do what it wants, absorbing whatever you were just working on. If that was a problem, often the solution just comes to mind. But that doesn't happen unless you have breaks like that.
Insert Simpson's <"That's the joke"> meme here...
Actually many engineers use chrome OS at google. Perhaps even a majority.

What makes it work is that everything you could possibly want to run either runs in the browser or in a remote machine.
If you're running grep it isn't a static site anymore.
I see in the first comment here that batteries are not a good solution yet and people seems to agree with it. Can someone shed a light on this issue? I find it hard to believe the PM was belittling it with no reason
Ctrl-B also goes to definition (at least on Linux) if you don't want to leave the keyboard. On definition Ctrl-B lists all usages of the term under caret.
So by that argument, cars don't exist either. Ontologically, this is true. The ontology of physics contains neither cars or free will.

So when someone points to a car and says, "that's a car", what are they doing if not pointing at a car?

If you can answer this question sensibly, then it should be straightforward to also understand what a victim means when they point to an accuser and says, "they attacked me of their own free will".

Free will is just as real as cars. Which is to say either you reject the existence of both, or you reject neither.
I wrote about it here: https://vwo.com/blog/vwo-evolution-10-years/
3-4 years ago it wasn't difficult at all to replace macOS with pretty much any EFI-enabled OS. Moving to a proprietary ARM CPU/GPU will probably result in not being able to write applications unless it's using Apple's toolchain. If you have no say over what software you can run on your computer, you no longer own that computer.

We really haven't seen such a large technological separation like this. At least back in the old days you could still run what you want.

macOS moving to the iOS route where you have to jailbreak your device to get any sort of usability out of it is not a space I want to participate in, and yet it seems that's how the entire Apple line is moving. They're almost the complete opposite compared to Microsoft these days.
> They have zero reason to disclose data showing how expensive their services are relative to expectations.

A cynic might argue that is why their pricing structure is so complicated in the first place.
This kind of change does more harm than good to the society. It’s a distraction to what really matters. Big corp just wants more brownie points. It’s just gimmicks and it’s rather pointless.
We have, multiple times.
This would have been useful for my co-worker. They went on a trip to Europe years ago and had conference call scheduled when they got there.

Unfortunately for them they decided to lie on the bed in the hotel and the jet lag hit them pretty hard. Next thing you know they are asleep and they started snoring and I guess fairly loudly and everyone on the call could hear. So then the people on the call spend some time trying to figure out who is the person snoring, going through all the attendees. Eventually they figure out who it was and they started yelling trying to wake them up, which they did after awhile. Needless to say my coworker was very embarrassed about the incident at the time, but it did make a good story to tell people :)
No, it is true: that was exactly why I suggested it. My point was that rather than saying something along the lines of "English used to be German" (which makes as much sense and is just as true [false] as saying "German used to be English"), it would have been easy enough to quickly say that they used to be the same language.

(Though, as to your point about England and Saxony: (1) mutual intelligibility is not the same as being the same language (2) Old Saxon isn't the same as Old High German.)

[But, you're right about demarcating language: it gets tricky pretty quickly. E.g., from a certain perspective, English (and German, and French, and Hindi) don't exist in the first place. A bunch of people have some sort of instantiations of formal grammars + lexicons in their brains and the output of these is such that some sort of more or less effective communication takes place and so we say these people 'speak the same language'.]