skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a misstatement

How do you know that?

My point is that the misstatement is so commonly made, and I am trying to understand why it is so very common, from someone who has made the statement in such a way that it is harder for them to generate an excuse for the mistake (edit: and high karma, so presumably educated, informed, and maybe has nous to self-reflect).

An order of magnitude difference does matter to me, and I think if the infected population is over 10%, then that is significant.

I apologise for being rude though.
Oh no worries, no offence taken at all with the comment, configurations files tend to suck in general :).

Pystachio was indeed very forward looking and the folks who worked on this at Twitter at the time deserve all the credit there.

I think what you mention is a general problem I've encountered with IDEs when it comes to dealing with Python (esp. the "go to" issue you mention). Even when I've had to touch the Aurora client code, which is full on Python code, I've come out pulling my hair thanks to PyCharm acting wonky.

> We have maybe 2-3k aurora config files

Those are some big files! The boiler plate stuff is definitely something I've heard before from users but, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a better answer.

When it comes to managing job configs, I'm pretty low on the pecking order in terms of knowledge since we ended up creating our own thrift client using Go to use with Aurora. (As a consequence, all our job definitions exist as Go code.)

Stephan Erb (https://twitter.com/erbstephan/) may have better advice in this case. Some of the Twitter folks may have good info too, but they've been radio silent for months.

> I actually think it’s a kind of unintuitive credit to your project, that it doesn’t require a horde of maintainers.

That's definitely a great point and a great compliment to the project. There's a lot of love that went into this project and I'd be ecstatic to get some new contributions, even if it something simple like fixing documentation or bumping up dependencies :D.
My side project is a course about Vue.js [0]. I advertise it by putting a backlink on all my free content, including blog articles/free book I wrote about Vue testing [1] and videos I upload on Vimeo, and via my Twitter.

I also joined some discord channels, and help out people with coding problems. If something in my book/course is similar, I drop a link to that (after resolving their problem).

[0] https://vuejs-course.com
[1] https://lmiller1990.github.io/vue-testing-handbook/

The best way to advertise is providing some useful, valuable content for free. If people like it, they might also buy your paid content.
Really? Expert React developers are paid top of band in my current company. Someone who is -really- good at React is very hard to find.
Depends on the author. Some people don't post to arXiv until after they've submitted, or after they've gotten initial reviews back. Others like to post to arXiv proactively to get feedback prior to submitting. Just depends on the person.

Reviewers are encouraged not to read anything that might be such a paper, though, for whatever that's worth.
Yea in those cases I agree that they do have more involvement than slapping a logo on. That's the case of sunglasses and luxottica: companies are selling a design/logo which is the distinguishing factor, and the manufacturer is simply building it. On the opposite end is where a manufacturer of pasta/salt/milk puts the exact same product in boxes with different labels.
Speech Recognition is something I would be more concerned about. Amazon and Google with a decidedly more “liberal” stance on data collection have more raw material to train and validate models on.
> I reject that completely. If you riot, you choose to riot

How does this aphorism not apply to the police? When they open fire or march on a peaceful crowd, they are choosing to riot. If their goal was to prevent crime, they would deploy small units into the protest crowd to catch troublemakers directly.

> The rioters I have seen shooting and stabbing people, and kicking them in the head while down are criminals. There is no passing of that buck

Agreed for those specific people. But the vast majority that get arrested have done no such thing. Rather they started off peacefully protesting, and were then attacked by the police for exercising that right. If the arrestees were all that violent to begin with, there is no way they would have become so concentrated for so many to get arrested.
Recession in U.S. Began in February, Official Arbiter Says
The IFR is proving to be ~1%.

For 0.1-0.6% to be true, 50-100% of NYC would have to have gotten infected with COVID-19...
There is an option C): Switch advisors.

As long as the department is sympathetic to the student's complaint, it will accommodate the switch if it can.

Furthermore, there is increasing attention to providing "Faculty Mentors" -- people of faculty rank who are emphatically not the student's advisor, tasked in that capacity with advocating for the student's needs alone. Look within the University for other outlets for your concern.

You're going to be working very closely with your advisor and relying on them for guidance and networking after graduation. If the relationship is toxic and the only options are A or B, think real hard about the upside of B before selecting A.
> Not to spread throughout the galaxy, no, but at least to get to multiple places in our solar system.

To get there, yes. Not necessarily to live there. I was saying that we might need to actually engineer ourselves to live in these other environments, and the path to that might itself lead to the great filter.
This is what they do already to power the web results in Siri except the search companies pay Apple.
Or they know how to read the room and press on their main competitive advantage.
Problems that could be fixed by dismantling police unions, exhibit 3952.65.
Amazon, everyone knows you monetize open source. It's not a huge secret. Brian Hall hasn't stolen any secret magic recipe that he's now selling to Google.
It's not at all clear to me how much more limiting the isolation required for the 1% is than the current quarantine measures. I certainly doubt that it means "no contact at all". It's also not clear to me that a very strict isolation for the 1% is overall better than a moderately strict "quarantine" for the remainder (trolley problem). It's also not sustainable to maintain quarantine indefinitely, and the economic ramifications alone will compound (exponential--not linear--decay). At some point, "quarantine" becomes a net negative for the vulnerable 1%, never mind the remainder. Further, as so many things do, these economic impacts are and will continue to be the most severe among the most economically vulnerable. It's certainly sustainable for 1% of people to isolate indefinitely; it's not sustainable at all for the rest of society to quarantine indefinitely and that sustainability falls off earlier for the most marginalized communities than it does for the rest of us.
In Australia at least, it's not unusual for CVs to include an "interests" section with 2-3 interests listed.

It's typically used to list hobbies and interests and if it gets mentioned during an interview, the candidate can briefly touch on their success (and maybe even how it lossely relates to the role).
It happened to Angularjs. It didn't die just stopped evolving in the 1.x branch. Everyone had to accept 2.x or move on or stop evolving.
The concept of educational community gardens and seed libraries occasionally comes up in conversation about the scope of services provided by traditional (book) libraries. As an example, there's an official program in Boulder already:

https://boulderlibrary.org/seed-to-table/
I don't accept payments of any sort - the entire site is free. No premium options, no payment details.
It's surprising to me that you assert that a system which is simultaneously complex-enough to support Turing-complete calculation, and simple enough to be a "pick-up-and-play card game", is not carefully evolved.

Fair shout on the number of banned cards, though - R&D and playtesting could definitely do better, there!
It does seem the prevailing writing style of academia is a big part of the problem. Papers a lot of time leave the reader feeling stupid. “Surely there’s wisdom here!?” the reader hopes. Maybe if papers taught the underlying concepts in a clearer, more transparent way we’d get better, more reproducible science
Either one is still lacking when evaluating a font. While seeing every letter is helpful, knowing how different letter combinations look adjacent to each other is also important (a j in the middle of a word for example).
Just got this up and running following your steps with great success! Enough to bring me back to say thanks!
Part of the Police Riot happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_riot
Cynical part of me expects to hear about DDG raising another round in the near future. This is the type of article I'd want out there if I were looking to raise money, giving a seemingly plausible exit strategy with a valuation
Read the alleged response by Tao Li to the original accusations against him: https://medium.com/@huixiangvoice/help-dr-tao-li-is-threaten...

This is a really shocking threat: he's saying that his school (the University of Florida) will take legal action against people making good-faith allegations of academic misconduct against him, because they have unspecified "ulterior motives."

How is this attempt to silence people an appropriate response to the death of one of his own postdocs? At the very least, the University needs to say whether it finds these threats acceptable and whether it is actually considering legal action.
I call this anecdotal growth mutation.

You see something, you share it, a lot of other people share it.

Suddenly the anecdote becomes statistically significant in the heads of everyone.
> Even when thinking of the protests as having some allure for being social

I have wondered if there’s an aspect of that in the huge turnouts. People are unemployed and isolated, and joining the protests gives them a chance to feel like part of something.
While your post is interesting (albeit mostly anecdotal), it doesn’t seem like you are responding to the main substance of the article.
Love the idea! P25 decoder seems like it needs a little tuning...can you share what you're using?

Any thoughts on adding the ability to comment/transcribe/etc?
Even adsense is tough with adult content sites (last I checked, which was probably over a decade ago).

Specific affiliate offers that are relevent to the audience are far more profitable.
Maybe a US thing then?
Neat! Wonder what service they are using for the transcription as some of the results are pretty rough probably from both poor quality audio and a unique lexicon. Custom speech models could probably go a long way here to clean it up and I would bet there’s some public interest in contributing transcriptions for training if the site allowed user submitted corrections. Having this indexed and searchable could be powerful.
Must we really fill the comments of Hacker News with lazy twitter copypasta?

https://twitter.com/JackOfQuills/status/984290288259788800
If you're arguing it may not be possible to colonise space at all, that may be true but isn't germane to this discussion. The idea of Fermi paradox and the "great filter" presupposes that it is possible, and that there is some other, civilisation-ending event that stops it.

Sure, this is the presupposition of the Fermi paradox but it is generally presented as an obvious things. Obviously, an advanced civilization can and will colonize not just it's own solar system but some larger area, even a galaxy. I don't that's either obviously possible or obviously what an advanced society would do.

The "filter" could be that a society based on quick growth either wipes itself out or reaches a situation of stability such that "colonizing the galaxy" doesn't hold any great appeal.

And human beings so far are extraordinarily depend on earth. It be easier to survive on even earth degraded by global warming or nuclear war than it would be to live in space. Space colonies, if they ever exist, will extraordinarily fragile and their ability to survive a disaster rendering the uninhabitable seems minute.
all switches are computers :) you have an input, a state and an output. if i'm hearing what you're saying correctly, you seem to have a complexity barrier that something must reach to be called a computer. i'm more liberal when it comes to defining a computer.

why don't you recommend learning molecular biology? is it hard to grasp without the practical experiments? what's your thinking behind "i don't recommend it"?
Oh good, I was wondering if I had missed it.

I tend to think of the Drake equation as a series of hurdles, myself. It's unpopular but each level of "advancement" doesn't seem to be a given to me.
So you think it's a good idea to take legal action against someone with no proof and hope it just materializes over time?

I mean, I can sue you for stealing US nuclear secrets. Now if only I had some evidence...
Original source (NBER report): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23462131
apparently the company is working with NASA for crop growth in Lunar/Martian subterranean grow modules https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nasa-awards-ubiqd-s...
> But I think it should be noted the HM and VTM are reference encoder and decoder, they are not meant to be used for production nor in any way optimised.

Sure, but my comparison was to the Ittiam production decoder.
Can I just add that seasonal influenza varies widely from year to year? [0]

It just so happens that this year was a moderately bad year in the US. I don't know about China. But, they'd have to exclude differences from a bad flu season to have any chance of proving their point rigorously.

It's a very cool analysis though.

0. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/hcp/weekly-sur...

(sorry for the PDF)
You need your advisor to graduate and get your first academic or research job. After that, it's all up to you. Get through it and you have many more options.

Changing supervisors is possible, but probably not a good idea.
World reports highest number of Covid-19 cases in a single day, WHO says
Very interesting article, but set up against a strange straw man.

First, the usefulness of a full page of text for critically analyzing a font is obviously extremely useful for type designers looking for flaws to fix, or perhaps a national newspaper or magazine selecting a new body type that must be absolutely flawless. This is indeed a great text for proofing fonts.

But "quick brown fox" was never intended for proofing fonts. When the author says pangrams are "singularly useless" for that, he's right, but they're very good for something else.

Mainly, browsing fonts in a catalog to get the full personality at a single glance, on a single line. Above all what kind of "a", "e", "f", "g", "j", "l", "t", and "w" it has, since these (in non-italic) generally have the most variation. To check if there are any letters the font does something "weird" with. And just get an overall basic sense of look and spacing.

So setting the paragraphs he comes up with, as a replacement for pangrams, just feels like the entirely wrong way to frame it.

(All that said, I have insane respect for the man -- his designs set the absolute top bar.)
The whole opposites/balance motif is just something humans are really into about right now because we can't yet compare more than two things in our brain at a time.

In reality all of these things are orthogonal, and while we do have words to distinguish them, they are only "opposing" in the sense that there is a word specifically meant to distinguish between them. Whatever that word is, it's just an over-simplified symbol in your brain.

There is always a solution that includes both "opposites" but is too paradoxical feeling for us to yet see.

Overall, these "opposing" concepts are really just different means of reaching the same juicy core of sentience, but nothing less than all at once will get us the entire way.
Ok; I can see people are displeased.

I've added a disclaimer, since that was requested.

I'd like to take a moment to ask then what is appropriate here, after checking the etiquette guidelines, which I read beforehand and which are linked below. I read them line by line in advance and I didn't see a conflict; to be clear, they don't disallow what I did. However, I'm open to being told what I could do that would be better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Ple....

I can accept not using my own domain name, I can always use another one (that I do not own).

In this case, I spent about 15 minutes looking up the tweets around this, and then rearranging them, narrowing it down to just a few that can be a window onto other, better ones.

I'll defend that as a value-add. It's not nothing. I quoted the guy at the center of the story, I quoted a couple of people he retweeted, and then I quoted someone who I think has a good perspective on non-competes. I mean yes, with even more effort, I could have summarized him, and the non-compete guy, and written a whole essay about it all, but that's too much, and this was a compromise - not a whole journalist-level article, but a useful, defensible amount.

Now, let's look at different ways I could've done the equivalent, using other methods.

I could've posted in the raw links, which I guess is the closest solution I know of, which I'd then need to comment on - not ideal, and people would've needed to click like 5 times to get the same functionality of 1 page, but okay.

I could've created a Twitter moment, which would then fill my timeline with this (not my preference), and then posted that - still seems like self-promotion, but that way at least it's all reflected on Twitter, and after all I need some method to organize it.

To be honest, to me, this seems like an overly restrictive definition of 'self-promotion' which ends up pushing out to objectively worse solutions (boring my followers with this, looking like a lazy dump of plain links, etc.) My perspective is this is the web and remixing content isn't a bad faith action, it's fundamental to what it is.

But I understand the concern, and if people want to suggest what is appropriate, I will listen. If you want to make a suggestion for recommended solutions, I'll listen also.
Unfortunately I live in not-US (Aus), but I have to say, envkey looks very good! I'm actually floating this and HashiCorp Vault by management at the moment, since even with 4 devs, keeping environment variables in sync is a PAIN!

If you don't mind me asking, how does the Go integration work? I initially thought it was actually some sort of alternate `os.Getenv()` that you imported, but that doesn't seem to be the case. And what would the latency be, for changes in environment variables being synced to running deployments?
I'm not sure if you're trying to refute my post or support it, but your comment certainly supports my point. No country has gotten close to saturation/herd immunity yet, and it would be economically ruinous (and not uniformly so) to maintain current quarantine measures until we get there.
That is not how legal jurisdiction works.
(EDIT there are many projects at Uber using neuropods)
> got another call from the zombie shelter for 24th Avenue got two males waiting inside

Oh shit.
I do wonder what the participants were allowed to do. It’s possible they just measured the effects of terminal boredom.
I'm in the process of rewriting the language from typescript to nim, so right now it's a recursive descent parser written in typescript[1]. Typescript generates the textual bytecode and that feeds into a Nim interpreter.[2]

I think I'll keep the recursive descent parser even after rewriting to Nim. It's easy to change the grammar and understand how it works, and I can have good error messages & handling.

IMO the main problem is that right now the code for parsing infix expressions is fairly repetitive, I'd like to eventually use Pratt parsing for that.

[1]: https://github.com/frankpf/kiwi/blob/vm/src/parser.ts
[2]: https://github.com/frankpf/kiwi/blob/vm/src2/src/interpreter...
Here[1] is a better link to the "jails > FreeBSD" paper (aka, "Jails: Confining the omnipotent root").

I believe it initially shipped as part of FreeBSD 4.0 in March 2000.

Wikipedia says[2] it was in use in the late 90s in a hosting provider before inclusion in FreeBSD though. Interesting! TIL.

[1]: https://papers.freebsd.org/2000/phk-jails.files/sane2000-jai...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail
You can get per state R0 values. rt.live is a website (that is not part of russia today), the RT url comes from "R0". It's from the people that sold instagram to facebook.

They do have per state R values. This does show that NY is at about 0.8. Texas is 1.02 currently. The one negative with their calcs is their R values seem too sensitive to daily conditions. It's a great visualization of infection rates too, please look at that.

To look at the daily infection numbers, find Texas, click on the "show new cases" tab. Texas has about 1500 new cases per day now. They've had a steady increase in new cases per day since mid April, when they were about 750 new pos cases/day. They are really growing. I'm not sure where your stats about Texas doing well are. It looks to me like the positive cases are unfortunately increasing there steadily, and it's a precursor to increasing hospitilization. I have family there, I'm increasingly concerned.

They get their data feed from https://covidtracking.com/api/v1/states/daily.csv which is downloadable. Look at TX (some days have multiple updates, you have to calculate the delta yourself). US date style, positives: 6/7 74978, 6/6 73553, 6/5 71613, the increases are very clear in daily positive cases; those counts are total pos counts to that date of course.

Another place to see per state (such as Texas) is https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/. Go down to 'daily new cases in texas' click on 7 day moving average. They've really been growing per day in new positive cases. One note, different websites show the current day's data differently (some show values that up dated in the middle of the day, others show one day late, so looking at the very latest rhs data point is sometimes confusing).

Texas absolutely shows the potential of opening up increasing infection rates. Alabama is another state that is hurting but reached a top, see Arkansas too. Florida was down but is now showing highest per day infection rates historically (7 day average, looks like new records beating 2 months ago). Some states are better, plenty are getting worse.
I was very careful to mention that the right was correct about this one point. I was hoping to dissuade this kind of overtly partisan reflex post. Clearly I failed.
The problem with this is that a policeman with a billy club who beats you because you're recording him doesn't care about your rights and not get fired. So be careful out there
> Right now it is mostly laws that protect categories of people that keep insurance companies from charging people more.

Those laws don't really do anything. You can just use zip code and credit score, and bob's your uncle.