skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They look arbitrary to you because the author doesn't explain the "Why" behind her system -- likely because it is very personal.

Well, when something becomes a course, it is no longer about the author, it is about the people the author offers the course to.

I don't want to discourage people from trying new things and developing their own systems, courses, whatever. I do feel the need to point out that we live in an age of immense amounts of information and one needs to be very careful not to engage in information pollution. If there is a system similar to yours, there is no need to create your own that you think is slightly better. We really don't need another flavor of candy, at some point we need less 'stuff' and less people engaging in trying to sell us something, not more.

I think we've been at that point for a few decades.
The Devil in the Dark?
Your spouse can collect either your social security or their own if they don’t get remarried. Your minor children can collect your SS until they are grown. It’s nowhere near what you can do with your own 401K.
Yeah - I think CDL is great. But it worries me that CDL doesn't sit on established caselaw (let alone established legal code... really we should pass an amendment to the Copyright Act saying that CDL is fine) and that the Internet Archive is relying on the same legal arguments for CDL to support their uncontrolled model, because it means there's genuine validity in a judge ever saying "if we allow CDL it's a slippery slope." The Internet Archive has demonstrated that they are very interested in sliding to the bottom of the slope as fast as possible
Article with out paywall: https://outline.com/TDeWbY
I think this word censorship is meaningless and dangerous. It sets a bad precedent, anyone can get offended by anything. That doesn’t justify censorship.

It's not even a white/black thing. White people has had white slaves (millions), black people has had black slaves (also millions).

The Atlantic slave trade is just example of slavery. It has existed in many civilizations:

“Evidence of slavery predates written records, and has existed in many cultures. [...] the practice of slavery [...] proliferated after the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution, about 11,000 years ago.

Slavery was known in civilizations as old as Sumer, as well as in almost every other ancient civilization, including ancient Egypt, ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Babylonia, ancient Iran, ancient Greece, ancient India, the Roman Empire, the Arab Islamic Caliphate and Sultanate, Nubia and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
>Under the first sale doctrine, they can only lend out as many copies as they own.

TBH, even that is not established as a point of law (if the lending is digital copies of physical books) but it seems a reasonable position and publishers/authors weren't pushing on it.
There are HW VP8 encoders around. Can't find a definitive list, but I suspect most of the ones that can do VP9 will do VP8 as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9#Hardware_implementations
That is a great suggestion, thanks! What other steps would you recommend to "organize proper security"?
Having a chat over a beer some years later: 'so I was taking some pictures when the kernel crashed..400km above the earth'...
> After several decades and a much-hyped last few years we have fake cleverness - impressively so in both cases - but nothing more.

Why should I care if my fridge is fake clever or real clever?
Just a cursory look at the CLI, it looks like you have the ability to get stats on each block (including size, https://docs.ipfs.io/reference/cli/#ipfs-block-stat), and pin them (https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/pin-files/#three-kinds-of-pins).

I'm betting someone could create an open source project to traverse the Merkel tree, choose random blocks, and pin them... It could be made smarter by also checking the number of peers per block and prioritize the least pinned blocks.

Edit: And a related discussion I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/b4he2m/idea_partialse...
I don't think any package manager does that. That would definitely be useful. Compile and ship binaries down to libc and use binaries on any GNU / Linux System.

I don't see why as long as you output an ELF file an App can't run. Maybe AppImage does that.
> I don't believe there's any gain at all to achieve in terms of societal good

The only thing I can say then is to look to psych research, implicit bias, and biases in decision making studies. The conclusions there clearly point the opposite direction. I'll drop one such example to start[1]

> I am ready to be called a racist or fascist for this

People walk into these assuming this hostility, but if you want such hostility to change, it's a two way street. It's been well established we are all a little racist, ironically here thanks to ingrained biases such as the one we are discussing. What matters is that you're trying to fight against those tendencies, learning, and correcting where you can. No one is asking for perfection. When people bring in hostility into these conversations though is where that then becomes interpreted as a choice, not just subconscious.

> my grandparents and great-grandparents had several unpleasant interactions with the Italian fascist party

I don't see why we are still trying to use this line of argument. There are plenty of sexist women, racist BIPOC to other races, etc. Being of or having been related to X can help statistically at a macro level, but does not magically stop an individual from developing any of those ideas.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/
This sounds like a bug in postgres (or a low-hanging-fruit optimization); adding the hacky offset 0 to bypass the inlining may help work around the bug now but may hinder future optimizations. My experience teaches me to avoid tricking an optimizer down a path. Write the query in the most easy-to-understand way to avoid massive future pain.

I would also avoid json/xml 'support', it's a recipe for unintended consequences.
It’s no worse than the Froome position, which is about as bad as you can get for braking. You don’t want or need to be applying a lot of force to the handlebars at speed, so it’s not a big deal that you don’t need to have a lot of torque on the handlebars. At high speeds, you really want to be controlling the bike by shifting your weight slightly.

As for the tight in position, It’s actually pretty easy to move your hands from the beside the stem position out to the brakes as long as you’re paying some attention to the road ahead.
If my math is right geostationary satellites have a round-trip time (just at speed of light in a vacuum) of ~240 mS whie LEO satellites have a round-trip time of ~13 mS.

Current observed latency on geostationary satellite uplinks is 550 mS, presuming delays scale linearly with the travel time in vacuum that puts us at ~30 mS round-trip for LEO satellites.

Sub-100 mS seems physically possible to me but from an engineering and volume perspective there may be a real challenge.

Anyone with more knowledge care to chime in?
I disagree - many inner-city youths are into super-expensive sneakers ($300 and up), golden chains and other status symbols dictated by the social environment they grow up in. Computers are just not cool enough. Yes, there are exceptions, but the stereotype - unfortunately - mostly holds..

More money helps to a point, but what these young people need more than anything is appropriate role models (engineers, scientists, etc). Yes, I know, easier said than done...
How can an optional* non-functional luxury good be sold for more than it's worth?

*Worth to your lady, not to you
Economically, the diamond is a token of wastefulness that serves only to destroy value as part of the human mating ritual. Bitcoin for women, but even less liquid.
require paying the employee their previous average total compensation, while still allowing the employee to work outside the non-compete

This is similar to the British concept called “gardening leave”.
I don't disagree with you in principle, but it's the system we have. So,

1) What's a good way to ensure that authors continue to author books while not dying of exposure (or, more practically, that authors continue to author books instead of deciding to go work at a tech company or something)?

2) How do we implement that system?
Most people do not have pensions in the United States, and those that do don't have it worth 2/3rds their yearly salary. It's not average joe money either, a six figure salary is firmly in the upper middle class everywhere in the country. Including the Bay Area.

It may not "feel like it" but to be alleviated of financial burden and put away meaningful savings puts you above half the country outright.
This is shocking! You spend about $700 a month just to be woken up?

I can’t get my head round this at all.
If you're donating storage and bandwidth to backup "files" up without specifying which ones, you're going to be backing up random peoples personal encrypted backups which are useless to anyone who doesn't have the key.

In the end you need a decision layer to decide what to back up that decides what based on some standard of what's good for society.

But maybe you don't need to centralize the storage, I could imagine a distributed IA which mostly piggybacks on other people's storage.
I don't have a direct answer to the question.

I think for a lot of use-cases, a $5 droplet in DigitalOcean will be cheaper than paying for all these cloud APIs separately. (Although AWS does provide free-tier for many APIs your first year).

Now that I can afford more than $5 for side projects, I am looking for things like ease of deployment, reduced burden of maintenance etc. IMO serverless gives me this (once you have a proper setup of course). There are no machines to login to, no need to worry about patching hosts etc.

There was a time when my wordpress blog (RIP) used to get hacked every 6 months. A purely serverless model reduces the surface area for attacks.

I guess what I am trying to say is that for me personally, serverless is not about the immediate infra cost, but the TCO long term. And if/when your side projects take off, you can always go back to bare-metal servers as required.
Mathematical modeling that is 3-6 orders of magnitude faster, we are already talking deployment.

Same for ML powered solutions to data management - I don't want to say enough to identify anything.

My team has been working on a rudimentary humanlike reasoning engine based loosely on what AlphaGo proved: that machines can learn heuristics identical, equal to, or better than those of humans.

And for perspective, AlphaGo was what...4 years ago? Just look at the growth of compute available cheaply in the cloud since then! These next few decades are going going to see a phenomenal acceleration that's already starting...assuming we don't hit some unforseen limit or block. But even with what we've discovered now, we have more than enough in the way of new tools to refine across industry and society for decades.
I think ML naysaying stems mostly from extravagant claims of pop-sci articles around papers or of the authors themselves. It is always good to have some amount of people that point out that the models aren't some cyborg superheroes or has to be a step towards AGI but be more practical.
They are likely treating it like real estate and taking a temporary loss in order to prop up future value when the economy recovers.
Perhaps it's because I'm not a native speaker, but the English translation seems very odd. The Russian name is "Nazino Tragedy" (or "The Tragedy of Nazino"), which is directly translatable, but for some reason "Affair" is used instead.

Regarding the event itself, sadly it wasn't a rare occurrence in the Soviet Union, deportations from Estonia [1] coming to mind as the first one happened 79 years ago today. There too, 10,000 people were taken from their homes and sent to Siberia, roughly 6000 never returned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Eston...
Totally get what you're saying. Ideally there's a way for user to supply additional information or constraints to the optimisation process which are used to influence the results without turning the optimisation process off completely. Although any scheme of doing that could, as you say, produce poor results if the distribution of data changes over time or the db planner code is changed.

I used to work on non-database decision support tool that incorporated a custom optimiser which was used to spit out crude engineering designs for a particular kind of construction problem. The optimisation problem was difficult & the implementation to solve it was not state of the art: there were a few preprocessing stages that were used to lock in some early decisions using heuristics -- which helped massively reduce the search space, then a global optimisation approach was run on the remaining sub problem. The result was that the overall algorithm would locally optimise after perhaps locking in a bad early decision. Once the software was delivered to the client and in use by a small team of users I later discovered that the users had figured out that by running the software repeatedly with very small adjustments to input parameters (adjustments that should not obviously matter) they could bump the optimiser into outputting wildly different designs. It was a little bit like repeatedly pulling the handle on a one armed bandit until it eventually gave you a decent output.

It was clever of our users to figure this out but the overall UI/UX was appalling, they had to click and re run a somewhat slow batch process until it produced a reasonable result. It would have been much better to give the users a user interface where they could directly override or constrain parts of of the engineering design problem in an ergonomic way, and then let the optimisation algorithm loose to make the remainder of the decisions.
Ah yes, because you aren't allowed to criticize something unless you yourself are perfect morally clean.
The more I understand AI technology the less magic and powerful it seems.

More traditional AI is often logic or algorithm based. This is powerful and expressive, but the "intelligence" part is as flexible as the specific implementation. This is intelligent in the sense of a design being intelligent, which can be attributed to the author of said design.

Modern AI is often statistical. We have more data, so we can use that to generate a de-facto decision making database with statistically sound heuristics.

These techniques are all useful and can be very impactful. But we have to understand them as tools.

Your article agrees with this sentiment in a very entertaining way.
What’s the next big thing after deep learning?
Why would sellers and manufacturers agree to something only deBeers wants?
That’s true. I grew up in the 80s with an Apple //e. I was programming in Basic and assembly by the time I hit high school. But, that was only because my mom knew college professors that could find books from other colleges - there was no internet back then.
A universal of all primitive/ancient cultures is that they were much more social at night. Hunter-gatherers hunt and gather during the day, and tell stories at night. Early birds get social capital and reproductive access through exploiting hunting opportunities before other people are up.

Night owls get social capital and reproductive access through telling cool stories and being popular. It therefore makes sense that being social and being a night owl are correlated.
Roboflow didn't name the project, they just benchmarked it and wrote a blog article (or two, now) about it. So, it's more like this:

> Is YOLOv5 the Correct Name?

> Candidly, the startup that decided to benchmark it and compare it to other stuff that got drawn into this because nobody bothers to pay attention to the details in the blog post they wrote does not know.
If you actually did all that and applied to four of the FANGMA firms, you'd almost certainly get a job in at least one of them, probably two or three.

Source: I have both ran interviews, and worked on hiring committee for one of them. Someone who actually did those things would be an obvious hire.

Actually, someone who just grinded leetcode for two months would be an obvious hire, regardless of what their CV says, or what their life story was.
CircleCi, Jenkins, Google Cloud Build

Want to look at Argo

Pain is relative, the least painful setup depends on information beyond what you have posted this far.
If you just dropped the sarcastic tone, that's exactly right.
I think that you are right. It seems that a tolerant society attracts intolerant (both far left and far right) elements that want to restrict the freedom of speech. It is similar to the reason that GPL is prefered by some - by restricting some freedoms you defend the others. Similarly I think that it would make sense to restrict the freedom of speech of these that want to eliminate it.
This is almost certainly going to be somebody's horrific programming interview question at some point in the next six months.
A company in California that I worked for allowed me to list all side projects that I was working on to exempt them from the "we own your brain" type of paperwork. This allowed be to continue those projects. However, any new projects would be subject to company ownership.
It's probably referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23478151.
Honest curiosity: do you have some examples of interesting applications? Large and small?
> in what significant way is this language better than C#?

- direct compilation to native code with static analysis and optimization

- automatic reference counting (more predictable/consistent performance vs. garbage collection)

- good support for native iOS and macOS app development

- ranges

(But on an unrelated note, I have to say it's disappointing to me to find any language in 2020 (Java...) that doesn't support named and default parameters.)
Don’t forget about the market makers either. Robinhood and other brokerages sell data on the positions their traders are entering to their market makers (like Citadel). Then the algos front run the trade, and you end up in a situation where a stock like HTZ can rally exponentially in a day.
With the Russians getting nukes? That's how that ended. The red state's overreach and predudicial nature doesn't invalidate the reality that the USSR had spies that stole state secrets and important research. And if we were any good at our jobs, the US had a bunch of spies over there too. That's kind of what nation states in conflict do.
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I'm claiming that early modern Europe, and courtly life in particular, did not give upper-class women a lot of alone time.

I am trying to find the book I once had a college class to cite, but I am having trouble finding it.
That article is well argued and I am inclined to agree. But then I noticed that we seem to strongly disagree on other topics.

I find it fascinating that you can both see AI as what it truly is (a rebranding to solicit investment) yet still cheer for cryptocurrencies, which I personally believe to be not much more than a pyramid scheme to dupe those investors that buy in late. In my opinion, both AI and crypto are quite similar in the ways that they mislead investors by promising a golden future.
I was going to ask if anyone knew what the efficiency of this process was. Obviously we can't get a perpetual motion machine out of it, so it must be taking more energy to form the syngas than gets released from the fuel in the first place, right?
Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results from a Randomized Trial
I think a better is master-follower if they really must.

But this is silly, I totally understand for PostgreSQL change from master-slave to master-standby. Standby is actually much better word to describe node's function.

The change for the sake of word being offensive is just plain stupid. The use of it did not really encourage slavery based on race. So it feels less about offending then being reminded about horrible American's history.

If they want to go all PC, what about use of word "kill"[1]?

[1] https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/search?q=kill&unscoped_q=kill
You should ask your married friends what a proposal is, and how ring shopping works, before you find yourself making an embarassing mistake.
Really? But according to mappingpoliceviolence.org, unarmed white people are killed by police at twice the rate of unarmed Asians, relative to their share of the population.

Japan [1] and China [2,3] are openly ethno-nationalist, and India is even attempting to conduct demographic displacement in Kashmir [4]. Clearly Asians are just as capable of racism. Do you believe immigration into the US turns them all into die-hard egalitarians? Or would they continue treating their co-ethnics preferentially, as well as benefitting from their heritage and background, such as strong family ties, emphasis on education, etc. (the definition of privilege when applied to whites)?

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/10/18/national/aso-sa...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/world/asia/china-green-ca...

[3] https://www.quora.com/How-hard-is-it-to-immigrate-to-China

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new...
Best regard to you too :)
One issue I have with borrowing ebooks is that, while typically there's ~1 copy per branch of physical books, there's ~1 copy per library system of ebooks, which makes trying to borrow ebooks unnecessarily frustrating. I'm not entirely certain who's to blame for this disparity, but it does exist, and I would love to see it rectified.
Make that #1001 on why internal Wikis are such a useless failure.
I hold that you cannot own information. I can have a copy of some information which you have, without depriving you of it. Property rights don't apply. One needs only look at the way Disney has gotten copyright terms extended to see that it exists purely to serve entrenched publishing interests, and nothing more.
Yes, quite easily:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-...
It is to be noted that they found "evening types" people had greater grey matter volume in an area of the brain called the precuneus, NOT in the whole brain.

Also it is not clear whether more grey matter makes the individuals "evening types" or the other way around. This study does not discuss that. So jumping to theories about personality traits seems quite far fetched.

Evening types were younger than morning types in their sample of studied people. It is known that there is a decrease in grey matter volume between adulthood and old age, whereas white matter volume was found to increase from age 19-40, and decline after this age (Bartzokis et al.). So it is not surprising that their data showed evening types (younger people) had higher grey matter than morning types (older people).
Half the population of any neighborhood is women. You don't need to speculate about this. Ask a few.
https://lowendmac.com/2015/32-bit-addressing-on-older-macs/
This is really exciting! Many popular Rust libraries support switching between rustls and openssl for their TLS needs and it’s much easier to do cross-platform builds with rustls.
There are both kinds. A trie is a prefix tree, which has benefits for space efficiency when you want to store values with a lot of common prefixes. Ethereum uses a mix of a Patricia Trie with Merkle Tree to get a combination of both: https://medium.com/codechain/modified-merkle-patricia-trie-h...

OTOH, the wikipedia article they link to seems to imply a regular Merkle tree. I guess it's not possible to really tell without knowing which Merkle tree/trie library they use.