skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain this a little more in your own words, I've tried to read through TDD and talked with co workers but never actually seen this in the wild.

How do you go about planning your tests / separation of concerns. As in do you only write tests for your service layer? I find I'd be wasting time to write it at the controller level/route level.

What about the DML schema?

Personally I always start at the database layer and work up because then I know at least what data and models I'll be working with
IIRC you can thank Mozilla for that setting!
Use kill-the-newsletter.com to turn the emails into RSS feeds, since the author is unwilling to add them.
The article talks about additional penalties and interest being tacked on.
I don't get your point. People are going to roast Scott because he got things right about covid? What does this have to do with his relationship with his patients?
More Golden quotes from the Co-Founder of Wikipedia:

"It is time for Wikipedia to come clean and admit that it has abandoned NPOV (i.e., neutrality as a policy). At the very least they should admit that that they have redefined the term in a way that makes it utterly incompatible with its original notion of neutrality, which is the ordinary and common one.4 It might be better to embrace a “credibility” policy and admit that their notion of what is credible does, in fact, bias them against conservatism, traditional religiosity, and minority perspectives on science and medicine—to say nothing of many other topics on which Wikipedia has biases.

Of course, Wikipedians are unlikely to make any such change; they live in a fantasy world of their own making.5"

So much for neutrality!

Source: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
Thanks. This is going to take a little time to digest.

Often in conflicts like this it's worth considering what the outcome of the battle will be and what the implications are.

The thread you linked to here sounds reasonable and it's good to see that it doesn't assign blame to the journalist and appreciates that they've been acting within what may be the confines of their workplace policy.

That said -- the real name policy probably exists for a reason, perhaps to ensure that subjects of news that is in the public interest find it more difficult to evade scrutiny. (edit: add word 'perhaps'; conjecture)

I'm not implying that scrutiny of the blog and community are necessarily a good thing. I honestly don't know how much influence they have. But policy changes can have lasting effects in other, potentially very different, circumstances, so I'll take a bit of time and update my comment based on this.
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I wonder how much of this experience is as a female founder, or as a mother-founder.

I think a lot of the difficulties attributed to being a female in the workplace are much worse for mothers.
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Thanks, I appreciate the feedback and support!
Pretty sure lack of fresh water supply isn’t the problem in Philadelphia.
It is all fear mongering. Any foreign state propaganda drowns in superior domestic.

Disconnect the nuclear reactors from the internet allready and calm down everyone. It is not like "russian hackers" is behind the riots in the US or bad covid advice.
Seems like the guy is in a fight with the water department. He probably got a huge bill, refused to pay it because he considered it erroneous, then racked up lots of interest.

> Where is that excess money going?

Salaries, most likely. Professionals in Germany earn way less than in the US. This is also the main reason why healthcare is so much more expensive.

The flip side of this is that non-professionals in the US don't earn as much.
> It is a hyperbole; that's exactly the point that 3131s is making. It is a (quite extreme) exaggeration, and therefor factually not correct.

We all know when we see hyperbole, but we learned even less from the terce "refutal". That was my point, as well as "nitpicking".
It looks to me like that graph was produced using k=3 for the k_edge_subgraphs() pruning step, and likely the suggestions for "octave" only included one or two other ML-related terms (because they are crowded out by musical terms).

(For me the "octave vs" query gives "matlab", "Python", "pitch", "rhythm discord" and "key" as the first 5 suggestions).
I am going to respond with a paraphrasing of a well known quote about one such truth. The truth is that you are a slave in a prison without walls where prisoner never dreams of escaping.

They exist, but the woke crowd is purging them hard now. Any moment now I expect Columbus city to be renamed.
>In pathological cases, this resulted in a frame taking nearly a second

I wonder if someone uses a hybrid approach of CCD with a constrained time budget, meaning you will use CCD until the budget is exhausted, after which simulation will jump to the next frame time.
That reminds me of a saying I heard when starting to learn the game Go: "Lose your first 50 games quickly"
I have no love for Google Analytics, but as a small-scale publisher, I have serious questions about what tools can replace it:

1) Which analytics can a website employ that is not geared toward enriching the analytics platform developer by violating site visitor privacy?

2) Do those analytics mechanisms have any kind of aftermarket, such that third-party developers integrate it into publishing platforms that publishers use.

3) What do those analytics mechanisms and the associated tooling cost?
There's a fundamental lower bound on the energy usage of desalination. The current state of the art - reverse osmosis - isn't perfect, but we should not expect factor-of-ten reductions in energy usage.
Wow that's a lot. We use a few hundred per month, and that's mostly laundry.

Our bill is $0 because we have a well. Ok, it cost $5000 (for well and septic) 30 years ago, so divide that out and its been $13/mo
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No way to try it without signing in/signing up?
Thanks! Yes everything is handled on your device. If Tasks is killed then you won't get any notifications. If you have any trouble you can visit tasks.org/notifications, or send an e-mail to support@tasks.org
How do you show how nice your house is that way though?
I read somewhere that downvotes are capped to -4 and it made me much less likely to self-censor when I felt like I had a valid point.

I know that the people who disagree with me outnumber those that agree, but the way that the upvotes bounce up and down tells me there are more people out there that agree with me than I would have assumed.

(Plus I think I've only made it down to -4 once or twice)
I can’t afford an American au pair. My wife will have to quit her job if those visas are permanently suspended.
Doxxing, what? What do you think journalism is? It's very common for controversial authors with a very wide reach to be "revealed" and investigated? How do you know that this is "cyber bullying" after just reading one side of the story?

People seem have lost all sense of objectivity due to some sort of idolatry.
Seems like the obvious argument for open, post-publication review.
I would love to work on an iOS app, but I'm not sure if I'm able to (legally)? Perhaps someone could weigh in as I really don't know what I'm talking about...

This app is based on the source code from Astrid Tasks, which was licensed under the GPLv3. I'm under the impression that one cannot distribute GPL apps in the App Store, and I assume I would be legally required to license an iOS rewrite as GPLv3 since I'm intimately familiar with the original Android implementation.
I do this, but generally the comment wouldn’t have added much to the discussion in that case anyway.
In Germany we have this organisation:

https://www.sciencemediacenter.de/en/

for journalists to quickly find an expert to ask.
Many, many years ago, I was the foreman on a murder trial in our little town. In the jury selection process, the public defender -- a good, respected, local attorney -- asked the first candidate pool if they had read about the murder in the local paper. Almost everyone had. Then he asked if any of them had ever had a story written about them, or, say, their business, in this local paper. Three or four people raised their hand. Then he simply asked, "Did they get it right?" Everyone shook their head. Everyone laughed, and he moved on. Point made. That was my eye-opener.
It's undoubtedly more dangerous to be critical of the mainstream narrative now than it was 10-20 years ago.

There's an alt right author called Vox Day (and I'm a little afraid to be referencing him here) who makes the following argument: if mainstream thought becomes increasingly constricted, and disagreeing with it becomes increasingly dangerous, people will do one of two things. Either they'll self-censor, or they'll "flip the switch" and just go totally anti-mainstream, because it's safer to associate and identify with people who won't get them fired for their opinions. The greater the censorship and fear, the more people will "flip" in a search for safety.

Now he is alt right and he has a vested interest in portraying the ascendancy of the alt right as inevitable, but the point is nonetheless logical, and quite disturbing. It may be that punishing moderately "wrong" speech will ultimately drive moderates into the waiting arms of the extreme right, where they won't be judged so harshly for their errors. Moreover if the purity spiral [1] theory is correct, this phenomenon may be hard to stop, because punishing people for their dissenting speech is an effective way to gain status in many communities!

[1] https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a...
Do they have a new name or was the purpose of this announcement so The Deciders can review suggestions on Hacker News and decide which is the best name for the project going forward? :-)

I think this is very good news: it strikes me that the platform is maturing to the point that it's going to be around for a very, very long time and having a "good name" is part of that. Along with OBS it seems that the app soon to be formerly known as Riot/Matrix became a critical tool during the quarantine and will be even more so if there's an encore quarantine this fall or winter.
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This is quite impressive and I like the transparency provided on the about page regarding your architecture, toolchain, and workflow.
And whether OpIndia is a propaganda website or not doesn't change the fact that the popular account was suspended. You can check it here: https://twitter.com/TrueIndology

Is the suspension propaganda too? How far will the left be willing to take this until it all implodes? The right wing feels so devoid of freedom of speech on these platforms that there will be a major revolt! Alternative platforms that are either right wing or neutral would prop up challenging the hegemony of these left-wing dominated platforms. And that will be the end of social media as we know it in its current form. There is a strong undercurrent and to deny that would be folly!
Alot of localities sell the water system or the operating rights to private entities, who have a shareholder obligation to rip off consumers.

My partner ran finance for a municipal water utility in a small, old US city. Average bill for a consumer was around $400/year, about 40% of which was capital expense for the sewer system (which requires alot of investment), 15% water capital expenses, and the remainder opex. That's in a high-cost state with union labor, etc. It was a surface water system, so their filtering and pumping expenses were low.

The other thing to keep in mind that anything new is much more expensive. Eminent domain and construction is 10x more than it was a hundred years ago.
What kind of "people like Scott", and what kind of political extremists?

I see a dead comment has cited "racial science" and "conservatives", seemingly out of nowhere. Has Scott written something "controversial" that I missed? Something that would offend the left wing?

If so, I can well believe that NYT would take it into their heads to write a semi-hit-piece on someone they perceive to be some sort of Jordan Peterson type.
>Why would it be controversial?

Not OP but my perspective is that much of software development, engineering, and practices become cult like, often without theoretical or empirical basis.

I'm rarely surprised anymore when I see criticism of one approach over another. Someone may think "the way" to learn Linux kernel development isn't what OP suggested and there's a cult of people who agree who will adamantly concur to a fault.
This is pretty easy. Scott does have controversial opinions at times. He uses a pseudonym to make them public without fear of that impinging on his life and work.

So yes. He's being silenced because he cannot enjoy speaking publicly without fear of retribution.
But honestly, without 'bias' unmoderated public forums (fora?) become flooded with 'minority perspectives' e.g. nonsense and conspiracy theories.
Downvotes don't hurt, but I wonder how many people here would stick around if HN forced all users to use their real names. How many people would instantly self-censored or completely change the way they share opinion and respond.
You are contradicting yourself here:

"spending billions on another collider in an attempt to essentially validate SUSY is irresponsible. A few years ago, a bunch of physical philosophers tried to justify this turn of particle physics in general away from experiment"

The proposed collider is an experiment. It might incidentally find support for SUSY (unlikely) but its purpose would be to produce precision data about high energy physics, whatever that physics is.

As others have noted, the Engadget article is also misleading, since what has been approved is not a collider, just a design study.
We're working on this issue here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/8052. Hardest part - like much of software engineering - is trying to figure out how to reproduce it.
Ask HN: How are you holding up?
It's been the most toughest times that've ever faced.
The France's "Maginot Line" is used here as a metaphor to ground the author's idea--increasing stories of security breaches and disruptive cyber-terrorist acts are visible signs of the top-down dark state.

Ok. And on the other hand, technology is integrated into society. Technologists (private actors, employees) will see opportunities and vulnerabilities, and make black/white hat choices (like in finance?). And, sprawling organizations with unaccountable funds and charismatic managers will form groups (sounds like an interesting job and more fun than, you know, work) and possibly do some unethical $#it and hide behind lawyers and money. //End dialectical rant

Nicely written, though.
At present, no. Details: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues/38
What is OBS used for?
I find down votes are usually the posts I'm most proud of. Nothing crazy, just means I dared to have an opinion.

Also quite amusing what someone will take time out of their day to down vote sometimes.
The introductory sentences of Prometheus - "A legend is [...] to end in the inexplicable." - actually belong to the story's end[1]. Maybe that makes it a little more clear?
But TBH, I don't find the original easy to understand. I mean, I /understand/ the words and everything, but I couldn't say for sure if I really understood what Kafka wanted to say, hence it's probably pointless trying to explain it (maybe as pointless as an eternal punishment by gods long forgotten) ;-)

[1] German original: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus_(Kafka)
All problems do however have outcomes, and doing nothing still results in an outcome.
> that has undoubtedly advanced society more than any other.

From here [1]

> Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm,[1] and his decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol,[2] is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in a large-scale nuclear war.

There's a whole list of similar incidents (and I'm pretty sure not all of them have been officially reported). Personally I care more about the feelings of communities that don't bring us one button-push away from annihilating us as a species.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
> I'm using a pseudonym everywhere now.

I've wondered a couple times recently how dangerous it is that I'm easily discoverable. I tell myself that since I live in the Midwest, the worst of it hasn't reached here yet. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
Everyday words that software engineers see differently
1. Science is a low-odds, high-reward process; any given piece of work probably does nothing, but the overall impact is literally everything that happened since the agrarian era

2. Even successful research leads to papers with impenetrable names like “An MgB-Superconducting Shield Prototype for the Future Circular Collider Septum Magnet”, whose value I am not even qualified to comprehend unless someone explained it to me with a YouTube video

3. Because I don’t understand it and I can observe the value of it without understanding it, I’ll trust the physicists doing the experiments when they tell me they want a bigger and more expensive tool for their future experiments
Thank you! I'll be writing more about the app as it evolves in the coming days.

Link for others: https://www.cloudskew.com/about/cloudskew-architecture.html
If we didn't spend those billions on this new collider, we could spend them on other scientific projects, which could also keep those scientists busy.
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This is not true, the spectator is a very right wing newspaper which our current pm used to edit (who was undeniably on the right wing of our the Tory party, which if you run the numbers on voting must put him in the rightmost 20% of the country).

It’s probably well written though, the irony is that the right wing press is often externally funded, not intrinsically profitable, and so has more cash in the bank to maintain high production quality, if completely destroying any pretense of neutrality.
This self censorship is most often meant when someone criticizes political correctness. It doesn't mean that you should unnecessarily put people off with inflammatory language. But I think it could still get you fired if posted on Twitter, at least a few years ago. Some people with especially large incomes seem to be immune though.
>He told me it would be a mostly positive piece about how we were an interesting gathering place for people in tech, and how we were ahead of the curve on some aspects of the coronavirus situation. (emphasis mine)

That sounds like the reporter was buttering him up before dropping the hit-piece.
Tasks.org is nice, but I prefer Joplin. It's nice to see competition though.
Germany isn't that much different, the federal government has a bit more power but generally people from one state differ much from another. Compare Berlin and Bavaria, if you want an example. Bavaria is one of the more expensive states to live in and Berlin is somewhat cheap (other former ostblock states are even cheaper) and on the other hand we have the highest average income and pay into the other federal states the most.

Cost of water, electricity and food differ between states. A Döner Kebab in Berlin costs around 3.50€ by my experience, in Bavaria a comparable one costs around 5-7€.

You can't easily say "Germans are like ___", most of the international stereotypes are born out of the WW2 occupation of bavaria, not much else.
I am cancelling my NYT subscription.
Is that not free? Sorry I use twitch purely as a way to do amateur streaming. Apparently I know very little about the viewership features.
Then don't say that there is no bias. It insults our intelligence when you on the one hand stand for freedom of speech, take grandstanding that there is no bias whatsoever and when it is inconvenient for you say that bias exists and is needed and go ahead to justify it! This isn't freedom of speech by any means. Moderation cannot be denial of freedoms. Moderation can only be with regards to things that are universal. Like not being violent. That applies to both left and right wing. But even there, left-wing social media sites fail miserably. They suspend ring-wing accounts that are abusive (which I am all for) but they don't suspend left-wing accounts that are abusive. Why this double standards?
You asked which "hidden truth, controversial opinion or super secret insight [is] at stake". I gave some examples of what Scott got right to illustrate what's at stake if he's forced off the internet.

Can you explain a bit more about what you're asking for?
>What did the previous collider discover?

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

>why do we think that building a bigger microscope will be any different?

Why do we think building a bigger telescope then Hubble will be any different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
You've reminded me to add The Prize (Yergin) to lockdown reading. And that I miss theoildrum blog.

(I would also appreciate an ideological history of the Yugoslav war, how neighbors were persuaded to murder one another so readily and what should be learned from it..)
But at least we're honest with ourselves that we don't know what we're doing (or what we're about not to do, in this case).
This is welcome news. Some groups in Hong Kong have been considering it as an alternative to Telegram but the name has been discouraging as in this climate it could be used as evidence against anyone involved in protesting activity.

Hope the new name is either more abstract or closely aligned to what the software actually does.
The Times wrote a story about a play written about my life (long story) and there was a mistake in every line - most trivial and inexplicable, like guessing an age for people and getting it wrong, and some mistakes actively annoying.

Also, I once appeared in the Post and the Times in the same day when my friend and I got blown up in a steam pipe explosion (we were covered in mud but undamaged). The Times made us seem suave and hip (they mentioned my natty tie covered by mud) and the Post made us seem like victims of a tragedy. Such different pictures!

All very educational.
Yeah, and keep underfunding preventive measures like improved schooling. Who cares if the youth of the hood keep growing up to be offenders -- we can just arrest/kill them with the police!

Throwing police at the problem is only putting a band-aid on the symptoms, but ignoring the root cause. Violence will only beget more violence in the long run.
Don't forget their auditors who have seen nothing wrong for ten years.
You should problably note that this collider is first planned to begin building around 30 years after the LHC was in put into operation. And it will probably take longer to build as well so put around 10 more years on that and you have 40 years after the LHC was put into operation.
IMO this topic is entangled with hardware, the student needs to do a course in hardware and how CPUs work, do some simple assembly coding, after that C is a natural progression. If C is too complex for some students then system programming and OS development is not for them. For educational and getting started I think https://www.nand2tetris.org is a good source material, the complexity or real world stuff is missing there so you can focus on essentials.
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Do you mean something like MetaCritic for journalists? It could work, but then who reviews (and vets) the reviewers?