skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. our retirement systems is based on a generational
contract, not capital

You mean that people pop kids so that those kids would feel obliged to take care of them when they're old? Yeah, that's one legitimate retirement strategy. It's very popular in poor countries e.g. ex-USSR where I'm from.

Personally I'm more of a fan of US-style self-made retirement. It's easily possibly working in tech in the US, a 10 year career basically guarantees you financial independence here barring any major set back (like divorce). But not so in Germany and much of Europe.

> 2. home ownership is very low

Isn't that roughly same as saying people aren't wealthy enough to afford one? So if you "control" for this factor, you're just selecting the richer subset of people.
Ah sorry. I think you already mentioned timeseries classification.
Well, I take the the opposite stand: GPT-3 = Give a 3rd grader wikipedia and some paper. While it's certainly fun how it's relatively coherent in writing text, I couldn't see yet, how it links syntactically correct text to actual facts. Which in my opinion is the difference between 1e100 apes with typewriters and aforementioned 3rd grader.
The difference is that it's about a service you use a lot so you automatically get conservative and defensive about the design. This is no different than people joining groups on Facebook "WE DEMAND THE OLD DESIGN BACK" every time they do a redesign.
It can make a lot of sense for web scraping, if you have lots of target sites you can either build strict rules for the extraction and update them constantly, hand build something generic (often very hard) or train some classifiers for the content you want.
True to Self
How does this reconcile with the actual data we have on total infection rate in e.g. Spain where a representative poll was done?
I tried using OCR to scrap Facebook profiles by simulate web browsing behavior. It helps a lot in avoid account blocking but still too slow to be practical.
I did not read all the comments and hence do not know if this has been already mentioned. I have found "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin, as an excellent guide to two approaches of thinking: fixed mindset and growth mindset.

The author was a national chess champion at the age of nine and later earns the title of world champion of Tai Chi, a martial art. He gives a critical analysis, especially in chapter three on how he was able to shift to growth mindset. Although most of it is very specific to him and written in chess lingo, I think the common theme is graspable and there are good ideas lying all around. Style on chessboard is direct expression of personality and this book may help you.
USB2 works fine and IME of going from a random USB2 cable to one of the recommended USB3 cables the difference wasn’t that noticeable.
Looking at the end result: company sold for $$$$$$$, and I'd think the child will have a happy childhood and grow up and be a happy adult,

... Then it seems to me she was precisely that rock star CEO plus with "everything", ie a baby in this case.

So it's been done already and so definitely is possible, I'd say.

> sacrifices that you need to recognize up front ... Either you're going to be a bad ...

No. Instead, I want society to change, so it becomes easy and un-stressful to be a female CEO with a small baby.
That's certainly ideal, and for the most part, Safari content blockers work reasonably well. However, there are things you currently can't block using Safari content blockers that can be blocked with uBlock origin. One of the most prominent examples are CSS classes, and the inability to block them becomes a real pain if you open the mobile Reddit website. Their mobile website disables scrolling if you block their pesky "use our mobile app" popups.
I think it's a draw.
EFF: OTF's Work Is Vital for a Free and Open Internet
Thanks I didn't notice there was music.
This is not at all true..
I am a mathematician by training (+CS), I've worked in Matlab quite a bit, I've taught hundreds of students in it (having no say in language, but we're about to switch to Python), and I probably see even more reasons not to use it than you do. (I haven't done ML in it, but I'd be astounded if it wasn't terrible compared to Python and its ecosystem.)

I recommend avoiding Matlab for every use case unless they've got you trapped with a huge existing code base or reliance on a proprietary toolbox.
yes, but the flatten the curve crowd assumes a higher lethality
In most countries e-bikes are limited to 250W and 25km/h, so considerably slower than what I do on my road bike with rim brakes. But your point still stands about weight. And if the e-bike is replacing other commuting, the weather will not always be nice which is another reason to use good disk brakes.
Almost but not quite a re-badge ... they added a number of features you won't get on the Sur Ron. It's more like an AMG Mercedes or a Alpina BMW.
LOL, and what about the Apple brand ?
Trunk flow often requires feature flagging systems to control what's not ready yet. Feature flagging is an issue to solve in itself. At previous places when I've touched feature flagging it's always been something along the lines of a config file. If the goal is the just filter out code that isn't ready, it's often fine, however if you were in a need to disable a flag you've just enabled as part of your deploy, it requires another deployment.
The usual suspects: Reddit, Slashdot, ArsTechnica and of course HN.

And the interview should be purely on the technical side i.e his educational background, how he approaches design and programming, how he learns new technical domains, his thoughts on languages, advice to young programmers etc. Given his off the charts productivity, i suspect he has a highly efficient way of learning and doing things which i would like to copy :-)
No idea, I didn't watch it.
At this point every scientist in the world is throwing any random theory out there in the hope one sticks and they will be showered in new funding. The track record of Neil Ferguson‘s Group at Imperial is representative of this industry, however.

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/176
Or Australia where about 10% of the population has been tested.
https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavir...
Respectfully, I think knowingly aiding covert surveillance of dissidents is a lot worse than merely helping pursuit of copyright violations, even if I don't like the latter much.
This one is an ad for a payed service, so one can't expect a broad take on the subject. The usual “caveat emptor” applies.
How sure are you that the goal in Iraq/Afghanistan wasn't purely and simply to get an unpopular president a patriotic polling boost and a seeminly unlikely second term with the bonus of putting money in the pockets of the military-industrial complex and owners of big media while providing a distraction from the endemic corruption of washington? I dunno, I'd like to be a lot more sure of that than I am.

Does that really sound like a conspiracy theory now we know that the regime deliberately and knowingly lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction?

If you think that possible then perhaps the "long-term goal" wasn't really what the liars were lying at the time? There are those who believer endless war was the precise goal. There hasn't been a lot of anti-corruption impetus in washington since that distraction was launched - save for Trump pretending he was anti-corruption at the last minute before the lasrt election. That last minute inspiration might have won it for him too.

Anyway if you have an unclear goal you can just move the goalposts and declare success, which is the kind of the point, right? And why the goals are unclear because otherwise America might lose and you'd be the loser president.

Out of interest how do Americans feel about the Vietnam war? Did America lose that war?
Every time I see that domain name, I think of skin mites (Demodex folliculorum).
What reasonable argument is there against price transparency?
I'm not convinced of that. Apple is in a position to invent a search engine, make it real pretty (if not as powerful), and slap it as the default on iOS Safari. Throw in some claims that "it's the most private" so the apple fan base eats it up, and I think apple would take a significant chunk of iOS searches overnight.
> Tolkien is rejecting allegorical reading like "the ring symbolize the coronavirus, Saruman represent Trump" etc.

Brb, gonna make a YouTube-video with a million views.
SVMs absolutely work on text, TF-IDF + SVM is a very classic (and pretty solid) approach for classification. It's easily explainable and has known classes of problems.
CD doesn't work for many types of software; it's not uncommon for customers to want only bugfixes (or even security bugfixes only), and that means branches.
If it's something like BBC then I still prefer it to a private monopoly.

BBC is technically national but at the same time pretty independent in its reporting.
Yeah, but if there was a link within DDG search that took me to a branded DDG email service that would be great. It would just be a cool DDG email front end design, but using iCloud or another 3rd party they partner with. I don't think DDG wants to create their own email service, so this was a thought and Apple/DDG's marketing are similar.
Hacker News attracts a lot of readers who THINK they are smart or whatever that means.
In the long run, this has stifled innovation. No social startup gets funding, as FB either crushes them or buys them out for cheap.
The first half of your comment could have been sarcasm. But the second part, with the exclamation point, definitely sold it.

Sarcasm is definitely not impossible to detect in writing. You just to have to trust people and give them the benefit of the doubt.
I wonder if you could just pick a big open source product with a large community and sell complimentary product products for it... Or that you first must be a celebrity? Or at least have enough social proof.
I’ll play the opposite side of this argument, for the sake of discussion. You point to knifes having a good use: cooking. It’s by far the dominant use of knifes, and no doubt it makes cooking sunstantially easier.

But hacking tools: to what extent are they actually being used for good? Stuxnet is the clearest example I know of these tools almost certainly decreasing a threat to US citizens (at least for the time before it was found out). But beyond that, there’s very little publicly accessible information demonstrating that these tools are actually effective at stopping or decreasing terrorism. Moreover, even if they turn out to be effective at that, their use in this manner comes with other questionable effects on law and personal rights. I don’t think the knife is a good analogy because while everyone agrees that a knife can be put to either good or bad effect, there’s not consensus on whether hacking tools can even be used for any good.
Launching our Django site after installation
Why I Don't Burnout
In this blog post, I talk about some tips I have to keep you motivated and avoid what's called 'burnout'
I had to stumble upon your comment to realize that thing made noise. I was wondering how a "scroll to top" function was at the top of HN.
Do they?

I think we have pretty ok lethality estimates somewhere in the ballpark of 0.2 to 0.5 percent.
Whats the non-COVID-19 pneumonia# for 2019-2020?

CDC Influenza and pneumonia deaths by influenza season and age: United States, 2008–2015: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn...
We now know a significant amount of people have no symptoms or very light symptoms and no antibody response. An anecdote. My friend and his wife got tested when giving birth. She was positive for antibodies he was not. It is quite possible that for ever person who had antibodies there is some unknown x of people who got it and never developed antibodies.
> until then, there's more profitable things for you to be working on.

Sorry, but this gave me a slight chuckle. I think I can empathize I guess, but found your wording hilariously blunt.
I see the opposite; I think there are too many posts and comments about BLM. They are also heavily skewed in support of the movement, so anything skeptical gets flagged/downvoted.

It seems like this user demands a silo where his views are not questioned. Certainly HN is better without people like that.
This article is incorrect.

There does not appear to be a change between Safari 13.1 and Safari 14 for how it handles GA. I have tested it myself.

With Safari 13.1 Apple made a change [1] to their Intelligent Tracking Prevention that blocks all 3rd party cookies for cross site resources.

The only change in Safari 14 appears to be that it reports which domains have had cookies blocked. The Google Analytics beacon is still sent by the browser.

Benedict Evans (cited in article) since deleted his tweet, but this article seems not yet to have been updated.

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...
They should really just get rid of the column entirely, it's a bad idea in my opinion. Before I could simply scan a page from top to bottom and I wouldnt miss anything. I understand why there is an instinct to put non-essential information to the side but really, the better design decision in my opinion is to make a decision for the user: Either this info is necessary or it isnt. If it is, it deserves a place at the front. If it isnt, get rid of it entirely and put it behind a link. For example the contributors list in my opinion is truly not necessary except somewhere deep in settings. Reading what the latest commit message is, is basically always interesting to me. Yet they hide that and I have to click a tiny button to show it. The language info for a repo is now hidden very far below everything else even though that information is the first thing I look at when I see a repo. It's just that basic and interesting to get a feel of what's inside a repo. The about text for a repo is kind of the same, now they squish it into the side column into a much harder to read textbox. The about text is arguably the most important first information of a repo.
>Does anyone know what the CVE was that allowed this?

>The malicious code even wipes crash logs, making it impossible to determine exactly what weaknesses were exploited to take over the phone, said Claudio Guarnieri, head of Amnesty International’s Security Lab, in an interview.
History books will not be kind to our past and present handling of covid-19.

Incurring incredible economic and social damage without fully understanding the threat. It’s been very clear for some time that covid is not nearly as lethal as once feared AND even more clear that we over quarantined.

In the UK we have hospitals built specifically for covid that are completely unused. This isn’t flattening the curve, it’s choking it. A vaccine isn’t happening anytime soon and the only way forward is herd immunity. This means we need new infections.
Not high lethality, high hospitalisation rate.
Here's one optimization: http://sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2009/09/01/objc_expla...
Try doing that with a long lived product, where people don’t upgrade.

You need to be able to backport fixes for that customer who pays your bills, but is 6 versions behind.
I'd definitely argue that no language ever will "feel natural" unless it fundamentally changes the metaphors of computation. Humans just don't think in sufficiently "hard-boundary" terms for programming as currently phrased to come naturally. Granted, culture has made up for a lot of that - in the UK, children are expected to be able to perform arithmetic, which presumably helps a lot in instilling the appropriate style of yes-no exact thinking - but I don't think the programming mindset aligns well at all to what was in the ancestral environment. Our minds are classifying machines built to do Just Well Enough in a world where everything is shades of grey; programming is the art of making the world concretely align to a well-specified model.
A floating back to top button just means they don't want you to waste time reading the content. You should click around and view some more ads instead.

I mean, that's the only possible conclusion I can come up with, since they give the button such prominence. It's the same with newsletter popups. You shove that in my face, obscuring all other content, it means your site is dedicated to harvesting email addresses, and you want to spam me senseless.
That's what I did on my blog [1]. I tried different methods and realized that it should be a simple link that jumps you straight to the top and nothing fancy. The only JavaScript used it to determine when to display the link.

[1] https://www.primative.net/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-the-flash-o...
Seriously though, the Opera web browser has this functionality built in, but it's a "toggle" back to top, by just clicking on the tab title.

It's very useful on web sites like HN, when you don't want to lose where you are in the thread, yet need to go back to the top to have a second look at the topic for instance.
I became numb to news like this because it doesn't seem to have any reflection in the reality around me. The numbers are supposed to be huge yet hospitals are nearly empty and no one I asked knows anyone who was infected. The 80x number looks like science fiction to me.
I live in the Netherlands and we have an Urban Arrow electric cargo bike. We frequently use it to ferry around three kids or heavy objects. It's got a range of about 40km and we have a spare battery so we can double that. We've used to to travel to the coast with the kids carrying everything we need for a couple of days away. I love this thing!

Funny thing is, when I first saw cargo bikes when I moved here I thought they were super goofy, but after trying one I was blown away at how functional they are. I can just imagine people in my hometown being very confused if we ever take it back to the UK.
Yes, with Cache-Control, and then if you turn that product into a SaaS so that not every website has to run a copy, you get Google Analytics.
That works if you have a deploy step. There’s a world beyond SAAS. A very lucrative one.
Toeayf - the oldest email at your fingertips
Chat groups, instant messaging and other ephemeral communication channels are eating emails, and this isn't good.
Among other advantages, emails are persistent and you can easily found old messages in your mailbox.
But, actually, how much old?
And here is the scratchpad where anyone can post his record.
I think gwern's point (whose opinion on deep learning I respect a lot more than his on genetics) is that GPT-3 is nearly not the end of the story. OpenAI released a GPT pretty much every year and each one is a spectacular improvement on the previous one with no sign of that trend ever stopping. If size is really what matters at all, there's no telling what GPT-4 or GPT-5 might be capable of, let alone a giant GPT run by state-sized actors.
Thanks, I appreciate your comment.
> GPT-3 = Give a 3rd grader wikipedia and some paper.

I don't know if you're being hyperbolic here, but if not, I consider that a massive step forward for AI.
What's the opposite of development?

I think we need web un-development to get us out of this javascript tar pit.
It works well: from the article, "In New York, for example, the researchers’ model suggested that at least 9% of the state’s entire population was infected by the end of March. After the state conducted antibody testing on 3,000 residents, they found a 13.9% infection rate, or 2.7 million New Yorkers."
AKA the github flow. I had the impression that most teams use that branching model.
I remembered slightly wrong, it was more complicated than that. A rather right leaning commenter said that if one were to accept that reparations for historical slavery requested by BLM and SJW were valid, then because African-Americans are claimed to be still better off than any other black populations in other countries, the slavers should be celebrated not torn down. The commenter says because this is “morally repugnant” then BLM and SJW are thus wrong. So it’s a case of false equivalence and setting up a straw man Or something (they love their rhetorical flourishes at SSC). So the slavery issue wasn’t actually claimed, but it was set up as a logical conclusion or the opponent’s perceived position, and this was never countered.

Here is the comment on archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200622224636/https://slatestar...
You should immediately stop designing for future use cases.

Use TDD and only write only just enough code for the currently known required functionality. When you get to know more required functionality the tests protect you from breaking existing functionality and you can extend your code to support the new use cases as well. At this point you should make your code just generic enough to support all known use cases without code duplication or too much boilerplate code. If you can support functionality in more than one way you can decide what way to choose based on what you expect in the future. But choosing the most simple solution trumps attempting to future proof your code. It turns out that predicting the future is quite hard and there will be new feature requests that nobody had foreseen and code that has been made as generic as possible will not handle this well.

Spiderman says that with great power comes great responsibility. The converse also holds true. With great responsibility comes great power. You cannot just pick the easy part of TDD, be irresponsible and expect to have any power. The less easy parts of writing a test for every use case and of refactoring all the time make the practice of not attempting to guess the future possible. If you leave out the prerequisites the end result will not be so very pleasant.
Yep. What you're describing was used at GitHub [1], at least for a while. I've had a lot of success pitching it to small dev shops that have struggled with more complicated branching models, including git flow. I'm pretty sure git flow became popular just because it was the top search result for "how to git".

Other criticisms of git flow and alternative branching procedures have come up over the years [2] and been discussed here [3][4][5].

A good, simple metric for whether your team is using git well or not is how often a developer is forced to play Guitar Hero [6] just to fix up a bad merge or rebase. The ideal answer is "never"; if it's happening more than a couple times a year, something's wrong.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jbenet/ee6c9ac48068889b0912

[2]: https://barro.github.io/2016/02/a-succesful-git-branching-mo...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744059

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22485489

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11190310

[6]: https://twitter.com/HenryHoffman/status/694184106440200192
I'm well aware that this isn't nearly as much of an issue for Apple devices - that's why I very clearly specified Android in my previous comment.

Yes AOSP is open source but that doesn't help as much as one might hope for the reasons I outlined in my previous comment. Basically most end user devices aren't actually running AOSP at the end of the day, and can't without investing a nontrivial amount of effort. (And that still wouldn't prevent vulnerabilities related to out of date firmware.)

The comment of yours that I originally responded to seemed to me to insinuate that having access to fully open sourced phones wouldn't be able to do anything to improve device security as a foregone conclusion. I was objecting to that, pointing out that there are a number of real world examples where access to a fully open source mobile stack would immediately and drastically improve the current situation. In a hypothetical world full of such stacks perhaps this article would never have been written.
Close the doors, sometimes hangs, support button. Stairs and other passengers.
Google will happily hire and pay batshit crazy salary to any capable engineer with ML background