skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really well done! Do you have analysis of what this would do nationwide or across multiple states? Optimizing for competitiveness is a metric I hadn’t considered but seems particularly valuable especially towards increasing voter turnout.
Well, I personally witnessed an occurrence, where a reporter WASN'T at the scene, and yet I later read what she had written about it in the newspaper as if she had been present.

It was a really nice review of a show that... was cancelled.
Define plenty? It seems to me the other commenters have offered counter points to you.

In the US, before taxes, an income of $130,000 to $170,000 is the norm in bigger cities. I imagine based on my calculations that the difference between Berlin's discretionary income for SWE and NY/SF/SEA/BOS is probably an extra $50,000 post tax.
first, I love the app, I really love that it syncs to Google tasks, but there is no way to "plan your day". What I would like to be able to do is pull up all my upcoming tasks, ordered by due date, and choose what tasks should go on my agenda for the day, and have those tasks populate on a list that starts fresh every day This allows me to prioritize what I want to focus on that day when I have multiple competing priorities. Microsoft To Do (formerly Wunderlist) does this really well, so well that even though I don't use anything else in the Microsoft ecosystem I still keep using the app. That feature makes me such a sticky user that I am willing to accept my entire organized life living on its own Microsoft island away from my email/calendar/etc unable to sync with everything else I use.

Food for thought, but again overall this is awesome and I love it.
This always bugs me, because “science” is a giant spectrum of fields from astronomy to zoology. Nobody knows even a small portion of it, and yet we expect a few journalists to cover all of it, often on tight deadlines[0]. Politics is probably closer to many journalists’ backgrounds, and it changes slower—-last week’s background helps with this week’s scandal too.

[0] The impetus for most articles is usually the publication of a new paper, but this always seems weird because it’s really more of a hook: papers are almost always incremental progress on a problem and most of the article ends up being background and context anyway.
I mean the original Mac mini price point, rather than the current one. It may have been a bit overpriced even then, but it was a convincing entry-level product for those switching from the PC.
Sure, but thats not the issue here. It is about naming sources.
Why are you afraid of downvotes? There's little reason to self-censor due to an internet currency.

And I wouldn't say the forum is "exactly this" unless you're saying that downvotes are on par with getting "fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or killed."
Thank you for providing your perspective :)
One of the things I noticed since moving back to the US is Americans are averse to spending money on anything that doesn't improve their social standing. Municipalities included. Brand new skyscrapers get built and the taxes and fees raised from it are spent on stadiums, arenas, and beautification. But that luxury skyscraper is still plumbed into tired, 50 year old infrastructure that needs replacing now.
> Sure, but is this one of them?

I don't know - I don't know who the guy is, or what the journalistic justification may be. Hopefully the journalists's editor does.
> Like the original Maginot Line, this approach is about as effective a defense as a minor speed bump.

No

The Maginot Line forced the german army to go through the ardennes. It bunched up all their forces into a tiny crossing surrounded by valleys rivers and other such obstacle.

Two french spotter planes saw this and reported back. The report was regarded as spurious.

Had the report been acted on, the invasion of france probably would have failed.

France and britian had by far the best kit and numbers. However the french were in disarray politically, and the british weren't really integrating properly.

So the real reason barrier was the lack of joined up political thinking.
By that same token, Sonic is destroying Robotnik's personal property wantonly, where Mario is trying to rescued his kidnapped friend.

Sure, if you eliminate parts of the plot, you can twist is around. But if you include the kidnapped princess and trapped animals, it's pretty clear what side each of those characters is on.
He’s an asshole but I wish I could understand anything he wrote. He seems to take pleasure in demonstrating how much more clever than anyone else he is, and that shows in his books: sentences are long and convoluted. I wish there was a dumbed down version of his books just so that I could make up my own mind about his ideas but alas.
Never trust a journalist
The point I was trying to make is tangential, but related to the post.

Scott has created one of the most thoughtful, level-headed, and interesting places on the internet. And yet he's shutting it down because it has led to a huge downside risk for his personal and professional life:

> I also worry that my clinic would decide I am more of a liability than an asset and let me go, which would leave hundreds of patients in a dangerous situation as we tried to transition their care.

What does this mean for others who want to start similar blogs or engage in these sorts of discussions? They're going to see this sort of thing happening and think: "Why bother? It's not worth the trouble."
Can't interpret these results, without knowing the concentrations resemble anything like what is found in agriculture today. I suspect, but cannot seem to find it mentioned, that very large concentrations were used to make any effect easily measurable.
I still miss 'Alone' a lot.
> Either they'll self-censor, or they'll "flip the switch" and just go totally anti-mainstream

I wouldn't call myself alt-right, far from it in fact. But I definitely see this happening in me over the past few years. Starting the night of the 2016 election.

It's one of those things that makes me wonder how much I've changed vs how much society has changed around me.

For instance, I learned first thing this morning that I have a corrupt faith and that I've fractured the nation [1]. There's only so much debasement one can listen to before you just tune out.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/881992622/book-jesus-and-john...
This article and the title (and subject) seems invite uninformed speculation. Some people who are pro-particle-research will point out that you never know what is there till you look. Others will point out CERN has not achieved much with the LHC yet and that this research is highly speculative.

I have 2 questions:

Can anyone make a good case why this is necessary? The only experiment listed is Higgs Dark matter work. But that seems speculative and also is already being done at ATLAS.

If this is not speculative, is it still a good use of money compared to spending the same cash on (say) genetics or AI or nano materials, all of which seem to be areas both in need of funding and with high potential for break throughs?
I decided to try this with my last name, taking the ego graph concept literally. Along the way I discovered the existence of MMA fighter David Hošek and the Hošek-Wilkie model for sky coloration.
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I'd be love to know more women that have the same tech interests and passions as me.

Unfortunately for me not only there aren't many, most of them see tech as something for nerds.

So please get more women into tech before I am too old :)
http://archive.is/FY1BJ
Protecting India's water supply is why India took over Kashmir, and why the Chinese presence in Ladakh and bordering Arunachal Pradesh is so dangerous for India, as those two areas are the source for half of India's water supply.

India must shed Nehru's outdated non-aligned stance (as if China's 1962 treachery hadn't discredited it already) and ally with the US and Japan on equal terms to contain China. India should also invest massively in solar-powered desalination technology to lessen its dependance on river systems that will be disrupted by climate change even without Chinese mischief.
>the problem is more that most people from IT just tend to ignore companies that don’t fit into their worldview

Why is this a problem? If I studied IT and want a good job in IT then that will interest me the most. Sure, it's good for the overall economy, but what good is it to me that I'm surrounded by pharma or mechanical engineering companies if IT is my bread winner?
It's unclear which country and which side of the spectrum you're referring to.

This is why I like to use science as a guide (not a decision point), for then there is a chance to be self-correcting.
Thank you very much, am very interested to learn more.
Gerrymandering is a danger to democracy and it is great that researchers shine light on the different trade-offs of districting criteria.

This website seems like a great demonstration of the fairness and competitiveness trade-offs.
I'm not sure about all of your questions but there's platforms like matomo out there, that seem to be able to handle some of the use cases for ga.

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https://matomo.org/
Replace it with a program based on skills and ability. I forget who said it but I like the idea: if you're a PhD (or equivalent) and want to come to the US for work you get a temporary Green Card upon submission of your academic credentials and a permanent one upon verification. The idea is that we actively want to encourage the best and brightest from around the world to come here and contribute to our excellence. The problem with basing it on a degree is that some degrees aren't worth the paper on which they are written... and what about master artisans who are essential to manufacturing and industry? Machinists, welders, carpenters, plumbers: we needs those too, arguably more so.

What we should NOT do is waste all of the H1B slots on workers who could contribute from abroad, specifically programmers. Aren't all programmers working in the US right now doing so remotely?
If it's Open Broadcasting Studio, streaming or desktop recording, mainly.
I think GP and many people ITT project their current political concerns on OP's post. It doesn't seem apparent to me that Scott is deleting his blog due to any recent political changes.
Thanks for the feedback! This is one of the more frequently requested features, so I am planning to add this
Do you actually think that is a helpful comment? Mainstream publications tend to use the units commonly used in the country where they're located and may, depending upon style, also provide conversions. However, for casual everyday use, there's no particular advantage to km over miles just because it's based on powers of 10.
The silent majority!
Although software development tends to come across as deterministic with rules on what to do when, a lot of it is up to developing good judgement.

The more time you spend thinking about the business and how what you're building will support it the better judgement you'll develop. You might not be able to articulate or argue it but you'll have an instinct on when an abstraction is going to be useful vs brittle.
This piece has stuck with me (I think it's the one I'm remembering but can't read the whole thing because paywall): https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2018/05/25/i-was-jordan-pete...

In particular, the anecdote about how Peterson wanted to be a preacher.
No good reason. It's A combination of time allocation, the fact that it's a collaborative process and I'm still learning the ropes, and the fact that nobody's asked for one until now.
Make your code modular. Use dependency injections. Write short, clear functions.

When everything is DRY and functions follow SRP, it's hard for your code not to be "future-proof."

Tests only when they make sense, not when you are mocking half the app.
Do you ever drink decaf? It sounds like coffee was a real hobby of yours. Although your health is more important, it is unfortunate to see a hobby dissipate like that.
Yes this riot matrix naming was really confusing.
> xenophobic morons

As a person that lived thru it, it was not xenophobia, it was NAFTA that sent everyone scrambling to survive. Our farm lost viability due to it, as did most small family farms. You either conglomerated with the emerging mega-farms if you where big enough or you died. Organic was nowhere on the horizon at that time and was the only thing that brought back the viability of small plot farming. Xenophobia is an easy answer to reach for, but the reality is people where scrambling to save their livelihoods and kicking the legs out from under the big conglomerates via removing the migrant workforce they relied on was one of the efforts. It has more to do with surviving than a disdain for other people. Also there was no love loss for the big conglomerates as they where the very entities that pushed for NAFTA, so trying to remove their workforce was fair game.

In the end I miss the family homestead but it worked out for me. I was a crappy citrus farmer (due to lack of passion) and while I appreciate my youth, I don't ever want to own a farm so I am glad my family got to reap the rewards of selling it, rather than me inheriting a farm that I would have to figure out what to do with.
I’ve heard the theory called racquetball with a tennis racket. When trying new things accept that you will get some big things wrong. But you’ll probably also get some things right and still have fun.

If you like it you’ll have time and motivation to pick up the details later.

(To a non growth mindset a worry like using the wrong racquet for a sport is paralyzing.)
> neutral reporting of facts.

I don't know how this fiction has to be represented in every discussion. I don't want neutral unbiased reporting if it requires giving equal time to people who think that neutral unbiased reporting is real. The selection of what's important to report is literal biasing.
In short: yes.

To expand: nobody here is harassing the journalist. The journalist harassed the blogger. The commenters are providing polite, critical feedback.
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>Austin, Texas, where the average annual bill rose from $566 in 2010 to $1,435 in 2018

How can anyone justify people paying more than $110 for water and sewers? I pay $20 and even that seems a lot to me.
So two things here. The first is that it sounds like you want to be using `/opt`.

The second, is that I am able to create root folders, I just have to remount as rw before creating it and after that I can mount any data folder to `/foo`. I'm not entirely clear why not having `/` as rw by default is such an issue, but you are cetainly not prevented from doing it if you wanted to.
Isn't this a double standard? The NYT was one of the many papers that decided not to publish the name of the whistleblower in the Trump-Ukraine scandal. They published many articles on the scandal and his name is definitely known to them as they did a profile on the wistleblower without naming him and he has been named by the president's son and many others in government (and no, he was not a source for the NYT. He was a whistleblower who went through official channels to blow the whistle, he didn't go to the press).

I am not going to post his name here as it tends to get comments deleted. Youtube will even automatically delete your comment if it contains his name (maybe even relieving his gender goes too far, I guess we will find out). If anyone doubts this you can just try it yourself. Or just believe the company's own spokesperson https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/08/tech/facebook-whistleblower-n...
I actually think there's quite a strong parallel. Both are necessary to the proper functioning of a society in small amounts, and large amounts of either go hand-in-hand with societal dysfunction.
Seems to me you can be too dirty as well as too clean. As with so many things in life there's a golden middle to be found.
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You know "spending" is not the correct expression, that money flows directly back into the economy (and supports thousand other scientific fields, like material science, sensor technology and often goes to small highly specialized corporations). And if you compare the money that flows into the military with ZERO gain for the World...those 23B are a water drop on a hot stone.
That made me think of an essay I often revisit, Emerson's Self-Reliance (1841):

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ... For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs. Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college. It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. ...

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency... Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.—'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Why not? Lots of people (not just conservatives!) like having their existing beliefs confirmed. Peterson's gift, if it can be called that, is in making conservative orthodoxy sound profound, and the fact he's a professor which helps his air of authority.
That's actually a good name
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I used to be able to do reverse phone lookup by typing a phone number into google. That's long been useless.
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Mention their name. It's Ernst & Young.
IMO we need some kind of data driven media/data driven reporting/data driven newspaper type thing.

Then we can have reporting/debate/conversation on the meaning of the data but without the filters we use to have in place all reporting has essentially become meaningless, untrustworthy, opinion pieces.
The service layer can be the most practical place to write tests, because you aren't mocking a lot of random services (like you would with a controller) and you can focus on testing methods that do a single thing, if your services are well written.

If your test is more than 5-10 lines long, you are probably trying to do useless things like mock half the app and you should have a method that returns simple data / services that don't take a 1000 other services as dependencies.

TDD is only a good choice when you have a clearly defined problem and know how you solve it.
C is a language which is closer to hardware than Python, so you'll find it to be the language of OS programming. In fact, Python is written in C. I think trying to do OS programming in Python would actually be more difficult than learning C.

If you are a solid programmer who already knows Python, learning C would only take 2-4 weeks. The benefit is worth the investment.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10904721/is-it-possible-...
I suspect access to a vast trove of user data is more important for ML than raw CPU power on the client.
I'm sure that blog has been archived somewhere pretty hard to just delete stuff from the internet. Take for instance this website I use an RSS feed aggregator to pull the top stories out of this site and put them on my feed within the last year I would say most of the stories are flagged removed basically somebody trying to remove a certain opinion.
Factorio is incredibly addictive and I've had a lot of fun optimizing my conveyor belts.

Whether it's intentional or not, the game really does show how convenient it is to depend on fossil fuels, pave over forests, and just kill all life standing in the way of unustainable expansion.

The ultimate end of the game is factory engulfing the whole planet, using up all natural resources, and making the planet a graveyard of steel and concrete.
Didn't that feature originate in Excel?
Paul's post has always felt like a wordy defense of the "well, actually".

Lots of us passionate techies like to weigh in on every topic and forget that not everything is academic. Sometimes the world doesn't need to hear our opinion. That doesn't mean we're being censored.
How common is this technique for loading libraries? How about in the kind of POSIX tools that are available, but not exclusive to, on mac os (sucha as bash, termux, vim, git, apache etc)?
That little rumour about Apple buying DuckDuckGo seem to make more and more sense by the day.
All time record could be said to be very unusual though.
I hope there is an official release of 64-bit version soon.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=275...
That’s sad. I really thought space could open up some new physics.
Try break it down to smaller pieces, a 3000-words long blog post can be intimidating, you can try breaking it down to multi part or until tweet-length. Tweet each part first then slowly stitch them into a blog post
Ahh..your talking about politic not science, that's something completely different.
Maybe there are a few secrets to learning stuff. Has anybody taken the "Learning how to Learn" coursera course? https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn?ranMID=...
I might recommend paradoxically focusing on work less. Pick up hobbies, focus on your relationships, etc.

Why?

When we really make work the center of our lives, it becomes high stakes, and it feels hard to take risks. When it becomes just part of our lives, it can be a focus for lower risk 'play' and experimentation. Then we feel more comfortable trying things we would normally not try.
E&Y simply had no interest in losing a customer by reporting what was well known to them.
I wonder if there is some connection between variance in temperature extremes and average warming? I feel it could either be due to the same underlying cause or because larger variance will mean the average warming will appear larger. I suspect the former (i.e. it really is warming faster in the poles). I guess one could think of Siberia as a canary in the coal mine for global warming. Not that we should need one.
You have to learn to see the future beyond your current pain.
Not a macOS dev but maybe one can clarify: is the title "No more system shared libraries in macOS 11" actually true? The documentation reads to me as a restriction on how you read dynamic libraries (is using only dlopen controversial here? also just trying to understand), not on which system libraries are actually there. It seems dlopen with custom system dylibs would still work if there is also a means to get your dylibs in the system cache? Based on that piece of docs alone I see no reason to grab my pitchfork just yet.

Anyway, I was expecting a few shitstorms to start happening over macOS 11. Apple not announcing any major deprecations (edit: or removals) for this transition - even OpenGL/CL is still there, depecrated - was suspicious.
Worth it, so you can fly in on a rope and save the day.

https://xkcd.com/208/

(Yeah, I know you've seen it before. But 10,000 people/day haven't. https://xkcd.com/1053/)