skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like what? This is a wriggling statement without making any claim, stuff like thermodynamics, speed of light etc. is so fundamental to how we build machines (that work) that most of the limitations we accept as limitations are highly unlikely to be wrong.

Fundamental skepticism is nice in a thought experiment, but what value are you trying to add with such a vague statement?
I am ashamed that a few bad people give a bad name to us all. It reinforces the cast divide and enables a section to trumpet about the bad Indian culture or bad Hindu.

It's despicable and I fail to understand how educated and technical people can still practice something so inhuman.

To the people saying nothing has changed in India, no, so so much has changed, there are many more intercaste marriages and anecdotal but like 50% of marriage news I hear are all intercaste. Casteism is on a decline as far as I can tell. The young generation seems to care about these things.

Also people saying Indian parents don't allow to marry anyone with a lower caste are being selective. Indian parents don't allow to marry anyone outside their "own" caste whether they are higher or lower, practised by both "lower" and "upper" caste parents.
> You can convincingly say this in retrospect about any event that happened, after all, it happened; it can't be so improbable and someone somewhere inevitably warned about the risk.

Before this pandemic people wouldn't care. Now it's happen people like you are still trying to justify it away.

Well, if you'd spoken to any epidemiologist (and I have) they'd have warned this was coming. It was inevitable.

Before: "nah, it won't happen". Now: "well, you can say anything in retrospect". This is the superpower of human stupidity, it can dismiss anything inconvenient.
When I was in China at airport you could see that Youtube, Facebook, WhatsUp, Viber, and even Google are forbidden.
I am curious to know what China says about that?
> We expect you to use git, commit code as you go along, and build the app iteratively -- just as you would during a normal workday.

This seems a little bit odd to me.

How long do you expect people to work on their home assigments in order for them to commit often? Is it days, or weeks? I don't imagine multiple commits for a 3 hour poject.

For a new project there aren't any well defined states of the code that make sense to be persisted. This means the commits will be arbitrary and their messeages not very meaningful.
Sharp Elbows (1984)
Stack Overflow survey (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...) has Vim at ~25% while Emacs is at 4.5%.
We're talking about a university research project to rescale photos here--- not a system that is fielded.

Certainly treating PULSE as a simple engineering problem and fix-as-you-go isn't so bad, is it?
HDD: Hobby-Driven Development
Thanks for this. I knew at a distance how the pharma industry worked, but this filled in a lot of the gaps.
> For copyrights, there is some merit to not allowing others to take over your work during the life of the author.

Care to expand on that?
The core team doesn’t really make technical decisions. It’s more for administrative/social/governance type stuff.
> and the built-in adblocker of QB is unfortunately not that performant

With "performant", I assume you mean "how well it works", not "how fast it works"?

FWIW a better adblocker is in progress: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/5317

> Also, you can't use the keyboard everywhere (thanks to the modern web) Random example off the top of my head: https://questions.wizardzines.com/event-loops.html

Yay... You can always customize the hints.selectors setting to add selectors for those (for websites you use a lot).

There are also some thoughts on how to add hints to all elements with a JS click handler, but I haven't had a chance to take a closer look yet: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/4817
Thanks beuty and love is restored!
Global Outrage as US buys out Remdesivir world-stock
My lab acquired a lot of imaging data (10 TB a year) and notoriously would store it long-term by putting the hardrive back in thr grey static plastic bag and putting it in a wooden office drawer. Surprise, 80% of the drives were unreadable after a few years. I suggested tape, but it was so hard as a grad student to figure out anything about how to even get it set up! Not to mention academic labs in bio departments are notoriously stingy!

I found a tape drive in Newegg and took the better part of a year to set it up (learning half baked that I needed this card and that cable etc). And then finally set up the tapes to back up.

Its been years since I left the lab and I heard that no one there knows how to read the data back from the tapes! I wish things were better than this!

My only anecdotal insight was that hard drives don't fail easily if they are continuously running. So I managed to hoard enough drives to keep at least two copies of data I cared about, and used a program called Mirror folder to make backups that were still easily accessible without any software lock-in by any grad student in the future.
A self-study guide for Tech Leads
It is a weird way to write it, I never use this notation for myself.

When teaching though, I'd rather make the it more visually explicit that jq commands are a sequence of filters. With the former notation, a | explicitly tells the reader that it's the end of one filter and the start of a new one, the latter is more implicit.
A European will have a big problem to understand how you can pay that much money to submit yourself to this torture...
Show HN: Maildown – super simple email API
"The drug, which was invented for Ebola but failed to work, is under patent to Gilead, which means no other company in wealthy countries can make it."

Sorry, but if the one blessed company with the patent can't keep up with demand, and millions are going to die because there are patent restrictions, then ignore the patent laws and save some lives. It wouldn't look too good if the American government tried to stop it, essentially saying "It's against the law to save their lives, and we're going to punish you for saving them."
As a cisgender hetherosexual male of European descent (that's apex privilege tier in case it's not obvious) I can't help notice that the things that keep the Indian caste system alive are Brahmins opining against it at every opportunity while prepending their statements with 'As a Brahmin...' and the fact that promoting Brahmins makes sense for many companies with significant Hindu workforce because other castes naturally defer to their authority and in many cases this is pretty much all you want from a line/middle manager.
I saw many successful examples of teams with super simple boards. Most of them only with built-in Gitlab/Github issue trackers.

When the tooling provides too many options, you will start adding complexity to your workflow without considering real benefits.
I think an additional piece to this, is to tell candidates what level they are interviewing for and the possible salary ranges, not total package, but actual base salary ranges.

I just went through an interview process with AWS that wasted a lot of time for both sides due to them not being up front about the potential package. I had to push a fair bit to get any info, and finally had to politely tell them if the it's less the X I don't think it makes sense to move forward.

Edit:
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Additionally, they were unable to explain how after two interviews, what an additional 7 interviews in an onsite capacity would add/build on top of the first two.

It felt like they were just putting me through a gauntlet without really understanding why.

It saves both sides effort if you can make sure you are in general alignment before going too far into the process.
Entr is amazing - I'm using it in my go projects to hot reload when developing!

https://smalldata.tech/blog/2019/03/15/hot-reload-go-applica...
Why You Should Always Blindly Chase Industry Trends
Maybe someone already said it, but I just don't see Twitter as a public space -- it is not Hyde Park Corner, it is a large courtyard, very large indeed, but privately owned. From this perspective, I am really not bothered of who is on it and who is not (I am not on it).

The topic discussed in the Twitter thread, on the other hand, is much more interesting. I am a layman in ML (although I have implemented a NN myself, but I am not a data scientist) so I offer my view hoping to get some feedback and be corrected. My view is that the original post was correct and LeCun was not. I just can't see what sort of objective function you can use to solve every potential problem arising in the future about similar issues. You want a "totally unbiased" model? Then, you use total diversity in your training set? Can't it happen that the model will then enforce diversity in a non-diverse picture? Is that your ideal result?

That might be a silly example and maybe not 100% correct for the example discussed, but, in general, my layman feeling is just that ML cannot help in cases where moral judgement is required. It can provide a good tool in any other case where, for example, a quadratic error is a reliable error measure, but that seems a hard limitation.
Get your code reviewed by Martin Fowler, kinda
All of sandboxing (including sandbox-exec, which is like 10 lines of code to just call the sandboxing functions) is considered deprecated/Apple private. As it’s the way to do such things on macOS, however, some very popular software depends on it in addition to Apple’s: Chrome, Firefox, MacPorts, Homebrew, …
Hopefully not with added tumor risk and this will turn into a treatment.
> at least it works for sane languages, like Java.

You lost me here.

> I don't see how "UNIX as an IDE" delivers this.

Have you read the linked series of articles? The author explains and provide examples with C and Perl, Iirc there's a book about working with Makefiles in Java, so it's totally doable, painful, but doable.
Hi, I just launched Maildown.

As a serial hacker, I've built a lot of small applications over the years and have always found email setup (whether transactional or marketing) to be a bit of a chore. I don't like the WYSIWYG editors or the process of manually uploading CSV contact lists that all the big email providers seem to use.

I've created Maildown to simplify this process - its just a single REST API that accepts emails in markdown syntax, and allows you to generate and send beautiful emails simply and quickly

Thanks for looking
Chris
Have Fun:

https://git-send-email.io/
Having Bigger AI Models Can Have a Detrimental Impact on Environment
Yeah, I thought this was referring to YouTube Premium at first (which doesn't seem so bad as it would let me download videos to my phone to watch when I don't have connectivity)

This YoutubeTV thing just seems awful - frankly I'm amazed it has lasted this long.
Warning: he writes huge tomes. They're far too long. The first I read was fun, the second a slog. There won't be a third.
This is pretty much what the ONS have done [1]:

> We used binary logistic regression models to estimate whether the risk of dying from COVID-19 is greater among the Black and other minority ethnic groups than among the White ethnic population, after taking into account a number of geographic, demographic, socio-economic, living arrangements and health measures from the 2011 Census.

> Adjusting for these factors substantially reduces the odds of a death involving COVID-19 relative to those of White ethnicity for all ethnic groups. [...] In the fully adjusted model (Panel B), Black males and females are 1.9 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the White ethnic group. Males of Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnicity are 1.8 times more likely to die; for females, odds of death are reduced to 1.6 times more likely. Individuals from the Chinese and Mixed ethnic group have similar risks to those with White ethnicity.

Adjusting only for age, black men are 4.2 times more likely to die than white men. Adjusting for all the factors they thought of, they are 1.9 times more likely to die.

The fact that even the fully adjusted model still has a large and significant difference between Indian and Bangladeshi/Pakistani people suggests to me that there are other non-genetic factors that aren't included in the model.

> Maybe nitpicking, so, because it still tells us something about discrimination, doesn't it?

Yes, absolutely.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
I think text/ecma48 would be a better name. There are lots of ANSI standards. (I guess text/ansi-x3.64 might also work, but text/ecma48 seems simpler.)
I regret joining this topic because I think it invites arguments that are only philosophical and people are generally unlikely to change their minds from what they already believe. For example, when I read your comment I already know I disagree with you, and have but to set my fingertips to the keyboard to let the disagreement flow. In the same way, I know you'll disagree with me, and it's hard for me to see how there is anything productive here.

Violating copyright takes potential sales. Those have value. For example, if you had a product worth X dollars, and people had a Y chance of buying it, you could sell the rights to your product based on that value.

Our society respects the concept of potential sales or potential value in many ways. If I lie and say that your restaurant is filled with rats, what am I costing you, if not potential sales? I could sell options contracts that have potential value. If I break the fingers of a master pianist or a surgeon I may be sued for a greater amount of damages than if I broke the fingers of any professional who doesn't need manual dexterity.

Potential value is the basis for lots of business and productive endeavors. It's why society respects intellectual property rights, to give creators a chance to earn something from their work, which, without the supporting legal framework, would be hard to monetize.

I went to Amazon and looked at a top 10 list. The first five books available in paperback and Kindle format are:

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Literature-Fiction...

https://www.amazon.com/Opium-Absinthe-Novel-Lydia-Kang-ebook..., 4.99, 10.99
https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Jar-Detective-Kirby-Book-ebook/d...
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Woman-Troublesome-Creek-Novel-eb...
https://www.amazon.com/Someone-Elses-Secret-Julia-Spiro-eboo...
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Crawdads-Sing-Delia-Owens/dp/07...

Average Kindle price: 7.51

Average paperback price: 11.7

Kindle is, on average, 64% the cost of a paperback. Combine that with greater functionality and ease of use, and I think the Kindle format is a winner.
Curious to know why don't researchers use Audiobooks/Videos and transcript when data is not available? Is it because these do not capture different dialects/accents?
I have Brugada Syndrome, which is a genetic condition that affects the sodium ion channels in cardiac tissue. To prevent sudden unexpected death, I have an implantable defibrillator. Every few years I get upgraded, sometimes leads fail and need to be revised as well.

General anaesthetics are dangerous for Brugada patients, so most of the surgery is done under local anaethetics. I have to tell the surgeons when I can feel pain, so they can put a bit of local where it's hurting. Given how "special" the sensations are when they get to a bit where there's not enough numbing, I can only imagine what it must have been like before modern anaethesia.

My last procedure was in March this year, and involved a lead revision, a defib upgrade and moving the unit deeper into my chest. Surgery lasted 3 and a half hours, so numbing wore off during the surgery. Not a lot of fun.
I think most of these advantages are overblown. Glad I read this though because I didn't know about the 'patience' diff algorithm and I've been looking for something like that for years!

> Finally, creating patches by hand with diff can take advantage of other options, like annotating the hunk headers with which C functions are affected (using the -p flag), and the choice of various algorithms such as “patience.”
This is such a false binary. Of course we must correct for historical bias. Of course we must also proactively look for biases.
Doctors Describe Bizarre Brain Injury Case of a Man Who Can't 'See' Numbers
Sure, just emailed you (from address in my profile) with a link to our BSS/OSS and login credentials for you.

Would love to hear from you if you have any feedback or questions.
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They're still trying to shortcut their way out of this? Wow!
Right, all those seem to point to greater MTE support and hardware tagging when available. But I don’t think any claim that Android 11 requires a new chip to be supported?
> Why am I willing to offer you money for a promise you wrote or will write a book?

Generally, reputation is sufficient check to fraud in situations like this.

In a simple setup, you may trust the author because they've written many books in the past, and fraud is punishable by law. If the author is new or wants to provide extra assurances, they could release the first few chapters of the book, or in special cases have separate goals for each chapter. In an imaginable more commercialized system, a publishing company might pay the author and advance to write the book, and the handle ransoming the book.

As far as the free-rider problem goes, there is probably some issue with that in our current society, but voluntary financing of creative works could still be more economically efficient that the existing copyright regime.
Yeah, UNIX doesn't do that on its own. You can grep, or run find and do a bash loop and so on, which is cool. But it's language servers that give semantic understanding of your code. You can easily refactor, or go to definition from vim. So UNIX is a development environment, very flexible, yes, just not that integrated.
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Is there any evidence to suggest that more than 3 hours of interviews is actually beneficial? 7 hours of interview seems like overkill. I've never had more than a couple of hours of interview: an hour with the department head and another hour with my future line manager and/or another senior employee.
My reply was about Tcl/Tk.
The three weeks that changed everything
Those people should not be paid nearly as much as the actual value producers.
I’d say it’s worse, which is saying something considering a jailbreak once shipped in the App Store on iOS.
I think Rust has another good alternative to this, although it might be cheating a little: you can just write (lo..hi).rev(). That way, the common case of going forwards is nice, and the case of going backward isn't much worse.
It's indeed a rhetorical trick (many of the most illuminating arguments lead you unknowingly to their point), but it's not pointless. One key aspect of white fragility is that it engenders an overwhelming compulsion to counter any attack on white identity or to insert oneself into discussions where their presence is detrimental to the discourse or even their own argument.

Illustrating the idea that you can't help yourselves is meaningful.
Maybe it is my lack of native English understanding, but I read sentences like this one "Only recently, Google announced that it is adopting Arm’s MTE in Android." in another way as you do.

It doesn't make sense adopting support for non-existing hardware.
I have mainly used vim for development and I can navigate my codebase just as seamlessly with ctags-generated indexes.

I'd agree on vim being of limited utility when it comes to automated refactoring (it's a text editor after all), but beyond changing the names or extracting functions what can an IDE do for you in this respect?
> Churches openly hold discussions on how all humans are equal.

That's not exclusive to Christianity. Universal equality is a basic tenet of Hinduism (including non violence towards all living things not just humans). I will not get into a debate of what is "Hinduism". I also don't disagree that some people do face a lot of discrimination. Sadly, the old generation needs to die off for this stuff to be behind us.
it looks like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZb4lGYkjrg
AV software for Windows 10 ... Is it necessary?
By Betteridge's law of headlines[0] the answer would have to be "no", but I'm getting conflicting advice. I personally don't use Windows, and haven't for a very long time, but I'm asked this question by friends, family, and colleagues.

Is there a single, clear, accurate answer? If someone is using Windows 10, should they also use Anti-Virus software? And if so, what do people recommend. Yes, I've gone out and searched around the internet, but I'd rather trust the responses here than "out there."

Thanks

EDIT: As an example, here[1] is an article arguing not to install AV s/w.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

[1] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/no-anti-virus-sw.html
But why is criminality comparatively higher and lower between different racial groups of the same class?

Edit: I know HN guidelines say not to complain about moderation (I've been here for 13 years now), but it's ridiculous a very simple, on-topic question should be downmodded into oblivion on a site whose purpose is discussion. While I have karma to burn and will happily keep participating, I'm concerned that this trend will have a chilling effect on people who do not.
Cargo Watch is something similar in the Rust ecosystem - https://github.com/passcod/cargo-watch
Clickable:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

[1] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/no-anti-virus-sw.html
Against the cracked copy, of course, to make sure the DRM really has been removed. You don't want to get nasty surprises and accidentally install PACE or another Sony rootkit...
TJ's packaging tends to be smaller for produce. I wouldn't want to shop there. Price per ounce is significantly higher.
Similar tool that I currently use: https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
> But what's the alternative?

Not electing prosecutors and judges.

That's where this thread started.
> so that person should be paid

Almost all people agree that creators and publishers should be paid, though perhaps in different amounts than they are now. However, some people think that criminalizing sharing is not necessarily the best way for society to accomplish this.
Looks really promising! Looking forward to seeing your progress!
A late addition: in the absence of all that, I do fall back on blog posts. I have written one for that bug, of course, but surely you can find it ;)
Because they simply cannot afford the software, they often do not have an alternative.
M-x ansi-term
The value of a building (or the land it sits on) in a commercial district is entirely linked to the potential for that building to make money. During lockdown there's MUCH less opportunity for that building to make money. Accordingly, rents should drop; banks should make equity release more readily available etc etc.
I know xpath pretty well, and cannot wrap my head around jq's DSL. It might have borrowed from elements of xpath's more obtuse expressions, but simple xpath seems much simpler (to me) than simple jq.
Hi! This covers topics that came up often during my mentoring sessions with fellow devs. I hope it can be helpful to a broader audience!
Credit Card applications do not ask for race. I suspect it’s more likely based on zip code or similar.
Repeating unsubstantiated statements, as if that makes them any less unsubstantiated, is a favorite exercise of some famously fragile white people, but is ultimately fallacious and futile.
That looks really promising.

But development seems to have completely stopped earlier this year. Anybody knows what's going on there?