skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't get you much

It can do a lot in the right circumstances. E.g. if a USB thumb drive had a physical write-protect, it could be plugged into a potentially hostile computer without concern about losing the data on the drive.

Years ago I saw a few USB thumb drives with that feature. But I don't know if they're out there any more. They're almost as scarce as hens' teeth.
FWIW I find the apps are significantly snappier than Slack. Both built on Electron interestingly
There is no deception and no ethical issue. The nature of the test is known.

What placement of components would be ethical? Should engineers required to be separated from the test parameters by a Chinese wall? Do they need to build the system for the worst result? Some middle ground? If the engineers are unethical, where is the line?

The obvious answer to optimizations like this are for the testing body to tweak the test procedure based on what manufacturers do over time. That provides an incentive to be more conservative or accurate.
the "use a float for integers" thing is pretty common for scripting languages.

I am sorry for your suffering, btw. I, too, have used Tcl.
I'm pretty sure I have this condition. Never even knew the vast majority of people experienced the world differently than I do until recently.

One of the perceived benefits IME has been that I seem to have a substantially higher capacity (on average) to understand things at a conceptual level than my co-workers.

Not sure if that's just a testament to how I learned to learn early in life, or if it's somehow a way my mind has compensated for the lack of sensory info in my imagination.
Nuclear Radiation Is Floating Above Northern Europe and Nobody Knows Why
Interesting point of view,

> Is C, the language the kernel is for the most part written in, being displaced by the likes of Go and Rust, such that there is "a risk that we're becoming the COBOL programmers of the 2030s?" Hohndel asked. "C is still one of the top 10 languages," answered Torvalds. However, he said that for things "not very central to the kernel itself", like drivers, the kernel team is looking at "having interfaces to do those, for example, in Rust... I'm convinced it's going to happen. It might not be Rust. But it is going to happen that we will have different models for writing these kinds of things, and C won't be the only one."
For this reason I disabled DNS over HTTPS in Firefox. How much protection and what kind of protection does DNS over HTTPS give you?
It was sold for $1.5B to private equity in 2015. I am assume it was largely debt financed. This looks like a default on debt and laying off employees. It will likely be back post vaccine, and owned by the current debt holders.
There are many business affected by the pandemic. Depending on where you are, you can ask for some help from government. It won't work for every business of course, but they have a strong brand and a nice trajectory.
This is a big aspect of structural racism tbh. The disproportionate incarceration (duration and frequency) of black and indigenous people dumps a lot of their kids into the foster system. These kids overwhelmingly get sucked into the school-to-prison pipeline, around and around it goes. Relatively lucky ones have a family member, but they probably can't afford another kid, and the cycle of poverty keeps turning.
This. Exactly what I am looking for.

I am currently using any.do but the problem is they don't have an api.
Do you have a solution for ebook dedrm? I've been struggling to automate my flow recently!

edit: fix the autocorrect
There's a teeny tiny obstacle to live audience performances right now, I think it was that one beer company.
I imagine it was an automated spam that went to many many emails from e.g. the old Myspace or LinkedIn dumps.
NGINX supports Lua scripting. Many years ago I worked on a system which ran a full website on NGINX + Lua + Redis.
> eating that tortilla since it contains lard

I'm not a Brahmin (and am technically from a much "lower caste") and I wouldn't eat lard (I'm a vegetarian). IMO caste and vegetarianism are different concepts. While certain castes/communities/regions might promote vegetarianism and some might not, I'm not sure if they're always an identifying marker. A lot of people in India are vegetarian for a multitude of reasons and a lot of them who are new to the States might not know what contains lard and what not, so he might have been looking out for you in case you didn't know. I for one didn't know about rennet until much later, and am much grateful to an American dude who pointed that out to me.

I think it sucks that people conflate two different things, because it gives someone who isn't from an Indian background incorrect details. I'm not saying that that Indian-origin guy isn't casteist (given that he reacted against your "brahmin" comment that way), but certain nuances are lost here.
looking at a domain now... but, it’s listed as for sale on Domainist - a site which (despite me registering, and it accepting the registration), never sent me the confirmation email needed to proceed with the offer.

The thing I like about these small humble internet businesses is that they’re so close to people. Not that I’m complaining about working as an engineer on growth projects, but I often times think that each human connection / conversation is just as rewarding as the zillionth install.
It’s about levels of scale and abstraction. When you’re designing a car you don’t care about the innards of the calliper. Reducible complexity, and modelled inputs and outputs. If something seems wonky it gets looked at more closely - either the model or the concept is wrong.

I can’t draw for shit, but I can and do make complex devices and systems with no written plan, just a picture in my head.

Oh, and I’ve put on well over 5lb of muscle this month, by doing brutal hours of manual labour and eating like a horse. Being out of shape but historically stacked makes it a world easier.
Your comment, among the sea of others, got through and made some sense to me. My follow-up questions are:

Does that negate the truthfulness of LeCun's response?
What would Gebru rather he do or say?

I feel like I can't tell what the desired form of action is from the article, and I'm unsure what good it does for removing bias from ML to attack prominent figures (on twitter let alone anywhere public).
Cirque was in trouble long before COVID. They expanded too quickly around the world and spread themselves too thin. None of their shows in the last ~10 years have been blockbusters (most of them already retired), and the novelty of the original Vegas ones has worn off. They tried a theater division which failed. They had already started to restructure their operations and announced layoffs as early as 2015. I imagine the current environment was the nail in the coffin.
Not completely dark + looking dorky I think? I make it a point to ask why they thought I was one but no one ever has an answer.
I think you are working with a harder defn of it than the original definition:

WP:

"Based on the [Taleb]'s criteria:

1 The event is a surprise (to the observer).

2 The event has a major effect.

3 After the first recorded instance of the event, it is rationalized by hindsight, as if it could have been expected [...]"
Agreed. We've embedded it inside Mudlet (https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet) for a decade and people have started their careers in programming thanks to wanting to code for their favourite text game.
Except this article is about YouTube TV adding more channels and charging everyone more.
This holiday season is going to be a real test since we won’t have a vaccine by Novemberish. No ones going to fly out to holiday hotspots, or travel for Thanksgiving.

Vaccine or bust basically.
It was explicitly a rollout of a release, not a beta. They weren’t expecting any testing from you. You never saw any beta language on hey.com or your signup email.

Proof from Jason: https://mobile.twitter.com/jasonfried/status/126602572713423...
The fact that we have to create throwaway accounts to acknowledge the injustice continuing for hundreds of years tells a lot about it.

Unfortunately, its no use stating it here, the post have already been moved from first page. Many westerners think British civilized India, they don't known how the British exploited the caste system to their advantage to grab India in collusin with those who are at the top of the caste system.
The urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic
I was interested in programming, don't really know why but the thought fascinated me to be able to instruct a computer to do things you want it to do. So I had tinkered with QBasic and Pascal. A friend of mine went the C/C++ route which lead to us arguing like cat-and-dog (surely out of boredom) about the various benefits.

Then we mutually tried out linux and editors. He picked Emacs, so I went with vim. Haven't regretted it ever since.
Yes there is a difference in South India. The Brahmins are descendants from central Asia[1]. But this is often refuted by the Brahmins in India as they claim to be from an authentic Indian origin. The natives in South India which includes me are darker skinned than the Brahmins. So people here can figure out that someone is from a caste if they are light skinned. A person with proper scientific understanding can explain in more detail but this is the overall view.

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/steppe-mig...
You seem to be taking "not real life" too literally. I'm not saying "nothing on Twitter affects real life". The point is that it's often a poor representation of real life.

Small but highly vocal groups can have a seemingly loud and powerful voice. Yet the results of polls and other public signals (even election outcomes) are frequent reminders that what is gospel on Twitter is often detached from 'real life'.

Using a president of a major country is a poor example in this context. But if anything Trump being one of the first major Twitter users strongly reinforces my point. Prior to election he tweeted plenty of things most mainstream US republicans wouldn't touch with a 10 foot poll. Let alone what an average American would say IRL (even right leaning ones).

Not to mention Twitter is a global platform so conversation around local politics can be heavily skewed by people not even in the country.

But otherwise I agree, it is infesting real life far more frequently these days. And it is worrying. Despite everything I said above, big corporations, the media, politicians, etc can't seem to make this distinction and take what is popular there as a direct reflection of the general public. And it creates a negative reinforcing spiral.
When you buy a consumer DVD, that DVD only has a license for home viewing. Video stores require a special license to rent out videos. So, I assume netflix would have to pay that fee at least (which they probably already had for their mail order DVDs).
There's nothing in jq you can't do with any programming language with a JSON parser and serializer implemented.

But I find jq more pleasant than most for lots of JSON-to-JSON transformations, and Powershell worse than not only jq but also Node or Python for that task.
The argument is not about your buying preferences as a consumer. Of course if you had a choice between (a) paying X for watching stuff, or (b) paying Y for the ability to watch exactly the same thing, but Y is overall less money because it is somehow dependent of the amount that you consume, that is the better choice.

However, the economic equilibrium of a perfectly unbundled system is not that you get to watch the same thing for less money. It is, in the general case, that you either get less content, or pay more, or both.

To take your example, realize that it is outlier behavior to be willing to pay $9/mo for History and $0/mo for ESPN. If you took History channel, with the content that it has now, out of the cable bundle and tried to sell it $9/mo, or even $1/mo, there would be way too few interested customers to make such a proposition economically viable.

In a perfectly unbundled world, content such as the History channel does not exist. You only have marquee content like ESPN, movies for rental or purchase, or (if lowercase history is your thing) highly produced documentaries, i.e. the kind of content that willingness to pay for is high enough to justify the high customer acquisition cost. You do not have content like History channel because it lies in that tier of things that many people are kind of interested in watching, but only if it comes with something else more valuable that they already paid for.

One can debate the societal value of the existence of content such as the History channel to begin with, but that's what the argument is about, not about the consumer's individual preferences in a hypothetical world where it would be possible to watch the same content for cheaper.
This wasn't "someone, somewhere" predicting it though: every epidemiologist predicted it. They said flu was the most likely, but they all also said a SARS-like coronavirus was another potential option (haemorrhagic fevers were the other type warned about). SARS and MERS weren't that long ago, and both had pandemic potential. Two near misses in the past 20 years means this was always a case of when not if.
Mailing Lists vs. GitHub (2018)
I am sorry for your experience. Do you mind sharing what part of India you're from? It is really surprising to me that relatively better off Dalits would still find the need to convert to a different religion to avoid discrimination. Even more surprising that this is happening at a wider scale.

I respect your personal choice, of course, but curious why people choose to convert to a different religion instead of just shunning the Hindu identity, given Christianity also tends to have problematic beliefs. Is it because sharing religious beliefs makes it easier to share a common identity?
Cirque has/had multiple traveling shows. They spend anywhere from a few days to a few weeks in each city, depending on whether it’s an arena or a big tent show.
Ouch, I was planning on seeing a Cirque show in May and obviously it was cancelled and refunded. In my opinion, it's a good value for the money. Hopefully we'll see them recover in some form or another.
Yes, ML research and engineering is my job. I actually lean more into the research side of our R&D function, so this isn't coming from a place of disdain for researchers.

I'm not advocating that purely theoretical work of every form should be focused on algorithmic bias. Certain realms of theory (adversarial and robust learning, deployable model theory, computer vision and NLP) lend themselves much more directly to societally-relevant bias than other realms (algorithm and complexity theory, hardware research, performance research, pure statistical learning theory). I work on faster graph neural networks, so I'm actually in latter group.

So? I just want everyone to be on the same page on the importance of work in algorithmic bias. I've seen people dismiss Gebru's work as "pure rhetoric" on Reddit - this is a cause for concern! Acknowledging the validity and importance of similar work is especially important for people who are leaders in the field and who have influence over priorities. Don't people on HN complain about FB's algorithms literally every day? Shall we forget the Myanmar incident?

Let me put it this way: in biology, Watson and Crick were researchers who participated in discovering the structure of DNA. For most of their careers, they were not practitioners. However, James Watson made a huge negative impact on the field by advocating against woman in science and advocating for eugenics (completely ignoring Rosalind Franklin). Setting an aggressive and toxic tone in genetics paid dividends during the Asilomar conference (1975), where reporters and scientists who were critical of big-name organizers got de-badged and escorted out of a conference on ethics.

Our leaders and researchers matter - let's not make the same mistakes. The message should be: "I might no longer tool in TensorFlow, but I care, and so should you." It was easy for Jeff Dean to do that, which I thought was awesome. No senseless purity testing of engineer versus scientist. I think small steps like the new NeurIPS broader impact statement are heading in the right direction.

Edit: I just realized this reads like I'm equating LeCun with Watson... that's not my intention. That would be incredibly insulting, my apologies. I just needed an example of leadership having ripple effects throughout a field. Mea culpa.
Sure, but they only discontinued the form factor in 2016!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Thunderbolt_Display
In my early years I bricked a few devices playing around. I’ve learned to not get attached to documents.
I might have misinterpreted your comment, however I’m poking fun at the cyclical nature of change.

The fact that people want to go remote and distributed and then maybe start up these things called ‘offices’ is analogous to quasi anarchist hippies at festivals that want to move off the grid and let a new society flourish organically. Ultimately we end up in the same place.
Well, I'm glad you didn't mention Sati, because it would have really dated your knowledge of Indian society.
I am an Indian and have been in US for many years. There is one thing I have noticed among brahmins, during their Naturalization process many of them change their last names to Iyer or Iyengar (two sects of Brahmins).

I am referring to guys from the southern part of India where I am from. Its not a common practice there.

My interpretation of this is these folks have a perceived sense of superiority feeling about their caste and having it in the last name is a form of boasting.

In South India there has been a social movement in the last few decades to allocate quotas for "lower" caste members in universities and govt jobs to stop the domination of brahmins (merits, or lack there of, of the quota system is whole different topic). So having Iyer or Iyergar as last name would be frowned upon/judged endlessly there. May be they feel a sense of freedom here in US that prompts this behavior.
jq really is an awesome tool.
I think it very much depends on where you live. Here cycling is super popular and so you can expect more deaths even if the deaths per distance number is likely quite low even when compared to places where cycling is less popular due to infrastructure differences.
They're probably not closing, just bankruptcy to restructure their debt.
weren’t there unintended consequences in the pharmaceutical industry for shorter patent windows? they would modify a drug ever so slightly, but enough to patent it again. I could imagine a similar consequence for shorter copyright windows.
MySQL used to be pretty bad in that respect but lately has come of age and I was mostly commenting on how frequently it was used.
Thanks jagraff for sharing this, wish I read this much earlier.
People simply need a way to be looked at as equals under God. They convert to christianity for this main reason. But the Brahmins will claim that they converted for 'rice bags'. Its still a widely used slur in India while referring to converted christians.

A better off dalit is still a dalit. Thats the point. The society will discriminate against you in all ways possible. Right from job applications to finding a partner
I use both QuteBrowser and Firefox with Vim Vixen, one of the thing that make me reluctant to switch completely are mostly addons, Multi-Container, cookies auto delete, ublock origin, Privacy Badger, ... I can't browse the Internet without those, and the built-in adblocker of QB is unfortunately not that performant.
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
The problem is CAPITALISM.

Capitalism prioritizes profits over people's lives.

If it were profitable to stockpile resources to protect life and/or property, in advance of foreseeable adverse events, we would be more prepared.

Precisely because it is not profitable, we are not.
> but most of the world didn't expect it and didn't prepare for it.

You cannot say this about the United States. Both of the prior administrations developed detailed pandemic response plans.

Bush’s plan was informed by the "near miss" of a worrying H5N1 Influenza outbreak. Obama dealt with Ebola and Zika.

The Trump administration’s response to SARS-CoV-2 was so catastrophically incompetent that it nearly seems intentional.

James Fallows has a very detailed piece that covers this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/how-whi...
I'm from the northern part of India. Well it actually hits you harder once you are better off. You could drive a BMW, live in a big house and have all the luxuries of being an upper class person, but hindus would still see you as an inferior lower caste. In terms of social hierarchy, a poor brahmin who flips burgers at a burger store is higher caste than a dalit doctor.

Converting is the only way to get rid of your caste. It's common amongst Hindus to ask each other's caste and the only way to say that you have none is to not be a Hindu. If you are a hindu then people will figure out your caste from your last name.
We will not have a vaccine this year, period.
another step in the right direction
If you turn bureaucrats into UI designers, you’re gonna have a bad time. We have several classes of tooling that do just that.

Atlassian tools are particularly overt in their belief that the tool belongs to the managers and not the team. Bamboo especially.
Thanks for the post! It greatly improved my understanding of Lua, which I've followed but never used in a project. I'd love to see more tutorials like this, which assume the reader is a programmer but not in that particular language.
I might be like... extra retarded for saying this but... with 153k cases in Florida and 3.5k deaths (2.3%), is it really that bad? I can only imagine how many hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Florida citizens have it/have had it and had no symptoms and aren't getting tested (which would drive the death percentage down something fierce).

I feel like I have a higher chance of dying driving down the street. Am I being ignorant?