skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And:

https://reactivity.ai/#about

Edit: to respond to the question below, it clearly supports a "renaissance man" question by
IAmGraydon above: it confirms both a "“consultant software engineer” in finance" and a "masters in CS." I don't see how it is not relevant. Moreover, it's not that somebody questioned
atemerev's posts based on his qualifications, it's atemerev who claimed to be "an actual epidemiologist" in his first sentence, and that it definitely something that can be tested for veracity, if atamarev wanted to give more credibility to his claim with that (he didn't have to do that -- and then his claim could be evaluated on its own too, but biases by the authors of some claims are also something that could be questioned). Anyway, in this case, it's obvious that atemerev's university degree isn't in epidemiology.

Edit2: atemerev's first claim: "an actual epidemiologist" now gets to be closer to the truth in the response below as "an epidemic modeler." I still believe IAmGraydon was right to question the claim, and that the initial claim was indeed misleading and incorrect.
I certainly don’t want to have a pool of representative nazis to make sure we can have discussions about nazis.

I think this is a illogical result of combining the “CNN Crossfire” style of politics with the good idea that more diverse experiences improves the conversation.
Same for pilots
Read about the Bloods and Crips in the '80's, '90's. Schools were banning wearing red and blue because those gangs had hijacked those two colors. Anyone not in those gangs would take care to not wear anything containing those colors.

The op is not wrong for supposing it's possible for someone to be targeted due to wearing "shoe or shirt color".
I think so too, though I guess single line makes more sense to an extent, there's a lot more that could be done with REPLs, like I'm surprised you can't just click on a previously submitted segment of code to be auto copied in the input text field (in the case of GUI based REPLs).
Delphi wasn't like that.

There'a a gap a mile wide between

1) tools like Delphi, VisualBasic (the classic version, not .net), and to some extent, HyperCard

2) GUI builders, which were popularized by Visual C++

#1 doesn't have (visible) layers or abstractions. It's a different way to represent your program. You place a few controls, tie them to actions (code), and that's your system.

#2 is like onions, with lots of messy layers, and tend to be way more cumbersome to deal with than the code itself.

I don't know of modern-day graphical programming systems. I haven't kept up with Delphi, but people who have claim the last useful version is Version 7 from 2002. After that, it went through some messy transition.
The Cost of Reducing Risk
Exactly. Some jobs don't produce easily trackable work product.

So the only option is to track whether they're working or not.
> It makes people uncomfortable and it's such a small change.

Not a small change, and gay people also make some people uncomfortable, does not follow we should remove them ... so ... what?
Influence of Running and Walking on Hormonal Regulators of Appetite (2012)
I see GTM being used (abused?) by marketing teams regularly, but I'm really surprised that a bank with its own development team would allow it.

It is really powerful and sometimes incredibly useful in some scenarios (e.g I once built a schema.org metadata system that scraped the pages on the fly for a site with a broken CMS). Simo Ahava does clever things with it.

But from what I can tell, it seems to be a way of avoiding communication between teams, or a political power grab inside bigger companies - a parallel CMS. And the silly bit is that it's normally not doing much more than could be achieved by copy and pasting a few lines of code into a template.
Yet another Ponzi, just like the US, Japan, and elsewhere
This so incredibly wrong and stupid.

European countries have selectively lifted some lockdown measures and are closely monitoring the situation. Local outbreak spikes are happening. Many protests actually observed at least some degree of distancing, and their impact is mitigated by them happening outside - the strongest infection vector seems to be areosol, which is far more dangerous indoors. Many places are still seing exponential growth.

Anyone who still trots out the "just another bad flu season" claim is just criminally stupid.
in what way is a database slavery? It is not ... but yet here we are ...
"Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and
large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time
you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test
it against each of your twelve problems to see
whether it helps.”

Basically just did this again this week. I was re-reading a three year old board game design diary I had written, and came upon an old idea that I had put on the backburner after the prototype played just "ok". I tried to come up with ways to fix it for awhile, and the ideas I had then were so different they morphed into completely different designs (more specifically, it morphed into 1 different design, which bombed in playtesting, and then that morphed into a totally different design, which did really well in playtesting and I showed to publishers, and then reflecting on their feedback resulted in a completely new design sparking in my head).

I thought about the problem for a few more seconds, and one new thing to try popped into my head, not a totally different game this time still keeping with the core mechanism, but a different method how players were given and used the cards, and I dug into it a bit more, and I decided on a different method of point distribution for the cards, and then thought a bit more, and the thought of adding abilities that encourage comboing based one previous or next cards played popped into my head, and then I decided to run with it, came up with a new prototype, tried it out, and it felt at least three times better, and felt more like a game that could be published.

I have a game that is currently a finalist in a game design contest whose design had remained dormant for over a year because I was unsatisfied with it, but something made me think about it again and a new mechanism popped in my head and I tried that and felt a lot better about it.

The Feynman method works for me, at least when it comes to designing board games. I don't mind shelving game designs for a long period of time anymore, since I have had so much luck with just thinking about them again every once in awhile and fresh new ideas popping into my head to improve the game, that likely wouldn't have happened if I kept forcing myself to think about that game.
That is not true - for example, the Redwing Zuni / Bassoon test in 1956 yielded 3.5Mt, of which 85% was from fusion, due to use of lead for the tamper around the third stage.

On the other hand, if primarily looking to maximize yield for cost, one can use U-238 instead - the higher energy neutrons from the D-T fusion will cause fission (although not a chain reaction) in the tamper as well.

Redwing Tewa / Bassoon Prime test achieved 5Mt with this change in the same the test series and the design was refined ultimately to the B-41 gravity bomb with 25Mt yield.

We know how to make devices with primarily fusion yield, it's more that they're not as effective as weapons.
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I don't understand. If it wasn't obvious before then it can't be obvious now. You've had it explained to you. If it was obvious then that would not have been necessary.
On the other hand, the tedium of manually copying <script> tags onto each page of an application naturally encourages developers to try to limit the total number of them.

Nowadays, no-one blinks an eyelid when `npm install foo` drops 1000 packages in your node_modules directory.
Just because two parties are legally at the same position doesn't mean there isn't a power imbalance. Without collective bargaining, any employment negotiation is going to be lopsided, since not having a job hurts a worker a lot more than having one employee fewer hurts an employer.

I think I am pretty good at my job. I get great feedback from all sides and complete my work on time and with high quality. We are also looking hard for more people because we have too much work. Getting people up to speed also is a big issue, so my employer invested a decent amount in me. In all, I have a dang good bargaining position.

And yet if I were to quit my job, that would hurt me a lot more than it would hurt my employer. I would lose 100% of my income, which is essentially catastrophic. I would run massive risk in needing to find another decent job, would probably have to move, and wouldn't know whether I would like my new job.

Meanwhile, for my employer, a few projects would be slightly delayed, and we'd have to be more held-back in accepting new work. Nothing really impactful. Hence my employer holds a lot more bargaining power than I do.
That's what I mean though - what are places like Tokyo doing that Berlin isn't in this case? Or is the Tokyo subway as abandoned as NYC's these days?
> I’m sure you’re asking: “why allow your parameters to be biased?” Good question. The most straightforward answer is that there is a bias-variance trade-off. The Wikipedia article does a good job both illustrating and explaining it. For β-hat purposes, the notion of allowing any bias is crazy. For y-hat purposes, adding a little bias in exchange for a huge reduction in variance can improve the predictive power of your model.

I'm going to push back on this.

The author seems to understand the bias-variance tradeoff as applying primarily to y-hat, and allows that if you are primarily interested in y-hat then it can make sense to make that tradeoff (introduce bias in exchange for lower variance). But the bias-variance tradeoff is more general than that. There's also a bias-variance tradeoff in beta-hat, and you can make a similar decision there to introduce some bias in beta-hat in exchange for lower variance, lowering the overall mean square error.

There's nothing crazy about this. The entire field[1] of Bayesian statistics does this every day--Bayesian priors introduce bias in the parameters, with the benefit of decreasing variance. Bayesians use these biased parameter estimates without any problems.

Classical (non-Bayesian) statistics has tended to focus heavily on unbiased models. I suspect this is largely because restricting the class of models you're looking at to unbiased models allows you to prove a lot of interesting results. For example, if you restrict yourself to linear unbiased models, you can identify one single `best` (i.e. lowest variance) estimator. As soon as you allow bias you can't do that anymore.

[1] Except empirical Bayes, which is a dark art.
The US government failed on many fronts, but the main one is testing. I think that people misunderstood the point of the lockdowns, possibly due to bad marketing from the flatten the curve people. The truth is that without a vaccine reopening would always spike cases, but a robust testing system, with possibly maybe 10x the number of daily tests, would allow us to remove contagious individuals from public and flatten the curve while reopening. Without testing we do have to choose lockdown or hospital overload, but we can still boost testing. The lockdown was like telling your kid a task would take ten minutes, and they would be in timeout until they completed it. If they choose not to do the task, you don't just let them out. Governors can have all the plans they want, but telling them all to come up with their own testing plan without federal use of the DPA is ludicrous.
GDS improved Gov.uk's front end performance with HTTP/2
> for people under 50 covid19 is no more dangerous than a regular flu.

Ever heard about the 40-year old British pilot having to be in "two-and-a-half months in a medically induced coma" from "a regular flu"?

"His blood became extremely sticky leading to clots. His kidneys failed meaning they required dialysis and his lung capacity plummeted to 10%."

It's very different from flu, those are known symptoms of Covid-19.

Also, did you know that Vietnam still has zero deaths from Covid-19?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53196009
Totally agree. Physics laws, and especially thermodynamics laws, are intangible. But here, many people in the world, wrongly think, that we can escape them, and replace them by "good willing".
Well, it could be the "single most praised feature" due to selection bias or survival bias: People who don't like the feature dislike it so much that they never become active users. :-O (Here's a good video about that kind of bias: https://youtu.be/P9WFpVsRtQg?t=88)
The "gradual progression" sounds very neat! I could imagine that will make adaption far easier and make the keyboard much more attractive for people who aren't "power users".
Sacrifice is ill-defined here. 12% is not an accurate number though it's admittedly not great. Oxygen can hypothetically be taken at home but you can't exactly care for yourself if you're dying of COVID. By the sick and obese, we really mean mostly poor minority communities. A middleground between total lockdown and purposefully refusing the acknowledge any public health recommendations is demonstrably effective in many parts of the world.
Typical slave of leftist propaganda thoughts...

Sorry for the sad state of your poor thinking process...

https://qmap.pub/
The Boredom Around Bitcoin Price Is Only Noise, the Real Signal Is Elsewhere
Mozilla updates Common Voice to 7226 hours in 54 languages
In German written driving license test, there is a section literally dedicated for railway crossings.

Edit: Clarified that it is written test.
Unfortunately, Maps.me on android is either replete with trackers or now basically doesn't work (the f-droid expurgated version), though the question wasn't about android. At least that was the case with f-droid fairly recently -- due to changes in how the maps are now distributed as far as I remember.
If we can't have an impartial judge, the next best thing is impartial standards of evidence.
My gig ended due to covid, and I've spent the past few months interviewing for IC and leadership positions (12+ years experience).

Personally I've been getting plenty of meetings and interviews, but out of 10 virtual on-site interviews I've yet to receive an offer. I'm based in the US, and these were remote positions.

I interviewed with two companies for leadership positions which would have required hiring developers. Both CEOs were adamant about hiring non-US developers. One stated that because he was forced into a remote environment he would rather hire 2 or 3 offshore workers than one US based engineer.

Interviewing is tough. I think I'll need to take a few months before I can start accepting interviews again. The processes are all so long and the results at times can seem so arbitrary.

While I do need a job, accepting an interview is effectively agreeing to several phone meetings, a couple of automated hackerrank style coding tests, 6+ rounds of technical and non-technical interviews, all to receive a canned rejection email.
To be fair, the ratio of spam received from EC2 has dropped in the last month, something has definitely changed (or I'm not a target since then).

I'll let you know.
I have heard that phrase, but I've only ever heard it used in cases like these (and never the other way around):

- parents talking about children

- teachers talking about students

- management talking about laborers

- rich people talking about poor people

I hope you see what the problem is.
I still find it odd that we call this "artificial intelligence" when it's advanced mimicry at best. There's no "intelligence" in the strict definition of the word, it's just elaborate pattern matching.

But I get it, it's exciting, and it's an easy way to get VC money. Perhaps one day we'll get something useful aside from the various pattern matching applications (image recognition, speech to text, etc). I'm skeptical but willing to be surprised.
Could you please remove the link, as it is not particularly relevant here? (I understand your point, I indeed have experience in multiple fields, but right here in the context of this discussion I would prefer to keep only my profile as an epidemic modeler).
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I hate the fact that you're right. And that you've described my job in a small company.
> The ultimate goal of society should not be to seek out objective truth! It should be to minimize harm to human beings.

I disagree with this statement as I think objective truth is much more useful and important than minimizing harm.

I don’t think humans should be sacrificed, but I think in 1000 years objective truth in science, math, art will be more important than whether my air conditioning was always pleasantly at 74.

I boil this down to “reals > feels.”
Why is chunking, with Pandas, a bad choice?
This can be interpreted as racist, as you do, but it can also be interpreted as religious proselytism pushing 'intelligent design' against the idea of random and continuous human improvement.

My example here is 2001: A Space Odyssey. It all happens because of the monolith. Without it, we would surely still be monkeys killing each other with bones and stones. It's easy to see the monolith as symbolism for one or other religion.

And I hate that this is repeated through many other science fiction works.
Content wars.
And this is my attempt at ranking the big french cities by pedestrian area : https://villes.plus/piétonnes
How not to suck at eventual consistency
Sounds like the sort of thing that could come out of GPT-2
In the US and Canada, this has been upheld in court as legal numerous times.

Any activity done on the company equipment/software is considered work product and is accessible for audit/reviews.

In our case, we only open these logs if a manager has an issue with an employee (either a complain against their conduct, or drop in attendance/work product).

Often, the metrics show that the employee is just doing other work that the manager isn't aware of, but sometimes it's clear that the employee has either abandoned their job entirely and is just doing nothing - and the logs give us legal grounds for termination.

We tell everyone that the system is monitored - we're very transparent about that, and remind them that person comms should be done from their phones. I honestly don't understand the controversy.

This transparency has saved good employees, highlighted bad managers, and helped us remove bad apples.
Too bad it is electron.
Yeah. I'm inviting BIPOC to come forward and run with the platform. I'll drop out of they ask. Until then, I'm working on an "In case of death/martyrdom" set of instructions.
Syncthing ought to be an answer to this, given the right editor.
Or it's moving away from the same point.
I think this trend of better knowledge tools is missing two very important pieces of human nature

1. If we have time to enter something into a knowledge base of any kind - then we have time to just jot it on a piece of paper.

2. If we dont have time (or think it is important at that moment) then what solves the problem for us is not a knowledge base, but search.

You see the thing about Google and Facebook etc, is that if they were collecting all this information about me, and it was treated like medical information about me it would be far more useful to me (and far less useful to Advertisers).

I want a web browser that remembers every single page I have visited (#) and then lets me search them. Then someone could write a spaced reminder thingy for me - spent more than 5 minutes on a web page did he - he will want to refresh that page in 2 weeks and then 4 months.

Yes, knowledge bases are excellent for clearly defined study efforts - like y'know, university, but for the rest of life, explicit note taking is a cost that we need some activation energy barrier for.

Put it this way, once upon a time I had a study book for a new programming language, and i took notes of interesting examples on a ring binder. But the last time I learnt a new language I just relied on Google finding me the relevant StackOverflow pages - my cost/benefit line had changed.

(And notes just got dumped into a text file.)

(#) Ok maybe not those pages
Full list in a text form:

* Whitelist -> Allowlist
* Blacklist -> Denylist
* Master/slave -> Leader/follower, primary/replica, primary/standby
* Grandfathered -> Legacy status
* Gendered pronouns (e.g. guys) -> Folks, people, you all, y'all
* Gendered pronouns (e.g. he/him/his) -> They, them, their
* Man hours -> Person hours, engineer hours
* Sanity check -> Quick check, confidence check, coherence check
* Dummy value -> Placeholder value, sample value
Testing in the beginning lagged significantly from the initial infection.
Why is the government obligated to protect your investment? They aren't obligated to keep stock prices high, or to protect the companies land nearby.
Once the rascism card is being played, you don't have much choice. Then it is not longer an argument whether you are right.
Sorry for being too ambiguous there. Yes, anyone can choose to remove “master / slave” terminology from their own project. The issue I take is a bit bigger than a matter of individual choice.

I have a problem with companies adopting extremist political policies in an effort to cater to a growing population of hostile young puritans who want to LARP as activists but lack any meaningful civil rights issue to worry about and have thus resolved to make up shitty, fake civil rights battles.

In order to not be considered “problematic” in this modern landscape we’re expected to play along with these shitty, fake civil rights battles. That’s a game I’m personally tired of playing and I think it ends when everyone, including its own vocal proponents, are burned by it.

I didn’t choose to get rid of the “master” repo, but now we’re changing terms. Literally the terms of service have changed.
'science-y' stuff usually doesn't have 'science' in the name.
> If your code doesn’t compile due to the rigidness of the borrow checker, it’s incorrect I’m sorry to say.

There're plenty of bug-free code which the borrow checker doesn't permit. A very common example is nested calls with a &mut receiver: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/accepting-nested-method-ca...
>Castle Bravo, the biggest US bomb ever tested, was also heavily fusion (and big thanks to the unexpected lithium 7 tritium bonus), though I think you're right that a lot of ultimate yield was from fission of the natural uranium tamper.

It seems to be generally accepted that 10Mt (two thirds) of the yield in Castle Bravo was indeed from fast fission of the tamper.
> There are several promising vaccines that are already fairly far along in development.

Hope is not a plan. What if they don't get approved?
> If a vaccine is not found, you're bound to have a catastrophe on your hands.

> Whether or not you quarantined, the economy would collapse because you would have a massive death toll and paranoia throughout the country.

You make assumptions in these two statements without a lot of nuance or support.

I think the economy would be much better off if we had encouraged self- quarantine for at risk groups, but allowed otherwise healthy people to go about their business. Giving people information to make their own decisions, encourage social distancing etc etc

Why will we have a catastrophe if a vaccine is not found?
So in short - Trump was right?