skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from gaming, which isn't prevalent aside from casual games in NA and EU to my knowledge, I'm not sure what someone may possibly need it's phone for where something like a S7 (a bit more than 4 years old) isn't largely sufficient. Not a diss on Apple, I think the iPhone 5 is vastly better than circa-2012 Android phones, I just disagree with the premise of throwing phones every 2 years as being remotely necessary (perhaps until the next paradigm shift in computing/web/mobile usage where current tech starts to be too sluggish).
Sort of Startup Stash for weight loss. I like the idea, but would love to see something like plans personalised for my needs.
> If you were around SF in 1999-2001, you know how fast things can change.

I was, and I remember it being specifically noted in local media shortly afterwars that while the same was not true of some parts of the Bay Area, SF did not see a decline in housing prices as a result of the bust, though it did see a temporary decline in the rate of increase.
That doesn't seem any different than asking a software engineer candidate to complete a take home coding assessment. If you don't like it then find another company to work with.
haha "dark ages"...in my opinion, these were the GOOD TIMES! the only thing you needed to know was HTML, and you could just "view source" and see how everyone else was doing it.

but yeah...a lot of people got paid a lot of money to do things that are so trivial nowadays, that there's a whole industry of workers who get paid to NOT do them.
That's not something I'm really equipped to comment on all that much. My role was mostly as a software developer, less a data scientist. I can talk about how to improve the statistical power of the data you are using though, since there's a few ways to make synthetic data. Maybe something in here can answer your question.

Dummy data, like what the Faker (various languages) package does has very little utility other than testing systems and developing prototypes with similar schema to the real thing. It can be used as a starting point for making synthetic data, and that's what we did.

Getting into synthetic data, there's sequential and non-sequential synthetic data. Sequential would generate a single datum, such as age, then use that as the starting point to produce the rest. For instance:

age = 29 => Income for age (20 < x < 30) draw from distribution [30, 70], for incomes in that distribution... ect

Here you have actually really high utility data and can use it for producing basic models that you can then apply to the real data. Non-sequential data on the other hand creates independent datum with a specific rule, but ignores the interdependence of the rules. For example, where a sequential dataset may contain less than 1% of people age 20 to 30 who are retired, a non sequential dataset may contain a distribution based on the group average, leading to a skewed number of people age 20 to 30 who are retired.
This kind of reminds me of a similar article I saw, saying that Ruby needed maintainers/contributors.

I contacted the Ruby development team, and was told: "find something to improve, maybe do an optimization" with no further guidance. So, I moved on to other things.
Ok. Please talk to me like I am the student.

- where did your argument suceed?
- where i say 'this deceptive' transaction is not good for society. I agree this is subjective.
- I present a wildly inflated case, based on your criteria 'seller buyer agree' to present that this formula would not lead to a good world, destruction/chaos, self endangerment.
- I believe our disconnect is not where we fail to align argument paths but backing up, where we fail to agree on a definition of what is 'good'. Would you like to take the lead?

Appreciate your time!
Cloudflare has a dns privacy policy that is exactly like Google’s but without as many robust internal controls to enforce it. There are reasons to prefer it but a rational risk model isn’t one.
Happiness comes when you realize that's impossible to be happy all the time and that's fine.
> 'If you look at what people actually do to be happier, it seems nearly everyone tries to change the external facts: we try to become richer, thinner, more successful, to find a better house in a nicer area, and so on. A few of us think about trying to spend less time working, and more time on hobbies or with friends and family. Almost no one thinks about actively retraining the way they think. In fact, I don’t think this last idea even crosses most of our minds.'

You might be new to this because you've just started your PhD, but that doesn't mean everyone else is too.
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Private company. I don't care. Jumping from Microsoft doing a thing about this to a law being passed restricting speech is quite the stretch and would be against the 1st.
This isn’t censorship.
Which begs the question: if the compiler can automatically transform objects anyway, why do we even need value types/structs?

Or asked differently: what is the difference between an object with properly overridden hashCode() / equals() methods and which is effectively only being used as a data container, and a struct?
For those talking about AI models

> Microsoft will not automatically ban players that create designs with these controversial images; instead, the original designer will need to be reported by submitting a ticket.

Sounds like it's a manual process right now.
Anything that gives a boost to Wikidata is great. Being able to run queries over wiki remains one of the most magical things on the internet:

https://query.wikidata.org/
> You(or others) may be getting mixed up between complaints of legal vs illegal immigration. Illegal immigration does tend to displace American workers for forms of manual labor like on farms, roofing, etc.

Let's say that it is true, and that the US job market is larger for blue collar vs. white collar work seekers. Then one must ask why there isn't a ban on seasonal workers yet.

> Legal immigration like H1B tends to be gamed by large corporations to get
cheaply paid workers for contacting companies.

That's not true. Large IT outsourcing companies, yes. FAANG, no. H1B salaries are publicly available, so it is easy to prove it.

> If talent was truly global, they wouldn't do this.

Quite literally the opposite. Since talent is global, there simply are good engineers everywhere, and bringing them to the US market is an advantage.
These remind one that a compiler is not something magical, not a black box, just a program like any other.
The Maritime version is very slightly different. The Imperial Army version has the sun centered, while the Maritime version is slightly to the left.

Practically speaking probably doesn't make that much of a difference though.
Yes - we have them here in Canada and I’m a huge fan. Say whatever you want but you should be held responsible for you words.
Given the immense resistance of the US system to hate speech laws (first amendment, the fact that Republicans exist and sometimes get elected), and also given the immense desire of corporate elites to get rid of hate speech, what we will probably see is a corporate extra-legal "pragmatic law" against it, but no real law.

The mechanism of "pragmatic law" is coordination between power centers mediated through shared cultural norms. In the 1950s this kept black people off TV, despite the lack of any law against it, for instance. Presently we have a rapidly strenghtening cultural norm against the tolerance of hate speech, so we are likely to see the same mechanisms kick in again.

Corporations coordinating to enforce elite norms has a terrible history, but so does the enforcement of democratically approved majority norms, so it is not entirely clear whether the fact that this can happen is good or bad.
The physics, specifically, are high paying remote jobs. That's the thing that is specifically changing with Covid. As to the points being made about artisanal coffee shops not in rural areas? That's the exact thing that changes when you have urbanites moving to small towns. They start restaurants, bars and coffee shops.
Why is this newsworthy? Random video game publisher implements arbitrary rule in video-game land. Seems to me like the goal of this story is just to stir up controversy over something that's not at all important. Anyone who plays a lot of online games knows that game publishers regularly ban users for a wide variety of arbitrary reasons, even mundane profanity is enough to earn a ban or suspension in many popular games.
No. It’s apples and oranges.

Companies should be free to regulate hate speech on their platforms. The government should not regulate speech in the public domain.

The actions of private companies on private property (virtual or otherwise) are an entirely different domain than government intervention.

Even if you remove the censorship angle, it can be argued that moderating hate speech is simply good business sense. People buying Forza and paying for it don’t want to see this. If it becomes an issue, they lose customers.
To me, that'd be a good outcome for the confederate flag. It is a hate symbol and exists almost exclusively to project hatred towards black people.
Yeah, I would love to see that.

I think the author could take the same engine and create a new so that just blocks trackers and Facebook and people would gladly pay for it.
There is considerable amount of caffiene in tea as well but it’s absorbed slower by the body than from coffee and most tea has L-Theanine, which is an amino acid which attenuates the caffiene high that is usually present from coffee.
People have paid Beyonce > 125,000x the musician down the street. Why should tell people who want to pay her money that they're wrong and we should steal from Beyonce to give to a musician no one wants to pay? Are you saying millions of people are wrong to prefer her music over a musician? That you're smarter than all those people how they should spend their money?

Life is Pareto, theft amplifies pareto-ness (see Russian oligarchs during and after USSR)
Image recognition people - is the approach to detecting something as "regular" as a particular flag any different than any other image recognition task? Or are you still just pumping in a ton of training data and doing hotdog/not hotdog?
The economics field is not very well developed. It's a social science where experiments can't be reproduced.

The intuitive answer to the title is that the PRICE of dollars goes down. But that may not be the case. It depends on where the money goes. Perhaps it all goes into securitites or btc thus increase the price of those assets.
I know this won't be popular to say on HN, but I think Rust has the same problem Perl does. The language has so many systems to learn and a tough syntax that it looks unreadable to people just starting out.
> Putting the money in the stock market has only benefited those already in the stock market and those with the money to enter it.

Quantitative easing has been shown time and time again to alleviate and avoid economic downturn. Do grocery baggers and bar tenders benefit from an economic depression? Do you think Obama made the right choice to stimulate the economy in 2008? This is exactly the same thing.
Yes of course they should, but if core development is isolated to one or two companies, then they're not incentivized to produce these open specs so that they can maintain control, because they are also building businesses around these protocols. Another question: Is a protocol truly decentralized if its development is centralized?
The question is whether banning drugs causes more harm than good, not whether drugs are beneficial to society.
Myself and half my team are looking at permanently relocating out of Chicago. The pattern holds across other teams where I work.

Others I know in the industry are just up and leaving for remote-first companies and then moving to where they’re most comfortable.
It's possible that the programmers who built the system are really bad at security and really good at audit logging but I doubt it. Personally I would take the risk but I understand why others might not want to.
I think the status quo is the ideal. Companies can react to pressure from customers as they see fit with respect to their business needs. There is a market opportunity for a company willing to allow racist user-content in their games based on customer demand.
Syntax looks nice. What's the concurrency story?
Yes, I am -- that's what happens when you try to use the money printer that currently works and scale it up to unbounded resources (eventually).

And again, it sounds like you're agreeing with the point that I'm making. We can disagree about when it will be a problem, but you can't just trivialize the very idea of any mitigation effort being unaffordable because "we just print the money anyway, so affordability is meaningless", as the original comment was effectively arguing.
You should read the story of the silk road. There was a fascinating piece in Wired.
Even Wikidata today is already a lot more usable and scalable than Cyc. The latter always seemed like a largely-pointless proof of concept; Wikidata by contrast is very clearly something that can contain real info, and be queried in useful ways. (Of course knowledge is not always consistently represented, but that issue is inherent to any general-purpose knowledge base - and Wikidata does at least try to address it, if only via leveraging the well-known principle "many eyes make all bugs shallow".)
Career growth slides up and down the priority stack for many as they go through life. For young folks just getting started, absolutely. For folks that are 15-20 years in, starting to plateau in comp, have a family, maybe have some parents that need care, etc, career growth can start to fall away as a major motivator.
> To me, that'd be a good outcome for the confederate flag.

Where does it end?
Does it make sense to build an Incubator if you haven't built any kind of company yet?
Crashlytics is necessary unless you want shite software.
You might be interested in learning more about the current Singaporean housing system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dBaEo4QplQ
We've already been there a long time in terms to "What you can do on Xbox Live." You'd be insane to put a German swastika on your Forza car and expect not to get banned.
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By the government!?
Not Government censorship, anyway.
try firefix addons singlefile[1]

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
Looks like just DNS blocking using VPN API. I use a different method for system-level adblocking on ios. I temporarily jailbreak, supervise the device, and install easylist's pac to block connections without an external server. Jailbreak is removed after it is set in place. Guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/dbdb8x/tutorial_...

The only downsides I have seen to this method are it's slightly annoying to initially install and if github goes down (where the pac is hosted), phone network connectivity goes down until it comes back up.
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You put lentils in salted water and simmer for ~30 minutes, is the basic recipe. Unclear how this could be lower effort, its similar to boiling dried pasta.

Even seasoning doesn't have to require chopping, smash a piece of garlic, don't even dice, throw it in, delish.

I only ever make a full 1 lb bag of dried lentils or beans at a time, what you don't eat immediately stores well in a 1 gallon zip lock bag and keeps for longer than a week. Dish out half cup at a time and hit briefly in microwave.

Lentils (and split peas) are the easiest legumes since they don't even require thinking ahead. But beans with a $60 slow cooker are arguably even lower effort.
It...is. It's just not illegal.
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Yeah, I don't really understand that. Would they also ban anyone for adding the insignia for United States Army Air Forces? What about writing "Enola Gay" on the side of a car?
I'm curious why the confederate flag should get special treatment.

I had relatives murdered in the Alamo. Should the Mexican flag get banned because I'm offended by it?

Every flag represents a group that has been in the losing side of a war and killed opposing citizens or soldiers.

Yet, those flags aren't banned.
It's a joke about about SQL databases misbehaving, not physics
Yeah, personally it seems dollar stores seem to often appear as "gap fillers" to prevent strip malls from dying like bleaching corral after the anchor store closes. The only other "empty blight stopgap" I have seen are storage places which essentially mean the place gave up on retail traffic anyway.
> There is absolutely no reason great
> typography should come at the expense of privacy

I agree to the extent that there is an order of magnitude less reason to prohibit CSS than Javascript.

However CSS is not benign. There are features that bad actors regularly exploit. For example, setting the opacity of an evil button to 0, and positioning it above an innocent button.

Also, CSS, as currently designed, is a barrier to reuse. The model I like is one where users are at liberty to display web content however they (the user, not the website) prefer. Since CSS is basically reusable only in theory, it inhibits that.

> I am happy that I don't have to read source code in
> Courier just because it is the only available monospace font.

It's true that, as a web developer, you can provide Courier. As a user, it's not, by browser default, your choice whether you get Courier. If the server decides a user should see Comic Sans, that's what the client will use, no?
I wouldn’t want people to celebrate slavery in my garden, so I can understand why Microsoft wouldn’t want people to do it in theirs.
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At a point which is beyond the confederate flag. There may well be a slippery slope somewhere along this road, but it's not here.

Gun advocates resist common sense reforms with the same logic, but lots of military weapons (minigun, flamethrower, rocket launcher, etc) are already either banned or highly regulated and have been for years without anyone's rights having been trampled.
I think it's hard to seriously argue that blanket prohibitions on using a particular symbol aren't censorship. Maybe there are reasonable arguments for censoring the confederate flag, but it's unhelpful to pretend that's not what's happening here.
Ironically, switching to different language versions of the same page is irritating on the mobile version.
What next? Tibetan flags? Uighur flags? Palestinian flags? Basque flags? Chechen flags? Israeli flags? South vietnamese flags? Taiwan flags? Dominion of Newfoundland flags? Black nationalist flags?

Who's the judge?
10% seems low. On Android Firefox supports extension so a lot of people are having exact same extension on desktop and mobile.
It's hard to generalize what everyone wants. Not everyone wants the same things in life.
I may have misinterpreted this part:

> The permanent logs are a sampling of the temporary logs where your IP address is removed and replaced by a city or region-level location.

What I understood from it is that they replace your IP address with an approximate location but keep the rest of the data. Can you explain me how you interpreted it?
Martin forgot to mention money as being the most important limitation on software. Some customers just don't have the budget to let you deliver good software or to evolve an architecture so that's its cheaper and easier to extend.
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As Idi Amin would have said "I guarantee freedom of speech but not freedom after speech"
I'm unhappy and yet too lazy to read this. Oh the existential quandary!
I know where you are coming from, but that is basically what the salary is for. We just have the bad situation that not everyone is in a driver seat to negotiate his salary (or have a choice). I'm not sure how it is in the USA, but in germany for example, there is minimum wage. I think the society and politicians are responsible to make sure that employees are treated gracefully and to establish mechanisms.
The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra was a light, but useful introduction to linear algebra for me during the summer before my freshman year of college.
> is the approach to detecting something as "regular" as a particular flag any different than any other image recognition task

It can be. It doesn't have to be. Image recognition research existed long before the current trend of throwing the kitchen sink at a neural net.

Practically speaking, the best outcomes always come from applying as many different techniques as you can justify and applying a controlled failure-scenario-aware synthesis to the results.
If you were trying to choose between Go, D, Nim, and Zig for a general-purpose compiled language, what are the criteria for differentiating and what are the pros and cons of these languages? Are there other languages that should be included in this list? (Common Lisp?)

(FWIW, chief on my list of criteria is the "debug story": what kind of hell am I in when things inevitably go wrong?)
The US economy is fairly diverse and adaptable. While a lot of jobs you are used to have or will disappear, new jobs will take their place. It's already happening.

I just saw an ad for a "contactless remote video broadcast studio". It's like an RC cart with a pro camera and teleprompter. Someone comes in a van and drops it at your front door, and then it gets remotely driven around your house until they find the filming spot. Then the director controls it remotely while directing you.

So we have the "camera delivery driver" and "cart maintenance" jobs that were created. That business will also need vans to drive the equipment around. And the director gets to keep their job and so does the actor.

There will for sure be a lot of short term pain as people adjust to the new reality, but the jobs will shift and people will come up with new ideas. The existing diversity of our economy will help a lot.
There are plenty of folks, especially on the technical side, that are here for the interesting work and high salaries. They could care less about climbing the managerial ladder. Also, millennials are starting to hit the mid-career phase, where it becomes clear that the 'ladder' gets really narrow, and things like children and mortgages start to weigh heavily on life choices. There will be plenty of folks who stick around, for sure. But by all indications (surveys, anecdotal reports, rent prices, etc...), there is plenty of interest in remote work.
Not really. Maybe Y Combinator will incubate his incubator?
If the word censorship can only apply to censorship by the government, then the word "self-censorship" doesn't really exist.
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