skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re right on both counts. But to throw a wrinkle in this, DragonFlyBSD was forked from FreeBSD 4 more recently than Open from Net, and is quite a remarkably different beast; it doesn’t necessarily follow they need to be remarkably similar.
Where is this data sourced from?

Edit: I tried accessing some common endpoints like /about to see if there are any unlinked pages, but could not find any. Hence why I asked the question.
Because that 1% of people are lives that still matter??? WTF... I can't believe this.
Yeah and that "analysis" is more nitpicking and cheap criticism rather than actual issues

Because complaining that a Covid contact tracing app includes symptom tracing is just ridiculous
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Seems like bs to me. If you're on the other side of the planet you're expected to be online at 3am for lectures and exams? Ridiculous.
Can you elaborate on what you mean? I was interpreting “fairness” as “unbiased”, meaning if the process used to generate the data is biased, they are inherently unfair
In case you're wondering about pricing: the V100 costs $1260/GPU/month and this A100 will have about 2.5x its performance [1]. A n2d-highmem-96 instance is $4377 per month. So for the maxed out a2-megagpu-16g I would expect around $54k per month before usage discounts etc.

1. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ampere-architecture...
Stewart Brand has done lots of good stuff. My favorite is the 6 part BBC series on "How Buildings Learn". It really opened my eyes to the importance of buildings. Very relevant to the frequent discussions here about zoning, design, etc. But also just an amazing, clear, well-informed amateur analysis of how the US has been doing in this field over the last 100 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0
This article is a bit of a Frankenstein monster. There are too many possible target audiences for ML blogs and it seems like this post made an attempt to please everybody. This isn't a condemnation of the author, its just an impossible task.

1. Experienced ML practitioners will be unimpressed with the ML task generally (simple problem, no comparison with common models, no use of common dataset, no lit review) and wish that there was more detail in model design.

2. Inexperienced ML practitioners will be happy with the birds-eye view of NLP tasks but wish there were more implementation details.

3. Potential clients (non-technical) will get lost in the details/lingo and wish there were case studies or a vision of what this service can accomplish for them/their business.

4. Potential clients (technical) and SWEs will wish they got a better look at the GUI, got an explanation of the stack, and wonder about APIs/integration with whatever it is they already do.

Perhaps this might explain why literally every other comment at the time I'm writing this is asking for additional details. Pick one or two!
`prefers-contrast` is important for moving web accessibility forward. Right now, making a website respond to someone's contrast preferences is next to impossible.

Its neat to see Firefox implement it and hopefully this spurs other browsers to follow suit.
Perhaps you know more than is in this blog post, but it sounds more like a rather standard load balancer.

Deployment broke. Yeah, that probably should have been caught. Even if it didn't, monitoring should have caught the stale load balancer config. It didn't, for some reason unknown to us.

These things happen. Things break. The autoscaler then proceeded to kill customer traffic. That was the part that worked as designed, so another design would have avoided escalating the situation (if you forgive some armchair engineering here).
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Interesting techniques.

I wonder if Snapchat would also flag a user if their iPhone was jail broken or otherwise hooked by NSO groups Pegasus spyware?
> For students that cannot go back due to travel restrictions or that have other obligations in the country, it would make sense to let them stay.

These students will not be allowed to stay.
I'm surprised he even got tested considering he called it the "little flu"
>If this anti-immigration trend is held over a sufficiently long time I think rich countries will start realizing what a magnificent deal they had.

I suspect as soon as the sentiment changes that people will rush to come here again. The US has for better or worse a fairly unique culture and those who like that will still want to immigrate in 5 or 10 years.
Snapchat runs on App Engine (and other stuff runs on App Engine too) so App Engine is almost certainly bigger than Slack just based on that.
If it's legal to set this to 90 days, why can't a firm set it to one or zero days?
$50,000 a year for a Harvard undergraduate course exclusive of accommodation and food. Sounds like there's a lot of fat that could be trimmed. Sounds immoral in fact.
That's really interesting. Shows that optimising for each CPU presented a different challenge each time.

I remember hearing Steve Furber say that they realised that memory bandwidth was the biggest constraint in 8/16 bit CPUs so the ARM1/2 really focused on this and it shows (in fact I think they approached Intel with the idea of commissioning an 8086 with more bandwidth but were turned away - funny how things work out).
there is a lot of social nastiness in school. Kids may be prodigies academically, but likely they are simply not equipped to handle older kids emotionally or even physically.

The truly gifted are rare enough that the system probably would be mostly like it is today. Public schools are essentially factory production lines. You can get what you are looking for but not in the mass production factory.

My daughter is going into 7th grade in private school. There are several kids who are 3 years younger than her in her class. The small class sizes and flexibility of a private school makes it possible.

My daughter was in an excellent public school in 3rd grade with a lot of asians. There were kids doing long division in kinder. The school's solution was to create 5 tracks in each grade and each track was only around 4 weeks. The kids took a test at the beginning of the track and got placed in the appropriate level for their ability in just that subject area. The good thing was that kids didnt get permanently tracked, they could move up or down depending on their level in a particular area.

There were five 3rd grade classes and when they split for the tracks each teacher took one level.

This wouldnt really help the exceptionally gifted that would need to be more than a few grade levels ahead. But I think the topics that I was aware of were probably 2 levels ahead of grade level.
Captcha is ultra kosher, because it assumes you're not a human and must prove otherwise.
I concur. It's subtle but likely effective given the audience. :)
Of course they do. So advise the 1% that's at risk to quarantine until we get a vaccine.
The general public has been lied to, to a significant degree. People who have full trust in entities that have and continue to publish untruths seem more irrational to me than supposedly irrational skeptics, etc (it is unknowable what the aggregate rationality of a given group is, but good luck finding anyone rational enough to realize that).
Many of these methods are probing for whether the sandbox exists and is in effect–on a normal device they will return errors (you tried to access something you shouldn't have) or predictable values (the libraries loaded should just be your own and Apple's) based on the app's execution. The point of such checks is that on a jailbroken device they will unexpectedly succeed due to relaxed policy enforcement or give away information that code execution is occuring. In my opinion most of these should not pass App Store Review. But Apple lets it through regardless…
“It’s the law” is a terrible rationale though. Our values should inform our laws and their interpretation, not the other way around.

There is a clear externality forcing this situation and it is clearly more detrimental to force them out of the country than to just make special accommodations/provisions. Pass a bill if that makes it more palatable and set it to have a termination date with the ability to “re-up” if this situation continues. But shrugging and going “them’s the rules” when it suits us and being flexible elsewhere (freelancers getting unemployment benefits, for instance) seems arbitrary and, frankly, capricious.
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It's not like any education representative can change immigration policy or grant some exceptions, it's not up to them.

If taking online classes means that the students visas become invalid, or if their current visa restrictions mean that it's prohibited for them to be in an online-only program, then that's exactly what it means, and it's wrong to blame schools or education department about it, it's not about education but about immigration policy - the domain of Department of State, Congress, etc.
I'm sorry, egress is far more expensive than that.
For a big project GoLand is the way to go. For small or quick edits I like to use vim with the vim-go plugin[1].

[1]https://github.com/fatih/vim-go
Humans just have to set waypoints. It's no roomba though.
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GATE: (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering. Its an entrance exam in India for Post-Graduate admissions. Considered to be one of the toughest exams)

This bring back memories. I was preparing for GATE in 2006 after getting my bachelors. Actually started preparing from 2004. I was so bad at Automata Theory and discreet maths. I never got admitted to the prestigious IITs, but that preparation and learning was helpful later in my career when I got admitted to MS program in a US university.
I always test till I find at least one bug. This approach has never failed me, and I usually find more than one. Sometimes its a corner case but still a condition the software should handle. I would really have to write a very tiny thing in order not to make a single bug!

Of course archiving the tests can be a pain if nothing is prepared for it. Automating the tests is yet another pain. Still I worked on a library once when I added quite a few automated tests, because the infra was basically there and just waiting for it.
[2] seems more like an instance where we need more app stores that understand how the internet works. The idea that we're going to ban Tumblr because it has porn on it but allow web browsers is so horrendously misguided that it's a singularly unique example of corporate doublethink.
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It isn't a binary kind of thing. You could survive with all sorts of long term issues. And here's the real "fun": nobody really knows what they are. Hence, recovering is rather relative.
It's all just statistics until your loved ones are in the ICU because of covid.
The difference is that venture capital getting pissed away is on the VCs; they took a risk and maybe they lose out or win big, but it's on them.

The out of control DoD spending is your tax dollars, which could go to fixing bridges or to schools or hospitals, etc.
FOSS is super competitive, too. Teams splinter off and fork projects, new projects start up that try to dethrone the industry leaders, people compete for status/usage, etc. The main difference is that the work product/process is public and so ideas spread much more rapidly.
Instructors want to reduce their risk of exposure, which is understandable. But serving that interest also means a lot of international students will lose their visas. Would limiting seats in class to just international students be a good way to reconcile both parties' interests?

Edit: this would raise issues of fairness and equal treatment (a lot of students, especially those not accustomed to remote learning, would feel cheated). There probably is no perfect solution.
That seems like an accounting mindset. Engineering is not a cost center (to be minimized) it's an investment in the future. This view offers a lot more flexibility and options - including cooperation. It also suggests that you may get back more than you put in. Invest wisely of course.
I've been working with Mastodon, but it is REALLY hard to get people to use it because it is too small. I'm trying to get friends to join, but the response to me has been: "Too much effort, just use Facebook, dork."

I don't think we've figured out how to build a distributed social media network yet that matches the ease-of-use and scale of Facebook. I'm hopeful though.
This is a great question. Thus far I thought, that the content that is publicly available without any limitation (e.g. membership access), can be scraped by anyone. You can take a look at hiQ Labs vs. LinkedIn [1]. LinkedIn's public data was scraped by data analytics company, the ruling was against LinkedIn.

I also think that the use case matters, I don't republish their content on the site, but merely provide it via API. Technically, it could be argued, that they could get this data themselves, but it is easier for them to use a service similar to this one to simplify things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
There isn't enough space in bluetooth IDs to include a cryptographically signed timestamp, there isn't even really enough space to include a cryptographic signature for everything ... in the the Apple/Google design the Bluetooth power level is left unsigned due to space constraints. It really is a very very small amount of space.

An alternative design involved bluetooth IDs broadcasting small 63-bit ECDH shares and devices performing pair-wise key agreement. This would raise the difficulty level of replay attacks; they'd need to be bi-directional and roughly time synchronized (within a ~15 minute window) but it had other trade-offs including reducing the efficacy of the app due to bi-directional message receipt being required, and ballooning the amount of data that needs to be distributed to detect infection risk. So it wasn't taken.
Could you explain what do you mean? If you think that majority of people are not smart enough to have a say in how they should be governed, you need to propose some mechanism, of reducing their voice, because the mechanism which we use now, is saying that they have full vote, and ignoring their vote.

Or do you mean that the current system is gaslighting and direct democracy would be better?
> When the user starts the browser for the first time, ask if they want to allow tracking cookies on all websites.

Would it be legal/ethical to allow automated pre-commitment to all terms and conditions that nefarious sites may choose to scatter around their pages, many of which won't have been written until after the user had ticked this "agree to everything" box?

> every website gives us a pop-up with an intentionally confusing interface

Any site doing this is breaking the law. Report them please.

> Why can't I say 'No' to tracking once?

Because sites which track you don't want it. After all, they're the ones who invented "cookie banners"; and they could choose to get rid of them by just, you know, not tracking people. Yet they don't.
The fact that writing compilers is an academic fetish does not imply that compilers are written by academics.
20 years ago we had popups, popunders, etc... nowadays we have this crap. I don't care about GDPR, I don't care about cookies... I just want the content. That's why I use a browser extension called "I don't care about cookies" which removes these things from websites.

Accepting to GDPR / Cookies: This should be some kind of a web standard , built inside a browser so user can accept it once, ignore or whatever, but seeing this on every website drives (drived) me nuts.
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Because the number of people with "other conditions" is massive.

Grab any family tree and shake it and somebody immunocompromised or asthmatic or with COPD or heart disease or whatever will fall out.

Saying "oh, only people who aren't like me are at risk" is essentially what we're talking about when we talk about "conditions".

It's practically narcissism.
you can't expect 0% death, its unrealistic.
Yes! it's a great fit for this problem, we actually experimented with it: https://medium.com/sculpt/a-technique-for-building-nlp-class...
I really wish people (not you) would stop pushing the idea that death is the only consequence of COVID. Three different NFL players have said their lungs still aren't recovered and they're still getting winded months after having COVID. These are people in their 30s and younger and in some of the best fitness in the world.

Plenty of stories of blood clotting leading to many other issues in the general population during and past recovery. We don't know the consequences of this virus. No it's not a death sentence - but it's also not a minor flu.
The hysteria is about hospital saturation.

People recover, but a lot of people recover after spending a long time under intensive care and breathing machines (which are available in a limited quantity).

So if a lot of people get sick at the same time then a lot of them will die just because there are not enough beds and intensive care units available.

Dude don't be dismissive, this shit is serious.
The book Extreme Ownership would not condone psychopathic behavior like making people sleep in office for weeks at a time. Nor would any ex-military leader I've ever encountered. Military skills are not purely "for war" any more than college skills are for "writing essays."

Sorry you suffered that experience though, hope you made it out of there.
Yes, that would be far more than I need. That's the problem, actually. I could track a fraction of that and be really happy.

I tried Plausible today, but their event handling is completely insufficient for my needs. It's basically a key-based counter. The keys have to be created in advance, and can't be categorised. This means I couldn't track outbound clicks without first creating a new event for every known URL on my website. It just doesn't work.

It's a shame, because I loved every other aspect of Plausible.
It's not immoral, it's business. Harvard has presented a product and you are free to take it or leave it. What is unfortuntate though is that we've been conditioned as a society to believe that a higher education is the most valuable thing you could ever earn.
Are you an epidemiologist? Physician specializing in blood and/or respiratory diseases?

Failing that, have you scoured the available literature with a completely open mind, and can summarize the arguments ranging from taking this incredibly seriously to blowing it off as just a "flu?"

Or have you seen one or two essays that seem persuasive, and quote the studies that happen to support the argument the author's wish to make? And are now passing that cherry-picked information around as if no other information exists?

Science is not a "narrative," and describing it as such makes me deeply suspicious that you do not take this subject seriously. You pushing a point of view that is not the consensus amongst people who actually consider all of the data, and supporting it with one essay that happens to say what you want to hear... That is a narrative.
To add to what the other commentor said, it's often overlooked that the outcomes are more complicated than life-or-death. There are more cases of people ending up permanently crippled by organ damage than dieing.
How are anonymous UUIDs PII and how is JC exploiting them?

They have no special access nor do I see a first order effect that benefits them. Just that the open source Julia ecosystem will benefit and that will feed back into JC's market.
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That explained a lot to me about America in 2020.
What would happen if Bolsanaro doesn't survive? How does succession works in Brazil. Is the next person in line more or less rational than Bolsanaro. Also can it end up leading Brazil further to the right due to sympathy votes? Or will it make people realise his incompetence if something happens to him.
While for sure not all "ex-military skills" are leadership skills, there are some general leadership skills you can learn in many places, including the military.

The book is in my opinion a distillation of those skills, which -- maybe just so happen to -- come from military background. None of what is presented in the book come anywhere close to the situation you described. I would dare to say, quite the contrary. It is about listening, understanding, trusting and many other things, usually considered positive.

It had a great influence on me, though I have never even thought of joining the military.

I started practicing extreme ownership as a regular developer and made my way up to a team leader in about 6 months time. Now I double down as a fresh (and young) leader.
The missing perspective is that there are visa mills just as there are diploma mills, and that enforcement from both Immigration and Customs and Department of Education is piss-weak. They should have gotten on top of these institutions long ago, but they wouldn't, so here we are.

There is Georgia Tech, but there is also the College of Northern Virginia. Here is some background: https://cis.org/Report/Dregs-Higher-Education-Damage-Our-Imm...
For every death, there's an unknown number of people with severe, long-lasting effects that aren't currently captured in any statistics. Just ask Richard Quest. There's many, many more like him. This thing seems to do long-term damage to people, even people with "mild" courses of disease that don't even send them to hospital.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-we...
They tried that in Sweden and ended up killing a bunch of people.
Three things:

1. He is 65 years old.
2. 0.6% of the population is a LOT of people.
3. Infected people linger in the ICU for a long time. If you are in a car accident, will they have room for you?
It is news, but as other have noted it is not surprising given Bolsanaro's public stance. Frankly, I am more surprised US upper echelon seems largely unscathed at the moment.
The college I go to uses a loophole to allow military veterans to get the full monetary benefits of attending an in person class, while doing everything online. They don't have attendance requirements, all the material taught in class has to be available online, and no exercises or in class assignments count towards your final grade. That way the school can say you enrolled in an in-person class, and the student gets to decide whether or not they want to show up. Admittedly, the in class instruction normally isn't very good, and maybe 5-10 people still come in after the first few weeks.
What fraction of the population would you estimate has a pre-existing condition? Think carefully, considering that obesity is a pre-existing condition. This article says even being overweight has a higher risk.

You’re also focussing on the death rate, but many of those hospitalized see after effects.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2237?fbclid=IwAR1nV_GMu...
Lots of reasons, but here's one: Saturation of healthcare resources. People who get sick with Covid are more likely to use hospital beds and resources, and for longer as well.

Also, as you get older the more health issues you will pick up, statistically speaking. So if at age 70, 60% of the population have serious health issues, something like 60% of the population is vulnerable. Saying 99% of fatalities had other serious health issues is almost the same as saying that older populations are more vulnerable.
Is the value of their charity greater than the cost of the country losing their talent? The "teach a man to fish" proverb comes to mind.
Not sure if it is about hospitals any more. The confusion is we don’t have a goal in mind we agree on.

e.g. Many hospitals are almost empty and they have to furlough doctors/nurses...