skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have often wondered this.

For some reason, important information isn't making it there. There's no page for Chain Replication. Maybe nobody has tried to add it? Chain Replication has been around for so long that it seems unlikely nobody would have tried to add it.

Wikipedia also seems to fall apart at the seams. It's great at giving you the answer to questions for which there is an unambiguous answer, but it doesn't do a good job of answering all the other questions you might have. Why is Prolog not very popular, what seems to be holding it back? Any answer to this is mostly speculation, something which is not allowed on Wikipedia.
Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities by Kevin Kelly

https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Tools-Possibilities-Kevin-Kelly/...

is a worthy successor to Whole Earth Catalog in both content and spirit.
> I'm getting closer to dropping them from my network entirely.

What are the best alternatives right now? Planning to do a whole house in the next few months and have been planning on Ubiquiti. I've heard some complaints lately but haven't heard of anything that makes for a good replacement.

My number one requirement is mesh APs with fast handoff. Close second is ease of admining multiple networks and ease of setting up segregated VLANs for IoT stuff.
Seemed pretty straightforward after a few tests. The only thing I noticed was regarding unique identifiers, the URL in the sources endpoint didn't seem to exactly match the URL attached to a headline? I could be wrong though, and not a big issue. Was more thinking about data cleanup and linking data easily (article/sources/authors etc).
That's what I mean. You have to explicitly use them for payroll within 2 months of acceptance, and retain 75% of your staff, and a lot of companies are not bothering with that and just taking the low-interest loan. A loan is still something, but it's not even in the same area code as a grant.
Chelsea to Host Crystal Palace
The second round still has funding available.
To paraphrase Red Dwarf:

Newsreader: Good evening. Here is the news on Friday, the 27th of Geldof.
Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a
missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in
Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to
read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are
fictitous and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely
coincidental." The page has been universally condemned by church leaders.
Misreporting regional grain production caused the central government to export "excess" grain and led to domestic famine.

Replacing unnecessary uses of the word "slave" in corporate codebase probably has less dire consequences.

Our problems with race are systemic and deeply rooted in many aspects of our culture. There isn't going to be a small number if things that will fix racism. The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Unfortunately we also have a history of taking a few steps and declaring that we traveled a thousand miles, but I dont think the fix for that is to stand still.
Taxpayers owe businesses nothing, if a business can’t survive 8 weeks without a taxpayer bailout then it’s a bad investment and at this scale it is a fundamental weakness of the entire economy that should be fixed not propped up with taxpayer money.

> The funds can only be used for payroll to be forgiven.

That an odd way to say up to 25% of the loan can be used for non-payroll expenses like business rent...why are businesses getting loans to pay rent if it’s about employees? Employees didn’t get money for rent.

If it was truly about “funneling funds to individuals” they could have just done that, not given it to businesses first with a 25% extra for non-payroll expenses.
As someone who moved job between a huge (>20k employee) org that had Slack (alongside Exchange, I believe was moving to G-Suite) to a smaller org (<1k) on Teams, while I miss some of the fun of Slack, generally I'm not desperate to switch back.

Video calling (aka 2020's must-have) was always less than idea with Slack (prior org used Zoom for it) and the threaded interface was a mess (one colleague always replied to threads with the 'show in main feed' (owtte) option checked, which had the clumsiest UX of all time, with the main channel repeatedly interrupted with a linked header from a previous message). I do miss custom emoji and more diverse reactions (I long for a thumbs down particularly, I regularly disagree with suggestions without feeling sad/angry but have to add a text response).

Now, any time a OS technology/etc. points me to a community Slack I'm hugely hesitant to join, the interface is unfamiliar and loud since the recent refreshes, and the difficulty to actually leave once one has joined is substantial (along with public emails which often lead to spam).
On election night I recall the CNN anchors interviewing voters and getting "He's a straight shooter"/"honest" a whole lot.

What's ironic about America is that working class White and Black folk are both weary of white-collar professionals telling them what to do. Strangely, neither group thinks of businessmen or other instances of rich people as white-collar (both groups express veneration for the "businessman"/"hustler"), as somehow closer to themselves and values than middle-class professionals (like Obama).

Class underwrites so much in this country, but because class discussion has largely and for the most part been verboten since the 50s, we instead get this weird conflation of race and class.

This gets even more interesting when you realize Official BLM is just the bourgeois representation of working-class Black interests and there are many many YouTube videos of those Black interests expressing exactly that[0].

Of course, people think all Black people must be one big monolith, both owing to de facto segregation and the loudest minority problem, (they simply don't know enough Black people) because that's what Bourgeois profiteers want you to think; just like how people still actually think there was an clear, firm relationship between the protests and the riots, as much as protesters want to claim there is in order to hold some vague threat of further violence when they in all likelihood were not also the ones doing the rioting and vice versa.

[0] Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9YcB1pJ69A
Chat is a feature, not a product.

Maybe so. But apparently demand for a product with chat as its one and only one feature is very high.
Wasn't that literally the US model, until recently?

Bring folks in, use their knowledge, fuck whoever gave them that knowledge in the first place?
Greet post, thanks!
Yes! This is the biggest thing I hate about Slack. It feels like it's trying to make Slack more like email, and the whole reason I use Slack in the first place is to get away from email.
I would recommend the One Minute Manager. It is written in story format, and its a very simple set of three concepts.

I have tried other books, but they usually have too much to remember.

One other book I found useful was The Coaching Habit. It gives you a different perspective on how to deal with the emotional aspect of leadership.
IMO, you're fighting the culture of OSS. I see that culture as "give some, take some". Where we exchange help and knowledge rather than payment. Adding explicit payment cheapens my involvement - and passion and creativity - because now, like everything else, there's an expectation of compensation. Even if I'm not involved, I'm now a second tiered citizen compared to "pro" packages because "if it was any good, wouldn't you sell it?". It taints the entire system. We have jobs for that.

But here's the thing, there are examples of commercializing open source software. Red Hat, MeteorJS, GhostJS, and more that I can't remember. These companies add value and most are appreciated. Your business model ignores this and feels like a "fuck you, pay me".

If I was you, I'd find a way to keep OSS exactly the way it is, but make consulting around those OSS projects extremely easy.
Got it! I bolded the text. Also added one for Article Curation. Thank you for your advice and suggestion!
I want you to justify or retract your statement that "There's significant push back from the BLM core".

Because that's massively different from "I saw some PoC disagree with this on Twitter" and I want HN to be a place where the discourse is fact-based.
> Wow, this community is terrible.

I don't think this is true.

This particular topic seems to trigger a vocal group of people, but in general this community isn't terrible.

> But when they get the chance to do so, with the barest minimum effort, it's not going to happen.

This is what frustrates me most. In this particular case people don't even have to make an effort, they just need to be tolerant of efforts made by others and still we get the shouting.
Beat me to it! Link to the article in the 2012 submission is broken, so here's a web archive copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20130114221734/https://google-sty...

Seems like the exact same document which harks back to the ITA Software acquisition per comments at the time of that submission
negotiating maximum compensation for the difficult and challenging work you do as a computer scientist
One interesting thing about Sweden is the high percentage of people who live alone. It's a big deal because in China most deaths came from an infected person spreading it to their family. Makes you think that if Sweden's numbers are as bad as they are without large-scale family spread, it would be absolutely horrific elsewhere.
Presumably those are the 90% of people who, given the choice, opt out.
Except the Bible never claims such a thing. It's been claimed by some religious figures over the last 1000 years and never been accepted as canon by any major Christian church (except maybe some minor sects I've never heard of but then those aren't "major", any belief system has fringes).
Anyone who saw these offers and did not expect the strings attached in terms of government meddling and/or decentralized witch-hunting for taking the money offered was foolish. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
This is awesome! I was just thinking that I needed to build something like this!

I would gladly pay for this if it worked with Outlook (Office365).
It doesn't do the drafts thing anymore. Well, it does, but it doesn't move it. It stays in the normal location and also goes to drafts. So you don't have that jarring moment where you scroll alphabetically and find missing dm's/channels.
It helps politicians to get elected. Immigrants don't vote (they can't), citizens with anti-immigrant sentiments do.
Reading these blog posts, you get see Go's simplicity start to unravel with modules. Uncomparable structs? Type checking workarounds? You start to wonder if these bandaids would be necessary in a generics world.

For the record, I'm indifferent on the chosen module solution being right or wrong. My ideal module tool is something like npm, but it shows me the impact: diff the module changes, look at my code, and tell me what's impacted by the upgrade. Giving developers more information when upgrading libraries will go a long way towards making "update your libraries" a regular housekeeping task.
I am not an english speaker, for example "black list" is a concept that translates worse then "blocked list" , the first requires you have some local or historical context the last one is just clear as day.
Tendermint New CEO
Do you think this is a problem with the users or with the platform?
We'll have an API available soon. We're actually doing some prototypes right now using https://pipedream.com/, which I fully recommend as a nice "glue layer" for stuff like this that is simpler than Lambda but gives you a bit more control than, say, Zapier.
I don't think so. I just need to procure an API key and some credentials from Cloud Console to begin using Sheet API. The rest is just a lot more backend development for me.
You're confusing cause and effect. The goal of the south was slavery and leave if they did not get it - cause. The north was then handed a problem to which civil war. Effect. The south lost. Lincoln was trying to avoid bloodshed by arguing that the union could not be recinded unless all agreed. As such he was arguing for a third way to resolve the issue. The south didn't find third way. It got the problem it wanted and paid the price for it.
well how many people are committing code and can you merge a PR that is not fully rebased on the trunk/master?

there are definitely ways for this to fail.
Ask HN: Keywordtool.io Hack – Is This OK (As per Google ToS)?
keywordtool.io is 'scraping' Google autocomplete API results in the browser and sends to its own server. Is it OK in terms of Google ToS?

Also, there are multiple calls to the Google autocomplete API: https://www.google.com/complete/search?output=search&client=chrome&q=foo+a...&hl=en...
GPT-3 pretending to be Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
That's a quote, not a paraphrase
It's ten times worse.
https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/publicerat-material/publ...
I find it really hard to understand how MS thinks it’s ok to have such bad search functionality as Teams has. I am not able to find anything reliably in there. For the first few months it was ok to use not now finding something more than a year old is almost impossible. In my mind Teams has taken over the function of SharePoint to swallow docs to never be found again. Considering that Teams is a thin layer over SharePoint this makes sense...
Trump administration formally withdraws US from WHO
I think you mean something like system testing, but backed by BDD-style specs?

TBH, I personally think you're being a bit too hard on unit tests - the number of times they reveal bugs in our our code bases (and in my own code - the horror!) is ridiculous. I do find them really valuable.

That said, testable OO code (I'm primarily a C# guy) has certain constraints, and sometimes making it testable results in a high level of abstraction - so much so that individual tests almost don't seem to actually test anything meaningful, and it becomes difficult to see where the logic and behaviour is, without digging through 42 layers of abstract classes, interfaces and factories.

Recently I've come to favour a kind of inverted test pyramid, where instead of unit tests forming the most substantial foundation, system tests do instead, followed by integration tests, and finally by unit tests at the tip. I find this leads to a "sensible" level of abstraction, where unit tests are used where they are most valuable, and system tests keep tests meaningful. Depending on your code, it might be quite tricky to setup systems tests, and it might need quite a large time investment, but IMO it's worth it. If you're able to dockerise your entire solution, then it's much easier to do.
On this point you would do well to read the third chapter of "Anti-Tech Revolution." In it, Kaczynski argues for why an anti-tech revolution as he lays out would succeed and why its success would be more or less permanent while all other social revolutions and goals have failed and were fundamentally doomed to fail.
Why would it be a problem to redesign a social policy in the social interest? So what if everyone one comes and says PPP needs to be amended to do better in service of the country. Isn’t that what we want. It’s a good thing that they increased the spending period from 8 weeks to 24. Most restaurants were closed by state orders and were faced with forcing employees to come off unemployment (and employees resisted because unemployment was way better for them as they got an extra $600 week on top of regular pay) only to then pay them to stay home. Instead, by extending the spending window we give restaurants a fighting chance to have money to start operations again when it’s safe.

Let’s tone down the rhetoric a bit, in no way are PPP loans close to rape or murder in magnitude of harm so it’s an inflammatory analogy with no purpose.

In terms of the actual problems with PPP and percent of bad loans. Think of the counter factual. Would you rather have 1% bad loans or a wave of bankruptcies and layoffs triggering a depression that last 10 years? What about 10% bad loans? 50%?

The PPP was well designed and administered under the circumstances. Let’s make improvements because we are not out of the woods yet. But let’s not scape goat or focus on the edge case problems and then destroy all of the benefits prevented harm.
a good technical leader goes to bat for the scientists and engineers in his team, at the VP and C-level, to make sure they are on top and paid at least equally well if not better, compared to anyone else, including marketing and sales drones.
Plus, the cost. There's no change without a trade off.
This matches my experiences entirely. By running our own hardware (mix of Hetzner and colocation) we go from 20% of our revenue spent on server costs to less than 5%. Well worth any potential headaches, which are almost always overstated.
Indeed, the question is what should be done, or how should it have been done differently? Should YT have grown more slowly?

FWIW, I don't think money is the limiting factor here. If there was a known good solution, but it took $10B to implement, I think it would be done.

You could pay X thousands (more) moderators, but there are drawbacks in a human solution as well. First is the fact since there's human judgement, rules will be applied inconsistently, and probably with some bias.

Second is the fact that moderation is a very mentally exhausting effort. You can observe some of the cyclical nature of this balance from the news over the past few years. Article about moderators with PTSD? Well, automation is the solution. Automation fails in a lot of edge cases? Well, why not hire armies of people to do it for you?

I don't think there is an obvious solution here, no matter how much it cost.
Sure, I'll edit my statement.
I think your allegory falls short: the government isn't in this scenario collecting the data, but rather reining in the data collection of private entities. The end result is less data collected instead of the same data in different hands.
Well... the authors of this paper propose using "anisotropic vector quantization" functions that take into account the density of points in the embedding space -- instead of more conventional locality sensitive hashing functions that ignore such density. I like to think of it as "clustering" in the space of vector quantization functions, then using those functions to quantize the data for fast nn search.

The analogy with classical algorithms would be to apply something like DBSCAN or Spectral clustering to cluster points, then find a way to use the clusters to speed up nn search. In practice no one would do this; I'm mentioning it here only because I think it's a helpful analogy.
From what I understand Teams is pretty much free with office. That is why my company switched. It's hard to beat free.
Yes, it is a proof by contradiction.

And yes, it's not black-and-white with flat earthers. However, I think the story becomes quite different with conspiracy theories that directly impact the health and lives of other people.
Slightly off-topic but is this official, and if so...why is Google hosting stuff on Github Pages? Seems sort of amateurish. Not to mention it belongs to a rival of theirs.
It's pretty clear what your view on cancel culture is, namely that it's not really a thing.

Got any data to back that up?
> this post is a very long winded way to state the obvious.

My hat is off, it has been a pretty successful business model for him. :)
>So it kind of irks me to see some people frame this like a large percentage of these loans will be paid back.

I constantly see this..."its not free money, its a loan, and the money will be paid back with interest, just like in 2008."

No, its free money for businesses, many of which will fail and let their employees go anyway.

Then you hear people claim how somehow it was a victory to keep people off unemployment for 8 weeks, but not a single person can explain why that is such a benefit. Its sort of like saying hey when Corona virus began I stopped flights from Country X and saved 10's of thousands of lives...maybe deaths were delayed but there is no evidence they were prevented.
I don't think you realize just how perilous the economic situation was in mid-late march. Money had to reach Businesses very quickly, regardless if some of the money would end up wasted. Only banks have the manpower, infrastructure and knowledge already in place to reach even small businesses across the entire country. There was absolutely no way for any governmental agency to be able to manage such a huge program in such a small timeframe.

Again, I can't stress how important time was. I study and work in financial engineering, and from what I've seen and directly experienced in the depth of the crisis, we were days from total seizure in the financial system. The only part that was still doing ok was banking (due to what happened after 2008). Adding to that, since it's much harder to just give millions of dollars of loans to anyone who demands than it is to give 2000$ per person through the IRS, you had to have a system to vet, check and analyse claims. That's exactly what banks were able to do almost immediately with minimal adjustments.

I agree that it is far from ideal for the private sector to such a big influence on a public program. But perfect is the enemy of good, especially considering the incredible human misery that failing could've led to.
Definitely less dire consequences. It was more of a comment on the later leaders. They wanted to appear more revolutionary (eg. pro-party) so they lied and exaggrated more and more about their production. Similar to how these companies are doing these superficial changes so they can appear to be more pro-BLM/Woke/anti-racist.
Ozone is a lung irritant and damages plastic, you've gotta be careful with using it around your home on a regular basis. Maybe inside a sealed container?
> I talked to multiple well off people that cashed their dead relative's checks.

I wouldn't judge a program because of people committing outright fraud.
FTFYriday night: synagogue (for the men) then big ceremonious dinner (that the women have been cooking)
Slack is popular because it makes people think they are doing work or are being productive.

When in reality tons of people spend more and more time "chatting" and trying to communicate in Slack than... actually working.

The whole idea that chat is a good way to get most work done isn't true, IMO. It's inherently synchronous and a terrible way to manage time.
The Grumman LLV (long life vehicle) was commissioned by the USPS in the 1980s, entered service in 1987, and were manufactured through 1994, with a planned service life of daily stop-and-start all-weather driving of 20 years to every delivery address in the nation. Over 140,000 were built. Every USPS LLV truck on the road today is at least 24 years old, the oldest in their 30s. The Jeeps they replaced had an eight-year life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV

Discusses a successor but describes the LLV in detail:

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of... (http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/?q=sullivan+Grumman+autonomous+...)

The contract was awarded in April, 1986:

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/09/business/postal-contract-...

A bit of congressional testimony from the Postmaster Gerneral in 1985 gives some perspective on the programme:

https://books.google.com/books?id=puahcekyrjkC&newbks=0&prin...

The real story here isn't that the USPS cannot operate or maintain its delivery trucks; it has done an exemplary job extending life 50% beyond design goals under exceedingly challenging conditions. Rather it's that the postal service has been under sustained attack, first by imposing financial obligations no competitor has to meet, and now, slowly crippling its actual mobility and reliability by forcing past-end-of-llife equipment use and thwarting all attempts to develop a replacement fleet.

There is a replacement plan in progress:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/automobiles/the-mail-truc...