skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also:

> Detectives believe that the killer, dressed in a black three-piece suit, wearing a black mask and carrying a duffel bag, followed Mr. Saleh off an elevator in his building and into his apartment, a law enforcement official said. He used a Taser to immobilize Mr. Saleh and then stabbed him to death.

It appears the security of the elevator opening directly into the victim's apartment and the COVID-19 crisis (the suspect was wearing a black mask) both played a role.
Ask HN: Best approach to inheriting an out of control system?
I can't find any good advice for managing what is a reasonably common situation, "how to successfully fire fight"

On-prem, cobbled together system, multiple parts that are completely unknown, everyone is afraid of making a change, if it goes down it might not come back up.

Two devs were building a little project on top of a system and adding bits to it as they got new ideas (both quite junior quick and dirty types). Much of the codebase they have never touched, it's just there running with the stuff they have on top.

Deployed it to an OVH remote managed rack (yeah I know!) and offered it to a client. Client loved it, hockey stick growth, huge demand, totally not production ready but it's throwing off cash (lots and lots and lots).

Devs are burnt out and one is taking an offline holiday, they aren't mature about the situation, they are also a self contained business unit away from the rest of the company.

Emergency consultant and senior devs from parent company started to take a look over the evenings this week. Emergency plan is to get a copy deployed and running in azure so there are 2 instances and if the OVH one goes down again we can swap traffic (pending P&L sign off)

Potential for a great product to die and cause reputational damage. Potential to beat it into shape and turn it into a production product and multi million revenue.

Thoughts?
It's unlikely this article will get much traction here because it's behind a paywall.
We have to mention that manufacturing moved out of the US, so of course emissions dropped. Look at Chinese emissions.

We're just re-arranging chairs on the Titanic.
Sure, we all understand why it has to be this way. Doesn't change the fact that I'm never going to feel emotional loyalty to a startup that I know is giving me as little equity as it can get away with (and what there is will probably be whittled away by dilution, sketchy clawback terms, etc.) Loyalty is a two-way street.
They're literally not being given the supplies to do their job. That kind of negates presumed responsibility.
This is chilling considering I am currently looking for a personal assistant!
Have you got a link to that research? Here's some suggesting that smoking increases risk in young adults: https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(20)30338-4/full...
No. The danger is not overblown.

New teachers just don’t appear out of the woodworks, it takes time to be trained. Plus, since in the US it’s such a poorly paid and poorly respected profession (at least not respected by society; Id imagine parents appreciate teachers), where will these new teachers come from?
No, I think everyone should overreact and quit their jobs because covid-19 killed around 150,000 Americans in a country of 300,000,000 people. (Except I would actually totally understand nurses quitting.)
Strong statement: dumb kids are better than dead kids.
I think one reason for a vote is when someone was going to say something, but someone else already did so it's redundant to say it again - vote instead to show approval to the poster, or add weight to it where votes are public. It makes sense that simple corrections would so often fall into this category.
Because that's where we moved our manufacturing.
This won't work if data are shared from the back end, though.
The amount of hysteria over drones (Particularly incidents like this) is really concerning to me, because it plays right into the hands of regulators and lobbyists in the US trying to justify unnecessary Remote ID legislation under the guise of "safety".

The recently released proposed rules for Remote ID raised a huge amount of concern in the model aircraft world, because it proposed restrictions that would effectively kill the hobby:

- All drones/RC aircraft must have a GPS-based tracking ("Full remote ID") on the aircraft, connected to a ground station and relayed to a subscription third-party service. These "Full remote ID" aircraft can be flown past line of site.

- Aircraft not constructed by a single manufacturer (For example, handmade RC planes) are not allowed to use full remote ID, and instead must use "limited" remote ID in which GPS can be on the ground station, but the aircraft must disable itself past 400ft from the ground station.

- Aircraft with limited remote ID can only be flown in a dedicated "FRIA" flying site.

- FRIA sites are "legacy" and after a short period, no new sites will be created. The stated intention of the FAA is to phase these sites out completely, meaning after a certain period all planes must comply with full remote ID, effectively killing hand-built model aircraft.

The end result of this regulation is _not_ safer airways: It's an airspace <400ft owned by commercial entities such as Amazon who are able to comply with the requirements of the Remote ID tracking and single-manufacturer requirements. It's an example of regulatory capture that will genuinely make the world worse for us by increasing noise pollution and drone traffic at low heights. Meanwhile, the model aircraft and drone hobby will have a large barrier to entry that pushes away the innovation of millions of engineers who got their start as kids flying affordable DIY planes.
Couldn't agree more. I had less issues learning multiple programming languages,some challenging concepts around them and yet when it comes to CSS, most resources aren't very useful. You do something and it doesn't work. You check documentation and it show exactly the same thing that does work. 5 hours later it turns out it was some overriding property+ browser incompatibility+ weird undocumented exception. Very few books do deliver on their promise either. I don't know,maybe it's just me but the whole ecosystem is a bit weird.
Shannon’s: A Mathematical Theory of Communication

http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon...
It's not clear. It may be a problem with Democratic centralism, but basically every example of it being attempted is immediately countered with extreme hostility from most of the world. Like in China, within two years of the end of the civil war the US had marched an army to the Chinese border with the ability to drop nukes on them. That kind of threat leads to a military dictatorship, no matter what economic policy you hope to try.
I also don’t believe in Ad-tech doom and gloom. Yes, ad companies won’t be hoarding as much data, but advertisement worked fine before it started to do it.

Back to basics it is, treat me well as a customer, deliver as promised and use ads responsibly (aka no more hyper targetting)
That Foundations of Applied Mathematics series is such a gem! I skimmed it a bit and it covers a huge breadth of topics ranging from from numerical methods to traditional algorithms. All the while being practical about how you would actually apply it in the real world (for example it has code samples for using the networkx library instead of writing your own graph algorithms, and many more code snippets for using numpy/sympy/cvxpy/etc).

Thanks for linking it!
I don't know about distance, but I recently learned that they actually lose efficiency with extreme heat. [0]

[0] https://www.cedgreentech.com/article/how-does-heat-affect-so...
Can you provide context for those of us unclear on what you are referring to?
Did you intend to compare starting salary to average salary?
What does 'absorb' mean? They want to be influential, that I agree with, but that's not really unique about China.

As for US spreading democracy, you should read up on how they overthrew Iran's democracy and replaced it with a dictatorship that suits the US interests better.
there are many papers that seem like obvious crap that get into supposedly prestigious conferences (NeurIPS, ICML) every year. I think many people might reasonably believe that a paper in the supposed best venue in the field will be worth reading, but that is not really true.

compared to machine learning, other research communities in computer science have much less nonsense. you can really feel the difference in quality if you look at papers accepted to equivalently competitive non-ML conferences.

i think the broader problem may be that people hiring for very lucrative, competitive jobs are effectively outsourcing their hiring decisions to conference reviewers, which causes the whole system to break down.
Nurses get about double the salary and literally signed up for this type of work. School teachers often buy their own supplies and aren't remotely prepared for this.
I have self taught this material and have been working professionally in the field for some years now. It was primarily driven by the need to solve problems for autonomous systems I was creating. When I am asked how to do it I give the progression I followed. First have preferably a CS background but at least Calc 1&2, Linear Algebra, and University statistics, then:

1. Read "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" and complete all the exercises [1]

2. Complete a ML course I recommend the Andrew Ng Coursera one [2]

3. Complete a DL course I recommend the Andrew Ng Coursera one [3]

4. Complete specialization courses in whatever you are interested in such as computer vision, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, etc. These will cover older traditional methods in the introduction also which will be very useful for determining when DL is not the correct solution.

Additionally I suggest a data science course which usually covers other important things like data visualization and how to handle bad/missing data. Also, I learned a lot by simply being surrounded by brilliant people who know all this and being able to ask them questions and see how they approach problems. So not really self taught as much as untraditionally taught.

Unfortunately not a single person has actually followed the advice. Everyone has only watched random youtube bloggers and read blogs. Some have gotten into trouble after landing a job by talking buzzwords and asked for help but my advice does not change.

It does make it rather hard to find a job without a degree though, I would not recommend it. All of mine only come from strong references I have from luckily getting my foot in the door initially.

[1]: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/index.html

[2]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

[3]: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning

Edit: formatting, typo
Serious question. At this point, why can't teachers wear n95 masks? Data has shown they adequately protect even healthcare workers that are constantly exposed to heavy viral loads.
So all of the buildings get burred in the sand? All the time?
Whole cities? /s

You can put the up on raisers or roofs of buildings.
It's certainly true that some of the institutions that are being talked about for being pushed to take up some of the slack when we defund the police do not have the best records, either. My family has had harrowing experiences with the mental health system, so I am absolutely cognizant of the genuine concerns with trying to increase their role.

But that means that we should also fix the problems with those institutions, not that we should just allow the police to continue to operate with impunity, no matter their abuses.

It may be a long, hard road, but ultimately I believe we can have a safer, kinder, more just society as a result.
Anecdotal, but I have three friends and a coworker who decided to purchase homes in the last few months and all of those purchases were due in part to Coronavirus.
It's normal, sometimes I can find the energy and sometimes I can't. On my side it's not exactly lack of energy but lack of motivation from time to time. I also waste one weekend day on games/movies/books just to relax a bit and accumulate motivation.
Or maybe they'll choose not to. It's a market economy. Maybe $30k per year isn't worth risking the life of one's family.
Check out Outteach for your mother: https://outschool.com/teach

No relation, saw one of their engineering jobs on HN and your comment made me think of a solution for your mother's situation (it's teaching over Zoom).
It's also kidn of implied that teachers signed up to work with snivelling children who spread germs. That being said, there's evidence this particular virus doesn't even spread easily among children.
Hack your senses: a haptic wearable sensory augmentation contest
Vantafish
My 65 year old parent, an educator in a sunbelt state, told their superintendent that if the distict came back for in person classes too early, they would walk on the spot.

they'll be online-only for at least the fall.
Yes, the US has a number of other mechanisms that are illegal/immoral in other countries such as the “charge stacking” you describe, plea bargains (there such an asymmetry in power that they are hardly “bargains”), and prison labor.

Not picking on the US here: the inverse is true as well: the adversarial trial system and juries, separation of prosecution and the judiciary, etc imho provide stronger protection for the accused.

Societies are complex and the design is far from understood.
I think that's wishful thinking, St Louis was declining way before covid. I don't see a stop of migration happening anytime here in the Austin metro or any of the other major Texas cities. We may see it in HCOL places but I wouldn't count on people leaving Denver, Portland, the NC Triangle, and the similar 'B cities'
Have you considered posting an issue on GH? Bug reports like these are unlikely to be seen here by the authors.
> Remote learning doesn't work for everyone and leaves a lot of people behind. The overall consequences of another lost semester may be far worse than the consequences of reopening.

I'm curious - how few would have to die so that the "overall consequences of another lost semester" is not worse?
> “They said we’d have masks and face shields and everyone is going to be covered, but it’s a school district — sometimes we don’t have soap,” he said.

We've had trouble getting enough N95s for healthcare staff, let alone teachers.
Statistics show that it is still safer to have a personal assistant than to drive to the airport. /s
See my other post about the local kid kicking in front doors.

Also, other than "high security" locks, it is easier to bump a lock than it is to get a duplicate key. Most people have mid grade entry sets on their house. Anybody can learn to bump those, with some practice, and it only takes about twenty or thirty seconds, particularly on an older, worn, lock.

I taught myself, decades ago, and was surprised how easy it was. My father always said, locks just keep honest people honest.
Edge has best phishing and malware protection,Chrome,Firefox follow, Opera sucks
No salary would be worth my life. Not everyone cares about money as much as people on HackerNews. And nurses definitely have more exposure to covid-19 than teachers.
I mean, it's not like the Saharan Desert does anything useful, like feed nutrients (via dust storms that blow across the Atlantic) to the Amazon Rainforest that is the lungs of the world.
https://huggingface.co/

is a great place to start
Definitely review multiple, because I find normalize.css to be pretty useless as it doesn't set `box-sizing: border-box;`, or `img { max-width: 100%; }`
Comments like these are absolutely useless and contribute nothing to the conversation at all. There are benefits making a language, and people's goal doesn't always have to be "get as many people to use it as possible."
Human ingenuity has accomplished some marvelous things in the last century. I can't help but wonder how easily we could have tooled up for mass production of affordable PAPRs to distribute for times when remote work isn't very effective, like teaching children.
The Hyksos are traditionally not associated with a race, but with the chariot-and-archer techniques that would come to characterize Bronze Age Egyptian military power and conquest. Indeed, it is usually the other way around, with the Hyksos being the race/dynasty to whom the chariot technology is credited.

At this point in history, the folks who would become the Hebrews were living in what would become Judea. We know that Ramesses II conquered them and the surrounding area, using Hyksos-style chariots; and we know that at least one of their tribes, who Ramesses III called Peleset and we might call Philistines or Palestinians, were sea-faring and related to the Phoenicians.

In general, this all happened in the Bronze Age, but the Hebrew tradition didn't really form until the Iron Age, and there's a minimum of two centuries separating them, with Ramesses III not encountering the Sea Peoples after around ~1150 BCE and Iron Age Hebrew stories not being written down before around ~950 BCE.
MATH+ protocol for Covid-19 treatment with available drugs [pdf]
Why wouldn't a teacher quit if they possibly could? The pay is peanuts, certainly not worth any serious immediate risk to your health.
Where does she work that pays $30k for an experienced teacher? Teacher pay sucks
Even if N95 masks worked, do you think school districts will give every teacher an N95 mask every day? AFAIK there are way more teachers than "healthcare professionals" and we failed to get all the healthcare professionals N95 masks. I highly doubt we'd be able to get teachers the same amount.
Sure, all those things are normal happenings - they're not really cause of concern for most people. We're not at that point for drones yet, at all. Of course a boat skimming on a lake at night is fine, a pedestrian walking down the road at night is fine, a lawn mower (provided it isn't being an absolutely nuisance) going at night is fine.

What isn't fine for a lot of people is something completely unknown just buzzing around when they don't have the context of what it is or what it could be doing.

I'm not saying "ban it", just it's valid for people to report something like that happening and have an expectation they'll be taken seriously.

Let's not over estimate the frequency with which people have seen or come into contact with drone flight here, we've had boats for millennia, cars for over a century. Heck, even micro scooters have been around for decades.

Personally, I don't want random, unidentified things I've got no clue about flying around where I live at night. The military helicopters that go past every day are annoying, but I know what they are and know it's all good. And one day "oh, it's just Dave's flying drone swarm" will be just as accepted. Today is not that day.
>How come, since we know so much, not produce a mechanism that counteracts the virus? how come we only know how to tell the immune system how to react?

I suspect that the reality is that they do not know much, all the rendering/animation give an impression of sophistication and knowledge. Basically deceit.
Jokes on us.. My rural area has had a covid spike b/c people refuse to wear masks or social distance.
And I have to wonder if that is what happened in this case.
Archaeologists Unearth 500 Year Old Blog – By Semi-Legendary “Bill” Wadge
It's also kind of implied that teachers signed up to work with sniveling children who spread germs. That being said, there's evidence this particular virus doesn't even spread easily among children.
Deaths in children are essentially 0
It seems pretty obvious that if this is real and not mass hysteria the first most plausible explanation is a secret military project, no? The Government doesn’t tell folks when they are testing new spy planes and stuff, etc.
I think it’s a free signup. It might be part of Medium.

The entire thing is a bit frustrating because so many people publish using Medium as their blog these days.
>No. The danger is not overblown.

Ok not for you but at least for me and whole lot other people consider the risk be overblown.

>New teachers just don’t appear out of the woodworks, it takes time to be trained

This assume there are more teacher who are afraid than not. If there is truly lack of teacher then there are plenty of ways to urge them to work, such as giving more benefit.
why not? also, they have machines that can sanitize them so they can be reused.
My parents are both nurses and they went to work and they were fine.
It is easy to go about and proclaim, "life is priceless", "I would prefer to have every student held back than one dead", and so on.

What of students that have debt and now will have to wait more to get their "education"? Do you realize this is all going to cause more pain and suffering and possible deaths?

Do you realize given more budget it is possible to save more people if you spend it wisely?
> This is very different from what happened to Jamal Kashogi who was a journalist and not involved in military or security affairs.

Blatantly incorrect, he had CIA connections.
Agreed, but this is also due to the population that hn targets ...

Also, as soon as you want to do something that's a bit more complicated than displaying a textarea and a handful of inputs or selects in a profile page, then JS is going to help a improving UX a lot ...

TBH it feels to me that webcomponent pages load faster than Vue/React/Angular sites, so at least that's an interesting compromise.
Schools generally do not provide many supplies to teachers. Given that many teachers do not receive basic supplies like paper from the schools, why do you think schools would purchase sanitation machines and tens of thousands of N95 masks?
Well it is definitely true that having schools fully open does not contribute to much greater risk if the community already has the virus under control as this has been widely demonstrated by many European countries where infection rates continued to decrease, hospitalizations and deaths decreased, even as schools fully opened. But in those countries, they actually did the responsible thing and had a full uncompromised lockdown for months to get the virus under control.
Any good book recommendations on Shannon or the history of the information theory?
> Then XULRunner was killed off [...] Webrunner [...] killed off

Yeah, and just to point out: in a profoundly stupid move. I mean, it was stupid then, too, it's just that now we have the evidence for it.

The constant refrain was that niche being a dead end. But the rise and proliferation of Electron (to the point that people bring it up to complain about it in places where it's not even on topic) and the success of Chromebooks (compared the failure of FirefoxOS for mobile; which itself was a leadership/execution error) both mean exactly one thing: those calling the shots on that decision and their supporters were flat out wrong. And so where is that crowd now? Mostly with their legacy and influence still being felt in every decision—and where those decisions contribute to Firefox being more marginal every passing year. Even if you forgive the original mistake, how is this not outright embarrassing for Mozilla Corp leadership?
She brought up an interesting point: asking your colleague if (s)he wants recognition.

Sending recognition is usually a decision made in the moment. Asking permission makes a process out of it. Having a process reduces your motivation to send recognition.

Her five reasons are spot on. But I'd like to add that people should understand their work environments and the politics involved. It's easier with small to small-medium sized organizations where you know all or most of the managers and their quirks and know the politics at work.

My environment is small-medium. Part of what we're judged on is helping colleagues. The managers are all onboard with it. When a colleague from the Unix admin team went out of his way to help my team I didn't hesitate to send his manager a message in praise of the effort. Getting a colleague in trouble for taking time out of assigned work is not an issue.