skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems silly to give out fake information to work around a stubborn site with a vendetta. I think it makes sense to provide a distinction between no information and information instead of providing incorrect information.
Please elaborate - how is it one engineer's full time job?

We run Prometheus in production and this hasn't been our experience at all.

A single machine can easily handle hundreds of thousands of time series, performance is good, and maintaining the alerting rules is a shared responsibility for the entire team (as it should be).
Interesting concept. The market for such an idea is definitely growing, looking no further than the aftermath of the Playstation 5 launch and the memes it caused. However the question is if brands will be bold enough to use memes frequently for their advertisements? Not every single one will be a hit initially.
As a counterpoint: I have been rolling my own Grafana/Prometheus for many years for my startup and it's been pretty trivial
I was asked for an example of the organization being lawless, I gave a concrete example of the organization failing the most basic of accountability measures: Being asked under oath about their processes. The leader of the organization lied. I think that's a decent indictment of the organization.
... And before that, there was local news and newspapers. Some time before that it might be your boss, your parents, or the local clergy.

This is no change, but business as normal. What has changed is that we actually have easy access to information outside of the keyholders. So when the government and some in society dismiss complaints about police brutality, we can have the retribution of actual video (an example with both historical and current examples), and it is so much harder to dismiss. Unfortunately, not everyone is willing to believe facts - but again, I'm not sure this is more true today either, since folks have been rejecting things like modern medicine and science and so on for generations if not centuries. We simply know about it more, thanks to - in part, for good and bad - facebook. And reddit and HN and every social place on the internet.
Facebook has devolved into the Karen social network.
V cool! Pretty fascinated by the amount of memes that are made (voluntarily?). Always wondered who are making the millions of memes flowing around the internet, and what drives to them to put in the creative effort and roll them out. The Vox documentary on YT somewhat takes on these questions, but who these people are, their drive for this, is still mysterious to me. A bid of an odd thought, but I'm very unsure, whether offering material rewards actually will activate them more than the random voluntary model.
> strong disagreement about the cause of a bug

That sounds more like a hypothesis than an opinion.

In the less testable world of opinions (over, say, business strategy) it isn't always possible to settle things by experiment, making it more difficult to let those opinions go.
I agree that the potential impact of ML on the theoretical side is very exciting. I think there’s a lot of bridging to be done between the most advanced mathematics and the most advanced physics that could lead to new insight, but it’s a hard problem for humans to tackle since we have very few people who are deeply proficient in both—although it is becoming more common. I’m thinking something like GPT-3 trained on literature in both fields could be the kind of thing we want, but like you I still doubt that a DL system is likely to come up with any real insight. I’d like to be proven wrong, though.
It got bootstrapped again because the government backing the currency fell, or the trustworthiness of the government fell.

Gold has a different "durability index" than "government coercion," but it's also not constant, and its rarity can be manipulated by anyone, whereas the rarity of a government backed currency can only be manipulated by the institution that backs its value in the first place.

I'm not making an argument that government backed currency is strictly "better" in all scenarios, only that it is not substantially "different" for most intents and purposes; ie it is not based on air, but a real-world quality: the coercive ability of an institution to maintain the value of the currency.
> How does that put them in control? Users still read at least five other websites.

I can't read Chinese. So discount those sites.
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The linked source is incorrect in its conclusion (note that it cites 26 U.S.C. § 5801 which is irrelevant to its point). Hand grenades are indeed destructive devices regulated under the National Firearms Act, but they can be possessed legally. One must pay the ATF a $200 registration tax in order to purchase or build a destructive device. Note that a few states (e.g. New Jersey) prohibit the possession of destructive devices, but it is possible for civilians who are not police officers to possess them legally in the USA at large.

This [1] is the form that is completed to pay the $200 transfer tax when purchasing an NFA item. Note that this is the same form used to transfer machine guns (which are also legal for civilians who are not police officers to possess).

[1] https://www.atf.gov/file/61546/download
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1. Thanks, we are working on it 2. Yes 3. Based on the value of your stock, determined by fair market value and other assets you hold
You can sue anyone for everything. Do you stand a chance? No.

The platform/publisher dichotomy is mostly just a right-wing talking point with absolutely no basis in law. As your example alludes to, a website can well be both at the same time.

For text that is Facebook’s own editorial content, the liability standard generally applied to any speaker, but historically tested in relation to news media and book publishers would apply, which is one of “malicious intend”: you need to prove that they wanted to cause the harm your suffered.

This is a rather high standard, but it follows from the US’s regard for free speech. You are likely to encounter additional difficulties trying to prove and quantify the specific damages you incurred.

But Facebook’s fact checking is set up somewhat differently, with third parties doing these checks. It seems almost impossible to make a case for intent against FB for a correction authored by any of these organizations.
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Just to add to what Ryan already said, we don't plan on dropping support for InfluxDB 1.x anytime soon, and will continue to improve the migration path from 1.x to 2.0, so you won't have to upgrade until it's right for you.

Now of course our goal is to help everyone upgrade to 2.0 and beyond, but we know that we made a lot of changes and improvements in 2.0, this isn't a minor upgrade. We will focus first on what we need to do to help 80% of our users upgraded, then the next 80%, and so on, until we've got you all covered.

Meanwhile new users can benefit from starting off on 2.0 as soon as it's available (or get the beta which is already out) and not have to wait.

(Source: I'm the Community Manager for InfluxData)
See I wouldn't agree. I use JetBrains IDEs and I never feel as though I am working on a linear document. Between 'jump to definition', 'see usages', and various 'refactor' commands, it is easy to navigate and edit the tree structure.
> I suspect you're in the minority here. The majority of students are more engaged by a good professor lecturing on material than by reading a textbook.

Me too. I'm not saying that in general textbooks are better than lectures, I'm saying the lecture style of this class is sufficiently ineffective that I don't see how it's worth anyone's time to watch. In contrast, Martin Odersky's lectures are designed to effectively teach the material, and they absolutely are better than reading a textbook.

The difference might be that I've always learned by taking notes and working through the ideas during the lecture. For those that are into passive lecture consumption, CS50 is about as close to perfect as you'll find. The style definitely doesn't work for me.
Actually I have the Jelly Pro and am taking it almost every time with me while doing sports wrapped around my upper arm. It is lightweight and I can have and use (almost) any android app on it. It is just nice to have a tiny device for playing music from Google Play Music/ YouTube Music and to have GPS tracking in that format. But I can only recommend it as a second or third device... for browsing, navigating or texting the display is too small and the apps are not optimized for that format.
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I do agree with many of these points, but it doesn't talk about the other end of the scale. Too many processes.

I've been places where excess process is a crutch for poor general technical expertise and troubleshooting skills.
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They'll probably punt the responsibility to the third-party 'fact checker', even though they selected the fact checkers
Absolutely, I see several reasons for that:

- Code review is not only to say “this is wrong” or “you should do it this way”. It’s also an opportunity for all developers (especially beginners) to say “I don’t understand why you do that”. Every piece of code should be understandable by each member of the team, whatever their experience. Maybe the beginner dev will have to fix a bug on this complex piece of code.

- Beginners often have another point of view (a more scholar, or naive one) that can help other devs seeing things differently, maybe in a better way.

- Beginner devs are as good as anyone to find potential bugs, especially about the business requirements. For instance “I think you forgot to handle this error case“.

- Finally, seeing code from more experimented devs is a good way to improve.

Code review is not finding mistakes, it’s a dialogue between a developer and the rest of their team about a piece of code. It’s a great opportunity to make everyone improve, and it works for junior or senior.
The IPO has likely been taking up a lot of time. Also, there is a blackout period before most IPOs where those in the company are not allowed to talk about the company or 'sell' it. The SEC guidelines are pretty strict and jeopardizing XYZ% of the IPO can result in millions on the gambling table.
I just costed a datadog deployment (based on your comment) and it would cost me my yearly salary every month.

No thanks. :/
There's always the ctrl-w option. It seems better that you have to consent rather than them just assuming you consent since you opened a link.
I don't understand why it's Facebook's role to teach people. Maybe if regulations were instead imposed on school curriculums we wouldn't have dumb adults arguing about climate change, flat earth or mask wearing. Combat issues at the root not the fruit.
I don't. It's quite difficult to do complex queries and its query language has a few gotcha. I think it's quite good and one of the best solutions today, but I look forward to something as simple and as fast, but with a proper query language.
My understanding is that this was a separate compartment that existed to provide weight and "slosh" as if there was cola inside. I presume the didn't use Cola because it was a sealed compartment and wasn't expected to be opened, so why waste the resources?
The statement “most humans don’t use Facebook” is an objectively true statement.

So is “most people who have a Facebook account can also view almost every other site on the whole public internet”.
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Inside the computer abstractions are always leaky: the set of integers is finite; the reals are anything but.
More insidiously, it's another drumbeat for the idea that we need classical media gate keepers to invade people's personal space and "correct" any wrong-think. Very dangerous and unwelcome idea for a free society. The media has no valid purpose for having the power to amend private citizens conversations, we wouldn't tolerate at a bar and we shouldn't on our personal web space.
MVC is a popular pattern but it's not the only way to do UI. I don't personally care for it and I am happy that React doesn't force it on me.

As for mixing HTML, JS and CSS, I consider that a feature. Why do you want those separated? The reason for me to group code in a file, a folder or at a higher level, in a repository, is that I create a little mental context for what I am going to work on and I want the structure to enable that as much as possible. Now, when I am focusing on some feature it is much more likely that I will be switching back and forth between the HTML, CSS and JS of a component than switching between the CSS of one component to another.

It happens, of course, that I get into a mode where I want to edit many CSS files in one go for whatever reason, it's just much less common and thus I don't want to optimize for that case.
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>I've watched some of the lectures of CS50 in the past, and the one question that has always come into my mind is this: "How do these lectures help you learn at a deep level?"

I learned basic programming by doing CS50x. The purpose of the lectures is to introduce the concepts in an engaging way, and spark interest in doing it yourself. Then the learning happens in the weekly assignments, where you have to actually implement the ideas and get your code past the automated testing. I'd say the assignments are 3/4 of the course.

It's a very nice introduction to programming for someone who hasn't done any before. And in the end that's what it is - an introduction, not a deep dive.
In this case, the low-level moderators were apparently overruled by a self-describe “conservative” higher-up.
I think a lot of the big valuation is based on hoping the former is true. Stripe has a few big customers, and some of them are companies like Instacart that are younger than Stripe and have been on the platform since the beginning
>Users still read at least five other websites.

Three of those are entirely Chinese and can be discounted from this conversation due to government. That leaves two sites run by the same company, all of which are headquartered in the same general area and have similar culture, and both have ongoing censorship/misinformation controversies.
I think this is down to the loudest, most ambitious projects ("AGI! Fully autonomous vehicles!") getting a lot of press. The reality is, production ML is basically everywhere already:

- Basically every piece of software that makes recommendations (Netflix, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) uses machine learning.

- Anything that makes time series forecasts (Uber/Maps ETA prediction, Walmart's 2 hour delivery, etc.) uses machine learning.

- All the most popular speech-to-text assistants (Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri) use machine learning.

- Smartphone cameras use machine learning to enhance picture quality.

- A lot of very highly-used security monitoring solutions (Stripe's fraud detection, CloudFlare's bot detection, etc.) rely on machine learning.

- A surprising number of physical commerce-type situations rely on machine learning (autonomous filling stations, for example, are pretty common in the trucking industry).

- A lot of smart image manipulation tools (Instagram/SnapChat filters, etc.) rely on deep learning.

- Email clients, particularly Gmail, use machine learning for spam filtering and for things like Smart Compose.

- Some infrastructure products use machine learning, as in the case of EC2's predictive autoscaling.

And those are just hyper-scale examples. There's a ton earlier-stage-but-still-in-production projects doing awesome things with ML:

- Wildlife Protection Solutions legitimately doubled their detection rate of poachers in nature preserves with ML.

- PostEra, Benevolent AI, and a bunch of other ML-based medicine platforms (medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, etc.) have already had exciting results.

- There are a bunch of startups building industry-specific APIs out of models, like Glisten.ai, that are already profitable.

- A number of computer vision products have been brought to market in the healthcare space—Ezra.ai screens full-body MRIs for cancers, SkinVision detects melanomas.

- ML-powered chatbots are a pretty huge market. Olivia (a financial assistant) has something like 500k users. AdmitHub has successfully lowered summer melt (the attrition of college-intending students between spring and fall) at a bunch of colleges. Rasa is an entire platform that helps startups build NLP-powered bots.

Sorry that went a bit long, but basically, the production ML space is incredibly deep, and spans most industries/company sizes. Unfortunately, press coverage of ML tends to treat it as if it's this mystic, sci-fi future technology, and as a result, this "Show me AGI or it's snake oil" mindset naturally emerges.
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> There's always the ctrl-w option.

That is usually what I resort to.

> It seems better that you have to consent rather than them just assuming you consent since you opened a link.

Yes, but one of the two is completely illegal, and the other is slightly illegal.
There's hypocrisy all over the US political spectrum, sure. How about instead of focusing on that we all do our part to get this virus under control for the good of everyone?

Other countries have done so, there's no reason the US can't also.
You can make a very good business of consulting people off of Stripe. Developers do love it, and for good reason (as the article points out). But it is expensive. If you are running $1,000,000 in credit card transactions per year at $29 each you will pay almost $40,000 in fees. Get up to $10,000,000 in transactions and you are now at $400,000 (this is basic pricing without volume discount, but they are still more expensive than most other interchanges). Suddenly it makes sense to look at other credit card processing technologies. There are a lot of costs to processing credit cards. But, if you have a CFO at your startup, they'll definitely run the numbers.
I'd imagine you could build something like this but it would get harder the smaller it is. Some sort of plastic sphere with rear projection from multiple projectors inside, warped to fit the globe (the more projectors, the more even focus would be around the full area of the globe). Project live sat imagery on inside of globe and view from outside.

I guess ideally it would use some fancy-pants spherical OLED to get around projection issues but I don't know if such a thing has ever been fabricated yet.

edit: just looked this up and apparently there have been spherical OLED displays and most search results are, indeed, demoed with globes.
i can't read this seriously with an over complicated term from "adjacent" combined with "theory"
Great idea & looks super interesting. there must be something like this that already exists?
AFAIK Jellyfin fully supports both AMD AMF and VA-API for HW accelerated transcoding, so you could use either Windows or Linux and have full support for the HW encoding/decoding chips built into these.
Right now with COVID19 things are a lot different but you can look into babysitters. Usually, babysitters charge less if you are at home with them. On many babysitting apps, they call it "Mommy's helpers." This may let you work on your projects, and you can step in if baby needs something that helpers cannot handle.
> still don’t know if I understand what this presentation is about

1. The simplicity of a system or product is not the same as the ease with which it is built.

2. Most developers, most of the time, default to optimizing for ease when building a product even when it conflicts with simplicity

3. Simplicity is a good proxy for reliability, maintainability, and modifiability, so if you value those a lot then you should seek simplicity over programmer convenience (in the cases where they are at odds).
I’m not really sure what people expected from Facebook here.

The oldest of newspapers struggle with these kinds of judgements (until they just decide to stop caring and cater to a certain political side).

It is not reasonable to expect Facebook to get it right with any consistency, if there even is a definitive correct answer to begin with.
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Agree on this! Another thing to point out is the fact that a majority of memes are created "in the moment" of important events for example, and thus benefitting from virality. Not sure if brands can leverage this effectively through a competiton-based platform.
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Maybe and ironic given the history. Intel got upset about clone x86 CPU's using comparable numbering systems. Reason being 286,386,486 are just numbers and they couldn't trademark numbers. Hence the brand name pentium was born as a way to stop the alternative x86 cpu's capitalising upon what Intel deemed a brand and at the time, it was.

Gold and Silver are a bit like numbers, can't be trademark protected and with that, history repeats in many ways and with all that in mind, this is funny for me.
Yes, thank you. There has already been a revolution over the past 5 years or so and many things that had been too audacious for science fiction became every day products. I think the ML revolution hit me personally about 5 years ago as I was able to get perfect speech recognition from my phone on a loud, crowded subway platform as a train was pulling in. I would have never thought that possible. I would have been skeptical if star trek had shown it.
Do you know how the steering is being done? Is it controlled from a computer on the fairing or is it remotely guided?
What about storage? We are running influxdb and we are looking for alternative. But a point where Influx is good is storage.
serial entrepreneurs will love this, interested to know how cashing out will work
Quite the contrary, we're finishing up packaging of the OSS version now to make it as easy as possible for you to get it and we're assembled a new team focused on getting OSS 2.0 released.

We continue to support all users, including OSS users, in our public Slack and Discourse, as well as Github. We have not "dropped all DevRel" activity.
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They have full hardware transcoding support, it wouldn't even pin the CPU to do 2 simultaneous 4k streams, let alone 1080p
> Could I sue facebook if their "facts" were proven wrong, and cause me damage?

Per the landmark ruling NYTimes v Sullivan — no, you'd probably lose that case.
Soda companies are basically marketing / advertising machines. Their products are mostly worthless, as in, if all Pepsi and Coke disappeared from the world suddenly, nothing whatsoever would be lost. Except, eventually, an untold amount of pounds of fat in the belly of their former customers.

So it's no surprise their marketing department go wild with completely ludicrous ideas.
just curious where does it says im 22? lol is it a profile?
If you find 90% of his statements to be obvious, maybe all that means is that you're a deep and powerful thinker too?
Yes would be nice to be able to run sql or something more standard. I like that its just simple, one application and it just works.
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