skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you mean to respond to someone else? My comment was about your point on whether his writing unfairly benefits from his author’s claim to be a psychiatrist, and now you’re talking about something else and repeating some general claims. Are you not defending the above point anymore?
Hi! Sharing a few highlights from this release, and links with additional information:

- MVC release of iterations, to break down work into more manageable tasks[1]

- Diff changes for wiki pages to simplify edit history comparisons between page versions [2]

- Use of advanced global search on GitLab.com[3]

[1] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2422#mvc-user-f...

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/22/gitlab-13-2-rel...

[3] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/advanced_global_searc...

Also, our team would love to hear your feedback on our Iterations MVC, which you can provide on this issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/221284
There's a whole range between "sixteen 8-storey buildings" and "people don't have where to live"
> EU forces all of them to use open standards

The best outcome.
US claims two Chinese hackers targeted defense companies, coronavirus research
Higher education so far as I can tell now is indistinguishable from a cult. You have to pay homage to various absurd beliefs, contribute money to them, and worship the value of it no matter what the apparent merit of it is, and more than anything it has its heresies which appear to be self-directed development and independent thinking.
Not a filtering function - I know of a few founders who scrapped by on Medicaid and food stamps for years to build a successful business by they had no savings
20-30% numbers, could be too high. It is hard to know. In the way that I would define it, it would be this:

The part of you that is in control and makes the decisions that give you agency over yourself. I used to believe I was directing myself day to day, but I'd guess that the concious only has a 20-30% say in the matter.

This opposed to who is performing the actions in which the subconcious mind is involved in 99% of the work. e.g. walking is almost entirely a subconcious activity.
Yes life is capable of fundamentally deeply sucking in ways most people are entirely oblivious to. There are things you can't unsee or unexperience. There are terrors that will never fully go away.

And unlike those fuzzy animals, you have the ability to meaningful adapt to them. You're equipped with a piece of hardware that makes an F35 look like a calculator. Even soldiers in the bleakest trenches of WWI had adaptation and survival mechanisms.
This is terrible advice, major bank stocks have been stagnant for a decade
USGS link [0]

[0] - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdat...
> Many European countries have partially or fully privatized their postal systems: https://www.cato.org/publications/tax-budget-bulletin/privat.... The government then pays a subsidy (which can be easily scrutinized) to maintain universal service obligations.

I have one objection to this, and one question. The objection is that, on average, the European countries listed are substantially smaller and more densely populated than the population that the USPS serves by mandate. It's not clear to me that a private company could provide uniform service without (righteously) demanding either obscene subsidies or a change to their service mandates. Neither of these outcomes are particularly desirable.

The question (or questions): given that the US already has private competitors to the USPS, what would you expect the privatization of the USPS to look like? I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but I don't think "pay a company to do it" is a canonical interpretation of the Postal Clause. In the context of private delegation, who is doing the delegation? State governments, or the federal one? Subsidies by either feel strictly less scrutable than public budgets.

> Purposefully making public agencies inefficient in order to ensure "good salaries and job protections" for workers is a bad idea.

It's also nobody's idea! The good salaries are a natural consequence of the USPS's coverage and delivery mandates, both of which are desirable (I don't want to wait an extra day for my priority mail because a private company doesn't want to pay overtime). The job protections are standard for any civil service job, and are essential for a nonpartisan and patronage-free workforce.

Furthermore, I just don't buy into the (tacit) argument that the USPS's "efficiency" should be measured with the same metrics used by a business. I expect more from the USPS than I do from a profitable and efficient business because I pay for it with my taxes, and I'd like to keep it that way.

So goes it for public transportation: I'll take my 24/7 $2.75 subway ride over the Stockholm (or Tokyo) metro's limited hours and fare zones.
but why should it be a matter of causing something to begin exising? maybe it's also about not preventing anything from existing?
I don’t think he was being ironically racist.

Here’s how I interpreted it...

Someone says “I bet you beat your spouse and children?
It’s such an insane statement I say “Oh yeah, I’m definite a spouse beater. Beating spouses is a great thing. We all should beat our spouses and children!”

I don’t think that’s ironically condoning domestic violence. It’s an as absurdism response. If I was captured on video with such a response and you retweeted it, I don’t think it’s likely that the retweeter was condoning domestic violence.

Thus saying “prepend condones domestic violence.”
Fort Hood soldier's body found near lake, marking base's 3rd death in month
Called signalling in economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
Aadhaar
A good econ talk on why this kind of thing (improving cancer diagnostics) is by far the most promising "cure for cancer".

http://www.econtalk.org/azra-raza-on-the-first-cell/

I hope we have many more tests like this that can be done frequently and add to the arsenal. Great work to these researchers.
I am not saying that any and all tech comes from the military. I am saying that the military is and always has been the driver for innovation more so than any other industry. IBM derives a large share of its profits from tech originally funded by the military for military purposes. The roads we drive on, the cars we drive, the semiconductors we use, the tampons and pads we use, are all pretty direct examples. Lots are indirect. The military also uses duct tape and drives Jeeps. Both were originally invented and built for the military in 1940s. DARPA is still a huge contributor to what we will be taking for granted 20 years from now. There are other researchers of course, I'm not disputing that. This year's National Science Foundation in the US has a budget of $7.1 billion, while military research combined totals $59 billion.
As someone who dropped out of a PhD program: the most important metric is the drop out rate for the research group you are in. If you can get it for your thesis advisor, it's even better. There are people who see all graduate students just as cheep, highly motivated labor for boosting their academic output. I had to put my advisor on papers who he had never read and I know someone who had to "ghost write" for her professor. Academia is a status game, and giving someone else credit for your work won't get you anywhere.
I like this. The analogy I always use is trying to be a major league baseball player, because I think the farm system captures the dynamics of the grad student component of academia.
While the mere presence of MS on a resume may not mean much to employers, I almost think it’s more important to weigh its usefulness against your current skill set. For instance, I work in tech but majored in something other than CS, and so I sometimes feel “weak” when I need to write more formal code. I’m going back to get my masters in CS so I can learn some of the foundational aspects that I unfortunately missed out on. I’m not as much concerned with fluffing my resume as I am filling the CS gaps I currently have.

Now if I did major in CS, I’m not sure I would still pursue a masters. But I didn’t, so there’s certainly value there for me.
Online teaching works particularly well for the tutorial model, where you have a small number (<5) of students plus the instructor engaged in discussion. It fails completely for large classes. That's not dissimilar to the situation before the plague.
I think people here sometimes are delusional about the prices of education since everything software-related has almost become a commodity. You can buy a Django/React/whatever course for 9.99 on Udemy. However, there’s an incredible amount of effort which goes into preparing courses in other disciplines.
Asimov's short novel "Profession" might be an interesting read.
Thank you. I wanted to mainly use Python for the backend, since that's the language I am most comfortable in. And Django was good enough for 90% of the use case. For the frontend stuff like Newsfeed, Comments, Upvotes etc which involved user interaction I used Javascript/handlebars/jQuery.

React or any frontend frameworks would have probably been an overkill (honestly, even jQuery was) in the case of diff.blog, since Django did most of the Job. If the frontend codebase becomes larger, I would probably rewrite them to make use of native Web Components. I still have not yet experimented with web components though.
There are actually multiple optimizations to Flux already underway. The language runtime can "push down" some of these operations to the storage layer where they can be performed more efficiently.
This may be the catalyst for a long-overdue reckoning in higher education in the US - it's insane that people are entering the workforce at 23 with a lifetime of unforgivable debt for, in many cases, worthless degrees.
But Sweden has roughly double the population of Finland and Norway, so Sweden (1000 weekly deaths) is comparable to Finland (500 weekly deaths) and not that far off of Norway (200 weekly deaths).
The most difficult thing might be to have all parties agree to what, exactly, would constitute a fair arrangement. Free software where nobody gets directly paid is one thing which is easy to understand, but if money gets involved, things tend to get ugly, and nothing destroys a budding community faster than bitter infighting.
I don’t think the old guy ironically fucked a goat here. I think he claimed that he was a goat fucker to demonstrate the absurdity of the accusation.
The pandemic virus is slowly mutating. But does it matter?
I’m very truly sorry about what happened to your friend. That is an awful thing to go through.

Without being an expert on the subject myself, I can’t say whether his doctors recommended the right course of action but he got a bad roll of the die, or whether his doctors made a terrible mistake.

But I think if they made a terrible mistake, then the solution is to make more knowledge available about how to avoid such mistakes, not to make less knowledge available about people’s health.
Also, half your paycheck goes to the government and European tech salaries are nearly half that of the US. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Hm - well, I'm not a mathematician, but I am a programmer and I know that there are many, many times when I've seen somebody try to describe an algorithm in what ends up being incomprehensible English followed by a code example that actually clears up what it was they were trying to say.
This isn't exclusive to LaTeX; I think students in general just think that the symbols make things "more mathematical". I remember feeling this way briefly when I was first exposed to things like $\forall$ and $\exists$, and it wore off. This was in the late nineties; in theory I could have had access to a typesetting system but I was writing things by hand.
You actually could potentially determine location by examining mutation patterns, both by looking more closely at methylation and doing further sequencing of cell-free DNA.
Using Apple Mail with Gmail leaks your IP address
It's successful in the sense that the pandemic is greatly slowing down. Like most public health officials, he's not particularly concerned with "success" in the sense of "we can rub it in other countries' faces that our response was better".
How to check the status of Rust features
U.S. EPA to propose first-ever airplane emissions standards, sources say
If the patient were a robot, this would make sense. But people are easily scared, especially by the word "cancer," and fright can lead to bad decisions. And this is a decision that's made by individuals, including the doctors, who just want to take the "safe" option.

For example, the United States Preventative Services Task Force, which effectively decides the preventative procedures covered by Medicare and Medicaid, recommended against routine prostate specific antigen testing for prostate cancer in 2012. They backed that up with data on mortality and unnecessary procedures. Prostate doctors around the country flipped out. The doctors are focused on helping their individual patients. That's good, but it keeps them from seeing the overall harm to the entire population.
would using the `integrity` attribute in the `<script>` tag mitigate this attack?
Lego Helicopter Kit Cancelled 10 Days Before Release
MIT engineers designed an affordable, reusable mask as effective as N95
Team is already bigger than slack.

> Slack previously revealed it has 12 million daily active users back in October, but the company has not publicly updated this number since. Microsoft Teams usage has soared over the past year, reaching 44 million daily active users during a big increase in demand earlier this month. Slack has instead been trying to steer the conversation to how many actions are taken in Slack compared to its competitors, and how much people love to use its app.

0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/26/21195092/slack-new-user-r...
He says "the check sizes are too big" as if they're giving prelaunch startups $50M or something. The $125k that YC gives startups is nowhere near big enough to remove the drive/urgency to succeed.

If startups are coming into YC with a more mature product than in the early years (and it seems that way), then adjusting the focus towards fundraising actually makes sense.

Not to repeat what's been said in other comments, but to say that founders should be willing to put themselves in deep financial risk to prove their drive...that just comes from an incredibly privileged mindset.

It reminds me of the people saying that if their school is going online-only, students should instead take gap years to build something, incorrectly assuming that no one needs that student loan money for living expenses.
Did you try ClickHouse? [1]

We were successfully ingesting hundreds of billions of ad serving events per day to it. It is much faster at query speed than any Postgres-based database (for instance, it may scan tens of billions of rows per second on a single node). And it scales to many nodes.

While it is possible to store monitoring data to ClickHouse, it may be non-trivial to set up. So we decided creating VictoriaMetrics [2]. It is built on design ideas from ClickHouse, so it features high performance additionally to ease of setup and operation. This is proved by publicly available case studies [3].

[1] https://clickhouse.tech/

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/

[3] https://victoriametrics.github.io/CaseStudies.html
Microsoft have a monopoly on office software. All businesses more or less have to buy Microsoft Office. Microsoft bundles Teams for free with it.

There is something stopping businesses from using Slack - the fact that Microsoft gives them Teams for free.

To be honest I doubt this will be a successful case. Companies get away with this all the time. I think the Windows/IE case is the only instance I've ever heard of something coming from it.
Probably a mistake to treat parenting styles as exogenous. Parents respond to their child’s temperaments too. It’s easy to be attached to an easy-going child. A kid that’s always crying is going to wear you out.
It's certainly comparable, and does compete with O365. Legally, a monopoly doesn't mean it has no competitors, just that it dominates the market.
Couldnt we get a vaccine faster if they shared all research?
Agreed. This is what you get when you measure performance in terms of profits.

To quote Major General Smedley Butler:
"A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the
people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the
very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

Higher education is a rachet.

Students pay ever-higher tuition, which at some level is backstopped by the government. If you don't go to college and pursue prestigious degrees the job market will be inaccessible, beyond basic skill entry level.

Graduate students are exploited laborers for the promise of a PhD and a letter of recommendation for a postdoc. Drawing from a global pool of talent for cheap research labor. If you don't do everything your advisor says you will lose your visa, or not get a publication and your academic career is dead-on-arrival.

Professors are in an environment that encourages pursuing expensive application-based research and high impact publications to pad their resumes for tenure. If you don't rake in the money and publish in "prestigious" journal (usually the walled off ones) you will not be considered for tenure, a raise, etc.

Tax dollars fund research institutions that take their generous "administration" fees and then hand over findings to walled garden journals. If you don't fund research we will not make the breakthroughs that gave us out "comfortable" way of life.

In the US, student athletes (until recently) could not profit off their likeness and all the money went to the school.

At the end of the day, the team of MBAs and administrators make fat salaries. This wouldn't be so bad if institutions used the revenue to improve education and dissemination of knowledge. Instead, they build fancy stadiums and raise tuition.
I wish people would just code and stop writing crap.
I'd argue signalling is the effect, where the tribal initiation is the mechanism and purchasing a commission is the example precedent, but we're certainly in the same realm of ideas.
The thing is, Teams integrates with the rest of Office 365 much more than IE did with Windows. It's very easy to argue that it's a core part of the product.

In general, Microsoft has really nailed how if things work well together, they become more than the sum of their parts. That's why each individual part doesn't need to be the best in class in order to win. Which is bad news for Slack, but it's hard to argue that it's bad for consumers.
Yes, you're right. I should have said, there's no better choice of symbols that will remove the huge set of prerequisites you need to first understand. There isn't as large of a tower of abstractions to understand most codebases.
True, that may be the case. There is config.office.com where you can adjust a lot of behavior (you need an admin account I believe). If teams gets installed with office on default settings, you can certainly change it there. However, I don't think we have changed anything there and it didn't get installed automatically.
From what I know, the risk is not high enough to leave a strong signal. The problem is the overall high cancer rate for humans. As far as I know, we still don't have a model for predicting cancer rates after low exposure to ionizing radiation.
I am enjoying working from home, many of my coworkers too. I'd probably say it's 50/50 here
It's worth noting that with the process of eliminating the last candidate, their votes are redistributed by preference and not simply discarded - so in the end your vote goes to one of the last two candidates unless there was a runaway winner and no need for a redistribution. That's not really explained in the OP.
The issue is that some of the most valuable experiences and learning comes from in-person interactions with the professor in classroom and with classmates on campus. Purely online classes completely ignore this aspect of learning. Granted we can't do in-person interaction in the current environment, but surely we could give it more thought . The current online classes focus on only delivering the lecture as opposed to encourage learning.
TrueSkill 1 presumably?
It's not surprising, then, that Knuth introduced it.
but 1 and -1 are integers, they contain nothing. the interval between any pair of different integers on the other hand...
First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
It's not a simple yes/no question. For instance, is a database not ultimately a single mutable global state?
This indicates Sweden wound up with relatively similar de-facto restrictions (a social distancing strictness of ~50 versus ~60 for the other Nordic nations) and a substantially higher death rate.

It also says "Sweden did not record an economic contraction in Q1 of 2020", which is a misleading claim, given the lockdowns largely came in the last few weeks of that quarter, and later goes on to acknowledge "Forecasters agree that Sweden will face a severe recession in 2020".

I don't think this really supports the case you're trying to make.
Yeah, my local Costco is so much more pleasant of a gas station I despise getting gas anywhere else.
I think the lab-heavy (i.e. non-digital) programs have this problem more. When I was in grad school, I knew plenty of chemistry students who were expected to work 6 days a week.
Can you imagine not being able to call a German phone number from the US?

AT&T's telephones still had to interoperate with (e.g.) the British Post Office's phones (and everybody else's) to remain relevant/useful. AT&T was very far from controlling all telephony equipment in the whole world.
There's also a whole range of possibilities between "people don't have a place to live" and "oh, let's build sixteen 8-storey buildings".

> these are well beyond the power of someone building a few condos.

They are probably within the power, but they really don't care. It's cheaper and faster to build a few apartment blocks in a limited space (usually putting a strain on existing infrastructure — from water and sewage to roads to kindergartens and schools) than to invest in building out.

Unfortunately, as I see it in trends around the world, this is what's happening in almost every country. Why create a "master plan to deliver an integrated response" when you can plop down a few apartment buildings and be don with it.
You are making the huge mistake of assuming that if you hadn't given up when facing difficulty with the notation, the rest would have been easy, that you would have no trouble understanding the concepts!

Don't worry: you are not alone in making that huge mistake, plenty of people do. People that don't give up when confused about notation usually quickly learn that is the concepts and relations between them that require careful thought (and also, usually, that the notation was advantages they didn't realize when at first blush they found it confusing).
It's not a side effect, but a rule of Nature.

It will happen either you follow the advice or not, and the article is about how to slow that process down.
But why put founders through that added stressor if YC easily has the resources to prevent it?
Amazon is one of Slack‘s largest customers.
I agree but brought it up as OP stated that POTUS endorses racism and white power through the tweet. I think I may be automatically biased against his tweets. But if a regular person posted that video I wouldn’t consider it endorsement of white power.

Perhaps if there’s more context on the person in the video that would help. It seems like a frustrated response pointing out absurdity. But if the person flies a nazi flag then that would change my mind.
My gmail account is already too secure... Sometimes they block me from accessing my account.