skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? I'm sorry... what?

Nothing you said here made any sense.

> 1) A refusal to distinguish between mental illness and permanent psychological disability (along with the idea that all mental illnesses are neurostructural in nature)

You mean by doctors, right? Certainly you can't mean by posters, because you know posters make the DSM.

> 2) A refusal to acknowledge that "biologically normal" human emotions can nevertheless be a cause for medical concern, in the sense that a high fever is a "normal" and necessary response to infection that can nevertheless cause serious problems.

Yes because a high fever is a biologically normal human state. Seriously, how does this nonsense get voted to the top of the responses.

> US society in particular (but also humans in general) really wants to draw a distinction between "the mentally ill" and "the mentally well."

No Big Pharma and the NIMH do. Not "society". If you know anything about the history of the space you know how much of this was driven by greed. Billions and billions of dollars are made off of antidepressants, antipsychotics and the like. It is HUGE HUGE business.
Getting an MBA from a non-top school CAN help. The key is understanding how it can help:
1- If your pre-MBA employer has a strong brand, and you are not planning to switch functions, then a mid-tier MBA will hurt you (i.e., you are working at Amazon in marketing. Getting an MBA from University of Portland thinking it will accelerate your marketing career is a mistake)

2- If you are using an MBA to switch functions, then even a lower tier school will help you do that (but obviously not as valuable as a higher tier school)

"Traditional employee" here just means someone working for an employer - not self employed or starting their own company. It does not mean "an average employee". Clearly a random person off the street is not going to make $1MM/year anytime soon. And anyone who claims they could make that happen are lying.

Also: I would hope much of the advice is helpful for anyone who wants to "accelerate" their career, even if they don't take it all the way to $1MM.
It is the only way to go for bootstrapped companies. There is a pool for bootstrapped companies
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Related passage from Bell's "Men of Mathematics":

It (inversion) is one of the most powerful methods of mathematical discovery (or invention) ever devised, and Abel was the first human being to use it consciously as an engine of research. "You must always invert," as Jacobi said when asked the secret of his mathematical discoveries.
That is the key: stating the obvious actually is hard and I think Rich does a beautiful job to translate the thoughts and feelings most programmer have into words. It actually gives a way to discuss and think about things (especially design and architecture) with others. I learned that there is no such thing as "common ground" or common knowledge magically and intuitively shared by all programmers. So if this already reflects your thoughts - even better.
> a round raised within the last 3-6 months

If a company has raised capital and done so recently, how would you compare this to the founder selling an equivalent amount of their shares in into that round (secondary)?

IOW, if a founder has liquidity and a priced round, in which situations is this better or worse?
I always try to aim for the "Most Likely Worst Case Scenario"... not the worst thing that can happen, but the most likely bad thing that can happen.
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I don't think this is the case. It has a decent P60 SoC w/ 6GB of RAM and Android 10 support. None of the mini phones I could find on Alibaba were anywhere close in spec. Even the term you highlighted was for 3.5" screen, not 3.0" screen.
There are lots of things that I think are comparable to machine learning in the sense that they combine applied math and heavy computation and are very practically important, like simulating chemical reactions, solving operations research problems, or computational fluid dynamics. You cannot talk about these things at cocktail parties, though, because people will slowly shuffle away from you -- whereas you can talk about deep learning, which is odd.

Basically, I think if somebody wants to work in machine learning then they should be encouraged, and I think it's great that barriers to entry are lower than most fields, but the average person should not feel like they need to care about it, and if they do it might be because they have an inaccurate narrative.
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"LinkedIn said employees affected by its job cuts will be informed this week and they will start receiving invitations in the next few hours to meetings to learn more about next steps."

Wow great way to find out. Reuters gets notified before the employees
Outline (https://www.getoutline.com) supports this functionality.
But he already plays by having an algo that suggest you articles/news/groups to join. It would be one thing if it was just a dump of what your friends post and nothing else. But the moment you "suggest" content to people, you take an editorial stance. If you take an editorial stance and start pushing an article to millions of people, then you have a responsibility.

You can't have it both ways. This isn't a phone company.
"Try it out" live demo loads forever for me. Possibly overwhelmed by requests?

_edit_

I wonder how they handle different distros having different versions of tools (say netcat has at least 3 popular versions with different flags).
Hey, thank you! It's built on react and node. I fetched the titles from Amazon, but there's some manual work involved cleaning them up.

I'd love to be featured on https://hackerspad.net. Thank you!
Here's a thing: Coming from a world of Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, BASIC, batch etc. scripts, a main function is not neccessary at all. The procedural code just starts from the first line.

With this in mind, it is weird to even ask for a main function. :-)
According to the piece, the fact checkers claimed an opinion piece was false because all of the facts in it were cherry picked:

"The researchers found that the post by the CO2 Coalition was based on cherry-picked information to mislead readers into thinking climate science models are wrong about global warming."

This is not a logical argument. Facts are correct or incorrect, whether they're cherrypicked or not.
Twice as many Americans are getting news from social media than before pandemic
Or we could get rid of Democracy and back to kingship/dictatorship. /s

But on a serious note. It seems that the requirement of functioning Democracy is under the assumption that the majority is educated and know what is good for them. Information warfare like this spells disaster for Democracy.
If you are a startup, courting a large customer can compromise the integrity of your project. You have no leverage at all, which means the product will start to look like what they want it to be.

And because you made a deal with them when you had no leverage, the terms will also be awful, and difficult to renegotiate. So you have to go try to increase margins off of smaller customers, all with a product that looks like what the person you aren't making money off of wanted it to look like.

Hypothetically speaking, of course. Because I definitely for sure did not work for a place who tried to go big too soon and ended up with a modest exit.
I don't think you stay in business long paying folks that ... you don't want / need working for you anymore.
Nagios is not so much a "recorder" as it is a "state inspector", basically plugins run on a schedule and inspect that things are up to spec. The situation you describe may be better suited for something like the ELK stack which can hook into your HTTPD logs.
It's also a useful way of making people not feel like party-poopers.

Typically, everyone's excited at the start of a project and people are reticent to share their fears (especially if there are bosses around).

A pre-mortem gives them the mental freedom to share their fears as they are asked to imagine they are in a future where the project has turned out to be a disaster).
I always saw Python and similar languages (Perl, Ruby, PHP maybe) as attempts at replacements for complicated shell scripts, so it never seemed odd to me that there was no main function, since a shell script has no main either. It just starts executing at the top.

Edit: Just saw that ktpsns and I made pretty much the same comment. I'll add that when I learned C I found the idea of a main function so confusing at first. I wanted to know why it had to be called main and not whatever else I wanted it to be. On the plus side, it led to me exploring how compilers and linkers work, which made me understand hardware a lot better.
Consensus decision-making has its place, but not when it delays simple decisions or acts as a way to diffuse responsibility. Can you decypher whether your second-guessing is coming from an emotional or a rational place within yourself?
So the founders need to research every potential company that could join their pool to figure out how to rank them? Seems like that takes a lot of time to do right.
Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation – a 100-page compilation
A 100-page document compiled by @richardmcngo and @jvnixon, sourced from a number of articles and interviews.
2,500~ compute instances.

Looking at the pricing page the cost $15/instance so $37,500

Middle-of-the-road developer salary is like $35k in most of Europe, outside of the capitals.

Although it does say: "Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo). Contact us." at the bottom, so I guess 500 is a lot.
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There's a distinction here between law and regulation.

Even hard core libertarians don't think there should be no laws. That's a straw man. They tend to believe governments should vigorously enforce contracts, trademarks, punish fraud and provide other tools that make commerce easy. In other words that they give people the tools to keep each other honest, but don't try to directly mandate every detail of every product.

The word law tends to mean these general, timeless rules that often date back a long way. They don't create ossification or stagnation (Thiel's primary concern) because they don't advantage any particular way of doing things, just enforce fair dealing and honesty.

The word regulation tends to be used to mean rather modern and very sector-specific rules, which frequently ossify existing practice and prevent people trying anything new. Often they are nakedly about doing exactly that - taxi medallions are one such form of regulation.

The people who support such regulations invariably claim they're about safety or preventing some sort of harm. The evidence for this is highly mixed. It often relies on an absurd, cartoon-character view of companies in which they'll happily kill all their customers to make a quick buck with no concern for long term consequences whatsoever, if the noble and morally pure government employee doesn't step in to stop them.

But there are plenty of cases where regulations seem to have created more harm than good, and vastly more where it's ambiguous. Do we really need governments to regulate the taxi industry, for example? Arguably not. It seems Uber is widely judged as being a better taxi regulator than the government, as it can use far faster and more plentiful feedback vs the paper or faxed complaint forms governments typically provide.

Libertarians often make arguments of this form - that the alternative to government regulations is not some anarchist wild west in which people go mad murdering each other with explosive contraptions. The alternative is private sector regulation of various kinds, in which logos and trademarks are used to establish meaning behind a mark and consumers gravitate to products that have those marks, as they're understood to be a sign of quality and safety. The advantage being that if that organisation succumbs to various kinds of dysfunction, like capture, or stagnation, then another can come along and outcompete it. Whereas with government regulators that can't happen - you can get endless decades or even centuries of unfixable dysfunction.
(Timescale-Prometheus team lead here) I'd suggest using Timescale-Prometheus to connect Prometheus with TimescaleDB.

Repo: https://github.com/timescale/timescale-prometheus
Design Doc: https://tsdb.co/prom-design-doc
"Explicit is better than implicit" - PEP20

I wouldn't really say that it's a hurdle to greeting the world since you can just throw `print("Hello world")` at the top level.
Why some self-driving startups reject Google’s “moonshot” approach
What kind of packaging does openwrt use? We publish tarballs of Telegraf that should work, but if there's a different packaging format that would make it easier to install we can look into adding that.
Of course everyone will try "recursively remove root"
Western salaries are not that low and true costs to the employer is typically double the perceived salary. That means we're talking tens of thousands of euros, so thousands of hosts (list price is certainly negotiable at this scale).

If they've got a thousand of hosts, the costs of the infrastructure itself must dwarf the salary of any developer by orders of magnitude, the salary of a developer is simply irrelevant when it comes to acquiring software/hardware.
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It becomes easier to take the progress seriously and understand it when you drop the "intelligence"-style labels which misleads people into thinking something is there that isn't.

Machine "learning" isn't ideal either, but is at least a bit more limited in the scope of what it conveys.

Once you leave the hype baggage behind, it's more easy to see the significant progress that these tools - in concert with increased power and data resources - have made in many different areas over the last few years, some of them listed elsewhere in the answers to your question.
You've found that the abstraction isn't useful for doing your task. That's not leaking. That's like complaining that your ice cream maker can't cook rice. That's not what it's for.

In fact, this is a common manner for abstractions to become leaky. You find you are in need some guarantee not present in the abstraction. You choose to add whether or not that guarantee is satisfied to the shared interface. Congratulations! You've added a leak to the abstraction.

But that's not the only option available. If you need a guarantee not provided by an abstraction, you could ignore the abstraction and use something that actually provides the guarantees you need.
Grafana together with Loki would be a good match for you
Very good point. It's not an entirely serious suggestion. I just want tires made out of something indestructible.
On ChromeOS, and probably others, you can create a shortcut accessible from the OS launcher which just opens a URL in the browser. (You might like ChromeOS, basically everything runs in a browser tab without electron)

This is how I do slack and a ton of other apps. Just type the name, no need to recall the URL. You can do this with multiple subpages on the same URL as well
Thanks for the reply, very helpful
I think the terminology may have been confusing here. I meant graphs in the sense of graphical plots, not graph theory graphs.
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In the two DevReal roles I've had, there is some aspect of marketing and customer support, but not really "sales". For me, it's been a hybrid engineering and product role, where talking to the users helps surface bugs as well as ideas for new features.

So much less "technical sales" than "developer whose role includes public interaction"
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I hear you on the reliability of a known and long-tenured vendor.

I got one of the AliExpress ones, because I wasn't originally certain what it would be used for. At one point it was my primary PC, and it performed silently and as well as or better than a same-specced laptop.

The support is nonexistent, but compatibility is pretty good. These mini PCs are just taking generic laptop motherboard and CPU assemblies (probably the same you'd find in a Clevo or similar ODM machine). I wouldn't use one for something mission critical, but it worked great as a silent desktop and it has been a (super overpowered) router box as well.
I’m a beta tester. I think “notes app” is selling this short. One, you can structure your data into fields as you go. Two, I didn’t get the power of the API combined with this structure until I read https://docs.portway.app/guides/build-a-twitter-logger
It’s more like a database with a really nice UI, maybe AirTable where the metaphor is notes?
I haven't, unfortunately, but it looks promising from just looking into it briefly. Open source monitoring is always an area that needs more competition.
selling... what? or LinkedIn has become corporate IG and people receive money for all this "this is how I succeeded" and "I overcame my weaknesses" unsolicited content.
Looks nice, and I can understand putting some features behind a subscription when it requires some servers and remote services to maintain, but putting End-to-End Encrypted Remote Access as a paid feature goes against the "privacy-first" concept.
read the full code.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
A reasonable question. There are many answers. My first one would be for leverage. E.g. To solve a crime, they want information from someone who is not under formal investigation. That someone may not voluntarily cooperate, so they use information for leverage. E.g. threaten to leak information about a pending business deal to others in the transaction. It's not very effective for Joe Sixpack, but it is for organized crime of all kinds.
Sounds like you’re unfamiliar with how the HTML parser is defined. There’s no guessing; it’s all simple, hard rules that never look backwards, defined as a state machine, and has been since HTML 5. (And even before then, I would never have characterised browsers as making a best-effort attempt to parse; they all followed rules, just messy and complex and unspecified rules that involved reverse engineering one another.) I wouldn’t care to guess which of attribute values being quoted and unquoted would perform better, and it may vary by engine depending on how they access memory and perform comparisons, but the difference will be negligible either way, though… probably measurable.
we make it really easy to get the nuggets of information you need at a glance. You can only rank your top 10.
I'm baffled by that number given how bad the product is.

It has a lot of potential, but is completely ruined by the social media aspect and their attempt at making it yet another cesspool like Twitter or Instagram, all the way down to the algorithmic feed, likes and reactions.

They should step away from the nonsense and make the tool (because yes it should be seen as a tool and not a lifestyle) easier to use, not harder. Stop getting in my way trying to make me use the algorithmic feed (it forgets your choice after a few hours) or nagging me to add a profile picture (I've said no for 2 years, why are you still trying?) or certain profile details I might not want to share, or "following sources" (whatever that means, I guess it's about following bullshit hashtags so you can have even more crap in your feed). The UI is absolutely terrible and slow for no good reason and makes it painful to use.

The worst is that you might think "okay well the free version for the plebs is nasty because it tries to drum up engagement, but the premium version should be better, right?" WRONG! The premium version is just as bad but instead of wasting just your time it wastes your time and your money.
The Mongol Rally has been the dream of mine for a while. I have a few friends that I'd trust to do it with but they're not in a financial state to pull this off yet.
Shades of both:

Being convinced that complete victory over their enemies is essential to defend life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice in their own lands as well as in other lands, and that they are now engaged in a common struggle against savage and brutal forces seeking to subjugate the world...

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

The Declaration does not name Nazism or Fascism specifically, but does describe the characteristics common to them and other authoritarian and aggressive forms of government.
Why is that? It takes minimal effort to get it up and running and you can either self-host or use the SaaS offering on any of the major clouds. There's even a free tier on the SaaS your startup can use that won't cost you a dime until your usage becomes significant.
I think it's a good analogy; very reasonable people come to different conclusions on this problem IRL too.

I prefer older houses (at least pre-80s). They have problems that are very predictable and minor. If they had major problems, they would show them quite clearly in 2020.

My friends prefer newer properties, but this is an act of faith, that the builders today have built something that won't have severe structural/electrical/plumbing problems in 20 years.

Of course, if you only plan on living some place for 3-5 years, none of this matters; you want to live where you're comfortable.
I was actually deliberate about adding these people. The mission here is to make people read more and some people might not be impressed by what Alicia Keys, Emma Watson or Taylor Swift have to recommend, but there's an ocean of teens who don't normally read and no matter what Obama or Bill Gates recommend they'll not get into reading unless they see a book recommendations from one of their pop gods.

Thank you, it's built on react and node.
Kinda makes senses. They’ll scale back up again
Any editor made in the last 20 years has syntax highlighting around attribute values, not strings, in HTML. To not quote-delimit makes no difference.
How do you do payouts to nonprofits? Are you partnering with/running your own donor advised funds, like Benevity?

As a non-profit one of the most frustrating things is how unacceptably slow Benevity is at paying out to nonprofits. It takes 2-3 months after they receive the funds to pay them to the nonprofit. (It takes an entire month to even show up as pending, and another month to show the details.)

This does not include time for verification, which happens annually. This is just the timeline due to their inability to run a scalable organization. It has gotten worse over time.

Our partners are usually surprised when I explain this timeline to them.

(Benevity has also been completely unable to consistently update our display name across all of their partners, so we have to tell people who work at Google to search for a different name. Support has been going to "get back to me" on this for over a year.)

After having some experience as a non-profit, I would never choose Benevity for a for-profit, and if you can kill them I would be very happy.
If it's online, South Dakota, the business friendly state.
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How can you find out more about the specific investments that Charityvest will be making? Our definition of highly liquid and "safe" might be different :)

Also, is there something inherent about Schwab/Fidelity/etc charitable index funds that make the fee load so high? If you could offer this at a lower rate, that would definitely interest me as well.

I actually just signed up for a Schwab DAF, so am certainly interested in learning more.
Yes, we use it as long term retention for Prometheus. I was also tempted to use it as stand-alone dB but never got to it.
Do you use it as such?