skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to be a unique and market differentiating strategy.

This article is interesting because of its fluff level. What did the PR firm think they would accomplish with this? Was Netflix not seeking to emulate the biggest film franchises of all time?
I don't understand, why not just add a column to the database with the permissions?
> I’d be curious if you have data.

Sounds like a hard thing to measure, but I'm sure someone has good estimates.

> Also, if we define execution of a Python line as a metric: Instagram alone will dwarf all prototypers in Python. What would be a good metric to indicate “popularity”?

Code cycles isn't really what I would mean by language use, but if we go by that metric Julia's production code also dwarfs non-production code cycles.

The Celeste project alone was running at petaflops[1] at it's peak, that is 10^15 floating point operations per second. One of the biggest targets for Julia is deploying it at scale on super-computing clusters. There are almost surely many more CPU cycles being devoted to production scale julia code than random repl code, but that's got to be true for almost any language being used at scale.

Also, counting Python line executions in production code is a little squirreley, because almost surely those lines are really just a thin wrapper around a big hunk of C code if it's a production system.

> If it’s number of installs, then Python tinkerers would win and I agree with you.

I'd also say just number lines written or projects started, the tinkerers win hands down.

[1] https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/julia-joins-petaflop-cl...
There is no way to prove beyond doubt that ByteDance isn't having their data watched by the CCP, or that the CCP won't forcibly take their data in the future. That's just part of dealing with a company based in a country like China. You don't need proof that ByteDance is controlled by the CCP. You just need to see the way CCP deals with companies in its country, and the powers they have over companies within their borders.

Note: Yes, the US gov can do the same thing to US companies to some extent. But this about ByteDance and the CCP. And I think the assumption that you can't trust a Chinese based comapny (because of the CCP) is justified.
Manufactured controversy.
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There's no real way to hedge against a crisis - almost by definition, everything goes down in a crisis. But as Buffet says, be greedy when others are fearful; if anything now is the time to spend what you put aside in good times, and make the cheap but risky investments that other people don't dare to. (E.g. I just booked a holiday for next year at a huge discount, which is good for me and good for the economy - I get a good deal, the airline and the hotel get a chance to stave off bankruptcy. Of course I'm taking the risk of the airline or the hotel going bankrupt)
The only known vaccine is surviving covid. If the young had all been infected by April, things would be quite different now...
I have a dream, that one day I will live in a country where peoples credibility will be decided by the strengths of their argument and not the sound of their accent.
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As I understand it, public schools are not bad because decisionmakers think they are good. So it's interesting to read that "competition" by private schools would increase the quality of public schools. At least empirically, that doesn't seem to be the case.

There are two arguments that have been brought up.

1. This sort of disjointed system is not desirable as it propagates inequality in opportunity. This should be fairly obvious and not contentious.

2. Private schools and these pods, as their extreme form, face a similar issue as insurance markets if there is capture in governance (which seems to be the case in the US).
On the one hand, wealthy people have an incentive to bundle their funding in private schools, which will lead to higher average contributions. They also have an incentive to petition government not to use their other tax contributions for public school, as they do not profit from it. Even more, their kids profit from this distance. Given that wealthy people are powerful in the US, this seems to be a more likely reason why public schools are not well funded.

So economically speaking, private schools on a large scale could be damaging to the quality of general education, much like a fragmented insurance market may eventually split into high and low classes.

Countries like Finland have public education on-par with the best private schools elsewhere. One component may be funding for education generally. But it will probably also be true that there is more funding towards public schools in relative terms, since powerful actors (in any sense) have an incentive to make schools for their children decent. In the US, wealthy people in general have zero direct incentive to fund public education.

Therefore, it seems to me that the solution is not to introduce competition. Speaking with US teachers and administrators, it doesn't seem that they could provide better education if incentivized by better private schools. What I hear instead is that public education is simply underfunded in the US. That would speak for the argument above.
Isn't that the onus of the US government and congress? Regardless, since TikTok is considered a potential national security risk, I'm sure plenty of existing laws would cover it if not others already.
The messaging regarding masks was "They don't keep you from getting it, and everyone should be inside right now to avoid spreading it if they have it, so avoid buying a mask to make sure there are enough for people who need them." The messaging regarding masks now is, "They don't keep you from getting it, but they do stop you from spreading it, so since there are enough masks now for everyone, you should wear one." It doesn't seem like a flip-flop so much as responding to the current state of the world.

I think the public's willingness to trust the experts has been undermined more by a large portion of the US government deliberately trying to undermine public trust in the experts.
Yeah, I think it's mostly screen time. Someone getting 2 days out of a 3a isn't using it 6 hours a day. But some people do.
These blocks require JS or extra plugins?
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The reagents have been the limiting ... reagent.
Pinworms[0] are a lot more common than I think most people (doctors included) realize. Though the symptoms are not as bad (that we know of)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinworm_infection
Looks good! Push left vs. push right icons are inconsistent though. The "push left" icon makes sense (arrow pushing on a line), but the "push right" icon is more like a pull right icon. The line needs to be shifted to the other side of the arrow.
Well, it depends on what you think is "strong" evidence. A 10% reduction doesn't seem very compelling, and when you introduce the more advanced statistical analysis, that hurts the case in my eyes. There are probably less disruptive ways to get a 10% reduction.

I found that study from this meta study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20092668/ which reviews a lot of these studies for influenza. Note, however, that most of the studies only look at if the masks protect the individual, not whether masks stop the spread of influenza, but the evidence seems pretty inconclusive.
Just printing money is a great way to end up with runaway inflation and a worthless currency.
> Seat belts are mandatory, but (...)

I fail to see how any of the examples you pointed out have any relevance to the subject.

The point was that there are plenty of examples of behavior that's deemed mandatory in order to uphold the common good. Wearing face masks during a pandemic fits the bill. You don't negate this by cherry-picking unrelated examples that aren't covered. I mean, not requiring seatbelts on public busses is just as acceptable as not requiring facemasks while staying within private property and for the same reasons: the negligible risk that's presented to both the public and the individual.
Here is a StackExchange post: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2453533/triple-nega...
A phone that I can drop from 5th floor and the only thing breaks is the pavement tile. :D (I am looking at you Nokia).
Exploring Monster Taming Mechanics in Ffxiii-2: Filtering Monsters
The argument isn’t that basing sentencing on physical attractiveness is unfair because attractiveness is randomly distributed (“less a given”), it’s that it’s irrelevant a priori; accordingly your argument misses the point. In contrast: IQ and grit are by definition supposed to measure those traits which are relevant to success; fwiw they are NOT considered completely fair, but that is because of the extent to which many instruments end up measuring “belonging to a certain cultural group” instead of those relevant traits.
DNA capture by a CRISPR-Cas9–guided adenine base editor
We'll see some inflation. Savers will be worse off in real terms; retired people will have a worse time of things over the next few decades. But it's hard to imagine it getting completely out of control: there's no alternative, and no actual shortage of real goods, unless the pandemic reaches the point where it's actually limiting production of things like food, clothing and so on.
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Thank you for your comment. For javascript, we are using vanilla javascript (no jquery, no libraries or plugins).
This reminds me of when I did my master’s thesis. At a certain point I had the distinct experience of being forced to turn off part of my brain to get through it. I described it as “mashing the keyboard while screaming through the feelings.”
Any alternative must use renewable energy. The question is whether that should be used to produce hydrogen or synfuel kerosene.
It’s also important to note that in the US sharing salary data is protected by federal law no matter what your employee agreement says.
A different way to put it. Not a better one.

Both are valid points to make, but you seem to be missing parent poster's.
I didn't know they'd removed the fingerprint sensor. I have a Pixel 2 and I'm happy with it. I don't have any compelling reason to upgrade, except that the screen has a small crack. I would have been disappointed if I'd splurged on a new one and had to use facial recognition to unlock it. I don't like having cameras on me. It's unsettling to interact with my devices that way. I also find that the ones I have used don't work as quickly or reliably as a fingerprint. The fingerprint motion is automatic as I pull it out of my pocket, and the majority of the time I'm glancing down at my hip to check for notifications; something like that wouldn't even work with facial recognition.

Now I'm definitely holding out to see what the 5 has, because if I can get 5G connectivity, I'm willing to switch, but I won't be jumping at it if there's no fingerprint sensor.
I boycotted Blizzard after their censorship regarding Hong Kong. It was a great decision since it saved me from the dumpster fire to end all dumpster fires that was Warcraft III Reforged [1]. I would strongly suggest that if anything about Blizzard pisses you off, just be done with them entirely. The people who created the great games of the past don't work there. Blizzard is no longer capable of producing good products, and has no purpose other than to suck every last penny out of the existing IP.

[1] https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/warcraft-iii-reforged
Is anybody building a plane that makes use of these new technologies?
Some sort of corrective system is required to adjust the raw aerodynamics of the 737 MAX. It some conditions it has characteristics which are not allowed for commercial planes in the US. [0] This is not, in itself, a problem. Many (most? all?) modern airliners have handling corner cases. A common way to fix them is to have sensors, computers, and actuators which adjust the aerodynamics or "push the controls". Boeing chose to use MCAS to adjust the handling in the undesired conditions. Unfortunately, they tried to extend existing sensors and software which were not sufficient for the job. They also, critically, tried to make it transparent to the pilots; this was to avoid extra training, and to avoid creating making the MAX a separate type with all the certification and logistics issues that involves.

The proposed fix is to change the software to admit to itself that it can fail, to limit the amount of control that MCAS can exert, and to train pilots to recognize failure modes and how, in the event of MCAS failure, manually handle the undesireable aerodynamics. Boeing can't simply disable MCAS and say that pilots have to always manually handle it; the rules specifically say the plane cannot behave in that manner.

[0] In some uncommon-but-not-impossible situations, pulling back on the control yoke and putting the plane closer to a stall is easier than pushing on the yoke and getting further from stalling. That isn't allowed for commercial aircraft.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/boeing-737-max-c...

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=14:1.0.1.3.11#se1...

MCAS fixes this by detecting the condition and, in effect, pushing forward on a secondary control.
This is a good algorithm, but depends on using actual exact figures rather than rounded values and a secure RNG source of the nonce.
Looking for something unrelated (retcons), I somehow ended up in this TV Tropes article that contains quite a few examples relevant to this topic: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeautyEqualsGood...
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He's written a lot of books, and I'd say these are some that dive into this topic:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36222735-discrimination-...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3040.Black_Rednecks_and_...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50623786-charter-schools...
One of the important facts about OSS development is that the number of users doesn't scale linearly with the number of "free hands. There are less than 2 FTE's working on Python at any given time these days.
> Seat belts are mandatory, but not for example on public transportation.

So... that's because public transportation vehicles, like busses, are big. When you smash your small car into a big bus, the bus is fine, and you're a pancake.

On a train, were it to derail, your seatbelt won't help you.

Nothing nefarious going on here.
I mean... David Boies is a pretty famous lawyer! There is likely a huge amount of people who recognize the name, even if they don't know anything about the person. The guy has been on cover of magazines!

Maybe _everyone_ on a jury is filtered out to only take people completely disconnected from society but.... probably not.

(case in point: many people on this website are not in legal professions yet recognize the name)
> The first problem I found using Go, was when I was figuring out how the module resolution worked along with the GOPATH, it became quite frustrating to set up a project structure with a functional local development environment.

Really?!

There is no magic. Create a directory anywhere and run go mod init. There is NO need for go virtual environments.

This is all well explained in the documentation. The first section of https://golang.org/doc/code.html

Really unfortunate the author missed this because the go tooling is really excellent and in 2020 you don’t need to know anything about GOPATH.
I haven't seen anyone posting, but on the ADT investors relations website there is a presentation [1] and [2] webcast outlying the M&A rationale.

Briefly speaking, it is to be expected product integration (starting with Google Cloud for ADT video) and in the future some 'automation' and newer products.

By the way, can there be any 'synergies' between ADT and Fitbit?

[1] https://s22.q4cdn.com/631128414/files/doc_presentations/2020...

[2] https://investor.adt.com/events-and-presentations/events-cal...
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MMT itself does not yet understand an economy in an open system, which the US certainly is.

But then, your post was probably sarcastic.
I care very much about their wellbeing, which is why it’s so important they are able to go back to work.

NY is a Medicaid Expansion state. The bar and restaurant workers likely qualify for free (under 133% FPL) or substantially subsidized ACA plans.

Right now, the mask-wearing hand-washing under 40-year-old
restaurant worker in NYC, with a positivity rating of 1% (the noise floor) are probably more at risk from dying due to lightening strike in their lifetime (1 in 180k) than of COVID.
Enough storage capacity (like the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant) can store power from nuclear plants overnight, leveling the load on the nuclear plants.
A coworker came back from jury duty. She said, “He was totally guilty.” “How do you know?” “Because his lawyer had greasy hair and shifty eyes.” “So he was guilty because his lawyer looked untrustworthy?” “Yes” “Okay...”
Should this worry me as a potential premium customer?
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They were sure he wouldn't have made it this far to begin with.

Any business decision riding hard on political hopes and dreams isn't really a safe investment this decade, no matter which side it's favoring.
They have to mandate N95 masks indoors if it is indeed aerosol-based superspreader events.
Affirmative action in California is banned by Proposition 209, which passed in 1996.

Its great they are making an effort to boost diversity, but I don't see how a single year jump this large was accomplished without implementing affirmative action.

The UC system already has an ongoing lawsuit over affirmative action in their admission practices, it's a bit scary that they are now so blatantly violating state law.
"Attractive people tend to have better physical health, better mental health, better dating experiences, earn more money, obtain higher career positions, chosen for jobs more often, promoted more often, receive better job evaluations, and chosen as business partners more often, than unattractive people."

Could some of those correlate with things relevant in court? Prior criminal history, for example? (That explicitly and deliberately does factor into sentencing, where the main difference is reported.) Are they controlled for? The article doesn't use the word "control" or "history". I only see a couple of studies about mock juries, where the subjects are merely given a photograph and a packet to read, which does control for everything (except for details that the subject's imagination is left to fill in).
So the H1B deal saved the US taxpayer money and that’s a bad thing?
They'll also be producing a 4a with 5G connectivity, so there's always that option.
That only matters if someone is dumb enough to fire you and writes down somewhere "s/he was fired for discussing salaries".

I can't remember the exact phrasing but years ago my boss said at the team meeting something about not discussing salaries, and someone said later "I don't think you can say that" and he was like "oh, ok". The message was delivered though.
Thanks for the feedback! Would you rather have the entire board with bookmarks, notes, etc. all in markdown keeping the structure (cards, etc.) or just the list of bookmarks in markdown?
I still wear my Danger Developer Days t-shirt from 2007. Those were fun times!
I have a Pixel 3 and a 2020 iPad Pro. I prefer the fingerprint by far.
> “CCP is evil, X is Chinese, therefore...”

This may seem like a tragic misattribution, but I think the more widely this is understood the clearer it is how much of a pure practical liability an oppressive totalitarian regime is (in addition to the pure evilness of it in Carse’s infinite game sense).

If you are trying to build a business not liable to be exploited by CCP, you have to build it elsewhere. Considering regime specifics, namely nonexistent freedoms and checks as far as government intervening in corporations’ private business, CCP can be pretty much considered a “parent company” of any business, and it has eroded trust in itself for some credible reasons.
I started working with Django professionally in 2013. At that time, migrations weren’t built in to Django, but there was a widely used plugin (South), which was subsequently integrated into Django core. I can’t really imagine managing a professional web app without a migration tool. Sound like a complete nightmare.
Try hearing it as a computer, not a person.

I say "try" because I've failed at this myself a couple of times. But it may help.
About as much evidence as they stop spreading disease.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/02/health/surgeon-general-corona...
": And you should simply be mindful and fully aware of life, do what you want and enjoy doing, when you feel like doing it."

It's not 'lying' to yourself, it's the higher part directing the lower part to do its job.

I think that we would waste away pretty quickly into nothing if we just 'did what we wanted'.

Even creative efforts take considerable amount of focus and discipline. Nothing is really just 'all fun'.

It takes a considerable amount of social training to hold our civility together.

Our complex socialisation is the only thing that separates us from being animals.

Even primates don't just 'do whatever' - even they have social rules.

Our 'higher selves' are the parts of us moving us forward, we can put our 'lower instincts' on cruise control from time to time (and that's probably healthy) but no question the 'thinker' has to be in charge in the end.
> There is no control group

There's no ethical way to do a control in a study of infectious diseases. You'd have to mandate that some study participants not wear masks, when your hypothesis is clearly they the masks will keep some of them from getting sick or dying.

You're asking for far too much here. Masks are known to stop disease spread from (literally) centuries of use. We don't have to throw all that intuition out with covid, even though the numbers may change.

And again: why should we have to prove this technique via completely impractical research constraints when it is very likely that it helps, in a situation of dire urgency.