skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, via Jupyter notebooks -- using the same machinery that gives the 'File > Export Notebook As...' functionality.

My method is roughly this:

1. Create a Python package that subclasses nbconvert.exporters.LatexExporter -- in the setup.py you register the class to 'nbconvert.exporters' in the 'entry_points' dict.

2. You can do general filtering/compiling by registering 'Exporter.filters'. The compile process can be modified by implementing a custom 'from_notebook_node()'

3. You can include a folder containing jinja template(s) in the package to implement whatever styling you want

4. I have some standard metadata that I pull from the notebook/cell metadata (using the standard Jupyter/lab frontend metadata sidebar) to define things like document titles, authors, etc.

5. Do the conversion like: jupyter nbconvert --to=myfancyexportformat notebook.ipynb
Even if this were not true, it seems to me that a mail system is a societal good that is significant enough that I would be happy to see it funded from taxes.
I agree selective freedom of speech is hard. Probably too hard.

I tend to support selective augmentation of other people's speech - "fact checkers have shown this to be inaccurate" next to a conspiracy fan's latest comment.
As long as it is more precise than just downvoting to oblivion.
i speak fluent proper moscow-russian, as i was born there. the way the redneck farmers speak sounds the same as belarus and ukrainian. in fact, the russian rednecks use many ukrainian words, not just pronounciation. hence redneck russian. it literally sounds like they talk in a russian village.

same as to the french (and me) canadian french sounds uneducated. same as canadian english sounds bad, eh?

the other languages you list, outside of your cherrypicked examples, are very different. how do i know? with ukrainian and belorussian, i can just have a coversation in the language. i take a russian word and i say it with a ukrainian accent -they understand me, and i fully understand them. in the ones you list, it's not canadian french vs france french. it's like spanish vs french. i can kinda understand the general idea of what they're saying, if i focus. they sound foreign -like when i hear spanish, only knowing french.

it's southern china vs redneck north china mandarin. your examples are mandarin vs cantonese.

and while most of ukraine and belarus don't even speak their own language, when they do it's not clean. they speak суржик, which is a mix of russian and their language. so it literally is bastardised russian.

and btw, i lived in kiev for almost 2 years, and have visited every country in europe. i really do know what i'm talking about 1st hand. so i didn't watch your youtube video. it would be like you posting a link explaining why water is dry.
This discussion thread has me wondering if there's a good opportunity between the ubiquity of modern cameras (drones/satellites/phones) + computer vision to reduce the cost of those "total count" surveys you mentioned.

Not that I was prepping for an interview but a couple questions I asked myself...

* How could you use social media to establish the size of the pidgeon population in NYC?

* Design a system for tracking Bluefin Tuna populations with an unlimited satellite imagery budget.

* How many drones would it take to count the total number of wolves in Yellowstone in 1 week?

* In safari destinations in Africa like the Maasai Mara, what % of megafauna are photographed annually?

Makes you wonder if all of our facial recognition tech could find a better use in ecology.
Ugg..

I have macOS 10.12, and office from work. I get prompts to update word, which then tell me to update the OS...

Good times.

I probably should shift to libre office exclusively...
> "Cost isn't as much of a concern because a national hyperloop network would create a lot more value than a bullet train equivalent."

What is the basis for such claim? Most of the information I come across points in the opposite direction.

Trains are a lot cheaper infrastructure wise, and have ~10x higher capacity. Many public transport infrastructure professionals consider hyperloop a joke because it can only move a fairly small amount of people. In UK we are running out of capacity on many rail lines.

So why do you believe hyperloop would generate more revenue or indirect economic benefits compared to a modern high-speed rail?
I am a big fan of "Bayesian Statistics for Students" The author made a high quality free video series to complement the text.
No, that's delusional. The state is at most interested in recouping revenue because it's out of money due to Covid. There are proposals on the table that would realistically improve the environment around gig work, but the state doesn't appear to care about those.
I love wikipedia as much as anybody I have known. I currently don't donate but would love to once my situation changes. Their donation request is the most horrible one I have seen. They should definitely work on their tone and presentation. Having said that I feel they shouldn't need to ask for donation because they are basically providing the top search results for most of the search engines and Digital voice assistants like Alexa and should be able to have a stream of income from the big corps with out effecting their integrity.
Important to note that this data on the fatality rate was put together by a known short seller and is from before the model 3 was released which has the lowest probably of injury of any vehicle ever tested by the NHTSA. Also before many improvements have been made to both the model s, 3 and x software and hardware over the years.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-3-lowest-probability-injury...

Do you have a source about the motorcycles being included?
Real question is why does android allow access to a phones MAC address?
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"Confident, competent founders should take the risk of running out of money vs. the certainty of over-dilution" -- I strongly disagree with the author on this point. I would argue that founders preferring "risk of running out of money" to "certainty of over-dilution" might very well be considered irresponsible (or, at least, not responsible enough) instead of "confident".

Firstly, because it is extremely difficult to accurately estimate future financial needs of an early startup (due to lots of unpredictable factors, including R&D taking longer than expected, external/internal events and even potential pivots). Secondly, because it just makes much more sense to avoid running out of money (which is a well-known #2 reason for startup failure[1]) than to save some equity. What are you going to do with (more) equity of a failed company? Not to mention that, if a startup's team includes other people, one of the founders' top priorities should be caring for their fellow team members (and protecting company is one of the relevant aspects).

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-failure-reasons-...
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That’s not obviously absurd. If Amdahl’s law permits then Little’s law tells you whether or not it’s possible.
Terraform excels at provisioning resources, and Ansible excels at configuring resources, but can also provision most things as-needed.

For simpler things (eg small infra where I might need to configure a route 53 domain, a few EC2 instances, and something in RDS), I would stick with Ansible since I can do everything from AMI build to provision to reconfigure/deploy with it.

But for a lot of more complicated things, I do use Terraform. I'm working on a good example of using Terraform with GCP for Kubernetes in my next book, and will likely also show how I still tie things together with Ansible.
>Airbnb has suspended all of its marketing in an attempt to save $800 million this year. Its founders will also not take any salary for the next six months, and top executives will take a 50 percent pay cut, according to Reuters.

It's one thing to pay market rate for execs who do an excellent job on a rising company for a for-profit, another for a non-profit in decline.

And it's a different thing entirely when it's in a global pandemic and recession. CEOs of FOR PROFIT companies with far more financial success have cut their pay if nothing else as good symbol for the rest of the company.
I am not certain what the law is, but stores here in the U.S. routinely list the per-unit price on the shelf tag. Costco certainly does, Kroger does, but I don't know if all stores must. I wouldn't be surprised. I don't often look at per-unit when going between stores, I more often use it to gauge the value of upsizing at the same store, or comparing to other brands of the same product that are on the shelf nearby.
Can confirm, just tried it myself and it hasn't gone through at all. Been several minutes.
Mozilla Corporation is not a typical business and is wholly owned by a Non Profit, it should not be competitive with businesses .

Most non profits ( and investment funds) keep an eye on administrative and management overhead. A well run fund or NGO will keep their administrative overhead as low as possible, most donors/ investors look at this metric.

Legal Aid lawyers / social workers or any number of other professions do not / cannot expect a market competitive salary. why is open source development any different ?

if C-suite is only working at Mozilla because they are getting market competitive salary, perhaps they the wrong hire.

90% of Mozilla Corporation revenue comes from one deal, and this has been the case for 10+ years. All the fancy salaries has not prevented Firefox from losing market share, nothing management has been able to do change this, why should they be paid this much ?

If the management has failed to achieve success as is the case , should not also bear the cost ? or also get laid off/ replaced ?
“The 3 most harmful addictions are cocaine, carbohydrates and a monthly salary” says Nassim Taleb in his book black swan. I guess the first sale from the product you built also goes in the same line but in a positive way!
I keep my own notes on how to use obscure API features that I've learned, in Jupyter.

A colleague of mine, when first introduced to Python and Jupyter, remarked that Jupyter could be a great platform for writing tests.
Cool idea! Thank you for sharing everything that went into building it.
> it's not that hard to achieve ... from minimum wage jobs through decades of professional career.

i highly doubt somebody on a minimum wage job can choose to work only 4 days a week.
Costco shoppers know that they don't always get the 'best' price, but it's a good enough price and it's likely to be good quality, so it takes the hassle out of the shopping and decision making process.
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Yup, and social liberalization has followed economic success for SK and Taiwan. A lot of people thought it would happen to China as well but it's been resistant.

I find OP's assertion a bit comical because trying to tie governance model to economic success in Asia would mean that you should definitely pick military dictatorship over democracy if you want economic success. (and if you do pick democracy, pick an authoritarian flavor with state involvement like Singapore or Japan)
That's how it works now. C-suite compensation is set by compensation committees composed of—you guessed it—C-suite executives.
On the one hand, it doesn't seem right for the government to use this as a moneymaking opportunity at the expense of other "entrepreneurs" but on the other hand the official pipeline probably adheres to some standards they wouldn't, like not dumping it in the woods if it can't be sold.
Given the 1C increase in global average temps, should we go back to subsistence farming and 1/10th of the population? I wonder if you went back in time and asked your ancestors that question. I believe, after you explained to them how you spend most of your day browsing with a magic rectangle, sit in cush air conditioned environments, have access to full motion and interactive media and entertainment, can order nearly anything you like delivered to your door within 48 hours, can travel across continents in mere hours without risking death of dysentery or getting your wagon train raided by bandits, etc. they would ask you what the catch is. 1C hotter? No really...what's the catch?
The line between good and evil runs straight through the heart of every man. The lack of charity to other people’s souls (cancel culture), combined with excessive charity to their incompetence (e.g. declining standards for customer service, managers beating around the bush instead of calling out sloth, etc.), seems to be the modern trend unfortunately.
Considering the amount of non-Americans that work at Facebook is this not foreign election interference?
Watching the history of soap I learned that soap was scarce in Germany during WWII. The vegetable oils used to as part of the soap making process were hard to get. Detergent was invented in WWII by German scientists when they tried to create artificial soap. Soap leaves a scum on things detergent doesn't.

Somewhat related to the article is suds and salt. Public fountains that are vandalized with detergent can prevent it by adding salt to prevent suds from forming.
If people hated Uber, they would find the tools and wherewithal pretty quickly.
This attack only works if the user clicks 'enable macros' when the document is opened or when the "“Disable all macros without notification" setting is enabled (ironic) or if you are using Office 2011.

TL;DR: Looks like most of the exploits have been patched, and even still, if they hadn't been patched you probably would have been fine using later versions of office (at least in the context of the attacks outlined) if you don't open and run documents with macros and you don't have that setting enabled.
If it was sufficiently long ago, which it sounds like it was, they could. Minimum wage would be significantly higher now if it had kept pace with inflation and cost of living increases over the last few decades.
I think of journaling as a log to debug myself and it has helped me out so well in finding out lot of physical health issues and mental states which I want to cultivate and avoid.
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That seems plausible. Perhaps an car with poor aerodynamics pushes a wall of air in front of it that deflects bugs up over the car, where a slippery car may allow the bugs to smash right into the glass.

Now that I've made my comment, I'll go read that article. Thanks for sharing ;-)
On FB messenger, I'm immediately met with a message of "Your message couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards"
I personally agree that this does not seem too useful for any DS team that needs to deploy a model to production. But there are a whole horde of DS teams whose outputs are basically PPT presentations.

Think like pricing forecasts, decision modelling, marketing segmentation for product design, ....

I think a common thread to these teams -- at least those that I've seen -- is that they consist of stats->DS backgrounds, and no eng->DS backgrounds.

Many of these teams are orchestrating everything within the notebook. I've seen notebooks that contain complex workflows that extend to 10K LOC. I've lost sleep over such things.
There are examples of this. Satoru Iwata comes to mind as a famous one.

Another one would be an ex exec I know personally (who was also a founder). Worked two years straight w/o pay to keep the company afloat.

Oh and there are also worker cooperatives. They are usually very stable and have a much smaller income gap.

> dominate the competition

The people/companies who operate like this usually don't have this as a goal. Quite the opposite. They are typically collaborative and opt for stability and sustainability over everything else.
ah yes, a foolproof path to change
“Words Mean Things”. This is a site where the overwhelming number of participants are engineers. We are suppose to value accuracy.

Getting banned from Amazon’s podcast platform means nothing.
Some might call this election interference. It’s almost impressive this site is even on their radar.
What book?

Also, while it is probably true that there were sometimes inappropriate police responses to domestic violence in the past, that is not the general case of a woman screaming for help in a public place from a strange man.

Even so, the story you're talking about sounds very unusual.

Also note that the honest research since the 1970s shows that domestic violence is two-way, and that women initiate the majority of violence.

Reference: Thirty Years Denying the Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, Murray Strauss, University of New Hampshire. Summarizes results from 200 studies.

Around the same time, 1970s, Erin Pizzey, creator of the first womens' shelters in the UK, observed (as she wrote in her book) that many of the women that came to her for shelter were as violent or more violent than the men they were escaping from.
The Importance of Friendship in a Time of Social Distancing
No problem, we can just a VPN to access the free social network of the east: TikTok.
Regular property tax works fine. Montreal recaptures the increase as values rise through transfer taxes and ocassional reassesments.
So altruistic Good Guy Underdog Uber fighting in good faith to stick it to Big Bad Government is not delusional?

Also, the legal wrangling over this started long before Covid.
My main reason would be because the people that grow the food we all eat live in rural areas.
I wonder how things may have played out had Brendan Eich still been at the reins

(Serious comment, not some challenge to test how quickly Godwin's law can be invoked)
Trying to find a blog series on company strategy
Ok, So a few months ago I ran across a series of blog posts on somebodies personal blog on how they approached technology strategy. For the life of me I cant find it now. And I cant remember the blog. Googling has been to no avail because there is a lot of content out there.

The pertinent parts of the first couple of posts were about building a map of your strategy that took into account the competitive environment, had references to Sun Tzu etc, and really dived into what makes a good map from a cartographic POV. It then mapped products along a maturity scale with each piece in the product along the x axis being graded from "magic" to "utility". The maps got pretty complex, but I found it a really good strategy.

If anybody can point me at these articles (as Im sure someone has come across them before, Im pretty sure I might have got the link from here) I would be really grateful.

Thanks!
Nice discussion... (saw this via http://repo.memkits.org/hn-reader/?id=24120336 )
How Much Do TikTok Biddable Ads Cost?
By looking into TikTok’s costs in their Biddable Ads, we’ll search to find clarity and a base for Marketers and Advertisers to look to for reference.
Regards 2. , maybe the more "everyone conforms" the larger the sporadic rewards for the outliers?!?
Like winning the lottery, most outlier crazies lose but occasionally one weird conspiracy plot wins amazingly well.

Imagine you told everyone in the US in 2000 that the NSA would spy on everyone in their own country...(not sure how you'd benefit from that though)
This is what instantly came to mind for me. Making a
station faster generally only matters when it's a bottleneck.

It doesn't matter how optimized your computations are if you're spending the whole time waiting in IO. And don't forget that the program is generally just a piece of a larger process.
They may as well have replaced "Community Standards" with "Social Harmony" (the rhetoric of China).
When do I use Jupyter Notebook and when do I use Jupyter Book? Do I need both? Which is more LaTeX friendly?
There is a leisure class at both ends of the economic spectrum.
Maybe the only ethical thing to do at this point is for the founder/owners of these platforms to commit acts of sabotage so that people might become free of them. Investors are all hedged, founders have cashed out, some of them aren't profitable anyway, employees can find other work if its done over time. Nothing of value would be lost.

The point about connecting gullible people is interesting and useful. It's likely social media has just automated the underlying phenomenon behind mass hysteria. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases)

The real social media problem is we've put a slot machine in every pocket, and now nobody can turn them off until the hysteria has run its course and we evolve a resistance to them - or if the founders do this one unthinkable thing.
A holy war suggests a deliberate preference. Often though the preference looks like a convenient face-saving qualifier to excuse an inability to perform.
Generally, the point of a cluster like this is to also gain insight into things that involve physical components as well.

It's a different type of desired end result / learning than a purely software approach. :)
http://archive.is/oy1hF
The sticking point is Prong B and here you're talking about Prong A. Re-evaluate with respect to Prong B. What's Airbnb's customary work or business? What's Amazon's and Ebay's? Do "people" "think" of Airbnb, Amazon, and eBay as "technology" companies or "hostels" and "stores"? Can they survive without hosts or sellers? (All these arguments were made against gig companies.)
Reading the article I got them impression that when the author said:

> "If the idea is viable and the people behind it are competent, it should have attracted private investment, as there should be a potential to make profit selling the technology. After all, the proposal has been around for 23 years."

They are referring specifically to the development of the technology I.E. the trains and rail equipment. Not to an actual infrastructure project.

The argument being that governments should find the infrastructure, and buy technologies developed using private funds.

Indeed this what we see in the rail industry where companies like Siemens develop rail “packages” which are then sold to multiple infrastructure projects with only minor customisation and modifications.

This is in contrast to the example project where a team wanted $250mil to develop new technologies, and also deploy them. Rather than just deploying an already developed technology.
The entire point of the Hyperloop is to get around right of way and politics.

That is it's design. That is exactly what Elon is doing.

You might argue it can't do what it's setting out to achieve, but this has never been a technological solution.

He's designed a technology to fit with current societal processes rather than the old, get society to accept a technology.
How does Mitchell Baker, who has a BA in Chinese studies and a Law Degree, know which divisions to axe? Mozilla is a deeply technical company doing work on compilers to internet standards - does the CEO understand the company's core tech (not politics) well enough?

Mozilla was actually founded under similar circumstances. I hope engineers who work on the core product (and those who were let go) are talking about another reincarnation of Firefox - from the same code base but with different leadership.
It seems that a subset of developers are somehow convinced that adding complexity is a good thing for performance and should be done first, when it should really be a last resort. Their usual rebuttal is "it's scalable" and other buzzword-laden phrases. I wonder if it's a form of "big data envy" or just regular "architecture astronautism".
I'm reading joebiden.info is blocked as well.
> like not dumping it in the woods if it can't be sold.

I'd imagine that's not as big of a problem as it may sound since the criminals wouldn't want to lose money like that.

That being said if the criminals are getting to the recycling first they're technically providing better (faster) service.
I tried it on FB messenger and it worked
> And it's a wiki, after all, anyone can edit it!

I wonder if Mozilla is counting on the MDN people they just laid off to continue updating MDN, but on someone else’s dime?