skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I think back to how I was first introduced to the concept of a flat earth I can't help but feel that it's one of the bigger epistemic own-goals in history. My introduction was in school, where the concept of a flat earth was trotted out as something that everyone believed in the middle ages that we eventually learned was totally wrong. The message was simple: don't be those people, listen to the scientific evidence. At the time I thought it was a compelling story, then I found out the story is a myth. [0] Ancient Greeks knew in the 5th century BC that it was round, by the 600s it was more or less unanimously supported by scholars. I've struggled to find a time in history when there was a serious, organized group that believed the earth was flat. Except for now that is, the uncomfortable truth is that this, right now, in 2020, is the peak of flat earth belief in human history. The lesson, to me, is this: be careful what you lie about in the name of pedagogy, lies have a way of backfiring on you when people realize they're being lied to.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
Yup in theory it makes sense. We do define inputs/outputs for each task and workflow but it's somewhat crude; for instance, we just check if the variable name will be available but not if a specific key is in a dictionary. We can definitely improve this though with schemas (probably json schema) and validation.

Wiring this together _without any user input_ (which is our goal) though is very, very hard. Let's say we have two parallel branches-- one that orders boxes with holes in them and another that orders shapes that can fit in those holes. When both orders are in the workflow can join and we want to put the shapes into boxes. How do we know which shape can go in each box? Maybe we have a BoxType with a list of possible shapes. This gets very complicated though when you have many attributes and care about different attributes at different stages of the process. Additionally, if the process should update the database at some point to, say, change a flag from `false` to `true` the user would need to know the underlying data model.
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Totally on the same page with you on that one.

I always thought it's a natural thing: once everybody matures they'll stop their knee jerk, emotional responses and only allow those well thought out, analytical ones.

It seems though, there is an opposing and totally intentional force to that.

Somehow I feel that removing the emotional reactions could lead to collapse of some bigger social structures, cause it seems that this is the main glue that holds them together
Remember, as an employer, you'll be asking people to come to your place, and accomplish things alongside of you.

The first qualification of the "right" sort of people is integrity and an ability to trust them.

As Warren Buffet said:

"Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy."

Deep belief in conspiracy theories demonstrates maintained willful ignorance in the face of overwhelming facts -- i.e., a complete lack of intellectual integrity

It also shows an overwhelming distrust of anyone in authority, which would include an employer. A persons ability to trust shows their own trustworthiness - and in this case, it is for all practical purposes, zero. The second the conspiracist perceives that you are somehow slighting him, he will turn on you.

Why would anyone pay a person to work alongside them when their ability to think is self-constrained, they lack intellectual integrity to think clearly, and they are actively working to mistrust you?
I'll review it!
Edit: I checked and it looks useful, thanks!
Running a full table scan on BigQuery every hour can get quite expensive. Do you support some sort of deltas?

I signed up. Unlike the video, I do not see Redshift as an option. Any idea when Redshift will be supported?

How does billing per user make sense here? What prevents me monitoring thousands of tables under single user? Your workload costs will be higher than $200 here, no?

Do you have a set of fixed IPs you're connecting from to allow me to whitelist you?
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I found it confusing that he still openly identified to be part of the flat Earth group, even outside of his trolling persona. If I pretended to be religious for the purpose of trolling evolutionists, I would never say I was at any point a creationist. Surely Santa Clause at the mall doesn't believe he's Santa Clause, nor would he seriously identify as him, but he trolls kids every year to put a smile on their face. I suppose I found it a bit bizarre to still seriously identify as a flat-earther, and from that, I didn't want to offend.
>The company also says that half (48 percent) of all hateful content on the site was targeting a person’s ethnicity or nationality. That was followed by their class or political affiliation (16 percent), [...]

"Hate speech" now includes your political affiliation? That's news to me. I thought it's usually restricted to immutable characteristics about a person (race, religion, gender, etc.).
In math we have an proof technique called reductio ad absurdum that deals with this situation. They seem to be doing it wrong though, because they don't reject the faulty hypothesis after the conclusion is logically inconsistent with reality.
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Ha my work absolutely would do something that pointless while paying everyone 50$+ an hour to do it. These are the skills you need to succeed at big inefficient corporations
> Steely Dan is quite a lot more than just a rock band. It was more like a pop band with formidable song-writing.

They're hard to place, that is certain. But you are completely right, their melodic and harmonic content (and famously their anal-retentive perfectionism) was far, far beyond anything else. There's a reason they're held in such high regard in the industry.
this is interesting! running tests on data is certainly a pain point for me, and there doesn't seem to be nearly the kind of infrastructure available as for, say, tests for code functionality.

Is this open source? Sending my data to a third party is a no-go, as is having a third-party connect to the database. Something part of a managed hosting service, though, or an add-on to an existing trusted hosted service that has gone through compliance (e.g. Heroku, AWS), would be more palatable.
This might be good guidance to avoid getting too deep in the weeds and avoid starting work. Might even avoid the whole "waterfall with sprint" trap, but I'd argue it's quite important for the entire team to have an idea of where they are going, generally before you start work. Agile Roadmapping is a thing that works. Feature prioritization, generally, helps to get the highest value things out the door first, etc.

The team doesn't necessarily require those waterfally milestones - it could be as simple as a value delivery statement ("Fastest shopping cart west of the Mississippi" or something) - it doesn't have to be a whole big deal with specifics, but without it i'm not sure how you determine the sprint goals, let alone what the specific technical tasks or stories are going to be without that shared context.

Lastly, I'd definitely recommend some sort of longer-term roadmapping exercise up front to determine what the high risk things are so you can solve them first, and test the big hypotheses quickly. That would be a nice lean thing to do.

Plan the sprint, sure. Be militant about it if you want. "Shut up and plan the sprint!" But the sprint is not the goal. Delivering increments of value is the goal. The product owner looking at the sprint goal needs to know what they're trying build, and a longer vision can help.

I'm not sure the author meant to sound so short-sighted and maybe was expressing frustration around customers getting so wrapped up in the "plan" that they end up waterfalling / micro-managing to death, so I get the point, but there's a way to do this that doesn't sacrifice the plan, too. They probably know that.
no idea what's going on there, I know some of those variables are actually functions but the whole thing is unreadable unless you have experience in haskell imo
To be clear, I am not blaming most teachers.

I can trace many of my current skills, interests and aspirations directly to several of my teachers, most often in contexts not directly related to their core subject.

There is the occasional teacher who is there to power trip, but they are by far the minority. The school system crushes teachers just as much as it does the kids.

Edit: Reread my comment you replied to, if I made it sound like the teachers were mind-dead, that was absolutely not my goal. I just wanted to specify that the kids themselves were like that, and worried it might be misinterpreted as the school itself being like that.
How can D use so little memory despite sporting a GC?

My guess is that you have experience with platforms such as the JVM or CLR (dot NET) and expect garbage collected languages to use up a lot of memory.

The JVM and CLR use generational/copying GC. These types of GC sacrifice memory to get efficient collection -- the more memory they use, the more efficient the GC [1].

Both Go and D use non-copying GC which has a lower memory overhead.

I am not sure about D, but Go also uses escape analysis so that data structures are allocated on the stack instead of the heap when possible which can help to reduce garbage and hence memory usage.

[1] The principle is similar to the one described in this paper where the GC time is independent of the amount of garbage: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=48058747733581794...
Not in an informational way the way the right does.

You do see a small effect through raw footage videos. Shaming people videos.

The left owns the mass media (fox not withstanding) so the right needs a video outlet. Radio takes care of audio.
I was gonna reply with this as well, but you just about nailed it. When my hands are almost 99% on the keyboard (especially when programming, or even while browsing the internet), why should I bother moving my hands back to the mouse when I can just use my comfortable and reliable keyboard?
Note it was an internal audit role - not acting as an external auditor working for an accounting company.
Russia definitely has the talent.
Hi there! We'd love to include kicks as well, though we've had to put it as a stretch goal due to the additional complexity it presents for development at this stage. Expanding the range of movements is definitely in our roadmap either way :D
It has zero to do with the specific beliefs

It has everything to do with the person actively maintaining willful ignorance and complete distrust
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24212628
There are plenty of services such as Apple Pay (or equivalent tokenized services on other phones), 3D Secure, and/or PayPal that don't expose your PAN.
One thing I've learned is that rather than use a docker-entrypoint.sh, most Linux software can be ran just using the `--user 1000:1000` or whatever UID/GID you want to use, as long as you map a volume that can use those permissions. It is a lot cleaner this way.
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I'm not sure I get your point, if there is a point or if you're trying to be sarcastic, could you elaborate ?
I'm not finding anything that says Citibank is a guarantor, only administrator, whatever that means. If Citibank did guarantee the loan, then Brigade has no need to fear Revlon's bankruptcy right, since they'd be able to collect from Citi. Unless they're worried that Citi is going to go under, which is another kettle of fish.
I guess what happens over time is that the expertise has to get consolidated -- here it goes into private companies like Parsons, etc. And then they shop themselves around the country looking for projects to staff.

And then what you see is as you mentioned above, the cities (customers) having lost their ability to supervise properly and pay for such projects.
This is part of why I go directly for discrediting the Bible as part of my refutation. There's no point in letting folks shelter themselves behind the delusion that the Bible is historically accurate enough to be useful for scientific predictions. We should be willing to crack open those religious beliefs, and not let them hide behind some sort of special motte-and-bailey construction just for the sole purpose of making bogus historical/cosmological/etc. claims.
That makes sense. I do 99% C, so any time I even have to think about C++ it unfortunately turns into C with classes rather than C++, so I'm really not as familiar with the smart pointer options.
I don't agree with the GP's comment, but:

> How does one loot civilization?

Colonize, exploit the people and steal valued resources when they leave.

You should look up this country called England sometime.
I am reminded of the Turning Torso in Malmo, which is 190m and surrounded by nothing anywhere near as tall (the second tallest building in the city, almost 100m shorter, is pretty far away).

I would say people don't mind, but the owner of the building has been trying to sell for years and nobody has bought it. It looks pretty though.
There are plenty of alternatives that lean towards freedom of expression at all costs. I think the possibility of building another thing like Reddit has been proven (even if less popular and on a smaller scale), IIRC r/the_donald ended up moving to their own Reddit clone.
> reduce the impact of Trump’s current and future actions.

why would separate app stores limit government jurisdiction?
I am not saying there is an exodus, of course the Finnish system is excellent for many people, and it is so good that it does a good job even when the child does not fit exactly.

However yes, there are people that were forced to move away from Finland or other countries like it because their child had problems in the standardized schools, and there were cases of people that were criminalized for their different educational preferences.

I don't think that problems of the world and the competing economical ideologies should hinder education of children. While for-profit schooling exists, a large portion of private schools are cooperatives, nonprofits, informal groups etc, and private schooling is even recognized by the EU commision as extremely important in helping non-standard people. Private schools can only help, there is no way that a school that is at least average would do harm - it's the government's fault the public schools are failing, as is clear from the many and many countries where private, public, governmental, religious and other schools coexist peacefully.

Another point to consider is the differing needs of parents (e.g. the weird school-work schedule of a mother that still works on her Ph.d. while working as a researcher while having a baby; some people want to travel while their kids are young; ...); a public school simply won't accommodate to that.
Nope, pass (Password Store) is way better IMO.
A lot of the articles and comments I have read, focus on the 30% cut. Which is definitely high, though primarily for those who sell externally licensed and/or non-digital goods.

But to me (with my almost decade long iOS developer experience), the bigger problems are:

* You cannot install apps on an iPhone (even on a phone that you own) without paying Apple. Without a developer account, an app that you build and self sign works for only 7 days.

* If you are an app that exists on other platforms, and/or accepts payments on other platforms, you can't describe that or even link to it, from your iOS app. Your users need to know that the alternative options exist on their own. See the Netflix sign in screen for a nice example, but realize that 99% of apps won't get away with that, only apps the size of Netflix can.

* You can only ship apps that Apple's inconsistent review board agrees with. And of course, the rules and their inconsistent application keep changing in favor of Apple's competing apps, which of course have access to internal APIs and don't pay a 30% cut either. Spotify is a good example here, but it's worse for many smaller companies.

* And now macOS is adopting the worst of iOS' draconian policies. You won't be able to run non-notarized apps on macOS on Apple Silicon based computers at all.

Unfortunately there are many who drink the Apple koolaid about all of this being all about security. There are legitimately good things that Apple does which enhance user security, and I welcome changes like the new IDFA policy of iOS 14, but let's not pretend that Apple does those because they affect Apple's competitors' business and strengthen Apple's (you have to now use Apple's sdk for user tracking).

But none of the things I wrote about above are about the user, and some of them are actively worse for Apple's users (eg: not being able to buy a book on the Kindle app easily).
There is indeed one in numpy : https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.clip....
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I imagine the geographic environment has something to do with it.
> Well, you're using someone else's products (dev tools, compilers, OS libraries) you buy and license from them under certain commercial terms. If you don't like the terms, don't buy them.

This doesn't tell the whole story, because terms change. Even open source licenses change. Apple added Gatekeeper to Mac OS X in 2012. Before then, it was a pretty open platform. And other companies such as Microsoft and Google have been known to follow Apple in some respects, so just because one platform has better terms than another at the moment doesn't mean the platform owners can't change their terms on a whim. Apple/Google/Microsoft have close to all of the OS market share on both mobile and desktop, so it's not like there are a lot of choices, especially in the consumer space.
7000 subreddits only accounted for an 18% reduction?

What the heck is going on with that website.
but if I did I would view every single step...

To a first approximation, everyone knows this and at least tells themselves it is what they are doing.

The real problem is that is hard. In the vast majority of cases, much harder than the tech & engineering you are doing.
Meroe is spectacular and virtually no tourists and overall rather safe compared to the other three quadrants of the country. I can recommend that and scuba diving in Port Sudan highly. https://www.robk.com/2013/08/21/sudan-2012/
Twitter has the same problem as YouTube. Email is a federated open source protocol and far superior as way of securing your fan base. It's probably a great idea for content providers to self-host a website with their videos on it as well.
Dropbox used land-and-expand to move upmarket and close big enterprise customers
This sounds like a good start point to evaluate politicians. Even before "ideology". May be add their track record. But avoid looking for perfect people(purity tests) because no one will pass that and you end up with the worst of all. The ones that no longer care about anything.
It's $12/month, not 10.
> Glad to see AWS finally embracing Kubernetes too. ... So I guess this solidifies Kubernetes as the defacto standard of Cloud Platforms.

I don't think so. We switched most our workloads from k8s to ECS (mix of EC2/Fargate launch types) because clusters were hard to maintain. Now everything is visible in Console and we now have tech support down to the ECS Task level. Before doing that, management pestered AWS about future of ECS. AWS insisted that it is actively developed, and lots of their internal stuff runs on ECS, not k8s.

You need to understand why AWS churns out silly services every month. Tomorrow there will be new HypedTech, and days later new AWS ElasticHypedTech service. It's just good business.
Thanks! How does the Arena help you with pattern matching? I'd be very interested.
America is an abomination, but it’s very far from the only country, and the vast majority of rich, free countries are run by centrists who were voted into power
I'm not a YE but I am a thinking Christian. You can imagine this sort of thinking as a game of 20 questions, where you ask a series of questions to try to "home in" on what kind of worldview you think is likely.

So the first question is, "Is there something besides the physical world -- besides atoms and energy and time?" If you say "yes", then you've ruled out materialism (which some people confuse with science).

There are a number of things in our human experience which (in my opinion) are inconsistent with a materialistic worldview. The sense of meaning and purpose is one. Morality is another. (Not trying to argue this here, just trying to answer the question.)

Then you can say, OK, but that could be Buddhism or Shintoism or Islam or anything. So the next set of questions might filter out reincarnation-style religions and get you down to the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam); and then you might look specifically at evidence about Jesus' resurrection.

Not all Christians are Young Earthers; and Young Earthers are certainly not Flat Earthers. But there is this similarity: Christianity gives people something that atheism and materialism do not. And so when modern atheists say, "Belief in evolution is incompatible with belief in God -- you have to choose one or the other", then a lot of people will say, "Well if I have to choose, I'm going with God."
I think his statement was troll-ish
Your employer analogy doesn't hold up because you have not yet tendered the services to your employer for which they would be indebted to you in the future.

A better a analogy would be your mortgage, which is in fact a debt you owe in full, a payment schedule notwithstanding.
That's really interesting, I'm currently installing it.. minimized and my GPU fans immediately spun up with utilization at 100%!
> It is if you scale the fine based on their income.

Income scaled fines are not existing legal tools.
Best name for a boat: Unsinkable 2.
Bets name for the 737max: Uncrashable 2.
Yes, please post a tutorial!
> We have no idea how to do that.

I agree. However, my response if I intentionally don't over-think it, is "well she learns from a single example because that experience was painful and she wants to minimize pain."

Granted that's true as much as it is facile, but I do wonder if it hints at what the next frontier will consist of. A thermometer will happily keep reading out the temperature of a room heater until its physical form is damaged. A human child has a concept of pain to dissuade behaviors that lead to harm (in theory) (this is obviously simplified).
As far as the debtor, to whom Brigade "provided work", is concerned no payment was intended to have been made. It was a mistake committed by the bank. From a news article cited in the post:

> “Revlon did not pay down the loan or any part of the loan,” a representative for [Revlon] said in an emailed statement.

https://theprint.in/economy/citigroup-accidentally-wired-900...
Seems pretty clear cut! What about the other 6999?
Well, there's an identity based on belief system and an identity based on group. I took his statement to be that he was part of the group, but not part of the (true) belief system.

If you joined a group of YECs and participated in the community, you might consider yourself a YEC (group member) even though you never truly believed, but only argued and trolled. I do agree that it's a bit bizarre, but knowing many contrarian and troll types this seems a pretty consistent part of their MO.